Time-wise, the events of this episode take place between “ Episode 2,” during which Kinney had met with Sean to ask for mercy for Darren, and Sean retaliated with that very public attack on the travelers, and “ Episode 4,” during which Floriana was revealed to be alive and held hostage, the meeting between Sean and Luan ended in that sniper attack, and the waitress at Sean’s family dinner tried to kill him before being shot by Alex. “Episode 5” couldn’t make this more clear. Gareth Evans, who directed and co-wrote the episode with Matt Flannery, aimed for the jugular with “Episode 5,” and he didn’t miss.Įvery episode of Gangs of London serves as a reminder that the people in charge are not messing around: Money, vengeance, and power are corruptive, awful things, and those who hold them will do anything to hold onto them. So much anger, sacrifice, and despair such grand, outsized reactions so many bullets and so much blood. Finally, out of ammo, desperate to get Darren to safety, he tells his son that Darren can murder him if he wants-as long as he escapes this hell first. In another scene, he’s flipping over a couch, retrieving a machine gun from a hidden cache, and opening fire on the endless stream of Danish assassins trying to enter the house where he, Darren, and their sparse remaining allies are holed up.
In one moment, Kinney is pulling what I assume is a tapeworm out of an open, festering gunshot wound on his stomach, tossing it aside, and getting back up to continue his journey to reach Darren. No moment of “Episode 5” was easy to watch, but holy crap, was this some episode of TV, delivering all the garishness and vulnerability we’ve come to expect from Gangs of London. He died an agonizing, awful death, and he did so after watching his beloved Darren - the last of his family, the last of his name - also die an agonizing, awful death. So goes father Kinney, who tried so hard to ferry son Darren to safety after he unwittingly assassinated Finn Wallace who barely survived the massacre that Sean, Ed, and their men inflicted upon his community of Welsh travelers and who crawled, rode, and snuck his way into rural Welsh farmland to try and protect Darren one last time.
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