Richard Tate, a psychiatric patient who has been committed since the age of 13 for burning his family alive, has escaped from a hospital in Ohio, and is now suspected of hugging one of the guards there and taking a female hostage at a condo complex.

For Dr. Caffrey and the Red Team, this seems like a case they could ignore; however, when they discover that Tate has had strange dreams that drove him to his escape - the same dreams Caffrey, Cavennaugh and Pegg had after their encounter with the signal on the Big Horn ship - they realize this is not an ordinary missing persons case.

When it's suspected that one of the missing Big Horn crewmembers might be involved, Caffrey and the Red Team must find Tate to study him - and what they might find may be a mystery that has been years in the making.

Threshold Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Trees Made of Glass (1)
• s01e02 - Trees Made of Glass (2)
• s01e03 - Blood of the Children
• s01e04 - The Burning
• s01e05 - Shock
• s01e06 - Pulse
• s01e07 - The Order
• s01e08 - Revelations
• s01e09 - Progeny
• s01e10 - The Crossing
• s01e11 - Outbreak (a.k.a. Escalation)
• s01e12 - Vigilante
• s01e13 - Alienville

Threshold Show Summary

A team of experts are assembled when the U.S. Navy makes a chilling discovery: an extra terrestrial craft has landed in the mid-Atlantic ocean. Dr. Molly Anne Caffrey is a government contingency analyst whose job is to devise response plans for worst-case scenarios.

In a single instant, her life changes when one of those plans - Threshold - is activated by Deputy National Security Advisor J.T. Baylock. Armed only with her hypothetical strategy to address the appearance of aliens on earth, Caffrey now finds herself thrust in the midst of a global crisis.

She hand-picks a team of eclectic specialists to prepare for first contact: Dr. Nigel Fenway, a disillusioned NASA microbiologist; Lucas Pegg, a brilliant but neurotic physicist; Arthur Ramsey, an expert in languages and mathematics; and Cavennaugh, a highly trained covert operative with a mysterious past.

Together, they decipher the intention of the craft, the fate of the ship's crew and begin preparations for the possibility of a crisis situation-an alien invasion.