Banged Up Abroad: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Banged Up Abroad Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Cuzco
Apr 1, 2008 · 45 min
Simon's trip to Peru is initiated by his friend Sarah Jackson who convinces him to smuggle drugs. Things turn bad for Simon when he is handed a lengthy prison sentence.
Bangladesh
Jul 21, 2008 · 45 min
Lia McCord, an American teenager, is arrested in Bangladesh for trying to smuggle heroin.
Kuwait
Jul 28, 2008 · 45 min
Scott White is arrested in Kuwait for selling hashish, then escapes from jail during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Pakistan
Sep 15, 2008 · 45 min
Amardeep Bassey, a British journalist on the way to Afghanistan for an assignment, is accused of being a spy and arrested in Pakistan.
Lima
Sep 29, 2008 · 45 min
Russell Thoresen, an American traveller, is arrested in Peru for trying to smuggle cocaine.
Taiwan
Oct 13, 2008 · 45 min
Taiwan's most-wanted criminal breaks into the house of McGill Alexander, a South African army colonel, and takes Alexander and his family hostage.
Ecuador
Oct 27, 2008 · 45 min
An American, Daniel Van De Zande is arrested trying to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe.
South Korea
Oct 29, 2008 · 45 min
Cullen Thomas, working with his girlfriend "Rocket," is arrested trying to smuggle hashish from the Philippines to South Korea.