Standoff centers on Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman, top-ranked FBI crisis negotiators who are forced to come clean about their secret relationship after it is revealed during a tense hostage standoff that they are sleeping together. Too valuable as a team to be split up, they are now under the watchful eye of their boss and their colleagues. Standoff combines the crackling romantic relationship at its core with intense drama and humor as these negotiators vow not to cross the line and let their personal feelings get in the way of the job. But they learn quickly that, in life and in love, everything is a negotiation.
s01e01 - Pilot
s01e02 - Circling
s01e03 - Shanghai'd
s01e04 - Partners in Crime
s01e05 - Life Support
s01e06 - One Shot Stop
s01e07 - Man of Steele
s01e08 - Heroine
s01e09 - Peer Group
s01e10 - The Accidental Negotiator
s01e11 - Borderline
s01e12 - No Strings
s01e13 - Backfire
s01e14 - Road Trip
s01e15 - Lie to Me
s01e16 - Ex-Factor
s01e17 - Kids in the Hall
s01e18 - Severance
Matt Flaherty and Emily Lehman are top-ranked crisis negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit who are trained to talk their way through volatile situations. They make an outstanding team professionally, but their relationship is a bit more precarious off the job. The series advances the fundamental idea that in life and in love "Everything is a negotiation".