Earl's engaged to his step-sister Baby. Baby has entrusted him to take care of her misfit cousin Junior. Baby is also intent on leaving Texas for LA on Tuesday. When Junior and his recently released ex-con friend Tinker rob a pizza delivery boy and end up with $20,000 of drug money Earl is forced onto the scene, giving up his and Baby's LA money to save Juniors limbs.

该剧由来自《迷失》的制片人组合J.J. Abrams和Bryan Burk打造。 纽约地铁上，几个小混混无端挑衅一个衣着褴褛的流浪汉，却不想被他狠狠收拾了一顿，众人全部被带回警局。警官卡特（塔拉吉·P·汉森 Taraji P. Henson 饰）对这个神秘的流浪汉充满兴趣，正当调查处一丝线索，不想流浪汉竟然被人保释。原来流浪汉是一个曾经接受过中央情报局特殊训练的特工里瑟（詹姆斯·卡维泽 James Caviezel 饰），而保释他的则是拥有无限的财富的富翁芬奇（迈克尔·爱默生 Michael Emerson 饰）。芬奇曾为政府研发了一种可识别罪犯犯罪意识的程序，却被政府认为大材小用而关闭了一部分程序。而现在芬奇希望借助里瑟的能力和这一套程序进行“法外执法”，维持正义、制止犯罪......