List of The Border episodes

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Official DVD of The Border, Season 1 for Region 1.

The following is a list of episodes for the Canadian drama series The Border, which is airing on CBC Television. It follows several agents of a law enforcement agency known as the Immigration and Customs Security or ICS, created to deal with crimes that affect Canadian matters on Border security. It aired its first episode on January 7, 2008.

Seasons List

Season		Episodes	Originally aired	DVD Release Date
				Region 1	Discs
	Season 1	13	January 7, 2008	Canada: November 18, 2008	4

Episodes

Season 1

Season 1 had aired from January 7 to March 31 of 2008, airing 13 episodes. The following dates listed below are original Canadian airdates.

Season 1 begins when Mike Kessler, head of the fictional Canadian Immigration and Customs Security agency arrests a Syrian national named Tariq Haddad, a member of the fictional Jamaat-al-Takfir-al-Hijr in a sting operation with ICS agents. From there on, Cuban-American Homeland Security Bianca LaGarda gets posted at ICS headquarters in Toronto as a liaison officer.

Title	Original airdate	Director	Writer	#
Pockets of Vulnerability	January 7, 2008	John Fawcett	Janet MacLean	1
A team of agents from the Immigration and Customs Security led by Mike Kessler, head of ICS, apprehends a Syrian terrorist named Tariq Haddad in the Toronto Pearson International Airport. Nizar Karim, a Canadian of Syrian descent, had been detained by ICS agents during the operation. CSIS and American Homeland Security agents led by Andrew Mannering take custody of Karim before he was deported to Syria. Kessler uses media intimidation on Mannering, which led to efforts Canadian government efforts to free Karim from Syrian custody after investigations revealed that he was a bystander only.
Gray Zone	January 14, 2008	John Fawcett	Jeremy Hole	2
During a sting operation near the Saint Lawrence River, American Homeland Security agents led by Bianca LaGarda arrived in Canadian soil to lead a joint initiative between the Homeland Security Department and ICS. Despite American intervention in gunning down a smuggler's ship, ICS operatives led by Gray Jackson captured an Albanian gangster for smuggling American currency before he was assassinated by a sniper in the ICS parking lot prior to being transferred. Bianca and Gray attempt to go undercover in a casino in the Seaway Mohawk Reserve to uncover the rest of the Albanian mob and to find out who ordered the gangster's death. Gray's cover is in danger when his ex-girlfriend, now the casino's manager, threatened him to leave.
Bodies on the Ground	January 21, 2008	John Fawcett	Denis McGrath	3
A Rendition aircraft goes down in the town of St. Calais in Quebec with 3 Muslim terrorists attacking a local constable and seizing his vehicle with a Military police officer as a hostage after escaping from US Military custody, forcing Mike Kessler to hunt down the 3 men with Joint Task Force Two commandos sent in to capture them. But as their investigation continues, Kessler sends out Gray and Layla to hunt down the escapees after one of the terrorists had killed himself by blowing up the stolen squad car while the rest of ICS and Bianca try to prevent the news of events in Quebec from spreading to the internet. Their work becomes complicated when ICS finds out that a South African mercenary had been responsible for the downing of the Rendition aircraft.
Gross Deceptions	January 28, 2008	Kelly Makin	Jeremy Hole, David Barlow	4
Kessler and LaGarda, with the rest of ICS, hunt down for stolen Canadian Forces Carl Gustav recoilless rifle anti-tank weapons by an ex-Belgian paratrooper turned arms smuggler that seem to be heading towards American soil. During their investigation to the theft, the two agents must contend with ex-Canadian Airborne Regiment soldiers turned mercenary henchmen with a seemingly smart and brilliant criminal mastermind alongside an innocent truck driver who had simply been a bystander caught in the middle of the case, whose life was being threatened unless he cooperates in getting the anti-tank weapons onto American soil.
Compromising Positions	February 4, 2008	Kelly Makin	Janet MacLean	5
During raids over Toronto to arrest illegal aliens, ICS had arrested three Russian strippers due to possession of non-valid visas. Kessler had been pressured by his ex-lover and cabinet minister Suzanne Fleischer to release them, resulting in criticism from the media. After a Russian businessman turns up dead, Kessler and ICS investigates his death to have the trail lead them to a businessman linked with the Canadian government over missile defense issues.
Physical Assets	February 11, 2008	John Fawcett	Sarah Dodd	6
In an anti-human trafficking operation in Vancouver led by ICS, Gray and Layla discover Chinese nationals being smuggled into Canadian soil led by British Columbia-based Snakeheads under the command of a Chinese smuggler named Lo Hok-Yin. Gray gets into trouble with personal matters when he finds out that one of the smuggled nationals adheres to Falun Gong. Kessler and the rest of ICS, with covert assistance from LaGarda, investigate if CSIS agent Mannering is deliberately trying to mess around with ICS' anti-smuggling operation after Slade discovers an unknown hacker trying to break into ICS' mainframe system.
Family Values	February 18, 2008	Philip Earnshaw	Denis McGrath	7
When British movie star Amara arrives in Canada with an adopted Sudanese boy, the team faces an ethical dilemma when a man claiming to be the boy's biological father turns up to restore custody over him. Things are not as they seem, however, and the team scrambles to uncover the secrets of the boy's past in Sudan and his connection to a missing Canadian photo-journalist. Meanwhile, Layla struggles with her growing PTSD trauma after killing a fifteen-year old terrorist suspect in "Bodies on the Ground", and Kessler deals with his daughter's latest boyfriend.
Enemy Contact	February 25, 2008	Michael DeCarlo	Janet MacLean	8
ICS races against time when a pro-Al-Qaeda Afghan warlord kidnaps two Canadian Army soldiers somewhere in Kandahar after a Canadian Forces-led operation against him killed most of his family. A pro-Al-Qaeda cell in Toronto has been making preparations to launch an Anthrax attack on the Toronto subway and RT system in order to pressure the Government of Canada on the soldier's situation. Layla struggles with her growing question on her Muslim faith and her dedication to ICS after an American Muslim woman was arrested during a joint ICS-CSIS operation somewhere in the Greater Toronto Area.
Restricted Access	March 3, 2008	Brett Sullivan	Steve Lucas	9
Mike Kessler gets summoned to Halifax, Nova Scotia over a mysterious radio transmission. A moored container ship and its captain, an ex-US Navy officer, gets into trouble when a Chinese Indonesian crewmember accuses the captain of murdering a Nigerian stowaway, who is later revealed to be the leader of a Nigerian militia group that has been attacking oil installations in the Niger Delta. Things get further complicated when the ex-officer reveals to LaGarda that he was the one who saved her when she escaped with her mother from Cuba towards American soil to gain political asylum.
Normalizing Relations	March 10, 2008	Brett Sullivan	David Barlow	10
When a Cuban official arrives in Canadian soil, ICS gets mobilized to track down a known hardline Cuban American radical arriving in Canada from the United States in order to assassinate him. A Cuban American boxer in Toronto gets in the middle of ICS' investigation when Kessler tries to use intimidation on him to inform them on whether he had seen his ailing father after he had left Miami years ago.
Civil Disobedience	March 17, 2008	Ken Girotti	David Barlow	11
After Zoe gets apprehended by Gray during an anti-nuclear protest near the Canada – United States border in Ontario, Mike gets into potential trouble when Agent Mannering thinks that Mike could've accidentally leaked the information to Zoe. Being forced to resign as head of ICS, Mike and the other ICS agents are involved in a plot by a university-educated anti-nuclear activist to sabotage an atomic energy research center in Toronto by planting an explosive inside its compound.
Grave Concern	March 24, 2008	John Fawcett	Sarah Dodd	12
When a reformed pedophile named Glen Burgess is apprehended by ICS operatives in a sting operation in Toronto, they use him to entrap another pedophile named Skinner after they discover that he had a kidnapped underaged girl in captivity. Gray gets into moral dilemma when he poses as Glen Burgess after he had been killed by anti-pedophile vigilantes. Bianca steps in the pictures when she reveals that the kidnapped girl had been her last case before leaving the FBI to be transferred to American Homeland Security.
Blowback	March 31, 2008	John Fawcett	Janet MacLean	13
Kessler discovers that one of the patrons may have been Vladko Radman, a Croatian warlord arrested for war crimes during the Bosnian War, during a sting operation in a local restaurant. Kessler was accused by Mannering and Fleischer of having hallucinations under PTSD stress from his Bosnian War peacekeeping duties and was ordered to end his manhunt for Radman or be arrested for breaching the Official Secrets Act when he discovered that Radman had been living in Canada under a new identity and had plastic surgery. With some help from the rest of ICS, Kessler is determined to rearrest Radman and bring him to justice.

Season 2

Season 2 had aired its first episode on September 29, 2008, which aired on CBC Television.

Season 2 begins with the escape of three United States Army soldiers in the state of New York in order to seek asylum in Canada via crossing the Niagara River to avoid returning to Iraq due to the regulations of the Stop-loss policy. ICS investigates them to realize it's more than just an attempt to escape from an American military police manhunt.

Title	Original airdate	Director	Writer	#
Stop-Loss	September 29, 2008	John Fawcett	Janet MacLean	1
Three United States Army soldiers desert and cross the Niagara River to Canada from New York due to the Stop-loss policy when ICS agents arrest them for illegally moving to the country. After Zoe is kidnapped by one of the deserters, thinking that he's still in Iraq, Mike and the others move in to rescue her before it's too late when they find out during interrogation of one of the deserters, a Lieutenant, that he was under the influence of a secret drug that enhances his fighting strength. Agent Mannering investigates Mike, thinking that he could be the killer of Radman while Mike secretly investigates who did kill him in the first place.
Target of Opportunity	October 6, 2008	Michael DeCarlo	Denis McGrath	2
Monita Persaud, an international mercenary, shows up in Toronto when she was arrested by LaGarda until a supposed hired hit on a cartoonist who had drawn irk to the Muslim world. A deeper investigation through her background and her connection to her other hits show that it was not the case. Meanwhile, Slade continues to investigate on Darnell for Mike on whether he still has some connection with CSIS and Agent Mannering.
Floral Tribute	October 13, 2008	Philip Earnshaw	Jeremy Hole & Janet MacLean	3
ICS was on a routine anti-drug investigation until a new strain of heroin kills off several junkies. Mike leads the team in arresting a Kenyan drug dealer, said to be responsible for the smuggling when Slade discovers that the British government had been covering its tracks by having Charlotte Bates, an MI-6 agent, conduct wetworks in Canadian soil to ensure that that her government does not collapse until the smuggler's potential whistleblowing.
Nothing to Declare	October 13, 2008	Michael DeCarlo	Jeremy Hole & Janet MacLean	4
ICS investigates the rise of an ex-FLQ terrorist bomber, who had resurfaced with the letter to the Premier of Quebec. They trace the letter of a town called Hopkin's Hollow, divided between Canada and the United States. ICS agents must contend with the bomber, who had stayed hidden for decades, with bitter disputes over the town's border division.

This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information.

References

General

• "TV.com's The Border episode guide".
• "The Border's IMDB Guide, Season 1".
• "The Border's IMDB Guide, Season 2".

Specific

External links

• Official Site Template:En icon