"Southland" Unknown Trouble (2009)

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Director:

Christopher Chulack

Writers:

Ann Biderman (creator)
Ann Biderman (written by)

TV Series:

"Southland" (2009)

Original Air Date:

9 April 2009 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

A rookie LAPD cop has a very busy shift on his first day in the field while a seasoned detective handles an apparent kidnapping involving a young girl.

Plot Keywords:

Missing Child | Shootout | Bus Driver | Food Court | Gay Bar

Cast

Kevin Alejandro	...	Detective Nate Moretta
Arija Bareikis	...	Officer Chickie Brown
Michael Cudlitz	...	Officer John Cooper
Shawn Hatosy	...	Detective Sammy Bryant
Regina King	...	Detective Lydia Adams
Michael McGrady	...	Detective Daniel Salinger
Ben McKenzie	...	Officer Ben Sherman
Tom Everett Scott	...	Detective Russell Clarke
Emily Bergl	...	Tammi Bryant
Scott Michael Campbell	...	Mr. Davis
Suzanne Cryer	...	Mrs. Davis
Patrick Fischler	...	Detective Kenny 'No-Gun'
Taylor Handley	...	Wade
C. Thomas Howell	...	Officer Billy Dewey
Lex Medlin	...	Detective Andy Williams

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Armenian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Canada:14+ | USA:TV-14 (DLV)

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

John Wells Productions

Trivia:

The book that the shooting victim's sister is reading in the hospital waiting room is Beloved by Toni Morrison (Ben says that he likes the book and read it for a Black Studies class). Beloved was published in 1987 and won the Pulitzer Prize. In 2006, a panel of writers and critics named Beloved the best work of American fiction of the past 25 years. It is one of the most frequently assigned novels in the American secondary and higher education system.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Officer Cooper is driving around with Officer Sherman on his first day, Cudlitz calls what appears to be a prostitute over to the cruiser. She leans in the open window and chats them up, revealing she's an undercover vice squad cop. She would not blow her cover that way. Moments later, Cooper pulls up next to an unmarked car containing two undercover cops. There's no way they'd blow cover like that.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Title card: Only 9,800 police officers patrol the city of Los Angeles, an area of 500 square miles and 4 million people...
[a wounded police officer is taken away by paramedics, and arrests are made following a street shooting; Officer Ben Sherman emerges from an apartment complex and crouches next to a dead man lying in the street, staring at the body]
Crime Scene Photographer: You okay, son?
[Sherman continues staring at the body, oblivious to the question]
Crime Scene Photographer: [insistently] You okay, son?
Narrator: Ben Sherman just finished phase one of his probationary training; he still needed to have his daily book signed by his training officer. The night had not gone well.

Movie Connections:

References "Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990)

Soundtrack:

School