Taxi Brooklyn

Taxi Brooklyn Information

Taxi Brooklyn is a French-American action-comedy police procedural television series, produced by EuropaCorp Television. The series stars Chyler Leigh and Jacky Ido, and is based upon the film Taxi written by Luc Besson.

Synopsis

Caitlin "Cat" Sullivan is an NYPD detective working in Brooklyn. After her driving privileges are suspended, she relies on Leo Romba, a Brooklyn cab driver from France. Leo becomes Cat's driver and a de facto consultant on her cases. While solving crimes with Leo, Cat is also running her own unauthorized investigation into the death of her father, an NYPD detective thought to have been executed by the Capella crime family. In doing so, she clashes with her boss, Captain Baker, and her ex-husband Gregg, who has picked up the case for the FBI.

Cast

Main

Chyler Leigh as Caitlin "Cat" Sullivan
Jacky Ido as Leo Romba
James Colby as Captain John Baker
Jos Ziga as Eddie Esposito
Jennifer Esposito as Dr. Monica Pena
Bill Heck as Gregg James
Ally Walker as Frankie Sullivan
Raul Casso as Ronnie

Recurring

Luke Roberts as Rhys
Caterina Murino as Giada

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date (France)	U.S. air date	French viewers (million)	U.S. viewers (million)
AltDate=	ShortSummary= Detective Cat Sullivan's boss suspends her driving privileges after a pursuit leads to a crash and a minor injury to Esposito, her current partner. She is also removed from the bank robbery case that led to the crash and the arrest of a taxi driver named Leo, thought to be an accessory to the crimes. Making matters worse, her FBI agent ex-husband, Gregg, takes over the case. Leo convinces Cat of his innocence, and offers to drive her around during her suspension. The two thwart another hit by the same crew, while Cat is also able to make headway in the cold case surrounding the mysterious death of her father, a former NYPD detective.	Viewers=5.37	Aux4=5.34	LineColor=FFCC00 }}	AltDate=	ShortSummary= Cat and Leo try to locate Ian, the hard-partying son of wealthy handbag designer Sasha Lowenthal, when he goes missing. After Ian is found dead, several Lowenthal family secrets become uncovered. Elsewhere, Leo is betrayed and is found to have lied on his immigration forms. Cat tries to work a deal to keep him from being deported. Cat is told she must become Leo's sponsor, and that she is 100% responsible for keeping him out of trouble.	Viewers=4.7	Aux4=5.24	LineColor=FFCC00 }}	AltDate=	ShortSummary= Josef Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor that Leo had given rides to regularly, winds up dead. Cat and Leo find $10,000 cash in Josef's apartment with instructions for his burial arrangements, meaning he knew he was going to be killed. Further investigation shows the Capella crime family, also thought to be responsible in the death of Cat's father, may be involved. Cat visits Anabella Capella, her childhood friend and the daughter of a "good apple" in the family. While there, Cat verbally clashes with Annabella's cousin Luke, who taunts her about her father. Cat meets with Gregg to see if an investigation has been opened on her father's murder. He can't reveal details, but he confirms there is an investigation and that it appears Internal Affairs is dragging its feet, possibly in a cover-up attempt. Later, Gregg is able to confirm to Cat that Luke did not order the hit on her father. Instead, he has solid evidence that Annabella became the new "godfather" of the family shortly after Cat's father shot Tommy Capella.	Viewers=3.7	Aux4=4.62	LineColor=FFCC00 }}	AltDate=	ShortSummary= Cat, Esposito and Pena investigate the shooting death of a foster mom, called a "saint" by her neighbors because she has taken in kids from the system that nobody else wants. The case gets complicated when the most reliable witness to the crime, a 10-year old boy, goes missing and Cat and Leo must track him down. It turns out the mom and her husband are nothing like their outward appearances. Cat reveals to a disbelieving Captain Baker that she suspects her childhood friend Annabella is now heading up the crime family that killed her father. She also receives more mysterious texts about her life being in danger because she knows too much. When she reveals this to Gregg, he wants to put her in protective custody, which she refuses.	Viewers=4.78	Aux4=4.73	LineColor=FFCC00 }}	AltDate=	ShortSummary= While in the cab, Cat and Leo witness a prison transport van being cornered and disabled. During a shoot-out, two prisoners are killed, but four others escape after Cat takes on the attackers. Cat discovers that the only witness to her father's murder is among the escapees, so she assumes the Capella family ordered the ambush. It turns out that a Russian crime boss is after a different prisoner, but Cat must still try to locate the witness to keep her out of harm's way. Meanwhile, Cat sets up Captain Baker on a date with Frankie, but unknown to her the two had already been dating.	Viewers=4.3	Aux4=5.60	LineColor=FFCC00 }}	AltDate=	ShortSummary= The wife of a stalker/killer who had once targeted Cat turns up dead. It looks like the killer's M.O., but he is in prison. Suspicion falls on the killer's brother, who had been witnessed at the wife's home several times. Cat and Leo visit the man in Sing Sing, and he insists that neither his wife nor his brother would turn on him. Cat learns from Mae, the prosecutor in the original case, that the wife had filed a lawsuit against Cat for entrapment, which means she benefits from the woman's death. Cat then tells Leo she had received regular letters from a "fan" who praised her for capturing the stalker, but she had quit reading them after a while. The two catch up on the letters and find a pattern that leads them to believe the most recent killings were done by someone who was in the courtroom during the original hearings. The latest letter suggests the fan plans to kill Cat, then kill himself/herself. The fan turns out to be Mae, who locks Cat in a cage. Mae stabs Leo as he tries to rescue Cat, then slices her own throat. Cat manages to get Leo to the hospital in time to save his life.	Viewers=3.4	Aux4=5.25	LineColor=FFCC00 }}	AltDate=	ShortSummary= After a young father-to-be named Alan dies of an apparent suicide, Monica tells Cat that suicide was not possible, but the man was instead murdered. Monica later reveals that Alan is one of three men whose recent deaths suggest homicide, and that they are all in their 20s and "gifted" anatomically. When the three are found to have all been on the same gigilo website and that an older woman named Jeanette was a common client, Leo is used as bait to entrap this apparent black widow. Later, it is found that a very much alive college student named Diego was the real client of Jeanette's, and that his roommate was mistakenly killed. Diego had started blackmailing Jeanette's billionaire defense contractor husband, and he had ordered the killings of all his wife's recent suitors, not knowing where the blackmail letters were coming from. Leo is ultimately put in danger, along with Esposito when he tries to intervene. Elsewhere, Cat has her first date with Rhys, but it ends uncomfortably.	Viewers=5.03	Aux4=5.23	LineColor=FFCC00 }}	AltDate=	ShortSummary= Following up on reports of a dead body in a dumpster, Cat and Leo investigate only to have the man spring to life, steal a car, and crash it. Before he dies, the man spews some seemingly disconnected words and phrases, which Cat and the other detectives try to make sense of. Monica reveals that the man died of a virus that must have been weaponized. Together with other clues, the team determines that the virus will be unleashed in a wide-spread area within the next 24 hours. Connecting this case to a secret wedding between an Iranian woman and a French-Jew man, the team discovers at the last minute that a flower vendor is delivering the virus in a traditional bridal egg. Cat and Esposito arrive just in time to see the vendor drop the egg off a roof where the wedding ceremony is about to take place, leaving Leo to save the day. Meanwhile, Leo acts jealous upon meeting Rhys for the first time.	Viewers=4.86	Aux4=4.94	LineColor=FFCC00 }}	AltDate=	ShortSummary= A woman named Frederica is shot while leaving a restaurant, just as Leo lets Frankie out of the cab nearby. Frankie recognizes the woman as a maid from El Salvador who works in her building. After interviewing Frederica as she recovers in the hospital, Leo is convinced she is involved in the drug trade. This seems to be confirmed when the detectives find a connection to a local dry cleaner who is known for laundering money, and the dry cleaner is later shot by a man matching the description of the restaurant shooter. Gregg gets orders "from above" to back off the case, later telling Cat at their dinner spot that the orders came from the CIA. The two spend the night together, which Cat regrets in the morning. After interviewing a neighbor in Frederica's building, a man who has raised a Venezuelan boy as his own, Cat and Leo also discover that Frederica was a detective in Venezuela, who had legally changed her name upon coming from the U.S. They also find that Frederica lost her parents in a car crash, but her brother who was also in the car was never found. The neighbor turns out to be a CIA agent who stole the boy when his wife couldn't have children, and his bodyguard has been doing the shootings. Frederica is reunited with her brother for the first time since the two were very young. Elsewhere, Cat has a hard time seeing Captain Baker and Frankie show their affection in public.	Viewers=4.62	Aux4=4.60	LineColor=FFCC00 }}	AltDate=	ShortSummary=	Viewers=4.2	Aux4=4.42	LineColor=FFCC00 }}	AltDate=	ShortSummary=	Viewers=4.57	Aux4=5.26	LineColor=FFCC00 }} </ref>	DirectedBy=Grard Krawczyk	WrittenBy=TBA	OriginalAirDate=	AltDate=	ShortSummary=	Viewers=4.1	Aux4=TBA	LineColor=FFCC00 }}

Broadcast

Taxi Brooklyn premiered in Belgium on March 21, 2014, on La Deux, and in France on April 14, 2014, on TF1. In the United States, the series premiered on June 25, 2014, on NBC.

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes has a critic's consensus rating of 38%

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