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The show features Nichols as rookie FBI Agent Rebecca Locke, who joins the VCU after the death of a previous member. While she proves to be a brilliant investigator, she has a secret that only she, and mysterious VCU director Virgil "Web" Webster (Coyote), knows; that as a 10-year-old girl, Rebecca was kidnapped from her home and held captive for 18 months (à la Elizabeth Smart). Astonishingly enough, no one found and rescued her; she escaped the trauma all by herself, setting a fire and escaping in the resulting chaos. Webster manipulates Rebecca's experience on each case, using the insight she gained through it to establish the mindset of the victim -- and the criminal.

Another sidebar to the plot is the moral struggle between Webster, who seems willing to use Rebecca's gift to catch the "unsub" at all costs, and Rebecca's partner Paul Ryan (Harrington), who views himself as the voice of conscience in the battle for Rebecca's soul. Additionally, Webster's past is very much unknown; viewers are left wondering exactly how much he has in common with the perpetrators he pursues. The show was the brainchild of Tim Minear, of Angel and Firefly fame. While FOX had already developed an earlier version of the show (a distaff 21 Jump Street imitator), Minear re-tooled it, with Nichols as the only holdover. Just seven episodes into its 13-episode first season, FOX cancelled The Inside, making it the third series (along with Firefly and Wonderfalls) of Minear's to be aborted by the network. Minear plans on releasing all 13 episodes of the original run, plus the Jump Street pilot, plus another pilot which was shot without Minear's supervision and was panned by FOX execs, on a DVD in 2006. Talk has emerged that the DVD would also include Inside co-creator Howard Gordon's short-lived 1999 series Strange World to make a 26-episode set, but no plans have been confirmed.

• TheInside.org
• Online petition to get The Inside released on DVD
• Downloadable The Inside Scripts
• PopGurls' review of the show, which doubles as an appreciation of the Rebecca Locke character
• Part One of an interview with Minear, in which he discusses the demise of the series
• Part Two of that interview, in which Minear talks about plots that audiences will not see because of cancellation
• Part Three, where Minear speaks on his future projects, including an Inside DVD
• |96747|1|,00.html The Inside Must Die To Live Again
• Interview with William Mapother about his experiences filming the final episode, "Skin and Bone"

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