Storyline for Inside Men on Prime Video

These are the kind of issues that are explored in Tony Basgallop’s Inside Men (BBC1).

It’s not a bank here, but a security deposit, a big warehouse full of cash that people are employed to count.

A couple of the guys who work there – a security guard and a warehouse man, both of whom have financial problems (plus these are difficult economic times and are siphoning a bit off.

There’s a plan to steal fifty grand actually, but that’s little compared with the millions there so as the group expands so does the payday.

There is a victim: poor, uptight, number-crunching gamma-male depot manager John (so excellently played by Steven Mackintosh).

Very insecure, to be managing a security depot.

Up until now, he’s covered any losses out of his own pocket (as well as winning manager of the month competition every month).

But a payday of 50 grand?

That’s out of the question, especially now John’s new adopted daughter.

Anyway, John tells the two culprits after catching them steal, what’s the point of putting your hand in the till if you’re only going to pull out 50 grand?

Why not take the lot?

Episodes of Inside Men on Prime Video

S1.E1 ∙ Episode #1.1
John’s the manager of a cash counting depot who faces his worst nightmare: an armed robbery.

His family are hostages and he’s forced to open the safe at gunpoint.

He has been trained for this but nothing can prepare him for the real thing.

Episodes of Inside Men on Prime Video S1.E2 ∙ Episode #1.2
John, Chris and Marcus struggle to talk without arousing suspicion.

Their first challenge is to employ the muscle to do the heist.

Marcus knows a businessman who can provide guns and men, but he wants to see cash to prove they are serious.

S1.E3 ∙ Episode #1.3
Planning for the heist is coming together but the men’s lives aren’t getting any easier.

Chris’s mum is getting worse.

Marcus is under pressure from Gina to assert himself more.

John tests the guns and enjoys his new found confidence.

Episodes of Inside Men on Prime Video S1.E4 ∙ Episode #1.4
A new person in charge rubs John up the wrong way and he worries that she may put everything at risk.

Everyone tries to remain calm as the day gets closer; savoring their old lives for the last time before things change forever.