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- A motley group of London con artists pulls off a series of daring and intricate stings.
- In London, two teams are formed and prepare their operations, destined as adversaries. Michael 'Mickey Bricks' Stone is out of jail after two years for an unrelated offense; everybody knows he will do at least once more what he's good in, in fact the best in Britain: the intricate 'long con', always prepared by his American associate Albert Stroller, who finds and gains the confidence of a wealthy mark; their other known cahoots are Ash Morgan and Stacie Monroe. Meanwhile in the police force, a new man is stepping in as new head of the task force to catch them; his failed predecessor, DS Terri Hodges, fills him in on the findings, and Mickey's correctly presumed next target: businessman Peter Williams. The scam this time is to pretend a computer delay of under a second allows the 'investors' to earn a fortune on oil company Vestron's stock just before it rises as a consequence of its annual report, then pull the plug and run with the 'seed money'. A surprise element, however spotted by the police, is young short con- artist Danny Blue, who skilfully forces his way into Mickey's team after being refused a cut when he just asked for a chance to learn from the masters. The police already has a case against him, and offers him his freedom if he stays in the scam to spy and testify afterward. Things work out differently, because of another scam...
- Albert Stroller is severely beaten by a vicious casino owner, Frank Gorley, after being caught cheating at cards. The team decide to get their revenge by scamming Gorely for a load of money. Finding Gorley's weakness - he's a film buff who particularly likes old black and white movies from the '40s and '50s -the team sets up an elaborate quick-money scheme for him to invest in a film. They also let Danny play the lead in their elaborate charade, a first for him in a long con.
- The team focus on the art world and specifically Meredith Gates, an art collector and dealer who is an expert on the works of Mondrian. The plan is to produce a forged Mondrian that would show he experimented with cubism long before Picasso. Having found their forger, they must now provide him with period-specific materials while at the same time setting the trap for Gates. What they do not realize is that they too are being set up and may end up with nothing.
- Mickey Stone find himself being blackmailed by Victor Maher into helping him catch a bank robber. Maher has an old videotape of Danny Blue involved in a robbery and unless Mickey agrees to help, he will turn it over to the police. Maher spent his career in the fraud squad and is now head of security for Moores Bank. He knows that Sam Richards will soon try to rob the their main London Branch and want Mickey to get a member of his team in on the robbery. Albert Stroller, who has had dealings with Maher in the past, warns Mickey that the ex-cop is very good at what he does and that Mickey himself is as much the prize as Richards. Left on the sidelines, Danny and Stacie spend a good deal of time together with Danny starting to fall for her.
- The con artists set their sights on Katherine Winterbourne a very rich woman, now divorced, whose nasty reputation is well deserved. In her ongoing battle with her now ex-husband, she even killed his dogs. The team's plan is to use her hatred of her ex against her. They set themselves up as investors planning to build a luxury hotel that would compete directly with that of her ex-husband's. Her desire for further revenge is such that she insists on investing in the scheme. As Mickey gets to know her however, he comes to believe that they are scamming an honest person and wants to stop the con.
- The mark is Anthony Reeves who has just received a controversial half-million pound payout on being fired from his most recent job. Reeves loves the horses so the team set him up for The Wire - convince him that they are getting race information before it's being made available publicly thereby ensuring a win. The scam works well until one of their previous victims decides he wants his money back. Meanwhile, Danny has an amusing crisis of confidence when a new receptionist refuses to go out with him.
- Back from their holiday, the team learns that an old friend and con artist, has been sent to prison. He tried to con businessman Howard Jennings in a stock deal but unfortunately for him, Jennings knew the game too well. Danny is very keen to take this fellow on and now has to devise a plan for the most difficult of marks: conning someone without them ever knowing they have ever been conned. So, they try to convince Jennings that there is possibly a gold mine in the heart of London.
- When Albert doesn't show up for a planned scam the scheme falls through but he has already staked out another target. Johnny Keyes is now a successful London restaurant owner with a violent and nasty past. Keyes' son disappeared long ago and would give anything to find him and help him out in life. The plan is simple: have Danny impersonate the boy and tug on Keyes heart strings to the point where he will be just begging to give him money. When the plan falters, they go to their backup plan which proves to be a bit more successful.
- The team set their sights on a former African despot, Anthony Mgube, who now lives in Switzerland. Mgube collects old banknotes and very much wants to get his hands on a 19th century US $1000 note. All is going well until Danny shows up with a new friend, Trevor Speed, who wants in on the long con. The team is reluctant to take him on, but eventually give in to Danny's ultimatum to trust him or he'll quit. Meanwhile, Stacie is upset that her bank has charged her £85 for a very minor overage on her account and she enlists Albie to help her get even. In the end, nothing is as it seems. Mickey has a bit of fun with bar owner Eddie who thinks the team are always taking advantage of him.
- The con artists have to deal with a bent copper when she arrests Mickey and Danny in Eddie's bar in the middle of scamming someone. The police Officer, DI Sam Phillips, makes it quite clear that she expects 50% of the proceeds but also half of their next scam, involving original artwork for a 1930's comic book. The idea is to put the original up for auction and then swap it for a forgery once the sale is complete. The real question however is how will the con artists get away with their scheme and get rid of the pesky police officer at the same time?
- The team's next victim is Jake Henry, Stacie Monroe's husband. He walked out on her five years previously and cleaned out her bank account leaving her, as she says, a cactus, a Phil Collins CD and a stale piece of cheese. Henry fancies himself a top poker player so the plan is to scam him in a game of Texas Holdem. There may be cause for concern however when Stacie apparently starts to re-connect with Henry and he in turn wants them to renew their relationship.
- The team plan to con a violent businessman out of a hundred grand by pretending to be music promoters interested in representing his young son.
- The crew are blackmailed by a policeman to catch Adam "The Ghost" Rice, a famous thief.
- Albert has found the team a new mark: Richard Brennan, who runs an adult video production company and has a passion for race horses. He has three horses in training, but not a single won race so far. Danny's idea: to "sell" Brennan a horse that would win. Danny also thinks they need a new permanent fifth member an is interviewing applicants - who "by chance" happen to all be women, all 21 of them!
- The grifters' barman Eddie approaches them as his father is in a nursing home that is trying to take his home from him in a very underhand way. The nursing home has just been taken over by Veronica Powell and the grifters, having seen her in action, vow to take her down.
- The team finally allow Billy into their inner realms just as a figure from his past resurfaces and threatens to blow Billy's cover if he doesn't give him £20,000. The crew look to con Clarissa Bartwell an immoral "fashionista" using the "Emperor's New Clothes" as their inspiration.
- While on a holiday in Las Vegas, Albert is recognized by an old friend, the head of security at a major casino. Although satisfied that Albert isn't scamming the hotel the owner - Joey Maranzano, son of a famous mafia boss - decides to teach Albert a lesson anyway, taking a baseball bat to his hand. The team decide to get their revenge by stealing $5 million on display behind an aquarium in the hotel lobby. Even if they get away with the theft, Maranzano is ruthless and the real question is whether they can get away with their lives.
- The British secret service suspects that the weather, which gets out of whack worldwide, is being manipulated from inside the meteorological institute, but their undercover agent as found frozen to death. Blane's team is sent in, but soon realizes that director Roger Powell is too dumb to be behind it, unlike former start TV presenter Sonya Frost.
- Disgruntled geology museum guide Brent Gilbert has stolen two of the three magical 'dark stones' believed to be able to throw Albion back into the Middle Ages. Putting them together apparently progressively paralysis the British power grid and he holds the government to ransom. Blane and Daisy must guard the third stone while Gupta tries to reason with Brent. Only Blane considers buddy Stewart's divining rod theory, which proves crucial.
- Junior hacker 'the worm' has managed to sabotage two satellite launches already. If he does the same with a military surveillance one, an overseas enemy may attack the 'unprotected' UK. Despite the huge stake, Blane can't fully concentrate, worrying he may miss his big brother Kyle Whittaker's departure on his regiment's next mission, as turns out related. Blanes till thinks of luring the Worm trough a chat site into a contact with Gupta and using nerd buddy Stewart Critchley's gaming champion skills to let him unwittingly counter the hacking, with Daisy as bait.
- M.I. High eagerly accepts helping out the CIA with a device that should decouple human powers but goes berserk life-threateningly, hoping Gupta can fix it. It's delivered by Californian hotshot 'exchange student' Chad Turner, an instant hit with all girls. Poor Blane is ridiculed and unfortunate in making the briefcases switch, but determined to save the day by volunteering behind the boss' back as guinea-pig. As if that weren't dangerous enough, Chad is actually a double agent for Skull's Grandmaster, as the team luckily suspects.
- Measly ice vendor Fenton dreams of being recruited into Skull by the grand master. Lacking any macho qualities, he offers his talent as wacky inventor to prove his theory that St. Hope school harbors spies. They assume that it's the staff, but his bug devices, modified animals including the grand master's pet bunny, and truth serum set him on the trail of our trio.
- The British government's top secret research center NOSE's scientists are turned into mental toddlers. The team works out they were affected by the cooler water, then traces it to beautician Vanessa Zeitgeist's spa Shangri La, which specializes in rejuvenating oxygen therapy. NOSE director Dr. Grabwurst accidentally spreads it to the pupils but is still able to give a vital clue. Meawnhile Gupta's father most be stopped from transferring his nerd genius to a strict Catholic school.
- Blane Whittaker is pleased finally to get a real assignment, less that his martial art skills are only called upon as backup for two haughty colleagues, ICT nerd Rose Gupta and fashionable disguise expert Daisy Millar. The job is to find out and hopefully remedy why the British PM plans to declare war on Europe. Luckily (?) he happens to visits M.I. High to confer an academic prize. Thanks to a DNA analysis device and Blane's longstanding friendship with SciFi-obsessed Stewart Critchley, whose confidence and 'intergaactic' radio he must abuse, they find out who has transformed the pacifist PM into a malicious 'cyber-clone' and take on the Grand Master's evil scientist, the semi-rodent Guinea Pig.