Homicide: Life on the Street
A mundane yet compelling look into the grim affairs of the Homicide Unit of the Baltimore Police Department. Shot entirely with handheld cameras on location in the Fells Point Community of Baltimore, it's unlike most "cop shows" in that it lacks action-packed sequences involving car chases, gun fights and explosions. Instead, the episodes are focused on the actual investigative work required to close the case. Inspired by David Simon's acclaimed non-fiction book, "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," it's been quoted as "the most reality-based police drama ever aired on television."
A prominent businessman's housekeeper is found murdered at a banquet in his honor.
Felix Wilson makes a shocking confession about his relationship with his deceased housekeeper.
Pembleton and Giardello reluctantly get search warrants to collect blood samples from Felix Wilson and his son.
Lewis and Falsone, joined by Stivers, get the case of a woman almost beaten to death and left in an alley. Georgia Rae Mahoney tells Kellerman she has video of Luther's shooting. Frank anxiously awaits the birth of his child, but Mary is unruffled.
New York detectives Briscoe and Curtis accompany Falsone and Munch to Baltimore as they look for the suspect in a teen model's death.
An armed robbery at a family Vietnamese restaurant leaves five dead, sparing only two teenagers in the kitchen who implicate an off-duty Baltimore cop. Falsone confronts Kellerman and accuses him of executing Luther Mahoney.
A man is pinned by a train in a subway station, producing a mortal wound that is temporarily suppressed by his situation, the Homicide detectives must determine if the incident was an accident or deliberate.
Gharty and Ballard suspect that a woman murdered her ex-boyfriend for infecting her with AIDS.
Bayliss and Pembleton are forced to deal with their own prejudices as they search for a hustler suspected of killing rich gay men.
Lewis and Falsone attempt to solve the whipping and hanging of a wealthy advertising executive.
A couple give the police information about a murder-suicide, while Ballard and Gharty go after a pair of suspects outside their jurisdiction.
The stabbing death of a priest in his own rectory becomes a red ball, with Ballard and Gharty in charge. Allegations of sexual abuse complicate the case, and the unit searches for two Guatemalan refugees who were living at the rectory.
Another priest is murdered after the two Guatemalan political refugees suspected of killing the first one are set free.
An angry driver cuts off a state-owned truck, is rammed from behind and rearends a parked semi. Result? Two deaths and a paralyzed passenger, a lawsuit against the state, and pressure on the ME to alter blood alcohol results.
Pembleton and Falsone investigate the mauling of an elderly man, in his own house, by three dogs belonging to his grandson. At the Waterfront, Bayliss, Munch, Gharty, and Ballard share stories of "goofy cases, senseless killings, senseless suspects."
Pembleton and Bayliss investigate the death of a cancer patient when a relative insists the hospice doctor killed him in a "mercy killing." Stivers and Falsone investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl outside a pizza shop on her way to school.
When a 4-year-old boy disappears from a carousel, Falsone and Stivers catch the case and are joined by the entire homicide unit, plus Jeff Andrews, the host of "This Week's Wanted" TV show.
Munch and Gharty investigate a high-school basketball player's murder.
Ballard and Gharty probe the case of single women who are strangled after they're picked up at fancy bars and subdued with a stun gun.
Two business executives who belonged to the same country club kill themselves when they're given incriminating photos of themselves.
Bayliss is still having nightmares about the Adena Watson case, so Gee is reluctant to assign the case of another girl, murdered in 1932, to him. Therefore, Falsone is assigned the "oldest unsolved slaying still officially on the books."
Bayliss and Pembleton are handed "the mother of all red-balls," the stabbing of a judge on the sidewalk in broad daylight. It doesn't take them long to connect Georgia Rae Mahoney's feckless nephew to the murder. But unlike their previous contacts with him, he doesn't go easily this time.
The Homicide Unit takes down the remaining Mahoney organization, but not without collateral damage. Stivers tells Gee that Luther Mahoney's shooting is the reason for all the carnage in the past 24 hours.
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Andre Braugher | Detective Frank Pembleton |
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Peter Gerety | Stuart Gharty |
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Jon Seda | Paul Falsone |
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Yaphet Kotto | Lieutenant Al Giardello |
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Reed Diamond | Mike Kellerman |
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Richard Belzer | Detective John Munch |
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Kyle Secor | Detective Tim Bayliss |
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Clark Johnson | Detective Meldrick Lewis |
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Callie Thorne | Laura Ballard |
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Toni Lewis | Terri Stivers |
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Michelle Forbes | Dr. Julianna Cox |
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Karl Otter | Crime Lab Photographer |
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James Earl Jones | Felix Wilson |
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Sharon Ziman | Naomi |
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Clayton LeBouef | Colonel Barnfather |
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Zeljko Ivanek | ASA Ed Danvers |
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Ellen McElduff | Billie Lou Hatfield |
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Granville Adams | Officer Jeff Westby |
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Jay Spadaro | Officer Salerno |
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Eric Alan Wendell | Medical Examiner Technician |
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John Orofino | Officer Hoskins |
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Judy Thornton | Judy |
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Harlee McBride | Dr. Alyssa Dyer |
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Hazelle Goodman | Georgia Rae Mahoney |
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Ralph Tabakin | Scheiner |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Regions | Region 1 |