From Hollywood to Hell
Season 6, Episode 1 TV-14
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A gym friend offers Erik Aude a free trip to Turkey and $800 to bring back leather goods. When the trip goes smoothly, Erik takes a similar trip to Pakistan. But this time, authorities discover opium in the lining of Erik’s suitcase — a crime he didn’t know he was committing. With nothing but his pride and innocence to hold on to, Erik endures months of torture and hostile inmates at Pakistan’s largest prison, refusing to plead guilty. Erik describes his reaction to the brutal conditions and, in a Locked Up Abroad first, he even re-enacts the entire emotional saga himself.
The Juggler Smuggler
Season 6, Episode 2 TV-14
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Mark Greening has the easy life as a magician in Bali … until he finds out he's going to be a dad. Needing fast cash for his new responsibilities, he smuggles a kilo of hash from Nepal inside pellets he actually swallows — which proves to be an easy act for this magician to perfect. He's saved more than $80,000 through his scheme and decides to make another (doomed) trip to Nepal. A bad bout of diahhrea means problems swallowing the pellets. He breaks the golden rule to never body-pack hash, and enhanced airport security for the soccer World Cup in Tokyo during a stop home gets him busted.
Escape from Argentina
Season 6, Episode 3 TV-14
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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. To get out of debt, she smuggles cocaine from Argentina back to the U.K. But she's busted in Argentina — facing 16 to 25 years. She decides her only chance at freedom is escaping to Brazil. She makes a decision to jump bail, become a fugitive from the law and flee across the border. But without a passport, she must cross the old-fashioned way: swim. Emerging miraculously on the other side, she believes she is free and starts a new life back home. But two years later, police come knocking.
Highway to Hell
Season 6, Episode 4 TV-14
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Looking for adventure, Thomas Hamill takes a job as a civilian truck driver for the U.S. military in war-torn Iraq. When his convoy is attacked and he is taken hostage by insurgents, Thomas knows he could be killed at any moment. Will he find a way to survive captivity and make it home alive?
Black Palace of Horrors
Season 6, Episode 5 TV-14
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Dwight Worker decides to smuggle cocaine to America, concealed under a phony shoulder cast. But when he’s busted in Mexico City and sent to the notorious ‘Black Palace’ prison, his life becomes a living hell. After fighting off a gang of rapists, a near fatal stabbing in the stomach and a stint in the psychiatric ward, he vows to get out or die trying. Falling in love with a visitor gives him the opportunity he’s been waiting for, and on his wedding day, he makes an audacious attempt to escape while dressed as a woman...
Cocaine Mule Mom
Season 6, Episode 6 TV-14
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American mother Ruthie Lambert turns to drug trafficking to help make ends meet. She makes numerous successful trips smuggling cocaine out of Peru, until she is finally caught and locked up in a tough South American prison. Here Ruthie tragically discovers she has incurable cancer, and flees the country in a desperate attempt to see her family before she dies.
Dangerous Liaisons
Season 6, Episode 7 TV-14
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British gay nurse Stephen Comiskey has had a difficult year. He's come out about his sexuality and left his wife and children. Needing to support his ex-wife and kids and get himself out of the red, he takes a well-paid nursing job in Saudi Arabia. When he discovers that homosexuality is punishable by death, he decides to be celibate. However, his resolve weakens when he sees that there is a thriving gay scene there. He embarks on a series of affairs and thinks he can get away with it until one night he is beaten up by the religious police and thrown into jail.
Colombian Kidnap
Season 6, Episode 8 TV-14
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Erez Eltawil and Reini Weigel are among eight backpackers who are snatched by guerrillas during a trek in remote northern Colombia. As weeks turn to months with no sign of release, the hostages become increasingly desperate and the group splits - each faction adopting a different survival strategy: cooperation with the kidnappers versus outright resistance. Both groups push their tactics to the limit: A defiant escape attempt is met with brutal retribution and the plan to cooperate leads to a controversial blurring of the distinction between victim and kidnapper.
Caribbean Nightmare
Season 6, Episode 9 TV-14
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Jayne Blaydon thought she had landed a dream job when she accepted an offer to teach lap dancing in a Caribbean nightclub. But soon after arriving in Guyana, she and her husband David were forced at gunpoint to smuggle multiple kilos of liquid cocaine back to England. They successfully get through two customs points before being arrested in Guadeloupe. Locked up in prison, David suffers physical attacks and is crippled before he and Jayne are finally released after almost two years.
Son of Saddam
Season 6, Episode 10 TV-14
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Iraqi soldier Latif Yahia is fighting in the Iran-Iraq War when he is summoned to the Palace. Here, Latif claims Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday demanded Latif become his body double. Latif is almost an exact physical match for Uday, virtually his twin. He doesn't want the role, but Uday has him thrown in prison until Latif accepts he has no choice but to do as he is commanded. He severs all ties with family, friends and his previous identity, and is trained to walk, talk, and behave exactly like his new master. While the position has its perks, Latif has to witness Uday's evil behavior--rape, murder, torture--on a continual basis. Although Latif narrowly survives several assassination attempts, it is only a matter of time before the devil turns on his 'brother,' and Latif has to choose between death or escape...
My Dad the Smuggler
Season 6, Episode 11 TV-14
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Scott Campbell can’t wait to go traveling in China with his estranged father Lockie, and then he finds out his dad is secretly planning to smuggle 20 kilos of cannabis. When they’re arrested, dad Lockie is jailed but Scott is released with a bag containing some of the undiscovered cannabis. Incredibly, Scott risks all by continuing the smuggling mission to Tokyo in order to raise money to pay for his father’s lawyer.
I Am Not a Terrorist
Season 6, Episode 12 TV-14
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Jobless Duane Wollum needs money to maintain his party life style and support his daughter. The lure of easy cash leads him to smuggle cocaine from Nicaragua into the US. At the airport, a routine security check reveals he is concealing a package on his body. Suddenly people around him are diving for cover. Duane is surrounded and looking down the barrel of several rifles.
Hasidic King of Coke
Season 6, Episode 13 TV-14
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Samuel Leibowitz comes from a strict, Hasidic orthodox Jewish community in London. Forced into an arranged marriage which quickly fails, Sam decides to start afresh in Antwerp, Belgium, and goes to work in the local Hasidic community as a greengrocer. A new friend offers Sam a free holiday in Brazil and on his return, he is asked to take a package back for his friend. It turns out to be cocaine. Sam has never heard of it, but is intrigued when he learns how much profit there is in drug dealing. He decides to get involved and his traditional clothing and hairstyle make him almost invisible to customs officers who assume he is strictly religious. Soon he emigrates to the heart of the business, Brazil, and finds himself working with another Hasidic Jew--the local kingpin, known only as the Godfather. Exporting hundreds of kilos of cocaine, the pair makes money—a lot of money. But other gangs in Sao Paulo put pressure on the enterprise, and while Sam embraces the high-life, escalating gang violence and an attempt on Sam’s life lead to the fracturing of the business... But before he can retire, young Sam is arrested and sent to one of the deadliest prisons in the world, Carandiru. Surrounded by chaos and evil, Sam manages to stay out of trouble until one day he is threatened with a knife...
Not Without My Baby
Season 6, Episode 14 TV-14
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All Susan Haglof ever wanted was to be a mother. By her forties, she thought she’d lost her chance, but then after moving to Egypt, she gets the opportunity to adopt Marko, shortly after his birth. It was love at first sight, but as soon as she had him in her arms, it became clear something wasn’t quite right with the adoption. Marko didn’t come with any papers; there was no proof that Susan was his adoptive mother. So she made the decision to get a birth certificate with her, and her husband’s name on it. What started as a small lie soon spun out of control, and less than a year into motherhood Susan was facing the possibility of being thrown into jail and separated from Marko forever.
Chilean Prison Break
Season 6, Episode 15 TV-14
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Californian Tom Hanway takes the hippie trail to South America where cocaine is cheap and available. He plans to take 500 hits of LSD with him and trade it for a kilo of coke which he’ll bring back to the States. But while doing the deal in Chile, Tom is caught and sentenced to five years and a day in prison. Tom decides that the only way he will survive is to escape with the help of a fellow prisoner, Chosco. But once they make it out of the jail Tom and Chosco are fugitives and are forced to flee the country on foot—a fatal journey through the desert which leaves Tom alone and on the run with the police drawing ever closer.
The Orchid Hunters
Season 6, Episode 16 TV-14
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Tom Hart Dyke is travelling through Central America in search of wild orchids. Paul Winder is in search of adventure. Together they attempt to cross from Panama to Colombia via the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap but are captured and held hostage by a revolutionary guerrilla group. With a $3 million dollar ransom placed on their heads they realize that their only chance of survival is to escape but any plans to make a dash for it are shattered when Tom discovers maggots have infested his leg. After a makeshift operation where the maggots are removed with a razor blade they are forced marched deep into the jungle. Angry at the lack of progress with the ransom the guerrillas lose patience and Paul and Tom worry they’ll be killed. But astonishingly nine months into the ordeal they are released. As they dash for freedom they make one final mistake and take the wrong path. Gradually they descend into a mire of swampland and over the next few days they become hungry lost and disorientated. They only have one option, to go back to their captors and ask for better directions but they had been warned that if they ever return they would have their heads blown off...
Venezuela Hustle
Season 6, Episode 17 TV-14
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When Irish plumber Paul Keany’s business falls apart, he’s desperate to try and keep his life and family afloat. After meeting a local drug dealer, Paul agrees to smuggle 6 kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin for a payment of 10,000 pounds. However when Paul is caught at the airport in Caracas, it turns into the worst decision of his life.
Nightmare in Somalia
Season 6, Episode 18 TV-14
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In July 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout to report on the war in Somalia. Little did he know that the price of telling the story would be more than a year in captivity.
Busted in Bangkok
Season 6, Episode 19 TV-14
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Angela Carnegie suspects her relationship is ending when her lover walks out on her one morning. She decides to start over by smuggling drugs from Bangkok, but the job is a bust when airport officials find bricks of heroin in the lining of her bag. After enduring jail time in a dungeon-like cell, Angela is sent to prison and must adapt to Thai traditions. Expecting a reduced sentence from 50 years in prison to four, Angela is shocked she receives a life sentence and nearly attempts suicide.
Escape from the Gulag
Season 6, Episode 20 TV-14
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It’s 1976 in Cold War Moscow, and American Jerry finds himself in the worst situation possible: busted for smuggling drugs from Kuala Lumpur to Russia. Jerry and his friends Darrel and Pete are caught at customs with unusually heavy suitcases laden with heroin, and end up incarcerated in a Soviet prison camp. But several years into his sentence, a miracle opportunity arises. Jerry escapes the prison camp while the electricity is out leaving his friends behind in pursuit of his freedom.
Featurette: Behind the Story
Season 6, Extra TV-14
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Go behind the stories and discover new information from season 4’s hit episodes Bangkok and The Real Midnight Express.
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