6.760 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestIn a race against China, A-Crew desperately scour the South China Sea for signs of the missing US pilot while the net closes in on the Pine Gap mole.
A team of talented Australian and American intelligence analysts work together to ensure global stability in one of the world's most important and secretive joint intelligence facilities... Pine Gap. But the relationship between the Australian and American intelligence analysts working at Pine Gap isn’t always rosy.
Writing
Navigates US-Australia power imbalance with uncomfortable precision.
Production
Pine Gap itself — the real facility nobody talks about.
Acting
McKenzie and Sawyers embody mutual resentment beautifully.
Parker Sawyers
Gus Thompson
Jacqueline McKenzie
Kath Sinclair
Steve Toussaint
Ethan James
Tess Haubrich
Jasmina Delic
Stephen Curry
Jacob Kitto
Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Rudi Fox
Mark Leonard Winter
Moses Dreyfus
Sachin Joab
Simon Penny
Edwina Wren
Eloise Chambers
Kelton Pell
Dr. Paul Dupain
Madeleine Madden
Immy Dupain
Simone Kessell
Belle James
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pine Gap is real: a joint US-Australia satellite surveillance base in the Northern Territory so classified that Australians couldn't access certain areas until 1980.
The series sparked actual diplomatic tension; US officials reportedly disliked its portrayal of American intelligence overreach in the Five Eyes partnership.
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