NBC has released the Official Synopsis of Taken episode “Off Side” (1.03) that will be aired on Thursday, March 13 at 10:00-11:00 PM.
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS
SERIES PREMIERE
Bryan (Clive Standen) and team search for a suspected terrorist who has been taken, leading them to uncover a deeper plot within their own government. Christina (Jennifer Beals) receives troubling news and turns to Harry (Dominic Fumusa) for support. Asha (Brooklyn Sudano) expresses her concern over Bryan’s fixation with Mejia (Romano Ozari).
Also starring Gaius Charles (John), Monique Gabriela Curnen (Becca Vlasik), Michael Irby (Scott), Jose Pablo Cantillo (Dave), James Landry Hébert (Rem), Simu Liu (Faaron) and Jennifer Marsala (Riley). Also guest starring John Bourgeois (Cy Backer), Matthew Bennett (Gary Martello), Lanette Ware (Secretary Teresa Radcliff), Patrick Sabongui (Ismat Zahad), Yatharth Bhatt (Amir Zahad), Glenda Braganza (Yasmin Zahad) and Zarrin Darnell-Martin (Agent Thomson).
Taken is a new modern-day, edge-of-your-seat thriller follows the origin story of younger, hungrier, former Green Beret Bryan Mills (Clive Standen) as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.
Taken is produced by EuropaCorp TV and Universal Television for NBC with Luc Besson, Matthew Gross, Edouard de Vésinne, Thomas Anargyros, Alexander Cary and Director Alex Graves as executive producers.