The Closer
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson runs the Priority Homicide Division of the LAPD with an unorthodox style. Her innate ability to read people and obtain confessions helps her and her team solve the city's toughest, most sensitive cases.
Cast:Kyra Sedgwick , J.K. Simmons , Corey Reynolds , Robert Gossett , G.W. Bailey , Jon Tenney , Phillip P. Keene , Tony Denison , Michael Paul Chan , Raymond Cruz , Gina Ravera , Jonathan Del Arco , Ryan Van de Kamp Buchanan , Mary McDonnell , Ransford Doherty , Frances Sternhagen , Barry Corbin , James Avery
S5.E1 ∙ Products of Discovery
Four family members are killed in their home - innocent victims in an attempted execution of a trial witness, all because the killer went to the wrong address.
S5.E2 ∙ Blood Money
Brenda and her team step into the delicate kidnapping case of a real estate mogul accused of fraud, which is complicated by frozen assets, an FBI case, obnoxious relatives, and a victim who may not be victimized.
S5.E3 ∙ Red Tape
When Sergeant Gabriel wounds an unarmed suspect, Brenda finds herself at odds with the FID Captain - a woman who is as single-minded and as intense as she is - jockeying for position and Gabriel's career.
S5.E4 ∙ Walking Back the Cat
Special agent Howard asks Brenda for Major Crimes' help in finding a "missing person;" however, when that person turns out to be a murdered drug dealer-turned FBI informant, the sparks begin to fly.
S5.E5 ∙ Half Load
A reformed former convict is shot and killed outside a community center in gang territory. The team tries to solve the crime while Brenda tries to assure a public that has grown wary and skeptical of police cooperation.
S5.E6 ∙ Tapped Out
Brenda deals with a psychotic wannabe detective who holds the keys to her case involving the murder of a pick-up artist. Unfortunately, he also holds her evidence and Chief Pope's career in his delusional hands.
S5.E7 ∙ Strike Three
Two officers are shot and killed in the line of duty; however, Captain Raydor's internal investigation could jeopardize Major Crimes' chances of finding the killers.
S5.E8 ∙ Elysian Fields
Brenda works with a retired detective on a case involving an accused killer who is murdered, but they clash because Brenda wants to find the killer's killer while the detective is more concerned about closure for the killer's victims.
S5.E9 ∙ Identity Theft
When a confessed killer gets an important detail of the murder wrong during his allocution, Brenda suspects that he may be covering for his schizophrenic son. Meanwhile, Brenda gets a visit from her mother and teenage niece.
S5.E10 ∙ Smells Like Murder
A cooler containing a body over three years dead comes to Major Crimes, leading Brenda to consider four hostile suspects. Meanwhile, Brenda's niece outstays her welcome with Brenda and Fritz.
S5.E11 ∙ Maternal Instincts
Brenda uses her niece Charlie without her knowledge to uncover a motive after a schoolyard shooter kills one teenager and leaves another seriously wounded.
S5.E12 ∙ Waivers of Extradition
Texas authorities help Major Crimes catch a serial killer, but will Brenda allow the killer to be extradited to Texas to face the death penalty? Meanwhile back at home, she must decide whether Charlie can stay and live with Fritz and her.
S5.E13 ∙ The Life
When the younger brother of a gang leader and two other gang members are killed, Major Crimes suspects that they are victims in a gang war; however, when a stolen ATM card is recovered at the scene of the crime, a new motive emerges.
S5.E14 ∙ Make Over
Major Crimes runs into a problem when it is forced to reopen an old murder case and discovers that the detective who closed it (Provenza's ex-partner) had a sex change and is now a woman.
S5.E15 ∙ Dead Man's Hand
Tension between Captain Raydor and Major Crimes escalates as Chief Pope asks Brenda to discretely investigate the abuse of one of Raydor's detectives. Meanwhile, Fritz has news that could change his and Brenda's life together.
