Amanda Sheffield carries the full weight of a very dee cop drama extremely well. She, the entire cast is outstanding. There is a young boy around 8, Thomas, and he is a jewel. He is not at all the average kid actor. He is save. He is the man of his house, he is curious, intelligent and takes every scene he is in. His chemistry with Seyield could not be sweeter or more real. This is a cop show about a woman cop written and directed from a woman's point of view..not a cop show about a woman written from yet another man's point of view. There is a lot of backtracking and time shifts to build character background and these shifts are done with a rare clarity. The story evolves around the seeming murders of young women who live on the street. Maybe the killer is a cop. One of the brilliant things in the writing is the way we view the big city masculine dominated police culture through a woman's eyes and experience, Sheffield's character as a cop grew up in the neighbourhood of the killings. She went to school with many of them. She has a sister who is on the streets with these women and worries about her to absolute distraction. Being a patrol officer who does not normally, and is prohibited from actual investigation of crimes, she goes ahead anyway and there is your story. It is not a story for cop action fans. It is deeper and boils more slowly. Women writers, directors and actors are coming more and more into their own and it is valuable and beautiful and has things to teach all of us.
