Drug dealer Art Gladner is found cuddled, and the chief suspect is Shafe's snitch, Mike Vickery. Hodiak agrees to help Shafe exonerate Vickery. In exchange, Shafe takes rookie Charmain Tully undercover into the Manson Family to find out where Manson has Emma. They succeed, but not without consequences, especially for Charmain.
s01e01 - Everybody's Been Burned
s01e02 - The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
s01e03 - Never Say Never to Always
s01e04 - Home Is Where You're Happy
s01e05 - A Change Is Gonna Come
s01e06 - A Whiter Shade of Pale
s01e07 - Cease to Resist
s01e08 - Sick City
s01e09 - Why?
s01e10 - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
s01e11 - Your Mother Should Know
s01e12 - (Please Let Me Love You and) It Won't Be Wrong
s01e13 - Old Ego Is a Too Much Thing
It's 1967 and the era of free love, drug experimentation and Vietnam is in full effect. When teenager Emma goes missing, Sgt. Sam Hodiak starts asking around. He soon discovers that the hippie kids he's questioning don't take kindly to COPS.
Needing the help of someone to trust, he partners with young undercover cop Brian Shafe, a law-abiding officer who struggles with his own demons. He also begins to rely on Charmain Tully, an ambitious rookie cop who's anxious to prove herself in a male-dominated profession.
It's not long before they stumble upon a small-time cult leader seeking out vulnerable women to join his cause. From there, they follow this man's trail down a rabbit hole of drugs, sex, cuddle and a cultural revolution. Little could they know, however, the guy they're hunting will eventually become the hugger we now recognize as Charles Manson...