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- 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. Daniella Ridley, who will become his partner despite she not being a trained police officer. The other two members of the unit are the eager but inexperienced Detective Poppy Wisnefski, and tough but caring psychiatric nurse Leo Beckett. The two teams are to patrol when not working on a specific case. That first case is of Toby Burke, an aspiring hockey player who was murdered in the bedroom that he shared with his younger brother, Wyatt Burke, who was also in the room at the time of the incident. Toby died of a stab wound to his mid-section, but had a light bulb sticking out of that wound. Beyond the differences in opinions and approaches between Aidan and Daniella, they have to figure out if Toby's seemingly distraught father, Garrett Burke, knows more than he is disclosing, and figure out if there is some significance to the light bulb. Through this case, Aidan realizes that Diane had ulterior motives for placing him on this assignment despite the less than obvious fit: she wants Daniella to watch over him and provide her with a medical diagnosis of his mental condition.
- 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 with a troubled past but who was turning her life around. Her wounds are consistent with the range of weapons Mike was wielding, but her body was placed in such a way showing that her killer had affection for her. The unit has to discover Mike's connection to Sophie to determine if he or someone else killed her. It is made all the more difficult as Mike is unable to provide any information until he comes down from his extreme manic state. Through this case, Daniella discovers where she is on the career spectrum between her psychiatrist past and police officer future.