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1 :01x01 - Peru
The true story of two American women who were caught trafficking cocaine from Peru and sentenced to six years in a Peruvian prison.
2 :01x02 - Venezuela
Two men recall the four-and-a-half years they spent in a violent Venezuelan prison after they got caught up in an international drug-smuggling ring.
3 :01x03 - Nepal
The true story of a Briton who was caught smuggling gold from Hong Kong to Nepal. He was sentenced to four years in jail, but was pardoned eventually and released early.
4 :01x04 - Colombia
Colombia, the kidnapping capital of the world, is where Glen Heggstad was taken captive by the National Liberation Army. After five weeks of torture, beatings and marches, Glen was released and sits down to tell his story.
5 :01x05 - Mexico
The true account of a British couple who were sentenced to 10 years in a Mexican prison after having been caught trafficking drugs from Costa Rica to Amsterdam.
6 :01x06 - Sydney
An international drug deal gone wrong ends up sending a young couple to prison in Sydney for smuggling of cocaine.
7 :01x07 - Margarita Island
Three American citizens who were held in a Venezuelan prison for six years after smuggling cocaine, discuss their experiences and the conditions they endured.
8 :01x08 - Thailand
A young British woman in Thailand agrees to smuggle an addicts personal stash of heroine to Tokyo to raise money for her trip home.
9 :02x01 - Korea
Cullen Thomas, author of "Brother One Cell" recalls how he smuggled two kilos of hashish from the Philippines to South Korea after being lured by big money. He was sentenced to three and a half years in a Korean prison in 1994.
10 :02x02 - Uganda
The recollection of an American safari guide, Mark Ross, who was kidnapped by Rwandan Interahamwe rebels in a raid in Uganda's Bwindi Forest which left eight tourists murdered in March 1999.
11 :02x03 - Philipines
Missionary Gracia Burnham recalls being abducted and held hostage in western Philippines, for more than a year by an extreme Islamic group Abu Sayyaf.
12 :02x04 - Bangladesh
A young Texan was arrested in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for trying to smuggle seven pounds of heroine out of the Zia International Airport.
13 :02x05 - Kuwait
A man who was arrested on a drug charge in the 1980's talks about the prison system in Kuwait, and how he escaped when Iraq invaded in the 1990's.
14 :02x06 - Chechnya
The recollection by humanitarians Camilla Carr and Jon James who were kidnapped on April 1997 in war torn Chechnya by rebels and held 14 months in captivity until their release was helped by Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky, in September 1998.
15 :02x07 - India
A British backpacker becomes a hostage in India by radical Islamists fighting to liberate Kashmir. Omar Sheikh, one of the captors, was later arrested in 2002 for his role in the death of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan.
16 :02x08 - Pakistan
Amardeep Bassey, a British journalist recalls being imprisoned for 28 days in Pakistan after being accused of being an Indian spy while reporting on the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
17 :02x09 - Lima
A 20 year old American is asked by his girlfriend to accompany on a cocaine trip to Peru, but finds himself alone after she disappears.
18 :02x10 - Malaysia
The story of a vacationing South African couple who were kidnapped by Muslim militants in Malaysia, and how they spent four months in the Philippines on an island.
19 :02x11 - Taiwan
A former South African military attache, McGill Alexander was taken hostage by one of Taiwan's most notorious criminals, Chen Chin-hsing, on November 18, 1997.
20 :02x12 - Ecuador
An American who was arrested taking cocaine from the country talks about his stay at a one of the notorious prisons in Ecuador.
21 :03x01 - Cuzco
Season 3 begins an innocent man winds up in a Peruvian prison after being duped into traveling with a female cocaine smuggler.
22 :03x02 - Caracas
A struggling musician from Atlanta has been asked to smuggle cocaine from Venezuela to Europe for $5000, but is apprehended at the Caracas airport.
23 :03x03 - Kidnapped in the Philippines
A christian missionary, Greg Williams, was kidnapped by a militant Islamic group Abu Sayyaf and was tortured for 13 days in the Southern Philippines.
24 :03x04 - Puerto Vallarta
A young Texan decided to fund a trip to Mexico by selling marijuana to the tourists during the 1970's, that is until a drug bust went horribly wrong.
25 :03x05 - Brazil
A nightclub promoter wants to earn some extra cash and agrees to smuggle cocaine from Brazil to Hungary, but never makes it out of South America.
26 :03x06 - Indonesia
An Australian man claims to be innocent after being sentenced for 20 years in an Indonesian prison.
27 :03x07 - Busted in Mexico
A Texas teen who attempted to smuggle 33 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. is imprisoned in Mexico.
28 :03x08 - Cuba
An American woman spent six years in a Cuban prison after being forced into being a drug mule, when she was caught at an airport with 18 pounds of cocaine.
29 :03x09 - Iraq
Scott Taylor, a Canadian war correspondent, recalls being kidnapped by Iraqi insurgents as he covered the Iraq War.
30 :03x10 - Betrayed in Ecuador
A freelance journalist is duped into carrying on her friend's bag onto a plane which was full of cocaine, causing her to be apprehended in an Ecuadorian airport.
31 :03x11 - Sierra Leone
Major Phil Ashby tells his story of being in the war-torn Sierra Leone as a UN Peacekeeper, and being ambushed by rebel forces. He under went four days of physical and psychological abuse, before making a daring escape through the jungle.
32 :03x12 - Jamaica
A couple agreed to accept $5,000 and a free vacation if they would smuggle marijuana from Jamaica, but wind up in an overcrowded Kingston jail after being caught in the airport.
33 :03x13 - Delhi
A woman from London is sent to India's Tihar Jail, one of the world's largest prison, after she sends hashish to Europe to earn some fast money.
34 :04x01 - The Real Midnight Express
The Oscar-winning 1978 film "Midnight Express" told the story of 23-year-old college student Billy Hayes - his imprisonment for drug smuggling and his escape from a prison in Istanbul, Turkey. But for legal reasons, neither the film nor the book, authored by Hayes, was completely accurate. Now, Billy tells the full story of being sent to the infamous Turkish Sagmalcilar prison and eventually escaping.
35 :04x02 - Saddam's Iraq
When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Tom Lynch and his fellow contractors decided to get out of Iraq while they still could. On their perilous journey across the desert they finally spotted signs of what they believed was Syrian habitation. But joy soon turned sour as Iraqi military vehicles tore toward them. They were taken to a notorious prison in Baghdad and listened to fellow inmates being tortured to death. But their two-month-long nightmare was far from over.
36 :04x03 - Tokyo
After Jackie Nichols' fianc dies in a car accident, she flees to Japan to restart her life. Once there, she meets a charming drug mule and agrees to smuggle hashish with him. After four drug-smuggling trips together, their friendship fizzles and Jackie decides to go back home to America ... but not before smuggling one last time alone. That's when she gets caught and is sentenced to several years in a country known for having one of the world's strictest prison systems.
37 :04x04 - Bangkok
38 :04x05 - Spain
39 :04x06 - Panama
40 :05x01 - Saudi Bootlegger
41 :05x02 - The Real Goodfella
42 :05x03 - Forbidden Love
43 :05x04 - Mexico Money Machine
44 :05x05 - Heroin Sting
45 :05x06 - Daredevil Drug Runner
46 :05x07 - The Cocaine Trap
47 :05x08 - Drug Dealer Revenge
48 :05x09 - Teenage Drug Smuggler
49 :05x10 - Backstabbed in Thailand
Faced with an impending manslaughter trial, military veteran Kim Hood needs a break from life. When her girlfriends cousin, Lisa Taylor, invites her to Thailand on a business trip to procure nail products for her new business, Kim jumps at the opportunit
50 :06x01 - From Hollywood to Hell
51 :06x02 - The Juggler Smuggler
Life in a Nepalese prison is detailed by a professional magician who got caught trying to smuggle hashish out of the country.
52 :06x03 - Escape from Argentina
A British nursing student gets caught smuggling cocaine from Argentina. Facing 16 to 25 years in prison, she jumps bail and attempts to flee across the border to Brazil.
53 :06x04 - Highway to Hell
Thomas Hamill, an American truck driver taken hostage by Iraqi insurgents on April 9, 2004, recounts the ordeal.
54 :06x05 - Black Palace of Horrors
Dwight Worker details his daring 1975 escape from the notorious Mexican penitentiary Palacio de Lecumberri, where he was serving a six-year sentence for attempting to smuggle 780 grams of cocaine out of Mexico City.