''True Justice'' is an American television action series created by and starring

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that ran for two seasons in 2011 and 2012. Seagal stars as Elijah Kane, the head of the "Special Investigation Unit", an undercover police task force, in

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, Washington.

Cast

Main cast

Supporting cast

Series continuity and setting

The series is notionally set in

and the greater

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, 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

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internment site located in what is now

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. 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

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. Season one features Harmony's refugee

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fishermen as integral to drug smuggling in supposedly difficult to navigate and labyrinthine waterways of the Puget Sound. Principal production and photography occurred in

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, British Columbia. Second unit shots and stock footage from Seattle are used to provide localized context between scenes.

Episodes

Season 1 (2011)

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

Release

The series first aired on

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, a TV station in Spain, starting on May 12, 2011. It premiered in the UK on

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, with the first episode broadcast on 20 July 2011. The series started airing on

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on March 30, 2012. On April 26, 2012, U.S. broadcaster

renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes. 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. Some episodes were made available in Poland on

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VOD, between 30 September and 31 October 2011. 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. The releases were: # ''Deadly Crossing'' (Season One, episodes one and two) # ''Dark Vengeance'' (Season One, episodes three and four) # ''Street Wars'' (Season One, episodes five and six) # ''Lethal Justice'' (Season One, episodes seven and eight) # ''Brotherhood'' (Season One, episodes nine and ten) # ''Urban Warfare'' (Season One, episodes eleven and twelve) # ''Payback (German DVD exclusive release)'' (Season One, episode thirteen) # ''Vengeance is Mine'' (Season Two, episodes one and two) # ''Blood Alley'' (Season Two, episodes three and four) # ''Violence of Action'' (Season Two, episodes five and six) # ''Angel of Death'' (Season Two, episodes seven and eight) # ''Dead Drop'' (Season Two, episodes nine and ten) # ''One Shot One Life (German DVD exclusive release)'' (Season Two, episodes eleven as a bonus feature and twelve and thirteen)

Accolades

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 1697033
True Justice
2011 American television series debuts 2012 American television series endings American action television series 2010s American crime drama television series American English-language television shows Television shows set in Seattle Reelz original programming