Storyline for This City Is Ours: A Crime Family Saga

Everyone from Ronnie Phelan (Bean) and his wife Elaine (Julie Graham) on down through their son Jamie (McMullen), his fiancée Melissa (Darci Shaw), Ronnie’s right-hand man Michael Kavanagh (Nelson-Joyce), his restaurant manager girlfriend Diana (Onslow), and the various gang members with their wives and girlfriends – like Davey (Walters) and his wife Cheryl (Saoirse-Monica Jackson) – know what the score is.

Shipping containers full of cocaine are purchased through Colombian cartel contacts based in Spain, and the contents are distributed throughout the port city of Liverpool.

The gang makes a nice living doing this, though they retain their working class roots.

And while business is good, Ronnie’s getting old, and he’s looking to step back.

Jamie’s resting face is that of the heir apparent, biding his time until this empire is his.

But Ronnie pulls Michael aside. “My clogs would fit you nicely.”

He seems to understand the boss’s son must still have a role, but Michael clearly doesn’t trust Jamie, and has been waiting for his own opportunity at a promotion.

Ronnie making noises about retiring could be it. While Michael works with “the Amigos,” the gang’s cartel suppliers, he’s also working on starting a family with Diana, which involves fertility treatments.

She knows what he does for a living.

Even asks him direct: “Have you ever killed anyone?”

But despite this life of crime, they believe their relationship could outlast the family business.

“In three years,” Michael tells Diana, “we can go wherever.” 

Episodes of This City Is Ours: A Crime Family Saga

S1.E1
Michael and Diana try for a baby. Meanwhile, his criminal empire faces a shocking betrayal from within after a shipment of Colombian cocaine is intercepted.

Episodes of This City Is Ours: A Crime Family Saga S1.E2
As Ronnie and Jamie grow closer, Michael fears he is being usurped. Tensions escalate, and Michael makes a big decision.

S1.E3
Chaos ensues in the aftermath of a shocking death. Michael takes control, and the gang agree to smuggle the body back to Liverpool. Aboard the ferry, tension and suspicion runs rife.

Episodes of This City Is Ours: A Crime Family Saga S1.E4
Back in Liverpool, tension brews as Michael assumes leadership. Meanwhile, Michael and Diana’s IVF is successful.

S1.E5
An unexpected player causes trouble for the gang. Diana wants to be honest with Michael about her past.

Episodes of This City Is Ours: A Crime Family Saga S1.E6
Michael and Jamie agree to a winner-takes-all fight to decide who leads the gang, while a disappointed Diana has reached her wits’ end.