Diving deep into the mysteries of the new Guy Ritchie directed show, The Gentlemen, Season 1, Episode 5, "I've Hundreds of Cousins.
- samuelabishek92
- Apr 4, 2024
- 3 min read
The fifth episode of the series starts with an interesting scene. We see Susie visiting her father in prison. And having a conversation about Edward, where she reveals and tells Bobby that since Edward has helped them find two more locations to expand their business, he believes he has fulfilled his end of the bargain, and all that’s left for them is to relocate their farm from the Halstead estate.
However, Bobby tells Susie, We can't let Edward go, as he's a valuable asset. He also suggests that Edward has gotten a taste for his criminal organization and might stay because of it. Bobby then also makes it clear that if Edward still refuses to work with them, he'll be forced to kill him.
In the next scene, Edward and Susie play golf, and while they're playing golf, Susie then asks Edward if he would like to stay in the organization, but Edward refuses. Later, after they finished playing, Susie asked Edward for a favor, due to his millitary training, about a current problem she's been facing.
Susie then reveals that her organization also smuggles around 80 million pounds worth of cannabis every year from the port of Zeebrugge. However, it hit a roadblock recently, with several shipments seized by the Belgian Federal Police. Due to a Belgian man called Florian de Groot, the one in charge at Zeebrugge Port, hearing this, Edward agrees to help Susie.
Susie then sets up a meeting with Florian so they can discuss their current situation. As negotiations start, Florian demands a bribe for 1.5 million pounds. Susie, then, tries to bring the bribe down to 1.2 million pounds. However, Florian is stubborn and refuses. Edward then tells Susie to find an alternative approach, as Florian can't be trusted.
Later, right when negotiations were coming to a close, someone cut the power to the farm. And tries to steal the generator. In urgency and confusion, Blanket (one of Suise's men) and Edward try to retrieve the generator from the theifs. When they caught the culprits, to their surprise, it was a bunch of kids and a woman from the Ward family. The woman then explains that they had to steal the generator to keep the kids warm as they were sleeping in the cold. Upon hearing this, Edward felt sympathetic. And let's the Wards keep the generator.
After the incident, Susie and Edward decide to send Florian back to Belgium and visit the Wards the next morning. The next morning, when Susie and Edward vist the Wards, they set up a talk with JP Ward, the head of the family. Later, as they started talking, JP tells Susie and Edward. He's aware of their illegal cannabis business. JP also tells them he's interested in becoming partners. After careful consideration, Edward and Susie agree to it as well.
After becoming business partners, JP and his cousins immediately started smuggling millions of pounds worth of cannabis through Virgin Mary Statues. And it was extremely successful. They made over four million pounds in profit. However, Florian eventually catches on and figures out how Susie's smuggling her product all throughout Europe.
Then everything comes to an end when someone steals the four million pounds from the farm. Susie and Edward immediately started suspecting the Wards. Edward then confronts JP; he then becomes defensive and leaves. Edward later, through an intensive investigation, puts things together and figures out the really criminal is Florian.
Edward and Susie then set up a surprise meeting with Florian, poisoned his food, and demanded information about who really stole the four million pounds, in exchange for the antidote.
Through a surprising revelation, the thief is revealed to be Keith (one of Susie's men). Later, as the episode comes to a close, Edward and JP make up. JP fires a very close-range shot at Keith. Keith also tells Edward not to trust Susie before he dies. He also tells Edward that Jethro never left the country; Susie ordered his death.
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