Mad Dogs

Seasons

2011

7.5

Follows the reunion of four old sixth form friends. They head to Spain to visit the fifth member of the gang, but things take a dark turn.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Episode #1.1

Having made a dubious fortune in property and retired, Alvo invites his four best school friends for a private holiday in his villa on Mallorca. Baxter, Woody, Quinn have a great time, especially teacher Rick, who despite a happy marriage goes all the way for a local harlot. Yet they feel progressively debased as Alvo, who rages at the telephone to business contacts, keeps referring to the mates' wasted opportunities, and drags them along on a mission to 'borrow' and abandon the yacht of his hostile neighbor, a Serbian mobster. The next morning, a man in a TonyBlair mask fatally shoots Alvo at breakfast.

S1 • E2

Xtabai

Warned by the killer,whom they nickname Tiny Blair,not to alert the police the four friends bury Alvo's body,agreeing on a story that he left the island for the mainland. Rick believes he left his camcorder on the stolen boat but when they arrive they meet two men who,believing that they are the boat's owners,give them three million euros for the cocaine hidden on board.The lads hide the money in the boot of their hire car after which they are indeed visited by the police,headed by detective Maria,who locates the camcorder and thus connects the quartet to the boat.

S1 • E3

Well

After another visit from Maria Baxter realises that they are dealing with the Serbian Mafia,who killed the boat's owner Jesus so the group decides to unearth Alvo's corpse and pass it off as that of Jesus.They are interrupted by Tiny Blair,whom they overpower and hold captive,intending to exchange him to the Serbs in return for their own safe conduct off the island. However whilst they are at Lottie's hotel,asking her to drive the car with the euros in to Alvo's villa to deflect attention from themselves somebody kills Tiny,leaving a note 'We told you not to go to the police.'

S1 • E4

Flares

The friends bury Tiny Blair but are scared when the villa suffers a power cut and flares are fired and believe the Serbs are trying to intimidate them. Maria comes to the villa next day but Woody has his doubts as to whether she really is a detective. However footage from the camcorder proves not only that Alvo was,as suspected,a drug smuggler but that he was dealing,not with Serbian gangsters but corrupt police officers - including Maria,whom Quinn shoots dead as she tries to kill them. Lottie brings the car and everybody decides to return home,except Quinn,who will use most of the drug money to start a new life on the island. But no sooner has the car driven off than Dominic,the corrupt officer in charge of the drugs racket turns up at the villa.