Crime Desk: Arson (3/3)

With fire trucks still on site, Nicholson surveys the damage first hand.

Howard Hughes addresses the press about his revolutionary new aircraft, the "Hercules H-4".

Phelps grills Fred Nicholson for all he knows at the site of the explosion.

Phelps and Biggs have an unexpected meeting with retired LAPD officer Vernon Mapes.

Phelps surveys the devastation from the Nicholson explosion.

Crime Desk: Arson (2/3)

Cops bantering in the briefing room.

Phelps and Detective Herschel Biggs arrive at the scene.

The explosion took many casualties including several Nicholson employees.

Nicholson walks amongst the ruins of his factory.

Phelps and Nicholson discuss the case.

Crime Desk: Arson (1/3)

All it can take is a simple strike of a match – and an entire home, building, city block… livelihoods and lives can be destroyed forever.

Scary enough that such danger can teeter on an accidental mishap like a kitchen grease fire, or a misplaced candle... But terrifying when at the hands of an arsonist who creates this devastation with intent.

After LA's bravest have fought and quelled a fire – if the responding fire chief determines any cause for suspicion, the LAPD Arson Crime Desk is alerted and its detectives go to work meticulously examining the scene for clues.

As Detective Cole Phelps working the Arson desk, you will see firsthand the charred ruins, scorched corpses and anguished survivors that are the victims of this most heinous of crimes.

Head of the Arson desk, Captain Lachlan McKelty relays the grisly details of a new fire.

Thorough examination can turn up key pieces of evidence.

Phelps looks over the unfortunate victims.

One of L.A.'s bravest surveys the devastation.

Sifting through the wreckage of a devastating fire.

Crime Desk: Vice (2/2)

At the precinct, Phelps accepts Lieutenant Colmyer's wishes on a job well done.

Phelps and Earle pay a visit the Parnell Soup Co. to question its owner on some employees possible involvement in marijuana smuggling.

A suspicious late night shipment to the Parnell Soup Co.

An unusual coin found on the body of a dead drug dealer - could this be linked to other members of the drug ring?

Phelps examines a weapon in the aftermath of a shootout with local drug dealer, Juan Garcia Cruz.

Crime Desk: Vice (1/2)

Vice is a desk that can replace any officer's wide-eyed optimism - with hardened cynicism - in no time at all.

LAPD Vice detectives plunge themselves down into the seedy underbelly of LA, overturning the most decrepit of stones to expose the city's dregs, druggies, pimps, pushers, prostitutes, bootleggers, bookies, mob lords, thugs and gangsters. Working these cases will defy your worst and lowest expectations of humanity.

Cole Phelps 'graduates' to this department following a harrowing stint investigating murders on the Homicide desk, to find that things can indeed get even more vicious in LA. Among the crimes Phelps and his Vice partner Roy Earle will face are illicit gambling activity, the case of a missing boxer, and an investigation into the latest casualties in the dope scourge plaguing the city.

The switchblade - a favored weapon of the underworld's street thugs and hustlers.

A big fight in LA brings spectators of all kinds, from petty gamblers to powerful mobsters.

Illegal slot machines designed to take advantage of Los Angeles' gambling addicts.

In Hollywood, Phelps phones in to Central on a police phone, or "Gamewell".

Taking a witness statement at the 111 Club, where a shootout has occurred.

Crime Desk: Patrol (3/3)

Pipes and ladders can be climbed when necessary to inspect a site on a case.

Make good use of that flashlight when investigating crime scenes at night. Vital clues may lay hidden in the dark.

Phelps and Dunn patrol the area on a bright Los Angeles afternoon.

When on patrol, always be at the ready for emergency report calls.

Trying to determine whether a handgun can be traced back to this gunshop owner’s store.

Crime Desk: Patrol (2/3)

Homicide detectives Floyd Rose and Rusty Galloway ask the reporting patrolmen to help inspect the scene of the crime.

Danger lurks outside and inside Westlake Savings & Loans.

You will need to be a crack shot with that service issue pump shotgun.

In the case “Armed & Dangerous”, the bank robbery gunman refuse to go quietly.

Phelp’s patrol partner, rookie Officer Ralph Dunn.