Scripted series · CBS
Stalker
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Dylan McDermott
Jack Larsen
20 eps
Mariana Klaveno
Janice Lawrence
20 eps
Maggie Q
Beth Davis
20 eps
Victor Rasuk
Detective Ben Caldwell
20 eps
Elisabeth Röhm
Amanda Taylor
20 eps
Madeline Brewer
Claudia Burke
1 eps
Michael Roark
Damon Edmonds
1 eps
Caity Lotz
Melissa Barnes
1 eps
Lesley Fera
Mrs. McCoy
1 eps
Ryan Devlin
Cedric Brown
1 eps
Sterling Beaumon
Ian Hemingway
1 eps
Brad Schmidt
Matt Marshall
1 eps
Jake Weary
Bobby Hughes
1 eps
Buckley Sampson
Ian's Mom
1 eps
Sage Kirkpatrick
Rosemary Wilson
1 eps
Kat Graham
Christine Harper
1 eps
Phoebe Tonkin
Nicole Clark
1 eps
Andrew W. Walker
Coach Baker
1 eps
Erik Stocklin
Perry Whitley
13 eps
Eric Lange
Larry Meyers
1 eps
Daren Kagasoff
Eric Bates
1 eps
Michael Grant Terry
Kurt Wild
1 eps
Melanie Liburd
Lori Carter
1 eps
Torrey DeVitto
Kate Edwards
1 eps
Audrey Wasilewski
Ellen Meyers
1 eps
Gabriel Bateman
Ethan Taylor
8 eps
Alano Miller
Troy Gunn
1 eps
Merle Dandridge
Dean Lisa Miner
1 eps
John M. Jackson
Douglas Jeffries
1 eps
Tara Summers
Tracy Wright
6 eps
Sammi Hanratty
Hanna McCoy
1 eps
Troy Blendell
Thaddeus Barnes
1 eps
Jadon Wells
Thomas McCoy
1 eps
Chelsea Harris
Belle
5 eps
Robert Alan Beuth
Ron
1 eps
Michael King
Victor
1 eps
Ross Mackenzie
Derek
1 eps
Warren Kole
Trent Wilkes
5 eps
Michael Irby
Silas Martin
1 eps
Louis Herthum
Jimmy Lambert
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Stalker actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Stalker reads strongest on Character Depth, Serialized and Tension.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A pair of detectives investigate stalkers in Los Angeles.
Strong and focused, Lt. Beth Davis is an expert in the field of repeated harassment, driven by personal experience of being a victim. She heads the LAPD's Threat Assessment Unit, which investigates cases of stalking -- including voyeurism, cyberharassment and romantic fixation. The history of recent transfer Jack Larsen -- whose personality and questionable behavior have been an issue in the past -- may help him in his assignment to her team. Her other detectives are young but eager Ben Caldwell and deceptively intelligent Janice Lawrence. Together they try to stop situations from spinning out of control -- and to keep their personal obsessions at bay.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E10
A Cry for Help
After a series of harrowing attacks befall two seemingly random victims, the Threat Assessment Unit desperately searches for a connection between them before the elusive stalker strikes again.
S01E05
The Haunting
While investigating a series of eerie threats, the TAU team discovers the victim’s house has a creepy history and is believed to be haunted. When the danger turns deadly, they spend Halloween night searching a wild costume party looking for a perpetrator long believed to be dead.
S01E11
Tell All
An athlete's estranged wife is terrorized when her tell-all memoir is about to be released. Meanwhile, Beth sheds light on her painful past.
S01E02
Whatever Happened to Baby James?
Beth, Jack and the TAU investigate after a teenage girl has a stalker break into her house, but quickly realize that she is not the one being targeted. Perry pays Beth an unsolicited visit at work.
S01E07
Fanatic
The Threat Assessment Unit investigates the home of a young actress after she is frightened by an obsessed fan. Meanwhile, Beth receives an unsettling personal letter and Perry gains more access into her life.
S01E04
Phobia
Beth and Jack investigate an attack by a stalker who preys on his victims’ phobias. Beth learns a friend is seeing someone who, unbeknownst to both women, has ties to her.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E20
Love Kills
S01E19
Love Hurts
S01E18
The Woods
S01E17
Fun and Games
- Directed by Jeff Thomas
- Written by Kevin Williamson
S01E16
Salvation
S01E15
Lost and Found
- Directed by Rob Seidenglanz
- Written by Matthew Partney, Corey Evett
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Kevin WilliamsonExecutive Producer
Writing
- Matthew PartneyWriter
- Tamara JaronWriter
- Corey EvettWriter
- Kevin WilliamsonWriter
Direction
- Rob SeidenglanzDirector
- Kevin BrayDirector
- Jeff ThomasDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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