"They'll bring you in. She'll make you talk."
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) is a police detective who transfers from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Despite a tendency to step on people's toes, Johnson manages to convert even her strongest adversaries with her unique ability to get to the truth.
A TNT original series, The Closer is created by the producers of Nip/Tuck and The Agency.
A federal lawsuit against Brenda heats up in the wake of a murder. As Brenda's lawyer (Mark Pellegrino) goes to court for her, Brenda turns to a businessman (Jason George) for help in cracking the murder case. Curtis Arm...
The team seeks clues in the hit-and-run murder of a girl on a bicycle. Brenda soon puts her investigative focus on the police commissioner (Mark Moses) and his wife (Elizabeth Perkins) when she suspects their involvement...
A man is murdered while under FBI surveillance, stirring up friction between the federal agents and the LAPD. Meanwhile, Brenda's parents (Frances Sternhagen and Barry Corbin) arrive for the holidays and spring surprisin...
It's a blue Christmas when Santa's zip-line arrival into a Christmas village goes terribly awry and Brenda's team must take on the holiday case. Fred Willard, Christine Woods and Lauren Bowles guest star.
Brenda and her squad investigate the shooting of a high-school principal whose school is entangled in scandal. Yet a territorial conflict erupts between Brenda and Fritz when Brenda's investigation overlaps with an exist...
The team digs for clues in the shooting death of a deputy sheriff. Meanwhile, Brenda's civil case comes to a head when the judge must make a crucial decision
Brenda tries to hit all the right notes when investigating the puzzling disappearance of a stage father whose daughter's new single is ready for release. On the flip side, new and potentially hopeful developments emerge ...
Brenda reaches out to Capt. Raydor for help in a twist-filled case involving a murder-for-hire scheme, a formidable drug cartel and allegations of police brutality. Elsewhere, squad members are deposed in regard to the l...
The team investigates the puzzling death of a fellow officer's daughter. Elsewhere, Capt. Raydor advances in her meticulous audit of Brenda's unit and begins to sharpen focus on Det. Sanchez
Brenda springs into investigative action when a body is found at a home-construction site. Meanwhile, Brenda considers turning to a lawyer, but the pricey retainer fee means Fritz will likely have to sacrifice certain lu...
The team snoop into the death of a minister, but their investigation is jeopardized by the victim's own shady secrets and his family's efforts to protect his name and their church. Meanwhile, all but one member of the un...
The squad searches for a vanished boy who has a connection to Lt. Tao. Elsewhere, Capt. Raydor continues her methodical review of Brenda's team and offers a troubling recommendation to Brenda.
Flynn and Provenza plunge into yet another ill-fated adventure when they try to make quick cash by serving court papers for a lawyer. The boys get a bad break when they serve a man—and he's killed just minutes afterwar...
Brenda and her squad snoop into the slaying of a young female house sitter. And just as the LAPD undergoes game-changing organizational shifts, Capt. Raydor (Mary McDonnell) advances in her audit of Brenda's department
Brenda and the squad investigate the owner of a record label after a rap artist is shot; Chief Delk prepares to announce the department's new organizational chart; Brenda is the target of a civil suit against the police ...
The arrest of a crack addict exposes a questionable rehab facility and leads Brenda's squad on a race to find a missing woman; Gabriel questions Brenda's judgment; Fritz reveals some ugly truths about his past.
A blood feud within a refugee family from Kosovo results in another victim, forcing Brenda and her team, along with Captain Raydor (guest star Mary McDonnell) to continue their investigation on Christmas Day. But Brenda'...
The squad's holiday plans are jeopardized when a feud leads to a stabbing on Christmas Eve and the accidental death of a patriarch; Brenda's parents plan to make a special announcement.
Chief of Police Tommy Delk (Courtney B. Vance) enlists the team to investigate thefts at various medical-marijuana dispensaries. The seemingly innocuous assignment takes a perilous turn, however, when one robbery results...
Summary: The squad digs for clues in the slaying of an aspiring actress. All the while, Brenda gears up to interview for the job of chief of police, though she has mixed feelings about taking the post. Mary McDonnell re...
Summary: Brenda investigates the shooting deaths of three soldiers who had just returned from Afghanistan. With national-security issues surrounding the case, Brenda finds herself in an investigative tug-of-war with a m...
A bank robbery leaves a security guard dead and a lot of unanswered questions; Pope gets some news about his chances at becoming the city's police chief.
After a parole board member is murdered, Pope announces a plan to boost the police department's image.
Summary: Detective Ramsky wants the squad to investigate a series of murders that indicate a Mexican drug cartel may have moved into the city.
Summary: Provenza discovers a dead body in the condo of a flight attendant that he picked up while extraditing a prisoner; Brenda reveals her career intentions to Pope.
Summary: As they probe a dubious suicide, Brenda and her squad are swept up in a fiery custody battle between a dying man and his drug-addled ex-wife. Meanwhile, Pope sets his sights on scoring the police-chief post.
Capt. Raydor (Mary McDonnell) arrives to help Brenda investigate the vanishing of a nanny who has connections to the mayor. But the case takes uneasy turns when a stun-gun-wielding rapist emerges as a suspect, and Raydor...
Summary: Season 6 opens with the shooting death of a man. Among the messy complications hindering Brenda's investigation: an affair involving the victim, a missing murder weapon and the squad's difficult move to their n...
Season 5 closes with Capt. Raydor (Mary McDonnell) returning. She reaches out to Brenda to investigate the alleged spousal abuse of a female officer, but there's more to the case than meets the eye. Meanwhile, Fritz grow...
Previous cases come up for review when an LAPD crime lab is discredited. One such past case involves Provenza and his ex-partner (Beau Bridges), who emerges from retirement to help revisit the investigation. The busy cas...
When an adolescent boy is found murdered where members of the Tres Colores gang frequently spend time, the subsequent murders of two more gang members point Brenda and the team to gang warfare. Unfortunately, the evidenc...
Summary: When a serial killer's spree crosses from Texas to California, Brenda must work with Detective Curt Landry, her Texan equivalent. The two match wits and find themselves going toe to toe as each tries to gain co...
Summary: Brenda snoops when a shooting on a school parking lot results in one person's death. Landing squarely in the middle of the case: Brenda's rebellious visiting niece, Charlie (Sosie Bacon). Meanwhile, Provenza is...
The discovery on a large container with human remains has Chief Brenda Johnson scrambling to find the killer and gets more than she bargained for. The list of suspects includes an upset ex-fiancé, a tenant-hating land...
Brenda must reopen the case of a murdered psychiatrist when the man claiming to have committed the crime givess a statement that doesn't quite match the actual events. Based on evidence of the man's acquaintance with the...
Summary: Howie Greeson is found brutally murdered in Elysian Fields. Brenda learns that he was the likely killer of two young women and was never arrested, leading her to suspect the family members of Howie's victims.
Summary: When two police officers and a teenage boy are killed in a shootout, Brenda's investigation of an Aryan skinhead gang is hampered by Captain Raydor of Internal Affairs.
When an internet matchmaker is murdered, the team finds themselves investigating the matchmaker's early-stage television show. Adding to the craziness is a fake officer, who turns everything upside down.
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BrendaÂ’s squad investigates the murder of a former gang banger, but the evidence indicates he may not have been the target. The case leads Brenda on a return trip to the doorstep of Father Jack and the Crenshaw Commu...
Summary: Once again working with Fritz and the FBI, the team helps get to the bottom of a murder which occurred amidst a drug ring investigation. Also again, Brenda finds FBI feathers ruffled by her unorthodox methods....
Summary: Sgt. Gabriel comes under investigation for shooting a homicide suspect when the facts don't add up. The internal investigation gets in the way of the original murder investigation, leaving the entire team tied...
Brenda and the team are called in to investigate the questionable disappearance of a shady financial investor. The team is a mess with Daniels now in another division, Gabriel doing double duty, and Provenza with behavio...
Summary: While investigating the homicide of an entire family, the team once again finds themselves entangled in an FBI case. They also find themselves distracted by an unusually surly Provenza.
Bret Johnson and Joe Philips work at an isolated construction site. When Joe hears a news broadcast about the murder of a construction boss, he tells Brett that the murder was justified. Later the two men risk their live...
Brenda's wedding planning is interrupted when she must investigate a possible murder, which is suggested by some disturbing text messages on a discovered cell phone. Realizing this may not be an isolated incident, Brenda...
Brenda goes toe to toe with the tricky attorney of a man suspected of a brutal rape and murder. Going a few rounds to get to the truth, Brenda dukes it out with the lawyer who is just as clever in the ring as she is. Can...
Mrs. Fenimore is an actress who moves into the home of Mrs. Herman. With Mrs Fenimore's help, Mrs. Herman kill her uncle Bill and makes it look like an accident. Mrs. Fenimore later reveals that she married Bill and that...
Brenda and the team get involved in a seemingly simple case when the Medical Examiner believes that a suicide is actually homicide.
Brenda's team gets a new name as they try to stop terrorism which seems to have started with the death of a teen. The MCD, or Major Crimes Division, finds that this case is way too close to home.
Lucy Pryor is hypnotized at a party by Miles Farnham. In a trance, she claims to be an unhappily married Quaker named Dora Evans. Under hypnosis she promptly picks up a pair of scissors and kills her husband. The police ...
In another brush with fame, Brenda and the team must investigate the movie set murder of a hairdresser. In the meantime, Brenda tries to get her parents out of her hair when they come to town and work her into a lather o...
Summary: When a PHD member's loved one is shot and killed, the entire team takes it up a notch to solve the crime before the team member does. Meanwhile, Brenda must tame her temper when a reporter accuses the PHD of wo...
After a troubled adopted 13-year-old boy disappears, Brenda must decide whether the case should be treated as a runaway or an abduction. The further into the case she goes, the more suspicious the child seems, and Brenda...
Summary: In a noir-esque episode inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, Brenda sends an unlikely homme fatale, Lt. Provenza, undercover to sting a woman attempting to murder her husband.
Harry Adams is pulled over by a police officer named Pete Chandler. Pete says Harry was speeding and insists that Harry follow him into town. As they travel, they discover that Harry has a flat tire. A tow truck appears ...
When a girl is found dead of a suspicious suicide, the well-connected classmate previously accused of raping her immediately catches Brenda's attention. As the team digs for the truth, they uncover some disturbing skelet...
Summary: Brenda and the team must determine if a murder was revenge or mere coincidence when a recently released murderer turns up dead, the victim of a hit-and-run. As usual, Brenda's personal life isn't much better: s...
Originally called in to assist with crowd control in a burned out Griffith Park, Brenda and the PHD switch gears and take control of a murder investigation when a woman's body is discovered amid the chaos. The temperatur...
During the Christmas road trip from hell Brenda must make some tough choices to get a confession from her suspect, but the consequences are more than she bargained for.
Brenda goes chasing across the country to her home town in pursuit of a bank robbery and murder suspect.
The Brenda must break the murderer's alibi before a mistrial is declared, and Fritz gets some things off his chest.
A divorce attorney's death is traced to one of his clients' husbands, and Brenda is frustrated because she's not absolutely sure if it was murder, or if they have the correct man. Meanwhile, a revelation about Fritz sets...
A car crash turns into a priority homicide once it's determined the victim worked for Homeland Security, and Brenda gets a little more assistance than she bargained for when she asks Fritz for help.
The murder of a local tour operator has ties to Communist China and a businessman with some shady practices, and Fritz is frustrated when Brenda keeps leaving him with her parents while she conducts the investigation.
A 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 parent...
When the bodies of two women are discovered, the homicides contain the hallmarks of a well-known serial killer, who murders three times, branding his victims in the order they are killed. Now the Priority Homicide Divisi...
Gang tensions run high when two Latino gang members are murdered. Making the PHD's case more difficult is one victim's cousin who takes on the role of vigilante when he suspects the murderer is from an African-American g...
Brenda and the PHD investigate the murder of a personal trainer in a restaurant parking lot. Their prime suspect is the possessive, short-tempered husband of the woman with whom the victim was involved. Complicating the ...
The PHD finds themselves in the middle of a Hollywood-type case when they are forced to deal with a man who claims to have murdered seven people, but who refuses to identify himself.
Racing against the clock, Brenda and the PHD search for a missing 8-year-old girl who disappeared before making it home from school. While concentrating on a sex predator, Gabriel takes drastic action to solve the case, ...
The funeral of an former police colleague of Flynn and Provenza takes an unexpected turn when the casket is dropped, revealing not only their friend’s body, but that of a nude, blonde woman, about whom...
When Provenza's card is found on the body of a missing teenaged gang member, it appears the boy may have tried to contact Provenza about a shooting, but disappeared before he could. As a result, Brenda soon put a priest,...
The third season opens with a 3:00am roll-out that sends the PHD to the scene of the brutal triple murder of a couple and their pre-teen daughter. As the team processes the crime scene, they make an unexpected discovery ...
Special Episode. Glad to be back with her team, Brenda focuses on finding a terrorist-linked suspect. Working with the CIA, who also wants their hands on this suspect, Brenda realizes that she was given false information...
Special Episode. Resulting from the showdown in the murder room, Brenda finds herself taking some involuntary time off. When she is asked to help a friend solve a murder that is linked to a terrorist group, Brenda works ...
Brenda and Fritz have a hard time agreeing who is in charge when an informant's wife and an FBI agent are both murdered. Brenda discovers that she and the PHD must work quickly when the leading witness in the case is sch...
Once again, the PHD finds themselves wading through suspects in the murder of the star witness in a capital punishment case. When Estelle, Pope's angry ex-wife, spills the beans about Brenda to her team, Fritz begins to...
Leaving the scene of an accident to get to a multiple homicide scene, Brenda finds herself unable to drive the streets of L.A. which she worked so hard to learn. Once she gets to the crime scene, she and the PHD are fac...
The PHD must deal with a case of mistaken identity in order to get to the bottom of an investigation. While they're busy with the case, Brenda is involved in a different case: Pope's divorce. After being called to testi...
When a young boy blames himself for the death of his friend, Brenda must tread lightly to get to the bottom of the case. Complicating matters is the deceased child's mother, who offers up accusations of her own.
When the drowned bodies of a mother and daughter are found by fishermen, Brenda and the team must determine if the apparent suicides are more than that. Following a strange coil of discoveries, the most surprising revela...
When a few body parts of an "adult film" star are found in a dumpster, Brenda and the team must scramble for more pieces to solve this puzzle. Once they begin putting things together, the suspect list seems to get longer...
Brenda and the team find themselves wading through a long list of suspects when a celebrity photographer takes a fatal fall from his hotel room balcony. Once the cause of death is determined, the motive points to a big t...
Brenda finds herself involved in a cover-up of her own when she helps the PHD investigate a non-priority case. Why? Because the deceased woman was found in Provenza's garage. Once again, the team finds themselves racing...
Brenda and the PHD investigate a high-profile case when a woman is brutally murdered at L.A.'s trendiest restaurant. On the home front, Brenda tries to keep a low profile as she closes in on her 40th birthday.
Things are not as they seem when Brenda and the team investigate the accidental murders of three college students caught in the middle of a gang shootout. Brenda must also continue her attempts at keeping her relationsh...
When a juror in the trial of an infamous mobster is found dead, Brenda and the Priority Homicide Division find that their involvement in solving the case may be affecting the jury's final decision. Complicating her pers...
Things don't add up when an LA cop turns up dead. Brenda and her team race against the clock to get to the truth, while tension increases between the Priority Homicide Division and the Robbery-Homicide Division. In the ...
Season Finale. An unnamed source files a grievance against Brenda in the midst of a high-profile investigation of a murdered L.A. filmmaker. With her career on the line, Brenda is skeptical of Chief Pope's intentions whe...
Brenda and her team must find not only a killer, but also identify the killer's victim when a deranged, homicidal madman is set free due to mistaken identity. Trying to make sense of an array of complexities in this unu...
Brenda finds herself at odds with the FBI in a struggle to gain control of the murder investigation of a well-known businessman.
Deciding to work in tandem, Brenda finds herself working directly with Fritz, who was...
Three wealthy, spoiled and unruly children become the target of Brenda's investigation when their stepmother is murdered and the family butler seemingly commits suicide shortly thereafter. Riding heard on the trio is the...
The murder of an adolescent girl from Mexico, found dead in the Los Angeles River, proves difficult and painful for Brenda and her team. At first, a known sex-offender seems the likely candidate, but questions arise abou...
When a gay man is murdered, seemingly the latest victim of a string of hate crimes, Brenda must confront prejudices inside and out of the LAPD. But when the perpetrator of the crimes turns out to be something quite diffe...
When a judge is murdered in Griffith Park, Brenda's investigation takes an unexpected twist. Her best witness, or perhaps her prime suspect, is his teenaged son with autism. Challenged by the boy's behaviors, but convinc...
Brenda finds herself the unexpected victim of violence against women when she investigates the murder of a congresswoman's daughter. At first, it appears the victim was engaged in sexual activity online that included an ...
Brenda enters the high-stakes world of pharmaceutical research, when a drug trial for new anti-addiction medication lead to the death of one of the principal investigators. Nothing is quite as it seems as she investigate...
Brenda and the Priority Homicide Team investigate a sniper who is killing gang members in and around MacArthur Park. Offering assistance is an ex-Army colonel who believes the sniper to be his son. As an all-out gang war...
Brenda must fight for justice for two Russian prostitutes murdered by the illegitimate son of a Russian mafia figure whiles she overcomes the prejudices of a department who sees one dead prostitute as pretty much the sam...
Brenda and the team must investigate the murder of high-profile model Heather Kingsley, who dies as a result of nicotine poisoning, applied to her scalp via her hair conditioner. Suspicion quickly falls on her movie-star...
Series Premiere. A seemingly routine murder investigation by the LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division is interrupted by the arrival of Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson, the new head of the LAPD’s Priority Murder ...
