The BEST episodes of Border Security: Australia's Front Line season 8
Every episode of Border Security: Australia's Front Line season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Border Security: Australia's Front Line season 8!
Takes viewers behind the scenes of Australia's Customs, Immigration and Quarantine departments. The people that work for these departments have been entrusted with protecting Australia's borders from drug smugglers, illegal immigrants, potential terrorists, harmful pests and exotic diseases. It reveals some of the methods that they use to separate the honest mistakes made by innocent holidaymakers from the much more sinister motives of criminals.
#1 - Episode 11
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/11/2009
Why are drug detector dogs reacting to these two passengers? The discovery of an extremely expensive and highly prohibited item. This New Zealand passengers violent criminal past poses a threat.
#2 - Episode 9
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/2009
A New Zealand passenger is unhappy about being questioned about his visa, an incredible situation in customs and a passengers life could be in danger. Three agencies join forces to target illegal taxi drivers.
#3 - Illegal weapon/Shoe concealment
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/8/2009
Tonight on Border Security, a heated standoff after the discovery of an illegal weapon, a first time traveller is on a high and seems oblivious to what is at stake. And a shoe concealment has a passenger lost for words.
#4 - Suspicious Miss USA contestant/Romantic reunion on hold/Smuggling contraband
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/2009
A former Miss USA contestant has officers suspicious, and officers find bizarre contents inside a bag. Plus, a romantic reunion on hold, and one of the most brazen attempts at smuggling contraband into the country.
#5 - Bomb in luggage
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/2009
Staff are given enough reason to suspect a bomb is in someone's luggage and the entire airport is shut down. Elsewhere, travellers challenge the highly trained intuition of Customs officers and a businessman's ambitions hit a snag.
#6 - American designer/Lebanese food fight/Flamboyant Filipino traveller
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/2009
Unusual clues could put an American designer in trouble. In Quarantine, a Lebanese passenger returning from Egypt tries to start a food fight. Immigration officers have serious questions for a very flamboyant Filipino traveller.
#7 - Italian clown/Nervous German/Couple with treats
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/2009
An Italian man may want to clown around illegally, a German passenger's nervous behaviour raises alarm and a couple is suspected of sneaking in treats.
#8 - Nervous Chinese/US Familiy/Romanian story
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/2009
A nervous traveller arriving from China raises suspicion. A family from the US have nothing to declare, but their luggage suggest otherwise. And a Romanian man struggles to get his story straight.
#9 - Removed passenger/Desperate couple/New York graffiti artist
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/2009
A passenger is removed from a plane before take-off, a couple makes a desperate plea, and a New York graffiti artist claims he has been framed.
#10 - Curious keyboard part 1
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/2009
Customs officers look closely at a curious keyboard. Then, a delay at Quarantine results in a lovers quarrel, and suspicious letters from India have the Mail Centre on alert.
#11 - Curious keyboard part 2
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/2009
The conclusion to the Romainian keyboard mystery, an Aussie's questioned after partying hard in Mexico and a traveller argues that he's not who officials believe him to be.
#12 - Episode 12
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/15/2009
#13 - Episode 13
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/18/2009
#14 - Episode 14
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/22/2009
A strange bulge on a passenger's body raises suspicions; and there's a major problem with a shipment of cosmetics.