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Genre Crime drama
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Running time 60 minutes
Creator(s) Dave Alan Johnson
Gary R. Johnson
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Starring Deanne Bray
Yannick Bisson
Rick Peters
Marc Gomes
Enuka Okuma
Ted Atherton
Tara Samuel
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Country of origin USA
Original network/channel PAX
Original run October 13, 2002 – May 22, 2005
No. of episodes 57



Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye is an American television police drama. It premiered in the US in 2002, and in Canada in 2003 and ended in May, 2005 as it was slated for non-renewal by PAX TV.

Although the series was an American production, most filming took place in Toronto, Ontario.

Sue Thomas was created by Dave Alan Johnson and Gary R. Johnson for Pebblehut Productions Inc., based on the real Sue Thomas, a deaf FBI agent. It is distributed by CTV in Canada, PAX TV in the US, and the Hallmark Channel in the UK.

Yuri Yakubiw is the cinematographer, Bill Layton the art director.

The series was once known as Lip Service. The actress who plays Thomas, Deanne Bray, is deaf in real life.

Contents
1 Special Investigative Analaysis Sue Thomas
2 The Main Team
2.1 Special Agent Jack Hudson
2.2 Special Agent Robert Manning
2.3 Special Agent Demitrius Gans
2.4 Special Agent Miles Leland III
2.5 Lucy Dotson
2.6 Special Agent Tara Williams
3 Season Finale
4 Main cast
5 Crew
6 External links



Special Investigative Analaysis Sue Thomas
The lead character in the PAX/Sony sponsered tv programme, "Sue Thomas, F.B. Eye". She is a young deaf woman who is bi-lingual - that is able to speak and communicate in ASL (American Sign Language).

Sue applies for, and is accepted, for a position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington D.C. (District Of Columbia). She leaves her home in Ohio and drives to Washington, picking up her first service dog (Hearing Dog for the Deaf), Levi on route.

Sue's parents, particularly her mother, are concerned that she will not be able to cope with life so far from everything she has known, despite the fact that they have strongly encouraged their only daughter (she has two older brothers who remain un-named) to live in both a hearing and deaf enviroment. Sue's mother fought for her daughter to have every opportunity to live life to the full, which has made Sue a very independent young woman. She speaks, signs, lip reads, sings, plays the piano and ice skates. Sue has a college degree from an unspecified university.

Sue arrives at her job only to find she has been designated a "special project" i.e. given a very basic job so the Bureau can fulfil it's Equal Ops mandate. Sue has no intention of wasting her life examining fingerprints and marches back to personnel to tell them exactly what she thinks.

Having done this, she finds the man she has been telling isn't personnel at all. He is a Special Agent - the Personnel people having moved offices since Sue walked in the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Fascinated and attracted to the confident and forthright young woman, the Special Agent - Jack Hudson - takes her to lunch where he tests her skills. After proving her skills to him, Sue is taken on as part of Jack's "team", and she becomes a kind a Special Investigative Analysis.

The Main Team
The team are experts in recconnaissance and surveillance. They are:


Special Agent Jack Hudson
Jack is usually the lead agent in the team's cases. From Wisconsion. A driven young agent of conflicting emotions. Sniper trained, professional through and through, knows where he is going, but also universally liked, charming and basically, the man everyone would want to marry. Strongly attracted to Sue (who reciprocates) but unable to act due to their working relationship and the no-dating-in-the-same-team policy. He is her Training Agent and her line manager. However they have a firm, if complicated, friendship. Best friends with Bobby, Dimitrius, carefully friendly with Myles, friends with Tara, Lucy. His long term on/off girlfiends(Allie, Jessica) kept rearing their not-so ugly head plot wise throughout the three seasons.

Special Agent Robert Manning
Manning, who often goes by Bobby is a charming Australian. He provides a much needed sense of humour and is best mates with Jack. They are similar ages and share a love of sports and the single life. Bobby has a darker side, he is a recovering gambling addict, and still attends Gambler's Anonymous, but only Jack knows about this as it would effectively mean the end of Bobby's career with the F.B.I. In season 3, Bobby split from his girlfriend of two seasons - the journalist Darcy D'Angelo - when the latter accepted an offer of a high profile job in L.A. Shortly after this he and Tara discovered a mutual attraction. Bobby is highly protective of the women he works with, which probably stems from his childhood, when his father left his mother. She has since remarried, and Bobby is close to both his Mother and Stepfather, who still live someplace in Australia.

Special Agent Dimitrius Gans
Dimitrius is the father figure in the office and the senior agent in terms of age and experience. He is the only married member of the team. In season two he and his wife suffered a miscarriage of what would have been their third child. "D" often deputises when their line manager is absent.

Special Agent Myles Leland III
Myles is a Harvard educated Bostonion with the all the charm of a backbencher. He has a high opinion of both himself and his skills. Myles considers himself a cut above the rest of the team. He suffers a serious lack of a sense of humour, and is often the butt of the office jokes and other practical jokes. From the start he mistrusts Sue's place on the team and actively tries to have her removed. This back fires and Sue ends up saving Miles' place on the team. In recent seasons Myles' relationship with Sue has improved significantly. He did date Lucy but when she found out he was two-timing her, she dumped him. Their working relationship is polite, but frosty. Myles has a difficult relationship with his parents and only recently (in season two) has started to forge a proper relationship with his sister.

Lucy Dotson
Lucy is Sue's newest best friend in Washington. She is the team researcher and dispatcher, doing any number of tasks which come from all angles and from all members of the team. Mostly filing and claims submissions, which all the men in the team seem unable to do themselves. She shares an apartment of luxurious size and design with Sue. Lucy is a student of ASL. She is close to her mother, her father having passed away some years ago. She is also close to her paternal Grandmother who appeared in an episode. Lucy also dated Miles briefly, which ended badly.

Special Agent Tara Williams
Tara is the IT expert. Known as everyone's favorite geek, what Tara doesn't know about IT systems isn't worth knowing. Tara is a fully trained and armed Special Agent. However she can give the impression of being shy, dizzy, and a ditz when immersed in her world of computers. Best friends with Lucy and Sue, they often go out together. She has dated Stanley, a special agent adept at breaking codes. Tara was also asked out by a visiting movie star. In season 3, she and Bobby Manning discovered a mutual attraction.


Season Finale
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The season finale started with Sue accepting a job offer in a far away city. Everyone was dismayed at the possibility of Sue's departure. Sue was so concerned that she and Jack even tried to communicate their feelings for each other. At the last minute, Sue decided not to take the job, and stay with her friends instead. The show ended with a title slate saying, "The End... for now." This was in reference to the shows abrupt cancelation and a possible chance at a future comeback. This chance no longer seems likely as most of the actors and other crew have moved on.

Main cast
Deanne Bray — Sue Thomas
Yannick Bisson — Jack Hudson
Rick Peters — Bobby Manning
Marc Gomes — Dimitrius Gans
Enuka Okuma — Lucy Dotson
Ted Atherton — Myles Leland III
Tara Samuel — Tara Williams
Steve Adams — Evan (2004)
Chapelle Jaffe
Jesse — Levi, Sue's hearing dog
Jack Jessop — Charlie
Troy Kotsur — Troy (actor is Deanne Bray's husband in real life, is also deaf)

Crew
Dave Alan Johnson — executive producer
Tim Johnson — executive producer in charge of production
Brooks McGrath — associate producer
Larry A. McLean — co-producer (as Larry McLean)
Marilyn Stonehouse — producer
Michael Todd — editor
Ben Wilkinson — editor



Sue Thomas, F. B. Eye is still the only television series to feature a lead character, who happens to be deaf, working a regular job not connected with an institution "for the deaf", such as Gallaudet University. (In one memorable episode, Sue Thomas worked a case involving a kidnapped Gallaudet student.) More than that, both Sue and Lucy earned a reputation for building bridges between the deaf and hearing worlds. Viewers could see this in their relationship as roommates, and also in at least one episode in which Sue invited Lucy to join her at a social club for the deaf, all of whose members communicated exclusively by means of ASL. (Sue Thomas also worked a large number of cases involving deaf witnesses, in addition to her obvious skill at providing simultaneous translation of suspects' conversations when Jack Hudson's team could not wire a surveillance venue for sound.)

The series gained two divergent fan bases--one primarily deaf and interested in issues affecting the deaf, and the other primarily hearing and interested mainly in the issues that the team's cases touched on (international terrorism and slavery, domestic abuse, crime both organized and garden-variety, etc.). With some regrettable exceptions, the on-line interaction between members of both fan bases on the same Internet forums (such as PAX-TV's Message Board) provided more opportunities for mutual understanding between deaf and hearing persons. (The repeated references in many of the story lines to a possible romantic attachment between Jack Hudson and Sue Thomas grated on the nerves of many of the show's deaf fans. They regarded this apparent story arc as a distraction that cheapened the character and her story. In fact, the actual Sue Thomas is not known to have formed any romantic attachments with any other present or former Special Agent of the FBI.)

In addition, the Sue Thomas character's explicit Christian faith received much attention in the dialog. This is something that the actual Special Agent Sue Thomas would have appreciated, since after leaving the FBI she became a missionary.

Of all the television series that had any storylines exploring the continued threat of international terrorism against the United States, Sue Thomas, F. B. Eye is one of the few, if not the only, series to treat this subject in a realistic and forthright manner free of the sensationalism that plagued many crime-drama series of the last quarter century. History will have to judge, at such time as the archives of the FBI may be safely released to the public, how accurate was the portrayal of teams like the one depicted in this series and their efforts at thwarting major terrorist incidents.