During a school trip, students of Ballard High School, attended by the children of Washington, D.C.'s elite, including the President's son, are the victims of an ambush. A national crisis begins and Secret Service agent Marcus Finley finds himself at the center of it on his first day on the job. FBI agent Susie Dunn also discovers her "niece", the daughter of CEO Meg Fitch, is among the kidnapped children'.
Cast
Main
Dermot Mulroney as Francis Gibson, an ex-CIA analyst who was betrayed by the government
Stevie Lynn Jones as Beth Ann Gibson, the daughter of Francis, with whom she has a strained relationship
Halston Sage as Amber Fitch, Susie's biological daughter but raised by Meg as her own
Max Schneider as Ian Martinez, Beth's best friend
Gillian Anderson as Meg Fitch, the CEO of an international IT company and Susie's older sister
Recurring
David Andrews as Secret Service Special Agent Hurst, head of the White House protective detail. He was working for Gibson under duress, until being shot and killed by Kyle DeVore, who believed that Hurst had betrayed him.
Rod Hallett as Dr. Jonas Clarenbach, a scientist who once worked in the pharmaceuticals division at Meg's company, and is also Meg's former lover
Joshua Erenberg as Anton Roth, an advanced student from the school who is saved from the initial ambush by Agent Finley
John Henry Canavan as Morgan Roth, a scientist and father to Anton Roth
Development and production
bought Rand Ravich's script with a put pilot commitment in August 2012. In January 2013, NBC green-lit the production of a pilot episode. Scenes of Ballard High School were filmed at Northside College Prep in Chicago. On May 12, 2013, the series was placed on the network's 2013–14 schedule. It premiered on March 16, 2014. On November 1, 2013, after filming was completed for the sixth episode, production of the series was put on an unscheduled, week-long hiatus. The pause in production was attributed to fears that subsequent episodes were veering too far away from the tone of the pilot, which received very positive early reviews. The break was supposed to be used to give writers time to re-work scripts and to re-shoot certain scenes for previously finished episodes. Filming later resumed.
Episodes
Reception
Critical reception
Crisis scored 63 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 28 "generally favorable" reviews. On another review aggregation website, Rotten Tomatoes, it was given a score of 61% with an average rating of 6.8 out of 10, based on 31 reviews.
