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The Best Episodes of The Border

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The Best Episodes of 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,...

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  1. Background image for Credible Threat
    8.2/10(35 votes)

    #1 - Credible Threat

    S3:E11

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Blowback
    8.1/10(38 votes)

    #2 - Blowback

    S1:E13

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

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    Director:John Fawcett
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Dead
    8.1/10(41 votes)

    #3 - The Dead

    S3:E1

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Grave Concern
    7.9/10(37 votes)

    #4 - Grave Concern

    S1:E12

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

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    Director:John Fawcett
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Family Values
    7.8/10(38 votes)

    #5 - Family Values

    S1:E7

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Restricted Access
    7.8/10(35 votes)

    #6 - Restricted Access

    S1:E9

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Civil Disobedience
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    #7 - Civil Disobedience

    S1:E11

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Bride Price
    7.8/10(27 votes)

    #8 - Bride Price

    S3:E7

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Gross Deceptions
    7.7/10(40 votes)

    #9 - Gross Deceptions

    S1:E4

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Missing in Action
    7.7/10(28 votes)

    #10 - Missing in Action

    S3:E5

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.6/10(54 votes)

    #11 - Gray Zone

    S1:E2

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

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    Director:John Fawcett
  13. Background image for Enemy Contact
    7.6/10(36 votes)

    #12 - Enemy Contact

    S1:E8

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Kiss and Cry
    7.6/10(27 votes)

    #13 - Kiss and Cry

    S3:E6

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for No Refuge
    7.6/10(41 votes)

    #14 - No Refuge

    S3:E12

    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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    Director:John Fawcett
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Broken
    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #15 - Broken

    S3:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Hate Metal
    7.5/10(28 votes)

    #16 - Hate Metal

    S3:E4

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Dying Art
    7.4/10(26 votes)

    #17 - Dying Art

    S3:E9

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Spoils of War
    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #18 - Spoils of War

    S3:E10

    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.

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    Director:John Fawcett
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Killer Debt
    7.3/10(27 votes)

    #19 - Killer Debt

    S3:E3

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Dark Ride
    7.3/10(29 votes)

    #20 - Dark Ride

    S3:E8

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Bodies on the Ground
    7.1/10(48 votes)

    #21 - Bodies on the Ground

    S1:E3

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

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    6.9/10(40 votes)

    #22 - Physical Assets

    S1:E6

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

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    Director:John Fawcett
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Pockets of Vulnerability
    6.8/10(66 votes)

    #23 - Pockets of Vulnerability

    S1:E1

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

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  25. Background image for Compromising Positions
    6.8/10(41 votes)

    #24 - Compromising Positions

    S1:E5

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Normalizing Relations
    6.5/10(39 votes)

    #25 - Normalizing Relations

    S1:E10

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Credible Threat" is the best rated episode of "The Border". It scored 8.2/10 based on 35 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/7/2010. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Blowback".