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.
When Cal Sweeney, 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.
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.
Season 1, Episode 2 – “Ernest Cobb”
When Ernest Cobb, 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.
Alcatraz is an American television series starring Sam Neill, Sarah
Jones and Jorge Garcia airing on Fox. Bad Robot Productions produced the
pilot episode, which was written by Elizabeth Sarnoff, Steven Lilien
and Bryan Wynbrandt. The series was officially picked up by Fox on May
10, 2011. On December 2, 2011, Fox announced that the series would air
as a midseason replacement starting January 16, 2012. The series will
air on Monday evenings, premiering with a 2-hour episode at 8:00 ET,
before assuming its regular timeslot at 9:00 ET starting January 23,
2012. The series is filmed principally in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Season 1, Episode 1 – “Pilot”
A murder case leads police detective Rebecca Madsen and Alcatraz expert
Diego Soto to discover Jack Sylvane, a supposedly dead Alcatraz inmate,
is still alive and hasn’t aged a day. With the help of government agent
Emerson Hauser, they soon discover that Sylvane is only a small part of a
much larger, more sinister present-day threat.
