The Eleventh Hour

Nov 26, 2002

Dennis knows he's on to a story when he learns that residents of The Latitude Lofts, a building owned and occupied by an artists' co-operative, are afflicted by fibromyalgia. But his probing is met with resistance - from the co-op members who have already sunk their savings into the building; and from his new senior producer, Kennedy Marsh, who considers the premise as dated as the ""yuppie flu"". Kennedy's criticism further incites Dennis, who is already upset that he was passed over for the senior position in favour of this young upstart - a ""virtual VJ"" - from a popular tabloid show. There's a mess of personal and professional tension when a young boss, Kennedy Marsh, is brought in to jazz up the show, do snappier stories and attract a younger audience. She used to produce a tabloid-TV program and everybody is suspicious and resentful of her. The thing is, Kennedy Marsh is a tall, blond drink of water and there is quiet, almost-sexual tension between her and the dead-serious Dennis.

Dec 3, 2002

A highly-charged story about air rage turns into a brouhaha between Kamal and Deaton as each tries to exert his own spin on the issue. Kamal and Deaton have been trapped in a plane for nearly two hours while the pilot waits for ramp attendants for the jetway. Suddenly, one of the passengers, Ross Glatt, flies into an uncontrollable rage. Flight attendant Cheryl Pittis tries to calm him, but Glatt is out of control. Then Kamal notices a passenger catching the spectacle on a handicam, and his instincts tell him this will be great news footage. Glatt - a professional cellist as it turns out - is finally overcome by a fellow passenger, and about to be sedated when the Emergency Response Team storms the plane. All this, Deaton remarks, for what turned out to be plain old-fashioned air rage. Kamal is just thankful the incident happened while they were on the ground. Otherwise, they might have had fighter jets preparing to shoot them down. In the existing climate of post-Sept. 11, the newsm

Dec 10, 2002

""A Honduran translator disappears when she's suspected of being Dennis' source for bribery allegations against a Canadian firm and a corrupt Honduran bureaucrat.""

Dec 17, 2002

Isobel suspects that philanthropist and self-proclaimed draft dodger Jefferson Grant may have actually been involved in a civilian massacre in a tiny Vietnamese village.

Dec 31, 2002

Isobel struggles to uncover the true motives behind an environmental group's fight to save a contentious piece of land.

Jan 7, 2003

The brains of a top CSIS agent are splattered all over the windshield of his car and speculation is running high on whether it was suicide or murder. Some say George Barkin was being forced into retirement so he committed suicide; others whisper that he was setting up ""business relationships"" in China; or that he was a double agent. But whatever the reason for his demise, there's bound to be a media frenzy around the incident - and The Eleventh Hour wants to be the first ones in. At the centre of all the controversy is a young woman named Lyn Sing, a Chinese citizen who's been working at the Embassy, and who is somehow linked with the now notorious CSIS officer. Maybe Sing's just a damsel in distress; maybe she was part of Barkin's espionage activities; or maybe even a suspect in his death. Megan wants an exclusive with this 'woman of the hour', but Donohue's instincts tell him that with all the news outlets clamoring for her, Sing will end up in the driver's seat, dictating her demand

Jan 14, 2003

Dennis investigates the Draconian drug laws threatening the future of a marijuana fugitive.

Jan 21, 2003

Isobel's investigation into a web of political corruption is spurred by her own misguided faith.

Jan 28, 2003

Kamal vows to bring a corrupt grocery chain to its knees; Dennis grapples with the guilt of a missed moment.

Apr 18, 2003

While investigating a suspicious social worker, Dennis stumbles on evidence that a child killer may have been wrongly convicted.

Apr 25, 2003

Kamal traces an illicit supply chain from war-torn Eastern Congo to the clubby world of corporate Canada, inadvertantly getting mixed up in insider trading.

May 2, 2003

While investigating a school shooting, Isobel is struck by how the media's hot pursuit of the truth can destroy those in its path.

May 9, 2003

The network falls hostage to the demands of a madman intent on delivering his rant over the airwaves. A police profiler, Det. Linus Goslings, is involved in the search for a bomber called the Toonie Bomber.

Feb 15, 2004

When five women die in a mysterious blaze, Dennis goes after the head of a Russian sex slave ring; Isobel and Kamal meet a seriously disfigured boy set to receive a face transplant.

Feb 22, 2004

Isobel is duped by the cunning machinations of a beautiful young girl; a story about an enigmatic movie star with a dark secret deepens the rift between Dennis and Kennedy.

Mar 7, 2004

An inmate's account of a brutal gang rape drives Dennis' story on prison conditions in a dramatic new direction; Isobel gets hooked on slot machines while investigating the suicide of an addicted gambler.

Mar 14, 2004

Isobel gets entangled with victims of an unethical doctor in her expose of an in-vitro clinic; Kennedy sends Dennis to Halifax to find a baby girl cloned by a bizarre cult group.

Mar 21, 2004

Dennis investigates a vigilante incident; Megan loses her unerring objectivity while profiling a brain surgeon who can't save himself from brain cancer.

Mar 28, 2004

When a diplomat's son is killed by a car bomb, what appears to be a terrorist attack turns out to be a personal vendetta with tragic consequences.

Apr 11, 2004

Dennis investigates the motives of a well-to-do housewife who returns home after vanishing without a trace five days earlier. Isobel profiles a profiler with a vicious speech impediment. A stubborn Kennedy refuses to beg Megan to come back to The Eleventh Hour.

Apr 18, 2004

A racist politician sues The Eleventh Hour for defamation after Megan nails him during an interview. Dennis and Kamal harbour a military Corporal who claims her colleague was murdered by her commanding officer.

Apr 25, 2004

Dennis is compelled to seek clemency for a Canadian prisoner on Death Row in the U.S. Meanwhile, Isobel uncovers a shocking secret while producin a story on the new face of Pornography.

May 2, 2004

In an ice-storm blackout, Dennis strugles to finish a piece on an elusive U.S. gun manufacturer who wants to blow the whistle on his company's dirty business practices. Kennedy worries a romance with a coworker may have compromised Dennis' judgement.

May 9, 2004

The Eleventh Hour is incited to produce an in-depth expose on ""modren marriage"" after an Anglican Bishop refuses to marry a gay couple, and a reality show tries to pair up a nerd with a supermodel.

May 16, 2004

Isobel's life falls apart as she digs into pornography charges against a well-loved children's television series. Eleventh hour anchor Megan Redner is determined to secure an exclusive interview with Stella Loos, a Canadian missionary who was rescued from the Taliban after armed American Special Task Force troops stormed an Afghani hospital. From all appearances, the operation was a coup for the U.S. troops, raising morale in Afghanistan. It is assumed that the American networks will be all over the story, but Stella seems to have no media handlers and the American oulets don't even seem to be in the mix. Kennedy wonders if Stella is being coy about her celebrity; that perhaps she's holding out for a book deal. So the show's lawyer, Murray Dann, draws up an offer for her through their corporate publishing arm, Rutger-Hill. In doing so, they buy the book, the movie rights and the interview.

May 30, 2004

Suddenly, Stella claims to have amnesia about the whole event, but when she lets it slip that she prayed in the Afghan hosital where her ""amnesia"" apparently began, Megan and story producer Dennis recognise a cover-up. Megan follows her hunch and sets off for Afghanistan to expose the cover-up while Dennis tracks down Stell's doctor, Dr. Osama Amir, who reveals the truth: the U.S. troops shot a civilian doctor in cold blood during what they knew was in fact a needless rescue mission, and now they're covering it up. Dr. Amir and Stella both saw what happened that day - and Dennis plots to get the evidence to expose the whole debacle, setting off a chain of events that threaten to destry both Dennis' journalistic integrity and his personal relationships.

Nov 27, 2004

New Eleventh Hour producer Henry Shelley makes his debut tracking the murder of a rent boy (male prostitute). What was his relationship with a Member of Parliament? Was he killed for love or money? Kamal considers war corresponding to boost his profile.

Dec 4, 2004

A violent case of mistaken identity gives Kamal a lead on his long-missing sister, Layda. Kennedy pounces on the opportunity to take Kamal's private pain public and boost his ratings. When he and Isobel jet to Halifax armed only with a hidden camera and a fistful of dollars, Layda's trail takes them up against desperate meth addicts and into the command centre of an identity-theft ring. Meanwhile, when Megan lets Henry sweet-talk her into going undercover to bust quack plastic surgeons, she gets an unsettling proposition.

Dec 11, 2004

Megan tracks a drug mule's child to a Colombian orphanage. The Columbian boy is used as a decoy to smuggle heroin into Canada. Henry fears she's getting too involved in a dangerous underworld.

Dec 18, 2004

Isobel gets romantically entangled with the police sergeant hosting her ride-along piece. When her investigation into a serial rapist runs up against the cops', she decides to hold her story one night, with disastrous consequences.

Jan 1, 2005

Kamal is accused of sexual assault while reporting on the trial of the bombers of a Winnipeg mosque. Ex-producer Tony Joel, hired to ""spin"" Kamal's PR, causes a stir at the office.

Jan 8, 2005

Megan recalls interviewing an eccentric chess champion days before his suicide. Ten years later, Kamal finds new evidence to suggest it was murder.

Jan 15, 2005

Even Isobel's new cop boyfriend can't protect her when a dangerous young man, one of her earliest interview subjects, gets out on parole.

Jan 22, 2005

Megan's conflict of interest lands the whole Eleventh Hour in hot water when she catches a domestic-goddess CEO with her hand in the corporate cookie jar. Kamal is shadowed by a sharp-eyed student reporter.

Feb 5, 2005

Isobel and Kennedy clash over the story of a quiet Rosedale housewife (guest star Barbara Eve Harris) arrested for shooting a police officer in her former life as a Sixties radical.

Feb 19, 2005

Henry's journalistic instincts – and marriage – are strained to the limit while profiling a quadriplegic, his faith healer, and a wife who suspects abuse.

Feb 26, 2005

Henry gets a double dose of shell shock when a sniper's bullet strikes on the doorstep of the Eleventh Hour. Megan and Isobel struggle to stay objective as they investigate an attack too close to home.

Mar 12, 2005

Kamal and James join fellow reporters for conflict training at an army base, but when a hostile sergeant pushes their war games too far. Kamal's digging unearths a story more explosive than anything in the field. Back at the office, Kennedy and her team get confessional during a productivity workshop.

Mar 26, 2005

Megan gets a tip from ex-producer Dennis, in town on the book tour for his racy new thriller. While Henry scours Ottawa for Dennis's deep-throat source, a Hollywood director who's optioned the novel visits the bullpen and recognizes more than a few ""fictional"" characters.