Memphis Beat - Episode Guide

A crime drama focusing on offbeat Memphis detective Dwight Hendricks, a Southern charmer with a passion for his city and blues music. In the series opener, Dwight investigates the abuse of an elderly female disc jockey, but his loose crime-fighting manner irritates his disciplined boss. Meanwhile, Dwight's spirited mother woos a neighbor.

Dwight steers ahead to find a missing truck driver. But Dwight is grinding gears in his personal life: He doesn't trust his mother's boyfriend, and his ex-wife continually sends him mixed signals.

Dwight and the squad spring into action when a teenage pageant queen goes missing, yet they soon realize there's much more to the case than meets the eye. Elsewhere, Dwight gives a helping hand to his ex-wife's health-food business; and issues about Lightfoot's wife inch to the surface.

A mysterious someone tries to kill a barbecue king. The case sizzles when Sutton goes undercover to smoke out the culprit. Meanwhile, Lt. Rice's son turns to the wrong side of the law.

Dwight is on the beat when the matriarch of a famed family music group dies, followed by the group manager's plummet from a balcony. But rancorous rivalries within the group threaten to derail Dwight's case.

The gloves are off when a popular local boxer is assaulted. Dwight's suspicious mind focuses on those who would be negatively impacted by the pugilist's imminent retirement. Elsewhere, Sutton is haunted by his past; and a secret surfaces about Lt. Rice's ex-spouse.

Dwight investigates when a pair of elderly lottery winners go missing. Elsewhere, a potential romance buds between Lt. Rice and a Coast Guard officer, and Greenback catches his friend in a sticky situation.

Dwight negotiates a hostage crisis, only to become a hostage himself. To resolve the delicate situation, he must delve into his captor's past and crack the mysteries of a decades-old murder. In the meantime, Lt. Rice's ex-husband stirs up trouble.

A city councilman's aide disappears on the very day he was to wed the councilman's daughter. Mixing throughout the case and making it more complex: a vanished reporter, an ambiguous phone message and mysteries surrounding a pair of cuff links. In other developments, Dwight's mother makes a game-changing decision.

Dwight explores the supposedly shady past of a man with amnesia, especially when he suspects the man may have ties to the cold-case slaying of a little girl. Meanwhile, Lt. Rice, mired in financial woes, ponders a career change.

The squad delves into the death of a valued police officer, yet evidence suggests the victim may have been involved in shady dealings. Meanwhile, Dwight meets a tenacious internal-affairs investigator (Beau Garrett); and Rice pushes Whitehead to take a lieutenant's exam.

A slew of safe robberies may be the handiwork of infamous burglars who carried out a crime spree 10 years earlier. Enter an overly enthusiastic accountant (Thomas Lennon), who joins the investigation and promptly falls for Rice. Meanwhile, Whitehead tries to reinvent himself.

Dwight tries to locate a grief-stricken man's missing daughter---but the hunch is that she was the victim of a crime. Meanwhile, a big family development rocks Rice's world. And Whitehead is under the gun to refine his firearm skills, so he turns to an unlikely source for help.

Dwight and Whitehead team up to investigate a missing-persons case, only to be stunned when a nun emerges as the main suspect. Meanwhile, Sutton happens upon an abandoned baby and reaches out to Dwight's mother for a tutorial on basic baby care.

When an iconic Memphis movie theater mysteriously burns down, Rice takes the case to smoke out the culprit. Meanwhile, with his mother in tow, Dwight hits the road to New Orleans to speak to his father's killer, hoping any insight will prove that his father was never a dirty cop.

Dwight goes sleuthing when three gun-toting thieves rob a party boat, but there are ripple effects when the case involves one of Dwight's oldest friends. Fallout from the investigation allows Dwight to reconnect with an ex-flame and perform music with an old bandmate.

The body of a highly regarded man known for helping at-risk children goes missing during his funeral. Dwight and Whitehead scramble to find the body—yet a very different picture of the supposed model citizen soon begins to take shape.

Dwight and Whitehead hightail it to a local bank, where a man has taken hostages and claims that he's the victim of a scam. As Dwight works the delicate case, he soon unearths deep truths about the alleged scam. Meanwhile, Paula Ann suffers a breakup.

A potent storm sweeps in on Memphis and strands Dwight and Whitehead inside a mansion, where a whodunit murder mystery then plays out. Back at the department, the squad tries to identify an enigmatic man who mysteriously slipped into jail.

Dwight and Charlie must keep a pair of feuding families (Murphy's vs Harrison's) from shedding more blood when one of their relatives is found shot; Charlie, Davey and Greenback discover that Dwight has a new girlfriend and invite Her to Dwight's "Surprise" Birthday Party.