Episode
Ransom: Undercover
Overview
As Eric negotiates the release of an arms dealer’s son from a kidnapper, he uncovers a larger plot to destroy hundreds of lives. Also, Zara is shaken when she must work with an abusive ex-colleague in order to prevent this terrorist attack.
Details
- Series
- Ransom
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2018-05-05
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Undercover is Episode 5 in Season 2 of Ransom. It aired on 2018-05-05. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 4: A Free Man in Paris
When a former Guantanamo guard is taken hostage by terrorists, Eric is surprised when he learns that his best chance of saving the man’s life is to work with a former Guantanamo detainee who is now working with the captors.
Episode 6: Legacy
As Eric fights to save his mother, renowned surgeon Annette Beaumont, after she is kidnapped and ordered to perform heart surgery on a dangerous crime boss, he realizes he needs help from his estranged father, Phillip Hingston.
More episodes from this season
Episode 3: Secrets and Spies
Eric and Oliver plunge into a world of espionage when a CIA spy disguised as an American diamond broker traveling with her family is kidnapped in Vienna. Also, Oliver gets an interesting job offer.
Episode 7: Anatomy of a Lost Cause
When a hostage is executed in the midst of a high-stakes negotiation, Eric is charged with aiding and abetting a kidnapper, and he faces self-doubt in the wake of his fatal error.
Episode 2: Alters
As Eric and Zara provide risk assessment services at an investment bank, they are taken hostage by a gunman targeting a low-level accountant, and Eric must negotiate for their release.
Episode 8: The Fawn
Eric negotiates with a convicted serial killer to get insight when a teenage boy is kidnapped by someone who is copying the killer's methods.
Episode 1: Three Wishes
After Eric's daughter is kidnapped, he must complete three ransom demands from his rival, Damien Delaine, to save his daughter's life.
Episode 9: Hardline
Eric must negotiate the release of the daughter of the prime minister of the Netherlands -- a woman notorious for never paying kidnappers' ransoms.
Episode 10: Radio Silence
While on a plane with his daughter, Eric must negotiate with a suicidal co-pilot who threatens to crash the plane.
Episode 11: The Client
Eric is hired by two adolescents whose parents are held hostage by a ruthless mob boss.
Episode 12: Promised Land
As Eric negotiates for the release of a couple being held hostage by illegal immigrants in rural Canada, the situation turns dire when the coyotes the immigrants escaped from take the whole group hostage, including Eric.
Episode 13: Semaphore
Eric’s archnemesis, Damian Delaine, brainwashes Evie and threatens to turn her into a murderer unless Eric helps him negotiate a high-stakes business deal for a new cryptocurrency that could destabilize the world economy.