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8.5 Great
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Status

Ended

Premiered

September 23, 2005

Ended

December 3, 2005

Genre

Drama , Action/Adventure

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Police

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She's the Bomb
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8.8

She's the Bomb

Whilst at a wedding, Carter witnesses the first in a chain of deaths that confuse the Deviant Crime Unit and the bomb squad. As little evidence for the cause of deaths is left at the scenes of the crimes, both departments are stuck for answers. There is a twist when Jack and Carter soon discover that everything was not as it originally seemed.

Aired: 02/09/06

Show Summary

Killer Instinct details the chilling stories behind the bizzare and deviant crimes cimmited by San Francisco's most aberrant criminals and the detectives whose job it is to stop them. The Series centres around Detective Jack Hale of the SFPD's deviant crime unit. Hale has chosen to be on theMore front line of the city's toughest division after taking a hiatus from the force following the death of his partner, whom he had a personal relationship with, in the line of duty. Intense and private, Hale is haunted by his own personal demons and fights to save his sanity and career.

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  • what is this about killer instinct being cancelled??????????

    Killer Instinct details the chilling stories behind the bizzare and deviant crimes cimmited by San Francisco's most aberrant criminals and the detectives whose job it is to stop them. The Series centres around Detective Jack Hale of the SFPD's deviant crime unit. Hale has chosen to be on theMore front line of the city's toughest division after taking a hiatus from the force following the death of his partner, whom he had a personal relationship with, in the line of duty. Intense and private, Hale is haunted by his own personal demons and fights to save his sanity and career.

    6 comments, last one Oct 21, 2008
  • Missing Cast Member

    Killer Instinct details the chilling stories behind the bizzare and deviant crimes cimmited by San Francisco's most aberrant criminals and the detectives whose job it is to stop them. The Series centres around Detective Jack Hale of the SFPD's deviant crime unit. Hale has chosen to be on theMore front line of the city's toughest division after taking a hiatus from the force following the death of his partner, whom he had a personal relationship with, in the line of duty. Intense and private, Hale is haunted by his own personal demons and fights to save his sanity and career.

    2 comments, last one Aug 7, 2008
  • Hale or Carter?

    Killer Instinct details the chilling stories behind the bizzare and deviant crimes cimmited by San Francisco's most aberrant criminals and the detectives whose job it is to stop them. The Series centres around Detective Jack Hale of the SFPD's deviant crime unit. Hale has chosen to be on theMore front line of the city's toughest division after taking a hiatus from the force following the death of his partner, whom he had a personal relationship with, in the line of duty. Intense and private, Hale is haunted by his own personal demons and fights to save his sanity and career.

    2 comments, last one Jul 7, 2007
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    7.5 Good

    Killer Instinct is the journey of solving bizzare and deviant crimes in San Francisco. The series focuses on Detective Jack Hale. Hale struggles with his personal life and career everyday. hide show

    Leads, Johnny Messner plays Jack Hale and Kristin Lehman plays Danielle Carter in this crime drama that only lasted one season. There were only 13 episodes, and there was no warning of cancellation which I was highly upset about. This show was fairly simple, sometimes the resolutions were obvious but the drama within was great. The actors all had strong performances and you could tell they were all dedicated to their roles. It went off too soon, but I guess people enjoy more trivial crime dramas so perhaps that is why this was cancelled. Regardless, I still enjoyed this show very much.

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    5.3 Mediocre

    Just your average cop show hide show

    Killer Instinct is about a male lead cop whose a loner in the field. His hanger-on partner does her best to give all that she's good for: following on the heels of the loner's footsteps and tailing his car whenever he runs off to be the hero and catch the bad guy on his own. Sound familiar? Yeah, identical to all the other crime dramas out there.

    The cases were interesting but you could generally guess the twist about 15 minutes during the show. There was nothing unique about the characters - they were all stereotypes, the murders were overtly gruesome, the victims were scantily clad vulnerable women and the cast had no chemistry. Johnny Messner and Kristen Lehman were so dull and unemotive.

    Jack Hale, the main character is bland and unrealistic - almost vigilante-like. In one episode, where the victims of a serial killer are bitten with poisonous spiders, he plants a poisonous spider on the killer. Jack's father is a serial killer, about to be executed - what are the chances that the police academy would let him in? For better shows that treat the same subject with more class and intelligence, I recommend Criminal Minds and the unjustly canceled The Inside. Those shows have better acting, more interesting cases, more unique characters, more surprising & hard to guess plot twists and more intelligent writing.

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    10 Perfect

    best show i have ever seen hide show

    i really liked the show and i still watch it on fox every friday. carter and hale where one of the best partners i have ever seen on tv.

    the thing that i enjoyed most about the show was how hale was always there to help out carter.

    now all i can hope for is for both of them to have sucesfull carrers and hopefully i will se them together again in the same show fighting crime and helping out each other.

    i am sorry if you dont understand very well but i am from colombia and i am not a very good writer.

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    8.5 Great

    Never had a chance to gain a good following... hide show

    I think if they'd aired it for longer & promoted it better that this could've taken off like CSI or Bones did. I really liked this show & was so dissapointed to see it go. I'm not surprised it was cancelled, it seems to be the trend the past few years to cancel good shows & keep bad ones. I'd be happy to see Killer Instinct make a come back some day, but I doubt it'll happen. Great cast & great storylines... Sorry to see it go the way so many others have. STOP cancelling shows without giving them a chance people!!! We want our TV back, it's scary to get attached to a show nowadays... You might not ever know how it all ends. lol.

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    9.5 Superb

    Some people just didn't realise how good it is. hide show

    Why why why did this brilliant show get axed! It was the same as CSI but with more interesting crimes for the fearless detective's to solve. In fact, it's just all round better than CSI (not the classic episodes perhaps, but it's a lot better than the current season) but you don't see CBS cutting that from the schedule, do you? It's such a shame when good shows like this are not continued, especially this one. It had action, chemistry, fun and tonnes of potential. If only FOX could see it and learn to love this show as much as we do.

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