Fragments (season 1)

Fragments is an American action thriller show developed by CBS, starring singer-songwriter Ashley! in the main role as Elle Winters, who plays a school teacher devastated by an explosion at her place of work, which turns out to be a bigger plan to extract her from revealing potentially deadly information about a corporation cover-up that shrouds the disappearance of her parents when she was younger. She enters a game of cat and mouse where allegiances are constantly called into question and people lurk in the shadows.

Featuring an ensemble cast, the first series is made up of Ashley Adams, Tatiana Maslany, Claire Danes, Andrew Garfield, Bitsie Tulloch and Idris Elba as the central cast. Ashley's signing to the lead the newly created series was announced in January 2013 with shooting set for later that Autumn. In the lead up to production, Maslany was confirmed to be playing a Winters sibling and other casting announcements were made.

The first series debuted on September 26th 2014 as a double-bill with the second episode. It became a critical and commercial success, becoming the network's highest rated new season of the 2014-15 calendar and leading for the show's renewal for a second series of ten episodes.

Synopsis
The series surrounds Elle Winters (Adams) who is arrested whilst taking a class at her place of work by unidentified men. Moments after her extraction from the school, it bursts into flames as she watches the flames swallow everything she knew and love - friends, possessions and security. Her oldest sister - and best friend - Emma (Maslany) theorises the link back to the disappearance of their parents, who were reported missing twenty years to the day. The pair begin to build research and connect the dots as a dubious corporation emerges from the woodwork offering answers in return for a partnership. Unsure who they can trust, the Winter siblings attempt to run and buy time but many more are hunting for the siblings along the way.

India Wentworth (Tulloch), a supposed distant relative, offers to take the girls under her wing and keep them from Anna Handler (Danes), a company who were employed to monitor the girls as they grew up. Battle lines are drawn and companies and corporation vie for the girl's attention. At the end of the fifth episode (mid-series), Emma is abducted by an unseen figure. The finale ends with Emma being drugged and taken once again, Anna disappearing in a police shoutout and Elle's lover, Alex, being shot by a hitman thought to be ordered by India Wentworth.

Cast

 *  Elle Winters (Ashley Adams) - After her world comes crashing down, having escaped a bomb plot that kills the people she thought she could trust, she is forced to go on the run from men in masks, with only her sister as a confidant. After living with her grandparents whilst growing up after her parent's supposed deaths, she discovers that her parent's may still be out there, hiding in a cover up mission that has now found their children. She is a resilient girl who has been thrown blindly into a mission that has seen her world in ruins. Can she really trust anyone and is she really alone out there?


 *  Emma Winters (Tatiana Maslany) - Elle's older sister, she is the only one whom she can turn to, being just as in the dark as Elle. She appears to be less emotionally involved with discovering her parents whereabouts, but vows to help with the investigation. She is kidnapped by an unknown antagonist in the mid-series finale.


 *  Alex Laurner (Andrew Garfield) - Elle's childhood sweetheart. She tracks him down and reunites with him while investigating her parent's disappearance. It is revealed that their parents tried to separate them to avoid them growing up and finding too much about their parents from each other. He acts as a romantic interest for Elle throughout the series. He is shot in the first series finale. His fate is unknown.


 *  Anna Handler (Claire Danes) - One of the leaders of an agency called 'T.W.P' who have been hired to overlook the Winters family situation. Anna appears to be the leader, but it is revealed she is working for a higher power she cannot control. It's revealed the company plan to extort Elle and Emma, but Handler attempts to flee the company, until releasing she can work as an insider to pass information to the pair. She is missing for the last episode of the series, with her last appearing on a train station CCTV camera.


 *  India Wentworth (Bitsie Tulloch) - A supposed relative of the Adams family, her allegiance is unknown, but introduced in the first episode of the first series, offering Elle a path and offer that she simply 'cannot refuse'. She offers to give Elle confidential information in return for her assistance in following through the mission, although her plans are unknown, At the end of the series one, it is implied that it is her that ordered the hit on Laurner, Elle's love interest.


 *  Olivier Tate (Idris Elba) - A leader of 'T.W.P'. He initially appears to be supporting the Winter girls, but is eventually becomes apparent that he has an interior motive for the situation. Acting as the bad cop as the series progresses, it is revealed that he uses the girls for bait to uncover the mysterious kidnapper and find the Winters parents.