Border Patrol: Season 12
Season 12 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 Border Patrol Season 11.
- 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 12 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Aug 9, 2021 · 30 min
Biosecurity officer Jade finds an expensive exercise in witchcraft, while Customs officers shed light on some suspicious lampshades.
Episode 2
Aug 16, 2021 · 30 min
Immigration uncovers an attempt to establish a dangerous and illegal business in New Zealand. Plus, Customs comes across the latest scam to try and breach the border with class B d
Episode 3
Aug 23, 2021 · 30 min
Customs officers uncover a drug concealment and Biosecurity New Zealand finds a Pandora's box of problems in a spiritual healer's luggage.
Episode 4
Sep 27, 2021 · 30 min
A woman is caught body packing highly illegal items on her person, Immigration rumbles a marriage of inconvenience, and New Zealand's most unwanted gets stopped at the border by Bi
Episode 5
Aug 30, 2021 · 30 min
Rare artefacts from Canada are in the Biosecurity spotlight, two travellers try to bamboozle Immigration, and there is a sticky story for Customs officer Rory.
Episode 6
Sep 6, 2021 · 30 min
An irate tourist brings more than a toilet bag and flip flops into New Zealand, and Biosecurity officer Renee uncovers some unwelcome hitchhikers in a house lot of belongings sent
Episode 7
Sep 13, 2021 · 30 min
A family of foodies cook up a storm of trouble at Biosecurity New Zealand, and Customs officer Hayden checks out the contents of a dubious Christmas gift sent from the US.
Episode 8
Sep 20, 2021 · 30 min
We get an exclusive look inside one of New Zealand's biggest ever drug busts. Plus, an actress has an important audition with Customs and Immigration, and a drug concealment with a
Episode 9
Oct 4, 2021 · 30 min
At Auckland Airport, Biosecurity catch a woman body-packing highly illegal items, Immigration rumbles a marriage of inconvenience, and NZ’s most unwanted gets stopped at the border
Episode 10
Oct 11, 2021 · 30 min
Filmed prior to COVID-19. | Biosecurity New Zealand finds a hidden haul. Plus, Customs finds a picture worth a thousand words – and tens of thousands of dollars.