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COLLECTION · Series · 2005

Sleeper Cell

A chilling and unflinching look at all sides of a complicated issue, focusing on an African-American Muslim who joins an Islamic sleeper terrorist cell in the United States while working undercover for the FBI.

Source: TMDB
* 7.4 (80)CrimeDramaMexico · United States
Directors
Leon Ichaso · Ziad Doueiri
Creators
Ethan Reiff · Cyrus Voris
Countries
Mexico · United States
Studios
Showtime · Cardboard Guru Productions · Sin Sentido Films
Runtime
60 min/ep
Age rating
TV-MA
Release
04/12/2005
Score
7.4 / 10 (80)
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Seasons and episodes
Specials
6 episodes
Episode 2. Farik's Story
60 min

No synopsis

Episode 3. Making of The Series One Finale
60 min

A Production Diary Documentry

Episode 4. Extended & Deleted Scenes
60 min

No synopsis

Episode 5. Know Your Enemy
60 min

No synopsis

Episode 6. The Enemy Within
60 min

a first-season recap

Episode 7. Islam Dictionary
60 min

No synopsis

Season 1
Season 1
10 episodes · 2005

Friends. Neighbors. Husbands. Terrorists. Things are not always as they seem as a group of seemingly average citizens, living in a Los Angeles community, are revealed to be terrorists plotting to attack without warning.

Al-Fatiha
Episode 1. Al-Fatiha
2005-12-04 · 60 min

Darwyn Al-Hakim is a Muslim ex-con who has just been released from prison and finds his way to an Islamic extremist named Farik, who recruits him to join a terrorist sleeper cell planning an attack in Los Angeles.

Target
Episode 2. Target
2005-12-05 · 60 min

Farik and Ilija receive a deadly biological anthrax shipment and prepare for an attack inside a Los Angeles shopping mall. Darwyn's supervisor Ray Fuller become suspicious about the disappearance of a cell member.

Money
Episode 3. Money
2005-12-06 · 60 min

Farik, Darwyn and Christian cross the U.S.-Mexico border at Tijuana to find out why the cell's pipeline of mob funds has suddenly gone dry.

Scholar
Episode 4. Scholar
2005-12-07 · 60 min

Farik dispatches a biochemical student on a flight to Vancouver, Canada, to drive a shipment of real anthrax across the Canadian border and down to Los Angeles.

Soldier
Episode 5. Soldier
2005-12-11 · 60 min

The cell members pose as Iraqi insurgents-in-training in order to infiltrate and take over a secure warehouse as a new base of operations for Youmud Din ("Judgment Day").

Family
Episode 6. Family
2005-12-12 · 60 min

Darwyn befriends a pesticide plant worker in order to buy some of his company's product under the table for the cell, while each of the jihadis cope with personal troubles of their own.

Immigrant
Episode 7. Immigrant
2005-12-13 · 60 min

When an Afghan boy arrives at the warehouse looking for training as a jihadi, Darwyn introduces him to a more moderate brand of Islam in hopes of steering him away from terrorism.

Intramural
Episode 8. Intramural
2005-12-14 · 60 min

The cell buys explosives from a white supremacist militia while Darwyn's new handler, Patrice Serxner, tries to prevent the LAPD from blowing his cover in a conflicting investigation.

Hijack
Episode 9. Hijack
2005-12-18 · 60 min

The cell hijacks a chemical truck in preparation for Judgment Day, as Farik spends a last night with and bids farewell to his wife, and the FBI prepares to stop the attack.

Youmud Din
Episode 10. Youmud Din
2005-12-18 · 60 min

Judgement Day has arrived and Fariq isn't yet out of surprises. A surprise diversion proves effective in allowing the cell to escape their surveilance. A quick thinking Darwyn leaves a clue that will hopefully lead the FBI to the target…

American Terror
American Terror
8 episodes · 2006
Al-Baqara
Episode 1. Al-Baqara
2006-12-10 · 60 min

several months after foiling a terrorist attack on Dodger Stadium, FBI agent Darwyn Al-Sayeed is about to start a new life as a teacher at Quantico when he is asked to investigate a new terror suspect. Former cell leader Farik is…

Salesman
Episode 2. Salesman
2006-12-11 · 60 min

Darwyn struggles to maintain his cover as he assumes command of a new Los Angeles sleeper cell and questions the experience and skill of his new FBI case agent. Farik's interrogators use new techniques to get him to talk.

Torture
Episode 3. Torture
2006-12-12 · 60 min

Ordered by the terrorist network to acquire a powerful weapon, Darwyn finds the FBI unwilling to cooperate. Ilija faces a heartbreaking decision as he prepares to flee for Europe. Farik is expatriated to Saudi Arabia, where he can be…

Faith
Episode 4. Faith
2006-12-13 · 60 min

Darwyn risks blowing his cover to stop one of his cell's operative from taking revenge against a progressive Islamic televangelist; Farik escapes from prison in Saudi Arabia and finds an al-Qaeda safe house.

Home
Episode 5. Home
2006-12-14 · 60 min

The future of Darwyn's cell is altered when he urges the FBI to intercept a shipment of nuclear material arriving at the Port of Los Angeles - sent by none other than Farik; Ilija faces his past when he arrives home in Sarajevo.

School
Episode 6. School
2006-12-15 · 60 min

The cell's new leader, Karrar, pushes Darwyn aside as plans progress for the nuclear attack on Los Angeles; Farik teaches a lesson about the terrorist way of doing business to an American philanthropist at a school in Yemen.

Fitna
Episode 7. Fitna
2006-12-16 · 60 min

The FBI and Darwyn move to intercept the cell's plans to detonate a pair of nuclear dirty bombs in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, but their victory is overshadowed by a pair of tragedies for Darwyn.

Reunion
Episode 8. Reunion
2006-12-17 · 60 min

Darwyn blames himself for the tragedies that occurred on the Fourth of July and embarks on a suicide mission to Yemen, where he plans to find and confront Farik using his former cell leader's wife as bait.

Cast by season
Michael Ealy
Michael Ealy
Darwyn al-Sayeed
Oded Fehr
Oded Fehr
Faris 'Farik' al-Farik
Henri Lubatti
Henri Lubatti
Ilija Korjenić
Melissa Sagemiller
Melissa Sagemiller
Gayle Bishop
Blake Shields
Blake Shields
Thomas 'Tommy' Emerson
Alex Nesic
Alex Nesic
Christian Aumont
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