Hustle - Season 5 Episode 6 - Con Artist Revenge (Finale)

Embittered from their previous experience of Mickey and the gang, which ended up costing them half a million pounds, Carlton Wood and sidekick Harry Fielding have recruited three other ex-victims in a bid to get even by beating Mickey at his own game.

If Wood’s seemingly foolproof plan is successful, they will take back double what they lost. Having researched the mechanics of the con at some length, the plan is to place a fake ‘mark’ - Wood’s old school-friend, upper-class twit Alfie Baron (Tom Goodman-Hill) - in one of Albert’s card games.

Baron - accurately described as ‘not the sharpest knife in the drawer’ - will tell the grifters the tale of a recent inheritance of four million pounds, which he is looking to invest despite having virtually no business sense or experience whatsoever.

The grifters take the bait as expected, putting up one million pounds of their own money - everything they have - as the ‘convincer’.

The final part of Wood’s plan falls perfectly into place as Alfie gratefully takes the case full of cash, makes his excuses, and leaves before Mickey and Sean have the chance to finish the job.

Wood, Fielding, and their new-found partners in crime have been waiting in the wings, and now - their own con complete - they confront Mickey to revel in their success.

However, they’ve overlooked perhaps the most important detail of all: in the world of the hustle, nothing is ever as it seems.

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