“Murder in the First,” the latest Steven Bochco-created detective drama, has come back for its second season on TNT, and jumped right back into all the action with Terry English (Taye Diggs) and Hildy Mulligan (Kathleen Robertson) now on a manhunt.

As described on TNT's site, in Episode 2 of Season 2, “Schizofrenzy,” tensions will mount as the search the detectives are engaged in turns out to be much harder than expected while Terry will have to deal with some unexpected stress as he is promoted to acting lieutenant.

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, TV legend Steven Bochco, whose past prime time successes include a slew of shows like “Hill Street Blues,” “L.A. Law,” and “NYPD Blue,” talks about building up to what promised to be deep season.

“It’s not an action show,” cautions the the 71-year old. “It’s a mystery show.”

As Bochco explains: “The first two episodes, yes, they’re very action-oriented, because you have a massacre and you have a manhunt for two killers. But once one of them is caught and one of them is eliminated, you now have to get down to the business of solving a mystery.”

Bochco concedes that on a scale of one to 10, “if the amount of sheer action in season one was maybe at a two or a one,” the overall level of action in this season will be a four or a five.

It is clear that for Bochco it is the impact and surrounding drama of all the action that is really important in terms of just getting across a worthwhile series.

Talking about the procedural dramas he has proven to excel in, he says: “The thing about all these kinds of stories, and you never really get this from the newspapers or from sound bites on television or sensational 24/7 cable coverage: a violent event can occur, and it may take seconds or it may take minutes, whether it’s a school bus massacre or an Aurora movie theater massacre or whatever, but then people forget about the lifelong consequence of a brief spasm of violence.”

Season 2, Episode 2 of "Murder in the First" airs June 15 at 10/9c on TNT.