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The Worst Episodes of The Border

Every episode of The Border ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Normalizing Relations" is the worst rated episode of "The Border". It scored 6.5/10 based on 39 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/10/2008. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Pockets of Vulnerability".

  • Normalizing Relations
    6.5/1039 votes
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    #1 - Normalizing Relations

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/10/2008

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Pockets of Vulnerability
    6.8/1065 votes
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    #2 - Pockets of Vulnerability

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2008

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

    Director: John Fawcett

    Writer: Janet MacLean

  • Compromising Positions
    6.8/1041 votes
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    #3 - Compromising Positions

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2008

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Articles of Faith
    6.8/1036 votes
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    #4 - Articles of Faith

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2008

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Physical Assets
    6.9/1040 votes
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    #5 - Physical Assets

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2008

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

    Director: John Fawcett

    Writer: N/A

  • Shifting Waters
    7.0/1033 votes
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    #6 - Shifting Waters

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/2008

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bodies on the Ground
    7.1/1046 votes
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    #7 - Bodies on the Ground

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2008

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

    Director: John Fawcett

    Writer: Denis McGrath

  • Peak Oil
    7.3/1031 votes
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    #8 - Peak Oil

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2008

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Prescriptive Measures
    7.3/1031 votes
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    #9 - Prescriptive Measures

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2008

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Killer Debt
    7.3/1027 votes
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    #10 - Killer Debt

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/2009

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dark Ride
    7.3/1029 votes
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    #11 - Dark Ride

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/2009

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Good Intentions
    7.4/1037 votes
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    #12 - Good Intentions

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/2008

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dying Art
    7.4/1026 votes
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    #13 - Dying Art

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2009

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Spoils of War
    7.4/1028 votes
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    #14 - Spoils of War

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/2009

    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.

    Director: John Fawcett

    Writer: N/A

  • Stop Loss
    7.5/1043 votes
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    #15 - Stop Loss

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2008

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

    Director: John Fawcett

    Writer: N/A

  • Target of Opportunity
    7.5/1035 votes
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    #16 - Target of Opportunity

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/2008

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Broken
    7.5/1031 votes
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    #17 - Broken

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/2009

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hate Metal
    7.5/1028 votes
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    #18 - Hate Metal

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/2009

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gray Zone
    7.6/1053 votes
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    #19 - Gray Zone

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2008

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

    Director: John Fawcett

    Writer: Jeremy Hole

  • Enemy Contact
    7.6/1036 votes
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    #20 - Enemy Contact

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/2008

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Floral Tribute
    7.6/1034 votes
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    #21 - Floral Tribute

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2008

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Kiss and Cry
    7.6/1027 votes
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    #22 - Kiss and Cry

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/2009

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • No Refuge
    7.6/1040 votes
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    #23 - No Refuge

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/2010

    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.

    Director: John Fawcett

    Writer: N/A

  • Gross Deceptions
    7.7/1040 votes
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    #24 - Gross Deceptions

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2008

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Unacceptable Risk
    7.7/1031 votes
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    #25 - Unacceptable Risk

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/2008

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A