The Border

Season 1

TV-14

This TV series is a fast-paced, hard-driving series set in Toronto in a paranoid post 9/11 world concerned with one topic: The Border, with its security crises, terrorist infiltrations, cross-border police actions, and trafficking in everything from enriched uranium to abducted children.

13 Episodes

Pockets of Vulnerability
E1
Pockets of VulnerabilityMajor Mike Kessler and his Immigration and Customs Security (ICS) Squad arrest Tariq Haddad, a Syrian terrorist, at the Toronto airport. They also detain the man seated next to him, Nizar Karim. But is Karim really an accomplice or merely an innocent bystander? When CSIS sends Karim to Syria's infamous Tadmoor prison, Kessler vows to bring him home.
Gray Zone
E2
Gray ZoneICS Agent Gray Jackson butts heads with a beautiful U.S. Homeland Security Agent when their undercover operation at a Mohawk casino goes awry.
Bodies on the Ground
E3
Bodies on the GroundA U.S. rendition flight crash-lands in rural Quebec and ICS must recapture three terrorists before the Americans forcibly intervene.
Gross Deceptions
E4
Gross DeceptionsICS Director Kessler and U.S. Agent LaGarda clash with disgruntled ex-Airborne soldiers and an elusive arms dealer while hunting for stolen military weapons.
Compromising Positions
E5
Compromising PositionsMajor Kessler releases an illegal Russian stripper as a political favour, sparking a scandal that climaxes in murder.
Physical Assets
E6
Physical AssetsWhen Gray and Layla bust a human-trafficking operation, they follow a grisly trail to an old adversary.
Family Values
E7
Family ValuesICS helps a movie star enter the country with her newly adopted son: a Sudanese refugee with a dark past and an even darker secret.
Enemy Contact
E8
Enemy ContactICS races to prevent a deadly terrorist attack in the heart of Toronto.
Restricted Access
E9
Restricted AccessKessler, Gray, and Layla are trapped aboard a quarantined freighter with a captain who's accused of murdering stowaways.
Normalizing Relations
E10
Normalizing RelationsICS must prevent the assassination of a visiting Cuban diplomat who has a surprising connection to U.S. Agent Bianca Lagarda.
Civil Disobedience
E11
Civil DisobedienceWhen his daughter takes part in an anti-nuclear rally, Kessler is suspected of leaking classified information that leads directly to nuclear sabotage.
Grave Concern
E12
Grave ConcernICS must find a sadistic kidnapper before he auctions off his 12-year-old victim on a pedophile website.
Blowback
E13
BlowbackKessler discovers a Croatian war criminal has been granted amnesty, and must struggle with demons from his own past in Bosnia.