1.   Poitier plays a homicide cop from a big city who inadvertently finds himself caught up in a murder investigation in the town where he is staying.

2.   Biderman finally found a group of L.A. homicide cops who let her spend a month with them so she could learn how they really work.

3.   Bonuses includes quirky Los Angeles history, accurate police procedure, and the typical mistakes and assumptions any homicide cop can make.

4.   Ruben Blades is good in the showy role of a cheeky homicide cop.

5.   Seagal plays Jack Cole, a hippie, Buddhist, kung-fu master, Sherlock Holmes, LA homicide cop with a mysterious past.

6.   St. James ran her own private detective agency and McCleary was a Miami homicide cop when they crossed paths in pursuit of a serial killer.

7.   The men seem to quote Dante, Milton and Shakespeare more than most homicide cops.

8.   The primary good guy is Zeke Bannon, a Los Angeles homicide cop.

9.   With dread, Bean went back inside to wake up his stepfather, the tough old homicide cop.

10.   The murder case went from there to the homicide cops on the Cross-Bronx Expressway.