Almost Paradise — Season 1
10 episodesFirst aired 30 March 2020
When hypertension forces DEA agent Alex Walker into early retirement, he decides to move to a tranquil beach he visited years ago. When he arrives, he discovers dozens of luxury resorts filling this once secluded island with vacationers...and the rich and famous criminals of the world. Despite his best efforts to begin a new life, he’s pulled back into a world of dangerous people and situations.
E1Finding Mabuhay
7.5Mar 202045m
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.
E2It's Personal
9.0Apr 202045m
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.
E3Reef Eel Soup for the Soul
9.2Apr 202045m
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.
E4Pistol Whip
9.4Apr 202045m
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.
E5Unbecalming
9.2Apr 202045m
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.
E6Rise of the Kalangay
8.8May 202045m
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.
E7Uncle Danny
9.4May 202045m
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.
E8Lone Wolf
9.2May 202045m
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.
E9A Wedding to Die For
8.8May 202045m
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.
E10Something Walker This Way Comes
9.0Jun 202045m
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.