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The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.

#1
S1E6 8.1
The Courier

Jack returns to England utterly changed by his downbeat experience in Pakistan, with his career and family life in ruins as he is forced to resign his post, as well as struggle to help Caroline and get her into a rehab program before it is too late for her. Back in Pakistan, Fazal's wife, Roomana, goes to work for Tariq to secure her husband's release from prison in which Fazal decides to resort to drastic steps to get out of the drug making business for good. In Germany, Ulli prepares to intercept Helen's first shipment of heroin from Pakistan just as she works behind the scenes to secure Karl's release from jail so he can resume his drug trafficking business.

#2
S1E5 7.8
The Politician

Jack returns to Pakistan to press the arrests in exchange for the British aide agreement which sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences for Fazal. Meanwhile, Helen also travels to Pakistan to do business with Tariq for another shipment of raw opium to Germany. But Tariq asks her to prove her loyalty to him first by trying to smuggle heroin with her back to Germany, while Ulli, still reeling from the murder of his partner, becomes determined to nail Helen who proves to be just as slippery and dangerous as her imprisoned husband.

#3
S1E4 7.6
The Chemist

In England, Jack confronts the mounting conflict between his political and personal lives as Caroline's drug problem becomes more out of control and his advisers tell him that the war against drug trafficking is unwindable. In Pakistan, Tariq brings Fazal to one of his remote heroin making laboratories where he tests Fazal's loyalty. In Germany, Helen launches her own counter-offensive against the police to destroy their case against her husband as Karl's trial for drug trafficking begins.

#4 The Farmer S1E1 7.5
#5 The Addict S1E2 7.5
#6 The Criminal S1E3 7.5

Lowlights

#6 S1E3 The Criminal 7.5

Helen's desperation grows as she wades deeper into her imprisoned husband's world of drug trafficking despite constant police surveillance of her house and realizes that she, out of blind loyalty to her husband, will not only have to take over his drug smuggling business to support her expensive and lavish lifestyle, but also use his contacts to try to get him released. In London, Jack's continuing trouble with Caroline causes his marriage to disintegrate as his daughter refuses to go into rehab which leads to her running away from home, and his wife emotionally begins falling apart. In Pakistan, Fazal, now working as Tariq's chauffeur, observes the drug lord's mastery of the drug trafficking system.

#5 The Addict S1E2 7.5
#4 The Farmer S1E1 7.5
#3 The Chemist S1E4 7.6
#2 The Politician S1E5 7.8

The Quality Arc

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Episode Engagement

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