Border Patrol: Season 8
Season 8 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 7.
- 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 8 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Jul 25, 2016
A couple of Russian working girls try to talk their way across the Border; and it's all hands on deck when a slippery visitor arrives at the Port. Catch all the action from the fro
Episode 2
Aug 1, 2016
An exotic eastern luxury, which also happens to be a serious biosecurity risk, is stopped at the border. Plus, a cannabis crusader's plans go up in smoke at Queenstown Airport.
Episode 3
Aug 8, 2016
Customs staff at Auckland International Airport deal with multiple passports and multiple identities, and a Canadian drug addict arrives with withdrawals and her own mini pharmacy.
Episode 4
Aug 15, 2016
A Californian woman arrives with a bizarre backstory straight off a Hollywood script writer's keyboard. Plus, a Tongan man arrives with a quantity of tobacco 600 times over the lim
Episode 5
Aug 22, 2016
An American traveller who fails to realise that his medicinal cannabis prescription isn't valid outside of the US is stopped at the border.
Episode 6
Aug 29, 2016
A barista arriving from Hong Kong with very suspicious plans is sniffed out by a Customs drug dog, and high-risk plant material at the International mail centre poses a biosecurity
Episode 7
Sep 5, 2016
A convicted sex offender tries to talk his way over the border. Plus, Immigration New Zealand have concerns about a Korean woman who's arrived with a full portfolio of how to sell
Episode 8
Sep 12, 2016
A self declared marijuana farmer runs into trouble at the border, a boxed up lion requires extensive checks at the International mail center and a Brazilian busker breaches regulat