Gangs of London Review: No One Really Likes Bankers (Season 1 Episode 7)

Previously on Gangs of London we learned that it was Jevan and the investors who had Finn killed, because he wanted to leave the business and run away with his pregnant mistress Floriana.

Jevan also admitted that they were the ones who tried to kill Sean, since they want Alex in charge of the business. As it turns out, so did Finn.

As usual, Gangs of London Season 1 Episode 7 opened with a flashback of Finn. This time we see him telling Ed about his plan to leave with Floriana. He also mentions that Alex can run the business while Sean concentrates on his buildings.

With only three episodes left, the mounting wars and family drama is finally coming to a head.

The stolen money is the cloud that hangs over everyone’s lives. Nigerian mob boss Mosi comes to London to get his money back, and retribution for the theft.

He begins this quest with a brutal attack on one of the city’s oldest and most prestigious investment companies. This is a clear message to Luan, the Dumanis, and the Wallaces.

Mosi then shows up at Luan’s daughter’s birthday party to deliver a not veiled at all threat to Luan’s family.

From the moment we saw Mosi burying a man in concrete during his and Luan’s initial meeting, we knew this was coming. It was obvious to everyone except Luan that getting into business with Mosi would not work out well for anyone.

While news of Mosi’s carnage spreads throughout the city, Asif commits his own revenge against Lale.

First of all, we’re thrilled to see Lale back. She’s one of the show’s best characters and has been missing since Gangs of London Season 1 Episode 3.

After she chose to help her country over saving her sister’s family, Lale finds herself all alone. As she reflects on being shunned by her family, Asif’s men attack her warehouse, killing everyone. Lale is the lone heartbroken survivor.

She sneaks into Sean’s car to confront him about not protecting her, to which he informs her that he can’t even protect himself, and he’s sorry for her loss.

Figuring that she’s on her own, Lale decides to go after the thing Asif loves most, his son Nasir.

Lale is such a fascinating character, we wish we could’ve spent more time with her, and less time with Elliot’s increasingly boring investigation.

After all his time undercover, Elliot has at least figured out that Jevan is not the boss, there’s someone above him manipulating all this.

He meets with his handler Vic to fill her in on everything he discovered in Episode 6. Having been threatened herself, she’s not sure who she can actually trust.

His superiors, finally suspecting that he’s in too deep, send in another undercover, but Elliot finds out and wants Vic’s help to get him arrested.

If there’s one story that just hasn’t clicked, it’s Elliot’s investigation.

He’s supposed to be the audience’s entry through this crazy world, but frankly, every other character has a much more interesting story than Elliot.

It also doesn’t help that all the chaos and damage happens around him, and he hasn’t created any results to speak of.

Seriously, he hasn’t made a single arrest in the two years he’s been undercover.

As Sean continues to show how unfit he is to run the business, Marian makes moves to close ranks. She heads to Ireland to see her sister and comes back with an army of men.

After weeks of lying to Sean about Finn, Jevan, and the investors, Ed and Alex decide it’s finally time to come clean. At a very tense family meeting, the truth about the investors killing Finn, Finn stealing the missing $1.5 billion, and him actually wanting Alex to take over the business is all revealed.

Sean reacts to this in his usual thoughtful manner. Just kidding, he shoots Ed in the leg, cutting off all ties between the Wallaces and Dumanis. He also tells Elliot he must stay away from Shannon.

So getting romantically involved with a mob boss’ daughter put him in an awkward position? Who could’ve seen that coming?

Devastated by the betrayal, Sean ends the episode crying in his mother’s arms. We’re not judging how he deals with his emotions, but this might be why the other crime bosses don’t respect him.

Whew, that was a lot of information to drop in 51 minutes. No really, some of those scenes were basically just exposition dumps.

We’re glad to finally see movement on some of these stories, we just wish the revelations had come in a more organic way, over the course of a few hours.

That being said, there’s still a lot left on Gangs of London’s table for the last two episodes.

With Mosi leaving a bloody trail through the city, Lale hell-bent on making Asif pay, and Sean more unpredictable than ever, we’re worried about everyone’s fate as we approach the end.

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