Major Crimes Exclusive First Look: Meet Tao's Ex-Partner

Murder One and Boomtown star Jason Gedrick will guest-star on the final five episodes of the TNT drama's current season as Mark Hickman, the estranged ex-partner of Tao (Michael Paul Chan), and we've got your exclusive first look at the pivotal character above.

As we previously reported, the five episodes will tell one serialized story, as the team investigates a the connection between the present-day murder of a young woman and her 3-year-old son and a cold case murder of an off-duty cop and a deputy district attorney 12 years before.

[...] while Hickman has zero interest in working with Tao (Tao refused to back him up... [and] Hickman believes all the murders that happened afterwards are attributable to Mike Tao wanting to protect his pension, Duff says), he will enter into a off-the-books partnership with someone on the Major Crimes squad -- even though contact with Hickman has been expressly forbidden.