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SERIES SYNOPSIS This TV series is a fast-paced, hard-driving series set in Toronto in a paranoid post 9/11 world concerned with one topic - The Border, with its security crises, terrorist infiltrations, cross-border police actions, and trafficking in everything from enriched uranium to abducted children.
EPISODE SYNOPSIS Articles of Faith (10 November 2008) - While tracking a fundamentalist Christian sect moving "child brides" across the border, Gray meets his match.
The Sweep (17 November 2008) - Maggie becomes personally invested in the plight of two young Filipino children, victims of a human trafficking scheme.
Good Intentions (24 November 2008) - Kessler suspects the Canadian military is complicit in the cover-up of a scheme to smuggle cheap Afghan heroin into the country.
Double Dealing (1 December 2008) - The frozen body of a Russian man is found in a railway car triggers an ICS investigating of the smuggling of blood diamonds via the Canadian north.
Shifting Waters (15 December 2008) - As international leaders debate Arctic sovereignty, Kessler and ICS fight to rescue a Canadian submarine crew trapped under the polar ice.
Going Dark (22 December 2008) - ICS discovers tha toxic sludge is being trucked across the border and dumped in the Canadian wilderness. They follow a trail to a vicious criminal gang, who gain control over Gray and his father. As Gray struggles to save his father, he sets off a chain of events which bring about the season's shocking conclusion.
The Dead (8 October 2009) - Layla is buried with RCMP honours while Gray is suspended from ICS duties after Kessler and Carver are heavily wounded from the shootout between heavily armed mobsters and Trucott Solutions agents. Gray goes rogue to avenge Layla and his late father Douglas by taking out the remaining mobsters left alive led by Andriano Frantangelo. At the same time, Louise Tilden conducts an investigation at ICS into determining whether Gray was responsible for the shootout.
Hate Metal (29 October 2009) - ICS investigates an American neo-Nazi who has entered Canada illegally in spite of a prior deportation to the USA. Over Carver's objections, Gray is called in by Kessler to infiltrate and investigate a white supremacist group in British Columbia in order to uncover their plans. Gray proceeds to go undercover with the assistance of an imprisoned teenager who he had befriended during a similar operation years earlier.
Missing in Action (5 November 2009) - Kessler goes to Afghanistan with an Afghan-American representative of the Department of Homeland Security to help the Afghan government assess their border security on the north. However, the two are kidnapped by an armed gang with the intention of having them handed over to a Taliban faction for ransom. ICS and DHS are against time to save time with help from American and Canadian forces in Afghanistan before they are executed.
Dark Ride (26 November 2009) - Kessler sends Khali and Darnell to Montreal to investigate claims that a celebrated golden Buddha was stolen and illegally imported to Canada. But the protestors – a Buddhist monk and an idealistic school teacher – turn out to be as mysterious as the Buddha's smile. Khali goes undercover to discover their true intentions.
Credible Threat (7 January 2010) - The American President's upcoming visit to Canada has the ICS Squad on full alert. Working with DHS Agent Liz Carver and the Secret Service Advance Team, ICS sifts through hundreds of threats and uncovers an assassination plot by a Lebanese terrorist, working for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. But as Slade digs deeper, he discovers the trail they've been following is an elaborate electronic smokescreen created by a sophisticated hacker. To make matters worse, an internal security leak means the real assassin is always one step ahead of the Squad.
No Refuge (14 January 2010) - A kingpin in Mexico's Los Zetas drug cartel is en route to Toronto to meet his new distributors – the ultraviolent street gang, MS-13. Ramon Esteban – the new flame of Kessler's ex-wife Terri – is a Mexican journalist whose articles on Los Zetas have put him on the cartel's hit list. When Kessler, Carver, and Gray attempt to transfer Ramon from Terri's shelter into protective custody, MS-13 launches an all-out attack. Kessler must fight back with an unlikely team of warriors.
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 10 November 2008 - 14 January 2010
ROLE: AGENT LIZ CARVER
CHARACTER BIO Homeland Security's new agent in Canada is ambitious, smart, but inexperienced. Agent Carver doesn't adapt easily to her promotion. She's eager to do well, but finds it hard to admit when she's out of her depth. By nature, she's impatient and impulsive, which works well for her in the field and less well when dealing with Washington. She knows she's inexperienced, but doesn't let her lack of knowledge hold her back. She didn't rise this far this fast by playing it safe. She's partial to Gray, though now they're working together, she tries - and occasionally fails - to keep him at arm's length. She finds Kessler's approach entirely too rational and Canadian, especially when the security of Americans is at stake. For his part, Kessler finds himself reluctantly mentoring her - despite the fact that she's not interested in anything he has to say.
Liz Carver was born in Idaho. Her father was a Methodist preacher. She has three brothers.
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TRIVIA Grace filmed this, The Border, and The Cleaner at the same time.
Grace did not originally want to do The Border because of her packed schedule.
Grace and her cast mates, especially Graham Abbey, became good friends.
Grace, originally only brought on for a six-episode arc, was asked back for the third season.
The Border was cancelled. The final episode of the series was a cliffhanger that ended with several of the main characters, including Liz Carver, in jeopardy.
ADDITIONAL INFO DIRECTOR: DAVID SEMEL COSTARS: SOFIA MILOS, JAMES MCGOWAN, GRAHAM ABBEY, JONAS CHERNICK, NAZNEEN CONTRACTOR, MARK WILSON, JIM CODRINGTON, CATHERINE DISHER, NIGEL BENNET
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