Crime Archives

When a young prosecutor and a prostitute are found murdered in a car, the entire LA District Attorney’s office is out for blood.

Julie and Stark are having a night out. He asks how things are going with her boyfriend Eddie. Just as the conversation is getting a bit awkward, he is called in to work. He joins Isaac and Jessica at a crime scene, where a man and a woman have been shot; no signs of robbery. Jessica’s there; something’s up. It turns out the dead man is Dean Gorman, a Deputy DA. Jessica had hired him right out of law school. She wants whoever did this nailed. The female victim turns out to be Allison Adams, a high-priced call girl. Stark has Raina and Poe interview Dean’s wife Chloe, with Isaac tagging along. He tells them not to let her know about Allison. Chloe says that last night Dean said he had to work late on a case, something he’d been doing a lot since starting his “project.” She shows them Dean’s home office, where he has an elaborate crime board set up. Isaac recognizes a name, Carlo Acampora, as a major drug trafficker. Chloe says Dean wanted to get out of the Domestic Violence unit and move up to the Narcotics unit, but he’d been turned down twice. He wanted to prove himself. Read More »

Stark prosecutes a racially-charged murder case involving one of Julie’s friends.

In Brentwood, a car deliberately runs down a drunken teenage girl who has just left a party. Stark is on a date with a yoga instructor when he sees the incident on the news. The girl is not identified; Julie’s at a party in Brentwood tonight. Stark races to the crime scene, and pushes through a crowd of affluent white folks and black kids from Compton. He’s relieved to see that the body is not Julie’s. Julie then runs up, and tells Stark that she tried to call but her battery was dead. She says the girl’s name is Erica Hartford. Julie didn’t see what happened; she was inside. Raina says the girl lived in Compton and had a scholarship to Southlake Prep, a school mostly filled with rich white kids. Stark realizes the press could blow this up into a huge racial incident.

The next day in the bullpen, the team goes over the case. The kids at the party say there was tension between the Compton kids — who were all friends of Erica’s — and the white kids from Southlake. Two of Erica’s friends have criminal records. They need to find the car. Poe asks if it’s okay if they talk to Julie; Stark hesitates, and then agrees. Julie tells Poe that she knew Erica through her friend, Cat Crosby. Erica and Cat were really close. Julie says she didn’t notice any tension at the party aside from normal party shenanigans. Afterwards Stark warns Julie to be careful what she says to the press. Read More »

Absentia

The 13th season of the popular crime drama continues. A customer injured during a jewellery store heist opens up a case that was tried in absentia twenty years ago.

Saturday 5th May on Five

Continuing the 3 season of this hit drama following special agents who investigate Navy and Marine Corps-related crimes. The agents, still reeling from the death of one of their number, are bent on revenge.

Friday 4th May on Channel Five

When a sweatshop burns down with its employees inside, Martin pushes Stark to prosecute on grounds of slavery.

When a fire breaks out in a fabric sweatshop in a Latino neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, the workers are trapped inside. Devlin and Stark confront Mayor Delgado. Somebody has told the press that the city is bringing charges on behalf of the victims, with Stark prosecuting. Stark doesn’t want the case; they can’t win, and the LAPD has already ruled the fire an accident. Delgado has political reasons for it, and he insists, though he says he’s not the one who leaked the story. It turns out it was Martin; he leaked the story to reporter Laura Montez, who he had been dating. Stark tries to pass the case off to Martin. When he sees that Martin is truly passionate about the case, he grudgingly agrees to help.

The team goes over the case: the fire was caused by faulty electric wiring. Can they prove negligence? Casey and Poe visit the sweatshop with an OSHA inspector, who deduces that the hottest, most charred spot in the room was a stack of fabric piled against the door… leaving no way out. Raina interviews two of the survivors: Victoria Reyes and her daughter, Claudia. Claudia says the other survivors are too scared to testify. There was too much smoke for them to confirm whether the doors were blocked. They got out by smashing through a window with their bare hands. Victoria, to Claudia and Raina’s horror, wants to know if she should pay for the broken window. Read More »