This is one awkward family reunion...
Emma and Sean are shocked to see their dad; Rex Kennedy, who walked out on them 25 years ago. Determined to even the score, Sean targets him with a new con about treasure underneath a building site.
Tropes:
- Chekhov's Gun: Sean swapping briefcases is what he fails at at the start of the episode due to seeing Rex, but Sean succeeds at the end of the episode when he swaps the £80K briefcase with one that has £420K for Rex to pick up; £80K taken away to pay for the debt he owed to them.
- Contrived Coincidence:
- Sean and Emma's father; Rex, happens to pass by Sean, who holds one hell of a grudge against him.
- Eddie collects military artefacts, something that is needed for the con to work.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: What Sean wanted from Rex in the end. Rex was a wreck, doing drugs and in debt, and he thought it was best it was to leave Emma and Sean with their mother. When Rex found out their mothers death 5 years later, he never went back to find them on the selfish assumption that they were being cared for when that was far from true.
- Imagine Spot: Sean punching Rex in the nose as revenge happens within his head.
- Macguffin: The notebook. It's got child handwriting that has maths adding up to almost £75,000 in unpaid child support that Sean wants paid back.
- Parental Abandonment: Rex Kennedy left Emma and Sean when they were 3 and 5 respectively. Safe to say, Sean never forgot about his departure, and Emma bottles her anger up.
- Running Gag:
- Eddie trying to find a use for some expensive champagne.
- Ash reminding Sean about the £50,000 he lost with the failed briefcase swap.
- Tranquil Fury: Emma throughout the episode. She is clearly upset about her father leaving, but acts more mature about it. She loses it when they confront him later on, and rightly chews him out over being extremely selfish.
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Eddie is a very good painter, and paints an authentic wartime mural ad. This never comes up again.
- Time for Plan B: The con is successful, but only because the rest of the crew had a contingency plan if Sean bottled or things went wrong.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: Mickey warns Sean against doing a con out of revenge, and is proven correct when Sean admits as such later on to Ash.
- Wanting Is Better Than Having: Something Sean learns the hard way is that conning your old man is not the way to bury the hatchet, and his plans for revenge were self-sabotaged by his need to find out what went wrong with Rex.
