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FX: The Series
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FX: The Series

Mon, Sep 9, 1996
  • Drama
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?

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Cast

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  • Cameron Daddo
    Cameron Daddo
    as Roland 'Rollie' Tyler
  • Christina Cox
    Christina Cox
    as Angela 'Angie' Ramirez
  • Richard Waugh
    Richard Waugh
    as Captain Marvin Van Duran
  • Jason Blicker
    Jason Blicker
    as Detective Francis Gatti
  • Jacqueline Torres
    Jacqueline Torres
    as Detective Mira Sanchez
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Episodes

2 seasons · 40 episodes

Ended · 40 aired
Season 1
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Illusion
    Aired · Mon, Sep 9, 1996 · 60m

    Rollie helps a woman escape a bad relationship by turning her into a man and finds himself on the run from the Feds who want him for murder.

  • E2
    The Illusion
    Aired · Mon, Sep 9, 1996 · 60m

    Rollie helps a woman escape a bad relationship by turning her into a man and finds himself on the run from the Feds who want him for murder.

  • E3
    Zero Hour
    Aired · Mon, Sep 16, 1996 · 60m

    Terrorists have planted a car bomb somewhere in the city. Rollie and the team must convince the bomber to give up the location.

  • E4
    High Risk
    Aired · Mon, Sep 23, 1996 · 60m

    Things get personal when Leo's girlfriend is taken hostage, but Rollie isn't the only one putting on a show.

  • E5
    Payback
    Aired · Mon, Sep 30, 1996 · 60m

    Rollie is asked to work with a director who the team believes killed Angie's father. Things go awry and Angie looks guilty.

  • E6
    The Ring
    Aired · Mon, Oct 7, 1996 · 60m

    Rollie creates a fake chop shop to catch a crook who always gets off the hook.

  • E7
    Dingo
    Aired · Mon, Oct 14, 1996 · 60m

    Rollie's dad Dingo is heavily in debt to a bookie and Rollie must raise the funds fast.

  • E8
    White Light
    Aired · Mon, Oct 21, 1996 · 60m

    Angie finds her friend dead and all his discs and hard drive missing. He was doing a story on the Air Force and aliens, what did he find out that they didn't want published?

  • E9
    The Brotherhood
    Aired · Mon, Oct 28, 1996 · 60m

    A cop buddy of Leo's is found dead of an apparent suicide. Leo knows it's a frame up and is determined to clear his friend's name.

  • E10
    French Kiss
    Aired · Mon, Nov 4, 1996 · 60m

    When a stuntman is killed on set, the team becomes a target as they have the bomber on film and can identify him.

  • E11
    Eye of the Dragon
    Aired · Mon, Nov 11, 1996 · 60m

    An old flame of Rollie's pops up on his movie shoot complicating matters.

  • E12
    Target
    Aired · Mon, Nov 18, 1996 · 60m

    Leo and Rollie attempt to catch an elusive and cunning sniper called the Wolf.

  • E13
    Supernote
    Aired · Mon, Nov 25, 1996 · 60m

    Leo goes after the son of a diplomat who claims immunity after he runs down and kills a cop.

  • E14
    Medea
    Aired · Mon, Jan 20, 1997 · 60m

    A stalker is terrifying an old actress friend of Rollie's.

  • E15
    Shivaree
    Aired · Mon, Jan 27, 1997 · 60m

    Leo seeks justice for a guy made paraplegic during an armoured car heist. The thieves got away but one went to prison and the money can't be recovered until all the thieves are together.

  • E16
    Gemini
    Aired · Mon, Feb 3, 1997 · 60m

    While visiting Rollie on a set, Leo is intrigued by a Gemini sign tattooed on the nape of Lucinda's neck, as it reminds him a case investigated a few years ago. With the help of a former victim, Leo is willing to finally solve this case.

  • E17
    Double Image
    Aired · Mon, Feb 10, 1997 · 60m

    As New York City's mayor is announcing the donation of 20 city buses to Sarajevo, Jace Emery is striking a deal to smuggle computers to North Korea under the cover of a city bus.

  • E18
    Quicksilver
    Aired · Mon, Feb 17, 1997 · 60m

    During the presentation of a smart probe, an FBI raid is conducted and Rollie is taken into custody.

  • E19
    Get Fast
    Aired · Mon, Apr 21, 1997 · 60m

    After an accident caused on a set by a drug addict stunt, Rollie decides to help Jerry Tamblin investigate on a major drug production gang.

  • E20
    Bad Influence
    Aired · Mon, Apr 28, 1997 · 60m

    The day before the holidays, Rollie is finishing a student movie. Forced to stay after the closing of the school, he is witness, with two students, of the hijacking of an armored truck.

  • E21
    Reunion
    Aired · Mon, May 5, 1997 · 60m

    Angie is contacted by an old college friend of hers, Yvonne Cherico, who is willing to meet her in town. At the meeting point, everything gets worse when Angie is kidnapped.

  • E22
    Script Doctor
    Aired · Mon, May 12, 1997 · 60m

    Rollie gets lured in by an old acquaintance to be an assistant director on a low-budget film that has more going on behind the scenes than Rollie and Angie know. Francis deals with being suspended from the force and Leo considers a new employment avenue.

Season 2
18 episodes · 18 aired
▾
  • E1
    Requiem for a Cop
    Aired · Thu, Sep 18, 1997 · 60m

    Leo McCarthy's death in a massive explosion is just the beginning of Rollie's nightmare. An internal investigation into police corruption points the finger at Leo and Francis Gatti. When Rollie is implicated in a scheme to resell weapons impounded by the police, he hits the street—on the run from the NYPD.

  • E2
    Unfinished Business
    Aired · Thu, Sep 25, 1997 · 60m

    A mob accountant on the run pulls Rollie back into the unfinished investigation of Leo's murder. The accountant will finger his boss, Vincent Capricio, for Leo's death if Rollie helps him disappear.

  • E3
    Siege
    Aired · Mon, Sep 29, 1997 · 60m

    A quick bank withdrawal turns into a hostage situation with Angie in the middle. On location at a new movie, Rollie has all the high-tech gear he needs to make life miserable for the hostage-takers. But the operation is turned on its head when one of the criminals turns out to have a strange hold on Mira.

  • E4
    Shooting Mickey
    Aired · Mon, Oct 6, 1997 · 60m

    When Angie joined up with young, twitchy director Levi Chase and her old school friend Kit Marchado, she figured making a Gonzo film would be a gas. But the premise behind the film—breaching a high security penthouse to get a photo of reclusive, retired mobster Mickey O'Brien—is also a blueprint for murder.

  • E5
    Deep Cover
    Aired · Mon, Oct 13, 1997 · 60m

    On location in London, the last person Rollie expected to see was FBI agent Elena Serrano. This time she needs Rollie's help in spiriting an undercover agent back to New York with his deadly cargo of bio-toxin.

  • E6
    House of Horrors
    Aired · Mon, Oct 20, 1997 · 60m

    Supermodel Danielle Vandenglas is the star of "House of Horrors" but death is her stand-in—and Rollie Tyler is her only hope for survival.

  • E7
    High Roller
    Aired · Mon, Oct 27, 1997 · 60m

    When the body of a Scotland Yard Inspector plummets from the sky and lands in the middle of New York City, a messy case lands on Mira's desk.

  • E8
    Ritual
    Aired · Mon, Nov 3, 1997 · 60m

    Mangela, an Australian aborigine, tracks a stolen artifact to New York, but needs Rollie's strength and expertise to recover it from a renegade tribesman. Rollie undertakes the quest of a lifetime, to save his friend and face down his own primitive fears in the ultimate one-on-one challenge.

  • E9
    Spanish Harlem
    Aired · Mon, Nov 10, 1997 · 60m

    A frantic phone call from Mira's ex-husband sends Rollie and Mira on a rescue mission into the old hood. But things go bad when the van is ripped off and a squad of high-tech killers joins the pursuit.

  • E10
    Flashback
    Aired · Mon, Nov 17, 1997 · 60m

    With Rollie's help, the assassination of a US Senator is recreated in a movie, and then in real life—with the original assassin.

  • E11
    Standoff
    Aired · Mon, Feb 2, 1998 · 60m

    Rollie and Angie do Mira a favor by providing cover for a young federal witness. The situation explodes in their faces when a high-tech motorcycle gang tracks them down and besieges them in an abandoned farm.

  • E12
    Vigilantes
    Aired · Mon, Feb 9, 1998 · 60m

    It's revenge twice over when Ricky Delacruz escapes justice and goes after the man who almost put him away: Rollie Tyler. But his victim ends up being Angie, and Rollie sets out to even the score... no matter what it takes.

  • E13
    Reaper
    Aired · Mon, Feb 16, 1998 · 60m

    Random deaths in Kansas, the cold-blooded murder of a militia cell in Pennsylvania, the apparent suicide of a government scientist in New York—threads that lead Rollie and Mira into a shadowy world where nothing is as it seems.

  • E14
    Inferno
    Aired · Mon, Feb 23, 1998 · 60m

    To clear his name when he is blamed for a fire on set, Rollie probes the twisted psyche of a high-tech arsonist with the help of one of his victims.

  • E15
    Evil Eye
    Aired · Tue, Apr 7, 1998 · 60m

    When a young girl is kidnapped from Rollie's set and sealed into an airtight chamber, Rollie and Mira must race the clock to rescue her when she is only given 24 hours to live.

  • E16
    Chiller
    Aired · Mon, May 11, 1998 · 60m

    Rollie, Angie, and Mira enter the world of life after death to solve the murder of a hapless drifter.

  • E17
    Thief
    Aired · Mon, May 18, 1998 · 60m

    Rollie and Angie get to put on the Ritz as they become cat burglars to the rich and famous to lure the reclusive super-thief Sebastian from his high-tech lair.

  • E18
    Red Storm
    Aired · Mon, May 25, 1998 · 60m

    Loubar is back—with a vengeance. His assignment: to kill the Chinese Trade Minister. Using Rollie's identity, and three days stolen from his life, Loubar constructs a perfect frame. Unless Rollie stops the assassination, his life as a free man is over.