With Kyra Sedgwick J.K. Simmons Corey Reynolds R… Brenda and her team step into the delicate kidnapping case of a real estate mogul accused of fraud, which is complicated by frozen assets, an FBI case, obnoxious relatives, and a victim who may not be victimized. While Major Crimes investigates the death of an aspiring teenage pop star's father, Brenda contemplates whether to accept what appears to be a generous offer to settle her case. Brenda uses her niece Charlie without her knowledge to uncover a motive after a schoolyard shooter kills one teenager and leaves another seriously wounded. The team tries to solve the crime while Brenda tries to assure a public that has grown wary and skeptical of police cooperation.

Episodes Season 1 (2005) Season 1 opens with the LAPD's new Priority Murder Squad … When Major Crimes finds Peter Goldman's card on a murdered witness to Turell Baylor's death, new questions and suspects emerge in the Baylor case that could ultimately prove Brenda's innocence in the federal suit against her. Unfortunately, he also holds her evidence and Chief Pope's career in his delusional hands. Brenda is willing to go to extreme lengths to prove that a sleazy defense attorney from her past is actually his client's accomplice in a rape/murder case. Four family members are killed in their home - innocent victims in an attempted execution of a trial witness, all because the killer went to the wrong address. Meanwhile, Raydor's continuing investigation makes Brenda comes to terms with a shocking reality.

Directed by Michael M. Robin. Brenda works with a retired detective on a case involving an accused killer who is murdered, but they clash because Brenda wants to find the killer's killer while the detective is more concerned about closure for the killer's victims.

Meanwhile, Fritz has news that could change his and Brenda's life together. Brenda and Fritz butt heads when the FBI appears to sabotage her murder investigation because her main suspect is under their surveillance, and Brenda's parents come to town for the holidays with some bad news. Flynn and Provenza fail to detect a robbery-homicide in progress at a cash-for-gold store, leading to a messy and awkward investigation for Major Crimes. Two officers are shot and killed in the line of duty; however, Captain Raydor's internal investigation could jeopardize Major Crimes' chances of finding the killers. Pope becomes interim chief after Delk's death, but he doesn't cancel Raydor's investigation into Brenda.

While Major Crimes tries to figure out who killed a registered sex offender and buried him under a retaining wall, Brenda tries to find a way to pay for her new high-priced defense attorney. A Christmas village Santa is killed in a zip-line accident, and the village's other Santa comes under suspicion. Provenza. Meanwhile, Major Crimes tackles a case involving a house sitter who was killed while the family who hired her was on vacation. When the younger brother of a gang leader and two other gang members are killed, Major Crimes suspects that they are victims in a gang war; however, when a stolen ATM card is recovered at the scene of the crime, a new motive emerges.

While the team investigates a massacre that included an up and coming rapper, Delk begins a major restructuring at Major Crimes, including a surprising new boss for Brenda. Okay, but hurry up. As Brenda suspects a good Samaritan high school coach of murdering his new principal to cover instances of pedophilia, Captain Raydor catches Pope off guard with the surprise announcement of her retirement. Episode 5. Meanwhile, Brenda gets a visit from her mother and teenage niece. Meanwhile, Brenda's niece outstays her welcome with Brenda and Fritz. The death of a young boy hits close to home for Lieutenant Tao, and Brenda continues to duck Raydor's investigation. Brenda gets in more trouble with Pope when the Catholic Church stonewalls her investigation into a priest's murder. To make some easy money on the side by serving a convicted embezzler, Flynn, Provenza and Buzz get in trouble when their actions result in the death of a man hired to be his impostor. The Closer Season 7 Episode 5 Quotes. Major Crimes runs into a problem when it is forced to reopen an old murder case and discovers that the detective who closed it (Provenza's ex-partner) had a sex change and is now a woman.