Undercover NZ

What does it take to tell that first lie? How does it feel to be up against some of the world's most well-known criminals? Can you ever switch off from being an agent? Going Under explores the early years of undercover work in New Zealand, when the focus was the rapidly rising drug problem.

At what point does an undercover agent stop being a cop, and become a criminal? Can a cop really infiltrate New Zealand's tightest gangs? And what happens if he is suspected? Crossing the Line covers the controversial policy of sending undercover agents into some of New Zealand's deadliest gangs during the 1980s.

Can an agent ever really recover from the lies they've told, the promises they've broken, the friends they've betrayed? Even if they're doing it in the name of the law? What happens to these broken soldiers? A New Era? asks whether the changes made to the Police Undercover Programme in the 1990s have helped create a more effective crime-fighting machine