The Gentlemen Season 2 Character Guide — Who's Who, Who Betrays Who and Where Everyone Ends Up

Spoiler warning: this guide covers the full Season 2 finale, including who dies and who betrays whom.

The Gentlemen Season 2 was Netflix’s No. 1 English-language TV show globally for the week of September 7–13, 2026, with 9.9 million views — a big enough audience that the show’s genuinely tangled web of families, factions and betrayals is worth mapping properly. This isn’t a recap of how the season ends; our full ending explained covers that. This is who everyone actually is, and where each of them stands once the season is over.

The Quick Map

Character	Actor	Faction	Status by the finale
Eddie Horniman	Theo James	Horniman family	Widowed, breaking from Bobby, returning to the business on his own terms
Susie Glass	Kaya Scodelario	Glass family	Building independent supply lines with Carlos Vargas
Bobby Glass	Ray Winstone	Glass family	Expanding toward Marco’s Italian territory
Freddy Horniman	Daniel Ings	Horniman family	Killed Gospel John on Eddie’s order; fate uncertain
Gospel John	Pearce Quigley	Antagonist	Dead — killed by Freddy
Bella	Benedetta Porcaroli	Italian faction	Dead — killed in the plane explosion
Marco Moretti	Sergio Castellitto	Italian faction	Alive, operation intact
Cico Maldini	Michele Morrone	Italian faction	Already dead before the season’s main events
Lord Hawthorne	Hugh Bonneville	Bobby’s allies	Dead — falls to his death
Uncle Stan	Giancarlo Esposito	Wildcard ally	Alive; sold Eddie’s debt to Bobby

The Horniman Family

Eddie Horniman (Theo James) inherits the family estate and, with it, discovers his father secretly rented Halstead Manor to Bobby Glass’s cannabis operation. Season 2 pushes him well past reluctant landlord: by the finale he’s tortured a man on a false lead, nearly gotten Bobby Glass killed over it, survived a near-fatal beating and burial, married and lost Bella within the same day, and forced his own brother to commit murder. Where he lands: independent of Bobby’s direct control, but visibly changed by how he got there.

Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario) runs the criminal operation’s day-to-day logistics and becomes Eddie’s closest partner across both seasons — genuinely closer to him by the end of Season 2, according to the show’s own writers, even as her personal trajectory pulls elsewhere. She spends the season quietly building supply lines with Carlos Vargas that belong to her rather than her father, a deliberate step toward operating outside both her father’s name and her partnership with Eddie.

Freddy Horniman (Daniel Ings) is Eddie’s older, more erratic brother, still carrying the fallout from killing Tommy Dixon in Season 1’s chicken-suit confrontation. Gospel John — Tommy’s brother — spends Season 2 manipulating that guilt into an actual conspiracy: Freddy admits to Eddie that he knew about and helped with the plot that kills Bella. Eddie’s punishment is to force Freddy to kill Gospel John himself. What that does to Freddy going forward is left deliberately unresolved.

Lady Sabrina (Joely Richardson) is Eddie and Freddy’s protective mother, the Dowager Duchess of the family estate.

Lady Charly Horniman (Jasmine Blackborow) is Eddie and Freddy’s sister, and the mother of infant Tarquin — the nephew targeted in the mercenary kidnapping attempt that kicks off the finale’s chain of events.

Nanny (Benjamin Clementine) is Charly’s partner and Tarquin’s father, a former soldier serving as an equerry to the King — connecting the Horniman family directly to the royal establishment Uncle Stan is so fascinated by.

Geoff Seacombe (Vinnie Jones) is the family’s steadfast gamekeeper at Halstead Manor.

The Glass Family and Their Circle

Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone) is the patriarch behind the cannabis empire operating out of Halstead Manor, and the season’s central power Eddie keeps orbiting. Season 2 puts them through a full cycle: Eddie wrongly suspects Bobby of orchestrating an attack on his family, nearly has him assassinated in prison, then helps save his life once the truth comes out. By the finale, Bobby has technically bought Eddie’s debt back — but Eddie has made clear any return to the business happens on his own terms. Bobby’s own ambitions are already moving toward absorbing Marco’s Italian territory.

Jack Glass (Harry Goodwins) is Susie’s younger brother, an aspiring boxer.

Gabrielle (Ruby Sear) is a London-based grifter who handles surveillance work for the operation.

Jimmy Chang (Michael Vu) is the operation’s cannabis cultivation expert.

Joe Green (Tyler Conti) is a dealer who knew Susie as a child through her brother Jack, and reconnects with her in Season 2 as a potential love interest.

The Antagonist: Gospel John

Gospel John / John “The Gospel” Dixon (Pearce Quigley) is the season’s real architect of chaos. Introduced in Season 1 as Tommy Dixon’s Bible-quoting brother seeking revenge on Freddy, he spends Season 2 rebuilding that grudge into something closer to a partnership — meeting Freddy in rehab, framing himself as a kindred spirit, and using Freddy’s resentment over losing the Halstead title to help engineer Bella’s death. Our full Gospel John explainer covers his complete arc and history with the family.

The Italian Faction

Season 2’s biggest structural addition is a new arc set around the Italian lakes, where Eddie and Susie try to establish a foothold.

Marco Moretti (Sergio Castellitto) is the ruthless Italian mafia boss controlling the territory Eddie’s operation moves into.

Cico Maldini (Michele Morrone) is a duplicitous fixer connected to Marco’s operation — and Bella’s late husband, already dead before Bella becomes central to Eddie’s story.

Bella (Benedetta Porcaroli) becomes Eddie’s partner in the Italian operation after Cico’s death, and what starts as a strategic alliance becomes genuine feeling on Eddie’s side. They marry at Lake Maggiore; hours later, she’s killed when her seaplane explodes mid-flight — the conspiracy Gospel John and Freddy set in motion.

New Allies, Rivals and Wildcards

Lord Hawthorne (Hugh Bonneville) is a member of the House of Lords and one of Bobby’s political allies, offering connections Eddie tries to use against Bobby’s own operation via a decriminalization bill. Hawthorne dies in a fall once that plan collapses.

Aisha (Maya Jama) is a friend of Susie’s, described in-show as someone who “looks after herself and everyone who comes within her orbit.” She’s revealed to be connected to Prince Amir bin Abdullah al-Hadidi after relocating to the Middle East, and later appears working alongside a separate contact, Sheikh Khaled Suliman.

Organ John (Chris Eubank Jr.) is a dangerous enforcer and fighter, played by the professional boxer in his acting debut.

Uncle Stan / Stanley Johnston (Giancarlo Esposito) is an ultra-wealthy American fixated on British aristocratic tradition, with his own interest in branching into the criminal economy Eddie now runs. His Season 2 role is pivotal to the plot’s midpoint: he reveals he sold Eddie’s debt to Bobby on the same day Eddie married Bella, which is what finally clears Bobby of orchestrating the attack Eddie wrongly blamed him for.

Where Everyone Stands After the Finale

Eddie survives, widowed and changed, positioned to return to the business on terms he sets himself. Susie is quietly building something separate from both her father and her partnership with Eddie. Bobby is already looking past this season’s conflict toward absorbing Marco’s territory. Freddy has killed a man on his brother’s order, with no confirmation of what that costs him going forward. Gospel John, Bella and Lord Hawthorne are all dead. And Season 3 — already confirmed before Season 2 even premiered — picks up from exactly that unsettled arrangement, not a clean resolution.