Season 1 - Episode 1 - Pilot
Air Date: Mar 12, 2002
Description: While Dutch and Claudette investigate the murder of Nancy Reborg, they discover that her daughter is missing and has been sold by her addict father to a child molester. Meanwhile, David tries to crack corruption in the barn by recruiting Terry to help him take down Vic, which results in Terry's murder. Plus, Danny and Julien arrest a man who slashed his ex-girlfrien ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Our Gang
Air Date: Mar 19, 2002
Description: Internal Affairs launches an investigation into Terry's death. David begins his own investigation into Vic's actions. Claudette and Dutch investigate the shooting of a churro vendor. The Strike Team busts a gang initiation. Rookie Julien gets pointers from Danny and experiences one of his own initiation rituals as a cop.
Season 1 - Episode 3 - The Spread
Air Date: Mar 26, 2002
Description: It's warrant sweep day at the Barn. Vic and the Strike Team discover visiting NBA superstar Derrick Tripp hanging out with his homies before the evening game with the Lakers. Vic decides to do his part for the home team by keeping Tripp as a friendly hostage. One of Vic's street informants, Connie, approaches him after having been roughed up by a new john. Vic hands o ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Dawg Days
Air Date: Apr 2, 2002
Description: Vic must broker a peace between Kern Little and T-Bonz, two rappers whose personal animosity towards each other is broiling over in to the streets. Danny is attacked after identifying a shooter. Julien helps a woman whose son's body has been stolen. Dutch and Claudette search for a missing migrant worker. David allies himself with Kingmaker Jorge Machado to further hi ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Blowback
Air Date: Apr 9, 2002
Description: David insists that Vic and the Strike Team take some uniform cops along as support, including Danny and Julien, when they bust an Armenian gang's drug buy. The Strike Team arrives as one of the Armenians is assassinated and proceed to remove the pink coke from the scene while the Unis bring out the surviving thugs. Julien witnesses Vic dividing the confiscated drugs i ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Cherrypoppers
Air Date: Apr 16, 2002
Description: When the body of a young, unidentified hooker is found in the district, aspects of the crime and Dutch's conviction that this murder is the work of a serial killer persuade David to provide Dutch and Claudette the full resources of the Barn. Dutch has 24 hours in which to break the case before the clues grow cold and resources are demanded elsewhere. While Dutch, with ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Pay In Pain
Air Date: Apr 23, 2002
Description: Vic and the Strike Team go to the aid of another precinct to stop a spree killer. David receives Julien's affidavit about Vic's illegal behavior and contacts Internal Affairs. Dutch and Claudette investigate a psychic charged with fraud. Danny and Julien's rift grows.
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Cupid And Psycho
Air Date: Apr 30, 2002
Description: When the Strike Team is split apart and its members reassigned to other partners, Vic and Claudette find themselves following the destructive trail of a bad batch of cupid meth while Dutch and Shane just try to get along.
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Throwaway
Air Date: May 7, 2002
Description: The Strike Team must clean up its own mess after planting a gun on the wrong guy in a truck-jacking case while Claudette deals with the mess of her family during a visit from her daughter.
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Dragonchasers
Air Date: May 14, 2002
Description: Vic helps Connie through drug withdrawal in a desperate attempt to keep her kid, leaving Shane and Lemonhead to break a strip club mugging ring, while Dutch follows his instincts about a serial killer and Danny is bitten by an HIV-infected perp.
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Carnivores
Air Date: May 21, 2002
Description: Vic and the Strike Team mediate between Rondell Robinson and the Nation of Islam while Dutch and Claudette investigate a brutal home invasion within the tight-lipped Korean community and Captain Aceveda revisits his past.
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Two Days Of Blood (1)
Air Date: May 28, 2002
Description: While Vic answers Assistant Chief Gilroy’s call for help in covering up a hit and run before Dutch intuits the facts of the case, Shane and Lemonhead follow the trail of a gunrunner with a penchant for cockfights and David turns to Claudette after a double homicide raises ire and fear within an ignored community.
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Circles (2)
Air Date: Jun 4, 2002
Description: Vic and David must join forces to stop the bogus 9-1-1 calls that are luring cops into deadly ambushes in the aftermath of a riot and Assistant Chief Gilroy attempts to play them against each other and destroy their careers in a desperate effort to save his own.