Steal is a story about an amazing heist of 4 billion pounds from a corporation that invested retirement money for millions of people. Sophie Turner plays Zara, who worked there and was caught up in the massive theft.

I really enjoyed Steal. It was smart and fast. It was about more than just a clever heist. It was also about greed and capitalism and the financial systems we live under. We don’t really get the full message of the film until well into the final episode, but it was worth the wait.

Zara goes into work one day, introduces herself to a new employee who will work next to her, and sits down next to her co-worker Luke (Archie Madekwe). In walk a group of 8 or 9 men and women in prosthetic face disguises holding automatic weapons.

The robbers put everyone in a conference room and want to know who does a particular type of money transfer. Zara and Luke are the ones. They are marched out at gunpoint and told to transfer £4 billion in pension funds to them. The thieves knew exactly what steps needed to be taken, who was responsible for each step, and how to tell when the money was actually transferred. In short, it looked like an inside job.

DCI Rhys Covac (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) was the cop in charge of the investigation, but not for long. MI5 showed up and wanted to take the case away from him.

I don’t want to give you any spoilers, because the action moves so fast and is so full of surprises, but I will say that some of the characters were morally suspect, including the ones who were supposed to be the good guys. Rhys suspected Zara and Luke of being in on it from the first, but learned it was much more complicated than he thought.

Unusual things kept happening to the money. It moved into and out of accounts with alarming speed. There were some crypto wallets holding large sums that caused a series of problems for the thieves, for Zara, for Luke, and for the investigators.

I thought the characters were well developed with interesting depth. Sophie Turner as Zara was excellent. The forensic accounting cop, Darren Yoshida (Andrew Koji), was also interesting. The thieves were known only by names like Glasses and Sniper.

I usually feel that action thriller series have unrealistic plot points and are all action and no brains. This series was smart, dynamic, and more believable.

The music was excellent in terms of building tension. Half of the six episodes were directed by Hettie Macdonald. All six episodes are available now on Prime Video.