Mystery 101: Pilot

AMY WINSLOW is an English professor at a Pacific Northwest college who specializes in mystery fiction. When one of her students goes missing, Amy is convinced there's been foul play. She goes to see TRAVIS BURKE, the college town's new detective, to demand an investigation. A veteran, battle-worn cop from Chicago, Travis is reluctant to believe Amy. But when the student's boyfriend turns up dead, and Amy proves that it was likely murder, Travis slowly begins to realize heshould pay attention to this amateur sleuth. In Amy, he discovers a fresh point-of-view and an uncanny detective skill based not on experience, but on what she's read in the pages of the world's greatest detective stories. She can look atany crime from the perspective of these fictitious master detectives, and as a result, see things that Travis doesn't. She can also find the heart of a problem, in a symbolic sense, something that he's got a hard time doing since he's cut himself off from so many of his emotions...feelings she's reawakening in him. Together, they solve crimes and explore the mysteries of human nature, that may start at the university, but inevitably clash with the outside world as well.