The Best TV Government Conspiracies The Syfy series Hunters, from executive producers Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead) and Natalie Chaidez (12 Monkeys) is inspired by Whitley Strieber’s best-selling novel “Alien Hunter.” In it, FBI agent Flynn Carroll’s (Nathan Phillips) wife Abby (Lauren Carol) is missing. The crime is connected to alien terrorists called Hunters.