Hustle - Season 6 Episode 1- Payback Time

Their last con having successfully capitalized on Emma’s resemblance to pop princess Kylie Minogue, the gang are on the lookout for a new mark.

Ex-banker Piggy Richardson (Patrick Ryecart) 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 has 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 realizes that he needs to quickly rethink 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...?

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