Disney+ · 2020 · Series
To Catch a Smuggler
Customs officers stop drugs, weapons, and trafficking at the ports where the country actually touches the world.
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Lawful work at a border. Respect the work. Do not make the officer's day a thrill.
National Geographic follows border and customs teams as they search cars, containers, and luggage. The work is inspection, patience, and a legal limit: not everyone is guilty, and the ones who are may be carrying someone else's misery. The show can slide into a highlight reel of busts. The better hours show the boring search that protects a public the travelers will never meet.
Adults and older teens. It is not a toy. Say that a border is a form of stewardship — a people deciding what enters — and that a person in the line is still a person. Both sentences.
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Thank the idea of a gate. A house has one too. Decide what does not come in.
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Industry
8/10
Inspection as a craft. The find is the end of a boring method.
Household
2/10
The officers have lives off camera. The show is not about them.
Piety
2/10
Duty, not devotion.
Courage
6/10
They walk up to the car that might be the one.
Republic
7/10
A state doing one of the few jobs that is actually its job.
Temperance
6/10
The thrill is the audience's temptation. The work is repetitive on purpose.
Truth
7/10
A search either finds the thing or it does not.
Stewardship
7/10
What they are keeping out is a damage aimed at other people's children.
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