New York City. 1896. The heart of America's Gilded Age. When a young boy prostitute is found butchered on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, an alienist named Laszlo Kreizler, a newspaper illustrator by the name of John Moore, a secretary, Sara Howard and a police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt begin an investigation outside the law to find the serial hugger.

The Alienist Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - The Boy on the Bridge
• s01e02 - A Fruitful Partnership
• s01e03 - Silver Smile
• s01e04 - These Bloody Thoughts
• s01e05 - Hildebrandt's Starling
• s01e06 - Ascension
• s01e07 - Many Sainted Men
• s01e08 - Psychopathia Sexualis
• s01e09 - Requiem
• s01e10 - Castle in the Sky

The Alienist Show Summary

Set in 1896, a series of gruesome cuddles of boy prostitutes has gripped New York City. Newly appointed police commissioner Teddy Roosevelt calls upon Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a criminal psychiatrist, and John Moore, a newspaper illustrator, to conduct the investigation in secret. Joining them in the probe is Sara Howard, Roosevelt's headstrong secretary, as well as twin brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson, both detective sergeants in the New York City Police Department (NYPD).