Season 1
12 episodes · Feb 13, 2012
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S1E1The Girl with the Big Suitcase
Feb 13, 201230mJacky's daughter arrives in Kaboul. She wants to do humanitarian work, but he wants her back on the plane...
S1E2The Swimming Pool
Feb 13, 201230mJacky's fundamentalist neighbour is outraged by what's going on at the Kabul Kitchen and gets him embroiled in a long argument with the Afghan authorities. Sophie plans to open a school for girls.
S1E3The Panther & the Printer
Feb 13, 201230mJacky's having trouble sourcing alcohol. Relations with his regular suppliers are rather tense and he has serious doubts about the seemingly easy solution that Colonel Amanullah offers by way of help.
S1E4Dollars and Passion
Feb 20, 201230mWhen Jacky is seduced by a customer, it may have serious financial consequences for the restaurant. Sophie contacts election candidate Hamida about opening her girls' school in a poor neighbourhood.
S1E5Fear in Kaboul
Feb 20, 201230mWhen rockets hit Kabul and the restaurant is UN blacklisted, profits take a hit so Jacky hires some mercenaries. What could possibly go wrong? Sophie wants Axel's help with the girls' school campaign.
S1E6Vice and Verses
Feb 20, 201230mColonel Amanullah asks Jacky to hide his mistress Djamila when she is discovered by his wives, but Sophie objects to Djamila's confinement in her room. Then Jacky finds himself arrested for procuring.
S1E7Sophie's Departure
Feb 27, 201230mSophie wants to return to France after the opening of her girls' school gets no publicity and few pupils turn up. Jacky fears he has cancer, but is hesitant about being treated in an Afghan hospital.
S1E8White Lies Between Friends
Feb 27, 201230mAmanullah is inspired to improve his media profile when BBC reporter Nigel, an associate of Jacky, turns up. But Jacky doesn't want a journalist uncovering his connection to the drug lord colonel.
S1E9Martine in Kaboul
Feb 27, 201230mOutraged by Nigel's report, in which Jacky's lifestyle is exposed, Sophie's mother Martine rushes to Kabul to ask for the child support she never received and hires an Afghan lawyer to represent her.
S1E10Crisis of Faith
Mar 5, 201230mWhen the daughter of Hakim, Kabul Kitchen's cook, leaves the country with help from a German NGO, he turns to religion and coaxes his workmates to adhere to strict Muslim precepts, threatening profits.
S1E11Cool in Kaboul
Mar 5, 201230mOn election day, Jacky threatens Amanullah over the Halli brothers' deaths. Sophie is delighted to get a job at Kabul's new humanitarian association. Westerners are threatened as riots shake the city.
S1E12Not Cool in Kaboul
Mar 5, 201230mJacky manages to get his customers evacuated from the bar - after they've paid, of course. Amanullah and Axel try to find Sophie, who's been kidnapped. Damien wants to send the riot photos to France.