Aliens arrived on Earth, and nothing has ever been the same. Ten years after extra-terrestrials, which we call Legislators, took control of human affairs, there is no poverty or war or crime. There’s also no freedom. Captive State is set in a Chicago neighborhood where collaborators and dissidents coexist and sometimes clash.

In this mix are Mulligan (John Goodman), a cop who has worked with the aliens following First Contact, and even helped kill a dissident called Phoenix — whose son (Ashton Sanders) now considers carrying on in his father’s footsteps. In a world where everyone is on their guard, who can be trusted to fight for humanity’s future?