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Season: 1
Year: 2006  |  2007

Season 1

"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 1 -- STANDOFF centers on Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman, top-ranked FBI crisis negotiators who are forced to come clean about their secret relationship after it is revealed during a tense hostage standoff that they are sleeping together.

Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Original Air Date—5 September 2006
An FBI hostage negotiation team with a personal relationship try to work with a suicide bomber to release hostages and get him to stand down.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 2 -- As the tension in their relationship builds, Matt and Emily are called into action to negotiate with an air traffic controller, John, who has taken his group hostage as he protests his innocence regarding a plane crash the day before.

Season 1, Episode 2: Circling

Original Air Date—12 September 2006
An air traffic controller suspected in a mid-air collision takes the tower hostage, and Matt must find some way to get through to him before hundreds die in the planes he's preventing from landing.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 3 -- What seems to be a textbook child kidnapping becomes a tangled mess when it is revealed that the victim is the daughter of David Lao - an Asian crime lord who is currently under FBI investigation.

Season 1, Episode 3: Shanghai'd

Original Air Date—19 September 2006
After the team finds out a crime boss' daughter has been kidnapped, they have to use their skills on both another agent whose tap it was, and the father before starting things with the negotiator.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 4 -- When a serial bank robber hits a string of banks along the California coast, Matt and Emily are determined to catch the thief.

Season 1, Episode 4: Partners in Crime

Original Air Date—26 September 2006
Matt's ability to separate his feelings from the job are called into question when Emily is taken hostage.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 5 -- A 15-year-old boy pushing his older sister on a gurney walks into an OR in an upscale hospital, pulls a gun and takes everyone hostage---including a patient undergoing heart-bypass surgery.

Season 1, Episode 5: Life Support

Original Air Date—31 October 2006
A hostage situation at a hospital brings back memories for Matt that may complicate the negotiations.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 6 -- When a mysterious sniper kills a string of random people, CNU is determined to find the sniper's hideout.

Season 1, Episode 6: One Shot Stop

Original Air Date—7 November 2006
When an infamous sniper turns out to be a copycat, Matt and Emily try to draw the real shooter out before more people are killed.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 7 -- After a surrogate mother scams a desperate husband out of $15,000 for her newborn baby, the distraught man takes matters into his own hands.

Season 1, Episode 7: Man of Steele

Original Air Date—14 November 2006
A man cheated out of an adoption takes a young girl hostage, and the team reluctantly works with an obstructive local shock jock to resolve the crisis.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 8 -- Matt and Emily save a young woman from a hostage situation, but their work isn't done, as the woman becomes prey to a stalker.

Season 1, Episode 8: Heroine

Original Air Date—21 November 2006
When a hostage becomes attached to Matt in the aftermath of her kidnapping, her claims of a stalker begin to worry Emily.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 9 -- When a father finds his teenage son's notebook full of violent images and blueprints of his high school, he turns to CNU to prevent a hostage situation before it's too late.

Season 1, Episode 9: Peer Group

Original Air Date—28 November 2006
17 year old Cary Steckler masterminds a plot to humiliate his high school tormentors (Andre, Chuck and Tina) by kidnapping them and "putting them on trial" live on the web, and Emily and Matt have to revert to younger versions of themselves (she the picked-on, he the bully) to get through the teens and prevent tragedy...
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 10 -- When bank robbers refuse to communicate with Matt and Emily, the negotiators are forced to bring in a third party, Angela, to help with negotiations.

Season 1, Episode 10: Accidental Negotiator

Original Air Date—5 December 2006
Emily and Matt end up sidelined in a negotiation when the HT will only talk to the first woman he spoke with, but her actions and demands put the operation at risk.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 11 -- After capturing a Mexican drug lord, Felix Aguila, Matt and Emily find themselves in a new predicament when he makes a run for the border and they are left stranded in Mexico.

Season 1, Episode 11: Borderline

Original Air Date—12 December 2006
Matt and Emily cross the border unauthorized, tracking an escaped HT, but the tables are neatly turned when they find him and end up trapped.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 12 -- A border agent tries to sneak a foreign container into the US and takes his own colleagues and friends hostage.

Season 1, Episode 12: No Strings

Original Air Date—8 June 2007
A Homeland Security customs agent (Fisk) tries to allow a container into the port of Los Angeles without inspection. Fisk takes three people hostage when the container is about to be searched, and the FBI steps in to negotiate. Meanwhile, Emily contemplates accepting a one-year assignment on a Special Task Force in Quantico that would mean being separated from Matt, who does not respond as she had hoped.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 13 -- Emily negotiates with bank robbers who've taken over a subway train; and Matt deals with a schizophrenic who is holding his therapist hostage.

Season 1, Episode 13: Backfire

Original Air Date—15 June 2007
Two hostage crises split Matt and Emily: A train with too-knowledgeable HTs do a Houdini; and a schizophrenic patient breaks with reality, taking his doctor and her husband hostage.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 14 -- Emily and Matt try to rescue a young girl from an apocalyptic cult leader.

Season 1, Episode 14: Road Trip

Original Air Date—22 June 2007
When a cult leader abducts one of his followers and takes to the road, Matt and Emily's only chance to prevent an explosive outcome is to reach out to one of the members in the R.V.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 15 -- A young boy is kidnapped by a former Hostage Taker (HT) with a grudge against Emily.

Season 1, Episode 15: Lie to Me

Original Air Date—29 June 2007
A young boy is abducted from the Santa Monica Pier.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 16 -- A key witness in a money-laundering case and his wife are hostages.

Season 1, Episode 16: Ex-Factor

Original Air Date—6 July 2007
Dennis Ryker, key witness in a top level money laundering trial against Norris Burke, is kidnapped with his partner Lorraine, who is soon freed. The kidnapper's MO and knowledgeability indicate a security forces professional with torture experience. He demands millions 'for the dirty money to be recovered', or will kill Ryker. The FBI agent in charge of the money investigation is Cheryl Carrera's ex, Sam Weaver. Several players prove dirty, but who is in league with who?
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 17 -- Inmates of a juvenile-detention center take guards hostage.

Season 1, Episode 17: The Kids in the Hall

Original Air Date—13 July 2007
Californian juvenile prison riots are prevented by closing the institute and replacing it by an 'inhumane' state-of-the-art security facility. Murder-convicted lifer Jerome 'Rome' Kaden is violent towards the rookie guard Tony, but the leader of the inmate gang prevents the attack. Matt sympathizes with the sole demand - a televised hearing from senator Espinosa, and even digs into his past when he demands SWAT-type action. This may cost him his job and Emily. An unequal inmate bond also proves crucial.
"Standoff" (2006): Season 1: Episode 18 -- Matt and Emily hurry to resolve a hostage situation in which a recently fired corporate executive holds 16 hostages in the company's boardroom.

Season 1, Episode 18: Severance

Original Air Date—20 July 2007
The CNU resolves a hostage situation when a corporate executive takes 16 hostages in the company's boardroom. A second crisis involves a domestic situation that results in Matt and Emily questioning a decision they had made during the earlier standoff.

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