Ocean's Eleven meets The Shield in a heist so ambitious it got canceled immediately.
Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestLola, Ricky, and James, under direction from Mickey, break into Sam Gordon's office and obtain security information for the Rodeo Drive jewelry stores they plan on robbing. Meanwhile, James' wife wonders if her husband has gone back to his life of crime and Amy has her past come back to haunt her after someone she shot while undercover escapes.
Pprofessional thief Mickey O' Neil, creates a team of experts to try to pull off the biggest heist in history — simultaneously rob three jewelry stores on Rodeo Drive during Academy Awards week. Meanwhile, Amy Sykes, lead detective for LAPD’s Robbery Division, leads the task force investigating a series of thefts committed by this new crew. Under high pressure from her superiors, she has to figure out not only who was behind the crimes, but also what larger job they were leading up to.
Acting
Dougray Scott doing heavy lifting with thin material.
Production
Rodeo Drive during Oscars week—ambitious for 2006 TV.
Writing
Parallel structure of thief and detective planning.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Heist arrived during the 2006 boom of high-concept serialized dramas, when networks greenlit anything with a pitch deck and a movie star.
Creator Mark Cullen also wrote the script for Cop Out—explaining the tonal whiplash between prestige ambition and buddy-cop banter.
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