Day Break

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Day Break
Day Break television series
Genre	Action - Thriller - Drama
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV)
Running time	42 minutes
Starring	Taye Diggs Moon Bloodgood Meta Gooding Victoria Pratt Ramon Rodriguez Adam Baldwin
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Original run	November 15, 2006–present
No. of episodes	6
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Day Break is a 13-episode miniseries on ABC in the United States and on Global in Canada. The series premiered on November 15, 2006, airing during Lost's 12-week intermission. The series stars Taye Diggs as Detective Brett Hopper.

Due to a time loop, Hopper relives the same day over and over. On that day he is framed for the murder of an assistant district attorney. The series revolves around his attempt to solve the mystery of the murder.

Day Break will be pulled from the timeslot after its December 27 airing.^[1]

1 Synopsis
2 Characters
- 2.1 Main characters
- 2.2 Supporting characters
3 Episodes
- 3.1 Season 1: 2006-2007
4 International broadcasters
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The pilot episode opens with the sun rising and Detective Brett Hopper (Diggs) rising for another day at work at the precinct. He stayed over at the home of his girlfriend, Rita Shelten (Bloodgood). After leaving her apartment, he stops for coffee and happens to saves a woman from being struck by a bus. Then he goes to his apartment where he retrieves his mail and finds his rooms in disarray, which he at first attributes to intruders, but then assumes to be his dog's fault. As he begins listening to his recorded phone messages, he is interrupted by a SWAT team, which breaks the door down and arrests him for murdering Assistant District Attorney Alberto Garza.

While questioning him, the police reveal that they found the murder weapon in his closet with his fingerprints on it. Several subplots involving his overlapping personal and professional life are revealed as Hopper talks with people during the day, but then Hopper is put in jail. During the night, he is knocked out and taken to a quarry by unknown armed men. They demand that he admit to the murder of Garza, and show him a video of his girlfriend (his only alibi) being shot. He is also shown a video of his sister and her children, and is then injected with a sedative.

Hopper wakes up back in bed next to Rita. After some confusion, he realizes that he is reliving the same day over again. Hopper finds himself reliving serial run-throughs of the same day, trying to make each one turn out differently. His attempts to change events based on his memory of the previous run-through of the day make some things turn out better, but events again spin out of his control. (Some days, the woman he saved from the bus accident is killed if Hopper does not attend to it.) Although each day begins the same, both Hopper's memory and his physical status--including any injuries he sustains--are carried over over from one reliving of the day to the next. (He soon realizes that he could be killed since any fatal injury would be "carried over" as well.) In remembering each run-through, however, Hopper accumulates more and more knowledge about the people and events involved in the plot to frame him for murder. He applies the information gained from one time around to investigate different leads the next time around. He also learns from the mistakes of each "day" so as to try to do better the next time. In one episode, he learns that when he is able to work through one of the many problems in his life, the next "day" that problem, at least, is genuinely resolved and does not recur. Unfortunately, his central problems are not so easily resolved. Every day he wakes up knowing that he will be wanted for a murder he did not commit and that everyone he loves will be threatened by a conspiracy whose origins and aims continue to baffle him.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main characters

Brett Hopper, played by Taye Diggs, is the main character of the show. He is a detective and was framed for the murder of an Assistant District Attorney Alberto Garza.
Rita Shelten, played by Moon Bloodgood, is Brett's girlfriend. She is a nurse and was killed in the first and second iteration of Brett's neverending day as well as the first day of episode 5.
Jennifer Mathis, played by Meta Golding, is Brett's sister. She is a school teacher and her husband may be abusing her physically.
Andrea Battle, played by Victoria Pratt, is Brett's current partner. She is also a detective and is being investigated by Internal Affairs because of some shady dealings with her informer "Slim". She is romantically involved with Eddie Reyes.
Damien Ortiz, played by Ramon Rodriguez, is Brett's informer. He is a gang member that decided to turn against his gang. His safe house was ambushed, but he escaped.
Chad Shelten, played by Adam Baldwin, is Brett's former partner. He is now in Internal Affairs. He is also Rita's ex-husband.

[edit] Supporting characters

Actor	Character	Role
Mitch Pileggi	Spivak	Detective, robbery/homicide
Ian Anthony Dale	Choi	Detective, robbery/homicide
Jim Beaver	Nick Vukovic	retired cop, former partner of Brett's father
Don Franklin	Randall Mathis	Principal, Jennifer's husband
Julie Claire	Angela Rondello	Prosecutor
Michael B. Silver	Nathan Baxter	U.S. Attorney
Bahar Soomekh	Margo	Coffee shop/bus woman
Jonathan Banks	Conrad Detweiler	"Shadow Man"
Joe Nieves	Fencik
Michael McGrady	Buchalter
Nestor Carbonell	Eddie Reyes	Andrea's lover, former cop

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Season 1: 2006-2007

#	Code	Episode	Airdate	Writer	Director
1	101	Pilot	November 15, 2006	Paul Zbyszewski	Rob Bowman
2	102	What If They Run	November 15, 2006	Paul Zbyszewski	Rob Bowman
3	103	What If He Lets Her Go	November 22, 2006	Steven Maeda	Rob Bowman
4	104	What If He Can Change the Day	November 29, 2006	Henry Alonso Myers	Fred Keller
5	105	What If They're Stuck	December 6, 2006
6	106	What If They Find Him	December 13, 2006
7	107	What If He's Not Alone	December 20, 2006
8	108	What If She's Lying	December 27, 2006
9	109	What If They're Connected	TBA, 2007
10	110	What If He's Free	TBA, 2007
11	111	What If He Walks Away	TBA, 2007
12	112	What If She's the Key	TBA, 2007
13	113	What If It's Him	TBA, 2007

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[edit] International broadcasters

Country	TV Network(s)	Series Premiere	Weekly Schedule
United States	ABC	November 15, 2006	Wednesdays 9:00pm ET
Canada	Global Television Network	November 15, 2006	Wednesdays 9:00pm ET
Australia	Seven Network	2007
New Zealand	TV2	2007
United Kingdom	Bravo	2007