Episode 3 (Season 2)

**Episode 3** is the third episode of the second season and the 7th overall episode of *Top Boy*.

## Synopsis

Mike and Sully struggle to survive as Rafe swears vengeance on them for kidnapping his brother, Jermaine. Sully takes pity on Jason after witnessing first-hand the struggles the youth faces. Ra'Nell attempts to protect Gem from Vincent. The police threaten to destroy their witness if she does not co-operate, putting Dushane and Sully in danger.

## Plot

Jason is walking round the Summerhouse market, he walks up to market staller who is running a burger bar. He buys his breakfast, he then grabs a pear and runs off.

Sully and Mike are sat waiting for Jason to turn up with the food, while they have Jermaine in hostage.

Jason bangs on the door, making Sully thinking it may be his crazy cousin Rafe, but it was Jason, Jason then brings the food, Mike didn't like half of the food that Jason bought in. Jermaine then insists on having the good food but Mike said "who said anything about you having it leave it alone". Jason hands Sully a pear for him that he stoled earlier. He throws it to Mike then Mike gives it to Jermaine.

Rafe and his henchmen come through with a sledgehammer, he covers his face and destroys the CCTV camera, Rafe then rings Jermaine's phone, Sully then lets Jermaine answer the phone but tells him to not say anything. Jermaine answers, Jermaine asks Rafe if he sold his car, Rafe doesn't say anything but then tells Jermaine that he is nearby and coming to rescue him and he bursts in at the wrong door.

Sully bursts in and pulls his gun out to Rafe, then Mike goes in and shoots at Rafe but then misses. Sully then has Jermaine in hostage point. Rafe warns Sully that he is not gonna get away with this. While Mike, Jason and Sully get away from Rafe along with kidnapping Jermaine the crossfire still ongoing as Sully shoots Rafe's henchman in the leg.

Dushane and Rihanna Parkes are walking together. They are sat in a café. Rihanna asks Dushane what does she think of this place, he answers "its not for people like me", she asks why and he replies I'm from Summerhouse init. Dushane's phone starts ringing and its about Trevor. Rihanna then warns Dushane that his kind of business is never a happy ending story and help him become a legitimate businessman. Dushane refuses it as he said its not his thing.

Dushane goes in and visits Joe in hospital, he asks about the Albanian gangsters, he tells them that they have a warehouse where their main hangout is. He tells Dushane he has spent 17 years in prison, been stabbed in the neck, stabbed in the thigh, ran over been betrayed, been robbed. Dushane makes it clear to Joe that he is gonna make sure Darden and his men did to him and robbing their drugs.

Joe said when he retrieves what he gets back, he tells Dushane that he can have his share and wants out of the drug business. Dushane walks out takes one last look at Joe and walks out. He rings Rihanna to tell her he changed his mind.

Rihanna and Dushane walk and meet Malcolm and Peter about how to get his business up and running, they show him the area that has been neglected for years and they recommend Dushane to invest here. Peter tells Dushane that the landlord wants rid of Summerhouse and the council are supportive. He tells Dushane that he is happy to step in and make money. Malcolm and Peter tell Dushane to think on it and that they will be in touch. Rihanna tells Dushane that she will take care of things and that she will take 15% in.

Lisa and Ra'Nell are talking about the landlord, she tells him that she is not gonna get rid of her hair salon.

Gem and Ra'Nell meet up, Ra'Nell asks him why is he not in school uniform, Gem then tells him he has to do a job for Vincent, Ra'Nell refuses and tells him he needs to cut ties with Vincent. Gem said he can't and he needs him with him and Ra'Nell tells him that he got himself into it and walks off. Gem then says to Ra'Nell "what a friend you are".

While Lisa walks in the salon, she is late and Zoe tells her she is docking her pay. Nevaeh and Nafisa are in the salon, Zoe is doing Nafisa's hair and then Nafisa hands out money to Zoe and Zoe and Lisa are very shocked on how much money they had.

Michael is in the Summerhouse dealing Nevaeh and Nafisa are walking up to Michael, Nafisa asks Michael what does he think of her new hair and he replies I dunno, Nafisa said what kind of ignorant yout are you and walks off. Michael walks up to Dushane and Shaheed.

Michael asks Dushane if he needed him to do any special jobs like go to Ben's house to sell him lots of drugs. Dushane said if anything he will let him know. Michael then walks back to his spot.

Dris walks up to Dushane, Dris lets him know that the police took Kayla right at her workplace. Dris and Dushane then figure out that someone spoke to the police about thing about the Kamale Lewis murder. Michael walks away worrying and police walking round Summerhouse a lot.

Sully, Jason and Michael take Jermaine to Jason's house to have him hostage there and to hide from Rafe. Jason calls for his mother. Sully and Mike are disgusted what Jason's home looked like. Sully then goes angry at Jermaine and says "Why the fuck has Rafe got to pull that stunt for" and Jermaine says "Oh fuck off you bought this on yourself" then Sully then tells Jermaine to pay the money that he owes. Jermaine then tells Sully that he can talk to Rafe and convince him to pay the money. Sully then tells Jermaine that there is no point and Rafe knows it him.

Sully pulls a gun on Jermaine and then Jason walks in and introduces his mum to Sully and Mike. She asks Sully what was the gun for and he answers "its a toy"., she then asks him if he has any drugs for and he says no. She then asks if they had not a bit of smoke and Mike says no fuck off. Mike then asks Sully what are they gonna do with Jermaine.

Dushane walks in the office to see Rihanna, Rihanna is on the phone, she tells her client she will call him back, Rihanna asks Dushane how did he get past reception and he replies that the receptionist is from Summerhouse and that he is a friend of her family. She then said she then asks about Peter's project but then Dushane then asks another favour to help, which was represent Kayla and tells her that is has to be her.

Rihanna goes to see Kayla to help her, she then tells Kayla that she is not under arrest and that she is here as precaution as a witness of the murder of Kamale Lewis, she tells her the quickest way to get home to her son is to be interviewed.

Dris and his daughter Erin go and see Mandy who is Dris's girlfriend and the mother of Erin, she gives Dris a hug and hugs Erin, she tries to give Erin a kiss but she says "no just leave me alone", Mandy calls Erin a heartbreaker and Dris says she is too rude. Mandy tells Dris that there is something wrong, he tells her that the police have started back up on the Kamale business, he tells her that nothing is gonna happen, also worrying about what will happen to Erin.

Gem is walking to a flat to an associate of Vincent which is in a strip club, he gives the bag and then witnesses the associate getting his arm chopped off and runs away, with blood splatted on the side of his face.

Mike is telling Sully that he wants to get out of the house cause he hates the state of it. Sully warns Mike that if he gets out Rafe will come after him, Mike then tells Sully that he is not scared of Rafe and he will take him on. Jason's mother Carolyn asks if they have any drugs, Mike tells her to fuck off and says no we ain't got nothing. She then asks Sully and says that she will have sex with him for drugs and Sully is disgusted and tells her she hasn't got a life and neither has Jason because of her. Mike then reminds how much of a dirty stinking slut Carolyn is. Sully then asks Jason to go to Summerhouse and meet Dushane.

Gem is in the stable staring at a horse.

Ra'Nell comes back home to receive a letter from his youth football team trial to tell him that they won't take him on. He gets furious over it. He then hears a door banging and it happens to be Gem. Ra'Nell answers the door. Gem then tells him what he saw so Ra'Nell goes over on his way with Gem to confront Vincent. Vincent then brutally beats up Ra'Nell. Gem tries to stop it but Vincent pushes away Gem and carries on kicking in Ra'Nell. Vincent then holds Gem against the freezer and tells them both to fuck off. Ra'Nell walks away all cut up and Gem stands there scared.

DC Vicky Trovell and DC Mark Leko are interviewing Kayla asking her if Kamale was her boyfriend, Rihanna asks if that question is irrelevant and DC Trovell then tells her that she is trying to establish the relationship between her and Kamale, Kayla kept saying no comment in the questions about Dushane, Dris and Sully.

Dushane and Dris go over to Michael to tell him that the police were still ongoing about Kamale, Michael tells Dushane that he hasn't heard nothing. Michael then admits he has seen posters but he also denies that he hasn't heard nothing.

After talking to Michael they then see Collins, R-Marni, Nafisa and Nevaeh beating up Jason for robbing Michael, Dushane and Dris stop it. Dushane asks Jason what does he want. Jason tells Dushane that Sully sent him to tell him Sully wants to talk to him.

Sully and Mike show Dushane where they have Jermaine hostage. Jermaine all bruised, cut and beaten. Jermaine convinces Dushane to talk to Rafe. Dushane says nothing and shits the door. Dushane and Sully have a chat about Rafe. Dushane then tells Sully about what Rafe did to a man in Finsbury Park. Dushane agreed that he will help Sully and talk to Rafe to stop him from going for Sully. Sully also negotiates to also have no comebacks on Mike either and Dushane tells Sully to just guarantee him not to do anything to Jermaine until he hears from him. In return Dushane wanted Sully to help him retrieve the stolen drugs from the Albanians.

Ra'Nell comes to his mum's salon, Lisa and Zoe are disgusted, Ra'Nell tells her it was Vincent. Lisa attepmpts to call the police but Ra'Nell convinces her that she can't call the police.

Dushane is on the phone to ring Rihanna, it goes to voicemail, he leaves her a message to ask her what is happening with Kayla and call him back. He walks in the Jamaican café to see Rafe. Dushane goes and negotiates with Rafe to keep Sully alive in return of bringing back Jermaine alive, giving him aload of cash and giving him Tony who ordered Mike and Sully to kill Jermaine.

Lisa walks up to Vincent's shop, she is bullying the shop supplier as she watches it happen, he looks at her and she walks away.

Tony is sat down watching the rapper spit his bars, Rafe and Dushane burst in. Rafe asks about who put the hit on Jermaine, if he didn't tell him he will kill him. He tells him it was the York brothers all 3 of them. They walk off.

While Rafe and Dushane are talking about the problem, he agrees to let Sully live but doesn't guarantee for Mike as he tells Dushane that some has to pay for his brother's kidnap.

Lisa walks home, she speaks to Ra'Nell she tells Ra'Nell that she has to call the police but tells her the reason why she can't involve the police because she tells her that it will be Gem's life on the line and he will get killed if Vincent goes to jail.

Dushane, Shaheed and Dris are standing waiting for Sully to drive down and bring Jermaine back alive. Dushane rings Rafe to let him know that Jermaine is safe and cool. Jermaine leaves Sully's car. Dris is shocked on what Jermaine's face was looking like. They are waiting for Rafe to come and collect Jermaine and he gives Jermaine money to give to Rafe.

Gem comes to the chip shop to see his father, Gem is then talking about his mum and his dad tells him that she is not worth talking about as she left them and refers her as bad woman.

Dushane is walking in the hospital and he finds out that Joe is dead.

Lisa walks back home and speaks to Ra'Nell. He tells her that the football team didn't want him for saying he is not good enough. She tells him he will get in next time. Ra'Nell tells her that she don't know anything and he gives up on his hopes.

Mr. Mustapha asks Gem if he has done any homework and he then asks his dad if he can help him at his chip shop. Gem then tells his dad that he likes the thought of moving to Ramsgate.

Dushane and Sully re unite again to review on how to get in the warehouse and retrieve the stolen drugs. They make a plan together about it. Dushane tells Sully that he is not ready to make plan until the Kamale business is over. Dushane tells Sully he will make 2 choices either split it 50/50 or run Summerhouse together.

Kayla is still being interviewed but the police decide they are going to charge Kayla and she goes into police custody. Rihanna tells DC Trovell that she can't just go and charge Kayla but she tells her that there is another witness that implicates Dris, Sully and Dushane going into Kayla's house that night.

Rihanna confronts Dushane about Kayla being charged for murder of Kamale, she tells him that their is another witness against Dushane, Sully and Dris. Dushane also has another woman alongside him named Bella. Rihanna tells Dushane that they are gonna question Kayla again. Rihanna walks off. Bella says to Dushane "I thought is your solicitor" and Dushane says it is and walks off. Bella asks Dushane who is witness to what and Dushane evades and walks off to the top and smokes.

Mike and Sully are in a nightclub, they walk out of the nightclub. Mike tells Sully that he is better than pubs and clubs and they can make on something else and run London. Rafe unexpectedly shows up puts a gun to Sully but then points a gun at Mike and shoots him in the head.Rafe then walks off and says laters cuz.

### Deaths

* Unnamed Vietnamese man
* Joe
* Mike

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Ashley Walters as Dushane
* Kane Robinson as Sully
* Shone Romulus as Dris
* Malcolm Kamulete as Ra'Nell
* Giacamo Mancini as Gem
* Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Lisa
* Xavian Russell as Michael
* Ricky Smarts as Jason

### Supporting cast

* Paul Anderson as Mike
* Noah Maxwell Clarke as Shaheed
* Reanne Weruche Opia as Nafisa
* Monique Day as Nevaeh
* Kasey McKellar R-Marni
* Lorraine Burroughs as Rhianna Parkes
* Nabil Elouahabi as Mr. Mustapha
* Benedict Wong as Vincent
* Ashley Thomas as Jermaine Newton
* Darren Morfitt as DC Mark Leko
* Clare Burt as DC Vicky Trovell
* David Hayman as Joe
* Dan Jay Green as Rafe
* Danielle Flett as Carolyn
* Amaya Romulus as Erin
* Darrell D'Silva as Malcolm
* Richard Lintern as Peter Stenton
* Michaela Coel as Kayla
* No Lay as Mandy
* Andrew Lawden as Darden
* Kevin 'Lefty' Noel as Tony
* Sophia Leonie as Bella
* Cashief 'Cashtastic' Nichols as Rapper