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Platform release date
- Previous episode S03E09 - Thicker Than Blood
- Number S03E10
- Country Canada
- Original language English
- Genres Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Terror
The Team receives an urgent call from Jules (Amy Jo Johnson) on her day off – she and her date Steve are trapped in a restaurant with a gunman (Aaron Poole) who’s shot a waiter and is now holding hostages and making incoherent demands. Team One works with Jules on the inside, fighting to calm the gunman down before the waiter dies, but its clear there’s more to this simple hostage-taking. Team One discovers that this delusional man is merely a pawn in a much more horrific act of terror, targeting a local mosque.
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