Foreign Correspondent: Season 18
Season 18 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 Foreign Correspondent Season 17.
- 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 18 Progress Shield
Hell or High Water
Feb 9, 2010 · 30 min
If they stay they face intimidation, violence even death. If they go they put their lives and life savings in the hands of people smugglers, run the gauntlet of naval patrols and t
The Golden Hour
Feb 16, 2010 · 30 min
It's a lifetime. Short, urgent and definitive. One hour to save those who can be saved - soldiers, civilians and the enemy critically wounded in the war in Afghanistan. Another def
The Rapunzel Machine
Feb 23, 2010 · 30 min
How does a deeply personal spiritual offering from India's poor to their Gods suddenly become a super-expensive, must-have style accessory in the haute salons of Europe, Asia, USA
Fly Away Home
Mar 2, 2010 · 30 min
A 7 year old Ethiopian girl is portrayed as destitute and in grave danger. She is in fact 13 and has been well cared for much to the surprise of her adopting family. Then there are
Quicksand
Mar 9, 2010 · 30 min
They imagined a breathtaking future-world, burned billions of dollars to summon it out of the sand and hundreds of thousands of expats and investors stampeded into Dubai for a piec
The Hit Parade
Mar 16, 2010 · 30 min
It's thought a single, fluffy pillow killed a Hamas operative in Dubai. But it took 27 secret agents with pilfered passports and a bag of disguises to administer it. We investigate
The Whole Enchilada
Mar 23, 2010 · 30 min
The dominant face of the United States has long been white. Soon, when the nation looks in the mirror it will see a tanned, smiling Latin American face looking back. In a relativel
Stem Cells & Miracles
Mar 30, 2010 · 30 min
When it comes to stem cells, mainstream scientists in the UK and America tell us their potential is both exciting and unlimited. But, they hasten to add, treatments for most illnes
Pet Monsters
Apr 6, 2010 · 30 min
It's not Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya or Somalia. But it is - arguably - the most dangerous place in the world to be a journalist. That's one reason we know so little about a massac
Coming Acropolis
Apr 20, 2010 · 30 min
Beware, Greeks bearing debts! Olympus-sized debts that would give Hercules a double-hernia and that threaten to swamp the nation like some modern day Atlantis. Sink or survive ther
French Dressing
Apr 27, 2010 · 30 min
In fashion conscious France it's much more than a simple case of what not to wear. It's a case of what should be illegal to wear. The push is on to outlaw cover-all Islamic dress i
Aceh Afterwards
May 4, 2010 · 30 min
Before Haiti there was Aceh - a catastrophic natural event claiming tens of thousands of lives, destroying towns and villages and drawing enormous global sympathy and billions in a
The Biggest Domino
May 18, 2010 · 30 min
Is the Chinese economy a bubble that's about to burst, taking Australia down with it? Stephen McDonell looks for answers all over this vast country... from young Beijing rock stars
World, Interrupted
May 25, 2010 · 30 min
Few in the world had heard of it and very few could get close to pronouncing its rolling, rambling tongue-twister of a name. And yet - suddenly and spectacularly – a volcano called
Gut Instinct
Jun 1, 2010 · 30 min
Not so long ago it was thought worry and stress triggered the chronic pain of stomach ulcers. So how would yesterday's doctors have reacted to scores of peaceful, meditating Tibeta
The Catch
Jun 8, 2010 · 30 min
They say they wanted to blow the lid on Japan's super-sensitive whaling program. They were sure they'd found the red-hot evidence. But when they took their find to the authorities
High Finance
Jun 15, 2010 · 30 min
It's perched on a perilous fault-line but California can't blame the San Andreas for this big black bottomless pit. It's a frightening financial hole engulfing the most populous st
Truth or Dare
Jun 22, 2010 · 30 min
So, you're in a highly sensitive job working on a top secret project but something's not right. In fact you think it's very, very wrong. Go public and you risk your job, perhaps ja
In Deep Water
Jun 29, 2010 · 30 min
Suddenly, explosively, the world began to bleed and a devastating stain began to spread. Why did it happen and where will it end? This is the story of cheap mistakes and an almight
Standing on the Sky
Jul 6, 2010 · 30 min
Both legs blown away by a mine, he sat on a chair outside his family's house and watched the world go by. This was his hopeless lot for five long, bleak years until a life-altering
Bend It Like Jong
Jul 13, 2010 · 30 min
He's a Hummer-driving bachelor with a soft-spot for saccharine R&B love songs, living the high life in Tokyo. And yet there he was on the World Cup centre-stage bawling his eyes ou
In the Chocolate City
Jul 20, 2010 · 30 min
Prepare to enter the real Washington DC and prepare to have your illusions shattered. It's where the powerless live. Neglected, poor, black and waiting impatiently for Obama's pr
The Electric Range
Jul 27, 2010 · 30 min
The world's car manufacturers are shifting gear and heading for greener pastures. They're designing, building and selling more and more hybrids and electric vehicles and that means
Frank, Uncensored
Aug 3, 2010 · 30 min
Who does Frank Bainimarama think he is? Well, the Fijian ruler will tell you he's the difference between order and political mayhem. Don't get him wrong - he's all for democracy as
Children of the Dust
Aug 10, 2010 · 30 min
They're the daughters of the rubble, the sons of the dust. They're the little children who somehow survived the devastating cataclysm that shattered and crushed one of the world's
Terror-Go-Round
Aug 24, 2010 · 30 min
Is it possible to defuse a terrorist? Can a violent extremist be disarmed, mellowed and transformed into an upright citizen who values human life and religious diversity? These are
The Curse of Katyn
Aug 31, 2010 · 30 min
It's a place that sends a shiver down a nation's spine, chills its soul and has a people in absolutely no doubt that history does repeat and that lightning indeed strikes twice, in
Collision Course
Sep 8, 2010 · 30 min
The world demands answers and here they are, in the most revealing examination to date of the deadly mid-year melee on the Mediterranean. Come aboard the Mavi Marmara as it sails t
The Swingers
Sep 14, 2010 · 30 min
Forget Sex in the City, the steamy, remote jungle is where girls rule, it's sex anytime and anything goes. Bonobos are a fascinating, female-led community of carers and sharers and
Heroes, Frauds and Imposters
Sep 21, 2010 · 30 min
They've fooled their families and friends, duped hard-bitten veteran soldiers and somehow managed to grow and prosper under the radar of America's sophisticated military machine. T
Captain Dragan
Sep 28, 2010 · 30 min
Golf instructor. Sailing adventurer. Eagles fan. War Criminal? In Australia he went by the name of Daniel Snedden. In Serbia he's known simply as Captain Dragan and he's feted as a
The Amazon of Asia
Oct 5, 2010 · 30 min
They can almost hear the crackle and boom of economic development to the north and south and now little Laos wants a piece of the action. The ramshackle communist backwater doesn't
What Happened Next?
Oct 12, 2010 · 30 min
He was a Lost Boy with an incredible story, if only someone could help him tell it to the world. And then as Sudan survivor Valentino Deng found himself in a new and very foreign
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Oct 19, 2010 · 30 min
This time America's hunters aren’t prepared to be very, very quiet. There's an ornery critter roaming the wilds of the west that they say is devouring native animals and farm stock
Dirty Secrets
Oct 26, 2010 · 30 min
When things suddenly go BOOM!!! chances are somebody's going to get hurt or something's going to be destroyed. In China it's both. There's a high human cost and a heavy environment
'Allo, 'Allo, 'Allo
Nov 2, 2010 · 30 min
It was a bit of electronic skulduggery aimed at getting shock horror, scoop exclusives on Royals, TV celebrities and politicians – anyone with a high profile and a mobile. Simply h
Once Upon a Year
Nov 9, 2010 · 30 min
They're the stories behind the stories we brought you in 2010. How and why did one correspondent end up in a reality TV series? How do you encourage a super suspicious whistle-blow