Alcatraz

On March 21, 1963, the inmates and guards at Alcatraz prison mysteriously disappear. To cover up the problem, the government reports to the public that the prison has been closed because of unsafe conditions. A secret government unit was set-up to find the prisoners. Now, in the present-day, the inmates begin returning - unaged and unaware of where they have spent the missing decades - and continue their criminal ways. They are acting out of character and appear to be searching for specific objects. A federal agent employs a police officer and a conspiracy theory novelist to help track them down.

Cast

• Sarah Jones
• Jorge Garcia
• Jonny Coyne
• Parminder Nagra
• Jason Butler Harner
• Sam Neill
• David Hoflin
• Leon Rippy
• Cameron K. Smith
• Robert Forster
• Robbie Amell
• Joe Egender
• Jeananne Goossen
• Jeffrey Pierce
• James Pizzinato
• Bart Anderson
• Ryan Bruce
• Chris Logan

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Pilot
  Rebecca Madsen: You ever do any research on an inmate named Jack Sylvane?::Diego Soto: Sylvane? That...
• Episode 2: Ernest Cobb
  The next returning Alcatraz inmate is Ernest Cobb, a crack-shot who shot series of crows and people ...
• Episode 3: Kit Nelson
  Tommy Madsen: [after Nelson, a child killer, is beaten up in the prison yard] They didn't beat you b...
• Episode 4: Cal Sweeney
  Cal Sweeney, the next Alcatraz prisoner to mysteriously reappear, resumes his MO of robbing banks, w...
• Episode 5: Guy Hastings
  The next man 'returning' from 1963 and hurting an Alcatraz island ranger is no prisoner but most sen...
• Episode 6: Paxton Petty
  Detective Rebecca Madsen: Transparency isn't one of Hauser's strong suits.::[Dr. Soto snorts with la...
• Episode 7: Johnny McKee
  70-fold murderer Johnny McKee returns and reverts to his horrible MO, assuming menial jobs so he can...
• Episode 8: The Ames Bros.
  Next fiends to return are giant Pinky and smart Herman Ames, twin brothers who ruthlessly mounted a ...
• Episode 9: Sonny Burnett
  Detective Rebecca Madsen: Hauser, you should really take some time off; we're on this. You were shot...
• Episode 10: Clarence Montgomery
  SPOILER: 'Mahershala Ali' (qv) (Clarence Montgomery) had a similar role in another sci-fi TV series ...
• Episode 11: Webb Porter
  At just over 11 minutes, the pre-title sequence of this episode is among some of the longest ever ma...
• Episode 12: Garrett Stillman
  Doc and Rebecca close in on a man who may be the key to revealing the secrets behind all the returni...
• Episode 13: Tommy Madsen
  SPOILER: The whole car chase is a reference to the most famous San Francisco car chase from _Bullitt...

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Alcatraz - Nazareth
• Alcatraz - The Gathering Field
• Alcatraz - Leon Russell
• Alcatraz - Kubb

Now lay me down on market street
Im lookin for some spare change
A coast guard ship has been lookin for me
And I might have to change my name
Here comes uncle sam again with the same old bag of beans
The local chiefs on the radio
Hes got some hungry mouths to feed
Goin back to alcatraz
Lay me back down here on the highway
One hundred and one ways to go
Solitary is so confinin
To the legend of geronimo
Oh I know I could bring the rain
Used to dance for abc
And all the braves down on death row
Are pretending to be free
Back home in alcatraz
In the land of the great white father
My american blood runs cold
I left my home in oklahoma
To the everglades I go
Its just the wings on the silver cars
And Im allowed to plow a field
Its not the life for a nineteen seventy
(what's an)indian boy to do
Goin back to alcatraz
Lay me down on market street
Im lookin for some spare change
A coast guard ship has been lookin for me
Might have to change my name
Here comes uncle sam again with the same old bag of beans
Local chiefs on the radio
Hes got some hungry mouths to feed
Goin back to alcatraz
Here comes uncle sam again with the same old bag of beans
Local chiefs on the radio
Hes got some hungry mouths to feed
Goin back to alcatraz
Goin back to alcatraz
Goin back to alcatraz
Goin back to alcatraz
Goin back to alcatraz
Goin back to alcatraz
Goin back to alcatraz

Steven and I hitch-hiking
Our day off to Hanover
Beat up car with young girl driving
Slow down and pull over
In the rear view mirror
Like co-conspirators we did smile
I did not know that I was running
I saw the sunlight streaming
Down on the landscape
Of my Alcatraz escape
From the sadness 'twas born in my soul
Three years passed, still I was suffering
Spent that March in Charlottesville
Saw the ghost of Thomas Jefferson
Sitting on my window sill
With his thin powdered hair
And his concubine there he did smile
I did not know that I was running
I saw the twilight gleaming
Down on the landscape
Of my Alcatraz escape
From the sadness 'twas born in my soul
I went down through the labyrinth
Of my falsified regret
Deep in flight from the light in my soul
Oh what a complicated tapestry I sewed
All that energy I wasted on my fear
All those years spent stumbling down that lonesome road
It's not very clear
How far or how near I have come
I did not know that I was running
I see the sunlight streaming
Down on the landscape....

Now lay me down on market street
I'm lookin' for some spare change
A coast guard ship has been lookin' for me
I might have to change the name
Here comes Uncle Sam again
With the same old bag of beans
Local chief's on the radio
He's got some hungry mouths to feed
Goin back to Alcatraz
Standing down on the highway
Of hundred and one ways to go
Solitary is so confinin'
To the legend of Geronimo
I know how to bring the rain
I used to dance for ABC
All the braves down on death row
Are pretending to be free
Back home in Alcatraz
In the land of the great white father
My American blood runs cold
From my home in Oklahoma
To the Everglades, I go
It's just the wings on the silver cars
And I'm allowed to [Incomprehensible] field
Not the life for a nineteen seventy
Indian boy to do
I'm goin' back to Alcatraz
Lay me on the market street
I'm lookin' for some spare change
And the coast guard ship's been lookin' for me
And I might have to change the name
Here comes Uncle Sam again
With the same old bag of beans
Local chief's on the radio
He's got some hungry mouths to feed

Through the ceiling they really mean it
She's in Alcatraz
He don't walk it and she just talks it
But nothings left unsaid
Chorus
Bail out I said Bail out
Don't look down
Bail out
It's only the ground
Under my floor he's a Warlord
And she wants out
'Ñause when she talks it he distorts it
And the Highway's in my head
Chorus
And the Highway's in her head
Chorus
Bail out
Bail out
Bail out