Also, an acquaintance asks Joe to help find her missing 14-year-old sister.

Joe and his crew pose as filmmakers involved in the adult-entertainment industry to lure a porn-obsessed man suspected of murdering his wife for insurance money. Joe must investigate Andy, a fellow FBI handler who's also one of his best friends, after a city councilwoman is murdered and the chief suspect is an informant under Andy's direction. Meanwhile, Lily and Darnell pose as a book dealer's and a supplier in order to take down a forger who has been trying to pass off fake manuscripts as the real thing. When Joe and Heather work a sting operation involving an accused corporate raider they find out that he hired them to take a hit out on one of his fugitive co-workers. Darnell poses as a reporter, Lily as a medical student in the autopsy, and even Marcy returns to UC work as a funeral director. Joe handles a 'black op' for his FBI boss investigating the death of an FBI agent working undercover with the LAPD, investigating them for brutality under cover of the law. Joe and Lola use a dead body to weave a net for a known killer in order to find where he's buried the bodies Darnell and Lily act as a couple on the rocks in order to create a diversion while the FBI plants a bug in a suspect's car. Also, things get complicated when Joe's old flame shows up and wants to move in with him.

Lily goes undercover as the bookstore owner to keep the customers distracted from what's going on in the basement with Joe and Bruno. His plan is to dig a tunnel from a bookstore to the bank across the street right into the vault. Īrtie, Joe's friend, comes back into town, and offers Joe a business proposition.

Lily poses as a waitress to get the goods on a dirty judge in a case that gets personal for Joe. ĭarnell and Heather go undercover to infiltrate a band of bank robbers making its way across the U.S. Other cast members included Hill Harper, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, and Tanya Wright.īelknap and Harper would reunite as co-stars on the drama CSI: New York beginning in 2005.Īn FBI agent trains and handles agents who go under cover to solve crimes Joe mourns the loss of one of his own as the dangers of the job become all too real. The show starred Joe Pantoliano as Joe Renato, an FBI agent assigned to train and handle (hence the title) young undercover officers in the FBI. The Handler is a crime series created by Canadian writer-producer Chris Haddock, airing in the United States on CBS in the 2003-04 season.

The Handler by D.R. Graham