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, Fox TV Studios and

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. It starred

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and

Julianna Margulies Julianna Margulies (; born June 8, 1966) is an American actress. After several small television roles, Margulies received wide recognition for her starring role as Carol Hathaway in the NBC medical drama series '' ER'' (1994–2000; 2009), fo ...

. It aired on

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in the US and on

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in the UK over three consecutive nights and is available on DVD in the UK, United States and Australia. It also aired on

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in Australia in 2007.

Premise

The series follows an international Counter-Terrorism team whose purpose is to combat terrorism; the series focuses on the team's mission to disrupt a terrorist cell bent on destroying the world's economic foundations. The team is assembled following an incident in which a failed

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leaves several terrorists and innocents dead. The team is composed of: Maren Jackson, an administrator for the

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; Max Canary, SAC of the FBI's

Joint Terrorism Task Force A Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) is an American locally-based multi-agency partnership between various federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies tasked with investigating terrorism and terrorism-related crimes, led by the Federal Burea ...

(JTTF); and Raza Michaels, an expert on Middle Eastern culture who works for the CIA; in addition, the American team works with two British Intelligence agents, senior field agent Derek Jennings of

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and mid-level administrator Emily Tuthill of

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. Maren Jackson must fight to keep the team together, when they are misled by the terrorists and evacuate Manhattan's subways under a false alarm. Maren had created the team specifically to cut through red tape and encourage inter-agency cooperation, but she is stymied by Acton Sandman, the CIA's Assistant Director for Counter Terrorism, who believes that he should be leader of the team, and the CIA should be in charge of its operation. To manipulate the situation, Sandman puts political pressure on Raza, and eventually fires him when Raza remains loyal to Maren. When it becomes evident that there is an imminent threat Maren Jackson and Acton Sandman put their differences aside and work together to prevent the terrorist cell from striking. During the course of the operation Emily Tuthill and Raza Michaels become a couple, and she is distraught when tragedy befalls Raza in Syria when trying to talk down a group of children who had been coerced by the cell leader to martyr themselves. The lives of some of the team are changed forever following the successful operation. Maren Jackson is sworn in as the new National Security Advisor. Emily Tuthill resigns from

after nearly killing Yussef Nasseriah, the terrorist cell leader, following the death of Raza, while Max Canary, Acton Sandman and Derek Jennings return to work at their various agencies.

Cast

as Max Canary:

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of the FBI's

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JTTF, member of Maren Jackson's team. *

as Maren Jackson:

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Operative who assembles and leads an international Counter-Terrorism Team. *

Tom Skerritt Thomas Roy Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor and director, who has appeared in over 170 film and television productions since 1962. The beginning of his film career coincided with the New Hollywood movement, with a breakthroug ...

as Acton Sandman:

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's Assistant Director for Counter Terrorist Operations; adversary of Maren Jackson. * Piter Marek as Raza Michaels:

Analyst and key member of Maren Jackson's team. His position on Maren's team puts him at odd with his boss, Acton Sandman. *

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as Derek Jennings: Head of

's Counter Terrorist Operations, and a member of Maren Jackson's team. *

Jemma Redgrave Jemima Rebecca "Jemma" Redgrave (born 14 January 1965) is an English actress, and a member of the Redgrave family. She is known for her roles as the title character in '' Bramwell'' (1995–1998) and as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart in ''Doctor Who'' ...

as Emily Tuthill: Head of

's Foreign Counter Terrorist Operations, and a member of Maren Jackson's team. *

James Remar William James Remar (born December 31, 1953) is an American actor. He has played numerous roles over a 45-year career, most notably Ajax in '' The Warriors'' (1979), Albert Ganz in '' 48 Hrs.'' (1982), Dutch Schultz in '' The Cotton Club'' (198 ...

as Hudson Benoit: international businessman and love interest of Maren Jackson. *

Alki David Alkiviades "Alki" David (born May 1968; pronounced ) is a Cypriot-British businessman. By 2008, he was the majority shareholder of Leventis-David Group, which owns Coca-Cola Hellenic bottling plants in 28 countries. He founded the Internet-b ...

as Yussef Nasseriah: Leader of the

terrorist Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war aga ...

cell. * Barna Moricz as Kaz Moore: son of a Russian immigrant and member of Yussef Nasseriah's cell. *

Silas Carson Silas Carson (born 1965) is an English actor. He played the Cerean Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi and the Neimoidian Viceroy Nute Gunray in all three of the ''Star Wars'' prequels, as well as providing the voice of the Ood in ''Doctor Who''. C ...

as Dr. Raghib Mutar: A Saudi doctor who is an old friend of Yussef Nasseriah and becomes a member of his cell. * Andy Velasquez as Foud al Bansour: Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States.

Episodes

The show had 6 episodes however when originally aired on

Episodes 1 & 2 aired as one episode as did Episodes 5 & 6. As such they are listed here as one episode.

Home media

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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