A sexist detective must stay sober long enough to continue solving crimes of passion or sink into a suicidal depression and lose the one thing most precious to him: his daughter.

SYNOPSIS:

SEX CRIMES is a TV Series written along the lines of CSI and HOUSE featuring a main character you love to hate.

In each episode Detective BILL FULLER confronts inner demons and unsolved crimes of passion. His anti-woke language gets him in hot water with his superiors and with his fractured family. He softens only when he is near his adult daughter RACHEL who is also his top crime lab analyst. Even while Fuller shows empathy to victims, he is stubbornly reluctant to confront his own anguish.

The series title refers not only to criminal sexual crimes, but also to the bigotry, hatred and violence perpetrated against women, transexuals and other LGBTQ people.

In the pilot Fuller confronts a seemingly easily solvable crime of passion. But each time he thinks he's solved it another surprising obstacle appears.

The victim PETE is murdered and the only fingerprints from the scene point to his ex-wife BONNIE and her lover SUSIE. Fuller interrogates them separately; both profess innocence and Bonnie files an assault charge against him.

Fellow detective WASHINGTON has called in sick. He is grieving the recent death of his wife and has turned to morphine to dull the pain. To add to his anguish someone has discovered his addiction and is blackmailing him.

Having only recently seen Washington on the job Fuller suspects something else is bothering him. Fuller visits Washington and finds the blackmail letter.

Before confronting him Fuller discusses the case. Fuller tells Washington that the victim exchanged texts with a woman named CLAUDIA and one of them referred to Washington's new tattoo.

Fuller suspects that Claudia killed the victim when she saw the tattoo of his ex-wife on his arm. Washington confirms Fuller's suspicion, making Claudia a prime suspect.

Rachel visits her grandmother and is shocked to hear her confess that her husband regularly beat her. Fuller calls Rachel and says that he suspects the abuse is true, saying, "Violence is repeated from generation to generation." He tells Rachel that she can help, because the suspect Claudia filed several abuse reports against her own husband. Rachel reveals to him that her test confirms that the victim's tattoo is fresh, within the last week.

Meanwhile, Washington has taken matters into his own hands, stalks his blackmailer, and tries to run him over, but crashes his car and winds up in the hospital.

When Fuller goes to the women's shelter to face Claudia, she makes an escape. He chases after her, trapping her inside a bodega.

As Claudia holds a long sharp knife to her own throat, Fuller talks her down, telling her that he knows she felt betrayed when she saw Pete's tattoo. He says he understands her pain, that he used alcoholic to hide from his own pain, that it was only his love of his daughter that sobered him and put him on the path to redemption.

He promises Claudia that he will testify for her and that he will do everything he can to have her treated as a victim, not a killer.

When he sees Claudia softening Fuller calls his Junior Detective and nephew BILLY into the bodega -- bringing with him Claudia's 4-year-old son. They embrace and Claudia surrenders.

The episode ends with Fuller visiting Washington in the hospital for an emotional and humorous reunion.

The series asks, "Can an expert detective solve the mystery of his own crimes in time to redeem himself?"