The Closer is an American television police procedural, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief. The theme for Season Seven is love and loss. It opens with Chief Delk beginning to establish his hierarchy as Brenda and the LAPD are sued by Turell Baylor’s family, while MCD investigates a rapper killed in his home along with his party guests. At a meeting announcing his changes to the department, Delk suddenly collapses and dies from a brain aneurism.