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COLLECTION · Series · 2008

The Border

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.

Source: TMDB
* 6.0 (13)ActionAdventureCrimeDramaUnited States
Creators
Peter Raymont
Countries
United States
Studios
CBC Television
Runtime
43 min/ep
Age rating
TV-14
Release
07/01/2008
Score
6.0 / 10 (13)
Where to watch
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
13 episodes · 2008
Pockets of Vulnerability
Episode 1. Pockets of Vulnerability
2008-01-07 · 43 min

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

Gray Zone
Episode 2. Gray Zone
2008-01-14 · 43 min

ICS 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
Episode 3. Bodies on the Ground
2008-01-21 · 43 min

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

Gross Deceptions
Episode 4. Gross Deceptions
2008-01-28 · 43 min

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.

Compromising Positions
Episode 5. Compromising Positions
2008-02-04 · 43 min

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

Physical Assets
Episode 6. Physical Assets
2008-02-11 · 43 min

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

Family Values
Episode 7. Family Values
2008-02-18 · 43 min

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.

Enemy Contact
Episode 8. Enemy Contact
2008-02-25 · 43 min

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

Restricted Access
Episode 9. Restricted Access
2008-03-03 · 43 min

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

Normalizing Relations
Episode 10. Normalizing Relations
2008-03-10 · 43 min

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

Civil Disobedience
Episode 11. Civil Disobedience
2008-03-17 · 43 min

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

Grave Concern
Episode 12. Grave Concern
2008-03-24 · 43 min

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

Blowback
Episode 13. Blowback
2008-03-31 · 43 min

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

Season 2
Season 2
13 episodes · 2008
Stop Loss
Episode 1. Stop Loss
2008-09-29 · 43 min

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

Target of Opportunity
Episode 2. Target of Opportunity
2008-10-06 · 43 min

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

Floral Tribute
Episode 3. Floral Tribute
2008-10-13 · 43 min

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

Nothing to Declare
Episode 4. Nothing to Declare
2008-10-20 · 43 min

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.

Peak Oil
Episode 5. Peak Oil
2008-10-27 · 43 min

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

Prescriptive Measures
Episode 6. Prescriptive Measures
2008-11-03 · 43 min

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

Articles of Faith
Episode 7. Articles of Faith
2008-11-10 · 43 min

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

The Sweep
Episode 8. The Sweep
2008-11-17 · 43 min

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

Good Intentions
Episode 9. Good Intentions
2008-11-24 · 43 min

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

Double Dealing
Episode 10. Double Dealing
2008-12-01 · 43 min

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.

Unacceptable Risk
Episode 11. Unacceptable Risk
2008-12-08 · 43 min

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

Shifting Waters
Episode 12. Shifting Waters
2008-12-15 · 43 min

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

Going Dark
Episode 13. Going Dark
2008-12-22 · 43 min

ICS discovers that toxic sludge is being trucked across the border and dumped in the Canadian wilderness. They follow a trail to a vicious criminal gang, who gain control over Gray and his father. As Gray struggles to save his father, he…

Season 3
Season 3
12 episodes · 2009
The Dead
Episode 1. The Dead
2009-10-08 · 43 min

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,…

Broken
Episode 2. Broken
2009-10-15 · 43 min

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…

Killer Debt
Episode 3. Killer Debt
2009-10-22 · 43 min

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…

Hate Metal
Episode 4. Hate Metal
2009-10-29 · 43 min

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…

Missing in Action
Episode 5. Missing in Action
2009-11-05 · 43 min

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

Kiss and Cry
Episode 6. Kiss and Cry
2009-11-12 · 43 min

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…

Bride Price
Episode 7. Bride Price
2009-11-19 · 43 min

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…

Dark Ride
Episode 8. Dark Ride
2009-11-26 · 43 min

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…

Dying Art
Episode 9. Dying Art
2009-12-03 · 43 min

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…

Spoils of War
Episode 10. Spoils of War
2009-12-10 · 43 min

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…

Credible Threat
Episode 11. Credible Threat
2010-01-07 · 43 min

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…

No Refuge
Episode 12. No Refuge
2010-01-14 · 43 min

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…

Cast by season
James McGowan
James McGowan
Major Mike Kessler
Graham Abbey
Graham Abbey
Detective Sergeant Gray Jackson
Jonas Chernick
Jonas Chernick
Agent Heironymous Slade
Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson
Detective Sergeant Al 'Moose' Lepinsky
Jim Codrington
Jim Codrington
Acting Inspector Darnell Williams
Catherine Disher
Catherine Disher
Superintendent Maggie Norton
Nazneen Contractor
Nazneen Contractor
Sergeant Layla Hourani
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