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Boomtown

TV·2002–2003·2 seasons, 24 episodes·NBC·Action, Adventure, Crime·1h·Created by Graham Yost

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Each episode of this series, set in present day Los Angeles, examines one crime from many different viewpoints - uniformed cops, detectives, witnesses, the media, the fire department and rescue squad, even the criminals themselves.

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Episodes by season

Season0118Episodes2002–03AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01PilotSeptember 29, 2002In the pilot, the drive-by killing of a young girl and another's critical wounding preoccupies the cops, whose probe leads to a black teen a
  2. S01E02PossessionOctober 6, 2002The murder of a reckless Romeo prompts an intensive search for the suspected killer: an enraged spouse now apparently out to slay his adulte
  3. S01E03The SqueezeOctober 13, 2002To get to a wily defense lawyer (Gregg Henry) suspected of murdering an ex-girlfriend, the cops put the squeeze on the attorney's conflicted
  4. S01E04Reelin' in the YearsOctober 20, 2002Patricia Wettig plays a radical turned homemaker, whose arrest for the 1976 murder of a cop opens department wounds and triggers recriminati
  5. S01E05All Hallow's EveOctober 27, 2002On Halloween, costumed thieves take Teresa hostage in her paramedic vehicle, where the gang's leader orders her to tend to his brother, who
  6. S01E06The FreakNovember 3, 2002Russian mobsters challenge Fearless, whose protection of a very scared preteen girl, an eyewitness to murder, subconsciously recalls his all
  7. S01E07Insured by Smith & WessonNovember 10, 2002A hostage crisis imperils Off. Hechler, held by vicious thugs in a robbery gone awry at a store run by a former TV crime-fighting hero who i
  8. S01E08CrashNovember 17, 2002An auto-insurance scam takes a deadly turn in a grisly accident, which entangles a semi driver on speed, a guilt-ridden conspirator and a sl
  9. S01E09The David McNorris ShowDecember 1, 2002A top-priority murder case entangles McNorris with a powerful, sleazy movie mogul, whose teenage son is the chief suspect in a female classm
  10. S01E10CoyoteDecember 8, 2002The search for an abducted teenage girl is tied to a psychotic eyewitness: a figure from Andrea's past found living like a wild animal in mo
  11. S01E11Monster's BrawlJanuary 5, 2003A skid-row slaying embroils the law enforcers with a hapless alcoholic and a smarmy documentary filmmaker, who shrewdly defies interrogators
  12. S01E12Sinaloa CowboysJanuary 12, 2003Violence erupts in a nasty drug case, reopening old wounds involving an unresolved conflict between Off. Hechler and prosecutor McNorris.
  13. S01E13Home InvasionMarch 2, 2003A series of home-invasion killings lead to a stakeout of a potential victim: a well-to-do, terminally ill cancer patient and his family.
  14. S01E14ExecutionMarch 9, 2003With only hours to live, a murderer on death row has a deal for McNorris: commutation to a prison term in exchange for the cop the killer's
  15. S01E15Storm WatchMarch 16, 2003To ferret out a turncoat cop responsible for the murders of two officers, Joel conducts heated interrogations at the station house that arou
  16. S01E16FearlessMarch 30, 2003A killing linked to a sexual molestation stirs up painful memories for Fearless, who sets out on a personal quest for justice that also ends
  17. S01E17BlackoutApril 13, 2003A booze binge takes an emotional toll on deputy DA David McNorris, whose blackout leads him to believe he's involved in a hit-and-run killin
  18. S01E18Lost ChildApril 20, 2003Stevens investigates an infant's disappearance, which coincides with the reopening of a probe into his own baby's mysterious death a year ea

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season026Episodes2003AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Boomtown S02E01The Love of MoneySeptember 26, 2003Joel and Fearless enlist Ray and Tom in an covert op to track down the thieves who killed Wisnicki and Chandler when the detectives assigned
  2. S02E02Boomtown S02E02InadmissibleOctober 3, 2003David comes out of rehab and lands in the middle of the case against Sabrina and Donadoni, although not in the position he'd like at first;
  3. S02E03Boomtown S02E03WannabeDecember 27, 2003Called to the police academy to investigate a murder, Joel and Fearless discover that the recruit who discovered the body is none other than
  4. S02E04Boomtown S02E04HaystackDecember 27, 2003Bank robbers attempting to flee the scene end up at a local shopping mall and take several hostages, including Teresa, whose ""shoot, don't
  5. S02E05Boomtown S02E05The Hole-in-the-Wall GangDecember 27, 2003When the body of a college student is found in a house under renovation, David joins forces with Katherine, Joel, and Fearless to determine
  6. S02E06Boomtown S02E06The Big PictureDecember 28, 2003Wracked with guilt for not following his instincts on a domestic disturbance call when the woman involved is reported missing and presumed d

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

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