History Recap / TheGentlemenS01E01RefinedAggression

* EvilIsPetty: Tommy Dixon is this when he agrees to the take the original $4 million and forgive the interest in exchange for a humiliating video of Freddy; it gets {{Deconstructed}} when he insists on acting like a PrimaDonnaDirector and verbally abuses Freddy for "not being chicken enough". Freddy is already suffering an emotional meltdown over the last few days and gets high on coke to deal with the stress of trying to live up to Tommy's impossible standards. The end result is [[spoiler: Freddy blowing Tommy's head off with a shotgun.]]

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The dynamic of the Halstead brothers. Freddy is a coke-sniffing, borderline-PsychopathicManchild SpoiledBrat who, prior to episode one, incurred a debt to Liverpudlian gangsters to the tune of $8 million pounds. By contrast, Eddie is the second son who rose through the ranks in the military, and throughout the episode remains calm as he learns of said debt, the massive weed operation his father was facilitating, and tries to find a way to solve the massive problem his older brother he has caused.

** Eddie is introduced in charge of a border inspection where he [[GuileHero settles a despite between two farmers King Solomon-style]] and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure allows a man with expired papers through with a warning to renew them instead of causing the man any trouble.]]
** Freddy is first introduce as seemingly calm and solum, then he learns he's been passed over for the inheritance and throws a temper tantrum.
* EvilIsPetty: Tommy Dixon is this when he agrees to the take the original $4 million and forgive the interest in exchange for a humiliating video of Freddy; then it gets {{Deconstructed}} when he insists on acting like a PrimaDonnaDirector and verbally abuses Freddy who is high on coke and already in a emotional wreck over the last few days. The end result is Freddy blowing Tommy's head off with a shotgun.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The dynamic of the Halstead brothers. Freddy is a coke-sniffing, borderline-PsychopathicManchild SpoiledBrat who, prior to episode one, incurred a debt to Liverpudlian gangsters to the tune of $8 million pounds. By contrast, Eddie is the second son who rose through the ranks in the military and throughout the episode remains calm as he learns of said debt, the massive weed operation and deal with father made, and tries to find a way to solve the massive problem his older brother he has caused.
* InadequateInheritor: Freddy is a coke-addict and recognized by everyone as being ill-fit to inherit the estate, to the point that Charolette herself believes that the family manor that was in their family for 600 years would be "gone by Christmas". Even their father recognized this and chose to invoke an oft ignored law that lets him pass the estate to his ''second'' son Edward.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: The story begins with Eddie returning on leave from the military to attend to his father's deathbed and shortly after the funeral. The real plot is when he is unexpectedly named the heir to the estate over his older brother Freddy, and as such learns of the Glass' weed-growing operation n the grounds.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The dynamic of the Horniman brothers, with Freddy being a coke-sniffing, borderline-PsychopathicManchild SpoiledBrat who prior to episode incurred a debt to South London gangsters of $8 million pounds. Meanwhile, Eddie is the second son who joined the military and throughout the episode remains calm as he learns of said debt, the massive weed operation and deal with father made, and tries to find a way to solve the massive problem his older brother he has caused.
* InadequateInheritor: Freddy is a coke-addict and recognized by everyone as being ill-fit to inherit the estate to the point that Charolette herself believes that the family manor that was in their family for 600 years would be "gone by Christmas". Even their father recognized this and chose to invoke an oft ignored law that lets him pass the estate to his ''second'' son Edward.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: The story begins with Eddie returning on leave from the military to attend to his father's deathbed and shortly after the funeral. The real plot is when he is unexpectedly named the heir to the estate over his older brother Freddy and as such learns of the Glass' weed-growing operation n the grounds.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The dynamic of the Horniman brothers with Freddy being a coke-sniffing, borderline-PsychopathicManchild SpoiledBrat who before this episode incurred a debt to South London to the tone of $8 million pounds. Meanwhile, Eddie is the second son who joined the military and throughout the episode remains calm as he learns of said debt, the massive weed operation and deal with father made, and tries to find a way to solve the massive problem his older brother he has caused.

** Eddie is introduced in charge of a border inspection where he [[GuileHero sets a despite between two farmers King Solomon-style]] and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure allows a man with expired papers with a warning to renew them instead of causing the man any trouble.]]
** Freddy is first introduce as seemingly calm and solum, then he learns to have been passed over for the inheritance and throws a temper tantrum.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Eddie is introduced in charge of a border inspection where he [[GuileHero sets a despite between two farmers King Solomon-style]] and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure allows a man with expired papers with a warning to renew them instead of causing the man any trouble.]]

* EvilIsPetty:

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling:

* InadequateSuccessor: Freddy is a coke-addict and recognized by everyone as being ill-fit to inherit the estate to the point that Charolette herself believes that the family manor that was in their family for 600 years would be "gone by Christmas". Even their father recognized this and chose to invoke a