When this is finally made as a Lifetime movie of the week, it could be the strangest “buddy” cop movie yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_cop_film
A buddy cop film is a film with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process. The two are normally cops, but some films, such as 48 Hrs. (a cop and a con), that are not about two cops may still be referred to as buddy cop films. It is a subgenre of buddy films.
Frequently, although not always, the two heroes are of different ethnicity or cultures. However, regardless of ethnicity, the central difference is normally that one is “wilder” than the other: a hot-tempered iconoclast is paired with a more even-tempered partner...
Another frequent plot device of this genre is placing one of the partners in an unfamiliar setting (like a different city or foreign country)...