FX: The Series
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FX: The Series

6.2 / 10
1996
2 seasons
40 episodes
Drama

Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?

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Seasons

  • The Illusion (1)

    1.The Illusion (1)

    09-09-199660m

    When a beautiful actress helps frame movie special effects master Rollie Tyler for a vicious crime, he finds himself on the run from the law. Rollie turns to his pal, NYPD Detectiv...

  • The Illusion (2)

    2.The Illusion (2)

    09-09-199660m

    When a beautiful actress helps frame movie special effects master Rollie Tyler for a vicious crime, he finds himself on the run from the law. Rollie turns to his pal, NYPD Detectiv...

  • Zero Hour

    3.Zero Hour

    16-09-199660m

    While a huge bomb ticks away somewhere in the city of New York, the right-wing terrorist leader, who is in police custody, refuses to divulge it's location. Leo turns to Rollie to...

  • High Risk

    4.High Risk

    23-09-199660m

    A group of desperate ex-cons attempt to rob a gold exchange on the top floor of a downtown high rise. The robbery goes sour and the crooks take a group of hostages, including Leo's...

  • Payback

    5.Payback

    30-09-199660m

    Tensions are high when Rollie decides to work on a gangster flick being directed by a director whom Angie believes was responsible for the on-set accident that killed her father ye...

  • The Ring

    6.The Ring

    07-10-199660m

    A murderous boss of a stolen car ring slips through Leo's fingers yet again. With the help of Angie and Lucinda they get into the ""hot"" car business and stage an elaborate ruse t...

  • Dingo

    7.Dingo

    14-10-199660m

    A family reunion between Rollie and his charming con-man father, Dingo, could be their last when a ruthless bookie leans on dad to pay off a huge gambling debt. Leo joins them in a...

  • White Light

    8.White Light

    21-10-199660m

    When her friend, a UFO buff, is murdered, Angie gets Rollie to enlist Leo to find the killer. With the help of Lucinda, their search leads them to a top-secret military base rumore...

  • The Brotherhood

    9.The Brotherhood

    28-10-199660m

    Rollie and Leo discover a deadly group of Irish Terrorists hatching a plot to steal the Crown Jewels of England from a New York museum where they are on display. Rollie and Leo sta...

  • French Kiss

    10.French Kiss

    04-11-199660m

    A powerful bomb kills an investment banker scheduled to testify against a Colombian drug-money laundering operation, and Rollie's good friend, and stuntman, Rick Forsythe. Leo disc...

  • Eye of the Dragon

    11.Eye of the Dragon

    11-11-199660m

    Romantic sparks fly when Rollie is reunited with a beautiful Hong Kong woman while working on a martial arts action movie. But Leo suspects she's really working with foreign assass...

  • Ep 12

    12.Target

    18-11-199660m

    After a protected witness is murdered, Leo enlists Rollie to help him trap a mysterious sniper who can hit a target from more than a mile away. But the plan fails and the sniper em...

  • Ep 13

    13.Supernote

    25-11-199660m

    When a fellow cop is killed in a drug bust by a mid-eastern dignitary who claims diplomatic immunity, Leo gets Rollie to help expose the diplomat's ties to a Russian gangster befor...

  • Ep 14

    14.Medea

    20-01-199760m

    Rollie works on a major Broadway show that is plagued by suspicious accidents, and it looks like the star, a fading Hollywood actress attempting a comeback on stage, is the target...

  • Ep 15

    15.Shivaree

    27-01-199760m

    Five years ago, three men staged a daring armored car robbery in which a young man was crippled for life. They then hid the money in a place that requires all three men to find. No...

  • Ep 16

    16.Gemini

    03-02-199760m

    When Leo sees disturbing similarities between the science fiction movie for which Rollie is providing the special effects, he begins to suspect the movie's director is a serial kil...

  • Ep 17

    17.Double Image

    10-02-199760m

    Learning that a wealthy computer magnate is going to be hit, Leo calls on Rollie so he can masquerade as the intended target and thwart the assassination. The trick works so well,...

  • Ep 18

    18.Quicksilver

    17-02-199760m

    When Rollie discovers a sinister international arms smuggler named Victor Loubar has stolen his identity, he teams up with FBI agent Elena Serrano to hunt for the impostor. Togethe...

  • Ep 19

    19.Get Fast

    21-04-199760m

    When a drug dealer and hopped-up movie star get Rollie fired from his movie job, he teams up with Detective Francis Gatti and an embittered Narcotics Detective in a personal war ag...

  • Ep 20

    20.Bad Influence

    28-04-199760m

    Rollie is helping students make a video for a class project when a band of armed men invades the high school and takes over. Trapped and badly wounded, Rollie joins forces with a j...

  • Ep 21

    21.Reunion

    05-05-199760m

    An innocent meeting with an old school chum becomes a race against death for Angie when she is mistaken for a woman who possesses proof of a prominent law firm's connections to org...

  • Ep 22

    22.Script Doctor

    12-05-199760m

    Weary of having his work ruined by others, Rollie jumps at the chance to direct a low-budget ""heist"" movie. But he and Leo discover the film's ""producers"" are actually crooks w...

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