The Wrong Mans
Lowly office workers Sam (Matthew Baynton) and Phil (James Corden) have a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. From being dragged into a deadly criminal conspiracy after answering someone else’s phone to being thrown into witness protection in Texas, ‘The Wrong Mans’ is chock-full of plot twists and bold new enemies at every turn.
- Metascore81
- 2013-2014
- 2 seasons
- Amazon Instant Video
- Comedy, Suspense
Lowly office workers Sam (Matthew Baynton) and Phil (James Corden) have a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. From being dragged into a deadly criminal conspiracy after answering someone else’s phone to being thrown into witness protection in Texas, ‘The Wrong Mans’ is chock-full of plot twists and bold new enemies at every turn.
Season 2 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2014
Episode 1
X-Mans
Wed, Aug 12, 2026 32 mins
Phil and Sam are presumed dead, killed by a car bomb, but are on a witness-protection scheme in Texas, working under assumed names. Phil loves it, but Sam is homesick and wants to find out who tried to kill them. Learning that his mother is ill, Phil agrees that they should return and they are introduced to sinister Carlos Espinoza, 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.
Episode 2
White Mans
Wed, Aug 12, 2026 29 mins
Arrested at the airport, the pair discover that Espinoza has used them as drug mules and they are sent to a penitentiary where Sam attracts the attention of a tough inmate. Agent Miller agrees to release them if they testify against Espinoza, but the drug lord sends his lawyer to tell the boys that they are doomed unless they help find the whereabouts of money stolen from Espinoza by serial killer and white supremacist Nathan Cross. Having obtained the evidence from Cross, who is killed in a prison riot, the pair are rescued--by Espinoza, they assume, but the rescuers know nothing about him.
Episode 3
Action Mans
31 mins
Phil and Sam are flown to Slovenia and 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, they manage to escape 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 without passports they're not allowed on the cross-channel ferry.
Episode 4
Wise Mans
Wed, Aug 12, 2026 32 mins
The lads hijack a plane, parachuting out over Kent and hitch-hiking to Bracknell, where they make contact with MI5 boss Cox and give her the chemical weapon. Khalil follows them in a stolen boat but is arrested while Sam is confronted by Dimitri, who admits that he planted the car bomb in revenge for Marat's death but the police shoot him. Esposito's lawyer tracks down Phil and gives him the glass eye but is later arrested by Agent Miller, and Phil, reunited with his mother, proposes that the reward money go to his Texan girlfriend Rosa. Sam is back with Lizzie, who always believed that he was still alive, and both he and Phil are declared heroes.
