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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Return

    • January 1, 2017
    • CBS

    Eric Beaumont, a top crisis and hostage negotiator, uses his insight into human behavior to resolve the most difficult kidnap and ransom cases.

  • S01E02 Grand Slam

    • January 7, 2017
    • CBS

    Eric and the team try to save the life and sporting dreams of an up-and-coming baseball player in Louisville, Kentucky, whose survival hinges on negotiating for a bone marrow match that is being ransomed for $5 million.

  • S01E03 The Box

    • January 21, 2017
    • CBS

    Eric and the team must figure out how to negotiate with bank robbers who are not demanding cash.

  • S01E04 Joe

    • January 28, 2017
    • CBS

    When an important engineer at a company that manufactures collision avoidance software in cars is taken hostage, Eric and the team email the kidnapper, Joe, but discover a third party is intercepting their correspondence and purposely sabotaging their negotiation process.

  • S01E05 The Enemy Within

    • February 4, 2017
    • CBS

    Eric is brought in by his ex-boss, Freddie Woods, from the FBI to negotiate with Charlotte Walker, an extremist from a racist group threatening to set off bombs all over New York City.

  • S01E06 Celina

    • February 11, 2017
    • CBS

    A surrogate baby with a dangerous medical condition is kidnapped from a French couple and the team is called in to help.

  • S01E07 Regeneration

    • February 18, 2017
    • CBS

    Maxine has her first negotation when Eric and other guests at a retreat are taken hostage by the leader of a fanatical militia group.

  • S01E08 Say What You Did

    • February 25, 2017
    • CBS

    When a senator's daughter is kidnapped, Eric and the team must delve into the senator's darkest secrets to try to bring his daughter home safely. Also, Eric faces challenges with his own daughter, Evie, after his attempt to keep her safe backfires.

  • S01E09 Girl on a Train

    • March 4, 2017
    • CBS

    A couple in France turns to Eric and his team to rescue their daughter who was abducted from a train and they fear has been sold into human trafficking.

  • S01E10 The Artist

    • March 11, 2017
    • CBS

    Eric and the team begin negotiating the return of valuable paintings stolen from an art gallery, but the situation gets complicated when the thief then kidnaps a gallery staffer.

  • S01E11 The Castle

    • March 25, 2017
    • CBS

    While playing a new smartphone game, five teenagers are lured into a trap in an empty castle in France, and Eric and the team are called in to negotiate their release.

  • S01E12 Refuge

    • April 8, 2017
    • CBS

    Eric is called in to negotiate with a burglar who is holding a family hostage after they catch him breaking into their safe, but the team finds the circumstances suspicious after learning the husband has been kidnapped before.

  • S01E13 Bulletproof

    • April 15, 2017
    • CBS

    Eric must work with a past adversary to stop a hacker from activating explosions worldwide unless the NSA surrenders access to their confidential files.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Three Wishes

    • April 7, 2018
    • CBS

    When Eric’s daughter is kidnapped, he must fulfill three ransom demands from his long-time adversary, Damien Delaine, which include answering a series of emotionally challenging questions and performing ethically questionable tasks, in order to save what matters to him most – his daughter’s life.

  • S02E02 Alters

    • April 14, 2018
    • CBS

    As Eric and Zara provide risk assessment services at an investment bank, they are taken hostage by a gunman targeting a low-level accountant, and Eric must negotiate for their release.

  • S02E03 Secrets and Spies

    • April 21, 2018
    • CBS

    Eric and Oliver plunge into a world of espionage when a CIA spy disguised as an American diamond broker traveling with her family is kidnapped in Vienna. Also, Oliver gets an interesting job offer.

  • S02E04 A Free Man in Paris

    • April 28, 2018
    • CBS

    When a former Guantanamo guard is taken hostage by terrorists, Eric is surprised when he learns that his best chance of saving the man’s life is to work with a former Guantanamo detainee who is now working with the captors.

  • S02E05 Undercover

    • May 5, 2018
    • CBS

    As Eric negotiates the release of an arms dealer’s son from a kidnapper, he uncovers a larger plot to destroy hundreds of lives. Also, Zara is shaken when she must work with an abusive ex-colleague in order to prevent this terrorist attack.

  • S02E06 Legacy

    • May 12, 2018
    • CBS

    As Eric fights to save his mother, renowned surgeon Annette Beaumont, after she is kidnapped and ordered to perform heart surgery on a dangerous crime boss, he realizes he needs help from his estranged father, Phillip Hingston.

  • S02E07 Anatomy of a Lost Cause

    • May 26, 2018
    • CBS

    When a hostage is executed in the midst of a high-stakes negotiation, Eric is charged with aiding and abetting a kidnapper, and he faces self-doubt in the wake of his fatal error.

  • S02E08 The Fawn

    • June 2, 2018
    • CBS

    Eric negotiates with a convicted serial killer in order to get his insight when a teenaged boy is kidnapped by someone copying his methods.

  • S02E09 Hardline

    • June 9, 2018
    • CBS

    Eric is given the impossible task of negotiating the release of the daughter of the prime minister of the Netherlands – a woman who takes a public hardline on never paying kidnappers’ ransoms.

  • S02E10 Radio Silence

    • June 16, 2018
    • CBS

    While on board a plane with his daughter, Evie, Eric must negotiate with a suicidal co-pilot and find out what triggered him after he locks the captain out of the cockpit and threatens to crash the plane,

  • S02E11 The Client

    • June 23, 2018
    • CBS

    When two adolescents enlist Eric to negotiate with a ruthless mob boss who’s holding their parents hostage, the team discovers a family secret that threatens to complicate the proceedings.

  • S02E12 Promised Land

    • June 30, 2018
    • CBS

    As Eric negotiates for the release of a couple being held hostage by illegal immigrants in rural Canada, the situation turns dire when the coyotes the immigrants escaped from take the whole group hostage, including Eric.

  • S02E13 Semaphore

    • June 30, 2018
    • CBS

    Eric’s archnemesis, Damian Delaine, brainwashes Evie and threatens to turn her into a murderer unless Eric helps him negotiate a high-stakes business deal for a new cryptocurrency that could destabilize the world economy.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Justice

    • February 16, 2019
    • CBS

    Eric and the Crisis Resolution team are brought in to negotiate a blood money payoff when a man is murdered and his wife is threatened to be next.

  • S03E02 Black Dolphin

    • February 23, 2019
    • CBS

    The FBI asks Eric to use his negotiating expertise to convince the brainwashed survivor of an internet predator to reveal the identity of the person who incites vulnerable people to harm themselves.

  • S03E03 Indiscretion

    • March 2, 2019
    • CBS

    The team’s search for a missing high-end escort leads to evidence that she was caught between a cop with a vendetta and a dangerous drug dealer.

  • S03E04 It's a Ravenzo

    • March 9, 2019
    • CBS

    Eric and the team enter the world of Italian fashion royalty when they are hired to negotiate the safe return of a world-famous designer’s kidnapped wife.

  • S03E05 Life and Limb

    • March 16, 2019
    • CBS

    When a kidnapper from a past case returns and threatens to harm a child, the team is forced to confront the consequences of Eric’s policy of letting perpetrators go free.

  • S03E06 Stay of Execution

    • March 30, 2019
    • CBS

    When a death row inmate gets a “ransom” letter offering him exonerating evidence for $500,000, the Crisis Resolution team has 48 hours to verify that the information is real.

  • S03E07 Prima

    • April 13, 2019
    • CBS

    When a Russian prima ballerina and her rival are kidnapped, the Crisis Resolution team must use their own brand of fancy footwork in the cutthroat world of ballet to get both women back safely.

  • S03E08 Dark Triad

    • April 20, 2019
    • CBS

    The FBI brings in the Crisis Resolution team to negotiate with a formidable sociopath who is targeting diabetics with tainted insulin.

  • S03E09 Broken Record

    • April 27, 2019
    • CBS

    When a disgraced negotiator impersonates Eric, the Crisis Resolution team races to recover a kidnapped hotel owner, Jonah Preston, the ransom money, and Eric’s tarnished reputation.

  • S03E10 Unfit

    • May 4, 2019
    • CBS

    When a baby is stolen from his crib by a notorious serial kidnapper, the Crisis Resolution team must find out why the baby was targeted and locate him before he is taken out of the country.

  • S03E11 Truth & Reconciliation

    • May 11, 2019
    • CBS

    When Eric and his new girlfriend, Kate, head to a gala at the American Embassy in Bogotá, they become embroiled in an assassination attempt, and Kate is the #1 suspect.

  • S03E12 Playing God

    • May 18, 2019
    • CBS

    When a bombing at a genetics company causes a woman to lose her memory, the Crisis Resolution team works to put together the pieces of the crime to figure out if she’s a victim or the bomber.

  • S03E13 Story for Another Day

    • May 25, 2019
    • CBS

    When Cynthia and her younger brother, Tyler, are abducted by a criminal Tyler’s indebted to, Eric and the Crisis Resolution team are forced to break all the rules in order to find them.