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When an armed bank robber terrorizes the Boston area, the violent holdups leave bank employees and customers fearing for their lives. Without any solid leads, the FBI's Bank Robbery Task Force must use all its resources to catch the perpetrator in the act. But can law enforcement catch up to the Southside Bandit before the situation turns deadly?

Masked shooters attack an office Christmas party in San Bernardino, killing and wounding dozens of people. FBI investigators descend on the scene, looking for clues about the identity of the killers. But as they try to find out who the active shooters are, they’re faced with a more urgent question…where are they and do they plan to strike again?

Eric O'Neill, an FBI investigative specialist with no undercover training, manages to win the trust of suspected spy, Robert Hanssen — or so he thinks.

After a “family friend” murders a California mother and her 8-year-old son, the woman’s 16-year-old daughter is nowhere to be found. Authorities learn the killer has kidnapped Hannah Anderson and taken her to the remote wilderness of Idaho. The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team receives a tip and tries to track down the pair before it’s too late.

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, armed men storm the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya. The attack kills US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. The FBI launches an international investigation to track down the perpetrators, but in the chaos of post-Gaddafi Libya, arresting a suspect is no easy feat.

In 1999, three women went missing in Yosemite National Park, launching the largest search and rescue operation in US history. The bodies of two of the women are found in a burned car, and the third is only found when the killer sends a taunting note to the FBI. Five months later, when a fourth woman is found beheaded near the park, the Bureau believes a serial killer may be on the loose.

In one of the most infamous serial killer cases in American history, the FBI works with local law enforcement in California to try and apprehend the so-called “Golden State Killer.” It’s a case that spans four decades, as the killer and rapist continually manages to elude law enforcement. Authorities resort to an unprecedented use of DNA data in an attempt to finally track down the man responsible for 13 murders and 51 sexual assaults.

In 2013, Jimmy Lee Dykes shoots and kills a rural Alabama school bus driver and takes a five-year-old boy hostage in a carefully constructed bunker. The FBI discovers that the bunker is lined with explosives and Dykes is heavily armed. After a six day standoff, Dykes sets a deadline for the following day to broadcast his grievances on TV news, or he will kill the boy and himself.

On Sept 17th, 2016 a bomb detonates on 23rd Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, injuring over 30 people and causing mayhem. In the following hours and days, multiple bombs are discovered across Manhattan and New Jersey, all homemade devices designed to kill or maim as many people as possible. The FBI works with local law enforcement to track down a suspect who comes to be known as “The Chelsea Bomber,” culminating in a nail-biting standoff.

After a family doctor well-known for performing abortions is gunned down in his suburban Buffalo home in 1998, all clues point to an anti-abortion extremist as the sniper.

The FBI Hostage Rescue Team works with brilliant FBI profiler Molly Amman to extract a five-year-old boy from a bunker built by a heavily armed captor named Jimmy Lee Dykes. The profiler must convince FBI director Robert Muller that negotiations with the erratic Dykes are doomed to fail.

Rumors swirled for years that two former NYPD detectives, Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito were working for the Mafia, committing crimes that included murder, kidnapping and money laundering for their mob bosses. Both men retire from the police department and move to Las Vegas, but when a former Mafia underboss admits that Caracappa and Eppolitto carried out a number of murders on his orders, the FBI formulates a plan to bring the “Mob Cops” to justice.

After one lethal pipe bomb is found inside a Long Island Home Depot, the FBI mobilizes to prevent a potential second bomb from being detonated on Black Friday.

An unknown sniper terrorizes the citizens of Washington, D.C. over three weeks in October, 2002. FBI investigators hunt for the murderer as the killings continue. With limited evidence and a series of false leads, the investigation stalls. Will a series of cryptic clues left by the shooter help the authorities end the killing spree?

Senator Dianne Wilkerson is beloved by her constituents in Massachusetts, but when the FBI receives a tip that she is accepting bribes, agents from the Public Corruption squad open an investigation.

In the aftermath of the bombings of two US embassies in Africa, three FBI agents suspect an injured bystander may well be one of the lead terrorists.

Once the FBI discovers a bomb factory connected to the 1998 attacks on American embassies in Africa, it exposes the vast reach of a little-known terrorist group called Al Qaeda.

Twelve minutes after its departure from JFK airport, TWA Flight 800 suddenly explodes. FBI investigators must determine if it's a tragic accident or the result of sabotage.

Pirates murder four Americans off the coast of Somalia and the FBI chases the criminal mastermind across Africa.

In 2011, 14-year old Chyenne Kircher disappears from her dysfunctional small-town Illinois home, leaving a convincing runaway note.

After a tip from an informant, FBI agents work to track down priceless works of art stolen from Denmark’s national museum.

When a massive bomb planted in a van explodes below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1993, the FBI sets out to find the bomber

The FBI investigates the discovery of a dismembered body in Albania and learns a nearly identical crime in Brooklyn 16 years earlier could point them to the killer.

The FBI learns Timothy McVeigh hopes to instigate a civil war in America with his bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City. His arrest will set in motion a nationwide hunt that will take investigators from Oklahoma across the country, questioning collaborators, uncovering evidence and unveiling the history of a young man disillusioned with the government.

Following the murder of a Deputy Sheriff by a Latino gang, the FBI leads a task force in Operation Knockout, the largest anti-gang operation in US history.

FBI undercover agents conduct a sting operation on an ex-con in Boston who has plans to resume his life of crime.

Newburgh NY is a small town with a big problem. Gang warfare has made it the most violent city in the state. Tapping into U.S. military surge strategy, FBI agent James Gagliano hatches a plan to dismantle the rival gangs in one day full of gangster shock and awe.

In 2015, the FBI uncovered a deep and widespread criminal conspiracy among members of FIFA - including wire fraud, racketeering, and money laundering.