Network: NBC
Episodes: Nine (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: October 13, 2008 – December 15, 2008
Series status: Cancelled/ended
Performers include: Christian Slater, Mike O’Malley, Saffron Burrows, Madchen Amick, Alfre Woodard, Omid Abtahi, Taylor Lautner, Bella Thorne, James Cromwell, Missy Yagrer, Mindy Sterling, Rade Serbedzija, Eugenia Yuan, Louis Giambalvo, and Brent McGregor.
TV show description:
This high-action drama follows a secret agent and his cover alias, who until a certain point, has no knowledge of his double life. The agent has been implanted with a chip that allows his handlers to switch the two personalities at will.
Henry Spivey (Christian Slater), a family man with a wife and two kids, is a strategic management consultant at a multi-billion dollar Los Angeles consulting firm, AJ Sun. He loves puzzles, gets nosebleeds in high altitudes, and has yet to be in a fight.
His alter ego is Edward Albirght (Slater, in a dual role), an operative for a secret government agency based in Los Angeles, Janus. International espionage, extractions, and assassinations are his specialty. Edward speaks nine languages, survives in any climate, and runs the mile in four minutes. Basically, he’s a killing machine. The chip that switches personalities back and forth malfunctions one day, and Henry learns about his double life.
Angie Spivey (Madchen Amick) is Henry’s wife and a professional cellist. They met in college and have been married for sixteen years. Jack (Taylor Lautner) is Henry and Angie’s 15-year-old son. People wonder how he can be the offspring of his parents, being a start athlete and involved in Mixed Martial Arts. His sister, Ruthy (Bella Thorne), is a 12-year-old overachiever who loves spying on people. Both kids are really chips off the old block, but no one realizes it.
Raymond Carter (Mike O’Malley) is Edward’s fellow operative who’s honed his pain tolerance to an unbelievable level. He and Edward don’t get along. However, Raymond’s alter ego, Tom Grady, and Henry are best friends and their families are close as well.
Mavis Heller (Alfre Woodard) is a senior official at Janus. Her duties there revolve around overseeing the “Nods,” the specialized agents who operate with dual personalities. She’s tough, smart, and employs playing chess… with herself as an opponent.
Tony Nazari (Mousa Kraish) is the chief technician at Janus, with the responsibility of implanting the chips that include false memories in the operatives. Arlene Scott (Mindy Sterling) is the bridge between the two worlds of AJ Sun and Janus, accounting for the whereabouts of the AJ Sun employees while they’re alter egos are on Janus missions.
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My Own Worst Enemy= So sorry you were not extended.