In this dark and shadowy new British series from Sky Atlantic, Oscar and Golden Globe winner Samantha Morton gets to play a gritty, almost James Bond-esque character, on the hunt for an Eastern European gang of diamond thieves known as Pink Panthers.
It begins with a daring daylight raid on a jeweller in Marseille. The thieves are bold and well organised, with an orchestrated escape that ties the police in a knot and delivers full-blown action.
One thing goes wrong however - a young girl is caught in the crossfire and killed, and that taints the gang and their newly stolen diamonds.
![Samantha Morton as Naomi and John Hurt as Tom in The Last Panthers.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/NOG72ZZOPNMNUSW36P24HAFOY4.jpg?auth=47655028fc7df4af727ebf832974a4c708415abff2e91430c8ebe0aae5af58bf&width=16&height=10&quality=70&smart=true)
It's a key slip-up from the Panthers, who forged a reputation as Europe's best jewel thieves at the beginning of the millennium, but disappeared five years ago, and haven't been seen since.