S1.E43 ∙ Escaping Death

Corrupt female detective secretly orchestrates daring heist. Unexpectedly paired with tenacious partner investigating her own crime. Forced to mislead him while staying ahead to crack the very crime that she orchestrated.

Documents the mid-1990s case in which several men robbed an armored truck by a bank in Hudson, New Hampshire. The robbers proceeded to execute each of the truck's guards in cold blood, making this one of New Hampshire's most brutal and infamous crimes.

When a struggling New York actor loses everything in a scam based in South Africa, his two best friends take him to Cape Town to find the scammer with the help of a smooth-talking local. The search begins well, but soon takes a dark turn.

Trapped in a vicious cycle, three drug pushers who want out, find themselves forever indebted to a hardened drug kingpin, who, in turn, is dependent on the protection of a corrupt police officer. Can they escape from the inevitable?

Naschy plays a member of a kidnapping gang in a story inspired by the famous Patricia Hearst case. The frightened and psychologically traumatized kidnapped woman, played by Maria Jose Cantudo, succumbs to the "Stockholm Syndrome," in which the victimized become sympathetic to the victimizer. The Naschy character, more humane than the other members of his gang, becomes the recipient of her affections. One of the rarest of Naschy films.