Butwhat if the last prisoners of The Rock weren’t escorted out at all, but simply disappeared?

And, mysteriously, reappear in the present day?

Such is the premise of Fox’s 2012 TV seriesAlcatraz.

Promotional image featuring the cast of Alcatraz with the prison seen in the background.

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All the prisoners were transferred off the island.

Only, that’s not what happened.

Not at all."

Ewan Leslie and Emma Booth holding flashlights, investigating something, in The Gloaming

So begins all 13 episodes ofAlcatraz, narrated byJurassic ParkalumSam Neill, who plays FBI agent Emerson Hauser.

The series begins with 256 inmates and 46 guards disappearing from Alcatraz on March 21, 1963.

She is, in a word, interesting.

Alcatraz TV Poster

This riveting crime thriller features a young Supergirl in a Tasmanian noir mystery.

We’re on to you, Fox.

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Alcatraz

Sam Neill