List of Hustle episodes

Hustle is a British television drama series made by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom.

Mickey finds himself being blackmailed by a former cop-turned-bank security manager, Victor Maher (a man whose career at bringing down grifters, was a great success), who threatens to send Danny to prison if Mickey doesn't help him to catch a bank robber. The robber, it seems, has targeted various branches of the bank that Maher works for, all across the country, and is soon expected to hit the London branch. Albert warns Mickey not to comply with the ex-cop, as he fears Mickey is falling into a trap; Albert had been one of the grifters, Victor had caught, and knows better than Mickey does. But when Mickey discovers that the bank robber lost his father, a diamond cutter, to the bank's crooked ways, thanks to a major debt they had, the matter becomes complicated. The robber reveals, that having sought back every penny stolen from him, his last target holds a valuable family heirloom, an uncut diamond, which the bank took and kept for themselves to write off the debt, despite the fact that the gem was worth more than the debt was. Mickey decides to help, but finds himself needing a plan to outsmart his blackmailer, and it's not easy when you don't keep your team in the loop...

Danny has discovered a potential new member for the crew and decides to bring him in to the team and with their latest con, but Mickey is not convinced until Danny's persistence finally pays off, and the new kid is let in. Their con is simple: to swindle a Nigerian arms dealer. The mark is a collector of rare currency notes, and is eager to acquire a rare Confederate $1,000 bill, of which one is owned by the former elderly wife of a now dead collector in London. The team decide to sell the mark a fake copy of the note using the original as a template. However, when the con goes wrong, and the fake note is lost while en route to the mark, the new member is blamed for the loss and the costly mistake, and promptly kicked out. But the crew are unaware of how greedy and devious he is, as the sneaky grifter decides to steal the original and sell it, claiming the team's just reward for himself. This is certainly a grifter who gives others a truly bad name...

The crew come to the assistance of American con artist, James Whitaker Wright III, descendant of the legendary James Whitaker Wright I. Whittaker Wright was a brilliant grifter of his time until he attempted to float a fake mining company with the merchant bank, Cornfoots, which soon led to his downfall, but also one of the most brilliant "cackle bladders" of all time; faking his own death. His grandson is now eager for revenge, so the team decide to con two of the bigwigs of the bank: they set up a fake company, "Chad mining", in order to crash the bank, when their marks decide to sell the company shares before it has floated; an action that is highly illegal, and which the gang knows they will pay for, when the marks can't get the shares back. However, "JW3" was cunning and smart to find and recruit them all, and the team certainly have doubts about whether to trust him or not, but even they can't expect how things will truly end...

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