Gilbert Melki
Jacky Robert
Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes2012
Kaboul Kitchen
Season 1
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Episodes
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Episode 130 min2012-02-13
The Girl with the Big Suitcase
Jacky's daughter arrives in Kaboul. She wants to do humanitarian work, but he wants her back on the plane...
Episode 230 min2012-02-13
The Swimming Pool
Jacky'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.
Episode 330 min2012-02-13
The Panther & the Printer
Jacky'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.
Episode 430 min2012-02-20
Dollars and Passion
When 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.
Episode 530 min2012-02-20
Fear in Kaboul
When 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.
Episode 630 min2012-02-20
Vice and Verses
Colonel 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.
Episode 730 min2012-02-27
Sophie's Departure
Sophie 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.
Episode 830 min2012-02-27
White Lies Between Friends
Amanullah 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.
Episode 930 min2012-02-27
Martine in Kaboul
Outraged 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.
Episode 1030 min2012-03-05
Crisis of Faith
When 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.
Episode 1130 min2012-03-05
Cool in Kaboul
On 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.
Episode 1230 min2012-03-05
Not Cool in Kaboul
Jacky 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.