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ZERO HOUR: A Mystery That Spans Centuries [Video]

By Liz | January 16, 2013

If you’re like me and love a good mystery, Zero Hour may be right up your alley. Premiering tomorrow night at 8/7c on ABC, Zero Hour stars ER‘s Anthony Edwards as Hank Galliston. After his wife is abducted, Hank and his “team”, aided by FBI Agent Rebecca Riley, embark on a mission to discover the secret of an old clock Laila had purchased for her shop just before someone broke in and kidnapped her.

The kidnapper, known as White Vincent, is holding Laila ransom for that clock, which we learn is one of twelve. I’ll let this video clip tell you the rest.

I’m surprised that there has been so little promotion for this show. After watching the pilot episode, I’m totally on board. I think it could be a winner for ABC, but people have to know it exists first. Even the show’s website is scant at best.

Zero Hour stars Anthony Edwards, Scott Michael Foster, Jacinda Barrett, Addison Timlin, Carmen Ejogo and Michael Nyqvist as White Vincent.

Here is the presser:

As the publisher of Modern Skeptic Magazine, Hank Galliston has spent his career following clues, debunking myths and cracking conspiracies. But when his beautiful wife, Laila (Jacinda Barrett), is abducted from her antique clock shop, Hank gets pulled into one of the most compelling mysteries in human history, stretching around the world and back centuries.

Contained in one of his wife’s clocks is a treasure map, and what it leads to could be cataclysmic. It’s up to Hank to decipher the symbols and unlock the secrets of the map, while ensuring the answers don’t fall into the wrong hands — hands that belong to a sinister, mysterious man known only as White Vincent (Michael Nyqvist). Now Hank, along with his two young associates, Rachel (Addison Timlin) and Arron (Scott Michael Foster), as well as alluring and intelligent FBI agent Rebecca “Beck” Riley (Carmen Ejogo), must embark on a breathless race against the clock to not only find his wife, but save humanity.

Everyone has a personal stake in this life and death mission, from Hank, the everyman whose destiny is more intertwined in this conspiracy than he ever imagined, to Laila, the warm and loving wife who refuses to simply be a pawn in this struggle, to “Beck,” the FBI agent with plenty of secrets of her own. White Vincent has interests far more grand than the treasure that lies at the end of the hunt – and a mysterious past connecting him to Hank in ways that go well beyond this game of cat and mouse. And while Arron is a sucker for a good conspiracy theory, Rachel relies more on her head and her heart to guide her beliefs. But as this story unravels, knowing what to believe – and more importantly, whom to believe — becomes more and more difficult.

Zero Hour stars Anthony Edwards (Big Sur,Flipped,ER) as Hank Galliston, Carmen Ejogo (Sparkle,Chaos,Away We Go) as Rebecca “Beck” Riley, Scott Michael Foster (Californication,The River) as Aaron Martin, Addison Timlin (Californication) as Rachel Lewis with Jacinda Barrett (Matching Jack,Middle Men,New York, I Love You) as Laila and Michael Nyqvist (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Patrol) as White Vincent.

Zero Hour was created and written by Paul T. Scheuring (Prison Break) who is also an executive producer along with Zack Estrin, Lorenzo di Bonaventura (The Transformers,GI: Joe franchise, Salt,Red) and Dan McDermott (Human Target). The pilot for Zero Hour was directed and executive-produced by Pierre Morel. The series is produced by ABC Studios.