An aging Sheriff tries to keep the peace in Rome, Wisconsin, a small town plagued by bizarre and violent crimes.
The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.
Sheriff Brock and the rest of the town are in a uproar after a middle-aged woman kills her husband by running over him with a steam roller, and Wambaugh attempts to build a temporary-insanity plea around the premise that she was going through menopause.
Sheriff Brock is shot with an arrow in his buttock. Maxine suspects the serial killer called Cupid and places a personal ad to meet him.
When a local rabbi takes the entire public school to court for presenting a Christmas pageant to the town (the town of Rome happens to happens to be 50% Jewish), the repercussions reveal that a music teacher who refuses to obey Judge Bone's ruling not to bring on any more Christmas pageants isn't really who she seems to be.
Wambaugh hopes to win Miriam over again but her new charming boyfriend Hal stands in his way. Wambaugh gets suspicious of him when Hal suggests Miriam to let him invest her, Selma's and their friends' money.
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