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Locked Up Abroad Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
My Dad the Smuggler
Sun, Jul 1, 201245 mins
Scott Campbell goes travelling in China with his estranged father, only to find out that his dad is a professional smuggler carrying 20 kilos of cannabis.
Episode 2
I Am Not a Terrorist
Mon, Jul 9, 201260 mins
Duane Wollum has two kilos of cocaine strapped to his body but the police think it's a bomb.
Episode 3
Hasidic King of Coke
47 mins
When a strictly orthodox Jewish grocer becomes a cocaine smuggler, his traditional appearance makes him invisible to customs officers, until his decision to become 'the Jewish Pablo Escobar' leads to a stretch in a violent Brazilian prison.
Episode 4
Not Without My Baby
48 mins
When Susan's Haglof's adoption goes wrong, she ends up in an Egyptian jail, facing a charge of human trafficking.
Episode 5
Chilean Prison Break
Mon, Jul 30, 201244 mins
After his girlfriend cheats on him, Tom Hanway flies to Peru and turns to cocaine for comfort. He smuggles the drug back home, and a friend convinces him to return to South America to sell LSD. The plan backfires and Tom is arrested and assaulted by police in Chile. Tom is anxious to escape the prison and teams up with a former runaway, Chosco, to plan a late-night departure. After making front-page news, Tom and Chosco must embark on an exhausting trek across the country to secure their freedom.
Episode 6
The Orchid Hunters
Mon, Aug 6, 201247 mins
Two young British backpackers searching for orchids and adventure are kidnapped as they try to cross from Panama to Colombia via the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap.
Episode 7
Venezuela Hustle
Mon, Aug 13, 201245 mins
After meeting a local drug dealer, down on his luck Irish plumber Paul agrees to smuggle six kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin for a payment of 10,000 pounds. However when Paul is caught at the airport in Caracas it turns into the worst decision of his life.
Episode 8
Nightmare in Somalia
Mon, Aug 20, 201247 mins
Australian photographer Nigel Brennan and a Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout are taken hostage in war torn Somalia by Islamic gunmen and held captive for 462 days.
Episode 9
Busted in Bangkok
Tue, Aug 28, 201247 mins
Angela Carnegie suspects her relationship is ending when her lover walks out on her one morning. She decides to start over by smuggling drugs from Bangkok, but the job is a bust when airport officials find bricks of heroin in the lining of her bag.
Episode 10
Escape from the Gulag
Mon, Sep 3, 201247 mins
It's 1976 in Cold War Moscow, and American Jerry finds himself in the worst situation possible: busted for smuggling drugs from Kuala Lumpur to Russia.