FBI Dramas

There’s more details on the new X-Files movie cast roll. Besides Amanda Peet, comedian Billy Connolly (Open Season, The Last Samurai), and West Coast rapper and actor, Xzibit (Derailed, Pinkville) have joined the cast. What you may not know is that Xzibit and Peet will portray FBI agents.
The info leaked about this movie has been pretty consistent as far as the fact that it will be a stand-alone film, not a sequel to the first. Does this mean there’s no chance of any romance between Scully and Mulder? Will Skinner be back, and will this be business as usual for …read more

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Episode Name: “Chinese Box”Episode Number: 4.10Air Date: December 14, 2007The tension was pretty high for this FBI dramas episode. David Sinclair becomes a hostage, trapped inside an elevator with an FBI subcontractor who thinks he’s been under surveillance.
Don Epps criticizes Megan for letting David use himself as a hostage, and Megan reminds him that he wasn’t there, and David made the judgment call to save a woman’s life by taking her place. I’m not sure why, but it’s entertaining anytime those two go at it, even slightly.

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So that this blog becomes a resource for readers, I’ve set up series info pages for the most popular TV shows: I’ll also be updating these as we go on our journey into FBI drama:
Criminal Minds Series Info
Numb3rs Series Info
Without A Trace Series Info
The links for these pages are on the right side of the main page here, under the FBI Dramas Resources section.Tags: fbi dramas, criminal minds, numb3rs, without a trace, series info

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Episode Name: "Birthright"Episode Number: 3.11Air Date: December 12, 2007
So this story begins with some young people partying outdoors at night. J.J. fields all of BAU’s incoming cases and she is uniquely affected by this one. Fredricksburg, VA is the setting for these disappearances and killings of young women.
The killings are very similar to ones that took place 20 years ago. The character John Caufield is the sheriff from the original case. The murders from 20 years ago broke him.

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Now, who would want to hurt a young department store Santa? You can find out tonight on a new episode of Without A Trace. The Missing Person’s Bureau of the FBI turns their attention to the case of a missing Santa who may have some criminal connections. This one is called Claus and Effect.Tags: without a trace, fbi, missing person’s bureau, claus and effect

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David Duchovny and Amanda Peet are working this week on the set of the new X-Files movie in Vancouver. The X-Files as you know is one of the most captivating FBI dramas in television history. You can see the larger pictures if you click above.
The name of the movie and the logline are still being kept hush-hush, however we do know that Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter are reunited with this project, so its bound to be great.
The movie is set …read more

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Rob Morrow stars in a new movie with Jack Nicholson just in time for the holidays.Could The Bucket List be the 2007 answer to Thelma and Louise? Not sure, but it is about two terminally ill guys in the hospital who throw caution to the stars, and do all the things they’ve wanted to do forever. Numb3r’s star Rob Morrow portrays Dr. Hollins in the film along with the two leads, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. This film is set to be released on Christmas Day.
It looks like a great film for the holidays, and who knows, maybe these guys …read more

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Interestingly enough, there’s not only mathematics behind the TV show Numb3rs, but computer science as well. I’ll delve into some short examples so you can see how they were applied to solve a case. For example, in the episode One Hour which aired last week, the team was assigned to solve a kidnapping case.
The characters Charles and Amita, both math geniuses, were first tasked with helping to track a VoIP call. These calls are placed via use of the Internet. Amita placed an exploit on the call’s packet to determine the location of where the call took place. Using this technique, …read more

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In the mood for some Philly crime solving? Cold Case tonight features the mystery of the murder of a 1945 Japanese American family man whose family was persecuted after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
This series features Lilly Rush, the female detective in the Philadelphia Homicide Squad who is assigned to cases that have never been solved. Cold Case airs at 9:00 PM on CBS.Tags: crime drama, cold case, cbs, pearl harbor

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