ROX MACFALANE and her stepdad MARTY MACFARLANE are the Extractors—former cops who rescue young people from cults and other dangerous situations. They work outside the law now, but desperate families count on them to risk their lives to bring their loved ones home.

SYNOPSIS:

The Characters: ROX MCFARLANE is an ex-police officer and ex-CIA analyst. In both jobs, she was pushed into deskwork because she’s neuro-atypical (mild Autism spectrum). In hopes of becoming a better field operative, she starts a treatment called transcranial magnetic stimulation. Rox starts having emotional reactions and reading social cues she never could before. She also learns to be deceptive, which is necessary for the extraction ruses. But over the seasons, the treatments also create setbacks to her character arc. She experiences horrible side effects, her boyfriend doesn’t like the personality changes and breaks up with her. Her dilemma is whether to continue the treatment, which makes her better at rescuing people, but has a heavy price.

MARTY MCFARLANE is a career cop who married Rox’s mother when Rox was a child. He also fathered a second younger daughter, Jolene, Rox’s half sister. After his wife, Georgia, left the family, Marty raised both girls on his own. Rox followed in his law enforcement footsteps, but Jo ended up married to a polygamous cult leader who eventually murdered her. When Rox left the CIA to become a private detective/extractor, Marty retired from the department to join her. Driven by guilt over Jo—their shared wound—they rescue troubled young people from oppressive situations. Marty is also dating for the first time in decades, with mixed results.

Season One: GUILT GAME

The teaser opens with Rox and Marty in the middle of a financial ruse in which they intercept a young girl (who’s about to be married to an older man) and return her to her father. In that scene, we quickly learn who they are, what they do, and why.

Rox has her first treatment, followed by an emotional reaction to music. Afterward, she gets a call from Dave and Jenny Carson who ask her to find their daughter, Emma, and extract her from a charismatic cult leader who preys on young women with guilt issues.

Rox and Marty take the job, then Rox rents a friar’s robe and visits the soup kitchen run by the Sister Love Charity (cult). Alarmed by what she’s learned, that evening, she and Marty follow the young women when they leave the mission. But a series of complications interfere with their efforts to locate the secret compound.

The episode wraps up with a dark initiation scene inside the compound, showing how austere and degrading their lives are. The pilot ends with a cliffhanger—when one of the Sisters disappears.