When a young female sex surrogate is found dead in Portland's Rose Garden, the S.C.U. investigates what could be a crime of lust, rage, passion or possibly even love. Meanwhile, Backstrom receives very upsetting news about his mother.
Backstrom and the S.C.U. investigate a hit-and-run that leaves a wealthy woman dead.
Backstrom and his team must work with his estranged father in order to catch a suspected eco-terrorist.
A murder leads Backstrom and his team to an illegal gambling ring.
Backstrom and his team are called in when a teenage girl are abducted by an online predator.
Backstrom and his team are called in when a member of Portland's LGBT community is killed.
Backstrom and his team are called in after a youth pastor is discovered murdered at a church.
The team help to investigate an serial arsonist.
The supposed suicide of a senator's son ends up being a homicide.
Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom is a man with no filter. After a five-year exile to the traffic division for offensive behavior, he has returned from disgrace to lead Portland's newly minted S.C.U. Tasked with navigating the city's most sensitive and serious cases, he must solve each crime as he tries, and fails, to change his own self-destructive behavior. Based on renowned Swedish criminologist and novelist Leif G.W. Persson’s hit series of books of the same name.