The essential episodes of The Glades
Watch these 15 in order and you've got The Glades — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Longworth's golf game is interrupted after a decapitated, unidentifiable woman is found in a creek. Longworth does everything he can think of to try and identify the victim and find the killer, even pestering his golf partner Carlos who's the medical examiner. His crush on nurse Callie further complicates matters.
- 02
During Jim's first hurricane, three corpses turn up. Jim temporarily assumes one's identity to check up on his theory the link is a high-school reunion, and works out which grudge was unbearable. Jeff enjoys a rare call from his jailed father. Carlos Sanchez joins the emergency relief team and resorts to illegal requisition to keep the hospital running.
- 03
Jim is introduced to the intensely competitive world of Florida high school football as the small town of Pahokee prepares for the annual "Muck Bowl," an event that draws national attention because of the many NFL players who came from that area and who have played in that game. When the dead body of a businessman emerges from the muck in a sugar cane field days before the big game, Longworth must figure out who would want the man dead.
- 04
A man was murdered in an apartment, rented in unsuspecting Carlos Sanchez's name from Dr. Kattleman. It was used as a love-nest for sexual anthropology professor Landers's student Monica Gentry, whose 'study objects' included mafioso Gordon Ganza, who paid for it. Jeff's loyalty to father in jail is partly based on his always having paid the bills, but slick tax official Richard Slayton comes claim three years arrears, expecting to ease Callie into 'friendship'.
- 05
Shopkeeper Michael Nelson's son and right hand Lenny Nelson's wife Lisa is murdered outside a bar. Utterly confused Dave Rollins needs hospital care and keeps referring to 'a man just like me' killing Lisa. Jim doubts his confession and digs into the Nelsons' unharmonious past and present lives, using Daniel as bait to expose Lisa's prostitution.
- 06
Longworth and Carlos are called to investigate the murder of a psychic advisor in the eerie town of Cassadaga, founded over 100 years ago by mediums and psychics; Callie's friend asks Longworth to be her date at a party for Callie's medical school.
- 07
A ruthless divorce attorney is murdered. Meanwhile Callie's son, Jeff claims to have seen a man standing at his window, but Callie believes he's imagining it. Believing Jeff is telling the truth he has the boy look at mugshots on the computer, through which Jeff finds out the truth about his fathers criminal past and confronts his mom.
- 08
Longworth's case involves a tribal leader found dead at a Native-American owned casino. The first hurdle is getting the tribal police to let the FDLE run point. Callie has convinced herself that she wants only friendship from Longworth but finds herself jealous seeing Josie Tigertail, a tribal police officer, interact with Longworth.
- 09
Longworth and Carlos investigate a murder involving high-end horse breeding. Callie, who was once an aspiring jockey, helps them with the ins and outs of this competitive, cut-throat world. Jim sees another side of Callie which leads them to grow closer.
- 10
Longworth investigates the death of a famed treasure-hunter who was after a Spanish ship believed to contain billions of dollars in booty. Longworth must figure out if the victim was close to finding the treasure and if that's what got him killed. Callie's passion for treasure hunting lore sets her and Longworth on an adventure that just might change their lives.
- 11
Longworth's latest investigation into the death of a young girl puts him at odds with a powerful political family. It appears she was having an affair with a Florida State Senator. Complicating matters is the Senator's wife who will do whatever it takes to promote her husband's political career and protect her family's name.
- 12
An 8-year old's slumber party becomes a crime scene. Callie accepts Manus' offer and joins the FDLE as a forensic nurse. Jim's investigation into the death of a Navy recruiter leads to the ex-wife's boyfriend and her missing baby.
- 13
While Jim helps Callie settle into her new apartment in Atlanta, Carlos performs a guest autopsy for Daniel's forensics class at Tampa Tech.
- 14
Two frat pledges stumble onto a murdered contractor who has been ritualistically murdered and Jim enters the world of Florida's Gypsies while investigating the murder.
- 15
Jim gets called back to the golf course to catch the murderer of a golf hustler, but he's handicapped by a mad scramble to tie up loose ends for Callie and his future.
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