David Corenswet | Instinct

• Genre: Police procedural, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
• Based on: Murder Games by James Patterson & Howard Roughan
• Developed by: Michael Rauch
• Starring: Alan Cumming, Bojana Novakovic, Daniel Ings, Naveen Andrews, Sharon Leal
• Composer: James S. Levine
• No. of seasons: 2
• No. of episodes: 24
• Executive producers: Michael Rauch, Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, James Patterson, Bill Robinson, Leopoldo Gout, Alan Cumming, Marc Webb
• Production locations: New York City, New York
• Running time: 44 minutes
• Production companies: 34 Films,Secret Hideout, James Patterson Entertainment, Black Lamb, CBS Television Studios

Author, university professor, and former CIA paramilitary officer Dr. Dylan Reinhart (Alan Cumming) is lured back to his old life by New York police detective Elizabeth Needham (Bojana Novakovic) when she needs his help to stop a serial killer who is using Reinhart's book as inspiration for murders.

"Live"

A young woman is found killed in a theater at the end of the screening of a horror movie. Lizzie and Dylan discover the murder victim was having an affair with her married professor. As Lizzie and Dylan investigate the crime scene, a film showing the murder of the victim begins to play. They connect the murder to the film class that the victim was enrolled in. The killer, the professor's assistant, takes a second victim and streams the murder attempt live, but Julian takes down his stream to stall him while Dylan and Lizzie race to the location. Dylan and Andy, who have been discussing adopting, host Andy's niece Maddy for the week. Maddy is suspended from school for bullying, but confesses to Lizzie that the mean texts were written on her phone by another girl. At Dylan's request, Julian hacks into Maddy's phone and identifies her best friend Zoe as the one sending the mean texts under Maddy's name. Lizzie and Julian kiss.