FX: The Series

Total Seasons :2Total Episodes : 40

Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?

FX: The Series

Episodes(22)

The Illusion (1)

1. The Illusion (1)

When a beautiful actress helps frame movie special effects master Rollie Tyler for a vicious crime, he finds himself on the run from the law. Rollie turns to his pal, NYPD Detective Leo McCarthy, to help catch the real culprits. They uncover, and bring down a secret auction being held in New York, where the world's richest collectors are bidding for millions of dollars in smuggled gems.

Air Date : 1996-09-09

The Illusion (2)

2. The Illusion (2)

When a beautiful actress helps frame movie special effects master Rollie Tyler for a vicious crime, he finds himself on the run from the law. Rollie turns to his pal, NYPD Detective Leo McCarthy, to help catch the real culprits. They uncover, and bring down a secret auction being held in New York, where the world's richest collectors are bidding for millions of dollars in smuggled gems.

Air Date : 1996-09-09

Zero Hour

3. Zero Hour

While a huge bomb ticks away somewhere in the city of New York, the right-wing terrorist leader, who is in police custody, refuses to divulge it's location. Leo turns to Rollie to trick the terrorist into talking by making it appear that the bomb has already gone off. Things go awry when the terrorist discovers their plan and escapes, taking Rollie hostage and ordering a second bomb to be detonated.

Air Date : 1996-09-16

High Risk

4. High Risk

A group of desperate ex-cons attempt to rob a gold exchange on the top floor of a downtown high rise. The robbery goes sour and the crooks take a group of hostages, including Leo's friend, Coleen O'Malley. Leo calls on movie Rollie, to help launch a rescue attempt by staging a phony helicopter crash on the building's roof.

Air Date : 1996-09-23

Payback

5. Payback

Tensions are high when Rollie decides to work on a gangster flick being directed by a director whom Angie believes was responsible for the on-set accident that killed her father years earlier. When the director himself is killed in a suspicious accident, all evidence points to Angie. Leo joins Rollie to unmask the real killer... a mobster who is attempting to take over one of the largest criminal families in New York.

Air Date : 1996-09-30

The Ring

6. The Ring

A murderous boss of a stolen car ring slips through Leo's fingers yet again. With the help of Angie and Lucinda they get into the ""hot"" car business and stage an elaborate ruse to find the kingpin's secret ""chop shop"" and shut down the operation for good.

Air Date : 1996-10-07

Dingo

7. Dingo

A family reunion between Rollie and his charming con-man father, Dingo, could be their last when a ruthless bookie leans on dad to pay off a huge gambling debt. Leo joins them in a complex con game of shutting down the biggest illegal gambling operation on the east coast.

Air Date : 1996-10-14

White Light

8. White Light

When her friend, a UFO buff, is murdered, Angie gets Rollie to enlist Leo to find the killer. With the help of Lucinda, their search leads them to a top-secret military base rumored to contain a crashed UFO and alien bodies. The danger becomes more down-to-earth when they uncover a plot by crooked officers to smuggle deadly plutonium and sell it to the highest bidder.

Air Date : 1996-10-21

The Brotherhood

9. The Brotherhood

Rollie and Leo discover a deadly group of Irish Terrorists hatching a plot to steal the Crown Jewels of England from a New York museum where they are on display. Rollie and Leo stage a break-in at the museum to replace the real jewels with fake ones, but are betrayed and forced to steal the genuine article!

Air Date : 1996-10-28

French Kiss

10. French Kiss

A powerful bomb kills an investment banker scheduled to testify against a Colombian drug-money laundering operation, and Rollie's good friend, and stuntman, Rick Forsythe. Leo discovers the bombing is part of an inside plot to steal $16 million from the drug cartel. With the help of Lucinda and Angie, they use movie magic to apprehend the murderers.

Air Date : 1996-11-04

Eye of the Dragon

11. Eye of the Dragon

Romantic sparks fly when Rollie is reunited with a beautiful Hong Kong woman while working on a martial arts action movie. But Leo suspects she's really working with foreign assassins hired by Red China to kill the movie's popular star. Leo tries to warn the lovestruck Rollie of the danger, but Rollie has ideas of his own and works with the woman to foil the assassin.

Air Date : 1996-11-11

Target

12. Target

After a protected witness is murdered, Leo enlists Rollie to help him trap a mysterious sniper who can hit a target from more than a mile away. But the plan fails and the sniper embarks on a campaign of revenge against Leo and his friends.

Air Date : 1996-11-18

Supernote

13. Supernote

When a fellow cop is killed in a drug bust by a mid-eastern dignitary who claims diplomatic immunity, Leo gets Rollie to help expose the diplomat's ties to a Russian gangster before they can launch a diabolical counterfeiting operation.

Air Date : 1996-11-25

Medea

14. Medea

Rollie works on a major Broadway show that is plagued by suspicious accidents, and it looks like the star, a fading Hollywood actress attempting a comeback on stage, is the target of an obsessed fan who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to get to her. Leo is called in to investigate and uncovers a dark secret in the star's past. But when Lucinda takes the woman's place on stage, Rollie must use his skills with F/X magic to save his friend's life.

Air Date : 1997-01-20

Shivaree

15. Shivaree

Five years ago, three men staged a daring armored car robbery in which a young man was crippled for life. They then hid the money in a place that requires all three men to find. Now, the statute of limitations is almost up, and Leo is determined to see that justice is done before it's too late. After one of the men is arrested, Rollie , Angie, and Leo stage a ruse to make it appear as if he is dead. Rollie then poses as a friend and confidante of the captured man and joins the other two thieves in their hunt for the money. But a double cross by one of the men puts the lives of both Rollie and Angie on the line.

Air Date : 1997-01-27

Gemini

16. Gemini

When Leo sees disturbing similarities between the science fiction movie for which Rollie is providing the special effects, he begins to suspect the movie's director is a serial killer who terrorized Central Park four years ago and was never caught. He talks Rollie into using FX to get him to confess, but they soon discover the director has a dual personality and his murderous ""other"" is now taking over, ready to kill again.

Air Date : 1997-02-03

Double Image

17. Double Image

Learning that a wealthy computer magnate is going to be hit, Leo calls on Rollie so he can masquerade as the intended target and thwart the assassination. The trick works so well, however, that Rollie and Angie are kidnapped by the magnate's jealous brother and a ruthless arms smuggler who plan to stage an even more dangerous masquerade.

Air Date : 1997-02-10

Quicksilver

18. Quicksilver

When Rollie discovers a sinister international arms smuggler named Victor Loubar has stolen his identity, he teams up with FBI agent Elena Serrano to hunt for the impostor. Together they enter the dark, sinister world of Loubar, where nothing is what it seems, and no one can be trusted, racing to stop the mysterious criminal mastermind from stealing a top secret experimental ""smart grenade"" from a military contractor.

Air Date : 1997-02-17

Get Fast

19. Get Fast

When a drug dealer and hopped-up movie star get Rollie fired from his movie job, he teams up with Detective Francis Gatti and an embittered Narcotics Detective in a personal war against two of the city's biggest drug gangs. Using F/X illusions, they engineer a war between the two gangs to stop tons of heroin from hitting the streets.

Air Date : 1997-04-21

Bad Influence

20. Bad Influence

Rollie is helping students make a video for a class project when a band of armed men invades the high school and takes over. Trapped and badly wounded, Rollie joins forces with a juvenile delinquent-in-the-making as they discover the crooks are using the school to stage a multi-million dollar armored van robbery. Using materials from around the school, Rollie and the student fashion makeshift movie F/X illusions to defeat the invaders and rescue the student's girlfriend who is being held captive by the thieves.

Air Date : 1997-04-28

Reunion

21. Reunion

An innocent meeting with an old school chum becomes a race against death for Angie when she is mistaken for a woman who possesses proof of a prominent law firm's connections to organized crime. When the kidnappers realize their mistake, Angie escapes and is on the run. Rollie comes to her aid and they use their F/X skills to defeat the pursuing killers.

Air Date : 1997-05-05

Script Doctor

22. Script Doctor

Weary of having his work ruined by others, Rollie jumps at the chance to direct a low-budget ""heist"" movie. But he and Leo discover the film's ""producers"" are actually crooks who are planning to pull-off the fictional robbery for real and steal gold bullion from a United Nation's vault.

Air Date : 1997-05-12

Cast

Cameron Daddo
Cameron Daddo

(Roland 'Rollie' Tyler)

Christina Cox
Christina Cox

(Angela 'Angie' Ramirez)

Richard Waugh
Richard Waugh

(Captain Marvin Van Duran)

Jason Blicker
Jason Blicker

(Detective Francis Gatti)

Kevin Dobson
Kevin Dobson

(Detective Leo McCarthy)

Sherry Miller
Sherry Miller

(Colleen O'Malley)

Carrie-Anne Moss
Carrie-Anne Moss

(Lucinda Scott)

D-Teflon

(Chris Darden)

David Keeley
David Keeley

(Rick Forsythe (uncredited))

Michael G. Brown
Michael G. Brown

(Undercover Cop (uncredited))

Juan Chioran
Juan Chioran

(Director)

Richard Comar

(Lieutenant Stone)

Kristin Lehman
Kristin Lehman

(Katya)

Phillip Jarrett

(Tom Berryman)

Robert Morelli

(Joey Barton)

Stewart Bick
Stewart Bick

(Bill Donner)

Krista Bridges
Krista Bridges

(Lisa)

Alon Nashman

(Gabriel)

Hugo Dann

(The Director)

Kimberly Huie
Kimberly Huie

(Ass't Director)

Tony Meyler

(Forensic)

Michael Gabriel

(Jack Lusk (uncredited))

Kim Coates
Kim Coates

(John Darmon)

John Neville
John Neville

(Oscar Hammond)

Kedar Brown
Kedar Brown

(Defense Attorney)

Andrew Lewarne

(Alien)

Mung-Ling Tsui
Mung-Ling Tsui

(Madame Han)

Dan Duran
Dan Duran

(Newscaster)

Peter Kosaka

(Watcher)

Len Cariou
Len Cariou

(Charles Emery)

Christopher Anson

(Intruder)

Larry Mannell
Larry Mannell

(Watchman)

Teena Black

(Dead Roommate (uncredited))

Jasper Cole
Jasper Cole

(Suspect #2 (uncredited))

Miguel Fernandes
Miguel Fernandes

(Jimmy Drogan)

Larissa Laskin
Larissa Laskin

(Monica Dorsett)

Tre Smith
Tre Smith

(Reggie)

Blair Williams
Blair Williams

(Priest)

John Spencer
John Spencer

(Carl Scofeld)

James Purcell
James Purcell

(Tony Delmar)

Von Flores
Von Flores

(Albert Nok)

Sabrina Grdevich
Sabrina Grdevich

(Lori Cutter)

Richard Zeppieri
Richard Zeppieri

(Rudy Borsa)

Darrell Dennis
Darrell Dennis

(Milo)

Michael Rhoades

(Cleve Waller)

Sten Eirik
Sten Eirik

(Dex)

Christopher Kennedy
Christopher Kennedy

(Alvin Coster)

Robert Bockstael
Robert Bockstael

(Nicholas Breen)

David Mucci
David Mucci

(Foreman)

Paul Soles
Paul Soles

(Mr. Merton)

Gerry Mendicino
Gerry Mendicino

(Investor)

Nick Tate
Nick Tate

(Dingo Tyler)

Sean Roberge

(Henry Bird)

Laura Catalano
Laura Catalano

(Priscilla Duffy)

Ron Lea
Ron Lea

(Nicky Vincent)

Tony Rosato
Tony Rosato

(Sammy Valenzuela)

Martin Roach
Martin Roach

(Van Driver)

Dan Chameroy

(Hero)

Tanya Memme
Tanya Memme

(Lupa Valenzuela)

Ardon Bess
Ardon Bess

(Security Guard Tony)

Garfield Andrews

(Officer)

Philip Williams
Philip Williams

('Numbers' Moran)

J.C. MacKenzie
J.C. MacKenzie

(Wayne Harmon)

Chuck Shamata
Chuck Shamata

(Mini the Pickpocket)

Ellen-Ray Hennessy
Ellen-Ray Hennessy

(Sara)

Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds

(Jimmy Hickman)

Fiona Highet
Fiona Highet

(Caralee)

Ola Sturik

(Elisa Waring)

Erik Rutherford

(F / X Technician (uncredited))

A.C. Peterson
A.C. Peterson

(Bartender)

Jeffrey Max Nicholls

(Mr. Jones)

Gina Clayton

(Assistant DA)

Tyrone Benskin
Tyrone Benskin

(Judge)

Panou
Panou

(Dega (uncredited))

Nicholas Campbell
Nicholas Campbell

(Colonel Stewart)

Anthony Sherwood
Anthony Sherwood

(Agent Cairns)

James Downing
James Downing

(Agent Bristow)

Kent Staines
Kent Staines

(Sgt. Jackson)

Edward Jaunz

(Armed Guard)

John Pearson

(Security Guard)

Victor Garber
Victor Garber

(Andrew Price)

Jayne Heitmeyer
Jayne Heitmeyer

(Olivia Barron)

Peter Boretski

(Nikola Kostof)

Aidan Devine
Aidan Devine

(Terry Kent)

Ray Paisley

(Security Guard)

Carlos Bernard
Carlos Bernard

(Roberto Vega)

Camilla Scott

(Dana Neeley)

Kevin Jubinville
Kevin Jubinville

(Russell Mosley)

Lexa Doig
Lexa Doig

(Reporter)

George Sperdakos

(Ernesto)

Robbie Rox

(Lieutenant)

Jonathan Potts
Jonathan Potts

(Dwight Singer)

Paul Jones

(FX Technician (uncredited))

Vivian Wu
邬君梅

(Taya Kwan)

Ernie Reyes Jr.
Ernie Reyes Jr.

(Jimmy Chu)

Jonathan Welsh
Jonathan Welsh

(Tasker)

Denis Akiyama
Denis Akiyama

(Lambert Chang)

Harvey Chao

(Harry)

Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson

(Blade)

Henry Chan

(Banker)

Craig Gardner

(Karl)

Tig Fong
Tig Fong

(Mondo)

Luca Bercovici
Luca Bercovici

(Wolf)

Douglas O'Keeffe
Douglas O'Keeffe

(Jurgen)

Paul Aspland

(Frenchie)

Don Allison

(Linnet)

Geoffrey Bowes
Geoffrey Bowes

(Hossick)

Martin Doyle
Martin Doyle

(Jardine)

Sugith Varughese
Sugith Varughese

(Director)

Bill Lake
Bill Lake

(Security Chief)

Billy Otis
Billy Otis

(Danny)

Joseph Scoren
Joseph Scoren

(Hamadi)

Eugene Robert Glazer
Eugene Robert Glazer

(Gary Castle)

Johnie Chase
Johnie Chase

(Waters)

Stevie Vallance
Stevie Vallance

(Gaby)

Matthew Bennett
Matthew Bennett

(Pinchon)

Santino Buda

(Dealer)

Kevin Rushton
Kevin Rushton

(Biker)

Brian Heighton

(Pick-Up Guy)

Wanda Cannon
Wanda Cannon

(Diana)

Louis Del Grande
Louis Del Grande

(Director)

Michael Hanrahan
Michael Hanrahan

(Elliott)

Bruce Hunter
Bruce Hunter

(Joel)

Jeremy Kushnier

(Dancer)

Andrea Mills

(The Princess)

David Orth
David Orth

(Chris)

R.D. Reid

(Vagrant)

Jeffrey R. Smith
Jeffrey R. Smith

(Dixon)

Linda Thorson
Linda Thorson

(Cassandra Delarossa)

Scott Lincoln

(Syd di Beaudeaux)

Philip Akin
Philip Akin

(Tod Rossi)

Lawrence Bayne
Lawrence Bayne

(Ian Slade)

Denis Lapalme

(Andrew Carson)

Evan Sabba

(Clayton Slade)

Tim Howar
Tim Howar

(Madox Slade)

Will Corno
Will Corno

(Gunman)

Tony Nappo
Tony Nappo

(Policeman)

James Villemaire
James Villemaire

(Jimmy Swan)

Barbara Eve Harris
Barbara Eve Harris

(Dr. Mohler)

Marilyn Boyle

(Mrs. Swan)

Cameron Graham
Cameron Graham

(Dax Acer)

David Cubitt
David Cubitt

(Eddie Nigel)

Adrian Hough
Adrian Hough

(Jace Emery)

David Sparrow
David Sparrow

(Watchman)

Randy Pearlstein
Randy Pearlstein

(Dan Bloom)

Nigel Bennett
Nigel Bennett

(Agent Cal Judson)

Karen Glave
Karen Glave

(Carla Hill)

Richard McMillan
Richard McMillan

(Wilkinson)

Vieslav Krystyan
Vieslav Krystyan

(Hensley)

Robert B. Kennedy
Robert B. Kennedy

(Guard)

Costas Mandylor
Costas Mandylor

(Jerry Tamblin)

Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside

(Montree)

Joseph Di Mambro
Joseph Di Mambro

(Zane)

Walter Alza
Walter Alza

(Ormoz)

Marc Cohen

(Deuce Beldon)

Richard Binsley
Richard Binsley

(Mark Outerbridge)

Markus Parilo
Markus Parilo

(Marcel)

David Fraser
David Fraser

(Director)

Anne Marie DeLuise
Anne Marie DeLuise

(Traveler)

Christopher Lee Clements
Christopher Lee Clements

(Philippe)

Beau Starr
Beau Starr

(Lamb)

Christina Vidal Mitchell
Christina Vidal Mitchell

(Theresa)

David Norona
David Norona

(Bobby Rodriguez)

Gordon Michael Woolvett
Gordon Michael Woolvett

(Jules)

Alan Davidson

(Rankin)

Maurice Dean Wint
Maurice Dean Wint

(Clarence Hardaway)

Vince Corazza
Vince Corazza

(Quinn Proffet)

Matt Birman
Matt Birman

(Security Guard)

John Blackwood
John Blackwood

(Earl Hendorf)

Ruth Marshall
Ruth Marshall

(Chief Dispatcher)

Tony Lo Bianco
Tony Lo Bianco

(Martin Thorne)

Rick Roberts
Rick Roberts

(Matt Cherico)

Dean McDermott
Dean McDermott

(Ted Abbott)

Deborah Odell
Deborah Odell

(Yvonne Cherico)

Katherine Ashby

(Karla)

Stuart Clow
Stuart Clow

(Eastlake)

Todd Schroeder

(Sears)

Arlene Duncan
Arlene Duncan

(Nurse)

Deborah Kirshenbaum

(Manageress)

Falconer Abraham
Falconer Abraham

(Bartender)

Ravinder Toor

(Cab Driver)

Todd Susman
Todd Susman

(A. C. Myles)

Dan Lett
Dan Lett

(Del Peterson)

Peter Keleghan
Peter Keleghan

(Bennett)

Elias Zarou
Elias Zarou

(Kasabu)

Michael Filipowich
Michael Filipowich

(Cyril)

Conrad Dunn
Conrad Dunn

(Liotti)

Jacklyn Francis

(Gina Webber)

Joe Pingue
Joe Pingue

(Guard #1)

Calvin Green

(Hazmat #1)

Christopher Crumb

(Hazmat #2)

María Conchita Alonso
María Conchita Alonso

(Elena Serrano)

Bill MacDonald
Bill MacDonald

(Gallis)

Dan Gallagher
Dan Gallagher

(Director)

Andreas Apergis
Andreas Apergis

(Victor Loubar)

Lisa LaCroix
Lisa LaCroix

(Kaitlin)

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