Lock, Stock... (2000) — Character Map & Story Timeline

AI Narrative Summary

Across its single season, the series follows four pub owners whose attempts to improve their finances repeatedly collide with Miami Vice's criminal operations.

Character Network — 5 Characters

• Bacon (Shaun Parkes) — protagonist One of the four close friends who co-own and operate The Lock pub in London. Each episode follows his attempts to start...
• Moon (Daniel Caltagirone) — protagonist One of the four close friends who co-own and operate The Lock pub in London. Each episode follows his attempts to start...
• Jamie (Scott Maslen) One of the four close friends who co-own and operate The Lock pub in London. Each episode follows his attempts to start...
• Lee (Del Synnott) One of the four close friends who co-own and operate The Lock pub in London. Each episode follows his attempts to start...
• Miami Vice (Ralph Brown) A local gangland boss featured in the series.

Key Relationships

• Bacon → Miami Vice (Coerced adversaries) — Bacon is repeatedly drawn into Miami Vice's criminal operations, creating an asymmetric relationship based on threat, debt, and forced cooperation.

  "Miami Vice owns the stolen watch and porn videos acquired by Bacon and the other pub owners, later uses them in dangerous deliveries, and arranges fo...

• Bacon → Lee (Close friends and co-owners) — Their relationship is a durable team bond that becomes especially important when the group is coerced inside prison.

  "Bacon and Lee are two of the four close friends who co-own The Lock, and both are placed in the same prison with Jamie during Miami Vice's safe-key s...

• Bacon → Jamie (Close friends and co-owners) — Their friendship combines loyalty with impulsive participation in ventures that repeatedly place the group under pressure.

  "Bacon and Jamie are identified as two of the four close friends who co-own The Lock; they also become involved together in the season's criminal sche...

• Bacon → Moon (Close friends and co-owners) — Their partnership is part of the pub's central group alliance and repeatedly draws them into criminal complications.

  "Bacon and Moon are two of the four close friends who co-own and operate The Lock, and they repeatedly pursue risky ventures together."

• Moon → Jamie (Close friends and co-owners) — Their bond is grounded in friendship and shared ownership rather than a separate personal conflict or romance.

  "Moon and Jamie are two of the four close friends who co-own and operate The Lock, and the season repeatedly places the four owners in shared business...

Story Structure — 5 Plot Phases

Stolen Beginnings

The four owners of The Lock buy stolen goods and mistake immediate danger for financial opportunity. Miami Vice's demand for his watch turns their windfall into a threat.

Weapons in Transit

A supposedly profitable delivery collapses when the group discovers Kalashnikov rifles in the van. Their accidental theft places them close to Miami Vice's turf war.

Defective Deals

The group accepts a sex-pill delivery that becomes dangerous when the batch proves defective and people die. The resulting money trail links their survival to wider criminal pressures.

Debt and Beef

Miami Vice's accounting crisis forces the pub owners to pay a major debt. A meat shipment then develops into a violent struggle involving a prize bull and an attempted revenge attack.

The Prison Bargain

Miami Vice uses arranged charges and imprisonment to force Bacon, Jamie, and Lee to recover a safe key. The season closes on a conditional path from coercion toward freedom.