An American Police Procedural that has a team of female officers (Bonnie Bedelia, Lela Rochon, Nancy McKeon, Tracey Needham, Lisa Vidal, and Taraji P. Henson) as they investigate cases while dealing with their personal lives.
The show also features David Gianopoulos, Jon Hamm, Amy Jo Johnson, Jacob Urrutia, J.R. Yenque, Alex Rocco, Dean Cain, and Robin Thomas in supporting roles.
It aired on Lifetime for four seasons from January 7, 2001 to June 28, 2004.
Tropes for the series:
- The Alcoholic: Jinny, whose career, life and marriage all either come into ruin or near-ruin.
- Alliterative Name: Chris Conklin.
- Alliterative Title:
- Sweet Sorrow.
- Cold Comfort.
- Da Chief: Capt. Kate McCafferty.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Jinny, who found her mother's body after she committed suicide as a child and in the present has a nasty drinking problem.
- Dies Wide Open: How Jinny's mother was found after shooting herself dead.
- In the Blood: Jinny comes from a family of cops, including her father and her two brothers.
- One-Word Title:
- Pilot.
- Hero.
- Absolution.
- Obsessions.
- Redemption.
- Intervention.
- Shelby.
- Journey.
- Illusions.
- Remembrance.
- Testimonial.
- Strangers.
- Misdirection.
- Castaways.
- Diagnosis.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Jinny delivers several to her family and friends during her intervention, which she calls a "witch-hunt" and goes off on their own shortcomings and hardships whilst not facing or admitting to her own. This stops with Magda calls her out on failing to back her up against a suspect due to her drinking, which almost got the former killed.
- Special Guest: Peter Coyote in Brave New World and Secrets, Lies and Weddings.
- Tagline: "Five Women, One Code: Justice".
- What If the Baby Is Like Me: Angela and her husband clash over wanting to have a child. He wants one, but she doesn't given her family's history of breast cancer which claimed the lives of her mother, grandmother, and Aunt, refusing to leave her child motherless or passing the hereditary trait along to it.
