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Release Date:
2 December 2003 (USA) more
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A "political drama" that juxtaposes the stories of a young female F.B.I. agent (Bibb) and a mobster (Paymer).
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination more
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Michael Jackson's Tigers in the Line of Fire
 (From TMZ. 1 September 2009, 10:10 AM, PDT)

'NYPD Blue' Gets One More Season
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 10 February 2004)

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Quite an interesting pilot more (19 total)

Cast

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Leslie Bibb ... Paige Van Doren (13 episodes, 2003-2004)

Leslie Hope ... Lisa Cohen (13 episodes, 2003-2004)

Anson Mount ... Roy Ravelle (13 episodes, 2003-2004)

Julie Ann Emery ... Jennifer Sampson (13 episodes, 2003-2004)

Michael Irby ... Amiel Macarthur (13 episodes, 2003-2004)

Jeffrey D. Sams ... Todd Stevens (13 episodes, 2003-2004)

Brian Goodman ... Donovan Stubbin (13 episodes, 2003-2004)

David Paymer ... Jonah Malloy (13 episodes, 2003-2004)

Kristen Shaw ... Janet Malloy (10 episodes, 2003-2004)
Stan Kelly ... Blair (8 episodes, 2003-2004)

Jazsmin Lewis ... Jada (6 episodes, 2003-2004)
Jaycee Porter ... Joanie Sampson (6 episodes, 2003-2004)
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Also Known As:
Lines of Duty (USA) (working title)
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USA:60 min (13 episodes)
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Fun Stuff

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Jerry Goldsmith was asked to write the main theme for this series but because of illness (cancer) he did not do it more
Quotes:
Jonah Malloy: Without our loved ones, we don't live. We just exist. more

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Quite an interesting pilot, 3 December 2003
Author: mhoney-1 from Pittsboro, North Carolina

I don't know what to really say about this show. I loved the adds for it, and I'm a sucker for gangster movies and the like. I never would have pictured David Paymer as a mob boss, but he does a fine job. I felt like--and this is just after watching one episode--the mob syndicate aspect of the show has yet to fully develop its characters into three-dimensional people, unlike the FBI, who seem much more real so far. I really hope this doesn't become a kind of cops-and-robbers thing, following two opposite sides, yet always making you want the "good guys" to win, and bring down the "bad guys."

I would have never figured Richmond, Virginia for the setting of a long, drawn-out mob sting operation, but I like the idea for a change. Rather than the cold streets of New York or Chicago, or flashy environs of, say, Miami, they put a bunch of syndicate crooks in one-time capital of the Confederate States.

So far, while in pursuit of a low-level mob affiliate, an FBI agent exchanges shots with the crook and both are killed, right in front of the agent's partner. A young widow has just graduated Quantico, all in an effort to eventually make it to anti-terrorism and avenge the death of her husband in the Pentagon of 9-11. She's about to fill the shoes left behind by the afore-mentioned dead agent. Two agents inform a petty crack dealer his life may be in danger because of a tape taken from four days prior, when Malloy (Paymer) interrogated a man, beating him savagely with a lead pipe, learned he worked for the crack dealer, "Crazy Jazz," dealing drugs to Malloy's nephew, Jimmy. (The scene is probably the reason there's a "Viewer Discretion Advised" on this show.) Later on, newly recruited ex-con Roy, in a mad dash, shoots Crazy Jazz, threatens his buddy, and kills an innocent bystander, much to the chagrin of Malloy, and his lieutenant, Donovan Stubbin, who stood by as his friend went nuts. But apparently Roy is actually undercover, and it was all just a way of getting the dealer into Witness Protection.

The show definitely has potential, but only time (and ratings) can tell.

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