McNeil is an unconventional cop with a few bad habits. The first episode, which aired Wednesday, set the offbeat tone of the series. In one scene McNeil and Pip are arresting a man in a wheelchair and he takes off. The two cops are astounded that the man is actually trying to get away. McNeil tells Pip to hold off and give him a head start to make it more interesting.
Funny thing is the wheelchair guy is going downhill.
In a piece of unorthodox police work, the cops tell a grandmother that her grandson got hit and killed by a subway. Meanwhile, McNeil has the grandson in the box, trying to get a confession out of him. He tells the kid that he's going to beat up his grandmother until he confesses, while outside the room the other detectives play a tape they made when the grandmother was wailing and crying over the supposed death of her grandson. The kid confesses. You get the idea.