Hidden Assets Season 3 / 6 x 50 mins
A Saffron Moon & Potemkino Production for RTÉ & Acorn TV. Co-funded by Screen Ireland, Screen Flanders & Eurimages.
Season 3 of the gripping thriller series is directed by Kadir Ferati Balci (Hidden Assets Seasons 1 & 2, Cold Courage) and rising talent Mia Mullarkey (Wrapped). The lead writer is Peter McKenna (Hidden Assets Seasons 1& 2, Kin, Gangs of London), with writers on the team from previous seasons, Mary Fox & Marty Thornton (Gangs of London) and Susan E. Connolly (Redemption), joined by emerging new writer Cara Loftus (Spilt Milk).
The Criminal Assets Bureau is back, and this time the stakes are higher than ever in a new season of Hidden Assets, full of suspense, intrigue and narrative twists.
Nora-Jane Noone (The Ipcress File, Wildfire, Bring Them Down) returns as DS Claire Wallace alongside the returning cast of Cathy Belton (Miss Scarlet, The Hardacres, Philomena) as Norah Dillon and Aaron Monaghan (The Banshees of Inisherin, The Gone, The Vanishing Triangle) as DS Sean Prendergast.
This season introduces Iñigo Gastesi (La infiltrada, La quietud en la tormenta, Contratiempo) as Inspector Jon Beitia, Charlotte Timmers (Safe Harbour, Cold Courage) as Lore Velasco, Dónall Ó Héalai (Crá, Arracht) as Detective Liam Boylan, Catherine Walker (Versailles, My Sailor, My Love) as Niamh Bennett and Steve Wall (Black Doves, The English, Dune: Part 2) as Inspector Martin Dunlop.The new series kicks off with the brutal murder of investigative journalist Olatz Alzola and her family in Bilbao. When the killings are linked to a past CAB raid in Ireland that ended in tragedy, DS Wallace is drawn into a dangerous web of crime and corruption.
Tracking €27 million embezzled by portfolio manager Nick Heaslip, Claire follows the money trail to the Basque Country, where she partners with Detective Jon Beitia. As another body surfaces, the duo uncovers a network involving migrant smuggling, a questionable charity, and an Irish ex-convict. Together, they must piece together the puzzle before more lives are lost.
Hidden Assets Season 2 / 6 x 50 mins
Directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan and Kadir Ferati Balci. Developed by Peter McKenna. Written by Peter McKenna, Sinéad Collopy, Susan Connolly, Mary Fox & Marty Thornton.
Over a year has passed since the events in Season One and the stage is set for an exciting season full of twists and turns. Claire (Nora-Jane Noone), new to the team as lead Detective Sergeant within the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), faces a sudden challenge – a coordinated cyber-attack targeting CAB and the Belgian Counter-Terrorist Unit (CTU), with a connection to the Bibi Brannigan case.
Bibi (Simone Kirby), under threat from Richard Melnick’s business partner Frances Swann (Karine Vanasse), resurfaces with some new and crucial information unveiling dark details on how Richard ran his company, Trestford, and reveals there’s a mole in CTU.
In the face of growing violence and ever higher stakes, Claire and CTU’s Christian De Jong (Wouter Hendrickx), must join forces to uncover the mole and expose the truth about Trestford and Swann: it’s a race against time to stop the sale of Antwerp Port.
Season 2 of the taut thriller is directed once more by Emmy-nominated Thaddeus O’Sullivan and Kadir Ferati Balci and written by Peter McKenna, Sinéad Collopy, Susan Connolly and first time TV writers Mary Fox & Marty Thornton.
Hidden Assets Season 1 / 6 x 50 mins
Directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan and Kadir Ferati Balci.
Created by Peter McKenna.
Written by Peter McKenna and Morna Regan.
Produced by Saffron Moon, Facet 4 and Potemkino.
Hidden Assets is about family, power and the corrosive effects of boundless greed – a story set in Co. Clare, small town Ireland and the world’s diamond capital, Antwerp. A routine raid sees the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) expose a link between a wealthy Irish family, a stash of rough diamonds, and a series of deadly bombings in Belgium.
But nothing is as it seems, as by-the-book Belgian Chief Inspector Christian De Jong (Wouter Hendrickx) and CAB Detective Emer Berry (Angeline Ball) are thrown together in a heart-pounding race to halt a further horrifying terror attack in Antwerp.
The taut thriller is directed by Emmy-nominated Thaddeus O’Sullivan (Into The Storm, Silent Witness) and leading Belgian director Kadir Ferati Balci (Cold Courage) and stars Angeline Ball (Keeping Faith, The Commitments), Simone Kirby (His Dark Materials, Jimmy’s Hall) and Peter Coonan (Love/Hate, Cold Courage).
