How Many Episodes Of "Persons Unknown" Have You Seen?

Admirably unselfish fireman Joe Tucker takes charge when he and six others, none of which knows another, find themselves waking up in an apparently locked-up hotel room far from their respective home towns. cameras abound in the hotel. Once out, they find it's in a virtual ghost town, although all amenities are in working order, but dangers lurk, perhaps as much for the local Chinese restaurant staff and the hotel's night manager, who claims to be used to waking up in surprise town hotels from time to time but ignores his spook-secretive employer's identity. They must team up various skills, such as a nurse's to spot implants in their legs.

The group toils together for a week on a tunnel, only to find it useless due to a subterranean steel ring fitted with gas, so the hostile mood returns even worse. A helicopter proves neither rescue nor passerby, but drops a box with only three gas masks. Fierce rivalry for them emerges, cause to question claim-supporting family sob stories, but the winners are in for a gripping surprise. Bill and Charlie bonds strangely over their found-out secrets. We learn the reason San Francisco newspaper reporter Renbe takes such risks for the case that he fathered Janet' daughter, while she learns the kid is being turned against her by the manipulate grandmother.

The gang is horrified by the arrival of a colored new woman, who proves viciously and physically aggressive. Joe Tucker, secretly in league with the mastermind, visits his colleague behind the screens, Chinese restaurant undercover Tom, who barely restrains him from pulling the plug just because Janet is in multiple danger. Reporter Mark Renbe is nearly fired but can convince his ex, the editor, his story is worth waiting for, despite his personal interest.

Now Joe is unmasked as one of the manipulators, Bill and Erica see that the gang abuses him horribly, despite his claim to have been 'promoted' years after his own abduction. Colleague Tom is ordered to extract him at gunpoint, but ends up fatally shot himself. Next the survivors find their elaborate personal files planted in Joe's room, and shortly after removed again. Stefano D'Angelo promises his organization will get Renbe and his lover-editor back safely, but it's Franklin Fairchild's connections who arrest them and the ambassador explains he's member of an omnipresent, almighty organization, invisible even to himself, which generously made his career and ordered his Tori's execution.

A desperate, physically healed Joe is returned to the gang, stark naked and suffering from amnesia, which the others doubt, arguing whether he's now a friend, asset or liability. The night manager fails to regain control and is beaten to pulp. The program's mean female director sends reluctant staffer Liam Ulrich to take over. In South America, Renbe and his lover-editor run broke but are bailed out of jail by a local clergyman, who gets killed during an escape into the wild.

Mark Renbe has escaped from South America with six hidden severed thumbs to San Francisco, only to be arrested by detective Robert Gomez, who helps him escape when the case is take out of his hand by unspecified 'government agents', while his editor is fired like most colleagues, the newspaper being bought. The night manager does a great job befriending Bill, but Charlie warns it's all another manipulative ploy. Joe remains excluded due to female scheming, which tears the group even further apart. The projected director decides to abandon town 27 altogether.

Free at last. Those who escaped try to return to their outside lives.