City on a Hill — Season 1, Episode 6: It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City

Episode synopsis

Decourcy is a step closer to connecting the stolen guns to the Revere robbery when an insider agrees to talk. Jenny is no longer able to ignore Jackie's indiscretions after they show up on her doorstep. An unexpected rush to the hospital worsens money problems for the Ryan family and Reverend Fields discovers that his longstanding influence doesn't make him invincible.

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
• E5From Injustice Came the Way to Describe Justice
• E7There Are No F**king Sides
• E8High on the Looming Gallows Tree
• E9The Deaf Sage of Pompeii
• E10Mayor Curley and the Last Hurrah