City on a Hill — Season 1, Episode 5: From Injustice Came the Way to Describe Justice

Episode synopsis

Jackie and Decourcy continue to hunt down the weapon connected to the armored truck robbery in Revere. Michaela Freda, a local reporter, gets a tip about a story that could lead her down a treacherous path. Despite the threat of a Grand Jury, Frankie considers what he must do to provide for his family. Pressure on Siobhan begins to mount. After another allegation is brought to her attention, she questions whether doing what is right is ultimately what is for the best.

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

• E1The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice
• E2What They Saw in Southie High
• E3If Only the Fool Would Persist in His Folly
• E4The Wickedness of the Wicked Shall Be Upon Himself
• 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