A Short-Lived American Police Procedural Drama that follows the FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit as they deal with hostage situations and relationships.
The show stars Ron Livingston, Rosemarie DeWitt, Gina Torres, Michael Cudlitz, Raquel Alessi, and Jose Pablo Cantillo.
It aired on Fox for one season from September 5, 2006 to July 20, 2007.
Tropes for the series:
- Alliterative Name:
- Cheryl Carrera.
- Lucas Leeson in One Shop Stop.
- Carl Cunningham in Pilot.
- Dumbass DJ: "Man of Steele" deals with one such DJ, Avery Steele, who makes a hostage taking harder by drumming up support for the criminal and trying to instigate the crowd he had gathered there into a riot. Despite lawyers trying to defend him he is eventually arrested for his interference.
- I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Livingston and Cudlitz previously worked together on Band of Brothers.
- One-Word Title: Standoff.
- Pilot.
- Circling.
- Shanghai'd.
- Heroine.
- Borderline.
- Backfire.
- Severance.
- Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie: The episode "Man of Steele", in which the eponymous radio shock jock has a man on the line who takes a woman hostage. When Emily tries to reason that the FBI is trying to find the woman who scammed him Steels scoffs, "Yeah, right, the FBI couldn't find 19 known terrorists with box cutters." This quote is later seen on Lia's computer, who recorded Steele for when the FBI would step in to take him off the air, labelled "September 12".
