Sleeper Cell

7.4
20051h

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.

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Seasons

10 Episodes • Premiered 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.

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1. Al-Fatiha

4.8

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.

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2. Target

5.2

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.

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3. Money

4.6

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.

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4. Scholar

4.4

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.

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5. Soldier

7.5

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").

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6. Family

5.0

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.

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7. Immigrant

5.2

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.

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8. Intramural

7.0

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.

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9. Hijack

5.0

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.

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10. Youmud Din

7.7

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 location in time.

Cast

Photo of Michael Ealy

Michael Ealy

Darwyn al-Sayeed

Photo of Oded Fehr

Oded Fehr

Faris 'Farik' al-Farik

Photo of Henri Lubatti

Henri Lubatti

Ilija Korjenić

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Thekla Reuten

Wilhelmina 'Mina' van der Hulst

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Kevin Alejandro

Benito 'Benny' Velasquez

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Melissa Sagemiller

Gayle Bishop

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