Sleeper Cell traslada a los espectadores bajo el velo de una organización terrorista para ser testigos de los peligrosos retos que debe afrontar un agente decidido a aprender todos los secretos de este grupo de criminales. Sleeper Cell refleja sucesos actuales y pertinentes decisiones políticas desarrolladas en sus tramas, mientras explora la vida personal y profesional de los agentes encargados de combatir la más grande y peligrosa amenaza en la historia de los Estados Unidos. Tras haber pasado un tiempo como prisionero en una penitenciaría federal, un joven agente del FBI, afroamericano y musulmán, Darwyn (Michael Ealy, La barbería), comienza a entablar diversos contactos que le permiten infiltrarse en una celúla de terorrismo islámico que opera oculta en plena ciudad de Los Angeles.
Sleeper Cell (Temporada 1)
Al-Fatiha 5.6
Fecha de emisión: 2005-12-04
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Darwyn Al-Hakim is a Muslim ex-con who has just been released from prison and finds his way to an Islamic extremist named Farik, who recruits him to join a terrorist sleeper cell planning an attack in Los Angeles.
Target 6.0
Fecha de emisión: 2005-12-05
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Farik and Ilija receive a deadly biological anthrax shipment and prepare for an attack inside a Los Angeles shopping mall. Darwyn's supervisor Ray Fuller become suspicious about the disappearance of a cell member.
Money 5.5
Fecha de emisión: 2005-12-06
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Farik, Darwyn and Christian cross the U.S.-Mexico border at Tijuana to find out why the cell's pipeline of mob funds has suddenly gone dry.
Scholar 5.2
Fecha de emisión: 2005-12-07
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Farik dispatches a biochemical student on a flight to Vancouver, Canada, to drive a shipment of real anthrax across the Canadian border and down to Los Angeles.
Soldier 7.5
Fecha de emisión: 2005-12-11
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: The cell members pose as Iraqi insurgents-in-training in order to infiltrate and take over a secure warehouse as a new base of operations for Youmud Din ("Judgment Day").
Family 5.8
Fecha de emisión: 2005-12-12
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Darwyn befriends a pesticide plant worker in order to buy some of his company's product under the table for the cell, while each of the jihadis cope with personal troubles of their own.
Immigrant 8.0
Fecha de emisión: 2005-12-13
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: When an Afghan boy arrives at the warehouse looking for training as a jihadi, Darwyn introduces him to a more moderate brand of Islam in hopes of steering him away from terrorism.
Intramural 7.0
Fecha de emisión: 2005-12-14
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: The cell buys explosives from a white supremacist militia while Darwyn's new handler, Patrice Serxner, tries to prevent the LAPD from blowing his cover in a conflicting investigation.
Hijack 6.0
Fecha de emisión: 2005-12-18
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: The cell hijacks a chemical truck in preparation for Judgment Day, as Farik spends a last night with and bids farewell to his wife, and the FBI prepares to stop the attack.
Youmud Din 7.7
Fecha de emisión: 2005-12-18
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Judgement Day has arrived and Fariq isn't yet out of surprises. A surprise diversion proves effective in allowing the cell to escape their surveilance. A quick thinking Darwyn leaves a clue that will hopefully lead the FBI to the target location in time.
Temporadas
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Episodios 8
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