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Dispatches•Season 19•Episode 20

The Big Heist

Sep 22, 2005

Just before Christmas 2004, two men dressed as police officers arrive at a remote home and, after tricking their way inside the house they take the family hostage. Meanwhile at another house a second family is taken hostage. The reason for both movements was to

Directed byTony Stark

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Undercover Angels

The NHS - Your Money or Your Life?

Holy Offensive

Is Torture a Good Idea?

Confessions of a Parking Attendant

Undercover in New Labour

Living with AIDS

Undercover Teacher

Women Bishops

Re-Opening the Post

On Pain of Death

Beslan

Chechnya: The Dirty War

Supermarket Secrets: Part 1

Supermarket Secrets: Part 2

Why Bomb London

The Dyslexia Myth

Secrets of the Shoplifters

The Big Heist

Undercover in the Secret State

Young, Angry and Muslim

The Hurricane That Shamed America

Gordon Brown's Missing Millions

Iraq: The Reckoning

America's Secret Shame

Kidnap and Torture American Style

What's Really in Your Christmas Dinner

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Episode Summary

"The Big Heist" is episode 20 of Dispatches season 19. Directed by Tony Stark, it aired on September 22, 2005.

Next: E21 · Undercover in the Secret State Best of Season 19