how ‘bout a clue?
What kind of clue would you like? Wait i think I know what you mean: It’s a combination Spy/thriller/ assasination/ conspiracy/Bilderberg type plotline with a faint whiff of ‘Three Days of the Condor’ to it.
Rubicon is an upcoming American television series created by Jason Horwitch and airing on the AMC television network. The series will be about an analyst at a national think tank who discovers that his employers may be part of a secret society that manipulates world events on a grand scale. The series will star James Badge Dale, Lili Taylor, Miranda Richardson, Dallas Roberts, Christopher Evan Welch, Paul Butler and Peter Gerety. The series centers around various fears, mainly the fear of the number 13. A sneak peek of the series was aired on 6/13/10.
The show will be a 13-episode weekly series.
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon_%28tv_series%29
The series starts out with the agency looking for secret messages in crossword puzzles.
There's a problem right there. If that's the premise then there already is agreement about some really crazy conspiratorial stuff going on.
So our hero -- in spite of efforts to discredit him -- really isn't that crazy by the standards of his own agency.
It doesn't look like it gets explained just who is encrypting messages in the crossword puzzles or who the clues are intended for.
The look of the show is alright though. There's some excitement and Miranda Richardson is in the cast, so it may be worth seeing. The preview reminded me of Damages transplanted into a spy setting.