WARNER BROS. TELEVISION MEDIA DEPOT

In this gritty new character-driven drama from Greg Berlanti (Everwood, Dirty Sexy Money, Political Animals) and Emmy® winner Nicholas Wootton (Chuck, NYPD Blue), a young, ambitious police officer rises quickly within the New York Police Department -- perhaps through questionable methods -- after becoming a celebrated hero in the line of duty. Theo James stars as the confident and driven Walter William Clark, Jr., who barters his way to being a detective with one of the City's premier homicide task forces. Clark's new partner is Detective Don Owen, a lifer cop with two years until retirement; Clark's off-the-cuff methods make Owen nervous, and they don't sit well with the other alpha dog in the squad room, Detective Arroyo, whose bald ambition is hard to ignore. Each episode flashes forward seven years to the future when Clark, the seeming golden boy, has become the youngest police commissioner New York City has ever seen and, just as quickly, it flashes back, outlining in chalk the paths Clark has traveled in his swift climb to the top. With good guys and bad guys, what does it take to be a golden boy?