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Traffic The Mini-Series
From the USA Network:
Based on the Academy Award-winning
movie, Traffic: The Miniseries is a three-part USA Network Original
Miniseries which takes an inside look at the highly lucrative world of
illegal trafficking, a world in which supply and demand isn't just for
drugs: it's also for goods, weapons, and even human beings. Traffic: The
Miniseries explores the dark, inner workings of these illicit trade
organizations, as well as the secret agents that risk their lives to
apprehend the elusive criminals who are a part of it.
|
Elias at an advance screening
of "Traffic," Nov. 10, 2003. |
Traffic: The Miniseries follows the
story of Mike McKay (Elias
Koteas), a field agent with the United States Drug Enforcement Agency
who has traveled to Afghanistan to help dismantle that country's drug
export operation. After making a fateful decision that effectively
destroys his credibility, no one will believe him when Mike tries to tell
his superiors that an Afghani drug shipment on its way to American shores
also includes something that poses a much greater danger to the country.
Meanwhile, back at Mike's Seattle home, his wife Carole (Mary
McCormack) and son Tyler (Justin Chatwin) become pawns in a D.E.A.
investigation that also involves Mike's long-time partner, Brent Delaney (Martin
Donovan).
Traffic: The Miniseries also follows the story of Ben Edmonds (Balthazar
Getty), an ambitious young Ivy League graduate who has just lost a
fortune due to bad real estate investments. Strapped for cash, Ben goes to
work for his father's Seattle-based garment business, and soon discovers
that his dad has developed close ties to the Chinese underworld through
the company's shipping operations. After his father's unexpected death,
Ben takes over the business, and Ronny Cho (Nelson
Lee), his father's Chinese contact, approaches Ben to try and keep the
same "arrangement" that he had with Ben's dad. Ben then learns that the
arrangement involves allowing Ronny to use the company's shipping
containers for smuggling other cargo - including the shipment of illegal
aliens into the United States.
And finally, Traffic: The Miniseries follows the story of Adam Kadyrov (Cliff
Curtis), a Seattle cab driver who entered the United States illegally
through Ronny Cho's immigrant smuggling operation. Adam is eagerly
awaiting the arrival of his wife and daughter, who are also being smuggled
into the country, but he soon learns that the ship carrying his family has
gone down at sea with all hands lost. The sinking is reported to be an
accident, but when bodies begin washing up on shore with bullet holes in
the backs of their heads, Adam begins to doubt the report's validity.
Desperate to know what really happened to his family, Adam begins to
investigate, and the trail quickly leads him to even more murders - and
puts his own life in grave danger.
Before long, the lives of all three men become intertwined in ways they
never could have foreseen and don't understand... until the very end.
Traffic: The Miniseries is the story of an industry where the power and
seduction of money lures the innocent into a harsh, unforgiving, and
dangerous world - a world in which wealth and power eclipses the value of
human life.
Steven Hopkins of "24" produced and
directed the first two hours. The mini-series was filmed in and
around British Columbia, Canada.
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Drug Running
N.Y. Post review of
"Traffic"
By Linda Stasi
Not
just a drug bust anymore
N.Y. Times review of "Traffic"
By Alessandra Stanley
No
Traffic Clone
N.Y. Daily News
Traffic Review
Third "Traffic" adds terrorism and immigration
N.Y. Daily Times
Traffic Review
By Hugh Hart
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