Steal (2026) s01e01 Episode Script

1
- Hello?
- Hey, it's Donny. Where are you?
I'm in the loo.
I've got a nosebleed.
- Are you hungover?
- What?
You told me you get
nosebleeds when you're hungover.
What do you want, Donny?
I'm in reception with, er, myrtle Clarke.
Fuck.
Okay.
Myrtle.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's fine.
Er, are you okay? You've got
yeah, I just, I just had a
nosebleed this morning.
Okay, let me show you around,
and then we'll get you
set up at your desk.
You've met Donny. He's our
receptionist/concierge/mother superior.
Er, let me show you the nice bits first.
Well, we're a fiduciary
pension fund manager,
which means organisations give
us their pension money to invest.
So like, private companies,
government departments, unions too,
for lower income workers.
We take that money,
and we invest it, and
Well, that's pretty much
all you need to know.
So, this is the
client-prepping meeting area.
Which means that's where
all the good biscuits are.
It's literally the only reason
why I brought you here.
Wow!
I know, right.
But don't let them catch you
in here. It's a sacking offence.
And this is us.
That is the investment committee.
They're the team that
get paid the mega-bucks
to decide what we invest in.
I, er, really like sugar.
And plus, it's free.
Free sugar, you know what I mean?
Myrtle, this is Luke. He works
with us on the trade processing.
Nice to meet you, myrtle.
So, this is it. Trade processing.
Jewel in the crown
of the operations team.
On my first day on the job, the
person who showed me around,
told me that every day
you spend in operations
is a day of your career you've wasted.
And also your life.
Yeah, that that was me.
Yeah, I thought I'd pass it on.
Thanks?
No worries. The trick of the job is
not to die of boredom.
Phone jammers on.
Level 27, doors opening.
Hi.
Disconnect the call now.
Security's been taken out.
Er, let me get a geek
to set up your computer.
Yeah?
Hello?
Hello?
Everybody listen to me right fucking now!
- Get away from the computer!
- On your feet!
Hands in the air!
- Stand up!
- Move away from the fucking desk!
Hands in the air!
Hands in the fucking air now!
Faster! Go! Go!
- Toilets clear.
- Hey!
Up! You! Hands!
Ladies and gentlemen, if
you do exactly what I say
when I say it, you won't get hurt.
If you don't do what I say
when I say it, you will be shot.
If you have any
communication devices on you,
phones, tablets, I want
you to take them out,
I want you to hold them high in
the air above your head. Do it now.
Once you have your phones
in the air above your head,
I want you to move slowly towards
the conference room, this way.
When you get to the
conference room Move. Move.
I need you to put your devices
in this grey bin one by one.
- Move.
- Move! In the air!
- Above you head.
- One by one.
If you have phones, put them in the air.
Above your head. Move!
Move. Above your head.
Keep moving.
Phones above your heads.
Move!
That's a sig sauer mpx-k.
You fire that off in here
and everyone will hear it
from the fifth floor to the tenth.
And the people in the buildings opposite.
Security will lock us down
and you will be trapped here
before you can even get to the lifts.
You're not stupid enough
to shoot that in here.
I doubt you even bothered loading it.
We don't have to fire our
guns to kill you with them.
Get him secure.
- Keep moving.
- Move!
Just move! Move!
Move!
Don't look at him, just move!
- Keep moving.
- Move!
- Move now.
- Get up, follow them.
Come on, get on with it.
Move it!
Hands! Hands!
Right, everybody on the floor.
Keep your hands above your
heads where I can see them.
Slowly.
Conference room's secure.
Antenna up on the satellite phone.
Location secure.
Anyone in the trade
processing team, stand up.
Why'd you tell her to sit down?
It it's her first day. She's
an intern. She she
She's what?
You've got access to the trading system?
What about the rest of you?
Who's the most senior?
That's me.
You two, come here.
Take me to your desks, now.
Everyone else, stay down.
Take a seat.
This has got the
details of six trades on it.
Source accounts,
destination accounts, sizes.
I want you to load them all
up into the trading system.
Er, no, that won't That won't work. I
just load up the trades.
All right, yeah.
This is over £4 billion.
Look, these are people's
pensions. This is social workers,
- police, doctors
- enter the trades.
Right.
Shit.
I'm so sorry.
Sorry.
Shit, sorry
You can do this.
- They're caught in traffic, too?
- No, thameslink.
Three cancelled trains and the next
trains were so packed, I couldn't get on.
Yeah, I got stuck in a cab for 40 minutes.
I don't think that's
gonna do anything, Milo.
Why the fuck did they
get rid of the buttons?
I'm late for the bloody
investment committee.
Level 27, doors opening.
Doors closing.
Incoming.
Where's Donny?
I'm not sure. Temp agency sent me.
Phones! Now!
Get on your knees.
Okay
That's all done. It's loading.
Commit the trades.
- I can't, i
- commit them.
Trades have gone through.
Get them signed off by the committee.
Everyone with authorisation to
sign off trades, raise your hands.
The system needs three
people to sign off a trade?
You, go and get your
laptop from the sideboard.
Six new trades have just been
entered into your trading system.
I want you to approve them all
And send them along.
You're clearing out our cash accounts?
Hang on a second!
That's people's pensions
what's your name?
George Cartwright.
Now, tell me, George Cartwright,
would you say it's an intelligent
man who argues with an intruder
holding a semi-automatic
assault weapon?
No.
No.
Approve the trades.
You're next.
You'll never get away with this.
It's not us who holds the
money, it's our custodian bank.
- And as soon as they
- just sign them off.
Right. We need one more of you.
How about the afternoon shift?
All done here.
Trades should be
pinging back to you now.
Received.
Trades have been approved.
I I can't
They need to be checked by a
second member of the of the team.
I I can't do anything.
Good job we brought you along then.
Okay, that that's it. All done.
The trades have been
sent to the custodian bank.
Yeah, but they'll know that we've never
sent money to those accounts before,
so they're gonna call
and ask what's going on.
And you'll be here to tell them.
So we wait.
Doors opening.
Where's Donny?
I don't know.
I just got sent by the temp agency.
Here's your morning's post
and parcels and, er, assorted bollocks.
You got a name, then?
Claire.
Lovely! My my daughter's a Claire.
- Proper English name.
- It's French.
You got kids?
Yeah, two.
Boy and a girl.
Lovely.
All right
See you later.
Wait!
Forgot one.
Doors closing.
Hello, lochmill capital. Claire
speaking. How can I help?
You ready?
This is it. Custodian bank.
Received. Keep 'em on hold.
The custodian bank's on the line.
When that rings, I want you to
answer and put it on speaker.
I want you to assure them
that all the trades are legit.
No heroics, no secret
messages, understand?
Once you've assured them,
I want you to ask them to
transfer the money immediately.
Understand?
Yes.
Are you ready?
Put them through.
Putting them through now.
It's gonna, it's gonna go to voicemail.
Hello
Lochmill capital. How can I help?
Hello?
Sorry, er, Zara?
All right, Warren. Er
Luke has
Just nipped to the loo.
You all right?
Yeah. Er, you all right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm just
Just really hungover.
I I went out with Luke and
chee to the glad stone last night.
Yeah? Late one?
Chee blew us off for a tinder.
It's just getting old, you know,
it's fucking hangovers Tell me about it.
I just got the trades
you guys sent through.
I've never seen these accounts before.
Bvi, right? What are they?
Er, it's just,
er, er, some new hedge
funds we're getting into.
Pretty big amounts for
new hedge fund investments.
Four billion.
Yep.
Yeah, yeah, well it's just a, a
bunch of funds from a manager
we're already invested with.
I mean,
you know what Cartwright's like,
price, cut-price management
fees for seed capital,
he's, he's all over it
Yeah. That's Cartwright.
You got all the aml in order?
Yeah,
listen, I, I was supposed to
Send these over
yesterday but we sort of,
left early for the pub.
But if they don't go through
asap I'm gonna be in some
Serious shit. So, if you could please just
put them through as soon as
you put the phone down, please?
Yeah, yeah I just
need to check something.
Zara?
- Yeah?
- We're all good.
I'll put them through today.
Brilliant. Thank you. Thank
you. Thank you so much.
No worries. Take care.
Okay. Bye.
Okay, that's it. He's sending them over.
You can er,
go? Now?
We're not leaving till we see
the money arrive in our account.
Well that could take hours.
Fifteen to thirty minutes if your pal at
the bank puts the trades through now.
We wait.
Hey.
Hey
We can signal.
Why not?
Just let them take the money and leave.
But how do we know
they're going to leave?
How do we know they're not
gonna kill us all before they go?
Why would they do that?
Because we're witnesses.
At least if the police turn
up we, we've got a chance.
Nobody move!
Out the way!
Did anyone in the
other building see you?
If someone saw you, tell me now.
You'll be safer that way.
But if you say no,
the police turn up,
then we're in a hostage situation,
and I will kill you.
Understand?
So
Did someone see you?
- He said no one saw.
- You believe him?
No. He was lying.
Two minutes since I caught him at it.
If I'm right we need to leave now.
Well, we abort and the
trade might not go through.
We need to make a decision.
What's going on?
- We might have to abort.
- Abort?
Are you fucking nuts?
What if they call back?
- What if they don't?
- We planned for this!
The plan was, if a
message gets out, we abort.
We walk out of here, first thing
they do is cancel the trades.
We don't know if a message got out.
Wait! Burly, run a check on
the building opposite for activity.
Twenty-sixth floor of the leadenhall.
Three people were at the window.
They're watching us. They spotted me.
We need to abort.
- It's already four minutes since they saw.
- Wait.
Money's been transferred.
Lock and leave. Now!
Get up!
Now! Into the conference room.
- Quick!
- Move!
Control. Foxtrot. Sierra one. Receive.
Foxtrot. Sierra one. Control
Control. Foxtrot. Sierra one. Receive.
Armed police! Armed police!
Foxtrot. Sierra three. Control
Control. Foxtrot. Sierra three. Copy that.
News coming into us now
- of an incident in London's square mile
- A few of the streets
around the city skyscraper
have been closed off
- and evacuated
- We saw a number of
casualties being
loaded into ambulances
Lochmill capital has many billions
of pension fund assets
under management.
Single file, single file.
Keep it moving. Keep it
moving. Keep it moving.
Stay calm. Just keep it moving.
What do you think they're talking about?
Probably how much
shit the company's in.
Whether they'll need us all to sign ndas.
Ndas? Why?
Think about it.
Miss dunne?
I'm dci Rhys covaci. I'm the
senior investigating officer.
I thought I'd come over and say hello.
Hi.
Shall we pop next door?
- Yeah, okay.
- Okay.
- Can I have the room please, guys?
- Sure.
Ta.
How are you feeling?
Just a bit dazed. I don't know.
All feels like a bit of a dream.
You're in shock. Don't worry, it'll pass.
And it's totally normal.
It's not every day you go
through something like this, right?
You been checked over by the medic?
It was all okay?
All right.
That's good to hear.
First up, sorry for keeping you all here,
it was the nearest place my
colleagues could find for triage.
No, no, it's fine.
I er, I always wondered what
the other floors in here looked like.
It turns out they look exactly like ours
except maybe someone
stole all the furniture.
Kind of ironic considering
the circumstances.
We're working on getting you
all out of here as soon as we can.
We've arranged to have you taken
over to bishopsgate for your interviews.
You and your colleagues here have been
ID-ed as potential significant witnesses.
- It's why we're keeping you separate.
- Okay.
It just means you interacted with
the thieves more than everybody else,
so whatever you can
tell us will be invaluable.
- Okay?
- Yeah, sure.
All right.
Is there anything else you want
while I'm here? Anything you need?
My, my co-workers, the
ones who were injured,
- do you know
- They're fine.
I've spoken to the paramedics.
Broken bones, bruises,
but nothing life changing.
Okay.
They're already at the royal London.
They'll be back home today, tomorrow.
Nothing to worry about.
I heard what you did.
Taking the phone call from the bank?
It's brave.
Smart.
And I think maybe you saved a few lives.
If their plan had gone wrong, you know
You did the right thing.
You
You having a nosebleed?
God.
I had
I had one this morning. I thought it had
Do you mind if I go to the toilet to
- Yeah. Sure, of course.
- My nose.
Thanks.
PC hussain will accompany you.
Okay, thanks.
- What do you mean?
- The whole of legal.
Marianne. Judith. Those other two.
They were all going
nuts. You didn't see them.
Hi.
It's just a nosebleed. I'm just gonna
So, what happened?
Just what I said.
They were all on their phones till they
when marianne went and
spoke to the head cop or whoever
and then she rushed off.
They let her out of the building.
He must have given her the nod.
She's getting all the
company's ducks in a row.
Confidentiality clauses, maybe.
Damage limitation
mode's already kicked in.
Yeah, I ain't surprised.
Clients are gonna be
heading for the hills.
Yeah, I don't think it's the
clients that they're worried about.
- So, what then?
- Isn't it obvious?
They're worried it was an inside job.
Inside job?
Come on, chee. They knew
everything about our operation.
Our protocols, how our trade
management system works,
investment committee sign
off, custodian bank, all of it.
I mean, someone must have told them.
So you think it's one of us?
It makes sense, right?
How else could they do it?
Well, if one of us was
involved, that's horrible.
One of us would put the
whole office through that?
Yeah, but for four billion though.
Split, what eight, nine ways?
That's half a billion each. Wouldn't you?
Still, it should make it easy to
figure out who the inside man was.
Yeah, whoever turns
up tomorrow in a Ferrari.
Or doesn't turn up at all.
Police confirmed earlier today that
the amount stolen from the pensions
was in excess of £4 billion,
making it the largest armed
robbery in British history.
If I was planning this
and wanted an inside man,
I'd go for someone on
the trade processing team.
Find the money, find the thieves
The level they're operating at,
ex-army, maybe state actors.
There's thousands of
people losing their pensions.
These are cold-blooded people.
Stay where you are,
I'm gonna come over.
You gonna tell me how you're involved?
Are you in danger, Zara?
The jaded office worker
stumbling through life.
The people that I am
dealing with, want me dead!
It wasn't the thieves trying
to pick you up back there.
It was MI5.
There are more important things
going on here than you're aware of.
My investigation's being set up to fail.
There's another bloody layer.
You're in the big league now.
It's about the end game.
And the million different
ways you might not survive it.