The Closer

CIA-trained Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson is an investigator and interrogator who has a remarkable talent for trapping criminals in their lies.

The body of a long-missing 16-year-old gang member turns up with Provenza's business card in his pocket. The kid apparently tried to speak to Provenza years.

During a funeral for one of Flynn and Provenza's former police colleagues, the squad discovers the dead body of an unidentified, buxom blonde in their old friend's casket.

In a special 70-minute extended episode, a young African-American girl is abducted on her way home from school, and in a race against the clock, the team must find out who took her.

Priority confronts a mysterious old man who won't identify himself but who confesses to murdering seven people. Fritz and Brenda may finally have found the home of their dreams.

To Brenda's irritation, Pope requires her busy team to undergo hazardous materials training, interrupting their other duties. Fritz helps Brenda find a way around the resultant problem.

Brenda is called in to investigate the murders of two Hispanic teens who may have been killed as part of racially motivated gang shootings over the past couple of months.

The wife of a deputy attorney is found dead on the beach, the apparent victim of a serial killer. The murderer's chosen weapon he uses to torture his victims prior to killing them.

Since Brenda's traumatic incident with a serial killer has left her shaken, the department psychologist takes her off investigative duty.

When a young Chinese woman, the case comes to Brenda's squad because the company had been shuttling around a number of high-profile officials from the Chinese government.

When a woman's body is found at the bottom of a cliff near her wrecked car, it initially appears to be an accident scene. But Brenda and the team find out that and was auditing the LAPD.

Brenda is put on the witness stand by the prosecution in a murder case, since she is certain that the defendant, Jonathan Schafer. Flashbacks show how the LAPD's investigation unfolded.

Brenda's reputation is jeopardized by her inability to provide usable evidence to the beleaguered prosecution in the case of a murdered divorce lawyer. She remains convinced the defendant.

As Brenda reluctantly allows Fritz to decorate their house for Christmas in order to help sell it, she is called to the scene of a robbery Wesley Reed, was wounded.

Through a series of unexpected circumstances, Brenda finds herself transporting a robbery suspect, Wesley Reed, from Georgia to Los Angeles in a recreational vehicle driven by her parents.