On January 16th, the FOX network debuted the latest television series from producer J.J. Abrams, the man responsible for blockbuster films such as Super 8 and the recent Star Trek reboot, as well as the TV shows Alias and LOST. Alcatraz stars Sam Neill, Sarah Jones, and Jorge Garcia and revolves around a conspiracy that rewrites history. In the show the inmates (and many of the guards) from the federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island weren’t transferred to another facility when Alcatraz closed in 1963. Instead they mysteriously vanished only to reappear one at a time in the present day. The former prisoners and guards, who haven’t aged a day, must cope with a world that has moved on without them for fifty years.
In the pilot episode a nonviolent inmate named Jack Sylvane reappears in the present and takes revenge on the prison warden who tormented him while he was incarcerated. In future episodes we’ll find out whether other former inmates are able to find forgiveness and redemption in the present day.
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