Spoiler warning: This article discusses major events from the Line of Fire series premiere.

I went into Line of Fire with baggage. More specifically, Peter Krause is walking into Line of Fire with Bobby Nash emotional baggage that is not his fault but is absolutely his problem.

I’m still not over 9-1-1. I’m probably not going to be over 9-1-1 anytime soon. So when Peter Krause appeared on my screen as Mike Hollingsworth, there was definitely a moment of, “Bobby. Not Bobby. Oh, Bobby.”

Then Line of Fire basically told me to get over myself because it had shit to do. And by the end of the pilot? That was Mike. I’m in.

This Show Starts With a Bang. Literally.

There is absolutely no easing into this thing. The opening gives us a chase, a deal that never gets made, two people getting shot, stolen evidence and what looks very much like professional sniper work. Okay then.

From there, the show starts introducing the Hollingsworth family, and this is where the premise immediately got me. This isn’t just a show about federal agents. The entire damn family works somewhere in the federal government. Mike is Secret Service. Jane is a U.S. Marshal. Clare is FBI. Micah works Secret Service under his father. Russ works at the Department of Justice.

That is cool all by itself, but what really got me was realizing their jobs aren’t going to stay in their own neat little boxes. By the end of this first episode, everybody’s work is already starting to overlap. And somehow, in between all of that, the show manages to make them feel like an actual family.

They argue. They’re nosy. They have awkward boyfriend introductions. Mike and Jane are separated but very clearly not exactly finished with each other. Clare cannot stop thinking about work long enough to get through a family dinner. Micah has his own questionable decisions happening. Basically, everybody has federal clearance and absolutely nobody has their personal life together. I love it.

I Knew Something Was Wrong With Jack

This is where I need to brag for a second because I called this shit.

There were pictures missing in Jane’s house. One picture didn’t fit its frame correctly. Logan, Clare’s boyfriend, noticed it too. Then somebody mentions Clare being the oldest, and we find out she isn’t. Jack is.

Mike explains that Jack was his son from his first marriage and says he died five years ago. I immediately did not believe him. Not because Mike necessarily looked like he was lying, but because the whole family acted weird as hell about Jack before Mike ever gave the explanation.

Then Clare tells Logan that Jack served in Afghanistan. Something happened there. When he came home, he wasn’t the same. He started drinking, using drugs and eventually became somebody the family barely recognized anymore. And earlier? Clare had already said the people shot at the beginning looked like they had been taken out by someone with military-level sniper training. Excuse me?

Then we have Jane finding that strange piece of evidence at the crime scene. She recognizes it immediately. She’s so rattled that this experienced U.S. Marshal picks it up with her bare hand, pockets it and takes it home. And when she gets there? She already has another one. Origami.

At that point I was basically yelling at the television that Jack was alive and involved. Then Logan goes snooping around the house, because apparently Logan has no survival instincts whatsoever, and the supposedly dead brother turns out to be very much alive. Jack attacks Logan, and suddenly all those little clues snap into place.

I FUCKING KNEW IT.

Mom and Dad Know More Than the Kids

The other thing I really like is that the show didn’t end with the whole Hollingsworth family suddenly understanding what’s happening. They don’t. The kids are still mostly in the dark. Mike and Jane know more.

Jane has clearly seen this origami before. Mike understands enough when she shows him another one. They know something from the past has come back, and now they’re trying to move before whoever is behind this gets to their family first. Meanwhile, we learn that somebody is targeting high-level federal agents, and the Hollingsworth family is right in the middle of it.

That is when the premise really clicked into place for me. The show spent the episode introducing this family through their individual jobs and relationships, and then suddenly all of those separate pieces became one giant problem. They aren’t just a federal family anymore. They’re a federal family under attack, and the kids don’t even know why yet. That is such a good setup.

Fine. You Got Me.

I started Line of Fire because I was looking for something new to watch and because Peter Krause was there. I went in skeptical. I had Bobby Nash baggage. A lot of Bobby Nash baggage.

But somewhere between the federal-family chaos, Jane’s origami, the sniper connection, the missing brother, the family dinner from hell and Jack turning out to be very much alive, I stopped seeing Bobby. Peter Krause became Mike Hollingsworth.

And by the final shot of this family walking out together, I was ready to go down this road with all of them.

So yes, I’m late. Sorry, guys. But I’m here now. Line of Fire officially has me. Let’s go.