Series 8 (Undercover)
| No | # | Title | Original Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 | "Episode 1" | 14 January 2010 (14 January 2010) |
| Alex and Jess steal expensive cars during test drives (Auto Trade Up); actor Danny Dyer is taught how to perform the pitch and switch swindle, selling misleading goods from the back of a van (Celebrity Hustle); Paul and Jess sell a bogus product to help people quit smoking on a market stall (Smoking Cure Scam); and Paul demonstrates how to balance an egg on the rim of a bottle (Proposition Bets). | |||
| 2 | 68 | "Episode 2" | 21 January 2010 (21 January 2010) |
| The hustlers run a bogus lottery at a charity fundraising dinner (Charity Banquet Scam); actress Emilia Fox performs the melon drop swindle, where she knocks into a passerby and accuses him of breaking a parcel she was carrying (Celebrity Hustle); Paul and Alex put up their own speed limit signs and pose as traffic cops (Speeding Fine Scam); Alex demonstrates how to flip a spoon into a mug using a fork (Proposition Bets); and a wheelchair-bound Jess distracts a helpful woman in a train station allowing her bags to be taken by Alex (One Good Turn). | |||
| 3 | 69 | "Episode 3" | 28 January 2010 (28 January 2010) |
| Jess distracts a woman in a café so that her bag can be stolen and her house broken into (The Decoy); model Caprice attempts to hand over counterfeit £20 notes to a shop (Celebrity Hustle); Alex dresses as a policeman and walks off with the wallets from people in a coffee shop (Coffee Fix); and Jess demonstrates how to get a bent bottle cap out of a bottle without touching it (Proposition Bets). | |||
| 4 | 70 | "Episode 4" | 4 February 2010 (4 February 2010) |
| Jess hides in a sofa delivered by Paul and Alex to an antiques shop, then steals items from the shop while the owner is out (Surprise Package); model Danielle Lloyd is shown how to steal a handbag in a café (Celebrity Hustle); Jess poses as a charity worker in a busy shopping area to distract people while Paul picks from their bags (Give and Take); Alex demonstrates how to retrieve a £20 note from under a bottle without touching the bottle (Proposition Bets); and Jess pretends to have found a lost dog in order to scam the dog's owner (Missing Dog Scam). | |||
| 5 | 71 | "Episode 5" | 4 February 2010 (4 February 2010) |
| The gang sell pirate DVDs in a pub then fake a police raid and give on the spot fines to the people that bought them (DVD Extras); TV and radio presenter Iain Lee helps Paul and Alex burgle a house by pretending to be water engineers (Celebrity Hustle); the hustlers hire some people to be secret shoppers and buy expensive goods, but reimburse them with fake cheques (Mystery Shopper); and Alex relieves airport passengers of their bags by providing a fake check-in service (Red Cap Scam). | |||
| 6 | 72 | "Episode 6" | 11 February 2010 (11 February 2010) |
| The hustlers use a wire transfer service to swindle two potential flat renters out of their deposit (The Interception); tennis player Greg Rusedski poses as a security guard and takes the earnings from a jewellery shop (Celebrity Hustle); Paul demonstrates how to lift two glasses with one balloon (Proposition Bet); and Paul and Alex use a variety of techniques to persuade people to buy expensive fake healing stones from a market stall (The Alternative). | |||
| 7 | 73 | "Episode 7" | 11 February 2010 (11 February 2010) |
| Jess sends an SMS message from a mark's phone to his wife to convince her to hand over some car keys to Paul and Alex, posing as mechanics (The Message); model Lucy Pinder switches a laptop with a block of wood during the sale of the former (Celebrity Hustle); Jess persuades a group in a bar to lend her their bar tab card, which she then uses to buy expensive bottles of champagne (The Bar Bluff); and Jess and Alex pose as Inland Revenue officers to clear out a shop's till in a fake inspection (The Till Inspector). | |||
| 8 | 74 | "Episode 8" | 18 February 2010 (18 February 2010) |
| Jess sells fake exclusive VIP access to a nightclub (The Stretch); presenter Emma Willis pays only £8 for a £60 meal by swapping her bill with another diner's (Celebrity Hustle); Paul and Alex sell some fake anti-camera spray for car number plates (The Cover Up); and Paul and Alex rig a games of craps using powerful magnets to influence loaded dice (The Tat). | |||
| 9 | 75 | "Episode 9" | 25 February 2010 (25 February 2010) |
| Paul and Alex steal cash from people who try to use an ATM by posing as bank security staff (The Withdrawal Method); musician Huey Morgan takes part in a poker game rigged in his favour (Celebrity Hustle); Jess poses as a waitress and uses a fake chip-and-PIN machine to record card details (The Fake Waiter); Alex lifts a bottle off a table using just his thumbs (Proposition Bets); and Paul and Jess set up stall outside a train station and sell tickets for the Science Museum to tourists who don't realise that admission is free (The Tourist Trap). | |||
| 10 | 76 | "Episode 10" | 25 February 2010 (25 February 2010) |
| Alex swaps a restaurant's chip-and-PIN machine with one of his own to steal customer's card details (The Pass); presenter Rick Edwards puts an "out of order" sign on a bank night drop box and acts as a security guard to take the money from local businesses (Celebrity Hustle); Alex poses as a window cleaner to take householder's money while the real window cleaners don't get paid (The Window Cleaner Scam); and Paul wins a proposition bet involving a torn paper napkin (Proposition Bets). The episode ends with a review of the eighth season. |
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