Synopsis
The Gold (2023), Season 1 is a BBC crime drama you can watch online on iFILM — six episodes built on the real Brink's-Mat raid near Heathrow in November 1983, when armed men walked out with bullion and diamonds worth £26 million.
The robbery is only the starting gun. The real problem driving the season is what you do with three tonnes of gold you can't simply spend. A chain forms to melt it down, feed it back into the market and wash the money clean, while DCI Brian Boyce builds a task force to pull the thread. The trail runs to Kent jeweller Kenneth Noye, to fixer John Palmer in Tenerife, and to launderers moving cash across Europe. Surveillance, raids, flights abroad and courtroom showdowns follow, and the net closes unevenly.
Writer Neil Forsyth keeps his distance from gangster glamour: this is a study of greed, class and Thatcher-era Britain, and what the chase costs everyone in it. Stream The Gold Season 1 online on iFILM, all episodes in good quality.
6 episodes
S1·E1To Be a King
Six armed men steal £26m worth of gold from the Brink’s-Mat security depot and set about trying to dispose of the bullion. DCI Brian Boyce sets up a police task force to investigate.
S1·E2There's Something Going on in Kent
A chain is set up to smelt the stolen Brink's-Mat gold, sell it back into the market and launder the profits. The police investigation leads them to Kent and Kenneth Noye.
S1·E3The Consequences Are Mine
The police set up surveillance on Noye and are led to Palmer and more of the gold chain suspects. The resulting raids end in tragedy in Noye's garden.
S1·E4Vengeance Is Easy, Justice Is Hard
In Tenerife, Palmer learns he is wanted by the police. Cooper and Parry's plan to move cash across Europe comes unstuck. Noye's murder trial comes to a dramatic conclusion.
S1·E5The Boy You Were
Palmer is caught after attempting to escape to Brazil. The police learn that Cooper and Parry have been laundering the Brink's-Mat millions. Cooper is arrested, but Parry escapes.
S1·E6I'll Be Remembered
Palmer is found not guilty. Parry is arrested in Spain. Noye and his associates are convicted, but the police realise the gold was split after the robbery.
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