Last Resort

Last Resort is an American military drama television series created by Shawn Ryan for ABC and produced by Sony Pictures Television. It debuted on September 27, 2012.

 

The series revolves around the lives of the crew of a U.S. nuclear submarine that make a big decision facing a crisis, they choose not to follow orders, thus avoiding a possible third world war.

In the series Captain Marcus Chaplin (Andre Braugher) of the United States Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, the fictional USS Colorado, gets suspicious when receives an order to launch nuclear missiles at Pakistan, through the backup communications channel. When he decides to ask for confirmation via official channels, he is relieved of command. 

Assuming command Lt. Commander Sam Kendal (Scott Speedman), who also questioned the orders, sees his submarine being fired upon by the USS Illinois, killing crew members of the Colorado.

The submarine and its crew find themselves crippled on the ocean floor, declared rogue enemies of their Own country. Then Chaplin and Kendal take the sub on the run and bring the men and women of the Colorado to an exotic island. The fugitives seek refuge at an outpost NATO, where, with a warning to the U.S. government, declare themselves the smallest nuclear nation in the world.