The Invisibles

- Season 1

(2008)

Maurice 'Mo' Riley and Syd Woolsey are retired burglars, nicknamed the Invisibles because they were never caught. Along with Mo's wife Barbara, who is well aware of her husband's past, and their daughter Grace, who is not, they return from the Costas for a quiet life in a small Devon seaside village. However Syd's idiot son Joe gets himself into £18,000 worth of debt with loan sharks after accidentally killing a consignment of Koi carp and Syd persuades Mo to join him in one last job to bail the boy out. A dummy run, with the help of former associate and gadgetry ...

'Knacker' Locke, a retired and not exactly honest police officer, moves into the same flat block as Syd and the Rileys and 'persuades' them to help him out with a little job. Otherwise he will tell Mo's daughter Grace all about her father's past.

Mo becomes concerned when Barbara strikes up a very full acquaintance with Peter Rackham, the ultra-charming leading light at the local Golf Club, who is taking a particular interest in a bracelet Mo gave her. Mo decides to investigate to find out if Rackham is all he seems. Meanwhile Syd re-encounters old flame Janet but their relationship seems doomed.

Mo is determined to crack the one safe that previously outwitted them, the same one that did for his old partner Vernon, Hedley's father. Both Syd and Hedley try to prevail upon him that the safe is cursed but he will not be persuaded and his obsession leads him into a very tight spot.

When Hedley's wife Helen discovers that she is pregnant he decides that it is time for him to forsake his life of crime. However, when Old Nick, Young Nick's father is deprived of his war medal by con artists he joins forces with his fellow 'Invisibles' to retrieve it.

After a job goes wrong for them Syd and Mo flee to the refuge of the Huthwaites' pub with the police in hot pursuit. Unfortunately, Hedley's method of buying time is to tell the officers that he and his pregnant wife are being held hostage by dangerous, armed criminals and soon a full-blown siege develops.