MORIARTY & CO
A Television Series
A brilliant young consultant joins a prestigious London consulting firm – only to discover that its clients are the world’s most dangerous criminal organisations. Mentored by a senior partner locked in a deadly power struggle with the firm’s charismatic leader, Julia is hiding a secret: she has infiltrated the company to uncover the truth about her past. But the deeper she goes, the harder it becomes to tell whether she’s exposing corruption - or being groomed by it. In a world where crime is just another business problem, she’ll soon realise that disappointing clients can be fatal.
Criminal enterprises are bigger and more valuable than ever, but they suffer the same problems as other organisations: defending their business against competitors, introducing new product lines, retaining top performing staff and succession planning. When the CEO of a multimillion Pound business needs help, he hires a management consultant. It turns out, so does a mob boss.
Moriarty & Co is a show about the dark and ridiculous side of being in professional services, and asks the question ‘What if criminals had consultants too?’ Moriarty & Co is a show where SUITS and BILLIONS meets SHERLOCK and the BLACKLIST. It’s intrigue, conspiracy and corporate backstabbing - and maybe a bit of actual backstabbing. This is a contemporary crime series told through the lens of workplace drama - a world of ambition, politics and moral flexibility, where the clients just happen to be dangerous criminals.
These are the stories of the professional advisors to very organised crime.
MORIARTY & CO, LONDON:
A consulting firm like no other. It is a home to some of the brightest and most ambitious minds - educated, talented professionals who provide the very best research to the firm’s very demanding clients.
But this isn’t a firm that services FTSE100 companies. For 35 years, Moriarty & Co’s key clients have been mafia families, illegal syndicates and the most ambitious and entrepreneurial independent criminals. The firm has only a few strict rules: they make the plans but don’t execute crimes; they never get involved with child exploitation; and they don’t work for terrorists. But, these days it seems to be getting harder to tell where those red lines are.
And, most of the consultants in the firm aren’t even aware that they are working for criminals. As far as they know, they’re simply providing the very best research for clients that want granular knowledge - perhaps the vulnerabilities to the latest security systems; finding exploitable holes in payment systems; or where national borders can be crossed with impunity. It’s just risk analysis… isn’t it?
All of this is hiding in plain sight. Consulting, unlike law or accounting, isn’t regulated by anyone. The firm picks and chooses its clients, and, only occasionally, has to worry about evading money laundering regulations when clients pay their hefty bills. Moriarty & Co puts a stringent firewall between it and its clients in case any of them get caught doing something the firm has planned. But their influence is so great that their clients tacitly adhere to a strict code of silence. Better to go to prison - than get on the bad side of the world’s most connected company. Law enforcement only hear about the firm’s existence in guarded whispers that come across like an underworld myth.
And if you can survive all of that, for the very best and most ethically fluid minds at the firm, there’s the Inner Circle. All of them share a singular flaw - an inclination for moral pragmatism that makes them flexible in the face of laws and rules. Their reward - learning the secrets of Moriarty & Co’s clients. And very generous bonuses.