About this season
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
Episodes (8)
1. Cuzco
Aired 1 April 2008 • 45 min
Simon's trip to Peru is initiated by his friend Sarah Jackson who convinces him to smuggle drugs. Things turn bad for Simon when he is handed a lengthy prison sentence.
2. Bangladesh
Aired 21 July 2008 • 45 min
Lia McCord, an American teenager, is arrested in Bangladesh for trying to smuggle heroin.
3. Kuwait
Aired 28 July 2008 • 45 min
Scott White is arrested in Kuwait for selling hashish, then escapes from jail during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
4. Pakistan
Aired 15 September 2008 • 45 min
Amardeep Bassey, a British journalist on the way to Afghanistan for an assignment, is accused of being a spy and arrested in Pakistan.
5. Lima
Aired 29 September 2008 • 45 min
Russell Thoresen, an American traveller, is arrested in Peru for trying to smuggle cocaine.
6. Taiwan
Aired 13 October 2008 • 45 min
Taiwan's most-wanted criminal breaks into the house of McGill Alexander, a South African army colonel, and takes Alexander and his family hostage.
7. Ecuador
Aired 27 October 2008 • 45 min
An American, Daniel Van De Zande is arrested trying to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe.
8. South Korea
Aired 29 October 2008 • 45 min
Cullen Thomas, working with his girlfriend "Rocket," is arrested trying to smuggle hashish from the Philippines to South Korea.