The Asset on Netflix
The Asset on Netflix – Agent Tea infiltrates a criminal gang, befriending Ashley, the girlfriend of ringleader Miran.
Witnessing Ashley’s stark reality, Tea is torn between her mission and a desire to help her escape Miran’s control.
The new intelligence service agent, Tea, who goes undercover to infiltrate a brutal criminal environment that has eluded the grasp of the intelligence service for some time.
Adopting a completely new identity, Tea must befriend the criminal mastermind’s girlfriend, Ashley, to gather crucial intelligence.
But as Tea gets closer to Ashley and witnesses the grim reality of her life within Miran’s controlling and criminal cobweb, doubts emerge about where her loyalties truly lie.
Storyline for The Asset on Netflix
As a plane is about to take off, we see a male passenger squirming in his seat.
The passenger is in distress, and he informs a flight attendant that he has cocaine in his stomach; he’s obviously smuggling it and whatever he swallowed that contained the coke has ruptured.
He dies before anyone can even attend to him.
The passenger is actually an agent for the Danish spy agency PET, and he’s been undercover in the drug gang led by a man named Miran (Afshin Firouzi).
After the autopsy, it turns out that the agent was made, as the packets he swallowed were perforated and didn’t contain cocaine; in other words, he was murdered.
Folke (Nicolas Bro), the PET director, needs a new asset to infiltrate Miran’s organization, and he decides the best place to look is at the police academy.
Folks goes to the academy and asks the director there for files on his best female recruits.
The file for Tea Lind (Clara Dessau) catches his eye, and the director says she’s mentally astute and her tough background has made her very independent.
The next day Tea gets pulled aside by the academy director and is told her security clearance has been pulled due to some unreported item in her background, which surprises Tea.
She angrily goes to see her mother when she gets a call that she fell down.
Their interaction shows just how tough Tea’s background was.
Folke intercepts Tea as she hands in her locker key at the academy.
He’s mysterious about who he is but she agrees to meet him at a restaurant, and he gives her a test in observation and how she can connect to strangers, which she passes with flying colors.
He wants Tea to go undercover as a jeweler and befriend Miran’s girlfriend Ashley (Maria Cordsen).
Her background will be part of her cover persona, but the information about her cover identity is still extensive.
As she observes Ashley, she notices how much she wants to be a good mother to her young daughter Sofia (Lara Ly Melic Skovgaard), and uses that angle to make her way in.
But first, she gives the persona a test drive on a blind date, and ends up meeting her handler, Yasin (Soheil Bavi).
Episodes of The Asset on Netflix
S1.E1 ∙ Building the Legend
When a police informant following a drug smuggler is murdered, an inexperienced cadet is enlisted to go undercover and get the details of the next drop.
Episodes of The Asset on Netflix, S1.E2 ∙ Back From Dubai
Ashley attends a soiree held by Sara, and Miran voices his suspicions about the women’s newfound friendship. Folke requests a warrant for a wiretap.
S1.E3 ∙ Blood and Balloons
An abrupt message from Ashley forces Sara to try a new tactic. Meanwhile, Miran pitches an idea for a different kind of collaboration with the jeweler.
Episodes of The Asset on Netflix, S1.E4 ∙ Nowhere to Run
After a somber gathering, Miran makes a proposition to his family. Sara’s diamond-grading skills – and her friendship with Ashley – are put to the test.
S1.E5 ∙ Into the Deep
The pressure mounts on Miran after unexpected visitors arrive, and Folke steps out of the shadows. A concerned Tea wrestles with her conscience.
Episodes of The Asset on Netflix, S1.E6 ∙ What Was Your Name Again?
Folke makes Ashley an enticing offer at an impossible price. Trying to help her friend, Tea comes face-to-face with the last person she wants to see.
