Cracked

- Season 1

(2013)

Inspector Diane Caligra of the Toronto Police Department is in somewhat of a conundrum. Detective Aidan Black, who currently is assigned to the SWAT team, is one of her best and most seasoned members, but she realizes based on his recent professional history and behavior, that he may be suffering from some mental illness, most likely post traumatic stress syndrome. She reassigns him to the newly formed Psych Crimes & Crises unit, which will deal with cases which involve some sort of emotional disturbance at its core. The unit was created by forensic psychiatrist Dr. ...

Psych Crimes and Crises is sent to the De Soto home, where single father, bipolar lawyer Mike De Soto, is outside wielding a collection of weapons. On a manic and seemingly psychotic rampage, he believes that someone is out to kill him and his teen-aged son, Nick. Mike's shirt is blood soaked, and Nick is eventually found inside unconscious from an apparent fall down the stairs. Nick is otherwise unharmed meaning that they have to find the probable dead body associated with that blood. They eventually do find the body, that of college student Sophie Ann Wells, a girl ...

Psych Crimes and Crises is sent to an elementary school where eleven year old Blessing Byers, constantly bullied by her classmates, has just beaten several of them with a baseball bat in a manic rage after their latest torment. On this day, she has scrawled several words on herself, most with religious overtones, the most prominent being the word "truth" on her forehead. As she seems to have a fear of the police, Aidan and Daniella try to portray themselves as anything but. They want to do a psychological assessment as something is obviously troubling her, but her ...

Aidan and Daniella are called to investigate the case of a delusional homeless man named Jeremy who believes he was attacked by a werewolf. At the scene, they come across another man, who they believe is Jeremy's attacker, violently beating on a car with a crowbar, with a dead man next to the car and a scared young woman inside. But whatever emotional issue Aidan is facing makes him lose focus for a few seconds, leading to the attacker being able to escape. Because of Aidan's lapse at the scene, Caligra brings in Liz, Aidan's old girlfriend who he still loves, to work...

Psychiatrist Dr. Karl Karzik is seriously injured when he is involved in a hit and run. He, who survives, believes it was no accident as he was scheduled to speak at a hearing involving his client, Mandar Kush, who was deemed not mentally fit to stand trial into the brutal murder eleven years earlier of Peter Fong, but he who admitted to the killing. Dr. Karzik had received a death threat not to appear at the hearing, especially if that hearing resulted in Kush being released. Daniella, who knows of the case but not Kush himself, volunteers to take over that ...

Psych Crimes and Crises is brought in to investigate a seemingly schizophrenic homeless teenager who has with him who he has mentioned was an abandoned baby girl. He, who is covered in blood due to fighting injuries, will not give her up and he is wielding a makeshift razor-type weapon to ensure no one takes the baby away from him. Aidan and Daniella want to provide some medical attention to the boy both for his physical and mental issues, while securing the baby and returning her to her family, where ever they may be. Upon closer inspection, the boy is not ...

Psych Crimes and Crises investigates a young black man seemingly high wandering the streets clad only in his boxer shorts. Aidan recognizes him as Billy Russell, one half of the famed band, Saturn 66. They are able to coax him into custody. When Billy comes down from his high, Billy admits to Daniella that he is bipolar, and that he sometimes goes off his meds, but that his Saturn 66 band mate, Max Graves, and his doctor, Evandra Lewis, who travels with the band, keep him in check from hurting himself or others. This relationship with Max is despite their very public ...

Aidan still isn't sleeping, which may be affecting his reasoning. He and Daniella are called to the ice rink to deal with Terry Dwyer, an ex-NHL-er whose hockey career ended because of his violent tendencies, which have just resurfaced during a pick-up game where he violently beat an opposing player. Terry is in slight denial about his problem despite he realizing it is negatively affecting his life, especially his marriage. That's why Aidan and Daniella aren't happy when they later learn that he is working as a snitch for Organized Crime Detective Rachel Fenton in ...

Psych Crimes and Crises is sent to investigate a crazed gun-wielding woman. It turns out that woman is Beth Croxton, a police officer, who is mourning the just occurred suicide death of her teen-aged daughter, Lindsay Croxton. Once Aidan and Daniella are able to disarm Beth and get Beth to let Lindsay go, they focus their investigation on Lindsay's suicide, she a young woman who they find was being bullied. Aidan and Daniella find a suicide video shot by Lindsay with some coded messages, which they try to decipher. After having had trouble fitting into her new school,...

The coroner's inquest into the school bus incident where Aidan shot the perpetrator Dominik Laszlo dead, Laszlo's knife in the process which in turn killed student Jason Beckmire, is approaching, the inquest despite Aidan having been previously absolved of any wrongdoing in the incident. Aidan's cavalier attitude toward the inquest, including refusing to have any meaningful dialogue with his police association appointed lawyer Juvina Kapoor, is his way of trying to put the incident behind him emotionally. Kapoor is worried because the crown attorney, Marcela Houseman,...

Aidan is having trust issues with both Caligra but most specifically Daniella following the revelation during the inquest that Daniella was reporting to Caligra on his on-the-job behavior. Daniella knows what she did was wrong, especially as she respects her partner, but doesn't know how to rectify the situation, nor does she know how to deal with Sean, for who she has lost all respect and who will probably continue to work with the unit. The Aidan/Daniella situation affects the entire unit as they partner with Sex Crimes in trying to apprehend who has been coined the...

Psych Crimes and Crises is asked to assist on the case of a $1.5 million diamond heist at a small jewelry store, the diamonds which were part of a regular shipment and which were yet as uninsured by the jeweler. They are involved because an eyewitness, who encountered the four balaclava clad robbers, stated that she was assaulted by one of them, who acted like something had spooked him which resulted him shooting randomly in the air. Based on the surveillance footage of the actual robbery and the eyewitness statement, they believe the robbery was conducted by ...

The police are alerted to the murder of college professor Oscar Wallace after his nine year old daughter Olivia Wallace is spotted in a near comatose state in her pajamas hiding under a bench in the subway station. Oscar is found in the Wallace home with both his arms snapped, presumably done pre-mortem to inflict as much pain as possible. At the time of the murder, Oscar's wife and Olivia's mother, Esme Belk-Wallace, a high profile global human rights lawyer, was away on an extended business trip to Africa, she who returned the day Oscar is found. With Oscar and ...