"Flashpoint" is an emotional journey following the lives of members of the SRU (Strategic Response Unit) as they solve hostage situations, bust gangs, and defuse bombs. They work by utilizing their training to get inside the heads of these people in order to make them reach their breaking point (aka their flashpoint).
Cast: Enrico Colantoni, Amy Jo Johnson, Hugh Dillon, David Paetkau, Sergio Di Zio, Michael Cram, Tattiawna Jones, Mark Taylor
The team tracks down the bomber who has been causing panic around town. He is a former psychiatrist and has strapped a vest of bombs to himself.
A man sets explosives in public buildings where he can cause the most destruction.
A senator wants to develop an airport on occupied farmland. One owner does not want to move because it is the only life his deaf nephew knows and feels secure. The senator is kidnapped so the farmer can talk to him.
While on a ride-along with Greg and Ed, Dean and Clark are ordered to stay in the truck when a shootout breaks out at a drug den. Ignoring their dads orders, and moving in for a closer look, the two boys witness a cop fleeing the scene and dropping a bag in the garbage and go to investigate.
The SRU is called in to stop some ex-soldiers robbing an armored truck with millions of dollars. They learn about the background of the group leader who tries to maintain a place for ex-army men and women with nowhere to go. Jules and Sam receive some personal news, but don't know whether to share it with the team.
A young man with a brilliant memory is abducted and forced to remember the specifications for a new "smart gun" in a high tech research facility.
A war breaks out between biker gangs and a bomb explodes in a suburban neighborhood. Team One tries to defuse a second bomb, and help a wounded informant.
When a serial killer abducts a nurse, the team turns to his brother for help.
Team One is stunned when someone hacks into their ultra-secure computer system – to show the team the video of a crime in progress.
Team One locks down a robbery in progress at a busy downtown bank only to discover Sarah and Maddie – two young con artists who are under the thumb of dangerous ‘mentor,’ Pete Joris. When Pete turns violent, Sarah is determined to cut him from their lives – while Jules and the Team race to stop her before she becomes his next victim.
Dr. Jason Alston has been taken at gunpoint and Team One is called to his office building. As the team clears the building, Sam and Jason are caught in a critical situation with the gunman. What is Jason's history with the gunman and will it help get them out of hot water?
Team One tears through the city in pursuit of James Mitchell, an armed and volatile man hunting for his ex-wife Michelle. James’s frantic daughter May fills the team in on the history of violence and abuse that she and her mother have escaped. As the team corners James on a hotel rooftop, a shocking turn forces Ed into taking a tragic shot he wasn’t prepared for.