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About Standoff
There's
no crisis situation they can't handle ... unless it involves each other. Matt
Flannery (Ron Livingston, “Sex and the City,” “House”) and Emily Lehman
(Rosemarie DeWitt, “Cinderella Man”) are the top-ranked negotiators in the
FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit (CNU). They're trained to talk their way through
volatile situations. They're experts at knowing what makes other people tick.
They're also sleeping together … a secret that they agreed to keep to
themselves, until Matt reveals it to the entire world during a tense hostage
standoff. The public revelation causes friction between Matt, who relies on gut
instinct, and Emily, an academic who analyzes every move. Their relationship
also gets them into major trouble with their boss Cheryl Carrera (Gina Torres,
“Alias,” “Firefly,” “24”), head of the Los Angeles CNU, and raises
eyebrows among their CNU colleagues, including intelligence officer Lia Mathers
(Raquel Alessi, “Ghost Rider”). While Matt and Emily really should be split
up for being romantically involved, they're too valuable as a team. Standoff
combines the relationship banter of audience favorites like “Moonlighting”
with the adrenaline-paced suspense of hits like “24.” The series advances a
fundamental idea: that in life and in love, “Everything is a negotiation.”