Episode list

Mark signs a billion year contract with the Church of Scientology, convinced it will help cure his mentally ill brother. He climbs the ranks becoming one of its most elite officers. But Mark is increasingly exposed to the dark, violent side of the church.

Vernon Gosney is 19 and estranged from his parents when he arrives at a small commune in the idyllic Californian countryside called The People's Temple with his young wife, Cheryl. Thirteen year old Leslie Wagner Wilson is brought to live at the commune by her single mother. With charismatic leader Jim Jones' healing miracles and emphasis on social equality for all, Vernon and Leslie both feel like they've found a beautiful way of life. But their paradise soon becomes a prison as Jim Jones turns to violence and mind control and moves the community to a remote jungle location in Guyana. Stuck in the jungle with no means of contacting the outside world and a despotic leader obsessed with mass suicide, Vernon and Leslie are desperate to escape. But will they make it out in time?

Angela King is a troubled teenager who falls in with the wrong crowd. She becomes a white supremacist preaching hate and inflicting brutal attacks on innocent victims. It's only when she is sent to prison for armed robbery that she can find redemption.

Maura Schmierer joins a Christian group to devote her life to God. Instead she's trapped in a militaristic regime that destroys her marriage and separates her from her children. She ends up in solitary confinement with a new name - 'Forsaken'.

Librarian Sarah Rose abandons her family and friends to go on the road with a mysterious spiritual guru 'Master David'. It soon turns into a horrific journey of brutal violence at the hands of the teacher she worshipped. It's only when she fears for her.

In 1975, Janja Lalich joins an underground political organization. She's soon trapped in a web of abuse, at the hands of leader Marlene Dixon. It's only when she's forced to bring her dying mother into the group that she begins to realize the corruption.