The Agency - In the crosshairs of the CIA
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Agency - In the crosshairs of the CIA |
| Original title | The Agency |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2001-2003 |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 44 in 2 seasons |
| idea | Michael Frost Beckner |
| production |
Shaun Cassidy , Gail Katz , Wolfgang Petersen |
| music | Jon Honest |
| First broadcast | September 27, 2001 (USA) on CBS |
| German-language first broadcast |
January 15, 2003 on RTL II |
The Agency - In the crosshairs of the CIA (original title: The Agency ) is an American television series , based on an idea by Michael Frost Beckner and produced by Shaun Cassidy , Gail Katz and Wolfgang Petersen .
action
The Agency takes a critical look - especially from the protagonists' point of view - behind the scenes of the foreign intelligence service CIA and its machinations and entanglements, but without explaining or fundamentally questioning the foreign policy of the United States , abuse of power , economic policy , terrorism and their backgrounds and causes .
At the center of each episode is an exciting and oppressive staged covert operation by the CIA in countries on all continents, including in the fight against assassinations (also by the CIA), terrorism , drug trafficking , hostage-taking , white-collar crime , human trafficking and, in particular, the "safeguarding of interests" of the USA .
The storyline (including those of the characters' private lives) spans the undercover agent Matt Callan in the first season (in the second season: AB Stiles) and accompanies him and a small team of analysts, field and office staff in the CIA headquarters . Matt is a retired Special Forces , instructor, and overworked operational field worker who has never questioned an order or disapproved of an assignment. His brother Eric was killed under mysterious, non-disclosure circumstances while on a CIA mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina , and Matt is trying to investigate why.
The team includes Lisa Fabrizzi, Eric's fiancée, officer in charge and counter-terrorism director : Since Eric's death, Lisa has buried herself in her work to get over his death, but also seems to worry about Matt, who feels more than friendship for her. Terri Lowell is a conscientious computer graphic designer , new to the team, in the middle of her divorce and struggling with her double life - working at the CIA and the bogus identity that the employees show to the outside world: She and her colleague Lex are among other things on the production and forgery specialized documents and identity cards, which the agents in their Top Secret need missions.
Other central figures are Carl Reese, an honest management officer and loyal assistant to the director of the Agency, and Joshua Nankin, who, as head of the technical department, provides the agents with the documents, bogus identities and background information necessary for their operations. Jackson Haisley is a widowed father and senior analyst who sifts through the incoming information and evaluates it for the attention of the management staff for the ongoing operations of the CIA, at the same time increasingly beginning to question his work.
And last but not least Alex Pierce (until halfway through the first season the director of the CIA ), a staunch patriot who on the one hand is responsible for operations before the US Senate and, if necessary , extends the limits of credible deniability . On the other hand, he tries to assert his position against his predecessor (Robert Quinn) and possible successor (Senator Tom Gage) as well as against the competing US intelligence agencies and authorities.
Cast and dubbing
Main cast
| actor | Role name | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Paige Turco | Terri Lowell | Carin C. Tietze |
| David Clennon | Joshua Nankin | Dirk Galuba |
| Will Patton | Jackson Haisley | Frank Röth |
| Richard Speight Junior | Lex (season 1) | Tobias Lelle |
| Daniel Benzali | Deputy Director Robert Quinn (individual, episodes 14-44) |
Joachim Höppner |
| Rocky Carroll | Carl Reese | Matthias Klie |
| Beau Bridges | Senator / Director Tom Gage (episodes 14-44) | Norbert Gescher |
| Jason O'Mara | AB Stiles (Season 2) | |
| Gil Bellows | Matt Callan (Season 1) | Crock Werner Krumbiegel |
| Gloria Reuben | Lisa Fabrizzi (episodes 1-13, 21-22) | Petra Einhoff |
| Ronny Cox | Director Alex Pierce (episodes 1-10) | Reinhard Glemnitz |
Supporting cast
| actor | Role name | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Ivar Brogger | Mr. Holland (6 episodes, 2001-2003) | |
| Jenny Gago | Anaya (6 episodes, 2002-2003) | |
| Alyson Reed | Lesley Turnbull (5 episodes, 2001-2002) | |
| Lolita Davidovich | Avery Pohl (5 episodes, 2002-2003) | |
| Steven Koller | Gage's Assistant (5 episodes, 2002) | |
| Regina McMahon | Bree 5 episodes, 2002 | |
| Elya Baskin | Borovinsky (4 episodes, 2001-2002) | |
| Namrata Singh Gujral | Fari Bin Ghori (4 episodes, 2001-2002) | |
| Lisa Waltz | Patrice DeAllo (4 episodes, 2001-2002) | |
| Sima Kostov | Katya 4 episodes, 2002 | |
| Leslie Silva | FBI Special Agent Shelton (4 episodes, 2003) | |
| Michael Shamus Wiles | Pete (3 episodes, 2001-2002) | |
| Shaun Duke | Peter Eshkol (3 episodes, 2001-2003) | |
| Todd Jeffries | CTC Techniker (3 episodes, 2001-2002) | |
| Emily Kuroda | Secretary to Alex Pierce (3 episodes, 2001-2002) | Katarina Tomaschewsky |
production
The majority of the episodes were filmed in Washington, DC and Los Angeles , some at the CIA headquarters in Langley , Virginia , a suburb in northwest Washington DC. The series originally planned to focus on how the CIA did in the post- cold era War justified its continued existence.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , the focus changed fundamentally, and the plot was revised: the figure of the chief director of the CIA (Alex Pierce) was replaced, characters and episodes were redefined, the planned pilot film (attack on a terrorist cell) was redefined filmed and broadcast as the fifth episode. The declared “ enemy image ” was now the war on terror , from then on Homeland Security played a central role and some actors, especially Gloria Reuben and Gil Bellows , dropped out of production at the end of the first season.
Charisma
It was first broadcast on September 27, 2001 on the US broadcaster CBS and on German-language television on January 15, 2003 and June 23, 2005 on RTL II . This was followed by ATV , 13th Street and the ORF 1 .
A third season was planned, but was not produced due to the falling ratings after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. This led to repeated and so far unsuccessful petitions from the international fan base to bring the open ending and the various storylines (see Farscape ) to a conclusion.
Some of the English-language episode titles refer to Hollywood films that are well-known in German-speaking countries and some (mostly the locations) refer to them, for example The Year of Living Dangerously and French Kiss .
Episode list
| episode | Original title | German title | First broadcast in the USA |
First broadcast RTL 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (1-01) | Viva Fidel ! | Castro's Cuba | September 27, 2001 | June 23, 2005 |
| 2 (1-02) | God's Work | the work of God | October 4, 2001 | June 23, 2005 |
| 3 (1-03) | The Year of Living Dangerously | Dangerous ambition | October 18, 2001 | June 24, 2005 |
| 4 (1-04) | In Our Own Backyard | The bomb in the garden | October 25, 2001 | June 24, 2005 |
| 5 (1-05) | pilot | In the last minute | November 1, 2001 | June 23, 2005 |
| 6 (1-06) | A Slight Case of Anthrax | A deadly gift | November 8, 2001 | June 24, 2005 |
| 7 (1-07) | Closure | Search for clues | November 15, 2001 | June 30, 2005 |
| 8 (1-08) | nocturne | Hurt feelings | November 29, 2001 | June 30, 2005 |
| 9 (1-09) | Rules of the Game | Double game | December 6, 2001 | June 30, 2005 |
| 10 (1-10) | Deadline | Treason | December 20, 2001 | July 1, 2005 |
| 11 (1-11) | Son set | The abduction | January 17, 2002 | July 1, 2005 |
| 12 (1-12) | The Enemy Within | The death mask | January 24, 2002 | July 1, 2005 |
| 13 (1-13) | The golden hour | The Guardians of America | January 31, 2002 | July 15, 2005 |
| 14 (1-14) | The Gauntlet | Heads or tails | February 7, 2002 | July 15, 2005 |
| 15 (1-15) | Sleeping Dogs Lie | The rival | February 28, 2002 | July 21, 2005 |
| 16 (1-16) | The Plague Year | Virus terror | March 7, 2002 | July 21, 2005 |
| 17 (1-17) | Moo | Blindman's Buff | March 28, 2002 | July 21, 2005 |
| 18 (1-18) | The Greater Good | True heroes | April 4, 2002 | July 22, 2005 |
| 19 (1-19) | Peacemakers | war and peace | April 18, 2002 | July 22, 2005 |
| 20 (1-20) | The Understudy | Page change | April 25, 2002 | July 22, 2005 |
| 21 (1-21) | Double crossover | Betrayed and sold | May 2, 2002 | July 28, 2005 |
| 22 (1-22) | final | final | May 9, 2002 | July 28, 2005 |
| episode | Original title | German title | First broadcast in the USA |
First broadcast RTL 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (2-02) | French kiss | Kissing or scratching | September 28, 2002 | 2010 |
| 2 (2-02) | Air Lex | Air Lex | October 6, 2002 | 2010 |
| 3 (2-03) | The great game | Well played | October 12, 2002 | 2010 |
| 4 (2-04) | CSLie | CSLie | October 19, 2002 | |
| 5 (2-05) | The prisoner | The prisoner | October 26, 2002 | |
| 6 (2-06) | Home grown | House in the dirt | November 2, 2002 | |
| 7 (2-07) | Heartless | Heartless people | November 8, 2002 | |
| 8 (2-08) | First Born | November 16, 2002 | ||
| 9 (2-09) | Thanksgiving | November 23, 2002 | ||
| 10 (2-10) | Trust | December 6, 2002 | ||
| 11 (2-11) | Elite Meat to Eat | December 14, 2002 | ||
| 12 (2-12) | An Isolated Incident | January 18, 2003 | ||
| 13 (2-13) | Debbie Does Djakarta | February 1, 2003 | ||
| 14 (2-14) | Coventry | February 8, 2003 | ||
| 15 (2-15) | Absolute bastard | February 15, 2003 | ||
| 16 (2-16) | Unholy Alliances | February 22, 2003 | ||
| 17 (2-17) | Soft kills | March 15, 2003 | ||
| 18 (2-18) | Spy Finance | April 12, 2003 | ||
| 19 (2-19) | War, Inc. | April 26, 2003 | ||
| 20 (2-20) | Wed Cena con Andrei | May 3, 2003 | ||
| 21 (2-21) | Our Man in Korea | May 10, 2003 | ||
| 22 (2-22) | Our Man in Washington | May 17, 2003 |
Award
Jon Ehrlich and Jason Derlatka were nominated for the Primetime Emmy Awards 2003 for the musical compositions of episode 25 ( The Great Game ) .
Web links
- The Agency - In the crosshairs of the CIA in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Agency - In the crosshairs of the CIA at wunschliste.de
- The Agency - In the crosshairs of the CIA at fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ^ German voice actor database
- ↑ Filming locations in the Internet Movie Database , accessed May 13, 2015.
- ↑ Background information in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on May 13, 2015.
- ↑ Series junkies: episode guide episode list ( memento of the original from October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 10, 2008
- ↑ Awards at Internet Movie Database, accessed May 13, 2015.
