Standoff Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Season 1 Episode 18: Severance

  Working on opposite ends of a case involving duelling spouses makes Matt and Emily reconsider their relationship, while an executive takes hostages in the boardroom

• Season 1 Episode 17: The Kids in the Hall

  Drama in which Matt Flannery (Ron Livingston) and Emily Lehman (Rosemarie DeWitt) are top-ranked negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit, trained to talk their way through volatile situations and are experts at figuring out what makes other people tick

• Season 1 Episode 16: Ex-Factor

  A key witness in a money-laundering case and his wife are hostages; Cheryl tries to keep her work and her love life separate after she finds her ex-boyfriend assigned to the case.

• Season 1 Episode 15: Lie to Me

  A kidnapper takes a young person hostage, prompting Emily to track the criminal across Los Angeles. However, the chase forces her to reveal a dark secret from the past

• Season 1 Episode 14: Road Trip

  A polygamous cult leader kidnaps one of his wives who had tried to leave him, leading Matt and Emily to discover he is plotting to end the lives of many people in an act of revenge

• Season 1 Episode 13: Backfire

  Two bank robbers take hostages on the subway, and Matt deals with a schizophrenic who has pulled a gun on his therapist, before police start shooting. Drama, starring Ron Livingston

• Season 1 Episode 12: No Strings

  Matt and Emily investigate a hostage case involving a customs agent in a sealed warehouse and are forced to use thermal imaging equipment to see inside the building. Drama in which two top-ranked negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit talk their way through volatile situations

• Season 1 Episode 11: Borderline

  Matt and Emily's lives are put at risk when they hunt down a Mexican drug dealer who escaped back to his native country during an interrogation. Having tracked down the assailant, the couple find themselves surrounded by his fellow criminals with nowhere to hide

• Season 1 Episode 10: Accidental Negotiator

  An office worker with a reputation for gossiping becomes embroiled in a hostage situation, and Matt and Emily must work alongside the woman to resolve the crisis. However, a domestic argument between the negotiating couple threatens to cause problems

• Season 1 Episode 9: Peer Group

  Matt and Emily are forced to negotiate with a group of school-bully victims who have taken the law into their own hands and kidnapped their tormentors. However, the case rekindles mixed feelings for both of the investigators who attempt to use their own childhood memories to resolve the situation

• Season 1 Episode 8: Heroine

  An attractive newcomer threatens Matt's relationship with Emily, but the situation becomes more complicated when the admirer turns hostage-taker. Drama in which two top-ranked negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit talk their way through volatile situations

• Season 1 Episode 7: Man of Steele

  A disgruntled man takes a female hostage after becoming caught up in a scandal involving a surrogate mother, while Matt and Emily are forced to use a live radio show in an attempt to negotiate. Drama about two top-ranked negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit

• Season 1 Episode 6: One Shot Stop

  Negotiations start with a sniper after he kills several people, but they soon realise he is only a copycat. The team have to find the real killer before anyone else gets hurt. Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt star

• Season 1 Episode 5: Life Support

  Matt and Emily are faced with a difficult situation when a boy takes over a hospital and takes hostages, became the doctor he needs to save his terminally ill sister is on holiday. With Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt

• Season 1 Episode 4: Partners in Crime

  Matt and Emily track a serial bank robber who takes a female hostage at every heist. The victims are too similar to be ignored by the team, and it is soon discovered the thief's girlfriend is complicit in his plans. However, the breakthrough leads to a dangerous standoff. Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt star

• Season 1 Episode 3: Shanghai'd

  When the daughter of an organised-crime boss is kidnapped, Matt and Emily have to negotiate with the kidnappers but an FBI agent who has been collecting evidence on the crime lord for years refuses to cooperate, putting the girl's life at risk. Jealousy gets the better of Emily as she broods on Matt's past relationship with Cheryl. Drama, starring Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt

• Season 1 Episode 2: Circling

  When two aeroplanes crash in mid-air killing 180 people, the blame is placed on experienced air-traffic controller John Barnes. He takes his colleagues hostage in the control tower, refusing to end the stand-off until his name is cleared. Matt and Emily are left with little time to find out what could make a mild-mannered man lose control before hundreds of lives are lost

• Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot

  New drama series following the work of Matt Flannery (Ron Livingston) and Emily Lehman (Rosemarie DeWitt) as top-ranked negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit, trained to talk their way through volatile situations. The team are called to a hostage situation at a coffee shop, where an unlikely suicide bomber is threatening to kill himself and the rest of the customers