Manhattan Episode 2 “The Prisoner’s Dilemma” airs Sunday, August 3rd at 9PM on WGN America.
Episode Synopsis: Manhattan Episode 2 “The Prisoner’s Dilemma” – A special shipment of the first sample of plutonium arrives at The Hill â€" one that could change everything. With the future of his team up in the air, Frank knows that having some of the precious material could make all the difference. As Frank desperately tries to keep his team alive, he learns that Liao has been detained by a covert outside party. Meanwhile, Liza helps Abby find creative ways to survive life on The Hill. As the wives grow closer, competition escalates between Frank and Charlie in the lab.
Show Summary: MANHATTAN is a one hour drama that is set against the backdrop of the greatest race against time in the history of science: the mission to build the world’s first atomic bomb. The series follows the brilliant but flawed scientists and their families in Los Alamos as they attempt to coexist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives. Fueled by mystery and suspense, “Manhattan†is set in the 1940s in a town whose very existence is classified. Frank Winter and his team have been recruited to work on a project even they could know
nothing about until their arrival. Once inside “The Hill,†a middle class bubble on a dusty foothill in the New Mexico desert, they begin to sense that this is no ordinary assignment. In fact, they are living in a town with the world’s highest concentration of geniuses, yet it can’t be found on any map, a place where men and women are torn between duty and their moral values, husbands and wives conceal the truth from each other and their families, the military keeps secrets from the scientists they chaperone, and the scientists keep secrets from each other.
“Manhattan” depicts the wonder, danger and deceit that shadowed the first “nuclear” families.
