| Episode | Gallery | Transcript |
| Episode No. | Season | |
| 52 | 4x08 | IV |
| Original Broadcast Date | September 19, 2011  October 18, 2011  November 26, 2012 
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Grounded is the eighth episode in Season IV and the fifty-second episode in Flashpoint.
Synopsis[]
Team One is called to a hijacking and as Parker negotiates with hijackers, the rest of Team One prepares for the worst – a tactical response not everyone will survive.
Plot[]
A duo of armed hijackers force a passenger jet to land at the Toronto Airport. They then take all cellphones and sow paranoia by claiming that they have other people posing as passengers. Team One arrives on the scene and convince the pilots trapped in the cockpit to discretely depressurize the cabin while they formulate infiltration scenarios. The kidnappers demand the release of a certain prisoner within half an hour or they'll start killing passengers. Team One does some researching, learning that the subject desiring release was part of a 'Free Citizens Group' or FCG, stationed in Helford Hills, a group that doesn't acknowledge the authority of the Canadian government, nor use ID or send their kids to school. Some years ago, a police commander made an unauthorized raid on the group without sufficient intelligence. Thus, FCG view all police as soulless soldiers of the government. Greg Parker manages to negotiate the release of 50 of the 70 passengers. However, just before the last could leave, one of the impatient passengers not chosen decides to overpower the hijackers. But the woman next to him stands up and kills him, revealing herself as a hijacker. In the process, she shoots a colleague her brother, by accident. As he dies from his injuries, the woman, Sandra Moore, blames Parker for stalling and threatens to kill the remaining hostages until her husband, the prisoner, is released. She calls the fourth man to reveal himself.
Ed, Sam, Spike and Raf infiltrate the plane through blind spots and extract the pilots. On the plane, one of the passengers, Holly McCord, secretly picks up her cellphone that her daughter dropped during flight and secretly texts and calls Team One with one of the passengers, a blonde boy, looking out for her. Not too soon, the hijackers decide to kill the same boy in less than a minute unless their demands are met. Parker sends out the prisoner in an effort to distract the hijackers while instructing Holly to pass a message to the other passengers to prepare to duck. Unfortunately, their note passing is noticed, forcing Team One to storm the cabin from both sides. Sandra and one of her colleagues are shot dead resisting arrest, the former killed by Raf while the others are arrested. As they leave, Sam and Ed counsel Raf over his first kill, giving him advice of what not to do later. Raf then turn himself over to the SIU to give a full report.
Cast[]
- Hugh Dillon as Ed Lane
- Amy Jo Johnson as Julianna 'Jules' Callaghan
- David Paetkau as Sam Braddock
- Sergio Di Zio as Mike 'Spike' Scarlatti
- Clé Bennett as Rafik 'Raf' Rousseau
- Enrico Colantoni as Gregory 'Greg' Parker
Recurring Cast[]
- Tattiawna Jones as Winnie Camden (uncredited)
Guest Starring[]
- Shaun Benson as Geoff Daikin
- Joanne Boland as Sandra Moore
- Melanie Scrofano as Holly McCord
- Tom Melissis as Roland Bosch
- Ryan Blakely as Nicolas
- Drew Nelson as Bernard Moore
- Jerritt Boyce as Marc
- Alden Adair as Richard Frieberg
- Carolyn Goff as Cheryl
Uncredited[]
- Farah Bhanji as Flight Attendant
- Kelly LeMay as Flight Attendant #2
- Erin Pitt as Bella
Producers[]
- Michael MacLennan – Consulting Producer
- Shelley Eriksen - Supervising Producer