Sam Waterston Gets Presidential, an ‘FBI’ Showdown, ‘Private Eyes’ on Fire

Line of Fire

Named a New York “Living Landmark” for his 19-season run on Law & Order, Sam Waterston returns to NBC in a guest role on the freshman procedural as former U.S. President Barnes. Six years ago, Barnes was saved from assassination during a rainy rally by Secret Service Agent Mike Hollingsworth (Peter Krause), but Mike has never shaken the suspicion that the wrong man went down for the crime. Which explains why he’d rather resign than give a speech lauding himself as a hero at the opening ceremony for Barnes’ presidential library. And also why Mike’s sons Micah (Tommy O’Brien) and Russ (Taylor Bloom) break protocol to snoop into the shooting in hopes of convincing their dad he’s wrong and that there wasn’t a cover-up. Elsewhere in the busy Hollingsworth family, FBI agent Clare (Kat Cunning) goes undercover as part of a phony married couple to learn why a whistleblower in protective custody keeps blowing his cover.

FBI

Could OA’s (Zeeko Zaki) arduous undercover operation be nearing its end? While the agent struggles with his new identity, his FBI buddies make their move to take down Anna Vorpe (Claire Coffee) and her seemingly untouchable off-the-books Strike Team. Followed by a new episode of CIA (9/8c), where the spies enlist an agoraphobic code breaker to decipher a clue that could stop a terrorist cell from setting off a chemical bomb.

Private Eyes West Coast

The light-hearted caper sends investigators Shade (Jason Priestley, who also directs) and Angie (Cindy Sampson) into Victoria’s Chinatown district after a fire torches a hair salon. The real target appears to be an artist whose paintings are being destroyed, giving the couple a chance to become acquainted with the local art scene. Off duty, Angie will try anything to win over a perfect “mom friend.”

Sweet Deceit

It’s all about illusion in this tasty game show, making L.A.’s Magic Castle the perfect setting for the latest round. Host Josh Peck challenges three professional magicians to figure out which objects in the mansion are authentic and which are actually hyper-realistic edible sweets created by April Julian. A second episode (10:30/9:30) welcomes three elementary school teachers to a kindergarten classroom decorated for a Halloween party and tasks them with discovering six objects in plain sight that are truly good enough to eat.

Harlan Coben’s Final Twist

The novelist-host introduces one of his most twisted true-crime tales, involving the 2011 disappearance of Camilo Salazar, a successful Miami businessman who vanished after dropping his newborn daughter off at his wife’s workplace. The mystery deepens when a person of interest, supermarket chain owner Manny Marin, also goes missing, along with his passport. The investigation unpacks a story of infidelity and jealousy that reaches into the local mixed martial arts community.

INSIDE MONDAY TV:

• The Voice (8/7c, NBC): The field of singers continues to shrink in the third night of head-to-head Battles.
• Monday Night Football (8 pm/ET, ABC and ESPN): The Washington Commanders take on the San Francisco 49ers.
• Name That Tune (8/7c, Fox): The Real Housewives of Atlanta‘s Phaedra Parks faces the NBA’s Carlos Boozer in the celebrity round of the musical game show. Followed by The Weakest Link (9/8c), where Jane Lynch puts celebrity couples to the test, including Alexa and Carlos PenaVega, Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker, the NFL’s Robert Griffin III and wife Grete Griffin, and The Real Housewives of Rhode Island‘s Ashley Iaconetti and husband Jared Haibon.
• Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (9/8c, The CW): An airport worker’s murder, disguised as a suicide, leads detectives Graff (Aden Young) and Bateman (Kathleen Munroe) to track down $20 million in German gold that disappeared during transport.
• The Red King (streaming on Acorn TV): A six-part British mystery, airing weekly, stars Anjli Mohindra as police sergeant Grace Narayan, who’s punished for exposing a fellow officer’s brutality by being reassigned to a remote Welsh island. Her investigation into the disappearance and murder of a young boy exposes weird local rituals and practices of a controversial cult. Also streaming on Acorn TV: the season finale of Signora Volpe.