Actor Rosario Dawson will topline the pilot of USA Network drama "Briarpatch". The 39-year-old actor will play Allegra "Pick" Dill, a tenacious and highly-skilled investigator working in Washington, DC for a young, ambitious Senator, Variety reported.

The story follows Dill who returns to her corrupt Texas hometown after her homicide-detective sister is killed by a car bomb. Allegra's search for the murderer turns into a dangerous excavation of her own past.