加拿大Showcase将于3月14日播出原创剧集《终局》（Endgame），这是一部另类罪案剧，主人公Arkady Balagan侦探（Shawn Doyle）曾经是国际象棋世界冠军，在未婚妻遭谋杀后患上旷野恐怖症，不敢出家门。在缺少生活来源的情况下，Arkady答应用自己的天才头脑来协助**破案。Arkady在饭店房间里操纵整个调查过程，他的朋友和饭店员工则替他外出寻找线索。Arkady将这些线索综合到一起，发挥一点想象力，案件就破了。Endgame is an original drama series centering on brilliant chess master, Arkady Balagan. Traumatized by the murder of his fiancée, Balagan has become a prisoner in his luxury Vancouver hotel, terrified to step outside. To pay his bill, Balagan starts solving mysteries - using an unlikely band of hotel employees and chess fanatics to do his legwork. Arrogant, brilliant and charismatic, the Russian-born Balagan uses the skills that made him chess champion of the world to solve the crimes that mystify others. He imagines events, interviews the living and the dead, and runs conflicting scenarios - all in his head. And we get to watch right along with him as he solves crimes that baffle the police. In Endgame, we see genius at work.