Last Resort

Last Resort is an American military drama television series created by Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek for ABC and produced by Sony Pictures Television. It debuted on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern/7:00 pm Central on September 27, 2012. On November 16, 2012, ABC announced that the series would not be picked up for a full season and it is their intention that it will finish its current thirteen-episode run.

Plot

The series is about the renegade crew of a U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, the fictional USS Colorado (SSBN-753).^{[N 1]} Following the maritime pick up of a U.S. Navy SEAL team off Pakistan's coast, the Colorado receives an order to launch nuclear ballistic missiles at Pakistan. Colorado's Commanding Officer, Captain Marcus Chaplin (Andre Braugher), asks for confirmation of the firing order because the orders were received through a legacy Cold War secondary communication channel, only to be used in the event that Washington, D.C. has already been destroyed. After refusing to fire the missiles until the command is sent through the proper system, Chaplin is relieved of command by the then-Deputy Secretary of Defense William Curry, and the Colorado's second in command, Lieutenant Commander Sam Kendal (Scott Speedman), is given command instead. When Kendal also questions the orders and asks for confirmation, the vessel is fired upon by the Virginia-class submarine USS Illinois (SSN-786). Two nuclear missile strikes are subsequently made on Pakistan by other U.S. forces.
Realizing that they've been declared enemies of their own country, the Colorado seeks refuge on the island of Sainte Marina (a fictional French island located in the Indian Ocean) and commandeer a NATO communications and missile warning facility. When a pair of B-1 bombers are sent to attack the submarine and island, Chaplin launches a Trident nuclear missile towards Washington, D.C. to impress upon the national leadership that he's serious. The B-1s turn away at the last minute, but Chaplin (who has altered the missile's final target coordinates) allows the missile to visibly overfly Washington, D.C. and explode 200 miles beyond in the open Atlantic, the explosion clearly visible from both Washington and New York City. Via a television feed to the media, he then declares a 200-mile exclusion zone around Sainte Marina.
Now the crew must find a way to prove their innocence and find out who in the U.S. government has set them up so that they can finally return home.