Detective Support

Detective Nikki Black, an unmade bed of a woman, discovers her fifteen year-daughter Becka not at home. Not that surprising. Ever since Nikki's husband/Becka's father committed suicide, Nikki and Becka have drifted as a family unit. After repeated unanswered calls and texts, Nikki fills a to-go cup of OJ and vodka and heads to work at the Detective Support division, where she's currently in rotation with the Missing Persons Unit and starting her first day with a new partner, rookie Jennifer Robbins, too privileged and too gorgeous for police work, but eager to do a good job. Unbeknownst to Nikki, Jennifer was hired to collect evidence about Nikki's alcoholism on the job. Due to low test scores and an even lower psych eval, this was Jennifer's only ticket into Missing Persons, her desired assignment. Single woman Renee walks into the station and explains that she’s having an affair with the Leo, the husband of her best friend Dawn, and no one’s heard from Dawn in days. Renee suspects Leo may have done something to Dawn. Nikki and Jennifer find Leo at home, cleaning like a madman, and seemingly unfazed about his wife's disappearance. When pressed, he offers a fresh perspective on Renee. Jennifer and Nikki re-interview Renee, probing her about the medical supplies she sells (like bone saws) and about the restraining order against her from when she threatened the wife of another married man she was sleeping with, With still no answer from her daughter, Nikki doesn't want to go home to an empty house, so she flirts with her Liquor Store Clerk. Jennifer has a fight with her fiancee Sasha about the fact that Jennifer won't set a wedding date. As their fight escalates, Jacob, the autistic boy they’re fostering, comes in, sleepwalking through night terrors. The phone company reveals the last location of Dawn’s phone to be an apartment complex. Time to knock on some doors and dig into some dumpsters. Feeling overwhelmed, Jennifer sneaks into the bathroom at work for a quick cry. Gwen, another detective in the unit, consoles her. They kiss. Jennifer pulls away, leaves. Nikki and Jennifer, both self-destructive by nature, both in need of help but unable to ask for it, can't trust themselves or each other, but until then, maybe they can at least work together.