flashpoint dvd is about an elite tactical unit, called the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), within a Canadian metropolitan police force (styled on the Toronto Police Emergency Task Force). The SRU are tasked to resolve extreme situations that regular officers are not trained to handle including hostage-taking, bomb threats and heavily armed criminals. Ed’s got a wife and cello-playing son. But it’s clear that the brotherhood always comes first. At one point he announces that he is missing his in-laws’ 40th anniversary to go to a colleague’s retirement party and, with his partner, invokes a Gilbert and Sullivan number about the demands of police work to justify himself.