Shark

After a shocking outcome in one of his cases and a personal epiphany, Sebastian Stark decides to leave his job as a defense attorney. Now looking for a new job, he has been offered the position of director of the Los Angeles DAs high-profile crime unit, but with a twist - he will have to train a new team of inexperienced lawyers.

A heart surgeon is accused of murdering his missing wife. The fact that Stark doesnt have any proof, or even a body, doesnt stop him. He asks his team to find creative means to secure evidence from Dr. Mitchell Sterlings home and obtain testimony from his eight-year-old son, Ethan.

Stark prosecutes three college football players accused of raping a female student at a campus athletic house. One of the players is the teams starting quarterback and is considered a first-round pick in the upcoming NFL draft. The case takes a hit when Stark learns the victim was in a relationship with the quarterback. Back at home, Julie tells her dad she is being suspended from school because shes been accused of plagiarism.

After an 8-year-old girl is kidnapped from a park and murdered, Stark believes this new case could be linked to a similar crime committed 15 years ago. In the former case, the main suspect had been defended by Stark himself and prosecuted by Jessica Devlin, and the man had been convicted of the murder. Meanwhile, a young man tells Julie he believes his late father and her mother had an affair while she was still married to Stark.

An assistant district attorney is gunned down along with a high-priced hooker in the prostitutes car. The investigation reports the victim had wanted to prosecute narcotics cases and not domestic disputes, and she may have been working the call girl on targeting a drug dealer with whom she had a relationship. Meanwhile, Julie considers going to the next step with Eddie.

Stark goes after a millionaire arms broker who is supplying explosives to L.A. gangs that have caused three car bombings and nine fatalities over the past five months. Making things more difficult is the FBI, which wants to take over the case, but Sebastian wont allow it because Casey has been kidnapped and may be killed if the broker escapes the country.

Sebastian prosecutes the murder billionaire real estate developer who was making tabloid-headlines because of problems with his young second wife, Sonja. Both she and resentful 16-year-old son, Dylan, are the prime suspect of the case.Meanwhile, fearing for Julies safety in the wake of his last case, Sebastian hires a bodyguard to shadow her whenever she leaves their home.

The wife of an ultraconservative judge known for giving harsh sentences, who had also tried to have Sebastian disbarred twice, is murdered in an apparent robbery attempt at LAX. The judge becomes Sebastians prime suspect when he learns the judges marriage had been in trouble and he had been anticipating confirmation to the Federal Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, Julie plans a fancy dinner to say goodbye to Neal when she discovers he will no longer be her bodyguard.

After two cops are implicated in a controversial shooting that kills an upstanding black teen and also hurts his drug-dealing cousin, Sebastian is put in charge of the case. To find the answers to his questions, he must use an accusatory approach toward the two officers, but it doesnt take long for Isaac to disapprove of Starks way of doing things.

Sebastian must prosecute the murder of a predatory porn producer. The case is complicated by the fact that the killer is head of a womens shelter, who is being regarded as a hero by the media and the population of the city.

With the discovery of an 11-year-old boy who went missing four years ago comes one of the most confusing case for Stark. During those four years, the young boy was living with his kidnapper and was identifying himself as his son. Sebastian must disprove the kidnappers claim that he was in fact protecting the boy from abusive parents.

When Sebastians witness is blown away by a car bomb, Jessica Devlin agrees to help and decides to recruit Deputy District Attorney Danny Reyes from the Organized Crime Unit to help in the investigation.

When the body of a 22-year-old surgically-enhanced aspiring actress turns up, the team begins working on identifying and convicting the killer. But the investigation leads to discovery of the exploitation of the victims dream. Sebastians team uncovers that the victims plastic surgeon was exchanging sex for surgery with her.

The search for the bomber of a school campus and the killer of a co-ed leads to a young chemical engineering student who has been sending incriminating letters about exacting revenge on his condescending peers. But when the case is ready to go to trial, Danny is seduced by the student claim of innocence and convinces Sebastian to let him search for another suspect.

Sebastian and Danny travel to Mexico to attempt to retrieve a defendant who left the country to avoid being prosecuted for murdering his business partner/mistress.

While trying to find an arsonist responsible for claiming the life of a firefighter, Sebastians team finds that the man the firefighter died trying rescue was murdered before the fire began.

Stark has difficulty investigating the murder of a groupie when the singer and his group not only peddle their stories to the tabloids, but actively work against finding the truth.

Stark faces a formal disbarment hearing, and while he awaits the verdict a back-room deal with the State Attorneys office may save him if he and his team can put away the people responsible for Sarah Belkins 1996 murder.

Stark comes back to work at the DAs office when a talented young female musician is found dead.