The Closer was a law magazine.
`` Closer '' is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album , The Downward Spiral ( 1994 ) . The Closer is an American television police procedural , starring Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson , a Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief . On Monday , July 11 , 2011 , the series began its seventh and final season , having finished its sixth season as cable 's highest rated drama .