Flashpoint
When the Strategic Response Unit arrives, the rules change. The bad guy is caught--he just doesn't know it yet. The SRU, inspired by Toronto's Emergency Task Force, is a handpicked team of elite cops. High risk is their business and these men and women do it all: rescue hostages, bust gangs, defuse bombs, Talk down suicidal teens, Protect the Pope. They handle state-of-the-art weapons--sniper rifles, flash-bang grenades, tasers. They climb the sides of buildings and See through walls using state of the art tech. But they're different from other SWAT teams because their arsenal also includes a gift for words, a knowledge of human intuition and an instinct for when it's time to negotiate--and when the 'solution' calls for something more. On the scene, they're in charge and no one knows their job better. SRU Constables outrank senior Inspectors--and the Inspectors don't like it. Regular uniforms grumble when pushed aside by the SRU 'prima donnas.' While secretly wishing they were in their place. It's a tough job. A job that carries the kind of pressure only your teammates--your band of brothers--can really understand. It's a stress that shades all your choices and can take a heavy toll on families, friends, lovers... These people are A-types and risk-takers. On the job, they play by the rules, bend them if they have to. But off the job, all bets are off.
- Metascore50
- 2008-2012
- 5 seasons
- CBS
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama, Documentary
- TV-14
When the Strategic Response Unit arrives, the rules change. The bad guy is caught--he just doesn't know it yet. The SRU, inspired by Toronto's Emergency Task Force, is a handpicked team of elite cops. High risk is their business and these men and women do it all: rescue hostages, bust gangs, defuse bombs, Talk down suicidal teens, Protect the Pope. They handle state-of-the-art weapons--sniper rifles, flash-bang grenades, tasers. They climb the sides of buildings and See through walls using state of the art tech. But they're different from other SWAT teams because their arsenal also includes a gift for words, a knowledge of human intuition and an instinct for when it's time to negotiate--and when the 'solution' calls for something more. On the scene, they're in charge and no one knows their job better. SRU Constables outrank senior Inspectors--and the Inspectors don't like it. Regular uniforms grumble when pushed aside by the SRU 'prima donnas.' While secretly wishing they were in their place. It's a tough job. A job that carries the kind of pressure only your teammates--your band of brothers--can really understand. It's a stress that shades all your choices and can take a heavy toll on families, friends, lovers... These people are A-types and risk-takers. On the job, they play by the rules, bend them if they have to. But off the job, all bets are off.
Season 5 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2012
Episode 1
Broken Peace
43 mins
Team One is looking for an armed and abusive man who has tracked down his ex-wife demanding to know where their daughter, who is celebrating her 18th birthday, is. The situation escalates when he drags his ex-wife to near the edge of a hotel rooftop, where Ed and the rest of the team face a huge moral dilemma. The dramatic conclusion leaves Team One questioning themselves, each other and even their jobs.
Episode 2
No Kind of Life
42 mins
Team One's pursuit of a gunman in an office building gets complicated when Sam is abducted. With the life of a child at stake, the team must unravel the secret of the gunman's past before violence overtakes him, the doctor whose help he sought, and Sam.
Episode 3
Run to Me
44 mins
A criminal picks up homeless teenagers and forces them to commit bank robberies for him. Leah Kerns returns to Team One.
Episode 4
Eyes In
44 mins
A known computer hacker learns his student's boyfriend plans to hijack a delivery truck of volatile chemicals. The hijacker gets into Team One's computers and sends videos of the hijacking.
Episode 5
Sons of the Father
43 mins
A man kidnaps a nurse. The man has been known to kill others. With no leads, the team asks the man's brother to help them in find the killer.
Episode 6
Below the Surface
45 mins
A car bombing outside a children's party kills the leader of a gang and his wife. Team One, believing it to be the act of a rival gang, soon discovers that it was perpetrated by members of the leader's own gang, and that an undercover informant who has infiltrated the gang has been exposed.
Episode 7
Forget Oblivion
44 mins
A young man with a brilliant memory is abducted and forced to remember the specifications for a new "smart gun" in a high tech research facility, which his kidnappers intend to sell on the black market.
Episode 8
We Take Care of Our Own
43 mins
The SRU is called in to stop some ex-soldiers robbing an armored truck with millions of dollars. They learn about the background of the group leader who tries to maintain a place for ex-army men and women with nowhere to go. Jules and Sam receive some personal news, but don't know whether to share it with the team.
Episode 9
Lawmen
45 mins
While on a ride-along with Greg and Ed, Dean and Clark are ordered to stay in the truck when a shootout breaks out at a drug den. Ignoring their dads orders, and moving in for a closer look, the two boys witness a cop fleeing the scene and dropping a bag in the garbage and go to investigate.
Episode 10
A World of Their Own
42 mins
A senator wants to develop an airport on occupied farmland. One owner does not want to move because it is the only life his deaf nephew knows and feels secure. The senator is kidnapped so the farmer can talk to him.
Episode 11
Fit for Duty
43 mins
Team One races to catch a disturbed and armed man on a ferry.
Episode 12
Keep the Peace: Part 1
42 mins
A man sets explosives in public buildings where he can cause the most destruction.
Episode 13
Keep the Peace: Part 2
42 mins
The team tracks down the bomber who has been causing panic around town. He is a former psychiatrist and has strapped a vest of bombs to himself.