NaN/100 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/2/2003
Rookie FBI agents Paige Van Doren and Todd Stevens are assigned to the Richmond, Virginia branch. Van Doren is overly eager with a strong moral center and a deep sense of purpose. Stevens is fast and smooth — one who's willing to take shortcuts. Their new boss is Special Agent in Charge Lisa Cohen, a tough, no-nonsense leader. The branch is rocked by the violent death of Agent Bert Somers à the first such tragedy for most in this group. Agents Amiel MacArthur who was with Agent Somers when he was killed, grieve his loss tremendously, as does Agent Jennifer Sampson, who is a law enforcement officer by day; wife and mother of two by night. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, Jonah Malloy, the local crime boss who runs his organization with an efficiency usually exhibited by much more legitimate businesses, meets with his team of henchmen. Donovan Stubbin is one of Malloy's chief lieutenants. They, too, are rocked by the shootout that killed the FBI agent as well as one of their own men
Director: Rod Lurie
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1012 votes
#2 - Take the Money and Run
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/9/2003
Malloy and Agent Cohen both try to intercept the same shipment of illicit drugs from Colombia, and Malloy kidnaps a 10-year-old child as collateral for a debt.
Director: Peter Horton
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - Undercover Angel
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/16/2003
The FBI is investigating Judge Clyde Parker, who uses the bench as his own sexual playground. He targets young female defendants who are in danger of losing their children and pressures the vulnerable women into having sex with him as a price for custody of their kids. Van Doren goes undercover to catch him in the act. Meanwhile, Malloy suspects that one of his men is withholding information, so he orders another one of his guys to send a message — a painful one.
Director: Rod Lurie
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/106 votes
#4 - Mockingbird
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/23/2003
Malloy pressures a local baseball team owner to give a former college ballplayer a tryout. Meanwhile, Paige pursues a pregnant fugitive who injured her partner, Jennifer, and Roy learns that his murdered FBI partner, Bert Sommers, may have had dirty dealings with Malloy.
Director: Rod Lurie
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Boom, Swagger, Boom
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/30/2003
Roy learns that a former colleague, Bert Sommers, and a crooked U.S. Marshal may have sold names and addresses of individuals from the Witness Protection list to Malloy, who's been hired to kill them for a million dollars each. And Lisa sleeps with a man she later realizes may be a serial rapist and killer.
Director: Elodie Keene
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/109 votes
#6 - The Best-Laid Plans
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/6/2004
Malloy sets up his wife's cousin, Tiffany, to work in his bordello. Meanwhile, Lisa and her team investigate the disappearance of an eight year-old girl.
Director: Rod Lurie
Writer: Wendy West
- 6.3/108 votes
#7 - I'm Your Boogie Man
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/13/2004
Lisa learns of dirty cops on the Richmond force, and Amiel busts an armed robber at a men's bathhouse.
Director: N/A
Writer: Janet Tamaro
- 4.4/106 votes
#8 - Mother and Child Reunion
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/27/2004
Jennifer's daughter, Joanie, is taken hostage by a gun-toting student at her elementary school. Meanwhile, Malloy finds out that his wife's cousin, Tiffany was beaten at his brothel, and Stubbin's son lands in jail.
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - The Senator
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/3/2004
Todd investigates a senator who may have taken part in a lynching fifty years ago. Meanwhile, a hooker wants Roy to kill her father, and Malloy maneuvers to take over a local Richmond baseball team.
Director: Rod Lurie
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/108 votes
#10 - Eminence Front, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/30/2004
FBI Agent Jennifer Sampson suffers a traumatic loss when her daughter is tragically caught in the crossfire of a hit intended for Sampson. When Agent Paige Van Doren fields the call about the shooting and brings in Agent Amiel MacArthur, an intense manhunt for the shooter kicks into gear. Sampson's daughter, in critical condition, needs surgery that could leave her brain-damaged, and Sampson and her husband, Carl, disagree on how to proceed. Meanwhile, crime boss Jonah Malloy, a vicious antagonist but dedicated family man, is in New York for a big mob consortium when he gets some harsh and unexpected news — his wife, Janet, has been raped.
Director: Rod Lurie
Writer: Reed Steiner, Rod Lurie
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Eminence Front, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/30/2004
Malloy's worst instincts are brought out when his right hand man, Donovan Stubbin, informs him that his wife's rapist — a thug named Larry — is the cousin of one of Malloy's own men, Leon. Malloy sends Stubbin after Larry, whose cousin, Leon, is now forced to choose between family by blood — and family by association. Meanwhile, the search for the shooter of Special Agent Sampson's daughter continues.
Director: Rod Lurie
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Born to Run
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired Unknown
Amiel and Paige investigate the case of three immigrant workers who had been found dead. Malloy arrives at the quarter-general of the FBI with a plan to use Cohen as an agent to get revenge against an adversary.
Director: Tim Hunter
Writer: Janet Tamaro, Wendy West
- 6.2/106 votes
#13 - This Land...
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired Unknown
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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Welcome to the war between the FBI and organized crime. One side enforces the law as the other breaks it, but brains, brawn and intimidation...
Genres:DramaCrime
Network:ABC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Line of Fire" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Rod Lurie and written by N/A, it aired on 12/2/2003. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Take the Money and Run".