Airdate: Inside Men

Tonight ABC begins a 4 part UK drama Inside Men, about three employees of a security depot who plan and execute a multi-million pound cash heist.

This aired in the UK in 2012.

John (Steven Mackintosh), Chris (Ashley Walters) and Marcus (Warren Brown) are three ordinary men who work in a security depot. Every day they watch as millions of pounds worth of cash is counted, bound and stored in a vault. They see more money than they could ever dream of earning slowly pass them by.

John, a manager, is a quiet man. He’s married to Kirsty and they have recently adopted a child, Olivia. As honest as they come, John always makes sure his books balance – no money is ever taken on his watch, and the few times it has been, John has topped up the balance with money from his own pocket. A little shy and not particularly ambitious, he’s seen as a bit of a soft touch by his employees.

Chris, a security guard, has recently started seeing 18-year-old Dita. Now she’s pregnant, he wants to give his fledgling family a better life. Marcus is up to his eyes in debt. Five years ago he borrowed everything he could from friends and family and invested it in a hairdressing salon. He lost the lot. He feels a failure and wants to prove himself.

When John catches Chris and Marcus stealing £50,000 from the vault, they expect the worst. But to their surprise, John doesn’t report them. He wants in. But why risk everything for just £50,000 when there is £170 million pounds waiting to be taken?

Inside Men is a study of how men behave when they step out of their comfort zones. What does it take to cross that moral line? What does it mean to risk your freedom? And are John, Chris and Marcus ready to accept the consequences of their actions?

9:20pm tonight on ABC.