DESCRIPTION OF PILOT EPISODE:
Dr. Officer Leonidas “Leo” Q. Friday, Esquire is chief ER doctor in Atlanta’s famed trauma unit at Grady Hospital, and he’s damn good at his job. He’s also an undercover police officer, part of a special task force assigned to stop corruption within the healthcare industry, and he’s also damn good at that job. Furthermore, he’s a public defender, standing up for the little guy against a faceless, compassionless justice system. (Damn good at that, too.)
A young child is brought into the ER, the victim of a vicious dachshund bite. Dr. Leo saves the child with his quick medical thinking and deft surgical touch, but the child soon takes a turn for the worse as Friday administers antibiotics which, unbeknownst to him, were replaced with something far less effective. Officer Leo finds a clue and tracks down the culprit, the elderly janitor Smedley Hatch, and – after a thrilling police-cruiser versus stolen wheelchair chase down Peachtree Road – hauls Smedley off to justice.
At Smedley’s arraignment, Attorney Leonidas Friday, Esq. suspects that something is amiss: why would a simple-minded janitor want to steal emergency room antibiotics? As Leo digs deep into the case, he begins to reveal a hospital coverup. But can the young attorney prove his client innocent, arrest the true criminals, and save the child’s life?
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Further ideas:
love interest: A woman who is a news anchor and a MARTA bus driver …. and his captain at the precinct!
season 1 finale: He has to arrest himself for criminal negligence, then defend himself at the malpractice suit. It ends on a cliffhanger, right as the jury is about to announce their verdict.
season 2 premiere: He is found guilty, but his love interest steals the prisoner transport bus! They are LOST” when their bus crashes in the mysterious RHODE ISLAND.
HUGE HAT-TIPS/CREDITS/”SNAPS” TO SLUTSWELL, MEEG AND SPRADS.
