Alcatraz

2012 • FOX
4.4
72 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (12)

1 Pilot
1/16/12
Through the course of the investigation, Madsen and Soto learn that Hauser has been awaiting the prisoners' return for nearly 50 years. Soto will witness his life's work -- the history of Alcatraz -- come to life. Madsen will see everything she thought she knew about her family's past shattered, all while fighting to keep the country safe from history's most dangerous criminals. Then, when a sniper begins targeting young victims, the team is forced to retrace the steps of the past in order to solve this modern day mystery on the special two-hour series premiere.
2 Kit Nelson
1/23/12
When child killer Kit Nelson (guest star MICHAEL EKLUND), a terrifying kidnapper who always returns his victims home -- after he's killed them -- reappears from the past, the team is in a race against time to catch the man before he kills again.
3 Cal Sweeney
1/29/12
When a notorious bank robber (guest star ERIC JOHNSON) returns from the past and things go wrong in the present, Rebecca has to break him out of the hostage-filled bank before people can find out who he is.
4 Guy Hastings
2/6/12
For the first time, an Alcatraz guard reappears. Although he's a good man, Guy Hastings (guest star JIM PARRACK) is being asked to do bad things and will come face-to-face with an old acquaintance.
5 Paxton Petty
2/13/12
When our unlikely trio tracks former inmate Paxton Petty (guest star JAMES PIZZINATO), a sick landmine bomber who has returned only to place bombs throughout populated areas of San Francisco, methods of the past are applied to the present.
6 Johnny McKee
2/20/12
Madsen and Hauser hunt down Johnny McKee (guest star ADAM ROTHENBERG), a former Alcatraz inmate and vicious killer with a background in chemistry. It's a race against time before McKee horrifically poisons more innocent victims. Meanwhile, more details emerge about Madsen's grandfather.
7 The Ames Brothers
3/5/12
Two of Alcatraz's most violent brothers, Herman and Pinky Ames (guest stars TRAVIS AARON WADE and GRAHAM SHIELS), who were notorious for nearly escaping in 1963, find something mysteriously amiss when they return to the island in the present day.
8 Sonny Burnett
3/5/12
Sonny Burnett (guest star THEO ROSSI), a man with an incredible dark side who became ultra-violent during his stint at Alcatraz returns for another reign of terror.
9 Clarence Montgomery
3/12/12
Clarence Montgomery (guest star MAHERSHALA ALI), the only innocent man in Alcatraz, returns to present day, but is now committing crimes. Why?
10 Webb Porter
3/19/12
Rebecca, Doc, and Hauser set out to capture the musically inclined serial killer Webb Porter (guest star RAMI MALEK), an unknown '63 that returns more violent than ever.
11 Garrett Stillman
3/26/12
Doc and Rebecca close in on a man who may be the key to revealing the secrets behind all the returning criminals. Meanwhile, Hauser makes a discovery beneath the halls of Alcatraz that brings him ever closer to the truth. Then, revealing doors are opened and lives hang in the balance as Rebecca will stop at nothing in pursuit of the man who killed her partner in the all-new special two-hour season finale.
12 Tommy Madsen
3/26/12
Doc and Rebecca close in on a man who may be the key to revealing the secrets behind all the returning criminals. Meanwhile, Hauser makes a discovery beneath the halls of Alcatraz that brings him ever closer to the truth. Then, revealing doors are opened and lives hang in the balance as Rebecca will stop at nothing in pursuit of the man who killed her partner in the all-new special two-hour season finale.

About this show

J.J. Abrams (Lost) creates a chilling new drama that revisits America's most infamous prison -- onetime home to the nation's worst criminals. In this thrilling series, a San Francisco detective and an Alcatraz historian investigate the shocking reappearance of inmates of the infamous prison -- 50 years after their mysterious disappearances.

Ratings and reviews

4.4
72 reviews
William Stradford
November 16, 2016
I loved this show and when it didn't get renewed I lost my shit and have never enjoyed television the same way again to this day. This series will be missed.
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Joe Hartman
November 16, 2020
Great concept. Characters are interesting. Particularly like Sam Neill and Johnny Coyne. No way should this have been canceled.
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Talon
August 26, 2016
Shame on ABC for canceling could've been the next LOST
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