The Gentlemen‘s Freddy Horniman has gotten himself tangled up with the ruthless Dixon brothers. His continued mistakes lead to a near-fatal encounter with a Liverpudlian drug dealer.
Freddy snorts cocaine on a daily. Another of his vices is wasting money that isn’t his. When he was in rehab, he met Tommy Dixon.Â
He is a Liverpudlian chop dealer hailing from an infamous drug cartel family. He and his brother, John “the Gospel” Dixon are the big names in the family.
Freddy’s debt
Freddy owes them £4 million, but their criminal compound interest has hiked up the debt to a hefty £8 million figure.
Freddy got the first taste of what would happen to him should he fail to pay his debt off, when he was put inside a freezer for an uncomfortable amount of time.Â
Eddie decides to help his brother out and asks Susie for her aid in the matter as well. She meets Tommy and gets him to drag the debt amount back to its original £4 million figure.Â
Tommy’s death
Tommy needs one more thing though, and it is a humiliating video of Freddy dancing while dressed as a chicken, apologizing for what he did.
Tommy shows up to the manor and forces Freddy to put some back and zeal into the performance, humiliating and tormenting Freddy until he breaks and shoots Tommy with a gun.
Tommy dies and Susie calls a cleanup crew to deal with the mess, while Eddie takes care of the man that came with Tommy to collect the debt.
The Gospel
His brother, the Gospel, is a man of God, even though his ruthless actions as a drug dealer and gangster are anything but holy or god-fearing.
He gets a sniff of the suspiciousness that lingers in and around the Halstead manor.
He visits the Horniman family but leaves after hearing Eddie and Freddy’s well-rehearsed accounts of what happened.Â
Eddie’s narrative
Eddie works hard to paint a narrative where Tommy Dixon has a fight with his underling, Jethro, who eventually kills Tommy and escapes with the money he collected from the aristocrats.Â
Eddie puts Tommy’s body and also the gun that he was killed with inside the booty of a car by the dock.Â
Gospel is convinced that his brother died at the hands of Jethro, until the final episode of The Gentlemen, when Susie informs him that Eddie and Freddy Horniman killed his brother.
The confrontation
He shows up at the Halstead estate with an army of his men. Eddie, Freddy, and Geoff prepare for the gunfire and ready their weapons.Â
However, Bobby Glass intervenes as he needs Eddie alive and well and happy.
He dials up John “the Gospel” Dixon and orders him to retreat, which he does, because crazy as he might be, he isn’t crazy enough to go against Bobby Glass.
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