Season 2 • Episode 6
LatestDolly and Bella go to the lockup and find out that the robbery will be carried out earlier than they thought. They rush to phone the police and race to the club, but they are already there. They go in and hold up the staff and the models and take the jewellery. Shirley gets shot by Micky and he makes a run for it, but Dolly and Bella follow him and he is injured in a collision with a lorry - and is later shot by Harry. Bella leaves the country for Los Angeles and Dolly hides the diamonds, but she's also got a surprise in store for Harry.
Armed robbers Harry, Terry, and Joe die when the security van that they're robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in London. Their widows–Dolly, Shirley, and Linda–find their husbands' schematics and decide to stage it themselves.
Writing
Lynda La Plante's razor-sharp matriarch dialogue
Acting
Ann Mitchell's Dolly—steely, damaged, unforgettable
Production
Thatcher-era London as a character itself
Creator
Lynda La Plante
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lynda La Plante wrote this after interviewing real armed robbers' wives in prison, basing Dolly on a woman who learned to read maps from her husband's heist plans.
This preceded the 2018 Steve McQueen film by 35 years—La Plante's original depicts working-class women with none of the Hollywood polish, making their criminal competence feel almost documentary.
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