College professor Amy Winslow (Jill Wagner) is supporting a community theater play with movie star Bella Brightman volunteering as the lead. Police detective Burke (Kristoffer Polaha) investigates when his partner Claire Tate gets knocked unconscious in the latest of a series of local break-ins.

There is a possible future for this pairing. The main issue is forcing these two together to take on these cases. They should stop the pretense and simply make them partners in solving major crimes. It's a college town. Make Burke in charge of crimes on campus which makes Winslow a great partner for those cases. The main advantage of this franchise is the fairly good combative chemistry between the two actors. They work well together. They need to be together as much as possible and as quickly as possible. This one fails that test. It takes too much for Burke's case to work its way to Winslow's play. Also Bella needs to be played by a better actress. She needs to project a movie star's charisma. This actress is missing that. I chalk this up to be a sophomore swoon and hopefully it gets better as class continues.