A Civil War 

What seems like a hate crime turns out to be a young man's cry for help.

Director:

Daniel Sackheim

Writers:

Rand Ravich (creator), Rafael Álvarez (as Rafael Alvarez)

Stars:

Damian Lewis, Sarah Shahi, Robin Weigert

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Damian Lewis	...	Charlie Crews
Sarah Shahi	...	Dani Reese
Robin Weigert	...	Lt. Karen Davis
Brent Sexton	...	Robert Stark
Adam Arkin	...	Ted Earley
Sarah Clarke	...	Mary Ann Farmer
Trent Ford	...	Jeffrey Farmer
Christina Hendricks	...	Olivia
Matt Gerald	...	Krebbs
Sheila Vand	...	Shahnaz Darvashi
Rosie Malek-Yonan	...	Roya Darvashi
Scott Michael Morgan	...	Howard Ruth
Michael Kostroff	...	McAllister
Oren Dayan	...	Amir Darvashi
Marita de Lara	...	Bank Teller

Storyline

The police investigate the murder of two Iranian-American college students who were killed in a convenience store. The shootings have all the earmarks of a hate crime as nothing was stolen and "Go Home" was written above them. The police soon realize that they have a kidnapping on their hands when they learn a third person was with them. The ransom demanded by the kidnapper - and his relationship to the kidnapped man - comes as a surprise. Crews also learns that Dani Reese, who was only 12-years old at the time of the Bank of LA robbery, also has a connection to that crime.

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Plot Keywords:

kidnapping | father son relationship | jealousy | adolescent | abuse | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Certificate:

TV-14

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Ford Econoline van used throughout this episode was also the same van used in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

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Goofs

When Ted gets stuck out at the solar farm, they build a fire that night before they go to bed. The next day there are no ashes or place a fire was built as they are waking up.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Charlie Crews: I want to tell you about the dream I had last night.
Ted Earley: Were there clowns in it?
Charlie Crews: No.
Ted Earley: I don't like dreams with clowns.
Charlie Crews: Who does? Although there are no clowns in this dream.

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Connections

Features Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (2005)

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Soundtracks

Life End Theme
Composed by Jon Ehrilich and Jason Derlatka

User Reviews

Scenarists do really need to be more computer-literate.

Pff! It pisses me off.

I thought things like computer monitors exploding from hacker's attack are all in the past.

Yet this episode shows that a beer spilled on a keyboard causes monitor's image distortion and flickering. And not only that computer's monitor, but a neighbor monitor as well! Is it a kind of "infectious malfunction"? (By the way, this kind of malfunction CAN be produced on CRT monitor, only if damage applied to monitor's internals, but definitely this cannot be happening on LCDs, not by hardware damage).

For those who don't know: keyboard to computer is like remote to TV - if you crash remote you won't be able to control your TV, but that is all, no odd image distortions!!!

The other thing of this episode - secret database hidden behind a game - it is just ridiculous! Oh, theoretically one can make this trick. If that person is a super-duper hacker/programmer. Do you imagine how much efforts it takes to actually decompose a solid application and merge into it a stand-alone commercial database engine? And every time he wants to look into his database he must spend few hours to reach level 10?

I am software engineer myself and I tell you: It is much easier to use a simple password check, than build a monstrous system which can be bypassed by just any teen around.

It seems that the scenarists were in prison for ...how many years?

Details

Release Date:

7 November 2007 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 33, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

44 min