History Series / CrossingLines

* AdultFear: Detective Major Louis Daniel and his wife, Rebecca Daniel, are living this. Louis' backstory and possible motivation for setting up the unit is the murder of his son. The covert side investigation into the boy's death is one of at least two arcs in the first season. [[spoiler: He has learned the Russian may have planted the bomb that killed his son. The Russian is also running the crew in the second episode.]] Turns out [[spoiler: the son was not the target - ''Rebecca'' was.]]

* MixedAncestry: Arabela Seeger is the child of a Dutchwoman and Nigerian man. The killer (a Russian) in the series finale also has a daughter with her deceased husband, an Angolan.

Detective Carl Hickman, formerly of the [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops NYPD]], was shot in the line of duty; [[CareerEndingInjury he can no longer use his right hand]]. He is living in a carnival in Amsterdam, when he is approached by Detective Major Louis Daniel to join a new investigative unit under the International Criminal Court. Major Daniel’s son was killed by a bomb planted at his house. Michel Dorn is helping Major Daniel set up the new group to spot serial crimes being disguised by crossing the borders between European countries; he is also investigating the murder of Daniel’s son. He has worked with both Louis Daniel and his wife Rebecca, who prosecuted cases before the ICC previously.

Other team members come in from across the EU. Kommissar Sebastian Berger is a tech genius from Polizei Berlin in Germany; he has a gambling problem. Detective Tommy [=McConnel=], weapons and tactical expert, was raised in an Irish Travellers’ Camp; his dad put a 10,000 pound bounty on his head when he joined the police. Sergeant Eva Vittoria is a former Mafia princess who is now an anti-Mafia undercover and covert operations specialist. Arabela Seeger is a former member of the Rotterdam PD and "Jill-of-all-trades" policewoman. Detective Sergeant Anne-Marie San (criminal analyst and trafficking specialist) was part of the team until the first episode of the second season, when she left the show, with Arabela replacing her.

A third season was made, but the only returning cast members being Creator/DonaldSutherland, Tom Wlaschiha and Lara Rossi. To say that fans were... ''unhappy'' about this is a massive {{understatement}}. The series ultimately concluded with its third season in December of 2015.
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''Crossing Lines'' is a 2013-15 CrimeDrama series about a MultinationalTeam of elite crimefighters working under the International Criminal Court. They go after {{Serial Killer}}s and other high-level criminals who try to hide by crossing the borders inside the European Union.

A show about a group working under the ICC. Looking for serial killers and others that hide by crossing the borders inside the European Union.

Detective Carl Hickman, formerly of the NYPD, was shot in the line of duty; he can no longer use his right hand. He is living in a carnival in Amsterdam, when he is approached by Detective Major Louis Daniel to join a new investigative unit under the International Criminal Court. Major Daniel’s son was killed by a bomb planted at his house. Michel Dorn is helping Major Daniel set up the new group to spot serial crimes being disguised by crossing the borders between European countries; he is also investigating the murder of Daniel’s son. He has worked with both Louis Daniel and his wife Rebecca, who prosecuted cases before the ICC previously.

The show was dropped by NBC due to poor ratings (2.06 million for the season one finale), but was picked up by Amazon Prime Instant Video for the second season (which debuted on August 15, 2014 in Europe). The second season has since appeared on various file sharing websites and is also available on Netflix.

A third season was recently aired, with the only returning cast members being Creator/DonaldSutherland, Tom Wlaschiha and Lara Rossi. To say that fans were... ''unhappy'' about this is a massive {{understatement}}. The series ultimately concluded with its third season in December of 2015.

!!''Crossing Lines'' provides examples of:

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: One suspect claims to Dorn that his people would call him a hero, while in The Hague he's a terrorist. However, Dorn [[ShutUpHannibal rejects this]], retorting that he's just a criminal.

* NoBisexuals: In one episode a man whose death they're investigation is revealed to have had affairs with men on the side. His wife and everyone else never bring up the possibility that he was bisexual, not gay, despite the long and apparently strong relationship they had otherwise.

!!Tropes in this series include:

* RapeAsBackstory: Carine reveals that she was raped while held at knifepoint when she was just seventeen, with her rapist never being caught. However, in her case she brings it up to show that she's put the trauma behind her by the present.

* WhamEpisode: The season two finale. [[spoiler: the psychiatrist was in on the whole thing, is a sociopath, and murders Louis by shooting him several times in cold blood. Meanwhile, Eva has discovered her father is still alive and goes missing while looking for him, leaving Dorn to find a huge pool of blood on her bed - with the implication that she has been murdered.]]

* AssholeVictim: In the series finale, members of an anti-immigrant, antisemitic, anti-EU, anti-Roma and racist far-right Romanian group. The team makes no secret about their disgust for what they stand for even while trying to find the killer.