Locked Up Abroad Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Breaking Bad in BritainIn 1972, 19-year-old American Jim PapRocki has just graduated from college, married his childhood sweetheart and they are expecting their first child. If money wasn't so tight, life could not have been better. But when Jim is convinced by his brother-in-law, flying ace Chris Jury, to be his co-pilot on a drug run to southern Mexico, Jim's financial prospects start to look up. For $20,000 cash, he will help Chris pick up nearly a ton of marijuana and fly it back to the U.S., a journey of 1700 miles. Jim is assured that nothing can go wrong, the bi-plane has been adapted so they can cover the distance without refueling. All goes to plan, until on the journey home the plane overheats, the cargo catches fire, and they are forced to crash land. They are now stranded hundreds of miles from the U.S. Border, with no visas, no ID... and the Mexican police hot on their heels.
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Episode 2 - Escape from Al QaedaAfter days embedded with rebels from the Free Syrian Army, rookie photographer Matthew Schrier decides he’s ridden his luck long enough. But on his way out of Aleppo he’s kidnapped by Al Nusra Front, the Syrian Al Qaeda. Matthew is beaten and tortured, but when the opportunity to escape arises, he is forced to face his toughest test yet — save himself or stay with his fellow American prisoner.
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Episode 3 - Narco At NineteenIn 2012 Simone Blignaut has a lucrative job working for one of Johannesburg’s biggest drug dealers, but when her boss entrusts her to fly to Bolivia and secure a major cocaine deal, the 19-year-old is in over her head. When she realizes she’s been double-crossed into trafficking liquid cocaine, she must evade capture by Bolivian police if she is to avoid the same fate as her mother.
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Episode 4 - Double-Crossed in the DesertJournalist Phil Cox returns to Sudan to investigate allegations of illegally deployed chemical weapons, but when he learns there’s a “kill or capture” bounty on his head, his plan unravels fast. Ambushed by a government-backed militia, Phil knows it’s only a matter of time before he’s tortured and possibly killed. With all his communication devices destroyed, he must get word to his wife back home, but will she be able to save him?
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Episode 5 - Mexican Border BustIn 1974 Steve Peterson had fully embraced the laid-back counterculture of Southern California, and when the opportunity to smuggle 120 kilos of marijuana from Mexico into the U,S, presented itself, he jumped at it. But when the plan was interrupted by Tijuana cops, Steve faced years behind bars in the infamous and deadly La Mesa penitentiary … unless he could find a way to escape.
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Episode 6 - Bad BromanceWhen U.S. Naval Officer Lemar Burton’s wife and son leave him, he turns to partying all night with his best friend, Dom. When the Navy demotes him, Lemar’s debts start to rack up until Dom offers him the opportunity to make some easy money smuggling cocaine from Colombia. Arrested at the Bogota airport with 5 kilos hidden in a rucksack, Lemar must now survive one of Colombia’s most brutal prisons — until salvation comes from the most unexpected quarter.
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Episode 7 - Gaddafi's American PrisonerIn February 2011, Matthew VanDyke is at home in Baltimore watching news coverage of the Libyan Arab Spring. Libya is a country he knows well, he has friends there and the footage disturbs him. So on the spur of the moment he decides to return and help the rebels fight against Qaddafi and his forces.
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