Unlike Patricia Arquette, he doesn't dream the future. Unlike Elisha Dushku, he doesn't see ghosts from the morgue. Unlike Jennifer Love Hewitt, he doesn't whisper to ghosts. Unlike Joan of Arcadia, he doesn't see God in everyday people. Unlike Coach Taylor on Friday Night Lights, he doesn't get tomorrow's newspaper today. And unlike Paulie Walnuts, he doesn't see a statue of the Virgin Mary on the stripper stage.
No, he's eccentric, ultra-cerebral Jeff Goldblum playing eccentric, ultra-cerebral Detective Raines, and what he sees are products of his imagination that help him solve murders.
Eccentric LAPD Detective Michael Raines (Goldblum) uses his unique imagination to focus on every murder case in such a way that the murder victims actually begin to take shape in front of him. At first, he thinks he's losing his mind, but he then uses the constantly evolving hallucinations -- which are figments of his imagination and not ghosts -- to help him discover the victims' killers. Raines struggles to accept this peculiar gift -- or burden -- and reconcile it with his daily life.
Also prominent in Raines' life are his understanding boss, Captain Daniel Lewis (Matt Craven, "From the Earth to the Moon"); an antagonistic uniformed officer, Remi Boyer (Dov Davidoff, "Third Watch"); Boyer's long-suffering partner, Officer Michelle Lance (Linda Park, "Star Trek: Enterprise"); sharp-tongued civilian employee, Carolyn Crumley (Nicole Sullivan, "MADtv"); his former partner, Charlie Lincoln (Malik Yoba, "Thief"); and therapist, Samantha Kohl (Madeleine Stowe, "The Last of the Mohicans," "We Were Soldiers").
REMEMBER: THEY ARE NOT GHOSTS!!! THEY ARE FIGMENTS OF HIS IMAGINATION!! NOT GHOSTS! NOT GHOSTS! THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS SHOW ORIGINAL!!!
And sad. Poor Jeff. I would have respected him more if the show was about a detective who could turn into a fly and thus snoop at will in suspects' homes without being eaten by frogs.
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