Meet The Fugitives
Season 3 of Hunted returns with a new look, a new Chief and a mind-blowing twist.
This season, we meet nine pairs of ordinary Australians who, right before your eyes, transform into real-life Fugitives after planning and undertaking the unthinkable – a bank robbery. On a scale never seen before, this heist is full of heart-pounding excitement and breathtaking suspense that’ll keep you on the edge of your seats.
For the first time ever on Hunted, the Fugitive teams are initially split in half; a team of nine “robbers” and a team of nine “planners”. The robbers will together plot the grand bank heist and will creep out into the night to steal from a bank in Ballarat in the early hours of the morning.
Meanwhile the “planners” plan the all- important getaway. The Ballarat Bank holds $1 million dollars in it, with the entire loot up for grabs. Whatever the Fugitives can steal, they will divide amongst themselves. If they make it to the extraction point, that will be their prize money.
Once the robbery is completed, the Fugitives jump into a getaway car taking them to Geelong, where they hope to reunite with their teammate before going on the run. These nine Fugitives teams have one crucial goal – to remain undetected from the eyes and ears of the expert Hunters for 20 days.
Hunted HQ has a new Chief at the helm. With over 20 years’ experience in the Australian Defence Force and having been awarded the Order of Australia for services to the special operations community, Reece Dewar steps up from Deputy to lead the charge. He oversees a team made from some of Australia’s most highly skilled cyber and intelligence specialists, alongside some of the world’s best investigators, including those formerly of the Australian Federal Police, Australian Defence Force, and British Intelligence. These dedicated, experienced, and sharply trained Hunters must use their arsenal of tools to capture the Fugitives at large. They must be ruthless in their conclusions, masterful in their tactics, and relentless in their captures.
With their reputations on the line, the Hunters will employ any means possible to track the Fugitives down. Based at Hunted HQ and with four teams of stealthy Ground Hunters on the road (Team Alpha, Team Bravo, Team Charlie and Team Delta), the Hunters will use cutting-edge technology to analyse various intelligence. They’ll simulate the powers of surveillance available to the state, such as CCTV, ANPR (automatic number plate recognition), telecommunication information and access to bank and phone records. For the first time, they will also have access to cutting-edge, brand-new AI technology. They will be able to search Fugitives’ homes, data-mine their electronic equipment and question family, friends, and associates.
Filmed entirely within greater regional Victoria, the scheming Fugitives will again need to be at the top of their game to evade capture. The nine Fugitive teams include cousins, friends, couples and a father/daughter duo – all who are ready to run and all who hope to make it undetected right to the final Extraction Point.
With over 4,000 applications submitted, the latest instalment of Hunted is again, a format of grand proportions – the crew includes 115 in the field and 70 more in post-production. High-tech and high-spec, 96 cameras are used across the hunt, including two helicopter live streams, 64 action cams, 26 shooter producer cameras, one night vision thermal drone and six cameras across HQ.
