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. From Hollywood to Hell
Aired 25 April 2012 • 45 min
When young actor Erik Audé discovers that he was tricked into smuggling opium out of Pakistan, he must fight to stay alive and clear his name.
2. The Juggler Smuggler
Aired 2 May 2012 • 45 min
Travelling magician Mark Greening juggles a young family with a budding hash-smuggling business after moving to Japan, but he soon gets caught.
3. Escape from Argentina
Aired 9 May 2012 • 45 min
Lucy Wright is a nursing student when her life goes from bad to worse to hell. Her boyfriend leaves, she becomes addicted to crack, and the bills keep piling up.
4. Highway to Hell
Aired 16 May 2012 • 45 min
Adventure-seeker Thomas Hamill takes a job driving trucks in Iraq, leading to a terrifying time in captivity after being kidnapped by insurgents.
5. Black Palace of Horrors
Aired 23 May 2012 • 45 min
Dwight Worker is busted in Mexico for smuggling coke and attempts a daring escape from one of the country's most notorious prison.
6. Cocaine Mule Mom
Aired 30 May 2012 • 45 min
Ruthie Lambert, a middle-aged mother of three, decides to smuggle drugs to make ends meet. She is imprisoned for years but eventually escapes by bribing a corrupt official.
7. Dangerous Liaisons
Aired 6 June 2012 • 45 min
British nurse Stephen Comiskey, who takes a job in Saudi Arabia to support his family, draws the unwelcome attention of the Saudi religious police after a series of illicit gay affairs.
8. Colombian Kidnap
Aired 13 June 2012 • 45 min
Erez Eltawil and Reini Weigel are among eight backpackers who are snatched by guerrillas during a trek in remote northern Colombia.
9. Caribbean Nightmare
Aired 20 June 2012 • 45 min
David and Jayne Bladen's dream of a new life overseas turns into a nightmare journey of drug smuggling and violence culminating in 20 months behind bars.
10. Son of Saddam
Aired 27 June 2012 • 45 min
Iraqi soldier Latif Yahia describes how he was summoned to Saddam Hussein's palace and forced to become the body double of the dictator's eldest and most notorious son, Uday.