Homeland Security (TV)

Life is a complicated tapestry, full of intersecting threads and patterns. But if the threads become twisted and the patterns obscured, the fabric is in serious danger of unraveling...Scott Glenn (The Hunt For Red October), Tom Skerritt (Top Gun), Grant Show and Leland Orser (Twisted) star in this gripping saga of the most important "detective" story in the history of the world. Prior to the events of September 11, 2001, the FBI, CIA, military and law enforcement agencies had a wealth of clues, warnings, hints and hunches. What was needed was a clear strategy for "connecting the dots" and the resources to put that strategy into play. In this riveting portrait of intrigue and espionage, personal and professional lives intertwine as a courageous group of men and women risk their reputations and their lives for Homeland Security. In 2004, Emmy Award-winning director Daniel Sackheim (NYPD BLUE, LAW & ORDER, THE X FILES) created a weekly television series that would dramatize the events surrounding the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. While the series never aired, the pilot episode has been repackaged as the two-hour movie HOMELAND SECURITY, which opens with a timeline of the bungled clues and warnings that preceded 9/11. After the attacks, the fictional character--and Tom Ridge stand-in--Admiral Theodore McKee (PICKET FENCES' Tom Skerritt) is called upon to create a new department that will coordinate information from the FBI, CIA, various branches of the military, and law enforcement agencies to prevent any such further terrorist acts in America.