Flashpoint — Season 1
One Moment Changes Everything
About this season
The Strategic Response Unit (SRU) is an elite team of cops who specialize in high-risk critical incidents. Trained in tactics and psychology, they deal with extreme situations, where split-second decisions could save a life...or cost one.
Episodes (9)
1. Scorpio
9.0Aired 11 July 2008 • 44 min
The team has to deal with a disturbed man who has just murdered his estranged wife and who has now taken a woman hostage outside of an office building. However, the situation only gets worse when his son arrives on the scene.
2. First In Line
7.3Aired 18 July 2008 • 44 min
A dying girl desperately needs a heart transplant and her father will do whatever it takes to make sure she gets one. Even if it means endangering his own life. The team is called and Parker attempts to defuse the situation.
3. The Element of Surprise
8.5Aired 24 July 2008 • 44 min
The team helps out some undercover agents who are involved in a major drug bust. However, the operation goes wrong when a customer gets in the middle of it.
4. Asking For Flowers
8.5Aired 31 July 2008 • 44 min
When a cop is being held hostage by an enraged family member, the team have to set aside their own feelings to resolve the situation. However, the tables turn when the hostage may not be who the team thinks.
5. Who's George
9.0Aired 7 August 2008 • 44 min
The SRU are called to a bank to deal with a hostage situation; Parker faces one of his toughest negotiations when the robber isn't who he thought.
6. Attention Shoppers
6.0Aired 14 August 2008 • 44 min
When a group of girls torment a troubled teen at the mall, the teenage rivalry turns deadly. The SRU is forced to put a lock down in place to control the situation.
7. He Knows His Brother
7.0Aired 21 August 2008 • 44 min
When the SRU responds to a violent altercation between a young man and his father, the boy flees the police and runs into the woods, sending the team on a manhunt.
8. Never Kissed a Girl
8.0Aired 11 September 2008 • 44 min
When a young man holds a courtroom hostage in an attempt to clear his name for a crime he didn't commit, an SRU team member is in the wrong place at the wrong time and must find a way to safely defuse a critical situation.
9. Planets Aligned
7.0Aired 18 September 2008 • 44 min
The SRU attempts to rescue a kidnapped girl who is being held at a booby-trapped house, but while on the job they learn that one of the abductors is a teen who went missing several years earlier.