Crisis (Season 1)

Crisis (2014) is a high-stakes thriller series you can watch online on iFILM. A bus carrying students from an elite Washington prep school leaves for a field trip and never reaches it. Among the abducted kids are the son of the U.S. President and the children of diplomats, bankers and corporate chiefs.

The kidnappers don't ask for cash. Instead they phone the parents one at a time and order them to commit crimes — refuse, and your child doesn't come home. FBI agent Susie Dunn, played by Rachael Taylor, runs the case, and it tangles with her own estranged sister, a powerful executive played by Gillian Anderson. Dermot Mulroney is the father of one hostage who turns out to sit far closer to the plot than he lets on.

This is a single thirteen-episode NBC run — a contained story with a real ending, not a thread strung out over years. The writing keeps coiling around the question of who gets squeezed next, flipping the board often. Good company for an evening binge if you like political thrillers with hostages and hidden agendas. Stream every episode of Crisis (2014) online on iFILM.