Partners by day. They're still trying to figure out the nights.
Standoff Aired From September 5, 2006 – July 20, 2007 On FOX.
Plot
Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman are top-ranked crisis negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit who are trained to talk their way through volatile situations. They make an outstanding team professionally, but their relationship is a bit more precarious off the job. The series advances the fundamental idea that in life and in love "Everything is a negotiation."
In this drama, a secret romance between two FBI crisis negotiators is outed by one of them, and the couple must deal with the strain the disclosure puts on their relationship, both personally and professionally. They also have to deal with the fallout from coworkers and their boss, who wants to split them up. Trouble is, they work better as a team.
Characters
Ron Livingston
| Matt Flannery
is a senior negotiator for Crisis Negotiation Unit at the Los Angeles field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is partnered with Emily Lehman, who is also his lover.
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Rosemarie DeWitt
| Emily Lehman
is a senior negotiator for Crisis Negotiation Unit at the Los Angeles field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Gina Torres
| Cheryl Carrera
is the Supervisory Special Agent in Charge of the Crisis Negotiation Unit at the Los Angeles field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She was Matt's partner in crisis negotiation before she was promoted.
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Michael Cudlitz
| Frank Rogers
is an FBI Special Agent and the commander of the Tactical Response Unit's Hostage Rescue Team at the Los Angeles field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Raquel Alessi
| Lia Mathers
is an intelligence analyst for the Crisis Negotiation Unit at the Los Angeles field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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José Pablo Cantillo
| Duff Gonzalez
is an FBI special agent and a member of the Hostage Rescue Team at the Los Angeles field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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