The Strategic Response Unit (SRU) is an elite team of cops who specialize in high-risk critical incidents. Trained in tactics and psychology, they deal with extreme situations, where split-second decisions could save a life...or cost one.
The best episode of "Flashpoint" season 1 is "Scorpio", rated 7.4/10 from 426 user votes. It was directed by David Frazee and written by Mark Ellis, Stephanie Morgenstern. "Scorpio" aired on 7/11/2008 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "First In Line".
The team has to deal with a disturbed man who has just murdered his estranged wife and who has now taken a woman hostage outside of an office building. However, the situation only gets worse when his son arrives on the scene.
Director: David Frazee
Writer: Mark Ellis, Stephanie Morgenstern
A dying girl desperately needs a heart transplant and her father will do whatever it takes to make sure she gets one. Even if it means endangering his own life. The team is called and Parker attempts to defuse the situation.
Director: David Frazee
Writer: Mark Ellis, Stephanie Morgenstern
The team helps out some undercover agents who are involved in a major drug bust. However, the operation goes wrong when a customer gets in the middle of it.
Director: David Frazee
Writer: Mark Ellis, Stephanie Morgenstern
When a cop is being held hostage by an enraged family member, the team have to set aside their own feelings to resolve the situation. However, the tables turn when the hostage may not be who the team thinks.
Director: Clark Johnson
Writer: Tassie Cameron
The SRU are called to a bank to deal with a hostage situation; Parker faces one of his toughest negotiations when the robber isn't who he thought.
Director: Holly Dale
Writer: N/A
When a group of girls torment a troubled teen at the mall, the teenage rivalry turns deadly. The SRU is forced to put a lock down in place to control the situation.
Director: Holly Dale
Writer: Tracey Forbes
When the SRU responds to a violent altercation between a young man and his father, the boy flees the police and runs into the woods, sending the team on a manhunt.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: N/A
When a young man holds a courtroom hostage in an attempt to clear his name for a crime he didn't commit, an SRU team member is in the wrong place at the wrong time and must find a way to safely defuse a critical situation.
Director: Charles Binamé
Writer: Esta Spalding
The SRU attempts to rescue a kidnapped girl who is being held at a booby-trapped house, but while on the job they learn that one of the abductors is a teen who went missing several years earlier.
Director: Clark Johnson
Writer: Tracey Forbes