Actor Gbenga Akinnagbe (1978)

The Old Man (2022–2024) is an American drama thriller television series based on the 2017 novel The Old Man by Thomas Perry. As a Vietnam veteran and former CIA operative, Dan Chase lives off-the-grid in Connecticut for thirty years after killing an intruder who broke into his home. The show was developed by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine. While fleeing, Chase rents a room from Zoe McDonald, who becomes his forced partner. In light of Chase’s complicated past during the Soviet–Afghan War, FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Harold Harper was ...

24: Live Another Day (2014) was a limited event television series that aired on Fox from May 5 to July 14, 2014. As activists gathered outside the United States Embassy where President James Heller was staying, CIA agents in London apprehended Jack Bauer, a former Counter Terrorist Unit Agent and wanted fugitive. Kate Morgan, a CIA agent who had recently been forced to resign because of her husband’s conviction, managed to regain her position when she discovered that Jack was planning to infiltrate the agency in order to reach Chloe O’Brian, a former CTU Data Analyst turned hacktivist. With the help of his friend Belcheck, an ex-Serbian Mob enforcer, Jack ...

The American action thriller film The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009), directed by Tony Scott and written by Brian Helgeland, revolves around a hijacking scenario. A man known as Ryder, along with his accomplices Bashkin, Emri, and ex-train operator Phil Ramos, take over Pelham 123 – a New York City Subway train at 77th Street. In an attempt to gain control of the situation, Walter Garber – a Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee working as a train dispatcher in the Rail Control Center – receives a call from Ryder demanding $10 million in cash ...