Sleeper Cell
Sleeper Cell: Season 1
Season 2

Air Date

December 4, 2005

Episodes

10 episodes

Sleeper Cell

Season 1

Overview

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.

Episodes

Al-Fatiha

1. Al-Fatiha

5.6
December 4, 2005
60 min

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.

Target

2. Target

6.0
December 5, 2005
60 min

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.

Money

3. Money

5.5
December 6, 2005
60 min

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.

Scholar

4. Scholar

5.2
December 7, 2005
60 min

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.

Soldier

5. Soldier

7.5
December 11, 2005
60 min

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").

Family

6. Family

5.8
December 12, 2005
60 min

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.

Immigrant

7. Immigrant

8.0
December 13, 2005
60 min

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.

Intramural

8. Intramural

7.0
December 14, 2005
60 min

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.

Hijack

9. Hijack

6.0
December 18, 2005
60 min

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.

Youmud Din

10. Youmud Din

7.7
December 18, 2005
60 min

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.