For years, a man posing as an MI5 agent psychologically manipulated and controlled a woman and her ex-partners, convincing them they were targets of a terrorist plot that only he could protect them from — an elaborate, years-long deception with no clear motive beyond control itself.
▶ Watch on Netflix 🔍 Find more docsWhat makes this genuinely unsettling is the absence of an obvious payoff — no large sum of money, no clear endgame, just years of manufactured fear and psychological control for its own sake, which the series treats as more disturbing than a straightforward financial con.
If The Puppet Master's control-for-its-own-sake angle interested you, Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. and Sins of Our Mother explore other cases of manipulation without a conventional motive.
| Region | Available | Platform |
|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | ✅ | Netflix |
| Australia | ✅ | Netflix |
| United States | ✅ | Netflix |
| United Kingdom | ✅ | Netflix |
| Canada | ✅ | Netflix |
| Ireland | ✅ | Netflix |
