Ransom

2017 • CBS
4.5
58 reviews
TV-14
Rating
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Season 1 episodes (13)

1 The Return
1/1/17
Season-only
Determined, aspiring negotiator Maxine Carlson jumps into a tense crisis and hostage negotiation run by top expert Eric Beaumont. Hoping to join his skilled team, she shares key info that helps resolve the crisis. Eric allows her to join them for a dangerous kidnapping case in Denver but she harbors a secret that could jeopardize the investigation. The team races to save the missing child from its captors, but uncovers a mystery that has plagued the family for eight years.
2 Grand Slam
1/7/17
Season-only
Eric and the team must save the life and sporting dreams of up-and-coming baseball player in Louisville, Kentucky, whose survival hinges on Eric negotiating for a bone marrow match that is being ransomed for $5 million.
3 The Box
1/21/17
Season-only
A special client calls Eric and his team to New York to negotiate a casualty-free resolution during a bank heist. When the robbers refuse to negotiate, the team convinces a timid security guard to help. But the case takes a surprising turn as they discover the robbers have no plan to escape and find a conspiracy that reaches to the wealthy and powerful. Meanwhile, Maxine gets a troubling text.
4 Joe
1/28/17
Season-only
When the life of an auto-tech company’s chief engineer is threatened, the team is called to Seattle, Washington to help. They find themselves targeted by a paranoid ex-civil servant Joe Morris and must work for the engineer’s safe return.
5 The Enemy Within
2/4/17
Season-only
Eric’s old mentor Freddie Woods brings the team to upstate New York to negotiate with an unlikely domestic terrorist who poses an imminent threat.
6 Celina
2/11/17
Season-only
Eric and the team are called in by anxious parents when their heavily pregnant surrogate, Celina, goes missing in Nice, France. Eric must negotiate not just with Celina’s vengeful ex, but with the couple who hired him, and they are not who they appear to be.
7 Regeneration
2/18/17
Season-only
While speaking at an island retreat in Georgian Bay, Canada, Eric must negotiate with the fanatical leader of a militia group that has taken Eric and the other guests hostage. From the outside, Maxine leads the team on her first negotiation while Eric works to preserve life at all costs on the inside.
8 Say What You Did
2/25/17
Season-only
Hired to negotiate the return of a senator’s daughter in St. Paul, Minnesota, the team must get to the meaning of an ominous message demanding, “Say what you did” and the daughter’s claim that she hasn’t been kidnapped. Eric must dive into the senator’s darkest secrets to solve the mystery and secure the safe return of the daughter. Meanwhile, Eric faces challenges with his own daughter Evie, after his attempts to keep her safe backfire.
9 Girl on a Train
3/4/17
Season-only
Parents in Menton, France turn to the team to rescue their daughter who they fear has been sold in the human trafficking trade. Eric must deal with an amoral billionaire and self-styled retriever of abducted women whose distorted sense of honor jeopardizes Eric’s plan. The team will only find the woman when they discover the real reason she vanished.
10 The Artist
3/11/17
Season-only
The team is hired by regular client Nathalie to find stolen paintings that seem to be tied to an insurance scam in Toronto, only to find out a darker plan is in the works for a vulnerable art restorer. Eric must discover the sinister provenance of one of the stolen art works to save the man’s life.
11 The Castle
3/25/17
Season-only
While playing a new smart phone game, four apparent strangers are lured into a trap in an empty castle in Avignon, France. Eric and the team are called in to negotiate their release.
12 Refuge
4/8/17
Season-only
Nathalie hires the team to help a family in Livorno, Italy to resolve a hostage crisis after the family disturbed a burglar and were forced to flee. But Eric must uncover a family member’s secret to save their lives.
13 Bulletproof
4/15/17
Season-only
The team must work with an ominous adversary from Eric’s past, Damien Delaine, to confront a global threat to the NSA in Everhill, Virginia, (USA). Eric questions Damien’s true agenda and suspects it has something to do with Maxine.

About this show

RANSOM follows crisis and hostage negotiator Eric Beaumont (Luke Roberts Wolf Hall, Black Sails), whose team is brought in to save lives when no one else can.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
58 reviews
Timothy Da2nd
January 8, 2017
Really cool show. I like to see more of it. The first Ep 1 was the best so far. Way to go lets see more..
5 people found this review helpful
Kim Davis
March 5, 2017
Love this show, I wasn't sure how good it would be, since it airs on Saturday's, I was pleasantly surprised
8 people found this review helpful
Rashida Rainy
January 8, 2017
I love this show it's one of my favorites.😄
7 people found this review helpful