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About THE CLEANER & Episode Guides

About THE CLEANER & Episode Guides

Sometimes your only hope is someone who's been there before

The Cleaner Aired From July 15, 2008 - September 15, 2009 On A&E.



About the Show:
From the creator of the Emmy Award winning series American Dreams The cleaner tells the story of William Banks. He's a recovering addict who struggles to maintain his own rocky personal life while he helps others get clean by any means necessary. William works with an eclectic group, and together… More they bring addicts of all kinds to the point where they are ready and willing to get help and begin the difficult process of getting clean. With every success and every failure, William must confront his own demons through his unusual relationship with God. He's a man caught between a deep love for his family, an unwavering commitment to his work, and the ghosts of his own addictions. This show is based on the real life story of Warren Boyd, one of the co-executive producers. The theme music is "Follow That Sound" performed by Sharon Little.

Cast:

Actor’s Name

Character’s Name

Benjamin BrattWilliam Banks
Grace ParkAkani Cuesta
Esteban PowellArnie Swenton
Brett DelBuonoBen Banks
Liliana MumyLula Banks


SOURCES: tv.com, IMDb

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Season 1



1. Pilot
William Banks, an addict-turned-interventionist, is asked by a teenager to save his cousin who has been spiraling out of control since the death of his father. But a mother with blinders on, and a theft ring, complicate the rescue. Elsewhere, William's best friend and fellow addict deals with some devastating news that challenges his sobriety.

2. Rag Dolls
Still struggling to understand his tragedy, William agrees to double his cases while shepherding a rock star through rehab because a mother knows something's wrong, but her daughter's drug tests remain clean. The team's investigation leads to a missing girl, but the reason is unexpected and may be too late for the client's daughter.

3. Meet the Joneses
William agrees to help a lawyer whose wife has turned to drugs after giving up her career for the suburbs, but first they have to break her supply ring. Meanwhile, Darnell worries about starting a new relationship. At home, Ben's attitude worsens and Melissa asks for personal time.

4. Chaos Theory
A mathematics professor uses cocaine to help him publish his research in time. His girlfriend and colleague requests William's help. William tries to stop the professor before he loses everything--his career, personal life, and even his immigrant parents' diner. Meanwhile, William's son discovers a used needle in their house after a dinner party. William realizes that the needle belongs to his former sponsor and must decide whether to cut his sponsor out of his life.

5. Here Comes the Boom
William's guilt about a badly planned intervention and its fallout makes him put Swenton and himself in danger when they try to rescue a man for his son. At home, Ben takes a stand about his life, throwing the family into turmoil.

6. To Catch a Fed
Banks has to rescue an addicted FBI agent or risk one of his team, but a planned raid leaves them with no surveillance time or a plan. Elsewhere, Ben has left home and taken sanctuary with someone chosen to hurt William.

7. House of Pain
A principal asks for Banks' assistance with a student whose father is refusing all help or to acknowledge the problem, and William takes extreme measures to capture both their attention before it's too late. Meanwhile, Ben is still battling with William and refusing to come home.

8. Let It Ride
Saul, an old friend of William's, asks him to look into the drug use of a jockey, but it's quickly clear that the man is addicted to more than the drugs that keep his weight competitive. Elsewhere, Melissa and William work on breaking their dry spell, and a friend presses her about her future.

9. The Eleventh Hour
William has a crisis of faith when one of the first in his profession criticizes his methods, all whilst searching for a woman lost during a botched intervention.

10. Rebecca
When a mother stonewalls all attempts to deal with her daughter's meth addiction, William must intervene in the family's problems before the young pianist can be saved.

11. Back to One
A cocaine habit derails a would-be actress' chance for a career until her brother asks for William's assistance. Elsewhere, Swenton disappears, leaving a worried Akani following his trail.

12. Five Little Words
William rescues a team member, while the others go undercover at a sorority house to get information about a drug dealer.

13. Lie With Me
William devises an extreme intervention when a couple's alcoholism endangers their daughter.

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Season 2



1. Hello America
An old friend who's a program member asks for Banks' help to get her husband clean again. However, the case is complicated because he's a newscaster with a drug clause in his contract, and in the midst of a rescue that must be completely confidential Banks finds he's dealing with his old sponsor and personal issues that affect both him and his client. Elsewhere, Melissa asks a favor that puts him back in his home for the dubious pleasure of being grilled by his in-laws.

2. Last American Casualty
A weekend with Ben turns into a busman's holiday when William must deal with two alcoholics.

3. The Projectionist
Still reeling from his separation, William decides to detox a pregnant woman at his safe house, rather than utilizing a hospital, a decision he may come to regret.

4. Does Everybody Have a Drink?
William tries to help a celebrity beat her addiction to drugs.

5. Split Ends
Sisters find that they may be linked by more than twinship when they try to achieve sobriety separately. At home, a friend of William's cuts a path of mayhem and destruction as he tempts a recovering addict with her drug of choice and crosses way over a boundary with Melissa.

6. The Things We Didn't Plan
It's a busy week for the team, involving a risky grab of an armed client, an alcoholic father traveling with his daughter, cleaning up a policeman's son and a homeless woman.

7. An Ordinary Man
William takes on a case brought to him by a hospital executive after he receives an anonymous tip that nurses and doctors on staff may be using drugs.

8. The Turtle & the Butterfly
While attempting to recover an addict from jail William encounters a teenager who has hitched his fate to that of the drug lord for whom he runs drugs.

9. Path of Least Resistance
William finds a very personal trigger when a new age guru, cashing in on the self-help craze, turns to William for help with her addict son.

10. Cinderella
William weighs protecting Lula and their relationship or putting her face-to-face with the downfall of one of her idols when he decides whether to take the case of a ballerina.

11. Standing Eight
Although the job is to clean up a boxer before his next match, William finds that the biggest risk to the man's sobriety is close to home.

12. Crossing the Threshold
William and the team take a complex case involving a drug dealer's daughter, endangering both the team and William's family.

13. Trick Candles
An old friend turns to Banks for help as William closes in on his seven-year birthday. Meanwhile, PK's planned celebration of the event may not go as she'd like.

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