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Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot
13 June 2005Brenda Johnson arrives in L.A. where she faces resentment from her peers and squad during her first investigation involving a woman beaten to death whose suspected murderer has disappeared, along with all evidence of his existence.
Season 1, Episode 2: About Face
20 June 2005Brenda looks for the murderer of a star's wife, amidst meddling by Captain Taylor who also plants one of his staff on her team.
27 June 2005Brenda's investigation into the murder of a teenage prostitute puts her in the FBI's headlights, and a possible conflict with Fritz.
4 July 2005Brenda forms an alliance with a man while searching for a sniper, but her trust is put to the test when he manipulates and out-maneuvers her causing a gang backlash.
Season 1, Episode 5: Flashpoint
11 July 2005Brenda's investigation into the murder of a psychiatrist and the drug trial he was conducting is disrupted when Pope leaks confidential information and Flynn uses it against her.
18 July 2005Brenda works to solve the rape and murder of a congresswoman's daughter.
25 July 2005Priority Homicide investigates the murder of a judge, and Brenda must bond with his autistic son to find the killer.
Season 1, Episode 8: Batter Up
1 August 2005Brenda is asked to prove a hate crime, but Taylor's interference may finally be enough to ruin the case.
8 August 2005Brenda's investigation into the rape and murder of a young girl begins to affect her emotions, and in order to close the case she makes an unlikely deal.
15 August 2005Brenda tangles with a meddling Deputy D.A. as she investigates the possible murder of a butler who it's thought committed suicide.
Season 1, Episode 11: L.A. Woman
22 August 2005The investigation of the murder of a Middle Eastern businessman and his bodyguard is complicated by the FBI who believe the case to be related to terrorism.
29 August 2005Brenda is asked to help keep a criminal imprisoned when the woman he was convicted of murdering shows up recently dead, and her actions alienate everyone. Meanwhile, Captain Taylor makes a fateful decision about supporting one of his men.
5 September 2005Captain Taylor makes his move against Brenda, meaning she must juggle concerns of an I.A. investigation with solving the murder of a famous producer.
Season 2, Episode 1: Blue Blood
12 June 2006Brenda investigates the murder of an L.A.P.D. officer while he was off duty, and Fritz pressures her for a decision.
Season 2, Episode 2: Mom Duty
19 June 2006When a juror dies during a mob boss trial, Brenda has to finesse her way to questioning the remaining jurors. Meanwhile an unannounced visit put her plans with Fritz on hold.
Season 2, Episode 3: Slippin'
26 June 2006The murder of two USC students in an apparent gang shooting that leaves another in the hospital, has Brenda juggling responsibilities for entertaining her mother and solving the case.
Season 2, Episode 4: Aftertaste
3 July 2006Investigation into the murder of an owner of a trendy restaurant is complicated by Brenda's odd behavior.
10 July 2006When Flynn and Provenza put sky box tickets over duty, the repercussions could bring the unit down.
17 July 2006Brenda investigates the apparent suicide of a "stalkerazzo", and Fritz receives a disturbing phone call.
24 July 2006Brenda's investigation into the murder of a porn star who was subsequently dismembered, brings up emotions that may or may not be related to the case.
31 July 2006The discovery of the bodies of a Japanese woman and her daughter from an apparent murder/suicide, put the team on the trail of a possible multiple murderer.
7 August 2006An 8 year old boy dies and his friend blames himself for his death, he is very distraught. The detectives think that the mother was the responsible party for this, but she tries to put the blame elsewhere.
14 August 2006The death of a meth-head has Brenda looking at the Narcotics division, and a deposition may reveal a deeply held secret.
Season 2, Episode 11: Borderline
21 August 2006A fender-bender while she's on duty interferes with Brenda's investigation into an apparent triple murder with no bodies that may have ties to illegal immigration.
28 August 2006The shooting of a witness may free a murderer, and the team investigates a Catholic school's Civics class; a bombshell is dropped in the "murder room".
Season 2, Episode 13: Overkill
4 September 2006The death of an FBI informant puts Fritz in the role of peace keeper between the FBI Agent in charge and Brenda.
4 December 2006Brenda, on paid administrative leave after the shooting, is near-distraction from inactivity. Salvation in the form of a covert ops may be more than she bargained for, even if it means regaining her team.
4 December 2006Although Brenda has extorted her team back, the consequences may prove deadly as she probes deeper into a young man's death.
18 June 2007A teenage boy in a locked house is the only survivor of a family slaughtered in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood. Making the investigation more difficult, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson has to deal with across-the-board budget cuts. She is torn between transferring one of her own team members or force Lt. Provenza to retire early.
25 June 2007The discovery of a body at a building site dating back to the L.A. Riots puts Brenda on a collision course with a priest, a politician, and one of her team.
2 July 2007Brenda becomes the most downloaded video on YouTube after being assaulted by a bride whose wedding she's stopped due to a corpse falling out of a casket.
Season 3, Episode 4: Ruby
9 July 2007When a little girl is abducted, Sergeant Gabriel steps over a line for results, but he jeopardizes the case and his career.
16 July 2007Brenda finds herself investigating the goings on at a retirement facility when a man confesses to seven murders and refuses to give his name.
Season 3, Episode 6: Dumb Luck
23 July 2007Brenda has to solve a murder with just Provenza while she's ill when her team is forced into WMD training.
30 July 2007A suspected gang retaliation double murder takes a different turn, and Brenda continues to feel ill.
Season 3, Episode 8: Manhunt
6 August 2007Brenda and her team deal with the grisly case of a serial killer who seems to have re-appeared after an absence of many years. The cases all have the same type of victim and the same results. Attractive young women - all divorced and recently re-married - are kidnapped and tortured with a cattle prod, among other things, and then dumped nude on the beach along the Pacific Coast Highway. There would always be three victims, found several days apart, with a Roman numeral branded on the heel of their foot. Three victims were found in 1998 and again in 1999 but nothing since. As the police look into the backgrounds of one of the victims, they find exactly where they were tortured and the reason why no one could hear their screams. In her personal life, Brenda is devastated by the results of her medical tests and the doctor's diagnosis.
Season 3, Episode 9: Blindsided
13 August 2007A reporter dies while Brenda is helping him profile the LAPD, but she's barred from participating in the case by Pope until the department psychiatrist clears her for duty. At home, she and Fritz are expecting her parents for a visit.
20 August 2007With her parents still visiting, Brenda has to deal with the murder of a Chinatown-based tour operator. The young woman was found bludgeoned to death on one of her tour buses when her husband arrived for work in the morning. Her phone messages reveal that she may have been having an affair. It also appears that the tour company was running too much money through their books leading the police to believe she may also have been involved in prostitution. While Brenda is investigating, fiancé Fritz is stuck playing tourist with her visiting parents. Brenda has another visit with her doctor and gets good news and bad news - the really bad news being related to her diet.
27 August 2007Having just undergone surgery, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson leads the investigation into the death of a female DHS agent. The woman was well-known to the LAPD and was frequently in Los Angeles auditing the installation of police telecommunications equipment funded by Homeland Security. Her car is found off the road in a ravine but the autopsy suggests that she probably survived the crash, with a fatal blow to the head with a wooden stick being the murder weapon. She also had pepper spray residue on her face. Brenda and her team are soon in conflict with DHS investigators who are trying to recover the dead woman's cellphone and laptop computer. The biggest shock however is that she was also having an affair with someone - who turns out to be Chief Pope.
3 September 2007Brenda and the priority murder squad investigate the death of Oliver Henry, a prominent divorce lawyer, who is found at the bottom of his swimming pool. His wife Valerie, who was also his law partner, is the only beneficiary of his $10 million life insurance policy and is an obvious suspect. There are several others, usually the ex-spouses of his clients, including one, Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer, who may have been particularly vexed with him. Brenda finds herself in unfamiliar territory when she is unable to get a confession from him and has to testify at his murder trial. Meanwhile, Fritz and Brenda are in the process combining their finances but Brenda's attempt to get cheaper car insurance for them reveals something from Fritz's past.
10 September 2007The trial of Jonathan Shafer is not going well. He had always claimed he was off fishing with a friend, Topper Barnes, but the police couldn't find him and Brenda was convinced that he simply did not exist. When Barnes suddenly appears, Brenda may have to face the fact that they have the wrong man on trial. She perseveres however and finds that a lien placed on a house owned by Shafer may have been a more that adequate motive for the killing. Brenda also looks to break his alibi for the day of the murder. Meanwhile, Brenda begins to doubt her relationship with Fritz when he admits to something in his past.
3 December 2007It's turning out to be a not so very Merry Christmas for Brenda who is still trying to sell her house and is putting up Christmas decorations as recommended by their real estate agent. In the midst of this, Chief Pope transfers an armored car robbery investigation from a less than pleased Commander Taylor to Brenda and her team. The latest is the most recent in a string of robberies and Brenda believes it has to be an inside job. The only survivor of the most recent robbery is Wesley Reed who was shot but promptly disappears from the hospital. When he's traced back to his home in Atlanta, Brenda and Fritz go to pick him up and stay with Brenda's parent who are happy to see her, but make a point of telling her that she has come on business and not necessarily to see them. When they are unable to fly Wesley back to LA, they set off in the RV her parents were to use to go to Florida. Brenda's parents are there as well as the prisoner and Lieutenants Flynn and Provenza.
3 December 2007Brenda, her parents, Fritz and Lts. Provenza and Flynn set off on their cross-country trek to return their prisoner, Wesley Reed, to Los Angeles. Brenda's parents are the only ones who are allowed to drive the RV and they hit several bumps in the road along the way. Wesley tries to escape through the RV's bathroom window damaging the toilet so they face a long ride with no facilities. Wesley takes a different tone over time thanks to the kindness of Brenda's parents but Brenda makes what later proves to be a fatal error when she tells him that his younger brother was killed the same day Wesley fled. Wesley tells her that the group he was involved with was planning another armored car robbery and, finally back in LA, agrees to wear a wire. Unfortunately, the take down doesn't quite go as planned.
14 July 2008Brenda investigates the murder of a woman and the wild fire she was found in, complicated by the reappearance of Bill Croelick who is either the likeliest suspect or the best resource she'll ever have to find the killer.
Season 4, Episode 2: Speed Bump
21 July 2008The HPH team investigates the hit-and-run death of one of Flynn's old cases, and Brenda works on her political skills when it turns out the case may lead to a Hollywood director and his wife.
28 July 2008Brenda does battle with a Sheriff's commander when his son is implicated in the suicide of a girl he was accused of raping.
Season 4, Episode 4: Live Wire
4 August 2008A murdered man wearing a wire is discovered in an alley, and once he's identified his ties to an FBI drug case put Brenda in conflict with Fritz.
11 August 2008Priority Homocide conducts a sting operation in which Lieutenant Provenza poses as a hit man in order to arrest a woman, Angie Serabian, who is planning the murder-for-hire of her husband. Complications arise, however, when Provenza's car, which contains all the evidence, is stolen, putting Provenza's career on the line. Unable to hold Angie for her crime, the team must try to protect her husband from any further attempts on his life. When Mr. Serbian is murdered later that evening, and it is unclear whether or not Mrs. Serbian is responsible, the team goes into overdrive to solve the crime.
18 August 2008When thirteen-year-old Serge Monroe goes missing, Priority Homocide treat it as a "Critical Missing" because of his age, until facts about the boy's violent history comes to light. When the boy is found murdered, there is no shortage of suspects.
1 August 2008When Det. Julio Sanchez brother is murdered in a drive-by shooting, Brenda has the rest of her team put into full force to find out who was responsible, but finds her work compromised by residents in the South-Central L.A. neighborhood reluctant to come forward, and a vengeful Det. Sanchez determined to find the culprit on his own through any means necessary.
Season 4, Episode 8: Split Ends
1 September 2008In another brush with fame, Brenda and the team must investigate the movie set murder of a hairdresser. Meanwhile, Brenda tries to get her meddling and overbearing, parents out of her hair (and her house) when they come to town during their annual road trip from Georgia, and they both work her into a lather over her yet-to-be-planned wedding to Fritz.
8 September 2008Brenda takes on the Catholic church and obnoxious Ricardo Ramos as the team investigates the deaths of two Mexican policeman, and face the possible end of the high priority homicide unit.
Season 4, Episode 10: Time Bomb
15 September 2008Brenda and her newly christened Major Crimes Division investigate the victim of a crude pipe bomb that exploded too soon, and the case leads them to disaffected teens whose plot will make one of the team a deadly target.
Season 4, Episode 11: Good Faith
26 January 2009Dr. Morales calls in a favor when he believes a suicide is murder, interfering with Brenda planning her wedding with her parents.
2 February 2009Brenda's personal day is ruined when a body is found in a trunk, without the diamonds he stole.
9 February 2009Brenda and her team match wits with a sex offender's lawyer in a case involving murder and a serial rapist, and when Deputy DA Garnett forces an unpalatable plea bargain no on is prepared for the result.
Season 4, Episode 14: Fate Line
16 February 2009Fritz' sister, a newly-discovered 'intuitionist', assists Brenda and her team with a case that involves text messages that imply a murder and a suicide that isn't what it seems.
23 February 2009Brenda and Fritz both deal with cases on the day before their wedding; Provenza puts his foot down, resulting in a resignation.
8 June 2009Four family members are killed in their home. The team discovers that they were innocent victims in the attempted execution of a trial witness, because the killer went to the wrong address.
15 June 2009Brenda and her team step into the delicate kidnapping case of a real estate mogul accused of fraud, which is complicated by frozen assets, an FBI case, obnoxious relatives, and a victim who may not be victimized.
Season 5, Episode 3: Red Tape
22 June 2009When Sergeant Gabriel wounds an unarmed suspect, Brenda finds herself at odds with the FID Captain - a woman who is as single-minded and as intense as she is - while they jockey for position and Gabriel's career.
29 June 2009Special agent Taylor asks Brenda for Major Crimes' help in finding a "missing person." However, when that person turns out to be a murdered drug dealer-turned FBI informant, the sparks begin to fly.
Season 5, Episode 5: Half Load
6 July 2009A reformed former convict is shot and killed outside a community center in gang territory. The team tries to solve the crime while Brenda tries to assure a public that has grown wary and skeptical of police cooperation.
Season 5, Episode 6: Tapped Out
13 July 2009Brenda deals with a psychotic wannabe detective who holds the keys to her case involving the murder of a pick-up artist. Unfortunately, he also holds her evidence and Chief Pope's career in his delusional hands.
20 July 2009Two officers are shot and killed in the line of duty. However, captain Raydor's internal investigation could jeopardize Major Crimes' chances of finding the killers.
27 July 2009Brenda works with a retired detective on a case involving an accused killer who is murdered. But they clash because Brenda wants to find the killer's killer, while the detective is more concerned about closure for the killer's victims.
3 August 2009When a confessed killer gets an important detail of the murder wrong during his allocution, Brenda suspects that he may be covering for his schizophrenic son. Meanwhile, Brenda gets a visit from her mother and teenage niece.
10 August 2009A cooler containing a dead body over three years old is delivered to Major Crimes, and Brenda finds four suspects who wanted him dead. Meanwhile, Brenda's niece outstays her welcome with Brenda and Fritz.
17 August 2009Brenda is forced to use her niece Charlie without her knowledge to uncover a motive after a shooter kills one teenager and leaves another seriously wounded.
24 August 2009Texas authorities help Major Crimes catch a serial killer, but will Brenda allow the killer to be extradited to Texas to face the death penalty? Meanwhile back at home, she must decide whether Charlie can stay and live with Fritz and her.
Season 5, Episode 13: The Life
7 December 2009When the younger brother of a gang leader and two other gang members are killed, Major Crimes suspects that they are victims in a gang war. However, when a stolen ATM card is recovered at the scene of the crime, a new motive emerges.
Season 5, Episode 14: Make Over
14 December 2009Major Crimes runs into a problem when it is forced to reopen an old murder case and discovers that the detective who closed the case--Provenza's ex-partner--has had a sex change and is now a woman.
21 December 2009
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