Based on the Brink’s-Mat robbery that took place in London in 1983, The Gold was the BBC’s most entertaining crime caper of 2023. It boasted a terrific script from Neil Forsyth, and was genuinely compelling stuff: the gang had hoped to come away from their daring raid with gold worth £1 million. In the event, it was £26 million. It was the crime of the century.
Tom Cullen as John Palmer (Photo: BBC/Tannadice Pictures)
Much has happened in the years following Noye’s incarceration. The gang’s other main linchpin, John Palmer (Tom Cullen), who’d been found innocent despite strong suggestions to the contrary, is living the high life in Spain, building a timeshare empire based on his ill-gotten gains. He’s just been featured in the Sunday Times Rich List alongside the Queen, a fact that does not go down well with the Met. Detective Brian Boyce (a rather too Downton-ish Hugh Bonneville) must solve the case fast to save further blushes.
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But for this he requires those aforementioned accomplices. He happens upon Douglas Baxter (Joshua McGuire), a dodgy financial adviser with unearned airs and graces, who finds himself down on his luck after a three-month stint in prison for cocaine abuse in a Wimpy’s fast food joint. “Not Wimpy’s!” Baxter points out irritably, “a Berni Inn. And they are technically restaurants.”
Sam Spruell as Charlie Miller (Photo: BBC/Tannadice Pictures)
By taking the action out of south London and into exotic money-laundering operations around the world – Tenerife, the Caribbean – the second series of The Gold can at times seem like Death in Paradise with swearing, but screenwriter Forsyth has given his cast so much to do, and say, that the collective sense of enjoyment radiates as much as the foreign sun.
What follows is a terrifically tense, and often very funny, cat-and-mouse chase – the kind that makes you want to reach for a calming cigarette yourself.
‘The Gold’ continues next Sunday at 9pm on BBC One
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