City on a Hill — Season 1, Episode 3: If Only the Fool Would Persist in His Folly

Episode synopsis

Jackie searches for his absent informant as Jenny searches for purpose, revisiting her passion to become a teacher. Decourcy works up a plan to overcome the town's infamous "Code of Silence" and get a few suspects to talk. Minogue is assigned a big case, but not the one he actually cares about. Jimmy skips town to visit his kids and finds that, even a thousand miles away, he's not safe from his problems back home.

About City on a Hill

In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice
• E2What They Saw in Southie High
• E4The Wickedness of the Wicked Shall Be Upon Himself
• E5From Injustice Came the Way to Describe Justice
• E6It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
• E7There Are No F**king Sides
• E8High on the Looming Gallows Tree
• E9The Deaf Sage of Pompeii
• E10Mayor Curley and the Last Hurrah