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The Best Episodes of Hustle

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The Best Episodes of Hustle

A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

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  1. Background image for Missions
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Missions

    S2:E4

    The team's plan to con an auction house with a comic book forgery goes awry when corrupt copper, Sam Phillips (played by Fay Ripley), decides she wants in on the play.

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    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Benny's Funeral

    S7:E4

    Albert, Mickey, Ash, Sean and Emma attend the funeral of a fellow grifter called Benny. Benny had a history with the team having helped Mickey out of a difficult situation years ago and nearly taking Ash's place in the group. Ash bumps into a panicked man that looks like Benny after the funeral. Ash the chases after him and learns that Benny is still alive. Benny explains to Ash why he had to fake his own death and the team decide to help him.

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    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Gold Finger

    S8:E1

    The Hustle team is back, and making more money than ever now that the Olympics are in town, but a moment of random kindness from Albert draws them into an altogether darker con. The grifters pose as a renegade army unit to take on Dexter Gold, the greedy, smooth-talking owner of a corrupt gold exchange.

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    Director:Alrick Riley
  4. Background image for The Henderson Challenge
    8.9/10(339 votes)

    #4 - The Henderson Challenge

    S3:E2

    After two seasons of clashes of methods, Mickey and Danny finally put it all on the line. In a head-to-head competition, the two men are dropped naked in the middle of London and must use all of their skills as con men to make it through the day - whomever has acquired the highest monetary value of goods wins. The rub is that if Mickey loses, he declares that he'll hand over the role of leader to Danny. Are big changes a foot? Will Danny's moxie ultimately win him control of the crew?

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    Director:Otto Bathurst
  5. Background image for Eye of the Beholder
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #5 - Eye of the Beholder

    S2:E6

    Mickey's got a plan and this one is like no other. They're going to steal the Crown Jewels. Will he be able to get the others to join him on such a dangerous mission?

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  6. Background image for The Road Less Travelled
    8.5/10(213 votes)

    #6 - The Road Less Travelled

    S5:E6

    The team hope to con upper-class twit Alfie Baron, but all is not as it seems.

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  8. Background image for New Recruits
    8.4/10(202 votes)

    #7 - New Recruits

    S5:E2

    The team con two intellectual property experts whose practices have caused a suicide.

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    Director:James Strong
  9. Background image for And This Little Piggy Had Money
    8.4/10(192 votes)

    #8 - And This Little Piggy Had Money

    S6:E1

    Just as the team are finishing with one genius con where Emma is posing as pop princess Kylie, Albert is out finding and priming the next unsuspecting mark - ex-banker Piggy Richardson who has been hounded by the press after a very public pension scandal. However, just as the plan starts to fall into place, a mysterious woman enquires about Mickey's whereabouts and throws their plan into disarray. Mickey hasn't got a clue who she is or what she wants but when she invites him out for dinner, he's intrigued. That is until the mystery lady turns out to be the beautiful, DCI Lucy Britford. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Mickey is certain that he can outsmart Britford, after all, no one's managed to catch him yet!

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    8.3/10(226 votes)

    #9 - Law And Corruption

    S3:E6

    The Hustle crew find themselves under the thumb of DCI York, an unconventional cop set on catching "The Ghost" - the legendary thief Adam Rice. DCI York blackmails the gang into helping him, so they make contact with Rice and talk their way into his latest scam. While stealing from a country-house, they try to arrange for Rice to get caught red-handed. Can the Hustle gang escape this dodgy copper, or will York nick them all?

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    Director:S.J. Clarkson
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    8.3/10(194 votes)

    #10 - Lest Ye Be Judged

    S5:E3

    Albert's parole is jeopardised when the prison governor catches him running a betting ring

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    8.3/10(162 votes)

    #11 - The Hush Heist

    S6:E6

    Just as the gang are about to close another successful deal, a cruel twist of fate reveals one of the marks to be an undercover police officer. It seems the team might be in a spot of bother. Mickey and the team are arrested and unceremoniously thrown in the slammer. Things look like they have gone from bad to worse when Nigel Chambers and the beautiful Jennifer Hughes from MI6 arrive to question Mickey. The pair has a proposition for him and, unfortunately for Mickey, these two don't play by the book.

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    Director:Luke Watson
  13. Background image for The Hustlers News of the Day
    8.2/10(226 votes)

    #12 - The Hustlers News of the Day

    S3:E5

    After a completely false exposé in a newspaper, one of Stacie's friends attempts suicide out of shame the article caused. To help right this wrong, the Hustle crew decide to take down the men responsible - the editor Frances Owen and reporter Tim Millen. The con? To convince these two muck-rakers that they have the biggest Royal scoop ever and that they'll be making headlines. Of course if Mickey and the gang have their way, their headlines will be a little different than the way they intended.

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    8.2/10(233 votes)

    #13 - Return of the Prodigal

    S5:E1

    Mickey returns to London to find that the gang have all gone their separate ways.

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    Director:James Strong
  15. Background image for Diamond Seeker
    8.1/10(175 votes)

    #14 - Diamond Seeker

    S5:E4

    A priceless diamond leads the team to take on their most dangerous mark to date.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Picture Perfect

    S1:E3

    Mickey Bricks and his team of con artists decide to dabble in the world of art this week, when they set up an elaborate scam to swindle a greedy gallery owner, by faking an early Mondrian painting.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Cops and Robbers

    S1:E4

    Mickey crosses paths with Victor Maher, ex-fraud squad officer, now head of security at a bank. Victor blackmails Mickey into doing something he normally wouldn't do.

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    Director:Minkie Spiro
  18. Background image for The Last Gamble
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Last Gamble

    S1:E6

    The crew picks a greedy fat-cat as their mark for a con using his two secret weaknesses- gambling and prostitutes- but the situation is complicated by a previous mark who seeks payback for them claiming to sell him the London Eye.

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    Director:Rob Bailey
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Gold Mine

    S2:E1

    The gang are back and despite his better judgement, Mickey gives Danny a chance to run his own scam. However, the object of the scam has a habit of sending con men to jail so the risks for the gang are high. And it doesn't make them feel any better to discover that Danny plans to convince the man, a savvy property developer, that there's a goldmine in the heart of London.

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    Director:Otto Bathurst
  20. Background image for Old Acquaintance
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Old Acquaintance

    S2:E5

    When Stacie claps eyes on her estranged husband Jake who left her five years ago taking everything she owned with him, she's certain he is to be the gang's next mark. Having graduated from the short con world to the professional poker circuit, he's good and he won't be an easy target. But the team swears to exact revenge on him for Stacie. Is Stacie really prepared to leave her friends for love? Or has she really got another card up her sleeve....?

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    8.0/10(242 votes)

    #20 - Whittaker Our Way Out

    S3:E3

    Fellow con-man James Whittaker Wright III enlists the help of the Hustle crew to avenge his legendary grifter grandfather's treatment by Cornfoots Merchant Bank. Posing as enterpreneurs and investors they try to get back at the bank by a massive con. But have the Hustle crew forgotten just how devious James Whittaker Wright III can be?

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Getting Even

    S4:E3

    Eddie is getting the squeeze and it's up to the "Hustle" gang to set things straight. Although not an official grifter, Eddie is more than a bartender, he's a member of the crew. So when his father is held ransom by the owner of his Father's nursing home - it's personal.

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    Director:Lee MacIntosh
  23. Background image for A Designer's Paradise
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - A Designer's Paradise

    S4:E4

    Billy finally gets his shot to play the inside man with Danny. Using the "Emperor's New Clothes" as inspiration, the crew are looking to con Clarissa Bartwell, an immoral "fashionista." While exploiting Clarissa's passion for fashion, Billy runs into trouble with someone from his past. Unless Billy can hand over 20,000 pounds, this certain someone threatens to blow their cover. Can Billy keep this threat away long enough to complete the con, or is his first long con going to be his last?

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Big Daddy Calling

    S4:E6

    It's back to the US for the crew as they seek some revenge of their own. Mafia boss Johnny Maranzano has beaten up Albert and to settle things the gang decides to pick the apple of Johnny's eye - the Big Daddy fruit machine and its $5 Million dollar jackpot. Las Vegas may be grifter heaven, but it's going to take a miracle to devise a con to steal from a casino that never closes and is under 24/7 security. The stakes are high, because it's not about not getting caught, it's about not getting killed.

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    Director:Alrick Riley
  25. Background image for The Thieving Mistake
    8.0/10(179 votes)

    #24 - The Thieving Mistake

    S6:E2

    While at the airport seeing Albert off on a trip, the team encounters `Liability' Finch, a hapless friend of Ash who is in hot water with a customs officer and a Russian art collector as a result of a bungled painting theft. Despite being ordered by Mickey to lie low and avoid trouble, Sean sets out to help Finch, with disastrous consequences.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Old Sparks Come New

    S7:E2

    When Emma finds out that ex-boyfriend Joe Ryan is facing eviction, the team find themselves travelling to Birmingham to take on Georgina Althorp, owner of an unscrupulous law firm. Mickey and the gang set about the ambitious task of selling Georgina a castle and a title - but will she bite? Meanwhile, it seems love is blossoming once more for Emma; are they about to lose one of the team for good?

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    Director:John McKay
    Writer:Chris Lang

Best Episodes Summary

"Missions" is the best rated episode of "Hustle". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Alrick Riley and written by Howard Overman, it aired on 4/19/2005. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Benny's Funeral".