Season 1

Ex-cop turned PI Mac Swift works outside the normal law enforcement routine on cases too hot for the standard justice system. While still on the force, Swift falls for a call girl.

Swift goes undercover to retrieve a young boy from his dangerous, white supremacist father, Stone Paxton, who has taken the child from his ex-wife who he has accused of polluting the boy with her liberal ideas and interracial dating habits. But when Swift's cover is blown, he is forced to do battle with the extremist, first using the information superhighway, then in hand-to-hand combat.

Mac helps a rockstar's wife escape his clutches

Swift is approached by Rita Vicks, a beautiful treasury agent concerned over the disappearance of her partner, Bo Maxey, who has neared obsession in his quest to find the Supernote, an impeccable counterfeit C-note he believes is being used by the Iranian government.

Swift learns the latest person under his protection was involved in a bank heist to support IRA activities

When Mama Em, a neighborhood matriarch and old friend of Swift's father, is gunned down for trying to organize her community against a drug dealer, Swift sets out to help her daughter Sylvie bring the murderers to justice, with hope of saving Juwan, one of Sylvie's prize pupils, from a life of crime.

Pregnant college girl Allison enlists Swift to find her missing boyfriend, college wrestler Palo Montega. Swift discovers that Palo's fanatical instructor, Dillon Brock, has other plans for Palo when he forces him to compete in a cage match that leaves only one contestant standing. Knowing that Swift is getting close to finding Palo, Brock sets a trap and Swift becomes Palo's next opponent.

Swift helps a horse breeder avoid selling out to a business tycoon.

When research scientist Bud Wertheim dies under suspicious—but apparently natural–circumstances, his friend and colleague Jessie McKenna enlists Swift to find out how—and why—he really died, uncovering research fraud at an up-and-coming pharmaceutical company poised to profit millions on a new cholesterol-lowering drug.

An Amish man, Isaiah Zook, travels to New York to search for his runaway daughter Sarah but is quickly overwhelmed by the city. Paterson happens upon the naive Isaiah and introduces him to Swift, who quickly agrees to take his case. Swift discovers that Sarah is living with an illicit pornographic star, David, who owes his producer a lot of money for drugs.

Patterson asks Swift to watch over a woman somehow involved in his latest case.

Swift and Paterson clash on issues of strategy when cases they are working on collide. Paterson, under pressure from his superiors, may have to place a charge of Swift's in danger to bring down suspects in a series of jewel heists. Swift, feeling a responsibility to help the girl he's been trying to protect and her ex-con boyfriend, may be jeopardizing Paterson's case in the process. Can their friendship survive?

A serial killer escapes and goes after those who put him away: Swift, Patterson and a criminal profiler.