The Border

All Episodes 2008 - 2010
TV-14

  • Canceled
  • #<Network:0x00007fd9dbce71d0>
  • 2008-01-08T02:00:00Z
  • 43m
  • 1d 3h 14m (38 episodes)
  • Peter Raymont
  • Canada
  • English
  • Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
The Border is a Canadian drama that aired on CBC Television and 20 other TV networks worldwide. It was created by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole of White Pine Pictures. The Executive in Charge of Production is Janice Dawe. Episodes in the first season were directed by John Fawcett, Michael DeCarlo, Ken Girotti, Kelly Makin, Brett Sullivan and Philip Earnshaw. The first season had a total budget of 20 million dollars, with about 1.5 million dollars per episode. The series is set in Toronto and follows agents of the fictitious Immigration and Customs Security agency. ICS was created by the Government of Canada to deal with trans-border matters concerning Canadian national security including terrorism and smuggling. The cancellation of The Border was announced by the CBC after three seasons were aired.

38 episodes

Series Premiere

2008-01-08T02:00:00Z

1x01 Pockets of Vulnerability

Series Premiere

1x01 Pockets of Vulnerability

  • 2008-01-08T02:00:00Z43m

When CSIS sends a suspect to Syria to be tortured the elite ICS, Squad must race to prove him innocent.

2008-01-15T02:00:00Z

1x02 Gray Zone

1x02 Gray Zone

  • 2008-01-15T02:00:00Z43m

ICS Agent Gray Jackson butts heads with a beautiful U.S. Homeland Security Agent when their undercover operation at a Mohawk casino goes awry.

2008-01-22T02:00:00Z

1x03 Bodies on the Ground

1x03 Bodies on the Ground

  • 2008-01-22T02:00:00Z43m

A U.S. rendition flight crash-lands in rural Quebec and ICS must recapture three terrorists before the Americans forcibly intervene.

2008-01-29T02:00:00Z

1x04 Gross Deceptions

1x04 Gross Deceptions

  • 2008-01-29T02:00:00Z43m

ICS Director Kessler and U.S. Agent LaGarda clash with disgruntled ex-Airborne soldiers and an elusive arms dealer while hunting for stolen military weapons.

2008-02-05T02:00:00Z

1x05 Compromising Positions

1x05 Compromising Positions

  • 2008-02-05T02:00:00Z43m

Major Kessler releases an illegal Russian stripper as a political favour, sparking a scandal that climaxes in murder.

2008-02-12T02:00:00Z

1x06 Physical Assets

1x06 Physical Assets

  • 2008-02-12T02:00:00Z43m

When Gray and Layla bust a human-trafficking operation, they follow a grisly trail to an old adversary.

2008-02-19T02:00:00Z

1x07 Family Values

1x07 Family Values

  • 2008-02-19T02:00:00Z43m

ICS helps a movie star enter the country with her newly adopted son: a Sudanese refugee with a dark past and an even darker secret.

2008-02-26T02:00:00Z

1x08 Enemy Contact

1x08 Enemy Contact

  • 2008-02-26T02:00:00Z43m

ICS races to prevent a deadly terrorist attack in the heart of Toronto.

2008-03-04T02:00:00Z

1x09 Restricted Access

1x09 Restricted Access

  • 2008-03-04T02:00:00Z43m

Kessler, Gray, and Layla are trapped aboard a quarantined freighter with a captain who's accused of murdering stowaways.

2008-03-11T01:00:00Z

1x10 Normalizing Relations

1x10 Normalizing Relations

  • 2008-03-11T01:00:00Z43m

ICS must prevent the assassination of a visiting Cuban diplomat who has a surprising connection to U.S. Agent Bianca Lagarda.

2008-03-18T01:00:00Z

1x11 Civil Disobedience

1x11 Civil Disobedience

  • 2008-03-18T01:00:00Z43m

When his daughter takes part in an anti-nuclear rally, Kessler is suspected of leaking classified information that leads directly to nuclear sabotage.

2008-03-25T01:00:00Z

1x12 Grave Concern

1x12 Grave Concern

  • 2008-03-25T01:00:00Z43m

ICS must find a sadistic kidnapper before he auctions off his 12-year-old victim on a pedophile website.

Season Finale

2008-04-01T01:00:00Z

1x13 Blowback

Season Finale

1x13 Blowback

  • 2008-04-01T01:00:00Z43m

Kessler discovers a Croatian war criminal has been granted amnesty, and must struggle with demons from his own past in Bosnia.

Season Premiere

2008-09-30T01:00:00Z

2x01 Stop Loss

Season Premiere

2x01 Stop Loss

  • 2008-09-30T01:00:00Z43m

Three American army deserters claim refugee status in Canada, and ICS must deal with the personal and political fallout.

2008-10-07T01:00:00Z

2x02 Target of Opportunity

2x02 Target of Opportunity

  • 2008-10-07T01:00:00Z43m

A deadly assassin shows up in Toronto, drawing ICS into a web of international political intrigue.

2008-10-14T01:00:00Z

2x03 Floral Tribute

2x03 Floral Tribute

  • 2008-10-14T01:00:00Z43m

MI6 horns in on the ICS investigation of tainted heroin and an African drug smuggling ring.

2008-10-21T01:00:00Z

2x04 Nothing to Declare

2x04 Nothing to Declare

  • 2008-10-21T01:00:00Z43m

The Prime Minister of Quebec feels threatened and ICS follows the trail of a former FLQ bomber to a small town straddling the Canadian/US border.

2008-10-28T01:00:00Z

2x05 Peak Oil

2x05 Peak Oil

  • 2008-10-28T01:00:00Z43m

An eco-terrorist sabotages an Alberta pumping station and Gray and Layla must untangle an international corporate espionage scheme.

2008-11-04T02:00:00Z

2x06 Prescriptive Measures

2x06 Prescriptive Measures

  • 2008-11-04T02:00:00Z43m

Counterfeit pharmaceuticals kill an American rock star. ICS searches for the Canadian link but Bianca LaGarda takes matters into her own hands.

2008-11-11T02:00:00Z

2x07 Articles of Faith

2x07 Articles of Faith

  • 2008-11-11T02:00:00Z43m

While tracking a fundamentalist Christian sect moving "child brides" across the border, Gray meets his match.

2008-11-18T02:00:00Z

2x08 The Sweep

2x08 The Sweep

  • 2008-11-18T02:00:00Z43m

Maggie becomes personally invested in the plight of two young Filipino children, victims of a human trafficking scheme.

2008-11-25T02:00:00Z

2x09 Good Intentions

2x09 Good Intentions

  • 2008-11-25T02:00:00Z43m

Kessler suspects the Canadian military is complicit in the cover-up of a scheme to smuggling cheap Afghan heroin into the country.

2008-12-02T02:00:00Z

2x10 Double Dealing

2x10 Double Dealing

  • 2008-12-02T02:00:00Z43m

The frozen body of a Russian man is found in a railway car triggers an ICS investigating of the smuggling of blood diamonds via the Canadian north.

2008-12-09T02:00:00Z

2x11 Unacceptable Risk

2x11 Unacceptable Risk

  • 2008-12-09T02:00:00Z43m

ICS face escalating gang violence when a U.K. Tamil gang member enters the country for his son's life-saving surgery.

2008-12-16T02:00:00Z

2x12 Shifting Waters

2x12 Shifting Waters

  • 2008-12-16T02:00:00Z43m

As international leaders debate Arctic sovereignty, Kessler and ICS fight to rescue a Canadian submarine crew trapped under the polar ice.

Season Finale

2008-12-23T02:00:00Z

2x13 Going Dark

Season Finale

2x13 Going Dark

  • 2008-12-23T02:00:00Z43m

Season Premiere

2009-10-09T01:00:00Z

3x01 The Dead

Season Premiere

3x01 The Dead

  • 2009-10-09T01:00:00Z43m

Kessler and Carver hover near death while Gray hunts down Layla's killers. A bloody highway shoot-out with the crime mob 'Ndrangheta has left Major Kessler and Agent Carver fighting for their lives. The Squad is forced to the sidelines, as Special Counsel Louise Tilden investigates the role of ICS in the much-publicized tragedy. Meanwhile, Gray, who has been suspended from duty, sets out to avenge the murders of Layla and his father Dougie.

2009-10-16T01:00:00Z

3x02 Broken

3x02 Broken

  • 2009-10-16T01:00:00Z43m

Agent Bianca LaGarda escorts seventeen year-old Ali Jabir, a Canadian resident with ties to terrorists and just released from Guantanamo Bay, back to Canada. Kessler and ICS enter questionable moral territory as they use Ali as bait to capture notorious terrorist Nasim Mujab, Ali's childhood friend. Slade - assisted by CSIS agent and language expert Khalida Massi - uncovers an impending terrorist attack on Toronto. At the official inquiry into the 'Ndrangheta shoot-out, the future of ICS is at risk.

2009-10-23T01:00:00Z

3x03 Killer Debt

3x03 Killer Debt

  • 2009-10-23T01:00:00Z43m

When wealthy philanthropist Benjamin Herzog is murdered, the prime suspect is his financial advisor Cyrus Church. Church has engineered a massive Ponzi scheme to defraud his investors of billions. Foreign operatives determined to recover stolen funds are also looking for Church. And complicating matters, Church's new trophy wife is Svetlana Karpov, a Russian stripper from Kessler's past. ICS's newest agent, Khalida Massi, finally gets a chance to prove herself in the field.

2009-10-30T01:00:00Z

3x04 Hate Metal

3x04 Hate Metal

  • 2009-10-30T01:00:00Z43m

Now back on active duty, DHS Agent Liz Carver tracks a murder suspect, the notorious white-supremacist Cole Thorpe, to Canada. Kessler assigns Gray to infiltrate Thorpe's British Columbia-based neo-Nazi operation. Carver still blames Gray for the 'Ndrangheta debacle and her own injuries. When Gray learns the neo-Nazis are planning a devastating act of racial terrorism, Carver must work with him to stop it.

2009-11-06T02:00:00Z

3x05 Missing in Action

3x05 Missing in Action

  • 2009-11-06T02:00:00Z43m

Sent to Afghanistan to provide border security advice, Kessler and his American companion are kidnapped by hostile forces.

2009-11-13T02:00:00Z

3x06 Kiss and Cry

3x06 Kiss and Cry

  • 2009-11-13T02:00:00Z43m

Kessler's daughter Zoe helps Yuan Dao, China's star figure skater, escape from the Chinese Secret Service. Dao claims to be a freedom activist who will face torture and execution if returned to China. Having fallen for the skater and his story, Zoe takes Dao to ICS, where Kessler faces political pressure to hand him over to the Chinese. Zoe and Dao escape again, this time from Kessler.

2009-11-20T02:00:00Z

3x07 Bride Price

3x07 Bride Price

  • 2009-11-20T02:00:00Z43m

Khali becomes personally involved in the case of Mina Diwan, a strong-willed Indian 18-year-old who arrives in Canada looking for her "runaway groom". Using a false identity, Anwar Singh has married Mina in the Punjab and stolen her family's $50,000 dowry. Unwilling to return to her strict Indian family, Mina seeks out Canadian relatives to sponsor her for citizenship, but they too disapprove of Mina's modern ways. ICS learns that one of Anwar's previous brides is missing and presumed dead. When Mina goes missing, Khali and the Squad must race to save her.

2009-11-27T02:00:00Z

3x08 Dark Ride

3x08 Dark Ride

  • 2009-11-27T02:00:00Z43m

A snuff film is confiscated at the Maine-New Brunswick border, and Carver finds the body of the film's victim Stateside. ICS traces the video back to the vicious biker gang, Satans Guard. Maggie goes to the east coast to see her estranged daughter Kim whose boyfriend, a former member of the gang, is eager to inform on his former associates. Meanwhile, ICS learns of a cross-border serial killer - who has just set his sights on Kim.

2009-12-04T02:00:00Z

3x09 Dying Art

3x09 Dying Art

  • 2009-12-04T02:00:00Z43m

Kessler sends Khali and Darnell to Montreal to investigate claims that a celebrated golden Buddha was stolen and illegally imported to Canada. But the protesters - a Buddhist monk and an idealistic school teacher - turn out to be as mysterious as the Buddha's smile. Khali goes undercover to discover their true intentions.

2009-12-11T02:00:00Z

3x10 Spoils of War

3x10 Spoils of War

  • 2009-12-11T02:00:00Z43m

In a Toronto coffee-shop, an African refugee recognizes the brutal Congolese warlord who raped her and enslaved her son. As they struggle to keep the warlord behind bars, ICS uncovers a deadly conspiracy that links coltan smuggling in the Congo to a powerful multinational based in Canada. Hard-nosed politico Jack Hardacre takes over as Minister of Public Safety, and takes a strong dislike to Kessler. And rebuffed by Kessler, Charlotte takes solace elsewhere.

2010-01-08T02:00:00Z

3x11 Credible Threat

3x11 Credible Threat

  • 2010-01-08T02:00:00Z43m

The American President's upcoming visit to Canada has the ICS Squad on full alert. Working with DHS Agent Liz Carver and the Secret Service Advance Team, ICS sifts through hundreds of threats and uncovers an assassination plot by a Lebanese terrorist, working for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. But as Slade digs deeper, he discovers the trail they've been following is an elaborate electronic smokescreen created by a sophisticated hacker. To make matters worse, an internal security leak means the real assassin is always one step ahead of the Squad.

Season Finale

2010-01-15T02:00:00Z

3x12 No Refuge

Season Finale

3x12 No Refuge

  • 2010-01-15T02:00:00Z43m

A kingpin in Mexico's Los Zetas drug cartel is en route to Toronto to meet his new distributors - the ultraviolent street gang, MS-13. Ramon Esteban - the new flame of Kessler's ex-wife Terri - is a Mexican journalist whose articles on Los Zetas have put him on the cartel's hit list. When Kessler, Carver, and Gray attempt to transfer Ramon from Terri's shelter into protective custody, MS-13 launches an all-out attack. Kessler must fight back with an unlikely team of warriors.

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