Three men who recently lost their homes to bank foreclosures take the CEO of their mortgage society hostage. While Ed and Sam search for the shooter, Parker tries to talk down the third man, who has doused himself in gasoline and is threatening to immolate himself on live television if his demands are not met. Parker must find a replacement for Jules while she is recovering from her gunshot wound, finally settling on Donna Sabine.
Two children, their Russian nanny, and a neighbor are taken hostage when they walk in on a group of armed burglars in the children's home. The SRU comes in to negotiate, but the stand-off escalates when Mischa, the leader of the thieves, kills one of the hostages when he feels the SRU is not taking him seriously.
Team One is tasked to protect a serial killer who has confessed to his crimes and is now returning to Canada from Germany. The party is attacked and Sam is taken hostage by a victim's father looking to take the law into his own hands. In order to negotiate Sam's release, Parker makes a call to leave the killer in the hands of a transit agent who, unknown to him, is also looking for revenge of her own.
"Between Heartbeats" is the thirteenth episode in the first season of the Canadian police drama television series Flashpoint. The episode first aired on February 13, 2009. In international markets, this episode is billed as episode 13 of season 1, while in North America, the episode aired as the fourth episode of season 2.
A young woman named Jessie Wyeth—who has given her son up for adoption—and her boyfriend, Terry Dornan, decide they want their infant child back. They kidnap the baby from his adoptive family and demand a lawyer find a way to rescind the adoption. Recognizing Terry's pain at never having had a family of his own, Parker begins negotiations, but is put in a position where he has to choose to save either Terry or the baby. He chooses to save the baby, but Terry jumps to his death.
A young man is persuaded by his half-brother to use his position at an electronic bank to end his half-brother's gambling debt. However, as soon as the transaction is completed, his half-brother reveals that a Mexican gang has kidnapped the young man's pregnant wife and is demanding $500,000 in exchange for her life. Team One lets the stand-off play in an attempt to rescue the woman from her captors.
Jules is officially back. A student brings a gun to school to carry out revenge attacks against some bullies who humiliated him in front of the whole school. The situation is complicated when a local police officer on-scene believes the boy has killed his son and goes looking for revenge of his own.
When Laura, a woman who finds out that she has a brain disease, decides she wants to end her own life, her fiancé Evan promises her one night where they will do whatever she wants before administering a fatal overdose of morphine. After skipping out on a restaurant bill and robbing a pawn shop, they take hostages at a wedding reception where they plan on killing themselves after one last dance.
A young boy, Mattie, is shot after witnessing a local gang killing. His brother Derek takes him to a hospital, but the gang pursue them, intent on killing any witnesses to the crime. The SRU arrive on-scene and must stop Derek and the gang from killing one another. Derek surrenders, but Mattie is convinced that there are more gang members looking for him and they will only back down if he kills them first.
A series of bomb threats are made by an environmentalist extremist group. Team One have just 90 minutes to end the threat, and reach out to the surviving members of a dormant extremist group for help. While Spike disarms one bomb, Lou accidentally steps on a landmine while approaching the second. While the SRU locate the bomber – revealed to be the daughter of the original extremists – Spike attempts to save his friend.
A young woman is kidnapped from her apartment. At first her abusive ex-boyfriend is the suspect. After tracking down the ex-boyfriend, the team learns of a delusional man who insists she is his missing daughter. Team One's newest recruit, Leah Kerns, has been seconded to the SRU.
Convicted murderer Anton Burrows is up for parole. The victim's daughter and wife attend and make a statement to keep Burrows incarcerated. As they leave the meeting, a prison riot breaks out, trapping the civilians. Burrows takes them as hostages to protect them from the other prisoners. As Team 1 attempts to contain the prisoners and restore order, Spike discovers that the riot is not an attempted break-out, but an uprising by one prison gang against another.
After winning custody of his children in court, a man takes his wife's lawyer hostage and leaves Team One searching for answers. Jules discovers that the children have been kidnapped and their mother is unaware of their disappearance. Ending the stand-off in the lawyer's office, the SRU realise that the mother conspired with her boyfriend and her lawyer's assistant to stage a parental abduction and escape to Ireland in case her ex-husband wins the custody.
A radio talk show host is hunted down by the SRU when he takes a politician hostage and threatens to kill the man live on air if he does not confess to being a murderer. The talk show host believes his hostage used his family's money to cover up a drunk driving crash that left a young man dead.
The SRU responds to a woman holding hostages at a convenience store. They free the hostages and capture the woman, who informs them she ran away from a small community known as The Farm after hearing plans of an attempt to commit murder on its residents. Ed and Jules enter The Farm and discover that it is a cult, but Ed is captured by their leader, Charles. The SRU must find a way in to rescue Ed and save the lives of the residents.
Parker is lured into a trap after being called away on undisclosed personal business. Ed leads Team One to track him down, finding a meth lab on the waterfront. Parker's captors demand that he reveal a secret from his time as a homicide detective, or else they will kill him. Parker's secret concerns an 8-year-old girl named Hayley, whose mother died during a shootout when Parker and his colleagues served a warrant on her home. Parker's captors are convinced that he shot Hayley's mother and then
After driving off two thugs who trashed his local bar, Robert Cooper takes the law into his own hands. It is revealed that he lost his brother to a drug overdose, and he is working his way up the chain of command of the drug dealers. Team One follows the trail of injured drug dealers to try and stop Cooper before he kills someone. They follow him to the Steele brothers, two rich men who started dealing drugs when they were cut off by their family.
Team One is called in to a hockey arena that is scheduled for demolition when shots are fired inside. The subject is Darren Kovacs, a former soldier suffering from survivor's guilt after his friends were killed in Afghanistan. Kovacs has returned to the arena because it is the only place he feels comfortable. Sam uses his experiences at war to try and talk Kovacs down, but Kovacs takes Spike hostage, leaving Ed with no choice but to shoot him. Sam is torn between his belief that he could have ta
The SRU are called in to resolve a gas station robbery but discover it’s connected to a deadly crisis on a cult compound.
Parker is lured into a trap and confronted with a deadly choice: reveal a dark secret from his past or lose his life.
The SRU team attempts to stop a vigilante who is out for blood.
The team tries to capture a gunman who's shooting inside a historic arena. The investigation causes Sam to question his place on the team.
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