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Life was his sentence. Life is what he got back.

Life Aired From September 26, 2007 - April 08, 2009 On NBC

THE PLOT:
Life is a drama about a detective who is given a second chance. Detective Charlie Crews is a complex, offbeat guy, who returns to the force after serving 12 years of a life sentence in prison for a crime he didn't commit.  Thanks to the efforts of his lawyer Constance Griffiths, DNA evidence exonerated him of the murders.  Having lost his job, his wife, his friends, nearly all contact with the outside world and even his grip on reality for a time while in jail, he has emerged with a head full of Zen, a fixation with fresh fruit (obviously not easy to come by while in prison), and an obsession with solving the murder that nearly cost him his life and exposing the conspiracy that framed him for it.  After successfully suing the city of Los Angeles and the LAPD, he has been reinstated to the police force and received an undisclosed but substantial money settlement.  

MAIN CAST:

Damian Lewis	Charlie Crews
Sarah Shahi	Dani Reese
Adam Arkin	Ted Earley
Robin Weigert	Lt. Karen Davis
Brooke Langton	Constance Griffiths
Brent Sexton	Robert Stark

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Episode 1 - Merit Badge (Pilot)
The pilot introduces us to Detective Charlie Crews and the painful cobwebs of his past as he returns to a world that's moved on without him. His appreciation for the details offers him up an unique insights into crime solving. Also his newfound Life reminds us of all the little things we easily take for granted.

Episode 2 - Tear Asunder
When a new bride is murdered her husband is the prime suspect. Crews has his doubts and becomes determined to help, not wanting to send an innocent man to prison. Crews goes back to the crime scene that put him in prison and discovers something.

Episode 3 - Let Her Go
When a husband and wife are victims of a carjacking the wife is murdered. Crews and Reese become suspicious of the husband when he refuses to identify the suspect and they have to let him go free. Crews goes to see the detective that handled his case.

Episode 4 - What They Saw
Things get confusing when a man is found dead in his own home. As Crews and Reese interview the neighbors they get all different ideas about the murder. When a homeless man is taken into custody but swears he's innocent, Crews and Reese continue to investigate.

Episode 5 - The Fallen Woman
A woman, wearing an angel costume, is found dead. Crews and Reese must figure out if it was suicide or murder. They find out the victim might have been involved in a scam involving Russian brides. The big problem they face is that they can't get to the ringleader.

Episode 6 - Powerless
While at an AA meeting Reese thinks she overheard someone admit to a rape. She finds herself in danger because she won't back down and keeps on investigating. Crews goes on a stakeout with Lt. Davis and learns some surprising information about his former partner Bobby Stark.

Episode 7 - A Civil War
Crews and Reese investigate the murder of two Iranian Americans and kidnapping of another. Not sure if this is a hate crime or not they try to work with the kidnappers. What they uncover is a boy trying to his mother's love. Early becomes concerned about Crews' impulsiveness when he wants to buy a solar farm after having a dream.

Episode 8 - Farthingale
Crews and Reese investigate a gas explosion in which an IRS agent leading a double life is the victim. Was it an accident or arson? Was the IRS agent trying to be a hero? Crews is once again a suspect in a murder investigation when the detective who handled his case is found dead.

Episode 9 - Serious Control Issues
Crews and Reese investigate the murder of a runaway girl found dead under a freeway overpass holding her guitar. A grocery store employee and his son become the prime suspects when they find out the girl used to play her guitar in front of the store. During the investigation they find ties to a kidnapping 12 years earlier. Are they connected?

Episode 10 - Dig A Hole
Crews and Reese investigate the murder of a Zen Master who was buried alive ten years ago. Crews continues to investigate his own case. He finds some proof that his partner's father Jack Reese could be involved.

Episode 11 - Fill It Up
Crews and Reese investigate a murder in which it looks like the wife shot her husband, but no murder weapon was found, what they do find is illegal drugs. Crews asks Reese and Stark to cover for him during the search because he has to take care of something. Crews is in for a shock as he tries to track the man he thinks actually committed the murders he was in jail for.

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Ep 1: Find Your Happy Place
We meet John Armstrong, a man who works at a stationary store with greeting cards, is suspected of murdering people by putting people in trunks and letting them suffocate. Also, an ice cream truck driver sells more than ice cream from his truck.

Ep 2: Everything. . . All the Time
Crews and Reese investigate the murder of a man found beaten and tied to a chair at the bottom of a pool. While at first it appears to be gang related the investigation leads to an underground party circuit. Reese's father goes to Ted to see what Crews knows about him. Charlie asks his ex-wife to talk to Rachel the only survivor of the family he was accused of killing.

Ep 3: The Business of Miracles
The body of a cancer research scientist is found frozen, at first Crews and Reese think it was an animal rights group, but as they look into the scientist's personal life they aren't so sure. Crews tries to prove that Jack Reese was involved in him going to prison.

Ep 4: Not For Nothing
When a university's social experiment of running a prison goes wrong Crews and Reese are there to investigate when a student acting as a guard is murdered.

Ep 5: Crushed
Crews and Reese investigate a man that has been found crushed to death in a wrecking yard. When they go talk to his fiance they find that the man was involved in an online love triangle. Now they must figure out who is who because everyone is hiding behind a fantasy character. Crews continues investigating Jack Reese's involvement in the murder that he was falsely convicted of.

Ep 6: Did You Feel That?
When an earthquake leaves LA in a mess, Crews and Reese try to find an escaped murderer that they arrested a year ago. In the beginning they are trying to find him to protect him from being killed, but soon find that he is not the victim. Ted gets injured during the earthquake.

Ep 7: Jackpot
Crews investigate the murder of a woman found sitting at a table set for aromantic dinner for two. They find that she had won the lottery and they talk to members of her lottery winner support group.

Ep 8: Black Friday
The team investigates a murder in a mall on the biggest shopping day of the year, black Friday. In a moment of confusion the body disappears, Crews and Reese are then faced with the task of tracking down both the body and the killer. Meanwhile, Crews gets an unexpected visit from an F.B.I. agent.

Ep 9: Badge Bunny
A drug dealer and an elementary school teacher are found dead. Crews and Reese then discover that the teacher was a Badge Bunny, a woman who only dates cops. This means that the killer could be a cop. Meanwhile Reese and Tidwell address their complicated relationship and Ted has trouble retaining students in his business class.

Ep 10: Evil...and his brother Ziggy
A sheriff's deputy is found dead on an Indian reservation, Crews and Reese are in the middle of a turf war between
Tribal police and the county sheriff's department. The team learns that the victim was not well-liked on the reservation. Meanwhile, Crews attends a fundraiser thrown by Mickey Rayborn, one of Crews' suspects involved in the conspiracy against him.

Ep 11: Canyon Flowers
A food bank deliveryman is found dead, in a suburban home. The bizarre thing is that he was buried with flower petals around his head and froma distance the victim looks like a large flower. Crews and Reese believe that the murder is connected to a '70s cult. Meanwhile, Crews confronts Mickey Rayborn about his role in the conspiracy.

Ep 12: Trapdoor
The team investigates the murder of three Russians that are linked to the Russian mobster Roman Nevikov and Crews also thinks that he is linked to his own case. Meanwhile, Crews shoots an intruder who turns out to be someone he knows and Reese falls back into old habits.

Ep 13: Re-Entry
The team investigates the death of a retired NASA pilot in mid-flight. The suspect are the pilots son and the pilots business partner. An important fact in this case is that the pilot was going to pay the Russians 35 million dollars to take him into space. Meanwhile, Tidwell tries to help Crews remember who shot him.

Ep 14: Mirror Ball
The team investigates the death of a heavy metal lead singer, who was suffocated to death. They question all the other band members and learn that the previous lead singer of that group have problems with the dead singer after he was kicked of the band. When they get the former singer, he seems to have a legitimate alibi. Meanwhile, Crews learns that his father's wedding to Olivia has been called off.

Ep 15: I Heart Mom
Crews and Reese investigate the death of a man found in a house with no roof, which leads them to a construction scam and lots of suspects with no roofs. Rayborn reveals more of the conspiracy to Crews.

Ep 16: Hit Me Baby
Crews investigates a brutally murdered man, and it leads him all the way to Claudia, an uncatchable hit woman. Meanwhile, Reese is polygraphed by the FBI before joining a Task Force.

Ep 17: Shelf Life
A soldier is stabbed during his leave in Los Angeles; Crews makes a surprising discovery.

Ep 18: 3 Women
Crews receives an over-achieving new partner.

Ep 19: 5 Quarts
A co-worker of a coroner is the one suspected of murder in a case while Ted has problems trying to reconnect with his daughter.

Ep 20: Initiative 38
Crews and Seever investigate the death of a California State Representative who is shot and killed in her home. The detectives discover the representative was the force behind a political initiative that would put a comprehensive ban on handguns and cost a gun manufacturing company millions in profit. Crews and Seever work to prove that the representative's political ambitions may have gotten her killed. Meanwhile, Crews questions what Reese might be doing with the FBI.

Ep 21: One
Crews continues his search for Reese, who disappeared while working with the F.B.I. In the course of his investigation, he discovers details about a conspiracy against him.

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