The Gentlemen
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The answer to both questions is yes, though they get resolved in reverse order.
So he gets her address from Jimmy and shows up at her flat to confront her.
With Eddies help, she fingers Jimmy as the man responsible.
Instead, they use him to (rather unhappily) lure Gabrielle to them.
The beating of Jack was Collinss idea.
But if thats his game, why does he go directly to Bobby Glass himself to let him know?
Susie doesnt know and doesnt care.
Thus, the first big Chekhovs gun is removed from the mantle without a single shot being fired.
Susie calls Eddie, apologizes for the mess, and sends arms and reinforcements via the farm.
Bobby, however, has had enough of all this scheming and maneuvering.
The bidding parties are a whole arsenal of Chekhovs guns.
Mercy, the machete-wielding car saleswoman with a Colombian connection.
Finally, theres Eddie himself.
Arent these the traits that gave the Horniman family ancestors their rank in the first place?
This is when the guns start firing at each other one by one.
But all this, it turns out, is a fatal miscalculation by Collins.
So the final gun that goes off is Eddies.
He kills a bound and gagged Henry Collins out in the woods in cold blood.
He doesnt just have the requisite skills tomakea good gangster anymore.
Heis, with no caveats, a good gangster.
Like the British aristocracy, I see no great reason for things to change in the future.
