Episode
Almost Paradise: Reef Eel Soup for the Soul
Overview
When Alex discovers that a group of mobsters are shaking down local street-food vendors, he goes undercover as a Spanish crime lord to bring the criminals to justice. But when he learns that a murderous international businessman is pulling the strings, he realizes that the implications for the future of Cebu are far worse than he ever imagined.
Details
- Series
- Almost Paradise
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2020-04-13
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Reef Eel Soup for the Soul is Episode 3 in Season 1 of Almost Paradise. It aired on 2020-04-13. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 2: It's Personal
When the body of a friend of Detective Alamares washes up on a beach, Alex suspects the international smugglers who just checked in at the resort may be involved. While Ernesto tracks down the murderer, Alex goes under cover with Detective Kai.
Episode 4: Pistol Whip
When a crew for a reality TV show exploring sunken WWII battlegrounds arrives at the resort, Alex's need for rent-money ensnares him in an illicit dive operation with potentially catastrophic consequences.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: Finding Mabuhay
When an ex-DEA agent retires to a tranquil, out-of-the-way resort in the Philippines, he finds himself falling back into his undercover operative ways when he's pulled into a drug sting run by the local police department.
Episode 5: Unbecalming
When a typhoon hits the Island, criminals and their hostages are trapped inside the police station. Alex must find a way to save his friends... as well as a sworn enemy – a US State Department bureaucrat there to “do a deal” with an arms dealer Alex had recently captured.
Episode 6: Rise of the Kalangay
Alex, feeling competitive, races to solve a murder before a celebrated detective can find the killer. Things take a turn for the personal when Alex realizes the crime leads back to the murder of Kai's mother fifteen years before.
Episode 7: Uncle Danny
Alex's con-artist Uncle Danny comes for a visit to make amends and Alex finds himself caught between protecting the world from his Uncle and protecting his Uncle from Kai and Ernesto... and a very pissed off mafia leg breaker.
Episode 8: Lone Wolf
When Alex takes a job protecting a country singer he idolizes; he quickly learns that you should never meet your heroes. But when the singer is kidnapped, Alex must figure out who is really behind the crime and rescue him before it's too late.
Episode 9: A Wedding to Die For
Kai is assigned to a clandestine intelligence operation during the wedding of Tommy Chow aka the Scorpion, the boss of the Qin Xiong Di, Hong Kong's most brutal Triad. Alex is unintentionally dragged in the deadly dangerous game.
Episode 10: Something Walker This Way Comes
The partner who betrayed Alex shows up on the island, and Alex's long-absent daughter shows up on his doorstep to tell him she's joined the Peace Corps.