City on a Hill — Season 1, Episode 1: The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice

Episode synopsis

In early ‘90s Boston, racism is endemic and crime is widespread. Jackie Rohr, a renowned FBI agent whose methods are not exactly by the book, does not mind the status quo. But Decourcy Ward, the new Assistant District Attorney in town, wants to uproot the corrupt system. The two form an unlikely, and obligatory, alliance to take down a gang of armored truck robbers from Charlestown.

About City on a Hill

In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.

More episodes from Season 1

• E2What They Saw in Southie High
• E3If Only the Fool Would Persist in His Folly
• E4The Wickedness of the Wicked Shall Be Upon Himself
• E5From Injustice Came the Way to Describe Justice
• E6It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
• E7There Are No F**king Sides
• E8High on the Looming Gallows Tree
• E9The Deaf Sage of Pompeii
• E10Mayor Curley and the Last Hurrah