Lucas Dalton (Owain Yeoman) and his brother Randall Reese (Jeffrey Pierce) walk in to rob a bank. It's supposed to be a short hold-up but 52 hours later, the police finally ends the long stand-off. The nine surviving hostages are changed by the incident and regularly meet. Franny Rios (Camille Guaty) and single-mom sister Eva Rios (Lourdes Benedicto) are bank tellers. Eva is killed along with the security guard. Suicidal Egan Foote (John Billingsley) becomes a celebrated hero. Surgeon Jeremy Kates (Scott Wolf) and secretly pregnant girlfriend Lizzie Miller (Jessica Collins) break up. Police detective Nick Cavanaugh (Tim Daly) has a gambling problem. Felicia (Dana Davis) is the daughter of bank manager Malcolm Jones (Chi McBride). Nancy Hale (Susan Sullivan) is at the bank with her ADA daughter Kathryn Hale (Kim Raver).This needs a more compelling hook at the very beginning. The missing money should be the big reveal in the first episode. There should be a cop character investigating it to heighten the tension. I would like more of a Rashomon method of flashback story telling. It takes too long to have the first exciting extended flashback. It's the third episode when the initial takeover is added to and it's probably too late to hook the audience. The problem is that the slow reveals don't add up to excitement. It's a somewhat meandering way of story telling. With no viewers, this is quickly canceled.

I really liked this show.I am curious as to what happened to the "characters'.Tim Daly is great.I see the show is on tonight as listed as "NEW".Does that mean the show will be on the fall schedule? Or is this really a repeat but they are stating it as "NEW"? I am also curious as to why we have to write a minimum of 10 lines in the comment box, when 5 lines will suffice.I also see other posts with less than 10 lines... so what is with that??? Will we be able to get this show on DVD any time soon???

With all the reality show slop on TV today, this was a very different approach to a typical bank robbery drama. Are we all so brain dead that people didn't have the ability to watch LOST and The Nine back to back? If that is true why it failed then move the show to Friday night against Law and Order..Gotta hand it to ABC ..Last show they canned after 6 episodes was Vengeance Unlimited with Michael Madsen that I felt was a good plot line..Bad timing that Friends was on at the same time...The writers seem to rush some of the character plot lines but for the most part it seemed to flow..Instead of trying to find the bad guy ,you know the bad guy right up front and then see where everyone was in their own life. How can you get better shows when the ratings make shows like this get canceled due to thinking outside of the box

It's amazing to me how anyone watching the pilot to The Nine could have thought for a second about ordering this show.The pilot was a visual mess, directed by a director who does not understand visual storytelling. To wit, shaking the camera at everything is not directing, it's just, well, shaking the camera at everything in sight.Add to that songs that sounded like they were force-fed on the show by a team of deaf marketing executives, and you have a show that never delivered and never had even a prayer of delivering.If that's what the creator of Without a Trace has in store, he should go back to his hit show.