TV series
Alcatraz
Overview
A unique team, consisting of a federal agent, a police officer and a conspiracy theory novelist, investigate the shocking reappearance of Alcatraz's most notorious prisoners, fifty years after they supposedly vanished.
Details
- First air date
- 2012-01-16
- Status
- Canceled
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 13 episodes
- Genres
- Mystery, Action & Adventure, Drama
- Network
- FOX
- Production
- Bad Robot, Warner Bros. Television
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Sarah Jones as Rebecca Madsen
- Sam Neill as Emerson Hauser
- Jorge Garcia as Diego Soto
- Parminder Nagra as Lucy Banerjee
- Jason Butler Harner as E.B. Tiller
- Jonny Coyne as Edwin James
- Robert Forster as Ray Archer
- Leon Rippy as Milton Beauregard
- David Hoflin as Tommy Madsen
- Jeffrey Pierce as Jack Sylvane
- Jeananne Goossen as Nikki
- Samuel Patrick Chu as Chet
Creators and crew
- Elizabeth Sarnoff - Creator
- Steven Lilien - Creator
- Bryan Wynbrandt - Creator
- Elizabeth Sarnoff - Executive Producer
- Bryan Wynbrandt - Executive Producer
- Bryan Burk - Executive Producer
Episodes
Episode 1: Jack Sylvane
Years ago when the most dangerous prisoners of Alcatraz mysteriously disappeared, they resurface in the present day as part of a larger conspiracy, leaving a police detective, an expert on Alcatraz and an FBI agent to track them down.
Episode 2: Ernest Cobb
When a sniper begins targeting young victims, the team is forced to retrace the steps of the past in order to solve this modern day mystery.
Episode 3: Kit Nelson
When child killer Kit Nelson, a terrifying kidnapper who always returns his victims home - after he's killed them - reappears from the past, the team is in a race against time to catch the man before he kills again.
Episode 4: Cal Sweeney
When a bank robbing criminal returns from the past and things go wrong in the present, Rebecca has to break him out of the hostage-filled bank before people can find out who he is.
Episode 5: Guy Hastings
Guy Hastings, an Alcatraz guard, reappears. Although a good man, Hastings is being asked to do bad things and will come face-to-face with an old acquaintance.
Episode 6: Paxton Petty
When Hauser, Madsen, and Soto track former inmate Paxton Petty, a landmine bomber who has returned and is placing bombs throughout populated areas of San Francisco, methods of the past are applied to the present.
Episode 7: Johnny McKee
Madsen and Hauser hunt down Johnny McKee, a former Alcatraz inmate and vicious killer with a background in chemistry. It’s a race against time before McKee horrifically poisons more innocent victims. Meanwhile, more details emerge about Madsen’s grandfather.
Episode 8: The Ames Brothers
Herman and Pinky Ames, who almost escaped in 1963, return to Alcatraz in the present day and find something strangely wrong.
Episode 9: Sonny Burnett
Sonny Burnett, a man with a dark side, who became extremely violent while at Alcatraz reappears.
Episode 10: Clarence Montgomery
Clarence Montgomery was the only innocent man in Alcatraz, but he's returned and is committing crimes.
Episode 11: Webb Porter
Rebecca, Doc, and Hauser set out to capture musically-inclined serial killer Webb Porter, an unknown ’63 that returns more violent than ever.
Episode 12: Garrett Stillman
Doc and Rebecca close in on a man who may be the key to revealing the secrets behind all the returning criminals. Meanwhile, Hauser makes a discovery beneath the halls of Alcatraz that brings him ever closer to the truth.
Episode 13: Tommy Madsen
Revealing doors are opened and lives hang in the balance as Rebecca will stop at nothing in pursuit of the man who killed her partner.
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