Storyline for The Gold Drama Series

Drama series inspired by true events surrounding the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery, and the remarkable story that followed.

The Gold takes a pulsating journey into a 1980’s world awash with cheap money and loosened morals to tell an extraordinary and epic tale.

The 2023 series tackles what’s known as the Brink’s-Mat Robbery, said to be one of the most prominent achievements in the British underworld.

Taking place in 1983 — thick in the era of perms, chunky briefcases, and the U.K.’s rightward slide precipitated by accelerating market capitalism under Margaret Thatcher — the heist saw almost 7,000 gold bars, probably worth around £100 million today, nabbed from a warehouse just outside Heathrow Airport.

The heist’s legend is principally tethered to the fact of its success, given that half the gold remains missing to this day, but it’s also informed by the slight air of a curse: A police officer was killed during the investigation, and in its long aftermath, the British underworld was apparently rife with retaliatory murders.

Episodes of The Gold Drama Series

S1.E1 ∙ To Be a King
Six armed men steal £26m worth of gold from the Brink’s-Mat. DCI Brian Boyce investigates.

S1.E2 ∙ There’s Something Going on in Kent
A chain is set up to for the stolen Brink’s-Mat gold. The police investigation leads them to Kent and Kenneth Noye.

S1.E3 ∙ The Consequences Are Mine
Surveillance is put on Noye and the police are led to Palmer and more of the gold chain suspects. Resulting raids end in tragedy in Noye’s garden.

S1.E4 ∙ Vengeance Is Easy, Justice Is Hard
Palmer learns he is wanted by the police. Cooper and Parry’s plan comes unstuck. Noye’s trial comes to a dramatic conclusion.

S1.E5 ∙ The Boy You Were
Unwanted attention in Tenerife forces Palmer into desperate action.

S1.E6 ∙ I’ll Be Remembered
The net tightens as Brightwell and Jennings make a shocking discovery.