
Inspired by the real-life Emergency Task Force of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, this taut police drama chronicles the efforts of the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), an elite and highly skilled group of cops charged with rescuing hostages, defusing bombs and breaking up gangs. The series title comes from another part of their job, however: getting inside a suspect's head and discovering his emotional "flashpoint" that triggered the crisis in the first place.

The SRU is called in when a bank employee whose wife is being held captive hacks into the computer system to steal money to pay off her captors.

The team must track down a young woman dying of a brain disease when she and her fiancé go on a crime spree.

The team tries to end a standoff at a hospital between gang members and a man trying to protect his injured brother.

While broadcasting live, a notorious radio-show host holds a prominent politician hostage.