The Agency
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The Agency was a CBS television series that followed the inner-workings of the CIA (Fictional). It aired from September 27, 2001 until May 17, 2003, lasting two seasons. It featured unprecedented filming from the actual CIA headquarters.
Plot
The Episodes usually involved the Director or Deputy Director learning of possible terrorist threats. There would then be a conference with the DCI, DDCI, the Clandestine Operations Officer (Matt Callan or A.B. Stiles) and representatives of the art department. The focus would then be on the art department creating necessary documents or innocuous looking weapons which were needed for the Clandestine Operations officer(s) to fullfill their mission. In one instance, the art department painted a bowl of Semtex to look like an antique bowl so that a terrorist who collected antiques would buy it and was in this way eliminated.
Cast
- Gil Bellows - Matt Callan
- Daniel Benzali - Deputy Director Robert Quinn
- Beau Bridges - Senator/Dirctor Tom Gage
- Rocky Carroll - Carl Reese
- David Clennon - Joshua Nankin
- Ronny Cox - Director Alex Pierce (2001)
- Natalie Marston - Diane Haisley
- Jason O'Mara - A.B. Stiles
- Will Patton - Jackson Haisley
- Gloria Reuben - Lisa Fabrizzi
- Richard Speight, Jr. - Lex
- Paige Turco - Terri Lowell
- Camryn Walling - Brock Haisley
- Namrata Singh Gujral - Fari Bin Ghori
Episodes
DVD releases
| DVD Name | Region 1 | Region 2 |
|---|---|---|
| The Agency (2 Episodes from Season 1) | N/A | October 4 2004 |
Trivia
- The Show was not renewed for a third season by CBS. Due to this there were large petitions to make CBS renew The Agency for another Season or Simply another episode to conclude the cliffhanger which is to date unresolved.
- The show was originally conceived as a look at how the CIA was surviving in the post-Cold War era. When the World Trade Center was destroyed, it changed the entire focus of the show and required the replacement of the character of Alex Pierce.
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