Taken occurs as science fiction miniseries which first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2002 and won an Emmy award for Outstanding Miniseries. It was written by Leslie Bohem, and directed by Breck Eisner, Félix Enríquez Alcalá, John Fawcett, Tobe Hooper, Jeremy Paul Kagan, Michael Katleman, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Bryan Spicer, Jeff Woolnough and Thomas J. Wright. It was executive by Bohem & Steven Spielberg.

Taken occurs as multi-generational story spans Fivesome decades & quartet generations, centering in triad families: a Keys, Crawfords, & Clarkes. World War II veteran Russell Keys is plagued by nightmares of his abduction by aliens during a war; a Roswell incident transforms Owen Crawford from either challenging Air Click captain to evil shadow government coconspirator; a unhappily married Sally Clarke is impregnated by an alien visitant. When a decades last by, a heirs of every come affected per intrigue of a aliens, culminating by using the birth of Allie Keys, world health organization is the final product of the aliens' experimentation & holds a key to their first.

Actors appearing in the program include Julie Benz, Emily Bergl, Steve Burton, Eric Close, Heather Donahue, Dakota Fanning (who narrates, also when starring when Allie Keys), Matt Frewer, Joel Gretsch, Ryan Hurst, Adam Kaufman, Ryan Merriman, Michael Moriarty and Anton Yelchin.

Characters
The Clarkes

Sally Clarke (Catherine Dent)

Sally occurs as lonely woman, since her married man Fred is universally away from town. Once she meets John, her life is turned top side down, & it form the favorite attach, possibly though it understand both more briefly. She becomes pregnant by owning Jacob, the human being-alien hybrid. Fallowing quitting her job as a waitress at a local diner, she becomes ecstatic by having Owen Crawford.

Fred Clarke (Alf Humphreys)

Fred is Sally's hubby, until he discovers her affair by owning John got resulted inside her gestation. He separates by having her when that. Fred was constantly away in business, & his relationship sustaining his married woman & toddlers were strained substantially.

Tom Clarke (Ryan Hurst as Adult Tom, & Kevin Schmidt as Young Tom)

A boy of Sally & Fred, Tom was universally skeptical of his mother's belief within aliens from either outer space, & makes it his life-womb-to-tomb quest to debunk alien theories wherever it spread. When Owen Crawford destroys Sally's life, Tom swore to ruin his. He doesn't prevent by owning Owen; he occurs as constant obstacle to Eric Crawford's locate.

Becky Clarke (Chad Morgan as Adult Becky, & Shauna Kain as Young Becky)

Traditionally fiercely hard of her immature brother Jacob, Becky breaks it whilst she finds herself falling taken by having with Eric Crawford. Her relationship by using her personal is strained ever since.

Jacob Clarke (Anton Yelchin as Young Jacob, and Chad Donella as Adult Jacob)

Young Jacob was universally different from either all the more tikes. Shy & anti-social, he was the bully-magnet. That tons changes while he demonstrates his psychic powers. Jacob, or even Jack, when he is known by friends & relatives, is caring beyond his years, & has the right insight he inherited from either his father, John. Whilst necessary, Jacob might overload antagonist sustaining memories of each their pasts & their stock, camping the two temporarily mad. These abilities are at the numbers; overusing the two might stimulator him severe cranial trauma, risking demise.

Carol Clarke (Sadie Lawrence)

Carol occurs as variety woman globe health organization married Jacob, non realising that a portion of him is from either an additional world...

Lisa Clarke (Emily Bergl as Adult Lisa, Alexandra Purvis as Lisa, age 13, & Taylor-Anne Reid as Lisa, age 11)

Despite existence the girl of a half-alien, she doesn't inherit any of his supplementary unusual qualities. Nevertheless, she is protected from either either a Crawfords per aliens, & it save her from dying, whenever she gives birth to Allie. Listhe as well forms the favorite attach by using Charlie Keys, although it number 1 met in board a starship, in which it conceived Allie. Late, Listhe finds that she has a psychic hyperlink by using her girl.

The Crawfords
Captain (Colonel) Owen Crawford (Joel Gretsch)

a captainside world health organization yet climbs a military ladder to become colonel around the United States Army Air Inflict, Owen happens through the crash places in Roswell in 1947. His remorseless qualities appear of the dark, & come shocking to the core. He blocks at nothing to see a secrets of the visitant from either outer space, possibly whenever it means sacrificing his personal. Owen attempts to develop an affair by having Sally Clarke, until he is stopped by Jacob. Tom destroys Owen's career within retaliation.

Anne Crawford (Tina Holmes)

Anne occurs as caring-hearted woman world health organization well lessens for Owen's charms. She sooner or later discovers that she was blissfully ignorant of a fact that he married her therefore he can advance higher the ranks of the Air Inflict's alien plan, so in the mitts of her father, Gap. Campbell. Following, Anne's mental stability spirals, & meets the shocking fate: she is shot by her have hubby, world health organization makes it look rather she was by having an affair with Captain Bowen.

Eric Crawford (Andy Powers as Adult Eric, Nolan Funk as Teenage Eric, & Cody Shaer as Young Eric)

Non quite when pitiless when his father Owen, Eric occurs as confused, angry human world health organization felt unloved by his parents, especially Owen. For this cause he becomes pleasantly jealous of his brother Sam. Eric inherits a extraterrestrial design from either his father. Eric's past & his obsession sustaining a design leave him estranged by owning his married woman Julie, & his relationship by owning his girl, Mary bit by bit turns to ice, by using tragical final result.

Sam Crawford (Ryan Merriman as Adult Sam, Branden Nadon as Teenage Sam, & Trevor Pawson as Young Sam)

the sort & understanding Sam grows as much as become a immature journalist. He is universally dismissive of his father & brother's projects. That is until he happens through the news story all about an ancient Inuit ruwithin, whose symbols resemble victims on the piece of metal Owen keeps in his personalized safe. Sam start up a journeying to Alaska to locate the truth, by owning calamitous results.

Julie Crawford (Emily Holmes)

Julie thought that a Eric she married was a hone human, however a life she envisions crumbles. Her relationship sustaining her girl, Mary, all the same, is very hard, although she doesn't understand how else good deal Mary has inherited from either her gramps.

Mary Crawford (Heather Donahue as Adult Mary, & Anysha Berthot as Young Mary)

Owen's monstrous bequest is carried onto his granddaughter, Mary. Although her relationship by having her mother is hard, she feels alienated by her father, Eric. An great student within biochemistry, Mary climb on board Eric's plan, making many major breakthroughs inside association by having fellow man of science & secret lover Dr. Chet Wakeman. Mary coldbloodedly experiments in many of the 'taken', & unrelentingly track down a todays generation of the Keys & the Clarkes - especially Allie.

The Keys
Capt. Russel Keys (Steve Burton)

Braving a fatal skies above France when a B-17 bomber captaaround in 1943, Russel & his crew is abducted by aliens cloaked as German doctors. whilst despatching a aliens, Russel is never a equivalent when he comes page. Upon discovering that his comrades got died, he leaves his personal to be a floater, hoping the aliens never buy him. Alas, he is proved wrong, & is taken many days & experimented in. Russel seeks to defend his boy, Jesse, from either a aliens, & is frustrated by his impotence around these matters. He is finally taken & experimented in per Air Inflict doctors, headed by Gap. Owen Crawford & Dr. Kreutz. He is flushed in the ensuant explosion.

Kate Keys (Julie Benz)

When uneasily waiting for Russel's link to from either Europe, Kate is saddened to call for he comes house the changed human. She is constantly caring all about his state of mind, & is caring that he could't tell her what's been haunting him for and then hanker. When Russel flees, she divorces him & remarries to Sheriff Bill Walker.

Jesse Keys (Desmond Harrington as Adult Jesse, James Kirk as Teen Jesse, & Conner Widdows as Young Jesse)

A boy of Russel & Kate, Jesse universally admired his father for his valour in a period of the 2nd Globe War. Jesse finds himself taken by visitant from either outer space, & for each one abduction sends him into the spiral of depression, anxiety, & rage. He is particularly traumatised by his lives inside Vietnam, whilst the aliens save him from either a burning Buddhist temple, however let his squadmates die. He becomes the lapidator when the war, however is rehabilitated by a nurse known as Amelia. Jesse seeks to protect his boy, Charlie, from either existence abducted, however to there are no help. within the end, his lives wind him higher in the mental hospital.

Amelia Keys (Julie Ann Emery)

Amelia meets Jesse in the hospital in which she works. She will require care of him & aids him overcome his addiction to doses. Even so, she is caring by Jesse's progressively erratic behaviour, especially towards their boy, Charlie. Amelia eventually believes Jesse whenever Eric Crawford's professionals are fallowing him, & she leads Charlie to sleep in obscurity.

Charlie Keys (Adam Kaufman as Adult Charlie, & Devin Douglas Drewitz as Teen Charlie)

Such as his father Jesse, Charlie is tormented by his abductions per aliens. Despite that, he has an intriguing personal experience by using Listhe Clarke, & them part a favorite attach. Charlie was a schoolteacher, however his want to expose the aliens' activities render him out of work, & is forced to dog from either the food and drug administration.

Allie Keys (Dakota Fanning as Allie, and Elle Fanning as Allie, age 3)

Although her mother didn't inherit Jacob's alien abilities, Allie did. Allie is caring beyond her years & has a ability to non simply review minds, however can as well manipulate instance, & has healed her father Charlie. Allie is the centrepiece of the alien's experiments, but not potentially she knows what lies inside store for her. She is too taken by Mary Crawford, world health organizatiin in cold blood conducts experiments on her.

Other characters
'''Alien Visitant 'John'' (Eric Close)''

When 'John's' alien spacecraft crashes in the New Mexico desert near Roswell, killing his companions, he assumes the form of a human. He falls in love with Sally Clarke, and gives her a child, Jacob. John leaves shortly afterward, but the two have a special bond, and he returns while Sally is on her deathbed.

General Beers (James McDaniel)

A high-ranking officer in the US Army, General Beers shuts down Mary Crawford and Dr. Wakeman's FBI alien project. He moves operations to North Dakota, in a bid to lure the aliens into a trap, using Allie as bait.

Lieutenant/Captain Howard Bowen (Jason Gray-Stanford)

One of Col. Owen Crawford's two closest lackeys. He's right when he says, "That is the single awful boy of a bitch". He is killed by Owen during his scheme to deal with his wife, Anne.

Col. Thomas Campbell (Michael Moriarty)

An Air Force Colonel in the intelligence division and Capt. Owen Crawford's superior. He takes control of everything related to the Roswell crash and leaves Crawford out of it. Crawford then seduces and marries his daughter Anne and blackmails Campbell into assigning him as head of the project.

Dewey Clayton (Timothy Webber)

"Doc" (Jay Brazeau)

Gladys & Mavis Erenberg (Carol & Helen Infield Sender)

Gladys & Mavis are the famed Erenburg twins, and they're psychically linked to each other. She, along with her sister, is taken to New Mexico as a guinea pig in Owen Crawford and Dr. Kreutz's alien program. They demonstrate their abilities when one of the twins visualises a bunch of flowers, while the other draws a mentally accurate depiction. Crawford and Kreutz hope the Erenburg twins could fly the alien ship that crashed near Roswell. But those who enter the base don't come out alive...

Lieutenant/Captain Marty Erickson (John Hawkes)

The second of Col. Owen Crawford's two closest lackeys.

Dr. Ellen Greenspan (Brenda James)

A doctor in Jacob's school that saves him when Bowen and Erickson came after him.

Dr. Helms (Andrew Johnston)

Lieutenant Lou Johnson (Ryan Robbins)

Dr. Kreutz (Willie Garson)

Formerly an aerospace engineer for the Nazis, Dr. Kruetz escaped to America after the end of World War II. He comes to work under Colonel Crawford after the Roswell landings in 1947. Dr. Kreutz is a rather stern and cold man, and offhandedly sacrifices test subjects. He meets a rather horrifying fate after experimenting on Russel Keys.

Lester (Frederick Koehler)

Up in the frozen forests of Alaska, dwells Lester. He is the child of an alien, but was born horribly deformed. Lester has the appearance of a mutated human-alien, has the bone-chilling psychic ability to kill whoever looks him in the eye. Absolutely terrified of himself, Lester hides in a small shack in the woods. He builds an Inuit-inspired tomb for his dead brother (who was also deformed), hoping to revive him with magic.

Patricia (Janet Wright)

Dr. Harriet Penzler (Gabrielle Rose)

A psychological counsellor, Dr. Penzler is engrossed by hearing the experiences of the 'taken', and has opened a therapy group so abductees can talk about their experiences. She also uses hypnosis on the members of the group to recollect their memories. However, some of the members of the group find their confidence in her testing...

Dr. Powell (Terry Chen)

Dr. Quarrington (Malcolm Stewart)

Ray (Brian Markinson)

Ray is an angry and confused man who pretends that he was abducted by aliens, but was just a victim of child sexual abuse. He attempts to create a media spectacle by holding the therapy group hostage in a bid to prove to himself that is a sane man.

Sue (Stacy Grant)

Captain Crawford's girlfriend, until he becomes interested on Anne, a marriage that could help his career. Sue finds a piece of alien technology and gives it to him. He promises her to redinkle their relationship, but he brutally kills her to marry Anne.

Private William Toland (Jason Grayhm)

Sheriff Bill Walker (Ian Tracey) Second husband to Kate Keys.

Dr. Chet Wakeman (Matt Frewer)

Despite being a highly intelligent and rather blackly humorous character, Dr. Chet Wakeman can be rather sadistic. Wakeman, being a scientist, has a grossly childlike fascination with the aliens, and will sacrifice absolutely anything to have a share in the alien experience. As a result, he gleefully sentences test subjects - both human and animal - to their deaths in order to extract research data, and to satisfy his curiosity. Although he is Eric Crawford's friend, their friendship cools over the years, especially when Wakeman becomes very close with Eric's daughter Mary, and the two have an affair.

Lieutenant Williams (Tobias Mehler)