The BEST episodes of Deep State
Every episode of Deep State ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Deep State!
Max Easton is a former spy whose past comes back to haunt him when he’s summoned away from his new life in the Pyrenees by the head of a covert MI6/CIA team called 'The Section’. Max soon finds himself at the heart of a covert intelligence war, immersed in a widespread conspiracy to profit from the spread of chaos in the Middle East.
#1 - Blood in the Sand
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/24/2018
Max heads to the US and may have finally discovered the real reason why the Tehran unit found themselves on The Section's hit list.
#2 - Merger
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/2/2018
Anna and her brother struggle to protect her daughters in France. Alexander Said, who led the team in Tehran, arrives in London to see White, but The Section head is in no mood for forgiveness. Max and Leyla stumble upon some information that could help them.
#3 - White Noise
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/2018
In London, Max's digging stirs the attention of a sniper. In Washington Jones sends out a team to recover scientific evidence from an Iranian desert facility.
#4 - Stories
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/10/2018
Max is reunited with his family, but danger is not far behind. He travels to London and finally manages to get to White.
#5 - Tomorrow's Victory
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/30/2019
True to her word, Aminata Sissoko reunites Aïcha with her family, but as she does Harry and Leyla are arrested on murder charges.
#6 - Declaration of Independence
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/23/2019
Harry and Leyla learn from Aïcha that this has all been about arms smuggling from within the Malian government.
#7 - A Dead Man's Machine
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/27/2019
Finally, all the pieces of the puzzle come into place, and the connection between the arms trail and the deep state is laid bare.
#8 - Changes Upon Changes
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/20/2019
On the trail of their breadcrumb, Harry, Leyla and Aïcha do some more digging, but they are eventually caught by US soldiers. Leyla and Aïcha manage to get away, but Harry is arrested.
#9 - The New Normal
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/13/2019
With Aïcha being dragged to a scaffold, Harry must plead his case and convince Al Moctar to hold off.
#10 - Hard Sun
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/16/2019
Miller, along with Amanda Jones, flies to Mali to contain an increasingly unstable situation. In order to make sure a deal gets over the line, he hatches a plot that will tie up a number of loose ends for him.
#11 - Old Habits
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/2018
Ex-spy Max Easton is brought out of retirement against his will by George White, London chief of MI6/CIA team 'The Section'.
#12 - Surrender
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/6/2019
Harry, Aïcha and Leyla are driven, out of necessity, to return to Al Moctar’s camp. In the search for the trio, Jones reveals a sensitive piece of information to Miller.
#13 - A Kind of Warfare
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/2018
In Washington, we meet the CIA's Amanda Jones. Max, now in Beirut, doesn't know who to trust after speaking to Leyla, a member of The Section team there.
#14 - Reunion
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/2018
Anna and her brother struggle to protect her daughters in France. Alexander Said, who led the team in Tehran, arrives in London, but The Section head is in no mood for forgiveness.
#15 - The Man Came Around
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/2018
When Amanda Jones arrives in London she brings the full force of CIA dissatisfaction to bear on White, who struggles to retain control.
#16 - Cicero
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/9/2019
In Mali, four U.S. Special Forces and a translator are supposedly killed in an ambush. This delays a procurement deal in Washington, and it is up to the deep state’s operative Nathan Miller to make sure everything goes to plan, while also battling to keep his family together.