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Spoilers for The Gentlemen season 2 ahead.
If you weren't expecting The Gentlemen season 2 to return to Netflix with a bit of bite, then what were you thinking? Eddie (Theo James) is back, and he's on a heroic journey to transform from a domesticated cat into an untameable lion.
He's already broken away from Susie (Kaya Scodelario) and Bobby (Ray Winstone) to work directly alongside Mafia crime boss Marco (Sergio Castellitto), and that decision has helped ignite a new romance with Bella (Benedetta Porcaroli). In fact, it went so well that the pair got married in Italy in the space of only a few episodes.
But by the time we reach the penultimate episode of season 2, disaster strikes. By the time the pair are due to go on their honeymoon, Bella — who is travelling there via seaplane — dies in a plane crash, leaving brand-new husband Eddie bereft.
Convinced there's more to Bella's death than meets the eye, Eddie sets off on a path of vengeance to make her killer pay. This essentially makes The Gentlemen season 2 ending a full story on its own, so let's go through exactly what happened before season 3 starts production.
The Gentlemen season 2 starts off with a weeping Eddie being consoled by Marco during Bella's funeral in Italy, but there's a burning hate in his eyes. Back in the UK, Eddie tortures one of the 'soldiers' found transporting weapons into the Duke's estate at the same time as Bella's plane crashed, with Geoff (Vinnie Jones) having killed the rest of them.
Considering the unnamed man has a car battery clamped to his testicles (that basically electrocutes his nether regions), he's only too happy to give over the name Eddie wants to hear: Bobby. Clearly coerced into saying whatever Eddie wants, Eddie decided who was responsible before he even began this round of torture.
After their tense words at the wedding, things aren't exactly amicable between him and Susie. With Marco's help, Eddie is able to get information on Bobby and a gun to an Italian hitman without Susie knowing… but she's too busy trying to get to the bottom of what has happened herself.
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She turns up at the house while Charlotte's (Jasmine Blackborow) partner Nanny (Benjamin Clementine) is telling Eddie he wants to move to an unused house on the Sandringham estate to protect his wife and child, Tarquin. Eddie allows Susie in, but has a marksman trained on her while the pair walk through the grounds.
Susie says that she initially believed that Bobby was responsible, but learned that Bobby bought the £100 million debt Eddie owes to Stan (Giancarlo Esposito). "There's a hundred million reasons why my dad wants you alive," she adds, though neither of them are quite sure why Bobby has made this move.
Eddie brings Susie to the man being tortured, who also falsely claims that he met Susie, further confirming that she's telling the truth. Eddie eventually rings Stan to ask if he sold the debt, which he confirms.
It's then a race to stop the hitman, who is already on his way to Bobby in order to kill him. We see Bobby approach his infamous sauna just before the hitman arrives, but thankfully Eddie has made it in time to stop the worst from happening. Together, they kill the hitman with only so much as a few words spoken between them.
While patching her dad up, Susie and Bobby discuss his decision to buy the debt. While Susie sees the grieving Duke as "unstable," Bobby thinks he's at a turning point. The death of his wife will serve as the motivation Eddie needs to fully trust in, and take control of, himself.
