- The team plans to shake down an investment banker bailed out by the government during the credit crisis yet still getting a 500 grand pension per year. Complications arise when the Detective Chief Inspector Britford announces herself with the intention to apprehend Mickey.—Vanderbilt
- Having conned a sheik into believing Emma is Kylie Minogue who will perform at his private party the gang go after 'Piggy' Richardson, a banker who received an enormous pay-out despite the near collapse of his bank's pensions fund. They persuade him that they work for the Bank of California and want to give him employment, though this will involve him putting some of his cash into an account. Matters are complicated, however, when Lucy Britford, a fraud squad officer, enters the scene, having her own suspicions about Richardson.—don @ minifie-1
- Albert Stoller has lined up the con artists next victim an ex-banker, Sir Edmund Richardson, who drove his bank into bankruptcy during the 2008 economic crisis. The government bailed out the bank and Sir Edmund was shown the door, but with a £500,000 annual pension, which created something of a public uproar. The sting is fairly straightforward. Albert has convinced Sir Edmund to invest in a US banking venture with Mickey as a visiting banker in London to facilitate the exchange. Sir Edmund would be an easy mark except for one thing: the police may be onto them. DCI Lucy Britford is an ambitious and successful police officer who likes being in the limelight. She has recently joined the economic crimes squad and in a bold move, tells Mickey that she knows his scam and his victim and is just waiting to arrest him.—garykmcd
- Their last con having successfully capitalised on Emma's resemblance to pop princess Kylie Minogue, the gang are on the lookout for a new mark. Ex-banker Piggy Richardson was rewarded for bringing his company to the brink of ruin - costing hundreds of jobs in the process - with a half-million-pound annual pension, for which the press have hounded him relentlessly. The perfect target, it would seem; a fact which has also come to the attention of one DCI Lucy Britford ( eloquently dubbed 'Bitchface' by the not-at-all-jealous Emma ). DCI Britford has done her homework, and wastes no time in telling Mickey so over dinner. Recently appointed to the Economic Crimes Squad, she has acquired a reputation for cracking high-profile cases - and they don't come much higher than Mickey Bricks. For a while it seems that Mickey has allowed Britford to do exactly as she'd intended - to get under his skin and 'make it personal', causing him to make a mistake and thereby get caught along with the team. After a pep-talk from Albert, Mickey realises that he needs to quickly re-think the plan; but when Britford and her men walk in whilst the transaction is taking place, it is apparent that Richardson has been tipped off in advance. But tipped off by who?—Mark Dellow
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