Season 1
1. Episode 1: Pilot — 16 January 2012
2. Episode 2: Ernest Cobb — 16 January 2012
3. Episode 3: Episode #1.3 — 23 January 2012
4. Episode 4: Johnny McKee — 30 January 2012
5. Episode 5: Cal Sweeney — 6 February 2012
6. Episode 6: Guy Hastings — 13 February 2012
7. Episode 7: Clarence Montgomery — 20 February 2012

Alcatraz is an upcoming American television series filmed in Vancouver, BC, starring Sarah Jones and Jorge Garcia. Bad Robot Productions produced the pilot episode, which is based on a screenplay by Elizabeth Sarnoff, Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt. The series was officially picked up by Fox on May 10, 2011. It is currently planned as a midseason replacement to air on Mondays at 9 pm starting January 16, 2012.

When San Francisco Police Department Det. Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) is assigned to a grisly homicide case, a fingerprint leads her to Jack Sylvane (guest star Jeffrey Pierce), a former Alcatraz inmate who died decades ago. Given her family history—both her grandfather and surrogate uncle, Ray Archer (Robert Forster), were guards at the prison—Madsen’s interest is immediately piqued, and once the enigmatic, knows-everything-but-tells-nothing government agent Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill) tries to impede her investigation, she is doggedly committed. Madsen turns to Alcatraz expert and comic book enthusiast, Dr. Diego “Doc” Soto (Jorge Garcia), to piece together the inexplicable sequence of events. The twosome discovers that Sylvane is not only alive, but he is loose on the streets of San Francisco, leaving bodies in his wake. And strangely, he has not aged a day since he was in Alcatraz, when the prison was ruled by the iron-fisted Warden Edwin James (Jonny Coyne) and the merciless Associate Warden E.B. Tiller (Jason Butler Harner).

Madsen and Doc reluctantly team with Agent Hauser and his technician, Lucy Banerjee (Parminder Nagra), to stop Sylvane’s vengeful killing spree. By delving into Alcatraz history, government cover-ups and Rebecca’s own heritage, the team will ultimately discover that Sylvane is only a small part of a much larger, more sinister present-day threat. For while he may be the first, it quickly becomes clear that Sylvane will not be the last prisoner to reappear from Alcatraz.

Through the course of the investigation, Madsen and Soto will learn that Agent Hauser has known about the prison’s secret history and has been awaiting the prisoners’ return. Soto will witness his life’s work—the history of Alcatraz—come alive. Madsen will be forced to see everything she thought she knew about her family’s past shattered, all while fighting to keep the country safe from history’s most dangerous criminals.

Cast
Sarah Jones as Rebecca Madsen, a San Francisco Police Department homicide detective
Jorge Garcia as Dr. Diego “Doc” Soto, an Alcatraz expert and comic book enthusiast
Sam Neill as Emerson Hauser, an enigmatic, knows-everything-but-tells-nothing government agent
Parminder Nagra as Lucy Banerjee, Agent Hauser’s technician
Robert Forster as Ray Archer, Det. Madsen’s surrogate uncle
Jonny Coyne as Edwin James, the iron-fisted warden of Alcatraz
Jason Butler Harner as E.B. Tiller, the merciless associate warden