Nneka Elliott

When the President's emergency "football" is stolen, Bryan (Clive Standen) and the team must recover it before classified national security measures fall into dangerous hands.

Determined, aspiring negotiator Maxine Carlson jumps into a tense crisis and hostage negotiation run by top expert Eric Beaumont. Hoping to join his skilled team, she shares key info that helps resolve the crisis. Eric allows her to join them for a dangerous kidnapping case in Denver but she harbors a secret that could jeopardize the investigation. The team races to save the missing child from its captors, but uncovers a mystery that has plagued the family for eight years.

The CIU team works to exonerate a political activist serving a life sentence for planting a bomb at a mosque that killed a prominent Imam and three worshippers. The re-examination of the case calls into question the NYPD's role, which puts Hayes in Wallace's crosshairs.

While Hayes and Wallace struggle to balance their professional and personal lives, they are summoned to a crime scene that fits the M.O. of the infamous "Black Orchid Killer." As the investigation accelerates, the CIU team closes in on a suspect who may have committed all the murders.