Well, I like Debra Messing, and Laura is not bad, but she’s a bit too aggressive, some scenes are too forced, Max is too stereotypical, I don’t like Jake at all, sorry about that, and the mysteries are not very interesting. I kept watching for the personal stories, but only because it was on tv, I would not pay for this. My favourite character is Billy. I would have liked Meredith a lot but they went too far, making her an expert on everything, either nerd or sporty..
I like the fact that Laura is very practical, driving a sensible car and wearing sensible shoes, still she’s a divorced mother and people keep remarking of her choice of shoes.
It’s the 21st century and apparently in America you are not a woman if you don’t wear heels… is this because women in heels look sexier? Does this mean that it’s more important for a woman to look sexy than to be good at her job?
1-Pilot
It starts with everyone chasing a guy that ends up taking a hostage, but Laura shoots at him anyway.
Laura and the captain to go a rich man’s house to protect him after he received death threats, but he’s killed anyway. Laura buys a bathing-suit to approach a suspect and then returns it right away because it’s way too expensive, changing right there where she is, next to her partner Billy.
Her captain lost his wife a month ago. He calls Laura Hotshot and they are close. All the evidence lead to the dead man’s wife, but Laura knows it was her captain! because the guy was his wife’s lover. When exposed, he tries to run away, and then asks her to let him go, and then tries to shoot her but she had taken away the bullets. Now Jake, who is a lieutenant, is her new captain.
Her two sons make trouble at school but their father, about to become Laura’s ex-husband, is not helping. In the morning Laura and Jake meet their sons school principal and he informs them that the boys are expelled because they are troublemakers, and are really too much. Laura gets angry because Jake doesn’t seem to want to help at all, he simply tells her “you’ll figure it out” … Also, Jake doesn’t want to divorce her and says that cheating on her was a mistake… oh really? rather easy to say it later..
She finds that it’s very difficult to find a school that will accept her boys, so she looks for someone to blackmail, and she finally finds a coach that she can threaten with six months of jail : “I’m just a mother with a shiny badge, a loaded gun, and very little patience”. she gets an interview for her sons, but it doesn’t go well, one boy throws up and the other shoots at the lady with his toy-gun, plus Jake is late and also calls her Nazi-Queen. Laura clearly still loves him - she told him the ring won’t come off but it does, she could take it off any moment if she wanted, yet she’s very angry at him, so eventually gives it back to him and he agrees to sign the divorce papers. He also found a school that would take the boys…
2-The mystery of the dead date
Apparently everybody loves Jake at the precinct. I don’t remember what Meredith did or said but Billy told her “remind me never to date you” :-p
Jake keeps trying to get back together with Laura but she’s still very angry that he cheated on her.
A woman dies after she dated someone found on the ‘passion pairing’ website under the name ‘Samantha Jones’, so Laura joins the site and goes to a bar wearing high heels to find the guy with the same perfume and anger issues. A girl brought in for being a protester gives her advice :-p
3-The mystery of the biker bar
Laura hires last episode’s protester girl as her boys babysitter, then asks Max to check on them, unable to believe that she can handle them :-p As a result the babysitter quits because she didn’t trust her. Too bad, I liked her. Later she hires her again with a 6-months payment in advance. She accepted right? I don’t remember.
Jerry, a man Laura knew, is shot dead. To talk to a crazy homeless guy Laura puts up a ‘safe zone’ like their boys did, in the interrogation room.
Jerry and his wife own a biker bar, and Laura’s upset to find out that his wife killed him for money and anger.
4-The mystery of the sex scandal
It’s Laura’s day off and she wants a day at a spa but Jake wants her on a case. She has to follow a girl, a Congressman’s alleged mistress, so she sees Kaitlin getting shot and killed. The girl herself lied to a reporter about the affair. For this episode Laura partners with Jake and Billy with Meredith. Apparently Meredith is a hard-core videogamer but keeps it a secret because it’s hard to be taken seriously as a young female detective. She keeps playing until they find the ‘overlord’ location.
Kaitlin’s best friend Heather is killed too. Heather helped Kaitlin pass a test by taking it in her place. Kaitlin was blackmailed into making up the affair story so that her candidate would lose, but then she wanted to confess so she got killed by her ex lawyer-partner who turned to the other candidate who promised to make him a judge, or something.
5-The mystery of the terminal tenant
A man is found dissolved in his bathtub. It was Mark Harris apartment but apparently it was Cody who died. Cody rented the place for a few days.
Cody was a drug dealer. Laura gets punched in the face by an undercover cop :p It turns out that Mark was the real victim and that Cody planned it all to disappear and start a new life.
Jake babysits the boys at Laura’s home while she stays in a hotel to relax, and he invites in a boy’s divorce mum. She hits on him inside the house and is seen by one of the boys.
At the end Jake bursts in Laura’s home with Chinese food hoping to retrieve a piece of underwear left by that woman, and then stays for dinner.
6-The mystery of the red runaway
Max calls Jake ‘captain Jake’ - “it’s either captain or Jake, we’re not pirates” :-p To save their coffee machine Jake wants to find a way to save money elsewhere in the budget, and he discovers Max and Laura’s secret :p so Max leaves. Jake calls him and tells him that “according to the NYPD you don’t exist” - “here I am, existing away” :p then Max adds ‘coghito ergo sum’ which made me laugh more than the whole series.
Laura hired an unpaid intern, and Jake suspends her for a day, but she goes in anyway to tell him not to fire Max: “I can’t fire him because he doesn’t work here”… At the end: Jake traded his beloved cappuccino machine to have Max officially hired.
A junior fashion designer is killed while walking his boss dog and wearing his clothes, so Laura thinks maybe Tyler was not the target, but Tom Burke. He won’t cancel his charity event that night, so Laura goes there to protect him. Tom comes to her house armed with dresses and people to work on her like Cinderella… which might have been nice and fun but as a surprise becomes rather insulting, in my opinion… When they get there she says “all this for some clothes?” which sounds a bit stupid, has she ever watched the news?? She’s a detective…
While there, she stuffs her purse with food, not knowing that it’s worth 12.000$. It was all because of a counterfeited bags business. Tom was the boss of it and wanted Tyler killed, and Gabriella was too :-/ She was the Italian woman who explained to her how to recognize a real bag.. :-/ nobody asked her why she volunteered the information, like it was the normal thing to do to a stranger at an elegant even while you’re both filling your mouth with food…
7-The mystery of the art ace
A guy is killed. Laura goes undercover at a poker game so she asks her father’s help to refresh her playing a bit (at the game they never show any card, only Laura talking and showing her badge…)
The guy David was laundering money and his dad confessed suspecting his daughter, but it was her boyfriend, not her. In Laura’s words to her dad “he was trying to save his daughter but she didn’t need saving”! Laura’s dad apologizes and stays for dinner.
8-The mystery of the mobile murder
The undercover cop from ep 5 comes in to ask Laura out and Jake acts all jealous and stupid and tells Alejandro to back off because he wants Laura back, and also agrees to take part in the Rock’n’run competition, a course designed by British Special Forces, and has Billy train him, because Billy and Meredith are the best at it. She tries to train him next but she’s very tough on him and he hurts himself.
At the competition, Billy and Meredith help Jake finish the course, but because of him they end up last! Still, he’s the only captain to do it with his men so he gets asked for pictures…
Meredith and Billy stop a chicken fight event…
A girl is found dead on a party-bus. Laura and Billy follow her steps from a strip club where two male strippers robbed her of her purse and wallet, to the hotel she was staying at. Laura:”the imprint on Jane Doe’s cheek, it might not be a half moon, it might be a half leaf” - Billy:”how could you possibly spot that?” - “I kick ass on kindergarten homework, it’s all about shape recognition”. They see a lot of women with the same leaf-shaped ring and Laura calls them “the real housewives of Stepford” :-p
It’s the “annual convention 2014-Garden of flow” and they find Jane Doe’s identity: Julie Campbell, a skincare products top salesperson.
When they talk about skincare, Meredith says that she already follows a strict regime and Laura:”you waste yogurt on your face?” - “I’m not gonna be 32 forever, one day I’ll be…your age” - “you’re being very optimistic” :lol:
The Garden of flow leader is Margo Preston, who is 43 but says that she’s 59 and her creams make her look so young.. Julie found out and Margo’s obsessed fan Heidi killed her for it.
9-The mystery of the dysfunctional dynasty
Jake calls a new babysitter, the same woman that saw the twins pissing on each other at the park..
Meredith went out with a guy her mom set her up with , and Billy encourages her to choose for herself and ask out someone she likes… so later she asks him out for a beer.
Laura’s pissed when Jake tells her that the new babysitter Alicia questioned the boys ability to read, but then she comes home and everything is clean, the boys are acting like angels, and so she tells Jake not to fire her “not if you value your life”.
An old couple is killed in their bed. Their son Daniel has a boyfriend, Tyreek or something, and Laura suspects Tyreek’s brother because he was supposed to marry a rich girl , but the guy didn’t do it. Daniel’s lawyer did it.
10-The mystery of the fertility fatality
A woman cries to Laura that her seven-year-old daughter has been terrorized by the twins and wants to leave taekwondo because of them. She has the support of other moms, who think the boys got their bullying attitude from her, but when Laura learns that Zoe’s been bullied before, she takes action and puts Max on the investigation, and then films little Zoe bullying the twins and biting her own arm and shows it to all the moms at the gym, and says that her boys are a handful, no doubt, but they are not bullies.
Jake is on a diet because his insurance company is checking his cholesterol level, so Laura keeps throwing away his food :-/ throwing away food is not a good or funny thing :-/
A doctor is missing: Laura and Billy thought that he was having an affair with “beautiful Becky” but that’s a horse, and that is where they find his body. Laura ‘doesn’t like’ horses and is allergic to hay.
A man, angry at all the fake procedures the doctor was putting his wife thru on the false hope to get pregnant, injected the doctor with a needle, killing him with air. When he learns that the doctor died he wants to kill himself, so Laura tells him of her first pregnancy, a girl, that she lost before the twins came along. When it’s over she tells Billy that she made it up, but it’s true.
11-The mystery of the frozen foodie
On team-bonding night, Laura beats Jake at darts, so Jake and Billy must do whatever Laura and Meredith tell them for a week.
Laura says she knows her chemistry because she had a crush on her teacher. She gets a date with a chef she chased during her investigation but doesn’t tell Jake who thinks “a week taking care of Laura… isn’t that bad”. Tony cooks for her at her home, but then Jake walks in while they are kissing so Tony goes away. I know I don’t like Jake, but here he looked hurt :( how stupid was him cheating and ruining the life he loved :-/
At the end he gives her back the spare key.
A man’s body is found in the trash and they investigate.
12-The mystery of the fateful fire
Jake has signed Laura in to help working at the school winter carnival, so she uses two days of vacation to work on it. At the end she managed just fine :-D
Jake’s ex girlfriend Angela Ryan asks their help on a fire case, with one guy dead. Laura says she doesn’t care but is obviously jealous of her, in that annoying woman vs woman way that is the cause of all the inequality in this world. :-/ Nobody makes it easier for her, they all talk about it, even Angela brings it up while talking to her.. it was nice when they finally had a nice talk :)
Laura can’t stay away from the case and finds out a little boy was left alone at home because his single mom had to work, and the kid was cold and started the fire. I was glad that their theory about the guy starting the troubles to look like a hero was wrong, and this Gil Carter, the ‘hero’ that saved the boy Sean from the fire, was really a good guy :-)
13-The mystery of the deemed dealer
Laura keeps dating Tony :-) The cop Alejandro asks her out but she’s seeing Tony now and has to say no, and asks him “what took you so long?” and he reveals that Jake interfered :p
Laura’s dad keeps trying to get her back with Jake :-/ but at the end he gets his family dinner…
Drunk Laura sounds a lot like drunk Sherlock :lol: “a promising case in the lead” …
Miguel Santos is found dead. They investigate the prestigious school he attended. Laura flirts with a kid to get him to show his stash of marijuana, then they pretend to be parents looking for a school to spy around. After that, he comes to her home with the other spare key that he kept to kiss her and tell her he still loves her. She says he’s sexy but she know it’s a bad idea, that he’s bad for her, and she’s able to resist, and sends him home.
Meredith goes to talk to a girl, and she says that she was an outsider in school “being into manga and d’n’d did not exactly made me prom queen”: my girl :-)
A girl killed Miguel to get her boyfriend in the hockey team in his place, hoping he’d get noticed by big schools like Princeton and they could go there together :-/
14-The mystery of the popped pugilist
Laura meets Lisa, deputy commissioner: they were friends at the academy. She has a night out with her girl friends, drinking mostly, and laughing and sharing and remembering, but still following the investigation via texts from Billy and Meredith, together on the job, undercover as a married couple at a fight club. This ep’s victim is Mickey, a guy who sang in a drag-queen club and also fought in a fight-club. Mickey was supposed to lose a fight but got angry and won, and the guy who lost a lot of money killed him.
15-The mystery of the alluring au pair
A IA detective called Frankie (short for Francesca :D ) comes in to question them all regarding personal relationships at work, and Laura thinks it means her and Jake. The result of this investigation: Frankie (Meg Steedle) Polanski is the new member of the 2nd precinct squad, and she reminds Laura that she herself filed the complaint five months before, when Jake joined the team. :-p Frankie will keep her secret and Laura won’t reveal to anyone that her husband died on the job, so she can start over.
The coroner teaches a dance class :)
The girl that was killed turns out to be the nanny of an autistic little boy who is now missing. He is soon found, but the girl’s killer takes more time. It’s a guy that works at the Brasil embassy, so Laura hits his precious car with a baseball bat to have him come out so she can arrest him while he’s on American soil.
16-The mystery of the exsanguinated ex
The ex-husband of the victim, MD Andrew, is also Laura’s ex-fiancée (Eric McCormack). Jake is jealous, no surprise “I’m protecting you”, yeah right. Everyone suspects Andrew but Laura. Jake wants him to be guilty. Now, Andrew, he is charming :-p
Everything is against him because he was framed, but Laura finds the real killer (the victim’s sister).
At the end, Max finds a date for his day with the family, and Laura&Andrew have a nice goodbye :-)
17-The mystery of the intoxicated intern
Laura sent Alicia out with the twins so Tony could come to the house, but work interferes again. Then he plans a weekend with her but Jake sabotages her by making her work: Tony doesn’t give up and surprises her one night that Jake has the kids.
A girl is found dead; at first they suspect her sisterhood, then her place of work. The friendship-compatibility program says that Billy and Meredith are a 96% match, so he says “we’re gonna be friends forever” :-p apparently he doesn’t see that she’s drooling over him :-p
18-The mystery of the sunken sailor
Laura feels sick aboard a ship even if it’s not moving.
Frankie wants to plan a birthday party for Laura. Max is jealous of Frankie and tries to sabotage her my making her plan all the things that Laura doesn’t like , so Laura’s home ends up full of people and things pink :-p Laura’s still sick and wonders if she might be pregnant.
Navy officer Greg is murdered, and they share jurisdiction with the NCIS - why? shouldn’t NCIS handle the case?
Meredith is jealous of Billy and the NCIS woman Jennifer and she’s right to be because they hook up. Greg and other men were having email-relationships with Nancy, so her stalker killed two of them before they stop him.
19-The mystery of the dodgy draft
A young teacher assistant is killed. First suspect is Marco, and Laura is very eager to free him of suspicions. Marco’s girlfriend is Sara, and her mom has been making all her decisions for her, to the point that she killed Marco’s ex-girlfriend because she wanted to make a trophy-wife out of her daughter.
It turns out that Laura is not pregnant (so why did she feel sick? doesn’t matter? why?) but Tony is not contrary to the idea of having kids with her
20-The mystery of the crooked clubber
Jake tells Laura that Angela is his girlfriend and so he introduced her to the twins. After Tony and Jake’s words, she tells Jake that it’s ok that the boys met Angela, and at the end of the episode Laura has them meet Tony at home :-)
While investigating the death of a young man Frankie goes to a rave party, asks for some plain water and ends up drugged.
They stop a duo of jewel-thieves, a man and the dead-guy’s girlfriend. Frankie stops Laura and Jake’s plan to overhear the robbers conversation because she thinks it would be bending the rules, with a plan of her own, and she helps. Later she’ll apologize to Laura and thank her for her support, admitting that she had been trying hard to prove her worth, and Laura tells her that she doesn’t have to because it’s already obvious that she’s a good cop, and very tough.
21-The mystery of the deceased documentarian
Thomas, a delivery guy, is shot in the street. He was looking into an old case of a girl killed the night of her prom. He had made a film stating that Raquel had been killed by her own brother Oliver, so the real killer kills Oliver too to make it look like guilty suicide. Actually Raquel’s boyfriend killed her. Melissa Joan Hart plays Kasey, an online journalist.
Laura is planning to rent a beach house for a holiday with Tony and the twins.
End: trying to stop a robbery at a store, Jake gets shot.
22-The mystery of the corner shop crossfire
I understand the panic, knowing someone you love in at the hospital in critical conditions, about to have surgery, but it always makes me crazy that they’d think keeping the surgeon talking to them or being in the op.room is the right way to go :-/ instead of letting the doc go to the patient as quickly as possible and perform the operation without any distraction that might interfere with his concentration :-/
Also, it’s funny how hospitals are often so clean and empty in some movies :-p
Of course it turns out to be something much bigger than a simple, single store robbery, that wouldn’t be worth their time :-/
Undetectable guns, so the FBI and Homeland Security get involved.. At the end, the perfectly functioning plastic gun was for a woman who wanted to kill the man that killed her baby girl.
Jake pulls thru and tells her that he wants her back and that they still love each other…
Laura Diamond-Debra Messing
Jake Broderick-Josh Lucas
Billy Soto-Laz Alonso
Meredith-Janina Gavankar
Max-Max Jenkins
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