Name: Flashpoint
Released: 2008-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Amy Jo Johnson, David Paetkau, Hugh Dillon

TV Show · Action · Thriller

Inspired by the real-life Emergency Task Force of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, this taut police drama chronicles the efforts of the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), an elite and highly skilled group of cops charged with rescuing hostages, defusing bombs and breaking up gangs. The series title comes from another part of their job, however: getting inside a suspect's head and discovering his emotional `flashpoint' that triggered the crisis in the first place.

2008 · 50m

Starring Amy Jo Johnson, David Paetkau, Hugh Dillon

Director Holly Dale

EPISODE 1

Scorpio

A hostage hold up in a main square in down town requires the attention of our first responders. A highly trained, elite team of negotiators and snipers descends on the action. Unfortunately our lead, Ed Lane is forced to take out the target, who is going to kill a female hostage.

40 min
EPISODE 2

First In Line

A desperate father, played by Henry Czerny holds an entire hospital staff hostage in order to get the heart transplant that his daughter needs so that she will not die. Our team, lead by Parker's negotiations, is able to convince the man to calm down, but in the end his desperation gets the best of him.

40 min
EPISODE 3

The Element of Surprise

Desperate to reconnect with his family and make good on his debts, a former drug addict now clean and sober for eighteen months makes a visit to a dealer who owes him money. What he doesn't know is that he's putting his life and others at risk, because the dealer is the target of a SRU takedown.

40 min
EPISODE 4

Asking for Flowers

When a cop is taken hostage on his boat, the SRU pulls out all the stops to rescue their brother in arms. But their sympathies shift when they realize the cop is a viciously abusive husband, and that the woman holding the gun is his battered wife's older sister.

40 min
EPISODE 5

Who's George

It's a race with the clock as the team must save hostages from a ruthless bankrobber, only to discover that he is not what he appears, and that he will stop at nothing to get what he wants even if it means forcing the team to kill him.

40 min
EPISODE 6

Attention Shoppers

A shopping mall is under fire when a gang of girls bully a young girl in the ladies room. They have guns, and all hell breaks loose. Our desperate young girl gets away after shooting one of the gang girls in self defence. Jules, is able to talk the girl off the ledge.

39 min