 Paul Gigante (Giancarlo Esposito, Do the Right Thing) leaves the FBI to be a detective for the rural Bakersfield, California P.D. But the sophisticated Gigante has more trouble trading opera for the Bakersfield Sound, than he imagined. To his bored fellow officers, especially not-so-good old boy Denny Boyer (Chris Mulkey, Twin Peaks), the professional, dedicated city slicker s way harder to figure out than the most diabolical cow-napping.