Detective Renée Ballard, head of the cold case office for the LAPD, works two cases. She wants to work one of the cases but she is pressured to work the other one. She has a team of people working with her, all volunteers. Two of her volunteers used to be police officers, Thomas Laffont is a former partner who is now retired and Samira Parker was a LAPD Robbery Homicide detective who quit the job out of frustration.
The other volunteers are civilians: Colleen Hatteras, Martina Castro, and Ted Rawls. Castro is an intern who is a university student who is there in part for college credit. Rawls, a friend of a City Councilman Jake Pearlman, is a local business owner. Councilman Pearlman wants Ballard to make some progress on the decades-and-a-half old murder of his sister Sarah.
Ballard tries to surreptitiously get some DNA evidence only to be caught red-handed by the person whose DNA she wants to obtain for comparison's sake.
Parker works the other case that Ballard is reviewing. She returns to a motel connected to the case and tries asking some questions but the manager blows her off. Parker later returns to the motel only to discover that one of the cleaning ladies at the motel was just murdered.
The episode ends with Ballard finding out that there's a connection between one of her cases and a case that Harry Bosch worked.
Thoughts
I like this. I'm not sure it will be quite as satisfying as I want it to be but so far I like it a lot.
There still seems to be bad blood between Ballard and RHD. Rawls is most likely a plant but I'm sure that Ballard suspects that and will treat him accordingly.
Maggie Q plays the part of Ballard. She was the voice of Wonder Woman in Young Justice. John Carroll Lynch plays the part of Laffont. I saw him fairly recently in The Founder (2016). I'm not familiar with the other actors in this show.
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