Line of Fire is a crime drama television

Television

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 series that was broadcast on ABC

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 for 11 episodes in the winter of 2003-2004. It starred Leslie Bibb

Leslie Bibb

Leslie Louise Bibb is an American actress and former fashion model. She transitioned into film and television in late 1990s. She appeared in television shows such as Home Improvement , before she appeared in her first film, the comedy Private Parts , which was followed by her first show The Big Easy...

 and Jeffrey D. Sams

Jeffrey D. Sams

Jeffrey D. Sams is an American actor known primarily for his television work.A native of Ohio, Sams has been a main cast member of several television series, few of which have made it past their first season...

 as two rookie FBI agents assigned to the bureau's Richmond, Virginia

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 branch, where their story parallels that of a local mob boss, Jonah Malloy (David Paymer

David Paymer

David Paymer is an American actor and television director, seen in such films as Quiz Show, Searching for Bobby Fischer, City Slickers, Crazy People, State and Main, Payback, Get Shorty, Carpool, The American President, Ocean's Thirteen, and Drag Me to Hell...

). When a fellow agent is murdered in a shootout with the gangsters, the head of the FBI branch (Leslie Hope

Leslie Hope

Leslie Ann Hope is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Teri Bauer in the Fox show 24 where she played the wife of the main character Jack Bauer.-Life and career:...

) declares an all-out war on the criminal underworld. The following episodes weaved intricately between Bibb and Sams' federal agency and Paymer's gang, though the two storylines rarely met head-on, except when occasionally focusing on an undercover agent (Anson Mount

Anson Mount

Anson Adams Mount IV is an American actor who has appeared in both movies and television shows. Mount has also played Jim Steele on the short-lived NBC series Conviction and appeared in the independent movie Tully with Julianne Nicholson, as the title character Tully Coates, a playboy whose ways...

). The show was canceled after just 11 episodes in June 2004, though 13 episodes in all were produced.

Mob boss Jonah Malloy's signature line was "That's that with that."

The Parents Television Council

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took a clip from the series for their TV's Worst Clips from years 2001 to 2004. The clip used depicted graphic sexuality.

Episode listing

• 1x01 "Pilot" December 2, 2003
• 1x02 "Take the Money and Run" December 9, 2003
• 1x03 "Undercover Angel" December 16, 2003
• 1x04 "Mockingbird" December 23, 2003
• 1x05 "Boom, Swagger, Boom" December 30, 2003
• 1x06 "The Best-Laid Plans" January 6, 2004
• 1x07 "I'm Your Boogie Man" January 13, 2004
• 1x08 "Mother & Child Reunion" January 27, 2004
• 1x09 "The Senator" February 3, 2004
• 1x10 "Born to Run" (unaired)
• 1x11 "This Land Is Your Land" (unaired)
• 1x12 "Eminence Front: Part 1" May 30, 2004
• 1x13 "Eminence Front: Part 2" May 30, 2004