Supacell follows a group of individuals in South London who, after developing superpowers, are brought together by one among them who has seen the future. The series is now streaming on Netflix.
Warning: This article contains heavy spoilers
Plot summary
Michael, a delivery man in South London, is in love with his long-term girlfriend, Dionne, a social worker. He wants to marry her and decides to propose.
One day, while working, Michael has an encounter with a street gang led by Tazer, who stabs Michael when he refuses to pay and fights back.
Michael then ends up reversing time and experiences everything that happened minutes before he was stabbed.
Knowing what is going to happen in the next few minutes, Michael is able to prevent the conflict from escalating and gets away unharmed.
Michael does not know how he was able to reverse time and remains perplexed by his powers. He still proposes to Dionne, and they get engaged.
Later, Michael disappears right in front of Dionne after his eyes glow yellow. He time travels to the future and sees his future self with four other people.
Michael’s future self tells him that Dionne will die in the next three months; the men in hoods will kill her, the men Michael just witnessed attacking his future self.
Michael can save her by finding Tazer, Sabrina, Andre, and Rodney, all of whom are fighting alongside his future self and have superpowers.
Before he returns to his present, Michael is told that he must find the four of them before the men in hoods do because if even one of them dies, Dionne will also die.
Apart from time traveling, Michael can also teleport and freeze time. Initially, Michael struggles to come to terms with his powers and these revelations.
Once he accepts the reality of his situation, he decides to find Tazer, Sabrina, Andre, and Rodney. He finds Tazer first by returning to the place where he was attacked by Tazer’s gang.
Tazer, who recently developed the power of invisibility, uses it to kill members of a rival gang and steal drugs to make more money.
Tazer was abandoned by his mother, so he lives with his grandmother. He was mentored by Craig, more commonly known as Krazy, a gang leader now in prison.
Tazer has anger issues, and he refuses to listen to Michael, who then starts looking for Rodney, a drug peddler struggling to make money.
Rodney possesses superspeed and uses his power to start an instant drug delivery system, which enables him to make a lot of money with his best friend, Spud.
Michael finds Rodney by looking for drugs in the area where Rodney sells. The men in hoods come after them, but Michael saves Rodney.
However, Rodney refuses to join forces with Michael. Michael then focuses on finding Andre and Sabrina. He finds Sabrina, who is a nurse, when he delivers a package to her house.
Sabrina’s telekinetic powers have just awakened, and she wants them gone because she accidentally killed a man while trying to save her sister, Sharleen, from him.
Michael’s meeting with Sabrina is cut short when his mother, who suffers from sickle cell, has a crisis, and Michael has to rush to her side.
The last person on Michael’s list is Andre, an ex-convict who went to prison for a crime he did not commit. He struggles to make ends meet and provide for his son, AJ.
Despite his hard work, his past makes it difficult for him to keep a job. When Andre develops super strength, his friend convinces him to steal from a gang.
This gang is run by Krazy, Tazer’s mentor and Sharleen’s abusive boyfriend, who somehow got out of prison early. Krazy shoots one of Tazer’s friends for stealing drugs from him and becomes Tazer’s enemy.
When Andre goes to the gang’s hideout to steal their safe, he meets Sabrina, who is there with her sister; Tazer, who is there to kill Krazy; and Rodney, who is there to save Spud.
As their eyes glow yellow, which happens when they use their powers, the four of them realize that they all have superpowers before going their separate ways.
Spud is seriously injured by Krazy’s gang because his and Rodney’s instant drug delivery system has been harming the gang’s business.
Rodney is told that Spud might never wake up, resulting in Rodney asking Michael to go back in time and save Spud. He promises to fight the hoods with Michael in return.
Rodney helps Michael get Andre’s number. Andre agrees to meet them, but he is kidnapped by the hoods before he can reach the meeting point.
Rodney and Michael then go to Sabrina’s house to warn her about the hoods. Sabrina is already worried because her sister has gone missing. She believes that Krazy is behind her disappearance.
Despite this, Sabrina joins Rodney and Michael to look for Tazer. The three of them save Tazer from the hoods and bring him to Sabrina’s house.
Meanwhile, Dionne is researching Michael’s powers on her own. Michael has not told her about her impending death.
She meets Tazer’s grandmother, who tells her that Tazer’s mother also claimed to have powers before suddenly abandoning the family.
Dionne also meets the parents of a girl named Jasmine, who disappeared after developing her healing powers. They do not believe that the police can find their daughter.
Jasmine’s father knows that she was taken to the Ashington Estate, which has been empty for years, thanks to the tracker he put in her bag.
He received a threatening phone call when he went there to look for her. As the person threatened to kill Jasmine, he gave up on searching for his daughter.
Dionne realizes that there are others like Michael, and these people with powers were kidnapped by someone dangerous after developing their abilities.
Ending explained:
What is the supacell?
After Andre is captured, he is taken to a facility underneath the Ashington Estate. He is given an inhibitor injection, preventing him from activating his powers.
Jasmine, who is a captive there, is forced to heal Andre by Ray, the man in charge of the facility where people like Andre are imprisoned.
Ray tells Andre that he has superpowers because he has the supacell, a mutation of sickle cell, which is a disease that mainly affects Black people.
All those who have the supacell have one thing in common: they have a parent who has sickle cell or both their parents carry the trait.
The supacell can remain dormant forever or awaken under certain conditions, including close contact with another supacell.
Ray convinces Andre that those with awakened supacell are dangerous and need to be brought to the facility to learn control.
He not only promises Andre a job but also threatens him, leaving him no choice but to work with the other hoods to bring in Sabrina, Tazer, Rodney, and Michael.
Michael’s group faces the hoods
Tazer, eager to fight Krazy since their gang feud began, gets his chance when Krazy asks him to meet at a place called A-Town.
Before leaving Sabrina’s house, Tazer gives Sabrina, who is also looking for Krazy to find her sister, Krazy’s whereabouts.
Meanwhile, Michael teleports to the Ashington Estate after a phone call with Dionne, who has gone there to investigate.
He finally reveals to Dionne that she will die in a few months and that he has been trying to save her. Sabrina and Rodney also reach the Ashington Estate, which turns out to be the A-Town.
A-Town is a drug den where Andre’s son now works with drug peddlers. When Krazy shows up to fight Tazer, Sabrina confronts him.
It is then that Tazer as well as the hoods, including Andre, arrive there, revealing that Krazy is one of the hoods and that he took Sharleen to the facility, believing that she, not Sabrina, has the supacell.
Michael and his group fight the hoods, but all except Tazer are knocked out. Tazer becomes invisible and starts attacking the hoods.
Just as he is about to kill Andre, Michael wakes up and freezes time. He unfreezes Andre and convinces him to side with his group.
Michael then loses control over his powers, allowing everyone to move again. The hoods continue to try to take Michael and his group to the facility through a portal.
However, they fail to capture Michael and his group, as Andre fights alongside them. Together, they overpower the hoods, leaving only Krazy.
Dionne’s death
Krazy lies to Michael and his group, convincing them that he has no power left. He reveals that Tazer’s mother was also imprisoned at the facility and killed when she tried to escape.
To rescue Sharleen, avenge Tazer’s mother, and stop their kidnappers, Michael and his group plan to go to the facility.
Krazy promises to give them a device that can open a portal to the facility. When Rodney goes to take the device from him, Krazy attacks and kills Michael’s group.
He also goes after Dionne, who is hiding in the car, which triggers a dying Michael’s powers, and Michael reverses time a few minutes back.
When Michael relives the moment before any of his companions are killed, he stabs Krazy, not giving him any chance to make a move against them.
Krazy then shoots at Michael before losing consciousness. Rodney saves Michael, but the bullet hits Dionne, and she dies.
The fight ahead
A few days after Dionne’s death, Michael’s group, along with Spud, meets at his friend’s bar. Michael knows that Dionne is gone and that he cannot bring her back.
However, he has resolved to make those responsible for Dionne’s death, Tazer’s mother’s death, and Sharleen’s disappearance pay.
His group is prepared to fight with him. To gather information about Ray and the hoods, Michael travels to the future.
Meanwhile, Ray meets with Krazy, who is still alive. Ray’s boss, disappointed in Krazy for failing to capture Michael’s group, has him killed.
Ray’s boss is revealed to be Victoria, a woman who had earlier met Michael as a representative from Health & Unity, a sickle cell center where he had admitted his mother.
Victoria, the ruthless woman behind the kidnappings, is dissatisfied with Ray’s results and decides to take control herself.