Corruption in LAPD’s Vice Squad leaves newly- installed commander Theresa Fuchs no choice but to clean house, so she recruits a mixed bag of dedicated but inexperienced officers to form her own trusted unit, navigating a minefield of suspicion inside and outside the force, as they all put their lives at risk to bring down a dangerous human trafficking ring. 

SYNOPSIS:

The Low Five opens within a tense, angry, burned out Vice Squad unit in the LAPD. More than a few cops in Vice were discovered to be taking secret payouts from pimps, drug dealers, counterfeiters, and human traffickers. Some are accused of murder and extortion. With tensions over police misconduct at an all-time high, city leaders take swift action and installs an interim leader - LT. THERESA FUCHS - to get things under control (and provide a convenient excuse if the corruption runs deeper).

Distrust remains high inside the unit (and within the entire force) - it’s a public relations disaster for the city. The suspicion that the cops in Vice are dirty hovers like a dark cloud, so Fuchs goes it alone and meets with her hand-selected team outside the squad room to avoid scrutiny and focus on solving the toughest cases. Getting convictions and bringing down bad guys is a thrill for her team. With the promise of getting away from stalled careers and/or the lure of getting out from behind a desk, Fuchs’ recruits find this new squad appealing, though unorthodox. Untainted by scandal, this collection of misfits and newbies finds they move faster and more efficiently to track down criminals. They are the lowest five percent of the force - the "low five" - and targets for disciplinary action, expulsion, removal. Though not targets of criminal investigation, Fuchs' recruits are not the best and brightest - but they have something to prove.

Each episode will find our team getting closer to the trafficking ring, its widening criminal network, and the variety of abuses inflicted on helpless women he’s enslaved into prostitution. Also, the team will work undercover within the crime ring to find victimized men and women who are blackmailed into being drug mules and dealers and nameless sweat shops that pop up and disappear constantly, as well as illegal gambling operations laundering money through business fronts.

The overall season is about this continuing investigative storyline – the take down of a vast criminal empire — and each episode will also have another prominent investigation featuring one of the team. The Vice Squad will see both victims and perpetrators of human trafficking, prostitution, pornography, gang violence, and illegal gaming and try to build a case against the ring and its lieutenants in SoCal. There will also be multiple B stories about each Cops’ personal lives, going home with them, their personal lives on full display, the tensions and drama of work spilling over into their families and personal lives.

THE LOW FIVE