PREMISE: A brutal attack leaves the Lower East Side in a coma, clinging to life, and no one knows who did it—or at least no one’s talking. Now, it’s up to a team of investigators to figure out who would want to bump off the beloved New York neighborhood. But the more they dig, the bigger the case gets, as they uncover a sordid plot involving crooked real estate agents, rich stock brokers, and maybe even City Hall.



CHARACTERS: Debbie Wu is the lead investigator looking into the attack. Her last case was in the Midwest, investigating the mysterious disappearance of manufacturing jobs, but when she revealed her findings—manufacturing had actually been dead for years but was being propped up in a grim Weekend at Bernie’s type scenario—she was driven out of town and forced to resettle in the Big Apple. Most of her free time in her new city is spent trying to find an apartment she can afford.

Calvin Pierce is an inexplicably-loaded NYU student who moved into the neighborhood just a few days before the attack. He spends most of his time at upscale salad joints and bars with velvet curtains, and the investigators think he knows more about the case than he’s willing to say.

The L Train, a temperamental, fidgety train, is one of the investigators’ prime suspects. When it turns out that the L may also be connected to other, similar cases involving dead neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the team starts to wonder: are they actually after a serial killer?

NOTABLE EPISODE: The team visits the crime scene on a Friday night to meet with a local bookstore owner who claims to have information for them, only to find the streets and sidewalks filled with sickos who seem to be celebrating the attack on the LES. The investigators are so disgusted they try to find a bar where they can drown their sorrows, but every place they go into is packed or lame so they say the hell with it and just go home (S01.E10 – “$9 Stellllllllllla?!”).

CATCHPHRASE: “Is this really a shop that only sells cologne and succulents?”

TRIVIA/MISCELLANY: The show was produced in Toronto because it was too expensive to shoot in New York.