Plot

The drama tells the story of three workers at the Bank of England incinerating plant in Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

. The trio, led by Bridget (Caroline Quentin

Caroline Quentin

Caroline Jones known by her stage name Caroline Quentin, is an English actress. Quentin became known for her television appearances in Men Behaving Badly, playing Dorothy, and playing Maddy Magellan in Jonathan Creek for three years.-Early life:...

), hatch a plan to steal thousands of pounds by stashing the notes in their underwear.

Cast

Actor	Role
Caroline Quentin Caroline Quentin Caroline Jones known by her stage name Caroline Quentin, is an English actress. Quentin became known for her television appearances in Men Behaving Badly, playing Dorothy, and playing Maddy Magellan in Jonathan Creek for three years.-Early life:...	Bridget Watmore
Georgia Mackenzie Georgia Mackenzie Georgia Mackenzie is a British actress born in Abergavenny, South Wales.Mackenzie's notable screen credits include Sarah Beckenham in the BBC's BAFTA nominated series Outlaws, Jackie Haggar in ITV's Hot Money , and Sally opposite Kris Marshall in the rom-com Catwalk Dogs...	Jackie Haggar
Melanie Hill Melanie Hill Melanie Hill is an English actress from Sunderland, County Durham.-Television:Hill replaced Gilly Coman as the character of Aveline in the last two series' of Carla Lane's BBC television sitcom Bread...	Liz Hoodless
Gerard Horan Gerard Horan Gerard Horan is an English actor. Born in Stockport, Cheshire, Horan has appeared in many of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films, most recently as Denis in the 2006 As You Like It. He has worked extensively in theatre, film and television....	Don Watmore
Cliff Parisi Cliff Parisi Cliff Parisi is an English actor of Italian descent, largely recognised for his performance as Rick 'Minty' Peterson in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.-Career:...	Bob Hoodless
Shaun Curry Shaun Curry Shaun Curry is a British actor, best known for his appearances on television.His credits include: Z-Cars, The Saint, Warship, The Sweeney, The New Avengers, Secret Army, Poldark, To the Manor Born, The Professionals, Blake's 7, Hot Money, Minder, The Gentle Touch, The Bill, Just Good Friends and...	Mr. Glover
Jay Simpson Jay Simpson (actor) Jay Simpson is a prolific English film, television and stage actor.Simpson is perhaps best known in television for portraying cockney desk sergeant Ian 'Brookie' Brooke in Foyle's War, he has also appeared on television in Recovery with David Tennant and Sarah Parish, Hot Money, Bad Crowd, A Touch...	Barry Weller
Kate Williams	Molly Stern
Christine Ellerbeck	Mrs. Riddell
Dickon Tolson Dickon Tolson Dickon Tolson is a British actor who started training at the Anna Scher Theatre school when he was 8 years old. He has appeared in shows such as Peak Practice and Hot Money....	Sean
Joan Hodges	Irene Haggar
Michael Brogan	Detective Jim Fenwick

Production

The show was revealed in an announcement by ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 in January 2001 of two future projects - In Blood Strangers and Hot Money - starring Caroline Quentin who Nick Elliott, ITV controller of drama, described as being "...very good at playing very ordinary women." Filming began in February 2001.

Reception

The show received a 44% audience share between 9pm and 11pm, according to unofficial overnight figures; it was screened against a Panorama

Panorama (TV series)

Panorama is a BBC Television current affairs documentary programme, which was first broadcast in 1953, and is the longest-running public affairs television programme in the world. Panorama has been presented by many well known BBC presenters, including Richard Dimbleby, Robin Day, David Dimbleby...

investigative special programme on BBC1. Reception by newspaper critics ranged from "inadequate script" (Daily Mail; Daily Telegraph) to "thrilling comedy caper" (Mirror).