Dispatches: 1998
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 Dispatches 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
Judgement for Louise
Mar 5, 1998
Journalist David Jessel and producer Steve Haywood from the acclaimed Trial and Error (1992) come to Dispatches to examine doubts about the safety of the conviction of nanny Louise
Golf Lima Foxtrot
Mar 26, 1998
GLF is police jargon for "Go Like F***". But does such light-hearted jocularity betray a lack of serious regard for the potential dangers to the public of cops' ability to break th
The war Business
Apr 9, 1998 · 60 min
Journalists uncover the bloody truth of the world's most successful private army, Executive Outcomes. Sent wherever mineral resources like diamonds or oil promise wealth, these mer
The Accident
Jun 4, 1998
Documentary investigating the death of Diana Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed.