Memphis Beat - Season 1

A crime drama focusing on offbeat Memphis detective Dwight Hendricks, a Southern charmer with a passion for his city and blues music. In the series opener, Dwight investigates the abuse of an elderly female disc jockey, but his loose crime-fighting manner irritates his disciplined boss. Meanwhile, Dwight's spirited mother woos a neighbor.

Dwight steers ahead to find a missing truck driver. But Dwight is grinding gears in his personal life: He doesn't trust his mother's boyfriend, and his ex-wife continually sends him mixed signals.

Dwight and the squad spring into action when a teenage pageant queen goes missing, yet they soon realize there's much more to the case than meets the eye. Elsewhere, Dwight gives a helping hand to his ex-wife's health-food business; and issues about Lightfoot's wife inch to the surface.

A mysterious someone tries to kill a barbecue king. The case sizzles when Sutton goes undercover to smoke out the culprit. Meanwhile, Lt. Rice's son turns to the wrong side of the law.

Dwight is on the beat when the matriarch of a famed family music group dies, followed by the group manager's plummet from a balcony. But rancorous rivalries within the group threaten to derail Dwight's case.

The gloves are off when a popular local boxer is assaulted. Dwight's suspicious mind focuses on those who would be negatively impacted by the pugilist's imminent retirement. Elsewhere, Sutton is haunted by his past; and a secret surfaces about Lt. Rice's ex-spouse.

Dwight investigates when a pair of elderly lottery winners go missing. Elsewhere, a potential romance buds between Lt. Rice and a Coast Guard officer, and Greenback catches his friend in a sticky situation.

Dwight negotiates a hostage crisis, only to become a hostage himself. To resolve the delicate situation, he must delve into his captor's past and crack the mysteries of a decades-old murder. In the meantime, Lt. Rice's ex-husband stirs up trouble.

A city councilman's aide disappears on the very day he was to wed the councilman's daughter. Mixing throughout the case and making it more complex: a vanished reporter, an ambiguous phone message and mysteries surrounding a pair of cuff links. In other developments, Dwight's mother makes a game-changing decision.

Dwight explores the supposedly shady past of a man with amnesia, especially when he suspects the man may have ties to the cold-case slaying of a little girl. Meanwhile, Lt. Rice, mired in financial woes, ponders a career change.