BBC America’s new series, Copper (Sundays, 10/9C), comes from the insanely talented duo of Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Homicide: Life on the Street) and Tom Fontana (Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz). It focuses on a young Irish immigrant cop, Detective Kevin Corcoran, in what is not just a procedural, but also a series that contrasts the lives of those who live in the lower lower class neighborhood of Five Points with those of the upper class on the right side of 5^th Avenue. The opening two-parter, which concludes this evening, deals with Corky’s continuing search for his wife and the man who murdered his daughter while trying to protect a young girl from the pedophile who killed her twin sister.

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