Haywood's leadership is called into question after a tragic shooting close to home, and her relationship with Suarez is put to the test.
Regina Haywood is the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, a working-class neighbourhood at the edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse group of officers and detectives, some of whom are reluctant to deploy her creative methods of serving and protecting in the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification.