Trivia / Alcatraz

• Accidental Downer Ending: The series was cancelled at the end of the first and only season after bad ratings. In the last episode, Hauser and Lucy discover the Warden's Time Machine on Alcatraz, which releases all of the hundreds of missing prisoners they hadn't caught yet at once, plunging San Francisco into criminal chaos. Meanwhile, Rebecca is fatally stabbed by Tommy and later flatlines in the hospital.
• Fake American:
  • Sam Neill, who plays Emerson Hauser, is from New Zealand.
  • Brit actor Jonny Coyne as Warden James, and boy does it show...