Tonight at 8p J.J. Abrams latest show Alcatraz hits the airwaves with a two hour premiere and it is rock solid.
San Francisco Police Department Det. Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) is called into investigate a murder, but it is quickly pulled from her by government agent Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill). Since she is someone who doesn’t back down, she decides to investigate the case on her own. In doing her research she finds out the killer has ties to Alcatraz, so she seeks out an expert who writes about the long dissolved prison that no one escaped from…or did they. Dr. Diego Soto (Jorge Garcia) tells her that the man she is looking in to served time at Alcatraz and after it was closed down he served time somewhere else until he died. Yeah, that’s right her suspect has been dead for decades and there is no way he could’ve killed that guy…or is there? Seems we don’t know everything that happened to all of the people who were doing hard time there because as we learn the inescapable prison didn’t close down, it was shut when everyone inside suddenly disappeared one night. Now all those missing are starting to come back in our time and it will be up to Hauser, Madsen and Soto to get them back to where they belong and find out where they have been.
There are a lot of twist and turns and ohhs and ahhs and Alcatraz already has me locked into finding out what happens next. It is such an arresting show, you will not be able to escape this thrilling mystery every Monday no matter how hard you try.
