Hustle - Season 1 Episode 3

Albert and Ash inadvertently ripped off an honest but desperate businessman for his last savings, whilst Mickey was in prison, which goes against the first rule of the con - "Never Con an Honest Man".

In order to make amends, since Mickey now believes that the team is now jinxed thanks to the previous troubles they've had (such as the police surveillance and Mickey's wife asking for a divorce), the gang decides to create a "fake" new painting by the artist Piet Mondrian, making out that he had created the style of cubism before Pablo Picasso did.

The gang tries to sell it to a ruthless art collector and gallery owner, Meredith Gates, a woman with a huge passion for all of Mondrian's work; Danny had found out about her whilst leaving from the same hospital she'd been in.

Danny ropes her into the con, posing as a fellow collector who's looking to buy it. However, hurdles lie ahead for the team in the form of a brilliant, but completely untrustworthy artist who likes to set mentally cruel puzzles and games, and an art journalist who Mickey starts to have doubts about as the con progresses; after all, Mickey did believe that they were jinxed.

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