The only person allowed (at first) into this terrible family vacation is Elliot, who seems to basically be living with Shannon and Danny at this point. Marian is certainly proving her quality, too. She lets Sean take a break to shower and change clothes, but can anyone blame Billy for obsessively baking cake after cake as a way to deal with the stress? Maybe Finn wasn’t the only monster in the Wallace family. And every so often she forces Sean to help: to hold Tove while she pries off her fingernails to keep her steady while the blood goes everywhere. She raises and lowers her over a pile of broken wine bottles. Who hired her and the sniper who attacked Sean? Who is targeting the Wallaces? Did they kill Finn? Why? Each question has an accompanying injury inflicted by Marian. In a basement covered in plastic sheeting, with the song “Only You and You Alone” by the Platters blaring on loop, Marian is torturing Tove for information. Sean, Marian, and Billy put out the word that Alex had killed her, but in reality, they’re holding her at a secret safe house in London. When “Episode 4” ended, I thought Tove was dead, but whew, man, is she not. In show time, “Episode 6” begins a week after the events of “ Episode 4,” in which Elliot took a bullet for a Sean during that sniper attack by Leif, and Alex - arriving at the Wallace home after attending a secret investors’ dinner with Ed and Jevan - shoots Tove, who was posing as a server and was aiming at Sean. Threatening someone’s child will tend to do that. What is more surprising is how he seems to materialize out of nowhere after Finn’s death, immediately wields authority and slyness, and by the end of “Episode 6” seems to have swayed Ed onto his side.
But everyone in this world knows the importance of appearances, and so in those ways, Jevan isn’t particularly unique. “Now fucking pay me,” Jackie Cogan said, and can’t you imagine Jevan Kapadia saying the same thing? Sure, he’s genteel, polite, and sophisticated, with his all-glass office, his perfectly coiffed hair, and his beautifully tailored silk shirts. They’re all running around like chickens with their heads cut off, but the answer to who killed Finn now seems so obvious, like it was staring them in the face all along. Ed bears the weight of caring for Sean and Billy, a responsibility he’s taken over after the killing of his business partner and best friend. Marian is obsessed with tracking down more information about Floriana, the man Finn was planning to leave her for. Sean has made exacting revenge against Finn’s murderer his sole motivation. Duh.” But that revelation hit so hard during “Episode 6” because it feels like a direct rejection of the idea that the Wallaces seem to be caught up on, which is that any of this was personal.
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I wouldn’t begrudge you if you read these two paragraphs and thought to yourself, “Yeah, of course the series about organized crime is about the spoils of that crime. You know that cash register sound effect in M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes”? I can’t unhear it! The friction between father Ed and son Alex Dumani - because Alex is Finn’s heir apparent in terms of cleaning dirty cash. Kinney and Darren’s murders - tying up loose ends, to get the money flowing again. Finn’s murder - because he was planning to leave, which would interrupt the money. So it goes for the Wallaces in “Episode 6,” a slower episode of Gangs of London compared with the insane siege of last week’s “Episode 5.” All the crap that the Wallace crime organization is going through right now is because of the money. It always, always comes back to the money. He cares about his money, and what he was promised, and what he is owed.
He doesn’t care about the 2008 recession, or that business is down for his employers.
It’s just a business,” Jackie says, demanding adequate payment for the two men he’s killed at the behest of the mob. In Andrew Dominik’s 2012 masterpiece Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt’s assassin character Jackie Cogan gets the film’s final lines with a monologue about the history of the United States, the cynicism of capitalism, and his own derision toward the idea that anything could ever get better.