Battle Creek

• Title: Battle Creek – Old Flames
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The search into the truth about Milt’s (Tad Hamilton) past is put on hold in an episode that hits home for several characters when Commander Guziewicz’s (Janet McTeer) home is set afire with her inside. As suspects include criminals she put away, a long line of former boyfriends, and an estranged adopted son (Rotimi) recently returned to Battle Creek “Old Flames” gives us our largest glimpse into the life of any single character yet. Even if the explanation of what actually occurred that night is clumsily handled, the episode succeeds in large by focusing on Guziewicz’s propensity for getting out while the getting is good, a trait she likely developed due to the struggle with raising a troubled boy on her own.

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• Title: Battle Creek – Man’s Best Friend
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Despite learning something about his new FBI buddy’s past last week that doesn’t stop Russ (Dean Winters) from continuing to pry and illicit information from Milton Chamberlain (Tad Hamilton) about what really brought him to Battle Creek, Michigan. While working to solve a case involving the natural death of a rich old man and the brutal murder of a former hooker (which takes them a little too long to find the proper motive of greed) the pair trade a few lies about their pasts leaving no one the wiser.

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• Title: Battle Creek – Man’s Best Friend
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While the episode’s B-story continues poking into how Milton Chamberlain (Tad Hamilton) found himself transferred to Battle Creek by sending Erin (Liza Lapira) to an FBI seminar in Detroit, the main plot of “Man’s Best Friend” concerns an elementary school student found with a kilo of heroin in her backpack. Despite multiple attempts to get the truth out of the girl and her parents Russ (Dean Winters) and Milt are unable to learn the truth forcing them to track down multiple leads including the recent incursion of Dominican drug dealers into the area and the possibility that the girl’s uncle, a local cop, stole the drugs from the evidence room.

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• Title: Battle Creek – Syruptitious
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The second episode the series continues the uneasy partnership between Detective Russ Andrew (Dean Winters) and FBI Special Agent Milton Chamberlain (Tad Hamilton) investigating a syrup conspiracy that led to murder while introducing an incredibly lazy B-story focused on Fontanelle White’s (Kumar Patel) investigation into a marijuana dispensary which gypped him on some fake drugs. The second is memorable only for the actor’s previous work while the first offers a bizarre twist on a local monopoly more cutthroat than you would expect.

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