Who the heck...

Frank Kohanek is an experienced, tough, smart San Francisco homicide detective. A passionate, deeply caring man whose wife committed suicide some years ago. He battles the despair some cops feel at the hopelessness of fighting an unstoppable tide of crime. His loneliness and frustration are only compounded by the knowledge he gains of the Kindred - a distinct species living in his city's midst, the knowledge of which he can share with no one. Frank finds himself living in the world of night. His life amongst the Kindred and their existential existence is something akin to Alice falling down the rabbit hole.

Frank begins the series as a sworn enemy of Julian's, wanting only to destroy him. But this attitude evolves over the course of the first few episodes into a realization that the Kindred are a part of nature, they have been for eons, and they can't and shouldn't be totally exterminated. As a cop, Frank thus becomes a hunter of bad Kindred, not just any Kindred - a crusader against crime, whether Kindred or human...