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** An example of a complicated pileup is "Secrets and Spies" when the NOC list is loose somewhere in downtown Vienna. [[spoiler:Turns out that a CIA officer stationed in Vienna was forced to release thanks to a honey trap plan. A woman on vacation with her family takes advantage of it and goes undercover to stop someone from selling it to foreign intelligence agencies. CR gets called in by the woman's husband after she goes missing and they investigate anyone connected to her, including her [=MI6=] ally and the CIA officer to learn that the latter is the one responsible and the woman's kidnapper is demanding the antidote or else she'll die.]]

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** An example of a complicated pileup is "Secrets and Spies" when the NOC list is loose somewhere in downtown Vienna. [[spoiler:Turns out that a CIA officer stationed in Vienna was forced to release it thanks to a honey trap plan. A woman on vacation with her family takes advantage of it and goes undercover to stop someone from selling it to foreign intelligence agencies. CR gets called in by the woman's husband after she goes missing and they investigate anyone connected to her, including her [=MI6=] ally and the CIA officer to learn that the latter is the one responsible and the woman's kidnapper is demanding the antidote or else she'll die.]]
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** An example of a complicated pileup is "Secrets and Spies" when the NOC list is loose somewhere in downtown Vienna. [[spoiler:Turns out that a CIA officer stationed in Vienna was forced to release thanks to a honey trap plan. A woman on vacation with her family takes advantage of it and goes undercover to stop someone from selling it to foreign intelligence agencies. CR gets called in by the woman's husband after she goes missing and they investigate anyone connected to her, including her MI6 ally and the CIA officer to learn that the latter is the one responsible and the woman's kidnapper is demanding the antidote or else she'll die.]]

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** An example of a complicated pileup is "Secrets and Spies" when the NOC list is loose somewhere in downtown Vienna. [[spoiler:Turns out that a CIA officer stationed in Vienna was forced to release thanks to a honey trap plan. A woman on vacation with her family takes advantage of it and goes undercover to stop someone from selling it to foreign intelligence agencies. CR gets called in by the woman's husband after she goes missing and they investigate anyone connected to her, including her MI6 [=MI6=] ally and the CIA officer to learn that the latter is the one responsible and the woman's kidnapper is demanding the antidote or else she'll die.]]
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Two seasons have aired and the third season aired on February 16, 2019.

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Two seasons have aired and the third season aired on February 16, 2019.
The show has ended after three seasons.
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** "Dark Triad": The CR team goes to investigate a suspect who happens to be a narcissistic person. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad The article also portrays the term correctly]].
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* ConspiracyTheorist: CR investigate a case of poisoned insulin in "Dark Triad" where a conspiracy theorist is the main suspect.
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** "Stay of Execution": The CR team races against time to save a man wrongfully convicted of killing a man in 2009 and the man's wife wanted a stay of execution just to get the right evidence.
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** Zara in "Black Dolphin" notices that her daughter is in the BD game. [[spoiler:Well since it eventually gets the players to off themselves.]]
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* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first [[Series/PowerRangersSPD police-related series]] that Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] has appeared in.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "Black Dolphin" highly resembles the Momo challenge to a coincidence [[spoiler:when it's revealed that it's an online game that among all things, gets players to kill themselves.]]
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Two seasons have aired and the third season is coming soon.

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Two seasons have aired and the third season is coming soon.
aired on February 16, 2019.
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''Ransom'' is a television drama series that aired on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German series made with the collaboration of CBS, Global, [=TF1=] and RTL. The show stars Creator/LukeRoberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene. Due to mediocre ratings, it was not renewed until Global and [=TF1=] managed to rescue the show from cancellation as both CBS and RTL withdrew support for the show, though CBS eventually changed its mind and confirmed that they would air the second season.

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''Ransom'' is a an internationally co-produced television drama series that aired first premiered on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German The series made with the is a collaboration of CBS, Global, between Creator/{{CBS}} (U.S), [[Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork Global]] (Canada), [=TF1=] (France) and RTL.RTL (Germany). The show stars Creator/LukeRoberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene. Due The show was to be cancelled after its first season due to mediocre ratings, it was not renewed until ratings and both CBS and RTL withdrawing their support for the show. Global and [=TF1=] [[{{Uncancelled}} managed to rescue the show from cancellation as both CBS cancellation]], and RTL withdrew support for the show, though CBS eventually changed its mind and confirmed that they would air the second season.
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* SWATTeam: In "The Return", the SPVM (Montreal Police Service) deploys the GTI (Tactical Intervention Group) during a hostage crisis in Montreal.

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* SWATTeam: In "The Return", the SPVM (Montreal Police Service) deploys the GTI (Tactical Intervention Group) during a hostage crisis in Montreal. They later assist CR in other episodes set in the GMA.


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** In "Undercover", the Der Polizeipräsident in Berlin's SEK is deployed to hunt down an extreme Ukrainian nationalist trying to assassinate Russian in the downtown area.
** In "The Client, the SQ's GTI is deployed to capture Boston-based mobsters and recover ransom money.
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* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:CR arranges for Taylor's family to leave Quebec since even after Frances is arrested by the SQ, her men unleashed a car bomb attack. With this, it gave the family opportunity to leave since Frances would know that they've been seriously injured or killed in "The Client".]]
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** In "The Client", Taylor's parents are worried about their kids when a mob boss threatens to kidnap them [[spoiler:unless they hand over the stolen money accumulated from the time they worked under the mob]].
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind:
** In "Hardline, [[spoiler:Tess, the nurse who helped Abby before she was taken prisoner was a victim of a hijacking by Somali pirates when her parents were killed due to refusal to pay ransom.]]
** In "Radio Silence", [[spoiler:the main culprit is the co-pilot of an airline who hijacked a flight from Chicago to Vancouver.]]
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Crisis Resolutions is a private security company in downtown Montreal that hires it services to individuals and governments who can afford to pay for their services when things with law enforcement goes sideways with no resolution in sight. Eric Beaumont is an [[ExperiencedProtagonist expert hostage negotiator who has been in the field for years after he left the FBI.]] He helps resolves situations by negotiating with criminals and terrorists in kidnapping cases that usually involves ransom. He's assisted by Oliver Yates, a psychologist and by Zara Hallam, an ex-police officer and mother of two children.

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Crisis Resolutions is a private security company in downtown Montreal the US that hires it services to individuals and governments who can afford to pay for their services when things with law enforcement goes sideways with no resolution in sight. Eric Beaumont is an [[ExperiencedProtagonist expert hostage negotiator who has been in the field for years after he left the FBI.]] He helps resolves situations by negotiating with criminals and terrorists in kidnapping cases that usually involves ransom. He's assisted by Oliver Yates, a psychologist and by Zara Hallam, an ex-police officer and mother of two children.



* RansomDrop: How CR operates once they arrange for a meet to drop money to the criminals/terrorists. They sometime involves improvising to make things easier such as making Niko turn on his brother Yannis by appealing to his hatred for being beaten up.

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* RansomDrop: How CR operates once they arrange for a meet to drop money or an exchange to the criminals/terrorists. They sometime involves improvising to make things easier such as making Niko turn on his brother Yannis by appealing to his hatred for being beaten up.
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* SerialKiller: "Fawn" has the CR team deal with a serial killer [[spoiler:and his biological son after he finds out about his father's past]].
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** The show: Ransom negotiations are the focus of the series.
** Episodes:
*** Regeneration
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* GambitPileup: Some episode storylines center on this, usually centering on [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two story arcs that seem to be unrelated at first]], but are answered in the episode later or in another episode or so.
** An example of a complicated pileup is "Secrets and Spies" when the NOC list is loose somewhere in downtown Vienna. [[spoiler:Turns out that a CIA officer stationed in Vienna was forced to release thanks to a honey trap plan. A woman on vacation with her family takes advantage of it and goes undercover to stop someone from selling it to foreign intelligence agencies. CR gets called in by the woman's husband after she goes missing and they investigate anyone connected to her, including her MI6 ally and the CIA officer to learn that the latter is the one responsible and the woman's kidnapper is demanding the antidote or else she'll die.]]
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Crisis Resolutions is a private security company in downtown Montreal that hires it services to individuals and governments who can afford to pay for their services when things with law enforcement goes sideways with no resolution in sight. Eric Beaumont is an [[ExperiencedProtagonist expert hostage negotiator who has been in the field for years.]] He helps resolves situations by negotiating with criminals and terrorists in kidnapping cases that usually involves ransom. He's assisted by Oliver Yates, a psychologist and by Zara Hallam, an ex-police officer and mother of two children.

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Crisis Resolutions is a private security company in downtown Montreal that hires it services to individuals and governments who can afford to pay for their services when things with law enforcement goes sideways with no resolution in sight. Eric Beaumont is an [[ExperiencedProtagonist expert hostage negotiator who has been in the field for years.years after he left the FBI.]] He helps resolves situations by negotiating with criminals and terrorists in kidnapping cases that usually involves ransom. He's assisted by Oliver Yates, a psychologist and by Zara Hallam, an ex-police officer and mother of two children.
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''Ransom'' is a television drama series that aired on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German series made with the collaboration of CBS, Global, [=TF1=] and RTL. The show stars Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene. Due to mediocre ratings, it was not renewed until Global and [=TF1=] managed to rescue the show from cancellation as both CBS and RTL withdrew support for the show, though CBS eventually changed its mind and confirmed that they would air the second season.

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''Ransom'' is a television drama series that aired on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German series made with the collaboration of CBS, Global, [=TF1=] and RTL. The show stars Luke Roberts, Creator/LukeRoberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene. Due to mediocre ratings, it was not renewed until Global and [=TF1=] managed to rescue the show from cancellation as both CBS and RTL withdrew support for the show, though CBS eventually changed its mind and confirmed that they would air the second season.
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''Ransom'' is a television drama series that aired on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German series made with the collaboration of CBS, Global, [=TF1=] and RTL. The show stars Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene. Due to mediocre ratings, it was not renewed until Global and [=TF1=] managed to rescue the show from cancellation as both CBS and RTL withdrew support for the show.

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''Ransom'' is a television drama series that aired on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German series made with the collaboration of CBS, Global, [=TF1=] and RTL. The show stars Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene. Due to mediocre ratings, it was not renewed until Global and [=TF1=] managed to rescue the show from cancellation as both CBS and RTL withdrew support for the show.
show, though CBS eventually changed its mind and confirmed that they would air the second season.
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''Ransom'' is a television drama series that aired on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German series made with the collaboration of CBS, Global, [=TF1=] and RTL. The show stars Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene. Due to mediocre ratings, it was not renewed.

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''Ransom'' is a television drama series that aired on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German series made with the collaboration of CBS, Global, [=TF1=] and RTL. The show stars Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene. Due to mediocre ratings, it was not renewed.
renewed until Global and [=TF1=] managed to rescue the show from cancellation as both CBS and RTL withdrew support for the show.
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''Ransom'' is a television drama series that aired on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German series made with the collaboration of CBS, Global, [=TF1=] and RTL. The show stars Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene.

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''Ransom'' is a television drama series that aired on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German series made with the collaboration of CBS, Global, [=TF1=] and RTL. The show stars Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene.
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* WesternTerrorists: The team deals with a teenager who was arrested by the FBI of trying to instigate a bombing attack for a pro-White terrorist group. [[spoiler:Turns out that part of it is done due to payback to her adopted father, who didn't give his attention to her when she was little. Also, her father was African-American.]]

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* WesternTerrorists: The team deals with a teenager who was arrested by the FBI of trying to instigate a bombing attack for a pro-White terrorist group.group in "The Enemy Within". [[spoiler:Turns out that part of it is done due to payback to her adopted father, who didn't give his attention to her when she was little. Also, her father was African-American.]]]]
** Eco-terrorists have seized hostages in Ottawa in "Regeneration".

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''Random'' is a television drama series that aired on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German series made with the collaboration of CBS, Global, [=TF1=] and RTL. The show stars Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene.

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''Ransom''
is a television drama series that aired on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German series made with the collaboration of CBS, Global, [=TF1=] and RTL. The show stars Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene.



Head [[Characters/RansomTV here]] for the character page.



* DirtyCop: One of the suspects in "The Box" was a corrupt cop accused of shooting a teenager. [[spoiler:He's not and his superior is the one who did it and he was told to be the fall guy. He didn't like it so much that he robbed the bank to get to his safety deposit box.]]



* TheStarscream: Erik realizes that the leader of the hostage takers is a fanatic who cannot be negotiated with. Erik and his team manipulate the situation so the much more reasonable second-in-command realizes how looney the leader has become and takes over.
* SWATTeam: In "The Return", the SPVM (Montreal Police Service) deploys the GTI (Tactical Intervention Group) during a hostage crisis in Montreal.

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* TheStarscream: Erik realizes that the leader of the hostage takers is a fanatic who cannot be negotiated with.with in "Regeneration". Erik and his team manipulate the situation so the much more reasonable second-in-command realizes how looney the leader has become and takes over.
* SWATTeam: In "The Return", the SPVM (Montreal Police Service) deploys the GTI (Tactical Intervention Group) during a hostage crisis in Montreal.Montreal.
** In "The Box", the NYPD deploys the ESU to a hostage situation.
* WesternTerrorists: The team deals with a teenager who was arrested by the FBI of trying to instigate a bombing attack for a pro-White terrorist group. [[spoiler:Turns out that part of it is done due to payback to her adopted father, who didn't give his attention to her when she was little. Also, her father was African-American.]]
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* TheStarscream: Erik realizes that the leader of the hostage takers is a fanatic who cannot be negotiated with. Erik and his team manipulate the situation so the much more reasonable second-in-command realizes how looney the leader has become and takes over.
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''Random'' is a television drama series that aired on January 1, 2017. It's an American-Canadian-French-German series made with the collaboration of CBS, Global, [=TF1=] and RTL. The show stars Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay [=McLaren=] and Sarah Greene.

Crisis Resolutions is a private security company in downtown Montreal that hires it services to individuals and governments who can afford to pay for their services when things with law enforcement goes sideways with no resolution in sight. Eric Beaumont is an [[ExperiencedProtagonist expert hostage negotiator who has been in the field for years.]] He helps resolves situations by negotiating with criminals and terrorists in kidnapping cases that usually involves ransom. He's assisted by Oliver Yates, a psychologist and by Zara Hallam, an ex-police officer and mother of two children.

In the middle of a hostage situation in Montreal, prospective hire Maxine Carlson masquerades as a CR employee to help Eric resolve the hostage crisis. However, Oliver refuses to accept her into the company for [[DarkSecret she and Eric share a tragic past]]...

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!!The show provides the following tropes:

* AdultFear: In "The Return"' a young boy gets abducted in broad daylight after getting inside the van used by his [[spoiler:adopted]] parents.
* FriendlySniper: The GTI sniper who helps Eric resolve the situation [[spoiler:by shooting at the last minute when Eric makes Bernard kneel, appealing to his dedication to God.]]
* LoonyFan: The team suspects that an obsessive baseball player's fan is responsible for holding back a potential bone marrow transfer in "Grand Slam". [[spoiler:Turns out that said fan is threatened by desperate parents to get money for their sick son or her sister will die.]]
* RansomDrop: How CR operates once they arrange for a meet to drop money to the criminals/terrorists. They sometime involves improvising to make things easier such as making Niko turn on his brother Yannis by appealing to his hatred for being beaten up.
* SWATTeam: In "The Return", the SPVM (Montreal Police Service) deploys the GTI (Tactical Intervention Group) during a hostage crisis in Montreal.

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