Homicide Detective Jo Ortiz is close to the tipping point. She's a good cop, but for the last five years she's stood by as her male colleagues have nabbed the special assignments.
Jo knows she's not an easy person to be around. She's combative and rigid at times. But she's put in the work and knows she's capable and that she's as good as any police "man".
Jo's an out lesbian, which may have created stress with Lutz when his wife left him for a woman. She's completely open about her sexuality, and has been since she was five. But she's no different from the other cops – she cheats on her wife too.
Jo loves her partner Lutz like a brother, and that's why it stings when she sees him under the spell of this Daisy Channing. Sure she's hot, but she's not telling him half of what she knows and it's beginning to mess her shit up. And that can't happen.
