The Nine, "Pilot"

As nine strangers go about their business at Fidelity Republic Bank in Los Angeles, two men suddenly lock the doors, pull out guns and announce a bank robbery that will ""only take five minutes."" But it soon becomes clear that the heist has gone terribly wrong.Among the people caught in the turmoil are Nick Cavanaugh, a charming homicide detective who is attracted to one of the tellers; Malcolm Jones, the kind and patient branch manager of the bank; Kathryn Hale, a career-driven assistant district attorney; Jeremy Kates, a hotshot surgeon to whom everything has come easily; Lizzie Miller, a compassionate hospital social worker who is Jeremy's girlfriend; Egan Foote, a suicidal nebbish looking for a boat loan who becomes an unlikely hero; Eva Rios, a single mom and bank teller who wants to date Nick; Franny, Eva's party-girl younger sister, a teller who got Eva her job at the bank; Felicia Jones, Malcolm's sheltered daughter who came to the bank just to borrow her dad's car; and Lucas Dalton, one of the two bank robbers, who wants to change his life.After 52 agonizing hours, a SWAT team storms the bank, rescues the hostages and captures the thieves--but two people are dead. The nine survivors are now bonded together as an unlikely family as they try to resume their lives and grapple with how this seminal event has changed them forever. As they continue to intertwine, deepen and complicate their connections to one another, they must reinvent themselves in a positive way...or remain haunted by their fateful decisions forever.

AmazonUnbox | October 4, 2006

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