Season 3 • Episode 8
LatestSeason finale. During which Eitan manages to crack the investigation.
The series, loosely based on the true story of the assassination in Dubai of a senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh - the co-founder of military wing of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on 19 January 2010, revolves around five ordinary Israeli citizens who discover one morning via the media that they are the principal suspects of a high-profile kidnapping and are implicated as culprits in the kidnapping.
Acting
Ohad Knoller's unraveling is masterclass in controlled panic.
Writing
Tightrope walk between procedural and psychological horror.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real 2010 Dubai hit involved 27 suspects, fake beards, and tennis outfits. Mossad allegedly used cloned passports from British and Irish citizens with dual Israeli citizenship—some actual civilians, not agents.
Series creator Maria Feldman specifically cast Russian-Israeli actors to explore Israel's underexamined 'other'—the million-plus post-Soviet immigrants often treated as convenient cover for intelligence operations.
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