Standoff
Standoff is a drama about Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman, top-ranked crisis negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit who are trained to talk their way through volatile situations. When the secret romance between two FBI crisis negotiators is outed, Matt and Emily must deal with the strain on their relationship, both personally and professionally. They also must cope with the fallout from coworkers and their boss, who wants to split them up. Trouble is, they work best as a team. Starring: Ron Livingston as Matt Flannery; Rosemarie DeWitt as Emily Lehman; Gina Torres as Cheryl Carrera; Michael Cudlitz as Frank Rogers; Raquel Alessi as Lia Mathers; and Jose Pablo Cantillo as Duff Gonzalez.
Genre: Action and Adventure, Drama
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Episode 18
Severance
aired: Fri, Jul 20, 2007
Series finale: Having broken up as a couple, Matt and Emily decide they want to break up as a team as well. So Cheryl sends Matt out without Emily to defuse a crisis involving a distraught filmmaker, who makes racy videos, and his equally distraught wife, who runs the business. But one hostage situation soon becomes two, and Cheryl must call in reinforcements.
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Episode 17
Kids In The Hall
aired: Fri, Jul 13, 2007
A hostage crisis at a juvenile-detention center is sparked by a sensitive, intelligent teen who demands that the facility remain open. But his plans to keep the inmates from being transferred to a more crowded facility are thwarted by a thuggish teen. Meanwhile, Matt and Emily must fill out partner-evaluation forms. One question asks whether there's any situation the two can't resolve, and Matt answers no, but he does so before this situation unfolds.
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Episode 16
Ex-Factor
aired: Fri, Jul 6, 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.
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Episode 15
Lie To Me
aired: Fri, 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.
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Episode 14
Road Trip
aired: Fri, Jun 22, 2007
When a fanatic polygamous cult leader abducts one of his daughters, who had tried to escape, Matt and Emily track them and discover a plot for revenge that could lead to the deaths of many other people.
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Episode 13
Backfire
aired: Fri, Jun 15, 2007
Panic strikes when two suspected bank robbers take 25 people hostage on the metro train, and Emily is left alone to negotiate when Matt is called to another hostage scene. Although the two men threaten to start killing passengers, Emily suspects that the hostage stunt is actually a cover-up for a getaway. Meanwhile, Matt tries to calm a schizophrenic patient, Neal, who has taken his therapist and her husband captive. Having handled four similar situations previously involving Neal, Matt knows what it takes to ease Neals fears. But when Neals situation takes a surprising turn for the worse, Matt blames himself for concentrating on Emilys safety back at the metro station rather than Neal. As Matt tries to piece together what went wrong, he realizes that he was never truly in control of the situation, and that deception and hidden agendas may be at the root of this disaster. Source: FOX
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Episode 12
No Strings
aired: Fri, Jun 8, 2007
When a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent insists on letting a container pass through the Port of Los Angeles without inspection, it quickly escalates into a hostage situation when his colleagues question his judgement. Meanwhile, Emily receives a job offer from Quantico and must decide if she wants to take it or not.
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Episode 11
Borderline
aired: Tue, Dec 12, 2006
The tables are turned on Matt and Emily when a Mexican drug lord escapes during negotiations with Emily. The pair and two DEA agents soon catch the fugitive in an abandoned tavern in Mexico---then are surrounded by his cohorts while out of communication range with headquarters.
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Episode 10
Accidental Negotiator
aired: Tue, Dec 5, 2006
Just moments after she was fired, a worker at a credit union's headquarters takes a call at her desk---from an armed man in a branch office who wants to speak to her boss. But he has just left the office, and a hostage situation ensues. Meanwhile, Emily and Matt are at odds because she left his apartment early in the morning without waking him.
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Episode 9
Peer Group
aired: Mon, Nov 27, 2006
In a revenge-of-the-nerds case, Matt and Emily must negotiate with three armed teen geeks who have taken two athletes and a pretty girl hostage and are taunting them---live on a Web site they have set up via real-time video. And when CNU blocks the site, they threaten to kill the cool kids. For Emily, the case is personal: She had been bullied herself as a teen. Matt, on the other hand, had been a bully.
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Episode 8
Heroine
aired: Tue, Nov 21, 2006
The team rescue Anya Reid from a hostage situation who then appears to develop a crush on Matt. When Anya reveals she may have a stalker, Emily is not so sure and thinks there may be more to Anya than she's letting on.
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Episode 7
Man of Steele
aired: Tue, Nov 14, 2006
After a surrogate mother scams a desperate husband out $50,000 for her newborn baby, the distraught man takes matters into his own hands. He shoots the social worker who arranged the illegal adoption and then flees, taking the newborn child and the babysitter hostage. The resulting high-speed chase ends at the scam artists home, where, in an attempt to defend his actions, the man calls shock-jock radio personality Avery Steeles show and his plight goes live on the air throughout Los Angeles. Matt and Emily must enlist Steeles help to negotiate the crisis over the airwaves, but this power to the people jock is anything but cooperative.
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Episode 6
One Shot Stop
aired: Tue, Nov 7, 2006
When a mysterious sniper kills a string of random people, CNU is determined to find the snipers hideout. But when they catch a suspect and announce their success, a police captain is shot and they learn that the man in custody is actually copycat. With the real sniper on the loose, negotiations arent enough and Matt and Emily must work with Frank and Duff to catch the killer before he hurts one of them.
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Episode 5
Life Support
aired: Tue, Oct 31, 2006
When a girl's health takes a turn for the worse, a young boy takes hostages in a hospital to force a surgeon to operate on his terminally ill sister. But the renowned doctor is on vacation, and the remaining surgeons refuse to perform such a complicated procedure without his help. With lives on the line, Matt and Emily must appeal to the doctor's past and the young boy's future in order to save the hostages and prevent the boy from doing something he will regret.
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Episode 4
Partners in Crime
aired: Tue, Sep 26, 2006
When a serial bank robber hits a string of banks along the California coast, Matt and Emily are determined to catch the thief. But when a confrontation at the next target bank goes awry and Emily becomes a hostage, Matt has trouble putting his personal feelings aside. The chase is on and after realizing that the suspects are a couple in love, Matt uses his knowledge of mixing business with pleasure to catch the robbers before Frank and the team take them out.
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Episode 3
Shanghai'd
aired: Tue, Sep 19, 2006
What seems to be a textbook child kidnapping becomes a tangled mess when it is revealed that the victim is the daughter of David Lao - an Asian crime lord who is currently under FBI investigation. To save the young girl's life, Matt and Emily must compromise the investigation, infuriating the Crime Division's Chief, and deal with a corrupt father who doesn't want their help. With two FBI teams on opposite sides of the same case and a kidnapper who is more experienced than he's revealing, Matt and Emily have their hands full at work while keeping some secrets from each other in the bedroom.
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Episode 2
Circling
aired: Tue, Sep 12, 2006
When Air Traffic Control error is blamed for a plane crash killing 180 people, the controller at fault hijacks the control tower in defense of his innocence. The stakes are high as dozens of planes circle above, but when Matt and Emily learn that the hijacker's wife is having an affair, the negotiators realize that the pressures at work aren't the only issues the hijacker is coping with. The situation hits a little too close to home as Matt and Emily get a glimpse of what could happen when personal lives get in the way of careers, and Emily pushes a hesitant Matt to go public with their relationship.
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Episode 1
Pilot
aired: Tue, Sep 5, 2006
Standoff centers on Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman, top-ranked FBI crisis negotiators who are forced to come clean about their secret relationship after it is revealed during a tense hostage standoff that they are sleeping together. Too valuable as a team to be split up, they are now under the watchful eye of their boss and their colleagues. Standoff combines the crackling romantic relationship at its core with intense drama and humor as these negotiators vow not to cross the line and let their personal feelings get in the way of the job. But they learn quickly that, in life and in love, everything is a negotiation.
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