The Listener
Show summary: Toby Logan is a 28-year-old paramedic who can read people's thoughts. Toby did not manage to know his parents and grew in foster homes. Until now Toby has kept his ability secret and the only one he has shared it with is his old counselor and confidant, Dr. Ray. While he crosses the city of Toronto in his ambulance with his partner Oz, an auxiliary doctor full of vitality, Toby tries to help persons in crisis and on the way treat his own wounds. With the help of Detective Marks and his ex-girlfriend Olivia, an E.R doctor, Toby realizes that his gift can serve to help other people.
The show, which contains humorous and tragic elements, follows Toby as he uses his power to solve crimes.
The Listener is produced by Program Partners in association with Shaftesbury Films. The series has been given a 13 episode initial order by NBC.
This series has also been picked up by the FX channel. FX has contributed for the production of the new show so that it can be aired by them.
This show first aired in the UK on Sunday 8th March on FX at 9pm (GMT).
The Listener will premiere on NBC for the U.S on Thursday, June 4th at 10/9c.
Filmed on location in Toronto, Canada.
Episodes
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Season 2 Episode 13
Toby connects with a gifted young woman whose mental powers appear to rival or even surpass his own. -
Season 2 Episode 12
A sex tape featuring the Minister of Foreign Affairs goes viral. -
Season 2 Episode 11
A celebrated restaurant chef is a star witness in the trial of a mob boss charged with shooting his business partner. -
Season 2 Episode 10
Toby and Oz are taken hostage by two men posing as security guards when they are dispatched to a routine call in the financial district. -
Season 2 Episode 9
A break in a six-month cyber crime investigation leads Michelle and Dev to pursue a reckless hacker. -
Season 2 Episode 8
A wealthy businessman's baby goes missing after his SUV is hijacked en route to a hospital. There, Toby meets a gifted woman whose sketches seem to detail the child's kidnapping. -
Season 2 Episode 7
Sgt. McCluskey needs her ex-husband to be and Toby's help to solve the mystery surrounding the death of a CSIS agent and the disclosure of classified intelligence prompt. -
Season 2 Episode 6
Sgt. McCluskey with the help of Toby need to crack the mind of an imprisoned criminal mastermind that holds the answers to a judge's kidnapping. -
Season 2 Episode 5
Sgt. McCluskey asks to Toby to help her figure out who is a dirty cop in the undercover Metro Police, but things get complicated when one of the undercover cops die from a suspicious drug overdose. -
Season 2 Episode 4
Toby helps Sgt. McCluskey try to solve the murder of a Russian diplomat by looking into the mind of an autistic boy. -
Season 2 Episode 3
Toby helps the IIB to investigate an assassination threat against a Conservative leadership frontrunner and high-ranking military official who might be involved in an incident years ago in Afghanistan. -
Season 2 Episode 2
Sgt.McCluskey after learning about Toby's ability gets him involved in a case of an illegal weapon contraband, that goes wrong when an undercover agent gets murdered. -
Season 2 Episode 1
Toby after fighting himself over the guilt of the murder of Det. Marks and the disappearance of his mother decides it's time to use his special gift to help others. He gets an opportunity to use his gift when he saves a ... -
Season 1 Episode 13
The Alzheimer patient seems to be connected in a mysterious way with Toby's past. Dr.Ray believes that it has to do with the apparently without identity Frank Cardea, the man who brought Toby to Ray 20 years ago. On acco... -
Season 1 Episode 12
Toby and Oz abilities as a rescue medical team are called into question, after they have compromised the evidence in a crime scene. However, while Toby is reading the thoughts of the people giving testimony he finds out ... -
Season 1 Episode 11
During a dinner Toby learns that the parents of Oz are going through financial problems, if they don't pay off the mortgage for their restaurant in the next two weeks, they might loose their business. So Oz asks Toby for... -
Season 1 Episode 10
After a terrible accident has occurred, Toby and Oz are called to the place of the events. There they find a man with a serious head injury. Despite their attempts to save the man, he dies shortly after the accident with... -
Season 1 Episode 9
Toby and Oz are called to a crime scene, only to find two victims, Wade and Wendy Lassiter in a pool of blood. As Toby is examining the crime scene he starts getting his telephatic hits and senses there is someone else p... -
Season 1 Episode 8
Toby and Oz are called to the scene of a sexual assault were Toby gets an image of the attacker wearing a white mask from the victim. Toby teams up with Det. Marks to investigate the attacker, which makes Charlie believe... -
Season 1 Episode 7
Toby and Oz are called to a hotel after a baby falls out from a window. Before they can act, a mysterious teenage girl appears and places her hands over the baby and brings him back to life. Toby finds out she has a fai... -
Season 1 Episode 6
After attending to a gunfire in Chinatown with several dead people, Toby ends up helping Kim Chu to solve who killed her brother. As he gets his telephatic thoughts he realizes her brother might have been involved into h... -
Season 1 Episode 5
Toby and Oz intervene in the case of Daniel, a boy from the streets that could be involved in a series of burglaries to drugstores. Determined to help him, Toby tries to come closer to him by telling him some of his own ... -
Season 1 Episode 4
It looks like Toby (Craig Olejnik) might just get lucky when things take a tragic turn. After hooping up at a nightclub with Mina (Sarah Power) a beautiful pathologist, she's found dead. Initially fingered as a suspect i... -
Season 1 Episode 3
After stumbling over a homeless young man, Toby starts having visions of a missing girl. Convinced that she has been kidnapped, he chases the man to obtain more tracks on her whereabouts. But he starts having the sensati... -
Season 1 Episode 2
After receiving telepathic images of an explosion Toby goes to rescue Vince from a fire in a block of apartments. Vince has no credibility since he is a drug addict and a meth manufacturer. Dt. Marks is on to the case an... -
Season 1 Episode 1
Toby Logan is a 25 year-old paramedic, who can read people's thoughts. This ability becomes very useful for his daily life, but the only person who knows his secret is his long-time friend Dr. Ray Mercer.

