Flashpoint
Show summary: Flashpoint is an emotional journey following the lives of members of the SRU (Strategic Response Unit) as they solve hostage situations, bust gangs, and defuse bombs. They work by utilizing their training to get inside the heads of these people in order to make them reach their breaking point (aka their flashpoint).
Sgt. Gregory Parker (Enrico Colantonihref>) leads the elite team on their missions. The show is based upon the experiences of the real life Toronto Police Emergency Task Force.
On August 26 2008, the show was renewed for a second season.
The show originally aired on Friday evenings, but after episode 2 it swapped slots with Swingtownhref> for the remainder of the season.Flashpoint is produced by Avamar Entertainment, CBS Paramount Network Television, CTV and Pink Sky Entertainment.
Episodes
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Season 4 Episode 15
Spike responds to a distress call from Sam's sister and finds himself in a hostile situation. The rest of Team One races to a call at the ultra-secure Metro Evidence Depot and finds a deadly connection between the two ca... -
Season 4 Episode 14
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Season 4 Episode 13
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Season 4 Episode 12
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Season 4 Episode 11
A gambling-addict mother under duress from a loan shark who owes money to the local crime boss, Harvey Micks, is forced to play her life away. Featuring (Camille Sullivan) who plays Detective Jo Rosati on (Rookie Blue). -
Season 4 Episode 9
Team One responds to a panicked 911 call: a masked gunman is threatening a group of teenagers in the Don Valley ravine and has abducted Joe Stanick (Luke Bilyk). But it turns out this gunman was no stranger to the youths... -
Season 4 Episode 8
Team One is called when a group of armed hijackers force a passenger jet plane to land. As Parker tries to negotiate with the increasingly desperate criminals, the rest of Team One faces an almost impossible task – how t... -
Season 4 Episode 7
Spike must leave his dying father to help Team One face a bomb threat. -
Season 4 Episode 6
A new recruit joins the team on Valentine's Day, which is notorious for hostage and suicide situations. -
Season 4 Episode 4
A mother and daughter are abducted, and the search to find them results in the revelation of a dark family secret. -
Season 4 Episode 3
A serial robber who broadcasts his heists on the Internet is hunted. -
Season 4 Episode 2
Team One confronts a rioting crowd after a cop who mistakenly shot and killed a young boy is declared innocent. -
Season 3 Episode 21
Spike must leave his dying father to help Team One face a bomb threat. -
Season 3 Episode 13
Team One has to figure out why a psychologist wants team one broken up after failing re-qualification to become a member of team one. -
Season 3 Episode 12
Jackie (Rachel Blanchard) was caught skimming credit card data and is now working as a snitch on her boyfriend Alexander Carson's (Tim Rozon) operation cloning high limit credit cards of big spenders all over the city. W... -
Season 3 Episode 11
Spike is entangled in a case involving drug dealers, corruption and even attempted murder while trying to help out his former mentor. -
Season 3 Episode 10
Team One try to talk down a delusional man who is holding a restaurant full of people hostage, including Jules and her paramedic boyfriend Steve. -
Season 3 Episode 9
The SRU must free an abducted man and find out what his past holds and the reason for the abduction in the first place. -
Season 3 Episode 8
Team One is out to capture a man, accused of murdering his daughter, after he escapes from a prisoner transport. Team One learns the suspect is after someone surprising who he hopes can prove his innocence.
Ed get... -
Season 3 Episode 7
An investigator questions the SRU's procedure after a museum shooting spree. -
Season 3 Episode 6
A little girl who has been calling 9-1-1 almost daily is hung up on the one time there is real danger. When she calls back the 9-1-1 operator hears gunshots in the background and the SRU is dispatched. But when the team ... -
Season 3 Episode 5
While the team tries to stop some gunrunners in the neighborhood the team discovers a surprise. -
Season 3 Episode 4
Can the SRU keep a basketball player from committing suicide while dealing with the team's code of silence and help an abusive coach as well? -
Season 3 Episode 3
Through an anonymous phone call, Team One learns a white supremacist group is planning a series of attacks on unknown targets at unknown times later in the day. After surrounding the compound and arresting most of the gr... -
Season 3 Episode 2
A mom who lost her kids due to a drug addiction is now clean and wants to have her children back. After learning she can't have them back she goes to desperate measures to get her children back but doing so could put her... -
Season 3 Episode 1
When a gunman fleeing a crime scene and crashes his car, he steals another abducting a baby in the process. He flees to a seedy motel where he takes a young boy as a second hostage. After baby is released and the gunman ... -
Season 2 Episode 22
A shooter inside a historic arena leaves Sam questioning his place on the team. -
Season 2 Episode 21
A vigilante, out for blood, goes too far when he takes the law into his own hands. -
Season 2 Episode 20
Parker is lured into a trap and confronted with a deadly choice: reveal a dark secret from his past or lose his life. -
Season 2 Episode 19
Police arrest a woman for robbing a rural convenience store. The SRU, however, has her released when she tells them she ran away from a small community known as after hearing plans of an attempt to commit murder on its ... -
Season 2 Episode 18
A radio talkshow host (guest star Michael Riley, Gemini Award winner for this role) is hunted down by the SRU when he takes a politician hostage at gunpoint. -
Season 2 Episode 17
A man (Alan Van Sprang) is arrested after he attempts to kill the lawyer of his wife (Kathleen Robertson). The man tells the SRU he's not the culprit in the kidnapping and hiding of his children. This leads the SRU to re... -
Season 2 Episode 16
A prison riot begins during a parole hearing where a man convicted for murder (Roger R. Cross) is once again humiliated by his victim's daughter (Sarena Parmar). The SRU is summoned to quell it. Ed finds out that the pri... -
Season 2 Episode 15
The SRU unit must rescue a young woman (Joanna Douglas) from a delusional man (Brian Markinson) who insists she is his missing daughter. -
Season 2 Episode 14
The SRU team must face a series of bomb threats all around the city as a team member puts his life on the line. -
Season 2 Episode 13
A boy is wounded by a drug dealer after witnessing a gangland slaying. The gang members chase him and his brother to a hospital, where a standoff ensues between the thugs and the SRU team. -
Season 2 Episode 12
A young couple on a crime spree baffle the unit. But the investigation reveals the woman has a fatal disease and only has a short time to live, and that her fiancé is determined to make her final days memorable. -
Season 2 Episode 11
A student brings a gun to school to carry out revenge against some bullies who pushed him too far. Parker leads the SRU's efforts to calm the boy and diffuse the volatile situation. -
Season 2 Episode 10
A man whose pregnant wife is taken hostage by a ruthless gang persuades his brother to electronically rob a bank for him and transfer $500,000 into the thugs' account. If the money isn't wired, the gang will kill the wif... -
Season 2 Episode 9
A couple steals a baby that they gave up for adoption. -
Season 2 Episode 8
A teen who is upset his friends are moving away has his plans to rob a store go terribly wrong ending in a hostage situation. -
Season 2 Episode 7
The SRU must protect the killer while he is returning to the United States. Sam has to make sure a victim's father sees that taking the law into his own hands will not help anyone. -
Season 2 Episode 6
An upper-class family is taken hostage during an apparent home invasion gone awry. The SRU team members soon learn that the family's nanny is involved, and they try to persuade her to cooperate. -
Season 2 Episode 5
A CEO is taken hostage after a mortgage scheme goes bad and an SRU team member is injured. -
Season 2 Episode 4
A sniper fires from downtown rooftops, but his real target is Ed, who killed his father several weeks earlier while the man held a woman hostage at gunpoint. During the mission, one of the SRU's own is hit and fights for... -
Season 2 Episode 3
The SRU is split between two crises as a bomb endangers a train station, and one of their own takes headquarters hostage. -
Season 2 Episode 2
The case hits home for Ed and the team, when a former member of SRU needs Ed's help. (source: TV.com) -
Season 2 Episode 1
The team have to protect some VIPs, only to find they have a kidnapping on their hands and limited time to rescue the victim. (source: TV.com) -
Season 1 Episode 9
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. -
Season 1 Episode 8
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 situatio... -
Season 1 Episode 7
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 -
Season 1 Episode 6
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. -
Season 1 Episode 5
When the SRU arrives at a hostage situation at a bank, Sgt. Parker faces one of his toughest negotiations when the robber isn't who he thought -
Season 1 Episode 4
When a cop is being held hostage by an enraged family member, the team has to set aside their own feelings to resolve the situation. However, the tables turn when the hostage may not be who the team thinks. -
Season 1 Episode 3
The team helps out some undercover agents who are involved in a major drug bust. However the operation goes haywire when an ex-junkie gets involved. -
Season 1 Episode 2
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 in and Greg attempts to confront his own... -
Season 1 Episode 1
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 s...

