Alcatraz - Series 1 - Episode 1
A San Francisco detective and an Alcatraz historian team up with a secret agency dedicated to catching inmates who went missing 50 years ago and are mysteriously reappearing today.
Episodes: 13 | Released: 2012 | Certificate: 15 | Genre: Action/Adventure | Director: Danny Cannon
Actors: Sarah Jones
, Jorge Garcia
, Jonny Coyne
, Parminder Nagra
, Santiago Cabrera
, Jason Butler Harner
, Sam Neill
, Leon Rippy
A San Francisco detective and an Alcatraz historian team up with a secret agency dedicated to catching inmates who went missing 50 years ago and are mysteriously reappearing today.
When a sniper begins targeting young victims, the team is forced to retrace the steps of the past in order to solve this modern day mystery.
When a terrifying child killer, Kit Nelson, reappears from the past, the team is in a race against time to catch the man before he kills again.
When a notorious bank robber reappears and things go wrong in the present, Rebecca has to break him out of the hostage-filled bank before people can find out who he is.
For the first time, an Alcatraz guard reappears. Although he's a good man, Guy Hastings is being asked to do bad things and will come face-to-face with an old acquaintance.
When convicted bomber Paxton Petty returns to place bombs throughout populated San Francisco, methods of the past are used in the present to stop him.
Madsen and Hauser hunt down a vicious killer with a background in chemistry in a race against time before he horrifically poisons more innocent victims.
Two of Alcatraz's most violent brothers, who were notorious for nearly escaping in 1963, find something mysteriously amiss when they return to the island in the present day.
An ultra-violent felon returns to the present.
The only innocent man on Alcatraz returns to the present.
An unknown '63 serial killer returns to kill again.
Doc and Rebecca close in on a man who may be the key to revealing the secrets behind all the returning criminals. Meanwhile, Hauser makes a discovery beneath the halls of Alcatraz that brings him ever closer to the truth.
In the season finale, Doc and Rebecca close in on a man who may be the key to revealing Alcatraz's secrets. And Hauser makes a discovery that brings him ever closer to the truth.