How Many Episodes Of "The Wrong Mans" Have You Seen?

Recently dumped by girlfriend Lizzie, who is now his boss, office worker Sam Pinkett is the sole witness to a car crash on a lonely country road. He picks up an abandoned phone and hears an Asian voice say "If you are not here by 5:00, we will kill your wife." Phil Bourne, the office mailroom boy, who still lives with his mum and craves excitement, encourages Phil to save the woman, keeping their involvement secret from the police, Lizzie, and Sam's office rival Noel. The caller addresses Sam as Mr Stevens, so the two men decide to visit Stevens at the local hospital, where Sam is almost operated on by accident and the man Sam believes to be Stevens is somebody else entirely. The pair thus decide to face the kidnappers alone.

Seeing Lau's van pull up outside the office, Phil sneaks in and frees Scarlett and he and Sam take her to Phil's house, where Phil's mum Linda mistakes her for his girlfriend. They then return her to Stevens, but she is so angry with him that she hits him, accidentally killing him, then ungratefully tells the police that Phil and Sam were the culprits. They flee again and are saved by Agent Walker, who seeks Russian spy Marat Malankovic and seems to think the lads are involved. Stevens is killed by double-crossing fellow agent Smoke; opening his car boot, they find huge sums of money, plus the man he stunned and abducted, who also mentions Malankovic before running away.

Sam gives Scarlett the music box, but Phil has discovered why she was so desperate for its return: In it is hidden a memory stick which shows her having sex with transport minister Ian Culverson in order to blackmail him into approving an unpopular land deal which will make her father wealthy but leave Lizzie to take the blame. Following their involvement with two murders and deal with Lau, the boys attract the attention of MI5 boss Ms. Cox, who sends agents after them. Smoke kills Malenkovic, then pursues Phil and Sam, accompanied by several of his colleagues and a helicopter.

Phil and Sam are presumed dead, killed by a car bomb, but are on a witness protection scheme in Texas, working under assumed names. Unlike Phil, who loves it, Sam is homesick and wants to find out who tried to kill them. Learning that his mother is ill Phil agrees they should return and are introduced to sinister Carlos Espinosa, who gives them new identities. They leave work one step ahead of Marat's vengeful brother Yuri, who is out to get them but they are arrested at the airport.

Flown to Slovenia Phil and Sam realize that their rescuers are terrorists who have mistaken them for the bomb makers who occupied their prison cell before them. They are forced to infiltrate a laboratory to steal deadly chemicals but, after a shoot-out among the terrorists, manage to escape, along with the chemicals and Nathan's glass eye, which has a code written on it disclosing the whereabouts of the stolen money. Pursued by surviving terrorist Khalil they manage to board a train and make it to France but, with no passports, are not allowed on the cross-channel ferry.