Mystery Alley - King

It's been over a year since detective Jessica King was demoted to answering phones, due to a "personality difference" between her and her former boss. Now a new chief has taken over, and he puts her back as supervising detective.

Brothers Max and Lucio Baratta, murderer drug dealers, can only be tried if a witness provides evidence. The team tries to manipulate him, promising a deal. He wears a wire, but technical problems doesn't provide proof that he's hired for another murder.

The redoubted, elusive Riverside Raper left a victim alive and able to testify. When a suspect is compellingly linked to several cold cases and confesses, he insist the latest one isn't his work, yet only King feels compelled to go after the presumed copycat.

Retired PD colleague Eleni Demaris is in coma after one of a serious of violent, ill-considered robberies. The investigation is her squad's once a victim dies, and leads to junkies and the homeless.

King breaks every rule in the book, exhausting the captain's patience, to vindictively persecute repeat minor sex offender Seymour Keagan. The same, offspring-devoted Cora seems unwilling to turn on him even when confronted with his latest foxy younger date. With her mother Eleni Demaris finally recovering, Dawn again makes an impossible pest of herself, exhausting Danny by escaping

Chief Garci reunites Derek Spears, facing another divorce, and King, who feels punished for the Keegan case, as a favor to police board member Dr. Robert Taaffe, to examine the murder on his university's campus of brilliant bio-medical researcher Ahmad Khan. Jeffrey Denmers, the young security guard who found him in the bunny experiment room, was involved in an anti-Muslim incident. However the team finds alternative motives in both the research team and Khan's Iranian family, who arranged a bri

Danny Sless wrestles with his loyalty to his gang violence squad partner Jim Lowell, who wants his support when an amateur video shows he physically abused an informer, and the truth. He's so furious about King's utterly non-supportive attitude, even nagging on over his alleged gambling problem, that he moves out indefinitely. Meanwhile King's team takes over their fatal shooting investigation, looking for a missing witness trough his kid brother, and finds both a different target and alternativ

Civil rights blogger Trevor Winter is beaten with a baseball bat in his (trashed) home by a masked man who may well belong to the Neonazi Northern Front, whose local chapter he recently confronted. Their leader Robert Carlson turns out to be an undercover federal detective. Widower Trevor's boy Connor and daughter Scout are placed in their surprisingly well-prepared, estranged maternal grandfather's custody. Danny's upcoming legal procedure keeps causing trouble, as does King's yet undisclosed p