Decider iconDeciderSep 4, 2026 ~8 min source read

‘The Gentlemen’ S2E3 — “Do You Reject Satan?”: Red Ned’s Payback and Eddie’s Hardening

Episode 3 jumps the season into chain-reaction trouble: a dangerous new strain, labor unrest led by Red Ned, a major theft, and Eddie’s increasing willingness to use extreme violence to solve problems.

‘The Gentlemen’ Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: Red Ned Redemption
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A psychosis-inducing cannabis strain created by Jimmy triggers workplace unrest and a dangerous theft that threatens a parliamentary decriminalization bill.

Red Ned leads a labor push and, after being fired, escalates to stealing ten containers of product — forcing the Glass-Horniman operation and outside gangs into confrontation.

Eddie struggles with guilt over killing an accountant, experiences visions, and responds to the crisis by ordering lethal force that eliminates an Albanian goon squad and recovers the stolen crop.

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'The Gentlemen' Season 2 Episode 3 "Do You Reject Satan?" Recap Skip to main content Search Search. Reelgood "Once you stop taking responsibility for your own actions, it's very hard to go back." Lord Eddie is talking to Susie Glass about his time in the military when he drops this little nugget. She interprets it as a shot at her willingness to follow her daddy Bobby's orders.

How it works

  • Netflix This installment of The Gentlemen moves us past the stage-setting of the first two hours of Season 2 and heads straight into the show's usual mode:
  • Netflix I'm sure you can imagine how labor activism goes over with a peer of the realm and a gangster.
  • (Sorry to appropriate a British colloquialism, but it really feels appropriate here.) Susie shows no more signs of obeying her dad here than she does on getting that decrim bill killed per his wishes.
  • Speaking as a socialist who's walked picket lines, his behavior with Red Ned and his fellow workers makes my skin crawl, no matter how many fun quips about capitalism and socialism Eddie and Susie get off...
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What to take from it

The poor guy really was only trying to look out for people, and he got a bullet in his head for his troubles. See more of our coverage in your search results. Edward and Susan discover they have a problem, which leads to another problem, which leads to another problem, and so on and so on until one or the other of them unlocks the solution that solves all the other problems like dominos…until the next problem (or next episode) comes along, of course.

Example or evidence

  • He is very likeable, right up until the moment he does something to remind you that the only reason he's the star of this story is his willingness to do unlikeable things.
  • He's decided he has no choice but to do the bad things he does, which means he can choose to do anything he wants.
  • Eddie and Susan fire him, then straight-up threaten to kill him if he talks, with Eddie in particular laying the villain schtick on real thick.
  • As for Red Ned, he decides to get a little payback with the help of his Albanian crony Kris (Rowan Polonski).

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