Basics
Title: Wanted
Creator: Louis St. Clair and Jorge Zamacona
Years on air: 2005
# of episodes: 13 episodes for 1 season
Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller
Synopsis
The show follows an elite taskforce, with members pulled from the different branches of law enforcement (DEA, United States Marshals, LAPD, ATF, FBI) as they track down Los Angeles's top 100 most wanted fugitives and struggle to balance their work and personal lives.
Each individual officer in the task force brings something unique to this strike force. Conrad Rose as the Team Leader is from L.A. Metro SWAT and is considered the moral center of the unit. Jimmy McGloin is an ATF agent and a bona fide card-carrying conservative. Carla Merced is a former Naval Intelligence officer and one of the best hostage negotiators around. Although she wasn't hand picked for the team by Rose, after being out in the field with her, the team realizes what a valuable asset she can be. Tommy Rodriquez is from the FBI and not above using his good looks and charm to stop any criminal. Rodney Gronbeck is with the LAPD and a technical genius armed with state-of-the-art computer equipment to aid the team in catching the bad guy. Joe Vacco is a DEA agent who is currently living at the team's warehouse headquarters after having getting kicked out of his own place. And Eddie Drake, an eight-year veteran of the U.S. Marshals Service and graduate of the L.A. Metro Police Academy, where Rose was his favorite training officer, is recruited after a death in the squad.
As the team tracks down criminals, often using unconventional (and legally questionable) methods, they discover there is a fine line between justice and the law. Every time they go out to get a bad guy, they must walk that line, all in an effort to make Los Angeles a safer place to live for every citizen. The series was canceled after the first season, at the end of a cliffhanger dealing with whether the group would be prosecuted for overstepping their bounds.
Cast
Gary Cole... Lieutenant Conrad Rose
Ryan Hurst... ATF Field Agent Jimmy McGloin
Rashida Jones... Detective Carla Merced
Benjamín Benítez... FBI Special Agent Tommy Rodriguez
Josey Scott... Officer Rodney Gronbeck
Lee Tergesen... U.S. Marshal Eddie Drake
Karen Sillas... Mariah Belichek
Joaquim de Almeida... Captain Manuel Valenza
Dedee Pfeiffer... Lucinda Rose
Chris J. Kelly... Tony Rose
Sasha Pieterse... Millie Rose
Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot (Original Air Date: 31 July 2005)
Episode 2: The Wild Bunch (Original Air Date: 7 August 2005)
Episode 3: Rubbing One Out (Original Air Date: 14 August 2005)
Episode 4: Badlands (Original Air Date: 21 August 2005)
Episode 5: The Promise of Darkness (Original Air Date: 28 August 2005)
Episode 6: Sex Pistols (Original Air Date: 4 September 2005)
Episode 7: Click, Click, Boom (Original Air Date: 11 September 2005)
Episode 8: Ronin (Original Air Date: 18 September 2005)
Episode 9: Shoot to Thrill (Original Air Date: 11 December 2005)
Episode 10: Lips Are Lips (Original Air Date: 5 December 2005)
Episode 11: La Pistola Y el Corazón (Original Air Date: 12 December 2005)
Episode 12: The Last Temptation (Original Air Date: 19 December 2005)
Episode 13: Judas (Original Air Date: 26 December 2005)