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1 :01x01 - Pilot
Writer: Craig Silverstein
Director: Tim Story
Guest star: Tom Wopat (Rick Keeslar), Michael Mitchell (Trent Cunningham), Maulik Pancholy (Unknown), Antonio Leon (Unknown), Octavia Spencer (Unknown), Geoffrey Rivas (Unknown), Bryce Johnson (Unknown), Bobby Hosea (Unknown), Kim Johnston Ulrich (Judith Cunningham), Erin Chambers (Krista), Larry Poindexter (Congressman Karl Cunningham), Jamison Yang (TV Cameraman), Steve Hasley (Cheryl's Assistant), Maureen Muldoon (Lisa Dunning), Ryan Malgarini (Tyler Keeslar), Jaimie Alexander (Barrista), Tanner Blaze (Henry Keeslar), David Patrick Green (Rapid Air Driver), Dave Andrews (Businessman), Ria Bellafiore (Counter Girl Hostage), Brea Tisdale (Real Estate Agent Hostage), Ricky Trammell (Concierge)
Standoff centers on Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman, top-ranked FBI crisis negotiators who are forced to come clean about their secret relationship after it is revealed during a tense hostage standoff that they are sleeping together. Too valuable as a team to be split up, they are now under the watchful eye of their boss and their colleagues. Standoff combines the crackling romantic relationship at its core with intense drama and humor as these negotiators vow not to cross the line and let their personal feelings get in the way of the job. But they learn quickly that, in life and in love, everything is a negotiation.
2 :01x02 - Circling
Writer: Craig Silverstein
Director: Brad Turner
Guest star: Rashaan Nall (Jesse Roberts), Vincent Angell (Scott Laramie), Tim DeKay (John Barnes), Joe Spano (Joe Suser), Stacy Edwards (Cathy Barnes), Kahan James (Blake Kilroy), Sarah K. Peterson (Sabrina Barnes), Derrin Horton (Reporter), Rico E. Anderson (Tropic Gulf Pilot), Matthew Troyer (T.V. News Reporter), Tate Hanyok (Waitress), John Lacy (Pilot One), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pilot), Benjamin Byron Davis (Clumsy Man), Javier Grajeda (Co-Pilot), William Charlton (FAA Official), Felice Heather Monteith (Flight Attendant), Michael Gianelli (Man On Cell), Musashi Alexander (Nick)
When Air Traffic Control error is blamed for a plane crash killing 180 people, the controller at fault hijacks the control tower in defense of his innocence. The stakes are high as dozens of planes circle above, but when Matt and Emily learn that the hijacker's wife is having an affair, the negotiators realize that the pressures at work aren't the only issues the hijacker is coping with. The situation hits a little too close to home as Matt and Emily get a glimpse of what could happen when personal lives get in the way of careers, and Emily pushes a hesitant Matt to go public with their relationship.
3 :01x03 - Shanghai'd
Writer: David Levinson
Director: David Straiton
Guest star: Peter Hermann (Liam Fowler), Tim Kelleher (Ray Jamison), Sung Kang (David Lau), Tom Wright (Ben Hilton), Michelle Krusiec (Kim Lau), Walter Wong (Russell Tze), Kevin Fry (Michael Hendricks), Tim Chiou (Paul), Celine Tien (Andrea Lau), David S. Lee (John Ross), Bobby Nish (Jai), Peter James Smith (Hsu), Roger Ranney (Fuller), Louisa Kendrick (Amy), Adam Donshik (Agent)
What seems to be a textbook child kidnapping becomes a tangled mess when it is revealed that the victim is the daughter of David Lao - an Asian crime lord who is currently under FBI investigation. To save the young girl's life, Matt and Emily must compromise the investigation, infuriating the Crime Division's Chief, and deal with a corrupt father who doesn't want their help. With two FBI teams on opposite sides of the same case and a kidnapper who is more experienced than he's revealing, Matt and Emily have their hands full at work while keeping some secrets from each other in the bedroom.
4 :01x04 - Partners in Crime
Writer: Joy Kecken
Director: David Straiton
Guest star: Kali Rocha (Leanne Benson), Mariana Klaveno (Kari Nichols), Jim Parrack (Sam Ellis), Ryan K. Smith (Deputy), Matt Borlenghi (Maurice Temple), Brandon Ford Green (Male Montecito Customer), Amita Balla (Teller), Michael Yavnieli (Cop), Matthew Lenhart (Cambria Trust Bank Manager), Robb Reesman (Montecito Sheriff), Ricardo J. Chacon (Montecito Deputy #2)
When a serial bank robber hits a string of banks along the California coast, Matt and Emily are determined to catch the thief. But when a confrontation at the next target bank goes awry and Emily becomes a hostage, Matt has trouble putting his personal feelings aside. The chase is on and after realizing that the suspects are a couple in love, Matt uses his knowledge of mixing business with pleasure to catch the robbers before Frank and the team take them out.
5 :01x05 - Life Support
Writer: Glen Mazzara, Linda Gase
Director: Sanford Bookstaver
Guest star: Deborah Van Valkenburgh (Goldstein), Allen Maldonado (M. J. Martinez), Corey Stoll (Dr. Wayne), Aki Avni (Dr. Ephraim Khoury), Aisha Hinds (Anne), Mozhan Marno (Agnacia), Tony Lee (Dr. Berg), Linara Washington (Dyanne Martinez), Andrew A. Rolfes (Deputy Haskey), Tim Snay (Patient), Monika Jolly (Resident), Nathan Kress (Young Matt)
When a girl's health takes a turn for the worse, a young boy takes hostages in a hospital to force a surgeon to operate on his terminally ill sister. But the renowned doctor is on vacation, and the remaining surgeons refuse to perform such a complicated procedure without his help. With lives on the line, Matt and Emily must appeal to the doctor's past and the young boy's future in order to save the hostages and prevent the boy from doing something he will regret.
6 :01x06 - One Shot Stop
Writer: Juan Carlos Coto
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Guest star: Raphael Sbarge (Donald Leeson), Todd Tesen (Captain Tim Bayless), Timothy Carhart (Lucas Leeson), Don Jeffcoat (Young Cop/Randy Sexton), Kevin Will (Road Rager), Jason McDonald (Patterson), Jane Yamamoto (Janet Muranaka), Bruce Gerard Brown, Jr. (LAPD Spotter), Charlie Bodin (Green FBI Agent), Tony Colitti (BSU Doctor)
When a mysterious sniper kills a string of random people, CNU is determined to find the snipers hideout. But when they catch a suspect and announce their success, a police captain is shot and they learn that the man in custody is actually copycat. With the real sniper on the loose, negotiations arent enough and Matt and Emily must work with Frank and Duff to catch the killer before he hurts one of them.
7 :01x07 - Man of Steele
Writer: Adam Targum
Director: Steve Gomer
Guest star: Hanna Hall (Rose Anders), Mireille Enos (Dana), Richard Ruccolo (Ken Mund), Joe Nieves (Carter Mills), W. Earl Brown (Doug Frohmer), Brent Sexton (Avery Steele), Brigid Brannagh (Caryn Frohmer), Preston Acuff (Stoner), Justine Boyriven (Trina Flax), Matthew Troyer (Newscaster), Blair Hickey (Lowe), Rob Brownstein (Goodstein), Yair (Boy)
After a surrogate mother scams a desperate husband out $50,000 for her newborn baby, the distraught man takes matters into his own hands. He shoots the social worker who arranged the illegal adoption and then flees, taking the newborn child and the babysitter hostage. The resulting high-speed chase ends at the scam artists home, where, in an attempt to defend his actions, the man calls shock-jock radio personality Avery Steeles show and his plight goes live on the air throughout Los Angeles. Matt and Emily must enlist Steeles help to negotiate the crisis over the airwaves, but this power to the people jock is anything but cooperative.
8 :01x08 - Heroine
Writer: Stacy Rukeyser
Director: Jonathan Glassner
Guest star: Nikki Magnusson (Bar Patron (uncredited)), Jeff Daniel Phillips (Neil van Sickle), Robert Reinis (Roger Selby), Robert Zepeda (Unknown), Scott Michael Campbell (Graham Brewster), Elizabeth Reaser (Anya Reid), Lance E. Nichols (Henry Bremner), Michele Moreno (Mexican Mother), Thomas Silcott (FBI Man), Tyler R. Brooks (Thin Man)
The team rescue Anya Reid from a hostage situation who then appears to develop a crush on Matt. When Anya reveals she may have a stalker, Emily is not so sure and thinks there may be more to Anya than she's letting on.
9 :01x09 - Peer Group
Writer: Daniel Knauf
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Guest star: Shawn H. Smith (Andre King), Mandy June Turpin (Kate Freymuth), Tamara Clatterbuck (Linda Bolt), Roy Werner (Jerry Langdon), Noel Fisher (Owen Johnson), Sean Marquette (Michael French), Anne Marie Howard (Susan Langdon), Paul Schulze (Dale Steckler), Drew Tyler Bell (Chuck Langdon), Josh Zuckerman (Cary Steckler), Ash Christian (Billy Freymuth), Scout Taylor-Compton (Tina Bolt), David Pearl (Neighbor), Michael Patrick McGill (Scott Freymuth), Mark Edward Smith (Ron King), Dan Sachoff (Robert French), Annie LaRussa (Raechel Steckler), Connie Jackson (Lisa King)
In a revenge-of-the-nerds case, Matt and Emily must negotiate with three armed teen geeks who have taken two athletes and a pretty girl hostage and are taunting them---live on a Web site they have set up via real-time video. And when CNU blocks the site, they threaten to kill the cool kids. For Emily, the case is personal: She had been bullied herself as a teen. Matt, on the other hand, had been a bully.
10 :01x10 - Accidental Negotiator
Writer: Daniel Knauf
Director: Craig Ross, Jr.
Guest star: J. C. MacKenzie (William Tate), J. D. Pardo (Vin Leon), Joel Bissonnette (Baron Lent), Kim Whitley (Angela Worthington), Emily James (Clerk), Matthew Troyer (Reporter), Dileep Rao (Robert), Marco Bardales (Danny Estevez), Val Morrell (Charlene), Shirley Saunders (Jennifer Grant), Jack Impellizzeri (Tim Winters), Kate Gladfelter (Receptionist), Timothy McNeil (Driver), Derrin Horton (Reporter), Emily Schweitz (Laura Jenkins)
Just moments after she was fired, a worker at a credit union's headquarters takes a call at her desk---from an armed man in a branch office who wants to speak to her boss. But he has just left the office, and a hostage situation ensues. Meanwhile, Emily and Matt are at odds because she left his apartment early in the morning without waking him.
11 :01x11 - Borderline
Writer: Juan Carlos Coto
Director: Helen Shaver
Guest star: Reynaldo Gallegos (Ramon Leal), Bradford Tatum (Agent Griffin), Jorge Pallo (Kyle Fernandez), Lombardo Boyar (Felix Aguila), Marc Vann (Roger Lestak), Anthony Tavera (Tucker), Frank Merino (Lieutenant), Emily Kosloski (Jeanette Divine)
The tables are turned on Matt and Emily when a Mexican drug lord escapes during negotiations with Emily. The pair and two DEA agents soon catch the fugitive in an abandoned tavern in Mexico---then are surrounded by his cohorts while out of communication range with headquarters.
12 :01x12 - No Strings
Writer: Chris Black, Daniel Knauf
Director: Jonathan Glassner
Guest star: James MacDonald (Lionel Struthers), Gwendoline Yeo (Sadka Ratana), Xander Berkeley (Paul Fisk), Diana-Maria Riva (Marta), Keith Pillow (Reporter One), Sonny King (Caricaturist), Robert Della Cerra (Paramedic), Louise Bennett (Reporter Two), John Eric Montana (Reporter Three)
When a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent insists on letting a container pass through the Port of Los Angeles without inspection, it quickly escalates into a hostage situation when his colleagues question his judgement. Meanwhile, Emily receives a job offer from Quantico and must decide if she wants to take it or not.
13 :01x13 - Backfire
Writer: Craig Silverstein
Director: Jonathan Glassner
Guest star: Marnie McPhail (Sarah Polniaczek), Christopher Bradley (Dr. Bruce Golden), Scott Lawrence (Jeff Thomas), Pat Skipper (Red), Christina Chang (Dr. Meredith Golden), Wayne Pére (Neal Polniaczek), Jesse Escochea (HRT Man #1), Loreni Delgado (Isabel)
Two bank robbers have taken twenty-five hostages on a train, but Emily must handle the negotiations by herself, as Matt has been called away to another hostage crisis. However, when she suspects that the entire stunt is merely a decoy so that the real thieves can get away, things become much more complicated. Meanwhile, Matt must try to convince a psychiatric patient to release two people that he has taken captive.
14 :01x14 - Road Trip
Writer: Juan Carlos Coto, Adam Targum
Director: John Badham
Guest star: Vince Grant (Malcolm Durst), William Russ (Warren Keegan), Shanna Collins (Hahna Keegan), Bree Turner (Natalie), Saxon Trainor (Ruth), Michelle Page (Darah), Mageina Tovah (Gwen Keegan)
When a fanatic polygamous cult leader abducts one of his daughters, who had tried to escape, Matt and Emily track them and discover a plot for revenge that could lead to the deaths of many other people.
15 :01x15 - Lie to Me
Writer: Craig Silverstein
Director: Michael Grossman
Guest star: Terry Hoyos (Carol Wolfe), Gregory Scott Cummins (Jeb Sanders), Lisa Kaminir (Mrs. Gendon), Tanya Wright (Mrs. Marsh), Drew Matthews (Oliver Marsh), Sterling K. Brown (Mr. Marsh), John M. Jackson (Tobin Jensen), Susan Gibney (Alison), Samantha Perez (Girl On Carousel), Michelle Barkowski (Girl On Carousel), Anthony Jennings (Rob Cirillo), Keith Pillow (Reporter #1)
When a young boy is abducted from the Santa Monica Pier, Emily is thrown into the middle of the crisis. The situation becomes volatile when her personal life is brought into the public eye and she must confront her demons in order to save the child.
16 :01x16 - Ex-Factor
Writer: Juan Carlos Coto
Director: Jonathan Glassner
Guest star: Shea Whigham (Jared Kendall), Ned Vaughn (Scott), Curtis Armstrong (Mr. Burke), Jeffrey D. Sams (Sam Weaver), John Billingsley (Dennis Riker), Maggie Egan (Mrs. Riker)
Cheryl becomes personally involved in the case after the key witness in a federal money-laundering case and his wife are kidnapped and held hostage.
17 :01x17 - Kids in the Hall
Writer: Sarah Watson
Director: David Straiton
Guest star: Benito Martinez (Senator Richard Espinosa), Will Rothhaar (Jerome Kaden), Aldis Hodge (Nathan), Harrison Page (Superintendent Fletcher), David Campbell (SORT Officer), Louise Bennett (Reporter), Steele Justiss (Kid One), Kareem Grimes (Hoody), Brian Catalano (Rookie Cop/Tony), Joseph Carberry (Carl), Derek Anthony (Classroom Guard), Link Baker (Security Room Guard), James Molina (Sebastian), Teo Olivares (Hector Garza), Chad Guerrero (Chilly)
A hostage crisis at a juvenile-detention center is sparked by a sensitive, intelligent teen who demands that the facility remain open. But his plans to keep the inmates from being transferred to a more crowded facility are thwarted by a thuggish teen. Meanwhile, Matt and Emily must fill out partner-evaluation forms. One question asks whether there's any situation the two can't resolve, and Matt answers no, but he does so before this situation unfolds.
18 :01x18 - Severance
Writer: Craig Silverstein
Director: Jesse Bochco
Guest star: David Starzyk (Howard), Aimee Garcia (Tina Markovich), Camille Saviola (Mrs. Markovich), Gonzalo Menendez (Mike Delgado), John Livingston (Alex Winston), Henri Lubatti (Reggie Markovich), Tania Verafield (Kiki), Rosemary Garris (FBI Agent), Edward Diaz (Officer Gordon), Jacob Bruce (Miller), Caroline Macey (Ariel), Patrick Robert Smith (Officer Mendez)
Series finale: Having broken up as a couple, Matt and Emily decide they want to break up as a team as well. So Cheryl sends Matt out without Emily to defuse a crisis involving a distraught filmmaker, who makes racy videos, and his equally distraught wife, who runs the business. But one hostage situation soon becomes two, and Cheryl must call in reinforcements.