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
Lead Director: Kadir Ferati Balci.
Writers: Peter McKenna, Susan Connolly, Mary Fox & Marty Thornton, Cara Loftus.
In Bilbao, investigative reporter Olatz Alzola and her family are attacked by a lone gunman, only her young daughter survives. In Dublin, DS Claire Wallace deals with the fallout of Portfolio Manager Nick Heaslip’s death during a Criminal Asset Bureau raid. The hunt for the €27 million Heaslip embezzled from his clients leads Claire and her team to the Basque country and reformed ex-con, Anto Pearse – now a successful restaurateur. When the discovery of yet another body connects CAB’s case to Inspector Jon Beitia’s investigation into Olatz Alzola’s murder, Claire and Jon join forces to decipher complex and disturbing evidence indicating a sophisticated scheme to mask human trafficking and the transport of drugs hidden in medical waste.
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).
