Episode
The District: On Guard
Overview
Mannion wants to believe that it was self-defense when his attractive fencing teacher's husband is killed at her studio. Meanwhile, Debreno recognizes a suspect in a drug case as his childhood friend who convinced Debreno to go into the Police Academy.
Details
- Series
- The District
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 2004-02-21
Episode context
On Guard is Episode 16 in Season 4 of The District. It aired on 2004-02-21.
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Episode 18: The Black Widow Maker
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Episode 13: Party Favors
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Episode 19: Passing Time
Mannion investigates the death of terminal patient afer her daughter shoots the doctor at point blank range, who she believes is responsible for her mother's death. Meanwhile Nancy must confront her own future when her father's Huntington's Disease worsens.
Episode 12: Breath of Life
An officer is hit by a car, and his partner is suspected of not giving him CPR, because the officer down is gay. The car in connection with the hit-and-run is traced to students performing lewd sexual acts without their victims' knowledge, then posting the videos on the internet.
Episode 20: Ten Thirty-Three
Mannion investigates of the murder of a young illegal immigrant leads to the discovery of a car theft ring run by a teenage gang that is selling cars as far away as El Salvador.
Episode 11: The Voice Inside
Episode 21: Open Season
Mannion's determination to crack down on gangs puts Noland in the line of fire where he's shot and critically wounded.
Episode 10: Hollow Spaces
Mannion is very disappointed when he finds that the 17-year old boy who got Ella's heart is involved in a robbery of a gas station that ended in the attendant's death. Temple's day turns very sour when the mayor decides to not pick up the court fees after the Lester Richards case. Meanwhile, Nancy and her mom are attacked by car jackers, or are they?
Episode 22: Something Borrowed, Something Bruised
Mannion investigates the murder of two young women, one of whom is identified as Debreno's sometime girlfriend, Maria.