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. My Dad the Smuggler
Aired 2 July 2012 • 45 min
Scott Campbell goes travelling in China with his estranged father, only to find out that his dad is a professional smuggler carrying 20 kilos of cannabis.
2. I Am Not a Terrorist
Aired 9 July 2012 • 45 min
Duane Wollum is about to make some easy money smuggling cocaine, until an airport security check reveals that he is concealing a package.
3. Hasidic King of Coke
Aired 16 July 2012 • 45 min
Orthodox Jew Samuel Leibowitz dreams of making millions as a drug kingpin in Brazil, leading to a terrifying term in the deadly Carandiru Penitentiary.
4. Not Without My Baby
Aired 23 July 2012 • 45 min
When Susan's Haglof's adoption goes wrong, she ends up in an Egyptian jail, facing a charge of human trafficking.
5. Chilean Prison Break
Aired 30 July 2012 • 45 min
The gripping story of Tom Hanway, who flees a Chilean prison with a fellow prisoner, taking a dangerous and fatal escape route across the desert.
6. The Orchid Hunters
Aired 6 August 2012 • 45 min
The shocking story of Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, two British backpackers who are ambushed and held for ransom by a guerilla group while crossing the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap.
7. Venezuela Hustle
Aired 13 August 2012 • 45 min
Desperate to keep his family afloat, Paul Keany agrees to smuggle six kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin, but it turns out to be the worst decision of his life.
8. Busted in Bangkok
Aired 27 August 2012 • 45 min
Thrown into a notorious Bangkok prison for attempting to smuggle heroin, Angela Carnegie has an epiphany while nursing a fellow inmate with a drug addiction.
9. Nightmare in Somalia
Aired 28 November 2012 • 45 min
The terrifying story of photojournalist Nigel Brennan and reporter Amanda Lindhout, who are held hostage for 15 months by a criminal gang in Somalia.
10. Escape From the Gulag
Aired 12 December 2012 • 45 min
It's 1976 in Cold War Moscow, and American Jerry Amster finds himself in the worst situation possible: busted for smuggling drugs from Kuala Lumpur to Russia.