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 (10)
1. The Real Goodfella
Aired 4 October 2011 • 45 min
Henry Hill--who inspired the movie Goodfellas--relays the true story of his rise and fall as a drug dealing wiseguy in the New York mob.
2. Saudi Bootlegger
Aired 11 October 2011 • 45 min
Scottish chef Gordon Malloch arrives in Saudi Arabia to start a new life as a catering manager, but quickly finds himself a profitable sideline as a bootlegger.
3. Forbidden Love
Aired 18 October 2011 • 45 min
Briton David Scott tells the story of finding his soulmate in the Philippines, and risking a 14-year prison sentence for adultery.
4. Mexico Money Machine
Aired 25 October 2011 • 45 min
After heading to Mexico with a suitcase of fake money to buy drugs, California bodybuilder Jeremy Khinoo finds himself behind bars and in big trouble.
5. Heroin Sting
Aired 1 November 2011 • 45 min
After being caught with a kilo of heroin in Mauritius, Brigene Young faces 45 years in jail unless she can help catch the drug traffickers. Young eventually served 7 years in prison.
6. Daredevil Drug Runner
Aired 8 November 2011 • 45 min
The tale of Chris Chance, whose daredevil life smuggling cannabis into the U.K. concealed in a rubber body suit leads to a nasty prison sentence at Carabanchel Prison.
7. The Cocaine Trap
Aired 15 November 2011 • 45 min
Stephen Sutton gets caught up when he is offered $15,000 to transport cocaine disguised as gold, leading to an 11-year prison sentence.
8. Drug Dealer Revenge
Aired 22 November 2011 • 45 min
Company director Robert Pringle is sentenced to seven years in a violent South-American lock-up after being pressured by his dealer to smuggle drugs.
9. Teenage Drug Smuggler
Aired 29 November 2011 • 45 min
Vivian Carrasquillo faces a crash diet in jail after an attempt to raise funds for gastric bypass surgery by becoming a drug mule backfires.
10. Backstabbed in Thailand
Aired 6 December 2011 • 45 min
Military veteran Kim Hood faces life behind bars in a squalid Thai prison after being caught smuggling 14 kilos of heroin with a friend, Lisa Taylor.