FBI Special Agent hostage negotiator Duncan Carlisle has taken hostage the family of Dr. Ellen Sanders. Sanders is chosen to operate on President Paul Kincaid in Maryland College Hospital in Washington. The night before the operation Duncan has held captive Dr. Ellen, her husband Brian and her two children Morgan and Jake. Everyone in the family is keeping secret. Brian has an affair with his assistant Samantha. Morgan is pregnant but has not told her parents. Jake is secretly selling Marijuana. 

Duncan seems to be forced to go through with the assassination to help her ill wife Nina Carlisle. Duncan is 

conspiring with Presidential chief of staff Quentin Creasy and his father in law Burton Delaney.

By the end of the Episode, Ellen decided to delay the surgery but announcing that an error with medication was made and proceeding with the operation would be fatal for the President. 

I find the pilot episode just okay. There are still a lot of questions specifically what is the motivation of a FBI agent to go rogue and conspire to assassinate the President of the United States. According to some of the articles, each of the episode would be through a span of 1 day. The whole season would tell the events that happens on span of two weeks. So if they miraculously go beyond season 1, what Plot would be there to keep audience entertain. When I watched the Pilot a series came to mind Prison Break. In the whole course of the show, they were able to break out of two Prisons. So I ask myself, would it be possible to prolong the hostage situation? Wouldn't they get caught or don't they really care if they did?The premise is simple. To assassinate the President, take the family of the surgeon in charged of the operation. Show how badass and serious the hostage takers are for Ellen to comply but kind of show would it be if there won't be any resistance. 

I have to see more episode before decided whether to continue watching this show. What are your thoughts?