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HIGH INCIDENT
Crime in the suburbs on High Incident
Posted Fri, 01 Jan 1999

A code 2 high incident could be anything from a motor car collision to a serious domestic assault. Join the officers of High Incident as they police the suburb of El Camino.

High Incident is the only police show to take place where most Americans actually live. It captures the unpredictability of crime in suburbia, while taking a close look at how a certain incident reverberates through the fictitious, southern California precinct each week.

Produced by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Television studios High Incident mixes action, comedy, and drama. The show features nine uniformed police officers who you will come to love week after week.

In relation to the name of this series, the radio code each officer has come to  recognize  is a Code 2/High Incident. This type of call can depict either a minor fender bender, or a serious domestic dispute.

  With crimes like domestic violence, drugs, and child abandonment and social problems like gangs and alcohol abuse often striking closer to the reality of the cops' own lives, the series examines how beat cops respond to these events and the emotional toll it takes on their lives.

David Keith stars as Sergeant Jim Marsh, a three-time divorcé who is as subtle as a goods freight train. Professionally, he's the highest-ranking patrolman; personally he's in a mess.

Cole Hauser stars as Officer Randy Willitz, a ruggedly handsome, eager rookie, partnered with Marsh. Joining the cast in its second season are Blair Underwood as Officer Mike Rhoades, an intense, hard-edged patrol officer transferred from the inner city gang beat and Lisa Vidal, as his partner Officer Jessica Helgado, a native of El Camino whose compassion for others sometimes gets in the way of official police policy.

Matt Craven stars as Lenny Gayer, whose seemingly well-ordered life is jarred by the murder of his partner, and Aunjanue Ellis plays his new partner Leslie Joyner, a no-nonsense cop whose compassion for children stems partially from the fact that she gave up her own for adoption.

Matthew Beck stars as Terry Hagar, a first-time dad whose rock-handsome looks belie his intelligence, and Louis Mustillo is his partner and best friend, Russell Topps, for whom movies are an analogy or life. Wendy Davis, who stars as Lynette White, the widow of Gayer's partner, becomes a series regular. Lindsay Frost appears in the recurring role as Sergeant Sullivan, the station house commander.

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