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In Plain Sight
2008 - 2012 7.1 (92 votes) 5 Seasons
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Genres
Drama Action & Adventure Crime
Networks
USA Network
Created By
David Maples

In Plain Sight

Welcome to witness protection. Now get lost

Overview

U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon must hunt down witnesses for federal cases in the witness protection program while also managing a rather dysfunctional family and her own personal life.

Key Crew

Producer: Oscar L. Costo

Top Cast

Mary McCormack
Mary McCormack

Mary Shannon

Frederick Weller
Frederick Weller

Marshal

Nichole Hiltz
Nichole Hiltz

Brandi Shannon

Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley Ann Warren

Todd Williams
Todd Williams

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2008)

No overview available.

12 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot
2008-06-01

In the first episode we meet Mary Shannon a US Marshall for the Witness Protection Program. In this episode Mary tries to figure out what went wrong when a mobster's son who was under her protection is killed.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Hoosier Daddy
2008-06-08

Things get complicated when Mary takes on the case of Leo Billups. Leo saw his mother murdered and is going to testify against the people who killed her including his father.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Never the Bride
2008-06-15

Mary's assignment this week is Treena Morris a con-artist who is married to a diamond smuggler. After she is arrested by the feds, she decides to tell all on her husband and his friends. While Mary is trying to keep her safe, Treena gets engaged and her photo is all over the papers.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Trojan Horst
2008-06-22

Mary and Marshall take on a case involving Horst Vanderhoff, an agent for Lola, who's an assassin for hire. While trying to line up her next job, Horst is busted and agrees to testify against her to become a part of the Witness Protection Program.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Who Shot Jay Arnstein?
2008-06-29

Mary works to solve the mystery of who tried to kill her witness, an art dealer. To complicate matters, both his mistress and his wife are in the program…and key suspects.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: High Priced Spread
2008-07-06

Mary learns that her witness, a NCAA basketball star, has a gambling problem

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Iris Doesn't Live Here Anymore
2008-07-13

The closeness of a family is tested when they enter the program after the daughter witnesses a shooting.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Don of the Dead
2008-07-20

A member of the Program under Mary's watch is in a car accident and Mary has to find out if it was an accident or related to his former life.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Good Cop, Dead Cop
2008-07-27

Mary suffers the consequences when an attractive witness, who she slept with, is accused of murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: To Serge with Love
2008-08-03

Natasha, the mild mannered Ukrainian accountant, has gotten her new breasts, but her life becomes more complicated when she discovers that her new boyfriend is also in WITSEC.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Stan By Me
2008-08-10

After watching her mother audition for "Sweet Charity" Mary is kidnapped; in New Jersey, Brandi's boyfriend Chuck is abducted and two FBI agents are killed; when federal agents suspect a connection, a nationwide manhunt ensues.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: A Fine Meth
2008-08-17

The family regroups after Mary's ordeal; Stan and Marshall search for a way to force Spanky to tell the truth about Chuck's drug trafficking; the FBI corners Mary in her driveway with Brandi's suitcase full of meth in the back of her car. Season 1 Finale

Runtime: 60 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (2009)

No overview available.

15 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Gilted Lily
2009-04-19

A dead witness causes Mary to take leave of her administrative duties to solve a "Ten Little Indians" story, until her plan gets changed by her own brand of Post-Traumatic Stress disorder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: In My Humboldt Opinion
2009-04-26

A northern California marijuana mastermind cannot testify without using the drug to neutralize his anxiety disorder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: A Stand-Up Triple
2009-05-03

A witness finds herself having difficulty in managing her own brood of children, so Mary offers to babysit the trio of problem kids.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Rubble With A Cause
2009-05-10

A building collapses on one of Mary's witnesses, leaving him exposed to outside threats, so Mary has to risk her life in order to keep her witness safe.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Aguna Matatala
2009-05-17

An Orthodox Jew enters Witness Protection, but his wife refuses to join him. The situation is made more complicated by the fact he is being pursued by a man motivated by a higher authority.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: One Night Stan
2009-05-31

Mary and Marshall find themselves in a difficult position when Stan's very first witness turns up dead and he is implicated in her murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Duplicate Bridge
2009-06-07

An engineer blamed for a bridge collapse enters the program after being targeted by angry family members of the victims who died in the tragedy.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: A Frond in Need
2009-06-14

When a series of murders seem to follow a new ex-con witness, including stabbing Mary's friend, she and Marshall have to figure out if he's the killer in time to save his next victim.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Who's Bugging Mary?
2009-06-21

FBI agent O'Connor arrests Brandi on charges of drug trafficking and murder. Insisting her sister is innocent, Mary works to help Brandi while ultimately trying to discover O'Connor's real motive for his actions.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Miles To Go
2009-06-28

Mary briefs a new witness whose visitation rights with his son depend on the man's testimony. When Mary learns the boy is missing, she tries to find him.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Jailbait
2009-07-12

The barely legal daughter of Mary's witness – a Miami racketeer – finds herself in a dangerous romance, just as Raph's mother visits to prepare an engagement feast for the surprised Mary.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Training Video
2009-07-19

Mary lends her expertise for the U.S. Marshalls by making a training video with a film crew. Elsewhere, Marshall prepares the arrangements so that an elderly mobster in Witsec can go to his son's funeral.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Let's Get It Ahn
2009-07-26

A world-class counterfeiter witness is suspected in a murder; Mary and Marshall realize they may be hiding a witness from the government.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Once A Ponzi Time
2009-08-02

When a Wall Street blue blood rats on his boss' investment fraud and hides out in WITSEC, something from his past life comes calling.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Don't Cry for Me, Albuquerque
2009-08-09

The US government helps a Latina political activist hide in Witsec, but the arrangement sours after she moves into her new home.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (2010)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Father Goes West
2010-03-31

A former high line thief from Boston tries to give up crime for the sake of his teenage son, and Mary and Marshall search for the person who nearly killed Mary.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: When Mary Met Marshall
2010-04-07

In 2003 Mary meets Marshall for the first time as they get lovers CLAUDIA TOBIN and HENRY DOER into the WitSec program, and it's a toss-up whose relationship is going to last: Claudia and Henry's, or Mary and Marshall's.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Coma Chameleon
2010-04-14

ATF agent Wade Guthrie is shot and left for dead by gun trader Jasper Malone. After three years in a coma, he wakes to find the world he left behind has drastically changed.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Whistle Stop
2010-04-21

Mary and Marshall try to help FBI Agent Mike Faber convince his informant to enter WITSEC. Despite their best efforts, the informant refuses their protection and gets himself into a heap of trouble. After Mary, Marshall and Agent Faber save the informant from certain death, he and his family join Witsec.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Fish Or Cut Betta
2010-04-28

Mary’s new witness falls in love for the first time; Mary must stop her witness from taking out his pain in the form of an explosive device.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: No Clemency for Old Men
2010-05-05

Mary tries to help a parolee acclimate to life outside of prison after having spent 38 years behind bars while Marshall helps out when one of Mary's witnesses no longer wants to work with her.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Love's Faber Lost
2010-05-12

Mary's new witness is part of a mortgage fraud ring and is an important link in the case of FBI Agent Faber.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Son Of Mann
2010-05-19

Marshall is being evaluated in the field by his father (Geoff Pierson) during a joint fugitive operation. Mary meets Brandi's secret friend.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Death Becomes Her
2010-06-02

A woman wants to escape from her family, who are heavily involved in organized crime, but a secret from her past puts her eligibility for the Witness Protection program in jeopardy.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Her Days Are Numbered
2010-06-09

A witness with Aspergers who has no social filter and can't lie stymies Mary, particularly when the witness refuses to testify against her only friend – the key conspirator in a numbers case. Meanwhile, Marshall and Stan race to figure out why an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is holding up the visa of a key witness before she is deported. Plus, Brandi reveals her plan for the money she made by investing with Scott.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Born Identity
2010-06-16

Mary helps her latest witness, a homeless man who's struggling with the program, find his birth parents. But the search could cause more problems than she anticipated. Elsewhere, Scott asks to borrow more money, raising a red flag for Brandi.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: WITSEC Stepmother
2010-06-23

Mary keeps an eye on a teen witness whose separated parents are too distracted by their own issues to pay attention to their daughter. Marshall thinks a witness may have betrayed his brother; and Brandi tends to Scott after he's attacked.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: A Priest Walks Into a Bar
2010-06-30

After a priest witnesses the murder of a parishioner, he will have to give up his special vocation in order to enter WITSEC.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (2011)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Art of the Steal
2011-05-01

Mary uses a thief to catch a thief when she asks a witness to consult on a crime in order to exonerate Brandi of grand theft auto.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Crazy Like a Witness
2011-05-08

Mary's paranoid witness wants to reconnect with his son.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Love in the Time of Colorado
2011-05-15

Mary is caught between a witness and a suspect.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Meet the Shannons
2011-05-22

A beauty pageant queen finds out that she's spent most of her life in witness protection

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Second Crime Around
2011-06-05

Mary works with an unapologetic con artist.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Something A-mish
2011-06-12

An Amish witness comes into the program and must learn to adapt.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: I'm a Liver Not a Fighter
2011-06-19

A terminally ill father wants to reconcile with his children.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Kumar vs. Kumar
2011-06-26

Mary plays marriage councilor in order to mediate a WITSEC divorce. Not only must she reconcile a stubborn witness, but also thousands of years of Hindu tradition, in order to save the case and keep a family out of danger.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Rolling Stones
2011-07-10

Mary gets a WITSEC two-fer, when a witness is forced to enter the program after being mistaken for his "evil" twin brother. Not only must she protect the pair from their enemies, but also from each other.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Girls, Interrupted
2011-07-17

Marshall and Stan contend with a rock-star witness and her controlling mother while Mary is away on a WITSEC-mandated road trip.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Provo-cation
2011-07-24

Mary helps protect a guilt-ridden Army veteran; Marshall & Abigail consider the next step.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: A Womb With a View
2011-07-31

Mary protects a courtesan from the gangster father of her baby.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Something Borrowed, Something Blew Up
2011-08-07

Mary must protect her least favorite witnesses on the day of her sister's wedding.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (2012)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Anti-Social Network
2012-03-16

Mary sees whether she can balance motherhood with a demanding profession and a dysfunctional home life, or if she will put her baby up for adoption.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Four Marshals and a Baby
2012-03-23

With Jinx out of town and Mark busy with a last minute business trip, Mary has no choice but to head to work with Norah in tow. But when Mary arrives, Delia points out the obvious: Mary can't be with Norah and a witness at the same time. Meanwhile, Marshall and Abigail are trying to determine whether or not Kristi Owens should enter WITSEC and Associate Director Campbell gives Stan some surprising news about the future of the Albuquerque office.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Reservations, I've Got a Few
2012-03-30

When Marshall's witness escapes from the WITSEC offices and disappears on an Indian Reservation, Mary and Marshall will need the help of a Native American detective to track him down.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Merry Wives of WITSEC
2012-04-06

Mary protects a bigamist not only from his former employer, but also his two wives. In WITSEC, cheating the black market can be dangerous; but cheating on multiple wives is a death sentence.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Drag Me to Hell
2012-04-13

Even with Joanna babysitting Norah and Brandi addressing her alcohol problems in rehab, things are still chaotic in Mary's life. Douglas Hampton/Harvey, a drag performer who was known as Kandy back in New Orleans, joins the program after accidentally interrupting a drug deal between a club manager and a member of a dangerous drug cartel. The team tells Douglas that he must leave Kandy and his performance act behind, but the frustration of his new life sends him back onto the stage and into the spotlight.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Medal of Mary
2012-04-20

Mary is still reeling from the flood of emotions stirred-up after having to arrest her father, James, when he unexpectedly showed up on her doorstep after being AWOL for 30 years. Bad goes to worse when Special Agent Robert O'Connor, Mary's "favorite" FBI agent, demands her assistance to get James to provide critical information regarding his old partner-in-crime, Cormack “Sully” Sullivan, one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Sacrificial Lam
2012-04-27

Having slipped through the fingers of the FBI, James Shannon is on the run again and heading for the border, but first he must stop to take care of a little unfinished business. Agent O'Connor, convinced that she was somehow involved in James' escape, places Mary under investigation, but when he refuses to listen to her suggestions about the possible whereabouts of her father, the manhunt ends in tragedy.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: All's Well That Ends
2012-05-04

Series Finale: Drastic changes take place at the Albuquerque WITSEC office. Mary finds herself caught between a witness and an unexpected family reunion.

Runtime: 60 min

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