About this season
InSecurity is a Canadian action comedy television series. The series focuses on a team of spycatchers set at the fictional Canadian National Intelligence and Security Agency. The series is set in Ottawa but filmed primarily in Regina. The initial season of 13 episodes premiered January 4, 2011. It was followed by a second season of 10 episodes before cancellation by CBC on April 19, 2012 due to budget cuts from the 2012 Canadian federal budget. One of the producers called it "the 24 of Canada"; one writer described it as "24 without Jack Bauer; CSI minus the science; and James Bond - if James Bond were Mr. Bean." The initial pilot focused on the tedium involved in electronic eavesdropping but the decision was made that it would be too "niche". A second pilot was done with a more 24 approach.
Episodes (13)
1. The Doctor
Aired 4 January 2011
NISA Team Leader Alex Cranston is captured by uranium smugglers, who bring in a freelance torturer enhanced interrogation specialist (the eponymous "Doctor") to question her. The matter is complicated by the fact that Agent Cranston discovers that the torturer enhanced interrogation specialist is someone from her past. The remainder of the report will cover the team's attempts to locate and recover Cranston.
2. Keeping up with the Laslovs
Aired 11 January 2011
A mission to retrieve stolen secret Canadian submarine plans is complicated when Agent Cranston and Director McNeil (who takes a rare turn at field work) are invited to dinner by the Russian couple they're surveilling.
3. View To A Nursing Home
Aired 18 January 2011
Alex and her team have to spy on a right-wing terrorist group. But surveillance becomes difficult when their only vantage point is the nursing home where Alex's cranky grandmother lives.
4. The Ligerian Candidate
Aired 25 January 2011
N'udu's best friend, Masud, is rescued from a war-torn Ligeria and brought back to Canada by NISA. But someone is still out to kill Masud. Unfortunately, it's N'udu.
5. Recycle After Reading
Aired 1 February 2011
The NISA gang must track down secret documents that go missing after Alex and Peter have a drunken night out.
6. Return of the Deadeye
Aired 8 February 2011
Alex is tasked with assassinating an assassin, a mission that becomes more complicated when her carefully laid plan backfires: JoJo's poisoning efforts go awry, a civilian ("Jeff from Paperclip Depot") gets involved and Claude goes rogue. With JoJo's life hanging in the balance, it all boils down to Alex and her sniper skills to take out the killer. That, and an elevator.
7. Spies on Ice
Aired 15 February 2011
Peter and Alex pose as parents of a kid at hockey tryouts as they try to distract a hockey dad/North Korean spy suspected of treason.
8. The Kwan Identity
Aired 22 February 2011
After JoJo suffers amnesia while undercover as a drug dealer’s girlfriend, the NISA gang must convince her alter-ego Vivian to help take the dealer down before he sells a dirty bomb to terrorists.
9. El Negotiator
Aired 1 March 2011
Mexican terrorists crash a party.
10. The Ghost
Aired 8 March 2011
A spy and master of escape attempts to carry out an elaborate ruse on our team from inside their own headquarters.
11. Going Dutch
Aired 15 March 2011
One of Alex's team is returned to NISA after being captured by the Dutch Secret Service.
12. Get Cranston
Aired 22 March 2011
A crazed killer targets Alex.
13. Death by Birthday
Aired 29 March 2011
An airborne toxin is released into the office.