NYPD

**Members:** | Gil Arroyo *(Detective)*
Dani Powell *(Detective)*
JT Tarmel *(Detective)*

The **NYPD** Major Crimes Unit is run by Lieutenant Gil Arroyo, along with his fellow colleagues and former FBI SSA Malcolm Bright and Detectives Dani Powell and JT Tarmel.

## Early Years

In 1998 in Upper East Side, Officer Gil Arroyo responded to The Whitly Family house about a prank. He was invited in by Dr. Martin Whitly who fixed him a cup of tea. Malcolm Whitly entered the room, and informed Gil to take out his gun, as his father was getting ready to poison him. Eventually, this led to the arrest of the wanted serial killer *The Surgeon*

## Season 1

Detective Gil Arroyo invited Malcolm Bright to see a victim, introducing him to Detective JT Tarmel and Detective Dani Powell. Days later the group went down to the morgue. Dr. Dr. Edrisa Tanaka informs them the women had been participating in consensual BDSM. Hours later the suspect’s apartment explodes, and the real serial criminal escapes.

Malcolm was forced to cut off a man's hands to save them from the explosion, he experiences night terrors and debatably attacks Detective Dani. Not long after Malcolm and Dani were held hostage by *Carter Berkhead*. Only to be rescued by Gil and JT.

JT and Dani were called to the crime scene in the upper East side by Gil. They were met by Malcolm who had also been called in. After visually overlooking the crime scene, Dr. Edrisa Tanaka snipped off the stitches holding the victim's mouth closed, only for multiple black mamba's snakes to exit. Malcolm was able to handle the situation, having owned multiple pet snakes as a child.

Following up on an estranged family member, they met Liam, the estranged cousin of the murdered family they'd visited earlier. He ran into a warehouse that was housing exotic animals from the black market. Everyone chased after him, the chase was cut short after Malcolm got bit by a poisonous snake. They determine they were dealing with a family annihilator, who had attempted to murder himself and his own family.

The team were called out to the forest to examine a murder victim. Malcolm showed up later and brought everyone lollipops. They quickly realized that the man had his entire brain missing. After finding out a lot of the victims were connected to the University's secret experiments using grad students and LSD, they arrived at *Dr. Elaine Brown* house to ask if she could connect any of the dots. She gave them a name Dominic Render and they began staking out her house for the next while expecting him to attack. JT and Malcolm were in the car together, when JT confronted Malcolm about not liking cops. Malcolm insisted he did, not long after changed the subject to trying to guess his first name. Malcolm went inside to ask some questions, and JT followed when he realized all the lights went out. He was very surprised to find a dead victim, and a severely intoxicated doctor pointing a gun. Malcolm was able to talk her down.

Inside a lavish New York apartment there is a dead model laid out in the same style as her first major advertisement magazine spread. Realizing she saw her killed, Malcolm recognizes this intense stalking behavior and looks into a suspicious photographer. JT brings up the boyfriend *Ajax X* will be leaving for Europe soon. Malcolm goes to the party alone and soon able to coax Ajax outside with him. They are then confronted by the real killer, a friend of Ajax. Malcolm begs him not to leave, pleading he'll die, but Ajax leaves anyway. They arrest them both.

Inside a speakeasy club, there were two dead bodies, one belonging to a bodyguard, and a high-end drug dealer named *Jacques Desir.* It turns out to be the mother of the drug dealer dead girlfriend. Exacting revenge for letting her daughter die.

The team was working on the case after finding a body in the forest that had been stabbed over one hundred times. They suspected the mother's boyfriend, but after Dani & JT following her to the scene of the crime, she attacked Dani and was arrested on charges of murder. It was soon discovered she was trying to cover up her young son, Isaac Parker's crime after he murdered his own father in a semi-organized fit of rage. He later tried to kill the boyfriend, but was stopped by Malcolm and arrested.

The team was able to go over Malcolm's profile about the recently deceased victims they found inside a junkyard. They were able to determine most were previously abusing drugs and/or alcohol before they went missing. The case was interrupted when Malcolm went to Claremont Psychiatric Hospital and was involved in a locked-down after a patient stabbed his therapist. They were on the phone with him while they fed him information about Tevin Standish. Malcolm was soon able to subdue the man in order for paramedics to enter the building.

Malcolm gets a phone call from Gil who reluctantly informs them that the FBI has taken over their case with Paul Lazar and their first order was to immediately kick Malcolm off the case.   The entire case was soon spearheaded by Colette Swanson, and former colleague of Malcolm's. She immediately kicked him off the case and recruits the rest of his team to help her. Unbeknownst to her, Malcolm and *Owen Shannon* followed up on a lead while working secretly together. They visit the childhood home of Paul Lazar, not realizing his mother, Matilda Watkins was an active participant. She informs her son of their arrival. Paul kills Owen and kidnaps Malcolm.

Colette instructed Dani Powell and JT Tarmel to follow up leads on paperwork much to their annoyance. Inside that small interrogation room, *Matilda Watkins* and Gil Arroyo attempted to get information about *Paul Lazar* a.k.a. *John Watkins*, but Matilda ignores them both and began humming a Bible verse. She was soon escorted out. Later Detectives Dani and JT informed her of a photo where Paul used to visit a cabin, believing it was the same one that Malcolm had been looking for. She agreed to a SWAT team assembled everyone to the cabin. The lead came up empty. Malcolm was able to escape on his own.

As part of a sting operation, Gil and his team gave personal testimony to *Simon Coppenrath*, an internal investigator of the NYPD looking into Malcolm's mental breakdown. Wanting to determine if he was fit to return to work after being kidnapped and cutting off part of his own hand. Malcolm what is able to determine he was behind the string of murders connected to a cult, after claiming he did not know *Curtis Marsh*, however he had been the doctor who had been prescribing him medication, as his name was printed on the bottles labeled.

While investigating an elaborately set up attempted murders in the style of the classic book *The Count of Monte Cristo,* Malcolm tripped a pressure bomb. He escaped through the window landing on Gil’s car. Malcolm and Detective Dani were able to identify the killer at the wealthy Taylor Wedding reception. Arresting the son's ex-girlfriend from his youth for attempted murder of the groom's father. As well as the groom's father for not reporting her death 15 years ago.

The entire team was discussing the *Carousel Killer* when Martin Whitley calls with information, and Malcolm put him on speaker. He immediately begins his own sly inquiry about the team before his son hung up on him. The Carousel Killer demanded a million-dollar, and after Jessica Whitley paid him, he killed another victim. He then forced her hand into murdering her ex-husband Martin Whitley at the Claremont Psychiatric Hospital, threatening to kill a third victim if she didn’t. She complied and stabbed her husband. *Cory Wheaton* was tracked down at the hospital and arrested.

The team investigated a serial killer who embalmed her victims so perfectly they looked real. They all accompanied Edrisa to a mortician's convention in the hopes of flushing out the killer. Unfortunately, Edrisa was later held at gunpoint by *Leanne Truitt* but saved herself and Malcolm.

The entire team is called into a high-end jewelry robbery that left the manager murdered with a single gunshot wound. Malcolm profiles the shooter was a rogue team member. They are interrupted when Vijay Chandasara, an insurance agent who happens to be Malcolm's childhood friend attempts to walk on the scene. Back at the precinct, video surveillance reveals the job was a professional as they were in and out, and immediately took out all recording devices. They are once again interrupted by Vijay, who is very adamant about wanting the return of the jewels for the company he represents. Gil, though insisting they are after whoever is behind the murders, as a second one is called in.

A famous mommy blogger's husband it murdered. It turns out, the nanny was not only the surrogate, but real mother of the child. Her abusive husband wanted her and the baby.

After a ballet dancer dies while dancing, a murder investigation lead by Gil, begins. It is determined the ballet dancer was poisoned, and one was later blinded. Nicholas Endicott was considered a suspect. He was cleared when another man held the lead female dancer at knife point, after attempting to hard Gill and Malcolm.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Pilot.
2. ↑ Annihilator.
3. ↑ Fear Response.
4. ↑ Designer Complicity.
5. ↑ The Trip.
6. ↑ All Souls and Sadists.
7. ↑ Q&A.
8. ↑ Family Friend.
9. ↑ Pied-A-Terre.
10. ↑ Silent Night.
11. ↑ Alone Time.
12. ↑ Internal Affairs.
13. ↑ Wait & Hope.
14. ↑ Eye of the Needle.
15. ↑ Death's Door.
16. ↑ The Job.
17. ↑ Stranger Beside You.
18. ↑ Scheherazade.