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s03e13 · 2019-05-26
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Ransom
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What it is
Ransom follows Eric Beaumont, a highly specialized negotiator who is parachuted into crisis situations to defuse them before they spin out of control. Eric is so brilliantly effective, it's hard to know when he's working someone or dealing straight, which is part of his charm – he knows how to get what he wants and rarely loses. He travels the globe with his team which includes a new recruit, Maxine Carlson, a young woman eager to learn from one of the best negotiators, but who may have her own personal agenda. Together they negotiate the most difficult, high stakes kidnap and ransom cases, though his missions are complicated by the fact that many countries have outlawed private negotiation. As a result, Eric and his team are often in as much danger from the authorities as the criminals they face.
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13 this season · 39 totals02e01 Three Wishes 2018-04-08 00:00
Three Wishes
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 2018-04-15 00:00
Alters
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 2018-04-22 00:00
Secrets and Spies
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 2018-04-29 00:00
A Free Man in Paris
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 2018-05-06 00:00
Undercover
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 2018-05-13 00:00
Legacy
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 2018-05-27 00:00
Anatomy of a Lost Cause
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 2018-06-03 00:00
The Fawn
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 2018-06-10 00:00
Hardline
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 2018-06-17 00:00
Radio Silence
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 2018-06-24 00:00
The Client
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 2018-07-01 00:00
Promised Land
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 2018-07-01 01:00
Semaphore
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.