The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman (Season 1)

The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman (2022) is a true-crime docuseries you can watch online on iFILM. At its heart sits a British man who spent years pretending to be a covert intelligence operative.

Hiding behind a spy cover story, he wormed his way into ordinary lives, pushed his victims to cut off their families, drained their money, and took control of their every move. The people who lived through it tell it themselves — how they fell for it, when they finally woke up, and how many years it took to claw their way back out. Running alongside is the painstaking effort to drag the swindler into the open.

Gareth Johnson and Sam Benstead frame the series as a breakdown of how manipulation actually works, rather than a dry recap of events. What unsettles you here isn't violence but how casually one man dismantled other people's lives. Stream The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman (2022) online on iFILM.