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Broken Badges

Jack Bowman is a cop from New Orleans who doesn't exactly play by the rules. When he is sent to California on a brief assignment, he is wrongfully blamed for something he didn't do. To get out of the jam he's in, he recruits cops who are on psychiatric leave, Bullet Tingreedes, a female cop who's addicted to danger, Stanley Jones, a cop who walks around with a ventriloquist dummy and who has a short fuse when people make fun of his stature, and Toby Baker, a kleptomaniac. After sorting things out, the Chief of Police decides to form a unit with Bowman and them. And a psychiatrist, Priscilla Mather keeps an eye on them.

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Miguel Ferrer
Beau Jack Bowman
Eileen Davidson
J.J. 'Bullet' Tingreedes
Jay Johnson
Stanley Jones

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Episode 1

Pilot

Sat, Nov 24, 1990

When a highly respected Hispanic Community leader in California is killed in what appears to be a home invasion, suspicion falls on his troubled son. The boy was found in New Orleans where he works as a snitch for a New Orleans cop Jack Bowman. When Bowman is tasked with bringing him to California, upon arriving Bowman turns him to one of the locals and somehow he gets away from them. So the Chief decides to let Bowman take the rap. Bowman sets out to find him and he tries to get help from the department psychiatrist. He decides to recruit cops who have been taken off duty because of mental problems to help him.

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