• Premiered: Sep 2006
  • Episodes: 18
  • Followers: 53
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Season 1
1x1
Pilot
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 05, 2006
The pilot introduces Matt and Emily, a man and a woman who deal with their personal relationship while focusing on their jobs as hostage negotiators. In this episode, the CNU deals with .. show full overview
1x2
Circling
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 12, 2006
An air traffic controller hijacks the control tower to protest his innocence after he is blamed for a plane crash that killed 180 people. Matt and Emily discover the hijacker might be .. show full overview
1x3
Shanghai'd
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 19, 2006
When the daughter of an Asian crime lord is kidnapped, Matt and Emily begin negotiating with the kidnapper for her safe return, thus compromising the investigation of the Organized Crime .. show full overview
1x4
Partners in Crime
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 26, 2006
During a confrontation at a bank robbery, Emily is taken hostage by the two bank robbers. Matt uses his people skills to catch the robbers after he determines they are a couple in love.
1x5
Life Support
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 31, 2006
A young boy takes hostages in a hospital because the doctor is needs to operate on his terminally ill sister is on vacation and the other surgeons refuse to perform the procedure without .. show full overview
1x6
One Shot Stop
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 07, 2006
The Greater Los Angeles Sniper (GLA) begins killing again after nearly eight years of inactivity, which causes unprecedented multi-agency co-operation. As motive changes come to light, .. show full overview
1x7
Man of Steele
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 14, 2006
A man becomes enraged when he learns a surrogate mother for his child in an illegal adoption was a fraud. After he shoots the social worker who arranged the adoption, he takes the baby .. show full overview
1x8
Heroine
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 21, 2006
After Matt and Emily save a young woman from a hostage situation, they learn the woman could be the victim of a stalker. Although Emily learns the woman has feelings for Matt and could be making false claims, Matt is determined to save her again.
1x9
Peer Group
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 28, 2006
Believing his sons have been tormented by school bullies and are planning a counterattack, a distraught father contacts the CNU after he finds notebooks and blueprints of his sons' .. show full overview
1x10
The Accidental Negotiator
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 05, 2006
The CNU is called in to deal with a crisis situation at the headquarters of a credit union after an armed man takes a recently fired worker hostage. Meanwhile, the relationship between .. show full overview
1x11
Borderline
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 12, 2006
When capturing a drug lord takes them to Mexico, Matt and Emily become stranded without an escape plan. The two then must extricate themselves from a bad situation by using their negotiation skills after the predicament becomes violent.
1x12
No Strings
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 08, 2007
When a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent tries to bring a foreign container into the Los Angeles port without an inspection, the FBI and police step in when the agent takes three .. show full overview
1x13
Backfire
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 15, 2007
Emily is left alone to negotiate a hostage crisis on a commuter train while Matt deals with a schizophrenic patient who has taken his therapist and her husband hostage.
1x14
Road Trip
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 22, 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.
1x15
Lie to Me
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 29, 2007
When a young boy is abducted from the Santa Monica Pier, Emily is thrown into the middle of the crisis. The situation becomes volatile when her personal life is brought into the public eye and she must confront her demons in order to save the child.
1x16
Ex-Factor
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 06, 2007
Cheryl becomes personally involved in the case after the key witness in a federal money-laundering case and his wife are kidnapped and held hostage.
1x17
Kids in the Hall
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 13, 2007
When the teenaged inmates at a juvenile detention center overtake the jail and take guards hostage, Matt and Emily learn their goal is not to break out, but to keep the facility open after it was scheduled to be torn down.
1x18
Severance
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 20, 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 Emily questioning a decision they had made during the standoff.

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