 First Dates Abroad, E4, 10pm
The ‘most spectacular’ British crime of the decade has been dramatised by acclaimed BAFTA winning screenwriter Jeff Pope. Over the past three episodes Hatton Garden has shown the audacious jewellery, gold and cash burglary at the heart of London’s diamond district executed by an elderly gang of career criminals across the Easter Bank Holiday weekend in April 2015.
Timothy Spall, Kenneth Cranham and Brían F. O’Byrne have lead the cast with David Hayman, Alex Norton, Geoff Bell joining them to play the men responsible for the daring heist which was considered in a class of its own in terms of scale and ambition, and the extraordinary level of planning, preparation and organisation required to penetrate the vault of the Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Company.
In tonight’s final fourth episode a police surveillance team has found Collins (Alex Norton) through his white Mercedes, after it was captured on ANPR driving to and from Hatton Garden in the build-up to the raid – against Reader’s express instructions. For DCI Johnson (Jonah Russell) and his Flying Squad team it’s now just a question of following Collins and seeing where he leads them. And they don’t have to wait long. With Reader (Kenneth Cranham) putting Perkins (Timothy Spall) under pressure to cut him in on the haul, Perkins begrudgingly agrees.
The gang are slowly destroying themselves from the inside, and their conversations and meetings are being bugged by the police. Perkins, worried about Reader trying to make a grab for the remaining loot, decides to break his own cardinal rule and bring the final divvy-up of the haul forward. His plan was to leave it for six months, by which time the police surveillance operation would be scaled down. But he distrusts Reader. This is now the moment the Flying Squad has been waiting for – the gang and the haul all in one place at the same time and they make their move to swoop in.
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