The Endgame turns the arrest of a criminal mastermind into the opening move of a much bigger game, pitting a captured arms dealer against the one agent determined not to be outplayed from behind bars.
What is The Endgame about?
Elena Federova is already in custody when the series begins, but her capture is far from the end of her ambitions. From inside a federal holding facility, she directs a chain of coordinated bank robberies playing out across multiple cities at once, using every advantage a lifetime of arms dealing has taught her about leverage, timing and misdirection. Opposing her is Val Turner, an FBI agent whose reputation for stubborn, by-the-book persistence has cost her allies inside the Bureau but makes her the one investigator Elena cannot easily manipulate. The show moves between the heists themselves and the interrogation-room chess match behind them, gradually revealing how much of what looks like chaos on the outside is actually being orchestrated from a single cell.
About the cast
Morena Baccarin and Ryan Michelle Bathe anchor the two sides of the standoff, with Kamal Angelo Bolden, Costa Ronin, Noah Bean, Jordan Johnson-Hinds and Mark D. Espinoza filling out the wider circle of agents, operatives and associates pulled into the fallout as the heists multiply.
Context & significance
The Endgame was created by Jake Coburn and Nicholas Wootton and premiered in the United States in 2022 as a ten-episode crime drama built around a single extended cat-and-mouse plot rather than a case-of-the-week structure. That format lets the writers layer flashbacks and misdirection into nearly every episode, using Elena's captivity as a narrative device rather than a limitation on the story. The series sits in the same crowded field as other high-concept heist thrillers of its era, but distinguishes itself by keeping its central criminal off the streets for almost the entire run, forcing the tension to come from planning and psychology rather than chases.
Watching The Endgame on Ktime
The Endgame is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, no separate purchase required to access the page or the show. Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are both available, so viewers can follow the FBI-versus-mastermind standoff in Farsi or with the original English dialogue and Farsi text on screen, in either case within K-Time's Persian-language interface built for the diaspora audience.