Kate Brasher

Season

2001

USA

7.1

The show follows a young single mother raising two high school-age boys in Los Angeles while juggling multiple minimum-wage jobs. Masterson's character is stiffed on a paycheck and subsequently referred to a local nonprofit advocacy center for help in making her employer pay up. Intrigued by the agency's cases, she winds up with a job as a case worker for them.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Kate

Kate finds herself on the verge of getting evicted from her apartment and fired from one of her jobs. Daniel gets into trouble when he loses a $300 dollar sports wager trying to help his mother come up with the rent money.

S1 • E2

Simon

Kate is faced with having to help a artistically talented young boy who the school wants to put on a calming drug. Brother's keeper has a lady working off community service starting out as a nuisance, but finally saves the day.

S1 • E3

Jeff

Joe and Hannah, a Brothers Keepers volunteer, are both shot by a 12-year-old boy. Following the attack, Joe must make the difficult decision to help keep the boy from being tried as an adult. Kate intervenes in a case of gay spousal abuse.

S1 • E4

Jackson

Kate begins to help Jackson Turner, an exonerated death row inmate, get back on his feet. Joe runs for city council.

S1 • E5

Tracy

Kate gets her first case, a mother who has turned her life around and wants her children back, but Kate doesn't think the woman is ready for the responsibility.

S1 • E6

Georgia

Kate is assigned to go out and inform runaway teenagers about Brothers Keepers and a shelter for runaways called Grove House. Kate encounters Georgia, who plans to camp out illegally, but Kate talks her into going to Grove House.