Pilot

Another chance to see the first episode of the new thrilling and suspenseful US drama series, starring Toni Collette and Dylan McDermott, about a family caught in the middle of a grand political conspiracy that will change their lives for ever. Dr Ellen Sanders (Collette), a top surgeon in Washington, DC, has been called upon to operate on the President of the United States... and then kill him. Ellen is used to the pressures of her job and it's her steady nature that has advanced her career and made her the first choice of the President. But when masked men invade the Sanders home the night before the operation and take Ellen, her husband and their two children hostage, threatening to harm them unless Ellen does as they ask, her calm demeanour is rocked to the core. Her husband, hiding secrets of his own, is not much help, but Ellen will do anything to protect her family. Duncan Carlisle (McDermott), an FBI agent and hero who is at the centre of a conspiracy involving the President, feels the same way about his own loved-ones. As chief hostage-taker, Duncan will fight for his cause at any cost, even if it means putting another family at risk. With her nearest and dearest in peril, Ellen faces a huge moral dilemma. As tensions mount and she fights for time before getting ready for surgery, it becomes clear that the outwardly idyllic Sanders family isn't as perfect as originally thought, nor are their captors as evil as one might expect. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio guest stars as the First Lady.