Top 10 Shocking Moments in The Gentlemen
Top 10 Shocking Moments in The Gentlemen Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re looking at the most shocking and brutal twists and turns in “The Gentlemen”.
#10: The Arrangement
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If you saw the 2019 movie, you’ll have been expecting this revelation. But the introduction to the Glass empire and its huge scope remains one of the show’s most impressive moments. While roaming the grounds of Halstead Manor, Eddie encounters Susie Glass for the first time, and she explains to him her business interests in the estate. They drive to the farm, and she brings him to a shipping container, with the REAL farm hidden underground. We learn that great houses throughout the UK are being used to hide this enormous manufacturing process, just like Matthew McConaughey’s illicit empire in the film.
#9: Jethro
Following a climactic scene that we’ll get to later, the Hornimans and Susie Glass have a witness they need to deal with. Eddie doesn’t want any more bloodshed, so goes to great lengths to arrange the witness, Jethro, being allowed to leave the country. They hunt Jethro down and keep him on the farm for days until Eddie organizes everything, getting himself seriously wounded in the process. Finally, Jethro’s put on a ship heading to Australia, but the audience sees that Susie has betrayed Eddie. She’s sent her cleaner, Felix, to murder Jethro despite Eddie’s wishes, unbeknownst to him.
#8: The Heir
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At the beginning of the series, the Hornimans are called back to Halstead Manor as the previous Duke of Halstead is on his deathbed. He passes and Freddy, the eldest son, expects the title and the estate to go to him. Often in British law, eldest sons will inherit and there’s no way to change this – unless a title has a special clause in it. The Halstead title DOES, and to everybody’s shock, Eddie is named the new Duke, despite being second eldest. This is clearly the best choice, as Freddy’s enormous outburst shows, as he rants and raves for minutes on end about how furious he is to be passed over.
#7: Toni Blair
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A large shipment of product goes missing when Jimmy is bamboozled by a woman named Gabrielle, who manages to steal his van. To make up the difference, the mob needs to steal a car for some Eastern European gangsters – the leader of whom is named Toni Blair, after the ex-prime minister. The American equivalent would be a gangster named George Bush, in a seriously bizarre moment. Worse, while they work on stealing the car, Freddy runs distraction and, against everybody’s advice, pretends to be a Russian oligarch. It turns out to be all for nothing, too, when they’re forced to return the car to the rival gang because it contains a small fortune in, shall we say, illicit substances. #6: De Groot The Glasses’ distribution chain is affected when their man on the inside, de Groot, wants a bigger sum of money to persuade customs officials to look the other way. Susie and Eddie explore alternate options, with Eddie letting a group of Travellers, the Wards, set up on his land in exchange for becoming a new cog in the mob’s distribution machine. But when the Wards are framed for theft, suspicion lands back at de Groot’s door. Eddie and Susie head over to talk to him, interrogating him by slipping poison into his food and withholding the antidote. It’s grisly to watch them demand information from him, and even worse when de Groot reveals that one of Susie’s closest allies is a rat.
#5: Freddy’s Pitch
When he learns about the Glass business, Freddy starts spending way too much time with Jimmy, learning about how the product is cultivated. He then brings a pitch to Susie to start growing a new strain that he thinks could take over the world, telling her that if she wants HIM in charge of the business instead of Eddie – since Eddie is trying to leave – he’ll step aside and let Susie send someone to get rid of his brother. He’d then inherit the estate. She doesn’t entertain the idea for a moment, though, shocked that Freddy would offer to betray his brother like that when her own brother means the world to her.
#4: Jack’s Fight
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Speaking of Susie’s brother, Jack Glass is a popular boxer who fights in the family’s club, Glassknuckles. He gets into a few scrapes earlier on – namely, getting caught in flagrante with the girlfriend of the Glasses’ money launderer. But Susie’s devotion to Jack never wavers. When Eddie tries to go with a different laundry operation, run by Henry Collins, Collins sets into motion a plan to seize take the entire business by force. He starts with Jack, though, paying off a violent, rival boxer to brutally attack him in the ring, which nearly kills him. It was shocking to watch Henry threaten Susie while she’s powerless to help Jack, who ends up comatose for the rest of the show.
#3: Bidding War
In the final episode, Bobby Glass is selling his business. Eddie and Susie are sent to talk to the interested parties – all the rival operators we’ve met so far in the series, including Johnston and Sticky Pete. But it culminates in Eddie approaching Susie himself and deciding that he really does want to invest in the business, after all, since it’s no dirtier than the things his family has been doing to stay rich for generations. He teams up with Henry Collins to gather enough capital to make a rival offer, and then orchestrates the downfall of the rival bidders Michael Corleone-style. We see it all play out, and Eddie and Susie ultimately succeed. There’s no turning back now.
#2: Bassington’s Collection
Earlier on, Eddie’s trying to get out of the game and wants to point the Glasses to another estate they can use to conduct their business. He settles on the new Lord Bassington and makes the introductions, but Bassington has a particular interest that puts their deal on ice. He gives Eddie and Susie a tour of his private museum, dedicated to the life and times of Adolf Hitler, whom he’s obsessed with. They might be criminals, but they have to draw the line somewhere, and refuse to deal with Max he after presents them with the crown jewel of his collection – Hitler’s missing “appendage”. The item is later eaten by a dog, and YouTube won’t let us show you any of it.
#1: Chicken Dance
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As well as the business, Susie and the Hornimans are initially entwined because Eddie needs her help clearing Freddy’s eight-million-pound debt. She negotiates with Tommy Dixon, and he agrees to reduce Freddy’s debt in exchange for him doing a chicken dance in costume. But Tommy doesn’t think Freddy’s taking his humiliation seriously enough – he’s not embodying the true essence of a chicken. He grinds Freddy down while Eddie and Susie watch, and then things take an unexpected turn. Freddy returns with an antique, hunting shotgun and murders Tommy then and there. This incident haunts them for the rest of the show, as the gang eventually returns to the estate for revenge in the finale. Let us know in the comments what your favorite Guy Ritchie movie is.
