(S01E02) I love how this show isn't toying with us. Sure, they're holding back on many of the details about what exactly happened during the 52 hour bank robbery, but you don't get the feeling they're taunting us or teasing us (*cough* Lost *cough*). Everything that is happening and the way they're showing it seems natural to the story, and it's amazing how intriguing a two or three second flashback snippet can be.

In this ep, the survivors are trying to get on with their lives, but it's not going to be easy...

Jeremy is trying to get back to his life as a surgeon, but keeps on having flashbacks to the robbery, including two disturbing quick shots of one of the robbers shooting someone; Nick is sick of the way the police are handling this and pressure from his boss, so he quits (side note: cool to see Michael O'Neill from The West Wing again!); Egan becomes a media celeb, appearing on an L.A. morning show and asking for people to send in money to help Franny and her nephew (another side note: yes, that was Fred Koehler from Kate & Allie as his boss!); Franny herself has problems...she quits the bank because she can't go back in there; Felicia goes to see not only a therapist but also Lucas. She still doesn't know what happened to her in that bank. She's completely blank, and her dad doesn't want to talk about it with his wife either. Lucas meets with his lawyer, and says he doesn't want things made too difficult for anyone.

But there are problems within problems. His boss doesn't want him to quit the force, and even makes not-so-subtle threats to Nick's fellow captives (Franny had drugs in her purse at the bank and the cops found Egan's gun) if Nick doesn't come back and make the police look good. Nick takes his badge back. He also has to recant the story that he and Kathryn gave the paper. Kathryn herself is getting pressure from Ed not to align herself with Nick because of his past problems (not sure why a gambling problem would be such a big scandal or not credible, but I guess we go along with it).

This episode ends with a patient dying on Jeremy's table, Nick getting his promotion and an award with Egan (who was fired from his job for standing up to his boss), and Felicia, who goes to the jail again to see Lucas but he refuses to see her. She takes out her cell phone and we see she's the one who called 911. We also see flashbacks of a vault opening and the other crook holding a gun to her dad's head.

But the very end? Jeremy injects a liquid into Randall's IV. He dies.

Whoa.

This show succeeds (so far) because it plays as both a straight up drama AND a twisty what-happened-in-there. I thought the pilot was going to be a lot to live up to (I had that sick feeling that this wouldn't be involving in the second episode), but it kept the tension level high while also moving the story along. I don't know how they'll do a second season, but even if this turns out to be a season-long miniseries (and somehow you sense the makers know this too), it will be a great one.