Four career criminals, two glamorous bank workers and one over-the-hill has-been all happen to be planning a robbery on a London bank on the same day, by sheer coincidence. The two investigating detectives must try and deduce how these seemingly unrelated people came to be in the area and which were responsible for the lifting a priceless emerald.
Writing
Tightly interwoven timelines that actually reward paying attention.
Acting
John Simm and Philip Glenister bringing gravitas to absolute mayhem.
Director
Sacha Bennett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in just 18 days on a shoestring budget, the overlapping structure required meticulous storyboarding to keep timelines coherent.
The title's stylized '£' wasn't just clever marketing — it foreshadows how money itself becomes a MacGuffin compared to the characters' actual motivations.
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