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Product Information of The Syndicate Season 1 DVD Box Set
Language: English Boxed Set: Yes Discs: 0 pcs Release date: 2012 Condition: New Weight: 0 kg Format: Support both NTSC & PAL No. of Season: 1 Region: Region Free – You can enjoy it wherever you are Genre: Drama Cast and Crew
Leading Roleļ¼ Lorraine Bruce,Matthew Lewis,Matthew McNulty,Joanna Page,Christian Contreras,Amy Beth Hayes,Clare Higgins
Summary of The Syndicate Season 1 DVD Box Set
Stuart Bradley lives in Leeds, West Yorkshire with his mother Joyce, his pregnant fiance Amy, his younger brother Jamie and his and Amy's son Jack. Joyce is a dinner lady at the local primary school. Stuart and Jamie work at a local convenience store, Right Buy U, where Stuart has worked since he was 15, and is now the assistant manager. Jamie was formerly a drug user, and has had trouble with the police. He is a bit of a jack-the-lad, in contrast to Stuart, who, although not being clever, is sensible and responsible. Amy and Joyce hate each other and often argue about how to bring up Jack. Amy treats Stuart very poorly, and in one particularly selfish moment, bought herself lots of expensive things with Stuart's credit card, landing him in a lot of debt. Jamie is trying to turn his life around. He hasn't touched drugs in over a year, has just finished his probation period and is saving up his money. He wants to move out of his mother's house because he is sick of all the arguing between Joyce and Amy, which disrupts the peaceful lifestyle he is trying to build. One morning, with Amy 8 months pregnant, she and Joyce have one argument too many, and she decides to take Jack and go to her parents's house. She tells Stuart he has to find the three, soon to become four, of them a place to live. He goes looking at flats, but needs £2000 to pay a deposit and the first 3 months rent. He asks Bob, the manager of Right Buy U, for a pay rise or a bonus, but Bob instead tells him the shop has been bought by a bigger company, Newbury's, and they might all lose their jobs. Leanne, Denise, Jamie, Bob and the unfortunate Stuart are the 5 members of the syndicate, and make up the staff of Right Buy U. Stuart finds out that Amy has gone into labour and he runs to hospital to see her, only to pass out as he is asthmatic. Jamie comes to the hospital and tells Stuart his plan. The two of them could rob Right Buy U to get Stuart the money he needs. At first Stuart dismisses it as criminal and just another of Jamie's jack-the-lad schemes, but he comes round and, using Jack's toy gun, they plan to stage a robbery, with Stuart locking up the shop and Jamie bursting in, pretending to be a robber. Jamie leaves the shop early saying that he is going out on a date. Denise, Bob and Leanne all go home. Stuart stays behind to cash in and close the shop. After everyone has gone, Jamie runs around the corner, dresses up as a robber and takes out the toy gun. He covers his face and runs to the shop. Because of the CCTV cameras, he and Stuart act out a robbery, with Jamie waving the gun aound and marching Stuart into the back of the shop, where the safe is. Stuart is putting the money from the safe into bag, when he hears Bob coming back into the shop. Bob had left his phone in the bathroom. Jamie hides behind some boxes while Bob gets his phone. In a blind panic, and unnecessarily, Jamie grabs a bottle of whiskey and hits Bob over the head with it. Jamie grabs the money and runs, while a distressed Stuart calls an ambulance. The ambulance arrives and takes Bob to hospital. DCI Newell of West Yorkshire Police also arrives and begins to question Staurt. Straight away he is unkind and unnecessarily hostile to Stuart, and doesn't believe his story as an innocent victim. He is later very hostile to Jamie, because he is an ex-drug user, and is highly suspcious of the brother's involvement, especially because of a scene on the CCTV where Stuart waves his arm down and clearly mouths the words "Get down" to the robber when he hears Bob coming back into the shop. There is no sound on the CCTV, but there is no mistaking the words Stuart says. Stuart goes in the ambulance to hospital with Bob after being questioned by a detective. Stuart goes back to his mother's house to confront Jamie where Denise enters and tells them all that they have won the lottery. The next day Stuart goes to the shop to meet with the members of the syndicate and an American representative of the lottery. Stuart has not paid in five weeks so Denise, Leanne, and Jamie vote to see if Stuart is allowed a share of the money. The vote comes back 2-1 so they visit Bob at the hospital where he says that Stuart can have a share of the money. They have a public announcement which was flash-backed at the beginning of the episode. Leanne mysteriously tries to shy away from the cameras.
Denise is considering plastic surgery, she has had her eyes "lasered" already. The episode skips back 5 days where she returns home to her mother who is bedridden. She tells Denise that Dave, Denise's unemployed husband, has gone out and not come home, and is not answering his mobile. Denise overhears the lottery and hears the syndicate's numbers. She then tells Jamie and Stuart.
The next morning she is awoken by Dave where he says that he wants to break up with Denise as he says that the marriage has failed. The episode switches to after the appointment concerning plastic surgery where we learn that DCI Newell is back at the shop and Denise is trying to have surgery. She tells him to meet her at her mother's birthday party. Denise and Leanne return to the shop and see Jamie pull up with a Ferrari. Denise tells DCI Newell that when she went to tell them about the win, Jamie was also there which contradicts his alibi.
Denise gets her teeth whitened, hair done, and buys new clothes to win back her husband. They visit Bob where he tells them that they found something in a head scan. She then goes back home and tries to persuade her mother to go to a hotel while she secretly has the operations for the plastic surgery. At the birthday party Dave comes back after hearing Denise has won the lottery and Denise welcomes him back. Leanne tells Denise's mother about the surgery. The next morning Denise is told by a male carer of her mother that Dave has been living with him.
Stuart is called back to the station for more questioning where he is asked why in the CCTV does it appear that he is telling the robber to "get down"? Leanne is sick of the replacement manager from Bob and quits her job. Denise confronts Dave next to some "Land For Sale" next to a dog centre where she dropped off a stray earlier in the episode. She tells him that she is breaking up with him for going out with the gay carer and he cannot have much of the money from the lottery win.
She later declares to her mother she is not going to have the surgery and she is going to buy the land next to the dog centre so she can volunteer at the centre.
Bob has the results of his scans back at the hospital, where he is told that he has terminal brain cancer. Bob discovers the truth about the robbery from Stuart, and decides not to pursue any action against him and Jamie. As Stuart leaves the house, Bob's long-term domestic partner, Annie, informs him of Bob's illness. Meanwhile, Bob meets with his ex-wife, June, and gives her a cheque. Stuart informs Leanne of Bob's illness, and they conduct research, in which they discover that there is a treatment available in South Africa, which so far has had amazing results. However, Bob is skeptical about the treatment. He decides to throw a party at a hotel, where he proposes marriage to Annie. She accepts, but only on the condition that he goes to South Africa. Bob agrees, and Annie accepts his proposal.
The episode starts by showing us Bob's party from the perspective of Leanne and Stuart. They go to Stuart's suite for a celebratory drink. As they lie in front of the fire, Stuart's asks Leanne not to move away. He talks about his constant rows with Amy, and how he hates how being rich and living in a mansion has changed Amy. He then admits he's falling in love with Leanne. While it is clear she feels the same way, she tries to resist. They kiss, and are about to have sex, when Leanne stops and thinks about what she is doing. There is huge sexual tension between Stuart and Leanne, as they are the obvious young-and-attractive members of the syndicate, they both know what it's like to be young parents and they are good Friends. Amy and Jamie correctly suspect Stuart and Leanne of having feelings for each other. Without them knowing, Jamie takes a picture of them leaving Stuart's suite on his iPhone. He even remarks "What are you two doing? As if I had to ask." implying that Jamie was well aware of the sexual tension well before Bob's party. Leanne's past catches up to her as her daughter goes missing from Bob's party. As she tries to frantically search for her, she reveals the truth to Stuart. Once he knows, he attempts to help Leanne run away from her ex, but when he realises she's got a husband she's never told him about Stuart starts to wonder if he really knows everything. When the police arrive at Stuart's mansion to arrest Leanne the truth finally comes out. Leanne and her husband were unable to have children. They fostered a newborn baby girl, and had her for two years. They were a few weeks away from adopting her when the birth mother, a drug user, wanted her back. In a blind panic, Leanne took the baby to Swansea railway station and got on the first train that was leaving. She started again in Leeds, and got a job at Right Buy U. When she applied to Bob for the job, she made up her national insurance number, although Bob, notoriously slack on his paperwork, never realised this. Her husband was left behind in Wales. He is now looking for her because he wants a divorce, because his new girlfriend is pregnant. He doesn't want any money, her back, nor to take Stacey, which are the three things Leanne thought he wanted. When Jamie shows Amy a picture of Stuart and Leanne together she gets the wrong end of the stick, and commits actions which have bad consequences for everyone involved. Meanwhile, its the last day at the shop for the members of the syndicate, except Leanne and Jamie who have already quit. However, Stuart doesn't last until the end of the day when he is fired for leaving during working hours. The police correctly arrest Leanne for child abduction and take her to the police station. Peter, Bob's solicitor son, is called by Stuart to provide legal representation for Leanne, and her manages to get her bail. She is currently under investigation jointly by West Yorkshire Police and South Wales Police. Although DCI Newell, and DCI Owen of South Wales Police, are sympathetic to Leanne, they know that she has done wrong. She is charged with child abduction and released on bail, awaiting a court hearing.
Jamie thinks he is untouchable now that he has won the lottery. The police are convinced that he has had something to do with the robbery at Right Buy U supermarket. Jamie tries to live his dream, but his old past lingeres in the shadows. When the local drug dealer, Boss, pays Jamie a visit, he is forced to go head to head with him with dramatic consequences.
There is a break in at Jamie's part owned club and when he arrives, he finds his Ferrari has got paint on it that says 'NOBODY SAYS NO' but when he askes the people who he thinks trashed it, they didn't know what he was talking about. The police are there as is the main police officer throughout the series, DCI Newall. The break in at the club is the same day Jamie was interviewed by the DCI and he was almost arrested. He manages to hatch a plan with DCI Newell to get Boss arrested for intent to supply by arranging to buy two kilos of cocaine from him, and then tipping off the police.
Leanne's court case in Wales is imminent and Stuart is torn between his life with Amy and Leanne who he is desperate to support. The lottery gets in touch with the Syndicate to find out how their lives have changed. Meanwhile in South Africa, Bob and Annie marry, and Bob undergoes surgery. He later returns to England and announces that although they can't be certain, the tumour was successfully removed and he is hopeful that the cancer is now in remission.
Amy and Stuart are due to go on holiday to St Lucia, where Amy wants to get married. Leanne leaves with Stacey, but tells Stuart she won't change her phone number and when he's free and has sorted things out with Amy, he can call her. Amy sees them talking, and tells Stuart she is going to St Lucia without him, with just his mother and the children, and that winning the lottery has changed him. Stuart tells the lottery people that he doesn't think he's changed, but instead 'it is the people around me that have changed' (meaning Amy). He calls the police and tells them the truth about the robbery, and they go to arrest Jamie. Jamie flees from the police, and after a short car chase, he accidentally crashes the car when distracted by an incoming call from Stuart, who is ringing to warn him that he has told the police everything. The police come to see Stuart and tell him that Jamie has been killed in the crash.
At the end of the episode, a previously recorded video of Jamie says smilingly that winning the lottery is the best thing that has ever happened to him.
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