Hope Davis is heading into NBC’s Monday night lineup with Line of Fire, a new family drama set for 10 p.m. The series puts her in the center of a household where every member works in law enforcement, and the first episode arrives as the week’s most direct new-network launch.
That matters because viewers scanning the Sept. 21-27 TV week have a clear place to start: Monday at 10 p.m. on NBC. Davis stars opposite Peter Krause, who plays the father, while the family also includes a daughter and two sons, giving the show a built-in ensemble before the case even begins.
The premise gives the setup its hook. After a killer targets members of law enforcement, the family pools its expertise to figure out what happened. In practical terms, that means the investigation is not being carried by one person with one specialty, but by a five-person unit whose shared professional lives shape the hunt from different angles. Davis plays the mother, so the show’s point of view runs through someone trying to keep the family together while the crime reaches into the very world they all know best.
That also creates the pressure point inside the story. A family built around law enforcement is suddenly facing a killer aimed at law enforcement, which leaves no clean divide between home and work. The same training that should help them read the case may also make the danger feel closer, because every clue lands inside their own daily world rather than outside it.
Line of Fire is the week’s first scheduled test case for whether that premise can carry a network hour, and Davis is the face viewers are most likely to notice first. If the series works, it will be because the family structure gives the investigation shape from the start and because Monday’s premiere answers the only question that matters right now: whether this household can solve the case before the killer gets another step ahead.
