Hustle - Season 3 Episode 4 - A Bollywood Dream

The first law of the con: you can’t con an honest man. But what about when a mark becomes an honest man halfway through the con?

Kulvinder Samar is an amoral sweat-shop owner, but he has a weakness: as a teenager, he wanted to go into acting, but was dissuaded from doing so by his strict father, who insisted he does a ‘proper’ job.

Even now, though, he loves the Bollywood film industry of which he still longs to be a part. The grifters seize upon this by using a film-investor con and even offering him the chance to act in the movie alongside Stacie, who they’ve convinced him is the up-and-coming Bollywood starlet of the moment.

However, in a moment of rare oversight, they have failed to take into account the fact that Samar is a perfectionist, and as such is the first to recognize that this setup is too perfect by far. Just as they’re about to seal the deal, Kamar sees through the plot and realizes that he’s about to be conned; unfortunately, he chooses to mention this while Danny is driving, and the unexpected revelation causes him to write off the car.

At first, the crew thinks they have no choice but to walk away; but then it transpires that Kamar has lost his short-term memory, and in a moment of inspiration, they realize that this might be their opportunity to make grifting history - to pull off the same con, on the same mark, twice.

They have to act quickly, as there is no way of knowing when Kamar’s memory will begin to come back; but when it begins to do so, Kamar is a changed man, so much so that the crew now have a moral dilemma on their hands.

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