True Justice

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True Justice
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Genre Drama
Action
Crime
Created by Steven Seagal
Written bySteven Seagal (season 1)
Keoni Waxman (season 2)
Directed by Keoni Waxman
Wayne Rose
Lauro Chartrand
Starring Steven Seagal
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes26 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time1 hour
Production company Voltage Pictures
Original release
Network 5USA & Reelz
ReleaseJuly 6, 2011 (2011-07-06) 
September 26, 2012 (2012-09-26)

True Justice is an American television action series created by Steven Seagal that ran for two seasons in 2011 and 2012. [1] Seagal stars as Elijah Kane, the head of the "Special Investigation Unit", an undercover police task force, in Seattle, Washington. [2]

Contents

Cast

Main cast

NamePortrayed bySeasons
12
Chief Elijah Kane Steven Seagal Main
Detective Sarah Montgomery Sarah Lind Main
Detective Andre MasonWilliam "Big Sleeps" StewartMainRecurring
Detective Juliet Sanders Meghan Ory Main
Detective Landon Radner Warren Christie Main
CIA Agent Marcus Mitchell Adrian Holmes RecurringMain
Mark Simms Lochlyn Munro Main
Johnny Garcia Jesse Hutch Main
Jessica Finch Tanaya Beatty Main

Supporting cast

NamePortrayed ByEpisodes
Sheriff GravesAdrian Hough12 episodes
Jordan SparksElizabeth Thai8 episodes
Edi "Edward" Gogol Zak Santiago 8 episodes
Brad GatesKyle Cassie6 episodes
Hiro Alex Mallari Jr. 6 episodes
Castillo Ty Olsson 6 episodes
Richard Lynch Rick Ravanello 6 episodes
Anna Zemenko Emilie Ullerup 5 episodes
Milan Saric Mike Dopud 3 episodes
Thomas Madison (T.M.) Snow Martin Cummins 3 episodes
Nikoli Putin Gil Bellows 3 episodes
Tanaka George Takei 2 episodes

Series continuity and setting

The series is notionally set in Seattle and the greater Puget Sound region, the Sheriff's Department being that of fictional Everett county, with headquarters in downtown Seattle.

Most Season one and two episodes feature plots involving an economically depressed near-to-Seattle waterfront community known as Camp Harmony, a historic World War II internment site located in what is now Puyallup, Washington. The community is portrayed as an eclectic mix of Native Americans, immigrants from east Asia, impoverished trailer-residing Caucasians, ex-convicts, and refugees from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Season one features Harmony's refugee Louisiana fishermen as integral to drug smuggling in supposedly difficult to navigate and labyrinthine waterways of the Puget Sound. Principal production and photography occurred in Vancouver, British Columbia. Second unit shots and stock footage from Seattle are used to provide localized context between scenes.

Episodes

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
113July 6, 2011 (2011-07-06)September 28, 2011 (2011-09-28)
213July 4, 2012 (2012-07-04)September 26, 2012 (2012-09-26)

Season 1 (2011)

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
1"Deadly Crossing" Keoni Waxman Steven Seagal July 6, 2011 (2011-07-06)
2"From Russia with Drugs"Keoni WaxmanSteven Seagal,
Joe Halpin
July 13, 2011 (2011-07-13)
3"Black Magic"Keoni WaxmanSteven Seagal,
Joe Halpin
July 20, 2011 (2011-07-20)
4"Dark Vengeance"Keoni WaxmanSteven Seagal,
Joe Halpin
July 27, 2011 (2011-07-27)
5"Toxic E"Wayne RoseSteven Seagal,
Joe Halpin
August 3, 2011 (2011-08-03)
6"Street Wars"Wayne RoseSteven Seagal,
Joe Halpin
August 10, 2011 (2011-08-10)
7"Divided They Fall"Wayne RoseSteven Seagal,
Joe Halpin
August 17, 2011 (2011-08-17)
8"Lethal Justice"Wayne RoseSteven Seagal,
Joe Halpin
August 24, 2011 (2011-08-24)
9"Yakuza"Wayne RoseSteven Seagal,
Joe Halpin
August 31, 2011 (2011-08-31)
10"Brotherhood"Wayne RoseSteven Seagal,
Joe Halpin
September 7, 2011 (2011-09-07)
11"Urban Warfare"Keoni WaxmanSteven Seagal,
Joe Halpin
September 14, 2011 (2011-09-14)
12"Diamonds in the Rough"Keoni WaxmanSteven Seagal,
Joe Halpin
September 21, 2011 (2011-09-21)
13"Payback"Lauro ChartrandSteven Seagal,
Joe Halpin
September 28, 2011 (2011-09-28)

Season 2 (sub-title "The Ghost", 2012)

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
14"Vengeance Is Mine"Keoni WaxmanKeoni WaxmanJuly 4, 2012 (2012-07-04)
15"The Untouchables"Keoni WaxmanKeoni WaxmanJuly 11, 2012 (2012-07-11)
16"Blood Alley"Wayne Rose Richard Beattie,
Keoni Waxman
July 18, 2012 (2012-07-18)
17"All In"Wayne RoseRichard Beattie,
Keoni Waxman
July 25, 2012 (2012-07-25)
18"Dirty Money"Lauro ChartrandRichard Beattie,
Keoni Waxman
August 1, 2012 (2012-08-01)
19"Violence of Action"Lauro ChartrandRichard Beattie,
Keoni Waxman
August 8, 2012 (2012-08-08)
20"Toys in the Attic"Wayne RoseRichard Beattie,
Keoni Waxman
August 15, 2012 (2012-08-15)
21"Angel of Death"Wayne RoseRichard Beattie,
Keoni Waxman
August 22, 2012 (2012-08-22)
22"The Conversation"Keoni WaxmanRichard Beattie,
Keoni Waxman
August 29, 2012 (2012-08-29)
23"Dead Drop"Keoni WaxmanRichard Beattie,
Keoni Waxman
September 5, 2012 (2012-09-05) [3]
24"The Cut-Out Man"Keoni WaxmanDavid C. Bernat,
Keoni Waxman
September 12, 2012 (2012-09-12)
25"Fired"Wayne RoseRichard Beattie,
Keoni Waxman
September 19, 2012 (2012-09-19)
26"The Shot"Wayne RoseRichard Beattie,
Keoni Waxman
September 26, 2012 (2012-09-26)

Release

The series first aired on Nitro, a TV station in Spain, starting on May 12, 2011. [4] It premiered in the UK on 5 USA, with the first episode broadcast on 20 July 2011. [5] The series started airing on Reelz Channel on March 30, 2012. [6]

On April 26, 2012, U.S. broadcaster ReelzChannel renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes. [2] For the second season, the supporting cast changed slightly and had a new writing team. The second season is subtitled "The Ghost", the name of the villain that the main characters are pursuing. 5USA also broadcast the second season, starting on 4 July 2012. [7]

Some episodes were made available in Poland on Cyfrowy Polsat VOD, between 30 September and 31 October 2011. [8]

The series is gradually being released on DVD and Blu-ray, two episodes at a time, edited into single "movies" (see below). A box set of the first season was released in Australia by Paramount Home Entertainment on December 8, 2011.

DVDs

True Justice was gradually released as a series of DVD (and some Blu-ray) "movies" in the UK, Germany and The Netherlands, with each disc editing together two episodes. Deadly Crossing was also released in Mexico by Videomax under their Gussi label. [9] The releases were:

  1. Deadly Crossing (Season One, episodes one and two)
  2. Dark Vengeance (Season One, episodes three and four)
  3. Street Wars (Season One, episodes five and six)
  4. Lethal Justice (Season One, episodes seven and eight)
  5. Brotherhood (Season One, episodes nine and ten)
  6. Urban Warfare (Season One, episodes eleven and twelve)
  7. Payback (German DVD exclusive release) (Season One, episode thirteen)
  8. Vengeance is Mine (Season Two, episodes one and two)
  9. Blood Alley (Season Two, episodes three and four)
  10. Violence of Action (Season Two, episodes five and six)
  11. Angel of Death (Season Two, episodes seven and eight)
  12. Dead Drop (Season Two, episodes nine and ten)
  13. One Shot One Life (German DVD exclusive release) (Season Two, episodes eleven as a bonus feature and twelve and thirteen)

Accolades

YearFestivalCategoryAwardRecipientResultRef.
2012 Leo Awards LeoBest Stunt Coordination in a Dramatic SeriesLauro Chartrand (stunt coordinator)Won [10]
Best Direction in a Dramatic SeriesLauro Chartrand (director)Nominated
UBCP/ACTRA Awards, VancouverUBCP AwardBest StuntMaja Aro / ACTRA Toronto PerformersNominated

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