Season 3, Episode 1: Homewrecker

Drama • TV-14 • Directed by: The Closer • 60 minutes

CIA-trained Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (series star KYRA SEDGWICK) is an investigator and interrogator who has a remarkable talent for trapping criminals in their lies. A feminine yet forceful former Atlanta detective brought to Los Angeles to head the special Los Angeles Police Department unit called Priority Homicide Division, which is charged with cracking sensitive, high-profile murder cases, Brenda is an expert at digging into a person's secrets and obtaining confessions, despite constantly struggling with her own imperfections and neuroses. Just as Brenda finds her place in the world, a financial crisis at the LAPD rocks the ground under her feet. Her struggle to solve murders on a budget -- while protecting individual members of her squad from layoffs, transfers and early retirements -- endangers her friendships, tests her loyalties and shifts her alliances.