Crossing Lines Season 1 Episode Guide

Each episode of Crossing Lines takes us across Europe investigating cross-border crimes with the International Criminal Court.

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Episode 1 - Pilot

Late at night in a Paris park a serial killer strikes. He is stalking the streets of cities all across Europe. Major Louis Daniel?s newly-formed elite police team, who are charged with bringing cross-border criminals to justice are soon on the case.

As they begin their investigation they fail to notice that someone is watching them, waiting for a chance to strike. With one of their own kidnapped by the very killer they are tracking, the team desperately search for their friend who has already been whisked across the border in the boot of the killer?s car.
Episode 2 - Pilot Part 2

The clock is ticking for the ICC team to find and save Anne-Marie San. While Tommy McConnel and Sienna Pride trace the psychotic killer?s trail of victims, Carl Hickman is forced to face his own personal demons before he can continue in the hunt.

When Sebastian Berger tracks the killer to a Berlin park, the team races across international borders to stop him before it is too late. They make it in time but a sudden tragedy will change their lives forever.
Episode 3 - The Terminator

As the ICC team recovers from Agent Pride's death, a millionaire real estate developer in Amsterdam is poisoned and his Van Gogh painting stolen. The team's research finds two other similar cases over the past year from other countries.

At the victim's apartment, a scan reveals the ingested poison to be Polonium-210, also known as "The Terminator". Image captures from cameras show the woman who entered with the victim to be Irish national Nicole Ryan (Erin Richards).

Hickman finds the fake Van Gogh painting. When a previous victim's Vermeer is traced to a warehouse, the team finds two of Ryan's cohorts. One of them mentions "The Russian", a man who had Ryan poison her victims to see if the polonium worked.

The other gives up Ryan's next target in Prague. Eva poses as a server at an art gallery. She has a Geiger Counter in her earpiece that alerts her when she is near Ryan.

The team surrounds Ryan as she is holding a glass of champagne. She reveals that her male victims seduced young women; she then drinks the poison. Meanwhile, Dorn talks with Louis's wife, Rebecca (Elsa Mollien), to learn more about what happened the night their son died from a car bomb.
Episode 4 - Long-Haul Predators

The team uncovers a murder ring involving European truck drivers. A mechanic involved disables family vehicles in order to force parents to fight each other, with the orphaned children being cared for by the mechanic's wife.

Sebastian works with his former partner Kathrin Eicholz (Florentine Lahme) who offers her own son to play a role in the bust, which Tommy and Eva act as parents. Hickman and Louis notice a resemblance between the boy and Sebastian and ask if the boy is his, but do not receive an answer.
Episode 5 - Special Ops: Part One

Hickman and Anne-Marie are on the French-Italian border, investigating Phillip Genovese, the person who injured Hickman.

In Cannes, billionaire Lev Marianski's son, Maxim, is taken hostage and his security detail and girlfriend Laure are shot and killed. Hickman and Anne-Marie learn of the case while visiting the police station. Anne-Marie remembers a similar case in Florence a few months prior.

At the crime scene, Hickman suggests a professional hit - the shooting victims were double tapped and the killers left with Maxim in a hurry. Hickman notices Lev's nervousness and gets him to admit that a kidnapping insurance policy, which covers any ransom demands, was placed on his family. Lev also admits that Maxim had a tracer microchip implanted to get a discount on the policy.

Sebastian traces the microchip to the local family villa. Meanwhile, the kidnappers prepare Maxim for a video link to the parents and then call with their demands, ?10 million in 10 hours. Lev pleads for more time. The link is severed by an explosion at the villa.
Episode 6 - Special Ops: Part Two

The explosion was contained to the house's security room, but knocked out the power. The team meets outside with the parents.

The kidnapper's liaison monitors them from a nearby security camera and is told to call Lev Marianski. From the speaker of his phone, she mentions having everyone's attention. Hickman realises they are being watched. The kidnappers become distrustful of each other, yet enter the next stage of the plan by putting Maxim in an airtight container with a limited supply of oxygen running into it.

In Florence, Eva meets with the only witness from the previous similar case, an art school's guidance counsellor, Katya, who we know is the liaison. Katya cuts the meeting short and appears to be withholding information. Eva follows her to discover the video link between the kidnappers and the Marianskis.

Louis gives the ransom money to a motorcyclist, while Tommy follows it in a helicopter. The team watches, via the video link that Eva keeps active, as the kidnappers prepare to set Maxim free. However, armed gunmen arrive and kill the kidnappers.

Maxim remains locked away, his oxygen tanks depleting. After the cyclist is picked up but cannot help with details, Hickman questions Maxim's mother about the kidnapping. She confesses to it, out of hatred for Lev and overhearing Katya's previous plot, but doesn't know Maxim's location.

Sebastian uses the IP address of the kidnappers' computer, along with images seen from the outside, to send Tommy to save Maxim just as he runs out of oxygen. Later at Hickman's trailer, Shari tells him that Genovese has left the area, but should return.
Episode 7 - The Animals

Dorn asks Louis if the Marianski kidnapping had anything to do with Dimitrov being his source. Louis insists that only the ex-wife was involved.

Louis asks about Hickman and Anne-Marie says he is on an errand. Hickman is at The Hague's bank to ask the manager, Mr Stoke, about an account with the passcode "carnival."

Hickman eyes some nervous customers and calls the office to request an open line. As he does this, a robbery ensues by people dressed in animal masks. They collect the hostages' cell phones, including Hickman's, which severs his line to the office.

Then, the bank manager is strapped with a bomb and shoved out the front door. The bomb is detonated. Sebastian finds tunnels run all over the city from under the bank. The team realizes the robbery was a cover to stage a prison break using the tunnels.

All involved are eventually captured. Louis asks Hickman about some drugs found on him by the robbers. Hickman claims it is Lidocaine. Dorn and Louis also discuss Rebecca, who tosses her phone off a bridge when Louis calls her.
Episode 8 - Desperation & Desperados

In Italy, drugs and money are stolen from the Conti Cartage warehouse rather than its olive oil. The thieves escape with Conti's daughter Angela in her car.

Conti's men leave a trail of terror in public shootouts with the thieves throughout Italy and Slovenia. Sebastian and Tommy survey a Slovenia scene and deduce that someone was not being intentionally targeted.

While one of Angela's captors, Paulo, is tended to in a hospital, his brother Antonio tells her about her father taking his family's land in order to manufacture drugs rather than olive trees.

Nicola Conti was never criminally charged for it. He is arrested after his men, now intent on killing both Angela and Antonio, are tracked into some woods. Eva connects with Angela, as her own parents were killed for doing business with Nicola.

Meanwhile, Rebecca suggests to Louis they finish the entrapment of the Russian and getting on with their lives, including their divorce.
Episode 9 - New Scars And Old Wounds, Part 1

Anne-Marie is missing, Sebastian's computer has been hacked, Hickman is framed for murder. It looks like the bad guys are somehow staying one step ahead of the team.
Episode 10 - New Scars And Old Wounds, Part 2

With Hickman's nemesis Genovese in handcuffs, things are looking up for the team. Then Louis disappears, and Dimitrov finally presents a deadly ultimatum.