Picket Fences - Season 1

Murder has come to Rome,Wisconsin! 

The small town of Rome, Wisconsin gets more excitement than it can handle when a famous rock band hits town just after the Tin Man is murdered during a production of "The Wizard of Oz."

Max's persistence at solving the case of a serial kidnapper leads to a dispute with the FBI.

A circus midget wins sympathy with an animal-cruelty suit while a teacher with a brain tumor is forgotten.

Brock takes a stand on ethics and the fate of Rome when the town's mayoral race opens up a Pandora's box of under-the-table dealings.

Is Frank the potato man guilty of serial bathing? Rome struggles with misleading stereotypes and sexual harassment.

Questions arise about a woman's death 10 years earlier, and Maxine investigates the possibility of murder instead of suicide.

Kenny boxes with a former middleweight champ while Jill comes out fighting as a candidate for mayor.

Jill and Zack discover an elderly woman dead and the evidence points to a mercy killing. Did a nun do the deed?

Jill's father brings along a much younger love interest on his Thanksgiving visit. Meanwhile, Wambaugh catches his wife cheating, and Kenny and Max share dinner.

Brock and his team must read the fine print when a young wife's death could lead to a sizable insurance payoff for either her husband or her sister.

Rome's Christmas pageant at a public school is ruled a violation of separation of church and state but another controversy unfolds with the arrest of a teacher.

The Brock family returns from a Christmas Eve outing with plans to surprise Kimberly, but they're in for the real surprise.

Unnerved when Kenny is shot during the investigation of a store break-in, Max botches the arrest of the prime suspect.

When a woman is charged with killing the husband she is about to divorce, Wambaugh attempts to build a temporary insanity plea based on menopause.

When a school friend gets pregnant, Kimberly tells her parents she thinks it resulted from incest.

A dentist who hasn't disclosed his HIV infection has the town up in arms; Kenny takes flak for dating twins.

Maxine recognizes the MO of a serial killer when she gets an odd response to a personal ad.

Jill calls on her ex-fiancé, a leading neurosurgeon, to perform a fetal-tissue transplant that could cure a patient's Parkinson's disease.

Carter's autopsy of a body reveals radiation scars (and cancer), leading him to believe that the man had witnessed a spaceship crash.

Native Americans protesting a golf-course development on a burial ground take over the courthouse.

Matthew discovers that Kimberly has kissed a girl; Maxine and Kenny compete for the post of undersheriff.

Jill is frustrated when a blues vocalist takes ill and fails to appreciate medicine's ability to keep her alive.