The Closer

By TNT TV-14-V) After the stabbing death of a woman who was killed by someone wearing a Ninja outfit, Brenda and the squad soon realize they might have a bigger case on their hands. TV-14-V) After the stabbing death of a woman who was killed by someone wearing a Ninja outfit, Brenda and the squad soo...

By TV Guide Bummed that The Closer has wrapped up its summer season? Here's a little good news to tide you over until it returns in December. Beau Bridges will guest-star in one episode of the TNT cop drama, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Bridges will play George Andrews, a former partner of Prove...

By TV Guide It's the end of our summer season and, regretfully, it's time to say good-bye. Coincidentally, our finale — a longer version of which will be available on-line and on iTunes after-air — seems mostly about going away. That's not only a clue to Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson's personal lif...

By TV Guide Our next-to-last episode of the season presents Brenda and Fritz with the unexpected problem of providing constant supervision for their imperfectly behaved teenage niece, Charlie, while continuing to do their jobs. This problem, which will be almost too familiar for most of our audi...

By TV Guide The Closer A little close-up on The Closer: The crime-time show begins closing its seasonal string of episodes (the summer finale airs next week), and Sosie Bacon, thespian daughter of Kevin Bacon and series star Kyra Sedgwick, continues her guest-star arc tonight. Brenda, while playi...

By TNT TV-14-V) A large box with a body stuffed inside leads Brenda in search of suspects. TV-14-V) A large box with a body stuffed inside leads Brenda in search of suspects.

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By TV Guide Let me go back a few years. When Kyra Sedgwick first started on The Closer, she had just finished an independent film entitled Lover Boy. It was a startling movie with an equally startling performance by a young girl named Sosie Bacon, Kyra and Kevin's daughter. Playing her mother's characte...

By TV Guide This week on TNT's The Closer, a new murder revived a decade-old, unsolved case, leading Brenda to get an "assist" from retired detective "Joey O" Olin (guest star Tom Skerritt). All the while, Brenda is haunted by a loose end of her own. Here now the recap! The Closer

By TV Guide Enter former robbery/homicide Detective Olin, played by the always-intriguing Tom Skerritt. Asked to return from a lonely retirement because of his familiarity with the victim, Det. Olin — or Joey O., as he's known to his former co-workers in Major Crimes — seems more intent on wrapping up...

By TV Guide This week on TNT's The Closer, Brenda butts heads once again with the FID's Capt. Raydor, when two cops and a civilian are shot dead during a pull-over. On with the recap... Since a civilian was killed by officers, the Force Investigation Division's Capt. Sharon Raydor (guest star Mary McDonnel...

By TV Guide The inability to change creates huge stumbling blocks in every aspect of our lives and, in "Strike Three," The Closer runs into this particular roadblock at full tilt, resulting in one of the very best episodes in our five year run. Obstacles created by resistance to change not only provid...

By TNT TV-14-V) Brenda s team investigates the shooting death of a popular online hook-up king. TV-14-V) Brenda s team investigates the shooting death of a popular online hook-up king.

By TV Guide This week on TNT's The Closer, Brenda and her team of crimestoppers got more than a little help on a case from no less than Det. Dick Tracy. Power down your two-way wrist radios, kids, and read on for our recap! Provenza pulls closed the window blinds. Pope says, "Yellow tape goes up in your vicin...

By TV Guide So is standing beside Lts. Flynn and Provenza, both of whom often demonstrate a casual disregard for being sucked into career-threatening sinkholes. Fortunately, as active detectives, they are used to finding themselves on the wrong side of ...

By TV Guide • TNT's The Closer has found another fun way to keep it in the family, by guest-casting Kyra Sedgwick's 17-year-old daughter. Get the scoop on who Sosie Bacon will be playing and her character's connection to Brenda, how many episodes she's around for, and how dad Kevin will figure into thi...

By TNT TV-14-V) Brenda s squad investigates the murder of a former gang banger, but evidence indicates he may not have been the target. TV-14-V) Brenda s squad investigates the murder of a former gang banger, but evidence indicates he may not have been the target.

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By TNT TV-14-V) Brenda and her squad are temporarily deputized into the FBI when a missing person case turns into a full-blown murder investigation TV-14-V) Brenda and her squad are temporarily deputized into the FBI when a missing person case turns into a full-blown murder investigation

By TV Guide This week on TNT's The Closer, Fritz "distracted" Brenda from thoughts of Kitty by luring her into helping out on an FBI case. Provenza, meanwhile, had a big surprise for the squad room. On with the recap! Fritz asks Brenda for a "favor" — even though it might run afoul of their pledge to separa...

By TV Guide And for those anxious to discover how marriage has changed our happy couple, here comes Fritz Howard, unabashedly pursuing his own agenda, demanding that Brenda follow him on trust alone. Can she do it? I know many of you were upset that Brenda lost her cat ...

By TV Guide Gabriel starts to open up about how he has felt removed from the MCD gang ever since he bucked for the promotion Daniels got when BANG! Shots outside. Gabriel rushes out, gun waving. There's a body on the ground. In the dark, he sees someone fleeing. Gabriel fires multiple times ...

By TV Guide This is an old question that keeps popping up whenever we talk about law enforcement agencies or any organization where the abuse of power under the color of authority continues to be a serious problem. Internal Affairs Departments are notoriously unpopular with the police they monitor....

By TV Guide This week on TNT's The Closer (Monday at 9 pm), one of the Major Crimes Division's own — Det. Sgt. David Gabriel — finds himself facing tough questions in the wake of a shooting. Corey Reynolds previewed his character's crisis as well as the introduction of one of Brenda's most formidable foes...

By TV Guide Whether it's the fun and heat of Melbourne, the style and clay of Paris, the grass and rain of London or the tough crowds and bright lights of New York, each of tennis's Grand Slams has a unique identity. Get ready for a new, drier era of Wimbledon, however, as the long-awaited retractabl...

By TNT TV-14-V) The apparent kidnapping of a rich financier under investigation for ripping off investors leads Brenda s squad to think he may have staged his own abduction. TV-14-V) The apparent kidnapping of a rich financier under investigation for ripping off investors leads Brenda s squa...

By TV Guide This week on TNT's The Closer, Kyra... er, Brenda looked into the mysterious disappearance of a Bernie Madoff-like swindler, ailing Kitty kept on keeping on, and Provenza's sad-sack mood radically (perhaps suspiciously) changed. On with the recap! Read More > The Closer

By TV Guide Turbay: She appears in this week's episode, as the director of the SIS, a part of the LAPD that supports Brenda's squad when it's time to catch the bad guys. She does car-crashing, door-kicking, punching... all the tough stuff. And what has caught many people's interest is the fact that she is a ...

By TV Guide • If American Idol's Season 9 auditions kicked off this weekend in Boston, what was judge Paula Abdul doing holed up at home in Los Angeles? Stop speculating and let us set the record straight. • Who's returning to Entourage — and for nearly all of Season 6?

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By Amazon Video on Demand In the season premiere, when Brenda's squad investigates the quadruple murder of a family, she accidentally stumbles into the middle of an FBI investigation that may have been a factor in the homicide. Meanwhile, Provenza's mood suddenly turns sour. Guest star LEE TERGESEN ("Oz," "Want...

By TNT TV-14-V) When Brenda s squad investigates the quadruple murder of a family, she accidentally stumbles into the middle of an FBI investigation. TV-14-V) When Brenda s squad investigates the quadruple murder of a family, she accidentally stumbles into the middle of an FBI investigation.

By TV Guide As TNT's The Closer kicked off its fifth season, Brenda tackled a quadruple homicide, butted heads with an FBI agent, and came to a sad realization about an ailing loved one. Oh, and in a delicious piece of irony, chocolate helped save the day! On with the recap... Read More > The Closer

By TV Guide Kyra Sedgwick describes her Closer character, Brenda Johnson, as "incredibly delicate and fragile and yet really, really strong and fierce" — and to look at Sedgwick, that could describe her as well. Dressed in an immaculate white dress, surrounded by a crush of people working the room a...

By TV Guide Ah, well, that would give away some mysteries prematurely. Regular viewers might recall that Irene Daniels and David Gabriel both applied for the same promotion to the Criminal Intelligence Division of the LAPD. One of them succeeded; one of them stayed in Major Crimes. Who did what will be...

By TV Guide Hey, Vern — your buddy Toby is back! Lee Tergesen will reunite with fellow Oz alum JK Simmons — and vex Kyra Sedgwick's Brenda along the way — when he guest-stars on TNT's The Closer, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. In the season premiere, airing June 8, Tergesen will play ... Read More >

By TV Guide This week on TNT's The Closer, Brenda is forced to make "a deal with the devil" in order to apprehend a serial rapist. Here now the recap. It's night as police approach a house with stealth. A man runs out the back. Police dogs pursue the suspect up a tree. Inside, a woman, Jessica, lay murdered. The C...

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By TNT Executive Producer James Duff provides a guided tour of his office at The Closer, including his extensive collection of fantasy movie memorabilia. Executive Producer James Duff provides a guided tour of his office at The Closer, including his extensive collection of fantasy movie mem...

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By TNT Brenda drives away an old flame. Brenda drives away an old flame.

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