BBC1's new action drama Inside Men starts tonight

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Steven Mackintosh in character as John Coniston

BBC1's new 4-part action drama series Inside Men starts tonight at 9.00pm. John Coniston is the manager of a cash counting house who finds himself in the middle of his worst nightmare: an armed robbery. His family are taken hostage and the gang force him to open the safe at gunpoint. John has been trained for this moment, but is he prepared for the real thing? Nine months earlier and we see that John's life is normally anything but exciting.
Despite all the dreams and ambitions in his early 20s, he's now entrenched in a humdrum normality: married, mortgaged, scraping by. John has always played it safe. He lives in fear of confrontation. His one source of pride is his records at work. At this counting house the books are always balanced. Not even a fiver goes missing without him knowing about it. Then one day while checking the accounts John notices that £50,000 has gone missing and he can see his world falling apart. He suspects two men of being responsible - Chris, a security guard at the depot and Marcus, a forklift driver. John calls the two men to his office to confront them. But instead of turning them in to the police he offers them all a way out that will change them and their lives forever.