Episodes

  • Trailer

    Trailer
    Jul 22 2021
    What do you do when the state locks you in jail and calls you a terrorist - but refuses to say why?

    For the first time John Keir reveals the inside story of the fight to free New Zealand’s highest-profile political prisoner Ahmed Zaoui, from the man himself and the lawyers who took on the Prime Minister and the SIS to save him.

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    1 min
  • Chapter 1: The Fugitive

    Chapter 1: The Fugitive
    Aug 1 2021
    When Algerian fugitive Ahmed Zaoui arrives in New Zealand on a false passport just before Christmas 2002 and asks for asylum, it sparks a five-year security scandal, leading two young immigration lawyers Deborah Manning and Richard McLeod into conflict with the Government, the secretive SIS and international spy agencies.

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    31 mins
  • Chapter 2: Big Fish

    Chapter 2: Big Fish
    Aug 1 2021
    In a post-9/11 world, Ahmed Zaoui’s arrival immediately thrusts New Zealand into the US-led War on Terror, and he is locked up in solitary confinement. The problem for his defence team is that the SIS refuses to reveal its evidence that Zaoui is a danger to national security.

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    33 mins
  • Chapter 3: A Rock in the Road

    Chapter 3: A Rock in the Road
    Aug 1 2021
    The Ahmed Zaoui case is a test for Helen Clark’s Labour Government, as she has already refused to allow New Zealand to be part of the American ‘coalition of the willing’ invasion of Iraq. Now her government is under pressure to show the country’s commitment to the fight.

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    40 mins
  • Chapter 4: Fighting Windmills

    Chapter 4: Fighting Windmills
    Aug 1 2021
    Even when Zaoui wins refugee status, the SIS still argues he is a threat to our national security – and won’t say why. Things get more complicated when a retired judge set to hear Zaoui’s case gives a magazine interview…

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    35 mins
  • Chapter 5: The Tipping Point

    Chapter 5: The Tipping Point
    Aug 1 2021
    Zaoui becomes a hero when he is transferred from solitary confinement to Mt Eden Prison, where some inmates believe he is a friend of Osama bin Laden. Meanwhile, the stress of the case has an impact on his lawyer Deborah Manning’s personal life.

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    30 mins
  • Chapter 6: Crescent and Cross

    Chapter 6: Crescent and Cross
    Aug 1 2021
    Zaoui gets bail and is given sanctuary with a houseful of Catholic priests in central Auckland – but his lawyer worries he will be framed again. Meanwhile, Stuart Grieve QC enters the picture as a ‘special advocate’ with security clearance to see the top-secret SIS material.

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    33 mins
  • Chapter 7: Playing Detective

    Chapter 7: Playing Detective
    Aug 1 2021
    Deborah Manning decides that if the SIS won’t reveal their evidence, then she will find it independently by travelling to Europe to penetrate the secret world of the European security agencies. There she comes across a shadowy figure who will change everything.

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    31 mins