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A series starring Dylan [=McDermott=] as Duncan Carlisle, a {{Face Heel Turn}}ed FBI negotiator who takes the family of surgeon Ellen Sanders (Toni Collette) hostage in order to force her to "accidentally" kill the President. Based on an Israeli series of the same name.
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A series starring Dylan [=McDermott=] as Duncan Carlisle, a {{Face Heel Turn}}ed FBI negotiator who takes the family of surgeon Ellen Sanders (Toni Collette) hostage in order to force her to "accidentally" kill the President. Based on an Israeli series of the same name.
name. It was cancelled after one season.
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* ChildByRape: Nina Carlisle, whose mother [[spoiler:was date-raped by current president Kincaid. Nina's existence is unknown to him, since her loved ones shielded her from the awful truth, and the danger it might bring.]]
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* ChildByRape: Nina Carlisle, whose mother [[spoiler:was date-raped raped by current president Kincaid. Nina's existence is unknown to him, since her loved ones shielded her from the awful truth, and the danger it might bring.]]
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* PresidentEvil: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged.]] At first he's a "bad man". Then he's trying to expose the government's homeland spying programs. Then he's a date-rapist and an adulterer. And yet, he's surrounded by sneaky people trying to kill him, completely oblivious. Then it turns out he had his brother killed just so he might be president.
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* PresidentEvil: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged.]] At first he's a "bad man". Then he's trying to expose the government's homeland spying programs. Then he's a date-rapist rapist and an adulterer. And yet, he's surrounded by sneaky people trying to kill him, completely oblivious. Then it turns out he had his brother killed just so he might be president.
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* AdaptationFirst: The series premiered nearly three weeks before the Israeli debut of the original story.
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* TheDanza: Sandrine Holt as Sandrine Renault; MaryElizabethMastrantonio as Mary Kincaid
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* TheDanza: Sandrine Holt as Sandrine Renault; MaryElizabethMastrantonio as Mary Kincaid
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* TheMentallyDisturbed: Ellen's ex-drug-addict, downtrodden, impulsive sister Lauren visits the Sanders home her after being let out of her ward. She really has gotten much better and seems to be a capable member of society. Sadly for her, [[spoiler:Lauren figures out the whole hostage thing is going on, and Duncan fights back by making her look terribly paranoid in front of her caretakers, sending her back to the loony bin.]]
* TheMole: Besides Duncan, there's [[spoiler:White House Chief of Staff Quentin Creasy and Secret Service agent Logan]].
* TheMole: Besides Duncan, there's [[spoiler:White House Chief of Staff Quentin Creasy and Secret Service agent Logan]].
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* UnholyMatrimony: Vanessa and Blair have been villainously intimate with each other for a while. [[spoiler: Things fall apart between them though, leading to a late-game EnemyMine alliance between her and Duncan's team.]]
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* TheMentallyDisturbed: Ellen's ex-drug-addict, downtrodden, impulsive sister Lauren visits the Sanders home her after being let out of her ward. She really has gotten much better and seems to be a capable member of society. Sadly for her, [[spoiler:Lauren figures out the whole hostage thing is going on, and Duncan fights back by making her look terribly paranoid in front of her caretakers, sending her back to the loony bin.]]
* TheMole: Besides Duncan, there's [[spoiler:White House Chief of Staff Quentin Creasy and Secret Service agent Logan]].
* TheMole: Besides Duncan, there's [[spoiler:White House Chief of Staff Quentin Creasy and Secret Service agent Logan]].
* UnholyMatrimony: Vanessa and Blair have been villainously intimate with each other for a while. [[spoiler: Things fall apart between them though, leading to a late-game EnemyMine alliance between her and Duncan's team.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Duncan and his team are very suspect of this, even as they are given extra chances to kill the president.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Duncan and his team are very suspect of this, even as they are given extra chances to kill the president.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Duncan and his team are very suspect of this, even as they are given extra chances to kill the president.
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* BigBad: It's not clear how high up the assassination conspiracy goes at first, but the mastermind ends up being the merciless Colonel Blair of the Secret Service.
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* BigBad: It's not clear how high up the assassination conspiracy goes at first, but the mastermind ends up being the merciless Colonel Thomas Blair of the Secret Service.NSA.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Brian Sanders is having an affair with his coworker Samantha, though it's clear he still loves his wife. How this came about has yet to be explained.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Brian Sanders is has been having an affair with his coworker Samantha, though it's clear he still loves his wife. How this came about has yet to be explained.His relationships with both women become rather peculiar as the plot unfolds.
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* MasterPoisoner: Vanessa, who [[spoiler:offs Quentin by poisoning his drink and never suffers any suspicion, at least not yet.]]
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* {{Revenge}}: Vanessa wants to take down pres. Paul Kincaid for apparently killing her brother.
* UnholyMatrimony: Vanessa and Blair have been villainously intimate with each other for a while. [[spoiler: Things fall apart between them though, leading to a late-game EnemyMine alliance between her and Duncan's team.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: Vanessa and Blair have been villainously intimate with each other for a while. [[spoiler: Things fall apart between them though, leading to a late-game EnemyMine alliance between her and Duncan's team.]]
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* HonorBeforeReason: Ellen wants a solution for Duncan without turning into a DeadlyDoctor, and Brian (encouraging his kids to do the same) continually defies the hostage takers' orders, to preserve integrity and decency.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Ellen wants a solution for Duncan without turning into a DeadlyDoctor, however convoluted, and Brian (encouraging his kids to do the same) continually defies the hostage takers' orders, to preserve integrity and decency.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Ellen wants a solution for Duncan without turning into a DeadlyDoctor, and Brian (encouraging his kids to do the same) continually defies the hostage takers' orders, to preserve integrity and decency.
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* TheMentallyDisturbed: Ellen's ex-drug-addict, downtrodden, impulsive sister Lauren visits the Sanders home her after being let out of her ward. She really has gotten much better and seems to be a capable member of society. Sadly for her, [[spoiler:Lauren figures out the whole hostage thing is going on, and Duncan fights back by making her look terribly paranoid in front of her caretakers, sending her back to the loony bin.]]
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* SinisterSurveillance: The Sanderses have to live with a sickening amount of surveillance from their hostage takers, from cameras in the kitchen to having digital chips cut into your body. Also, Blair uses his National Security Administration privileges for his own nefarious goals. "Nothing's off the grid" for him.
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* BadassGrandpa: Burton, not just for his intimidating stare, but especially the scene where he sets up his silenced pistol, pretending to do something else with his hands as Nina's mother talks to him. Had she not listened to his suggestion (actually a threat) about exposing the truth to the public, Burton would have shot her regretfully but swiftly.
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* BadassGrandpa: Burton, not just for his intimidating stare, but especially the scene where he sets up his silenced pistol, pretending to do something else with his hands as Nina's mother talks to him. Had she not listened to his suggestion (actually a threat) about exposing to not expose the truth to the public, Burton would have shot her regretfully but swiftly.
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* BadassGrandpa: Burton, not just for his intimidating stare, but especially the scene where he sets up his silenced pistol, pretending to do something else with his hands as Nina's mother talks to him. Had she not listened to his suggestion (actually a threat) about exposing the truth to the public, Burton would have shot her regretfully but swiftly.
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* BattleCouple: Sandrine and Kramer are romantically involved and enjoy protecting each other from danger, though things get more complicated than that.
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* HitmanWithAHeart: Duncan, Sandrine, Kramer, and Archer are all shades of this.
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* {{Greed}}: Duncan's comrade Archer looks forward to livin' it up, boats and all, with the cash from the bounty on the president. [[spoiler:It ends up being his FatalFlaw. Duncan finds a more-or-less happy ending for his family, his comrades, and the Sanderses, all without killing the president. But Archer ends up attacking Duncan for this, and gets killed as a consequence.]]
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* PresidentEvil: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged.]] At first he's a "bad man". Then he's trying to expose the government's homeland spying programs. Then he's a date-rapist and an adulterer. And yet, he's surrounded by sneaky people trying to kill him, completely oblivious. Then it turns out he had his brother killed just so he might be president.
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* BlatantLies: The Sanders have to lie all the time to keep their hostage status a secret. Ellen becomes fantastic at deceiving people, but never does so out of malice.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Brian Sanders is having an affair with his coworker Samantha, though it's clear he still loves his wife. How this came about has yet to be explained.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Brian Sanders is having an affair with his coworker Samantha, though it's clear he still loves his wife. How this came about has yet to be explained.explained.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Duncan and his team are very suspect of this, even as they are given extra chances to kill the president.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Duncan and his team are very suspect of this, even as they are given extra chances to kill the president.
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* ChildByRape: Nina Carlisle, whose mother [[spoiler:was date-raped by current president Kincaid. Nina's existence is unknown to him, since her loved ones shielded her from the awful truth, and the danger it might bring.]]
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* IllGirl: Duncan's wife, who has Leukemia. Getting access to a possible cure is the only reason Duncan's doing this absurd hostage thing at all.
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* IllGirl: Duncan's wife, sweet wife Nina, who has Leukemia. Getting access to a possible cure is the only reason Duncan's doing this absurd hostage thing at all.
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* IllGirl: Duncan's wife, who has Leukemia. Getting access to a possible cure is the only reason Duncan's doing this absurd hostage thing at all.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Nearly every character lies at some point, and most injure/kill/wrongly imprison someone. Sometimes it's for survival or to save a loved one, and sometimes it's for money or political power.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Nearly every character lies at some point, and most injure/kill/wrongly imprison someone. Sometimes it's for survival or to save a loved one, and sometimes it's for money or political power. The higher-ups who have control over Duncan tend to fall into the latter category.
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HiredToHuntYourself: Duncan is brought onto the task force investigating threats related to the President's surgery.
TheMole: Besides Duncan, there's [[spoiler:White House Chief of Staff Quentin Creasy and Secret Service agent Logan]].
TeenPregnancy: Ellen's daughter Morgan, learning of it just before everything else goes crazy as well.
YourCheatingHeart: Brian Sanders is having an affair with his coworker Samantha, though it's clear he still loves his wife. How this came about has yet to be explained.
HiredToHuntYourself: Duncan is brought onto the task force investigating threats related to the President's surgery.
TheMole: Besides Duncan, there's [[spoiler:White House Chief of Staff Quentin Creasy and Secret Service agent Logan]].
TeenPregnancy: Ellen's daughter Morgan, learning of it just before everything else goes crazy as well.
YourCheatingHeart: Brian Sanders is having an affair with his coworker Samantha, though it's clear he still loves his wife. How this came about has yet to be explained.
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A series starring Dylan Macdermott [=McDermott=] as Duncan Carlisle, a {{Face Heel Turn}}ed FBI negotiator who takes the family of a surgeon Ellen Sanders (Toni Collette) hostage in order to force her to "accidentally" kill the President. based Based on an Israeli series of the same name.
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HiredToHuntYourself: Duncan is brought onto the task force investigating threats related to the President's surgery.
TheMole: Besides Duncan, there's [[spoiler:White House Chief of Staff Quentin Creasy and Secret Service agent Logan]].
TeenPregnancy: Ellen's daughter Morgan, learning of it just before everything else goes crazy as well.
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