In 1993, Emad Salem, a recent Egyptian immigrant to the US, was recruited by the FBI to infiltrate a New-Jersey-based radical Islamist cell. He risked everything to help disrupt what could have been the deadliest ever terrorist attack on US soil.

In 1996, the IRA decided to teach the British government an expensive lesson– by blowing up London’s electricity grid. What ensued was a weeks-long cat and mouse game with the Metropolitan Police racing to foil the attack before it was too late.

In the heart of East London, in 2006 an Al Qaeda cell hatched an attack potentially as lethal as 9/11. During the Metropolitan Police’s and MI5’s biggest ever surveillance operation, counterterrorism officers uncovered an outrageous plot that changed how we’ve flown ever since.

When a nail bomb ripped through Brixton in April 1999, the Metropolitan Police at first hadn’t realised that they were facing a two week-long campaign of hate. They had a simple task– to identify and stop the attacker before they claimed the lives of countless Londoners.

In 2003, the username “Terrorist007” started popping up all over Islamic extremist online forums, quickly rising to become a globally infamous cyberterrorist. Security services all over the world were after them for years - before a surprising coincidence cracked the case.

In 2015, investigative journalist Elise Potaka discovered that a troll calling themselves MoonMetropolis was impersonating her online. Only MoonMetropolis wasn’t just a regular troll - but a troubled figure who turned into a major international terrorist threat.