History Series / Hustle

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: In the episode "Conning the Artists" [[spoiler: the honour killing was all an elaborate cover for a con a 10-year-old girl came up with so her and her brother could escape their landlord/boss who the team had conned that very week. With the money the team took from him and their new mark's money]]

** The sample matching could be explained by [[spoiler:more of MI5's background support that just wasn't shown in the flashbacks]] but doesn't explain the lack of appropriate equipment.

** The season 6 finale has the team being forced by MI5 to steal diamonds from a bank vault.

* IMadeCopies: In episode 6 of season 6, the crew are being blackmailed by MI5 into robbing a bank. Mickey [[spoiler: secures collateral against MI5 in the form of a compromising video of him and an MI5 agent discussing the robbery and having sex. When he shows the video to the MI5 team, he and Ash throw tons of minidiscs at the MI5 agents, warning them they have too many copies of the video for MI5 to risk retaliating.]]

It has an [[UsefulNotes/ThePond across the pond]] [[TransAtlanticEquivalent counterpart]] in ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', though save for general concept, and at least one prominent guest star appearing on both shows, the two are unrelated.

* MassiveMultiplayerScam:
** The protagonists are {{Con Artist}}s who PayEvilUntoEvil by doing long cons to people who deserve it, so this trope is the usual plot of the week.
** [[Recap/HustleS3E4ABollywoodDream "A Bollywood Dream"]]: {{Subverted}} because Kulvinder, the mark, reforms [[AmnesiacDissonance due to amnesia]] and the team brings the whole thing to a halt rather than scam an honest man.
** [[Recap/HustleS4E5ConningTheArtists "Conning the Artists"]]: {{Exaggerated}} as the Japanese restaurant owner they are trying to scam figures out what's going on and plays them right back for her own ends.

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* PowerWalk: Many episodes end with the grifters walking triumphantly in an aligned fashion, often next to the River Thames. Season 1's "Picture Perfect" even has the team swaggering through the streets of London like this as the entire end credits sequence plays over them.

** Reworked somewhat in seasons 4, 5 and 6. In 4, Mickey is away in Australia, selling the Sydney Opera House, and Danny takes over his position for the crew's time in the USA, with a young con artist called Billy [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute replacing him]]. In series 5 through 8, Stacie, Danny and Billy were PutOnABus, and replaced with the BrotherSisterTeam of Sean and Emma. The roles remain basically the same, however, with Sean replacing Danny as the young, talented but inexperienced learner, and Emma as the sex appeal/love interest for Mickey. Actually, when Emma and Sean first join the gang '''she''' is actually stated to be the "young, talented but inexperienced learner" ("A natural," Albert describes her as, much as he had previously done for Danny) while her kid brother wasn't sure if he even wanted to be a grifter and was more or less the [[TagalongKid Tagalong Kid]]. It was later that they slid into their [[TheChick Chick]] and Team Protégé roles, respectively (although Sean tended to learn from Ash as opposed to Danny learning from Mickey and Billy from Danny during Danny's time as leader).

* WhatAnIdiot: Frequently invoked, as when the Marks think they're conning the crew's identities, we often see someone (usually Danny) acting like such a moron it suckers them right in. On the other side, this can be the intended reaction to some of the marks falling for the schemes they do.

* PowerWalk: Many episodes end with the grifters walking triumphantly in an aligned fashion, often next to the Thames river. Season 1's "Picture Perfect" even has the team swaggering through the streets of London like this as the entire end credits sequence plays over them.