Standoff
Standoff
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Standoff

6.1 / 10
2006
1 season
18 episodes
DramaCrime

The series focused on an FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit whose members negotiated hostage situations and shared relationships.

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Standoff

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Seasons

  • Pilot

    1.Pilot

    10.0
    05-09-2006

    Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman, two FBI agents specialized in crisis negotiation, are negotiating with a television soap opera actor who is about to lose custody of his sons. After...

  • Circling

    2.Circling

    9.0
    12-09-2006

    After a recent airplane collision, an air traffic controller is held responsible. He loses his temper and takes control of the air traffic control station in an attempt to clear hi...

  • Shanghai'd

    3.Shanghai'd

    10.0
    19-09-2006

    What seems to be a textbook child kidnapping becomes a tangled mess when it is revealed that the victim is the daughter of David Lau -an Asian crime lord who is currently under FBI...

  • Partners in Crime

    4.Partners in Crime

    26-09-2006

    Following a failed bank robbery which resulted in a hostage situation, Emily is taken hostage by the two bank robbers. Matt uses his people skills to negotiate with the robbers.

  • Life Support

    5.Life Support

    10.0
    31-10-2006

    A seventeen-year-old boy takes hostages in a hospital operating room, demanding Dr. Khoury be found so that he can operate on his terminally ill sister. Matt and Emily attempt to s...

  • One Shot Stop

    6.One Shot Stop

    07-11-2006

    After a sniper kills several people at random, the CNU seeks the suspect's hideout and believe they've caught him. When the suspect turns out to be a copycat and a police captain i...

  • Man of Steele

    7.Man of Steele

    14-11-2006

    After learning that an illegal adoption agreement made between himself and a woman was a fraud, a man takes the woman's baby and the babysitter hostage at her home. When he makes c...

  • Heroine

    8.Heroine

    1.0
    21-11-2006

    The victim of Matt and Emily's hostage negotiation case becomes the target of a stalker. Although Emily doubts the woman's claims due to her feelings for Matt, Matt is determined t...

  • Peer Group

    9.Peer Group

    28-11-2006

    A father turns to CNU to prevent a hostage situation after finding his teenage son's notebook full of violent images, but Matt and Emily arrive at the school after the hostage situ...

  • The Accidental Negotiator

    10.The Accidental Negotiator

    9.0
    05-12-2006

    A woman, who is recently fired from a credit union, is wrangled into negotiating with a man who has taken her former co-workers hostage.

  • Borderline

    11.Borderline

    5.0
    12-12-2006

    Matt and Emily's negotiation with a drug lord goes awry when he escapes. When they finally find him in an isolated location in Mexico, Matt and Emily are stranded with two DEA agen...

  • No Strings

    12.No Strings

    08-06-2007

    Matt and Emily negotiate with a U.S. Customs Agent at San Pedro who takes his co-workers hostage after apparently trying to smuggle in a crate full of illegal immigrants. Meanwhile...

  • Backfire

    13.Backfire

    15-06-2007

    Matt and Emily negotiate with two armed bank robbers who take a subway full of hostages. During the negotiation Matt is pulled away to deal with an hostage taker who Matt has met a...

  • Road Trip

    14.Road Trip

    22-06-2007

    As Darah, daughter of polygamous cult leader Warren Keegan, attempts to escape from her father and reunite with her sister, she is abducted by Warren and his three wives. Warren Ke...

  • Lie to Me

    15.Lie to Me

    29-06-2007

    A young boy is kidnapped from his parents at a fair and used as a ploy to obtain the attention of Emily after the hostage-taker sends a videotape to the media, showing the boy with...

  • Ex-Factor

    16.Ex-Factor

    06-07-2007

    The key witness in a federal money-laundering case and his wife are kidnapped and held hostage during the trial. Knowing the witness'value to the prosecution, the hostage-taker dem...

  • Kids in the Hall

    17.Kids in the Hall

    13-07-2007

    A hostage situation arises at Dunne Hill Juvenile Detention Center when its inmates take several of the guards hostage. However, the teenage inmates'intention is not to escape from...

  • Severance

    18.Severance

    9.0
    20-07-2007

    The CNU resolves a hostage situation when a corporate executive takes 16 hostages in the company's boardroom. A second crisis involves a domestic situation that results in Matt and...

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