Do You Remember: The Nine

The short-lived ABC drama The Nine – created by Hank Steinberg [the creator of the CBS drama Without a Trace and co-creator of the TNT drama The Last Ship] and produced by Warner Bros. Television – debuted in October of 2006.

The premise of the show was focused on nine people, mostly strangers to each other, who became linked together when they were held hostage in a bank robbery gone wrong. In each episode, the viewers learned new details of the 52-hour standoff, of which only brief snippets were shown.

The pilot episode established the events which were to be embellished throughout the rest of the series. Two armed men, brothers Lucas Dalton and Randall Reese (Owain Yeoman from The Mentalist and Jeffrey Pierce from Bosch and Castle Rock) entered the bank, and quickly restrained both the security guard and an off-duty police officer. After the end of the standoff, the former hostages arranged a meeting with one another in an effort to stay in touch and help each other. Various characters also formed relationships apart from the group and maintained regular contact with each other during the week, while others were connected through relationships that predated the events in the bank.

The official debut of The Nine was on October 4, 2006, but it was taken off the schedule the following month. In March of 2007, ABC announced that while the rest of the 13-episode debut season MIGHT be aired over the following month, the show was cancelled due to poor ratings. The cancellation was made official in May of 2007. The Nine was revived in August of that year, but only aired two episodes before it was pulled from the air again. It wasn’t until two years later that DirecTV announced a deal was made with Warner Bros. to show all of the episodes on their Audience Network.

The main characters consisted of the following:

Lourdes Benedicto (Major Crimes and 24) played Eva Rios, a bank teller and single mother, who was injured during the standoff and died shortly thereafter;

John Billingsley (Star Trek: Enterprise) played Egan Foote, a data processor who was severely depressed and suicidal at before the standoff but was later hailed as a hero afterwards;

Jessica Collins (Rubicon and Revolution) played Lizzie Miller, a social worker who had a serious relationship with Jeremy [more on him shortly], and learned she was pregnant before walking into the bank;

Tim Daly (Wings and Madam Secretary) played Nick Cavanaugh, a police officer with a gambling problem was in the bank as a customer during the robbery and was enamored with Eva;

Dana Davis (Heroes and Franklin and Bash) played Felicia Jones, a high-school student and daughter of the bank manager was in the bank at the time of the robbery, but developed amnesia after the standoff;

Camille Guaty (Happyland and Scorpion) played Francesca “Franny” Rios, another bank teller and sister of Eva;

Chi McBride (Pushing Daisies and Hawaii Five-0) played Malcolm Jones, the bank manager and dad to Felicia;

Kim Raver (Designated Survivor and Grey’s Anatomy) played Kathryn Hale, an Assistant District Attorney, who was in the bank with her mother (who was set free during the 52-hour standoff) at the time of the robbery and had a connection with Nick; and,

Scott Wolf (Perception and The Night Shift) played Jeremy Kates, a cardiothoracic surgeon who was in a serious relationship with Lizzie.

Some of the recurring guest stars included:

Tom Verica (How to Get Away With Murder) as Kathryn’s colleague and boyfriend;
Susan Sullivan (Castle) as Kathryn’s mother;
Jamie McShane (The Passage) as Nick’s colleague;
Veronica Cartwright (Bosch and Resurrection) as the mother of the bank robbers;
Bonita Friedericy (Chuck) as Egan’s wife; and,
JoBeth Williams (Poltergeist and Hart of Dixie) as Jeremy’s mother.

Other guest stars included Corey Stoll (The Strain and Ant-Man), Joshua Malina (Scandal), Robert Wisdow (Prison Break) and Sasha Alexander (NCIS and Rizzoli and Isles)

Here is a trailer for The Nine:

Do you remember the short-lived drama The Nine?