“…the series is a meditation on the clichés of the crime genre while remaining realistic and believable, with story arcs that are self-contained focusing on different characters, from Center City, that frequent the same bar, and share a common history of two generations of crime.
‘With his partner ‘Ivan’, ‘Tommy Patterson’ ran the city's most proficient crew of pickpockets and taught the trade to his eight-year-old son, ‘Leo’. When Tommy was arrested and imprisoned for the murder of ‘Teeg Lawless’, Ivan took care of Leo and explained to him how following certain rules can keep a criminal "out in the world", out of both prison and the morgue…”
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