The essential episodes of The Good Guys
Watch these 15 in order and you've got The Good Guys — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Jack and Dan are given a routine case about a stolen humidifier, which soon escalates into a case involving drug runners, hired assassins, a plastic surgeon, and a golf bag filled with drug money.
- 02
The guys stumble onto a vintage American car theft ring, and the thieves may have an inside source in the police department helping them out.
- 03
Jack and Dan get in trouble with a dangerous pimp when they become too nosy while investigating a case involving a vandalized hotel vending machine.
- 04
An investigation into dog poisonings leads Jack and Dan to a sympathetic father who is in over his head as he works on tampering with chemicals and disrupting the meth trade in South Dallas.
- 05
Dan tries to single handedly bring down a drug trafficker after his interrogation methods get A.D.A. Traynor's case thrown out of court.
- 06
Dan plants a piece of evidence at a crime scene, and gets Jack and him, as well as A.D.A. Traynor and her mother, in trouble with gun dealers.
- 07
The department is tipped off about a getaway driver who may be part of a future bank robbery, but Dan convinces Jack to trust his hunch that the information is not credible.
- 08
While Jack and Dan sit in a bar while they are supposed to be doing a stakeout at an electronics store, Dan runs into a mobster from an undercover sting he was working on seven years earlier.
- 09
When Dan accidentally exposes a participant in the Witness Protection Program, it prompts a dangerous crime family to send a hitman after the witness to prevent him from testifying. In order to protect the man, Jack and Dan must join forces with a beautiful yet no-nonsense U.S. Marshal before time runs out.
- 10
Already suspended from the force for his latest escapade, Dan stumbles onto a plot to spring a violent cop killer from prison when he tries to help an informant pay back a loan shark.
- 11
Acting on a tip from an 11-year-old, Jack and Dan uncover a plot to falsify legal documents for two violent Mexican drug dealers who are coming to America.
- 12
"Savage & Stark" reunite one more time when Dan turns to his ex-partner after the governor's son they saved 25 years ago is kidnapped again, and Dan is framed for the crime.
- 13
Jack and Dan are forced to use Jack's Uncle Nate, a con artist who once stole his family's money, in an undercover operation to catch a thug who has been hired by developers to scare residents out of their homes.
- 14
Jack and Dan start a neighborhood watch after Ruiz is the victim of a peeping Tom. However, they accidentally stumble upon an assassin hired by an oil company to kill a team of whistleblowers, led by ADA Traynor's new boyfriend.
- 15
Jack becomes suspicious when his ex-partner, now a deputy police chief, frames his "dine and dash" suspect for a murder that he couldn't have possibly committed.
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