Who the Hell is Hamish?

WHO THE HELL IS HAMISH? is inspired by the hit true-crime podcast of the same name, and centres on one of Australia’s most audacious fraudsters: Hamish Watson - later McLaren - a man who presents as charming, cultured and reassuringly competent, but whose moral compass has been assembled from spare parts. Returning to his coastal hometown after fleeing trouble in Canada, Hamish doesn’t arrive as a disgraced exile, he arrives like someone conducting a soft relaunch. His target: Bec, a recently divorced single mother with three sons and access to a significant family trust. For Hamish, this should be routine - find the vulnerability, mirror the need, secure the funds. Only this time, he’s miscalculated. While Hamish is busy performing devo on and quietly eyeing her father’s fortune, Bec begins to notice gaps in the story. What starts as personal doubt quickly widens into something far larger: a pattern of deception, spanning continents and leaving an estimated more than $70 million in his wake. His victims aren’t reckless gamblers; they’re single women, retirees, families trying to protect what little they have - all drawn in by the same tailored charm. The series builds to an ending that feels less like revenge than inevitability: a courtroom reckoning, and the longest fraud sentence in New South Wales history.