If you watched Top Boy Season 5, you might be wondering who all dies in the end, so here is the Top Boy Season 5 Ending Explained. The final season of Top Boy, which has waited more than ten years since the release of its pilot episode, is now available on Netflix.
According to the show’s advertising slogan, it gives viewers a resolution to Sully and Dushane’s story that leaves “No Loose Ends.” Netflix may refer to this season as “season 3,” but the show has actually been running for five seasons as Top Boy: Summerhouse since the streamer renamed the first two Channel 4 seasons.
Early in the last season of Top Boy, tragedy strikes the life of ruthless drug dealer Jaq (Jasmine Jobson) when her sister Lauryn (Saffron Hocking), who drowned in her bathtub after suffering postpartum depression and heroin addiction, dies.
Jaq betrays her boss, drug lord Sully (Kane Robinson), with the aid of buddy Kieron (Joshua Blissett) and takes his sizable cache of cocaine to save her young nephew from the same terrible forces that claimed Lauryn’s life.
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Top Boy Season 5 Ending Explained
Kieron gets murdered by Sully after discovering his role in the robbery. Jaq subsequently agrees to return the pills to Sully on the condition that she, her lover Becks (Adwoa Aboah), and Lauryn’s unborn child are given a “pass” and permitted to begin a new life without fear of repercussions out of concern for her safety and that of her loved ones.
Sully commits to consider the deal, but Dushane (Ashley Walters) surprises Jaq as she heads to the exchange, robbing her of the drugs and leaving Jaq at the meet without any energy. Sully, enraged, warns his old lieutenant that the agreement is off and that he would have no pity for her.
The last time we see Jaq, she is returning home to Bex and the child after neutralizing the threat posed by both Sully and Dushane (more on that later). The immediate threat is no longer present, but will Jaq keep her pledge and leave the drug trade for the benefit of her nephew?
The audience must decide what will happen to her in the end. In the first scene of the final episode of Top Boy, former drug lord Dushane is shown returning to the Summerhouse estate and hiding from the police in his late mother’s abandoned apartment.
When Dushane learns that his business partners have conned him out of £16 million, he goes into a murderous rage and brutally kills drug dealer Jeffrey Dalton (Shaun Dingwall) as soon as he tells him the bad news.
Dushane is quickly identified as the main suspect by MIT because of the abundance of his prints at the killing site. He has plans to leave the nation with the help of the influential Isaac (Arsher Ali) and establish a business in Turkey, but he needs money to ensure his safety.
Dushane steals Sully’s drug cache from Jaq out of desperation, and Isaac agrees to deploy foot soldiers to free Dushane from Summerhouse in exchange for a share of the loot. Isaac’s men are shot and killed as they arrive at the pick-up area when Sully discovers Dushane heading toward the extraction point and pursues him through the estate.
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In a last-ditch attempt to flee on foot with the drugs, Dushane is shot in the stomach by Sully as he scales a closed gate carrying the cache. Sully claims that he would have given Dushane the money to leave the country, but Dushane maintains that they were “done” and that he had “no choice” but to rob Jaq.
The two ex-friends dispute while separated by the gate. When Dushane argues that they were once “brothers,” Sully insists that Dushane simply used him and never showed him any respect.
They start to unravel their connection, bringing up past grudges. I do respect you, family,” a worn-out Dushane replies, his wound terminal. He admits to Sully, thinking back on their violent past, “You were right. Without the bodies, “this s**t can’t run.”
Sully tries to defend his actions and the crimes he has committed, which now include killing his oldest friend, as Dushane draws his final breath: “Look at where we’re from. Examine it. We are food if we are not monsters, and I can never be food.
Dushane stops talking as the once-top lad of Summerhouse ultimately passes away in a bloody pool on the sidewalk. The previous season of Top Boy came to a devastating conclusion when Sully killed Jamie (Michael Ward), Dushane’s chosen successor, in front of Stef (Araloyin Oshunremi) and Aaron (Hope Ikpoku Jr.), Jamie’s younger brothers.
Stef is living in care when this last adventure begins; we are informed that Aaron has a job and has moved to Leeds. But for Stef, there seems to be no way out of Summerhouse or from Sully, who terrorizes the young teen and his companions under the leadership of Simon (Dudley O’Shaughnessy).
Stef, who has been battling his need for vengeance throughout the entire season, confronts Sully in the season finale of Top Boy by holding him at gunpoint in a nearby park after receiving a firearm from Simon.
He asks the assassin of his brother, “How does it feel?” A shattered Sully responds, “To be honest, Stefan, feeling done left me a long time ago.” Sully explains to Stef that he “had to be done, just like you gotta do what ya gotta do” when he killed Jamie. It’s fine with me. But Stef isn’t going to act like Sully.
He lowers his weapon and turns to go, telling his adversary, “You’re not worth it.” Sully is sitting in his car after his altercation with Stef when a gunshot is heard, and blood splatters the windshield.
The final scene of the program features a figure—Sully’s killer—passing by the car after he had been shot in the head. We are unable to see the shooter since the shattered glass of the automobile window blocks their appearance for less than a second. Who then killed Sully?
The most apparent response would seem to be Stef; perhaps, after choosing to spare Sully, he changed his mind and came back to follow through on his threat. The shadowed person does have comparable clothing to Stef, including a hooded, dark jacket.
However, there are alternative options. Jaq had every right to pursue Sully since she knew that she, Becks, and the infant would never be secure as long as he was present. Perhaps to protect her family and exact revenge for Kieron’s murder, she shot Sully or sent someone to do it.
As vengeance for the deaths of his two goons, Isaac might have dispatched a hitman for Sully. Another extremely likely scenario is that Sully was assassinated by the McGees. Earlier in the season, Sully and Dushane meet paths with this Irish family, a “big-time” crime family looking to expand.
The McGees attempt to persuade Sully and Dushane to accept them as business partners through Jonny (Barry Keoghan) and Tadgh (Brian Gleeson), who are acting as their representatives.
Refusing to be frightened, Sully and Dushane kill the two and take their drug stash as well. This cache is then taken by Jaq and Dushane and ultimately returns to Sully, where it stays until Sully’s death.
Despite the McGees’ reputed wealth and power, our boys seem to escape punishment for the murder of two of their number and escape with their loot. Unless Sully’s death was retaliation?
Perhaps Stef—the most likely candidate—killed Sully, thinking about choosing the noble road before deciding to turn evil. We may be overthinking this. Or perhaps the point is that everything is ambiguous.
Given the lifestyle Sully and Dushane lead, it might not have mattered who fired the shot in the end because they were bound to meet with trouble at some point. Although they are no longer here, the effects of their actions will last for a very long time, and the cycle of violence persists.
The last episode has a staggering number of murders, making it difficult to keep count. Thus, the conclusion of season five. On Sully’s orders, Junior kills Kieron. In a shootout with Latif’s men, Junior dies. Sully ends up killing Dushane. Sully is killed by an unidentified person, maybe Stefan.
