Intruders (TV series)
Intruders is a drama television series based on Michael Marshall Smith's novel The Intruders (2007). An eight-episode season premiered in August 2014 on the American cable television network BBC America and was a joint production between BBC America and British channel BBC Two. Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Stamm share directing duties. On February 27, 2015, it was announced that Intruders was cancelled after one season. Plot Jack Whelan is a former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detective who is asked to investigate strange occurrences related to a string of attempted suicides. Despite his efforts, he is stumped. He concentrates his search on a secret society, Qui Reverti (Latin for 'who return'), whose members chase immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others after their own deaths. Agents of the society, called "Shepherds", find the hosts of the returning souls and show them "triggers"––items important to the returning Qui Reverti members in their past lives––that "awaken" the returning soul. Once awakened, the intruding soul engages in a battle of wills with the host's soul, with the losing soul sent to the afterlife. In Whelan's case, this process destroys his marriage when his wife's body is taken by an intruder. A