White Gold

Essex, 1983: meet Vincent Swan, double glazing salesman extraordinaire. Smart, handsome and cocksure: Vincent will stop at nothing to get a sale. His team at Cachet Windows include Fitzpatrick, a smarmy reprobate who can charm the life savings out of anyone, and Lavender, a failed musician whose crippling politeness and moral backbone has a habit of getting in the way of a sale. The two take a bet on whether Fitzpatrick can sell 'ice to the Eskimo's' - in other words, sell new windows to someone he's recently sold new windows to.

When Vincent, Fitzpatrick and Lavender meet a group of men from a local publishing company, alpha male hackles are raised - not only do these men get an expense account, but they each have a company car. When Cachet boss Tony Walsh rejects Vincent's request to match these perks, Vincent starts to think that maybe he's in the wrong business. Meanwhile, in a bid to save face, Fitzpatrick puts faith in his comprehensive knowledge of Cachet's home turf - with potentially dangerous consequences. In the showroom, receptionist Carol tries to get to grips with the new office computer.

When Vincent receives a visit from a tax inspector, pursuing him for unpaid tax, he decides that now would be a good time to get out of the showroom and spend more time with the family. A trip to Southend doesn't go exactly as planned - but he still wins brownie points from the wife and kids. Fitzpatrick and Lavender clash over the ethics of Page 3, when an opportunity to photograph Brendan the fitter's daughter for a competition in The Sun arises. Meanwhile, Vincent's side-business; pirating copies of E.T. on VHS in the backroom of the showroom, is still rolling out in his absence.

When Vincent and Lavender discover that Fitzpatrick is a CB radio enthusiast, they can't resist going undercover to dupe him. However, when the prank goes spectacularly wrong, it reveals a side to Fitzpatrick that his Cachet colleagues have never seen before. Meanwhile, Vincent receives some unexpected but exciting news - he's been nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year in the Essex Business Awards. Vincent immediately splashes out on a table for the company, so that the team can see him take the prize that is surely his.

Vincent's life has taken a turn for the worse - kicked out of the family home, in debt to the Inland Revenue to the tune of £50k, and worst of all - he's lost his sales mojo. Splitting his time between a prostitute's flat and the Cachet sofa, Vincent is gently sliding into the abyss - but absolution appears in the most dangerous of forms.

In a bid to get back everything he's lost - his marriage, his livelihood, his self-worth - Vincent concocts a spectacular plot to return to his rightful place. With local gangster Ronnie Farrell on side, he has Walshy's business in his sights. Before that, though, he has to pay off his massive tax bill - getting the cash is one thing but delivering it to Inland Revenue turns out to be much more complicated. When Carol makes a simple mistake, Fitzpatrick and Lavender must help save the day. What follows is a break-neck race against time as Vincent desperately scrambles to get back on top.