Following a horrific car accident, Det. Michael Britten regains consciousness to learn that his wife, Hannah, had died and his teenaged son, Rex, had survived the accident. As he tries to piece his life back together, he awakens again in a world in which his wife is alive, but his son is dead. Because he wants to keep both Hannah and Rex alive, he begins living in two realities and turns to solving crimes in both worlds with the help of two different partners, Det. Isaiah "Bird" Freeman and Det. Efrem Vega. He is assigned therapists in both realities, Dr. Laura Evans and Dr. John Lee, who help Michael learn to deal with his new existence.
Season 1 Episode 1 of Awake resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
s01e01 - Pilot
s01e02 - The Little Guy
s01e03 - Guilty
s01e04 - Kate is Enough
s01e05 - Oregon
s01e06 - That's Not My Penguin
s01e07 - Ricky's Tacos
s01e08 - Nightswimming
s01e09 - Game Day
s01e10 - Slack Water
s01e11 - Say Hello to My Little Friend
s01e12 - Two Birds
s01e13 - Turtles All the Way Down
Awake follows a man named Detective Michael Britten who wakes up after a car accident. he learns that his wife, who was in the car with him, died. He tries to put everything together to find what is going on. However, after a few days, he finds that his wife is not dead, but that it was his son who died. Confused, Michael goes back to work as a detective trying to put things normal again.
One moment he is talking to his wife about having another baby and then the next he is at a tennis match talking to his son's coach about how his son is dealing with the loss. All this time, he is trying to do the job he loves and thinking that he is going insane.