MobLand season 1: summary & episode guide

It starts with a night out that goes badly wrong. Eddie Harrigan, Conrad and Maeve’s grandson and the family’s standing liability, spends it with Tommy Stevenson, heir to the rival South London outfit, and Tommy never comes home. Harry Da Souza, the family’s fixer, gives the next three episodes to hiding evidence, buying time and lying to Richie Stevenson’s face. The truth is worse than a disappearance: Eddie killed Tommy, and Harry hands Richie a scapegoat, the club owner Valjon, to keep the peace. [1][3][5]

The peace never stands a chance, because the person working hardest against it lives in the Harrigans’ own house. Maeve talks Conrad into shooting his oldest friend, Archie, on nothing firmer than her word. Episode 4 all but confirms she put Eddie up to Tommy’s killing. She arranges the car bomb that kills Richie’s wife, Vron, the day after Tommy’s funeral, and she quietly tells Richie where to find Conrad’s daughter Seraphina in Antwerp. That betrayal gets Brendan, Conrad’s eldest son, killed while the family watches on a live feed. Harry saves Seraphina only by going into debt to Kat McAllister, a crime boss whose job offer he once turned down. [1][4][7][8][9][10]

The police get close, then get bought. Alice, the friend Jan makes in group therapy, is working for the detectives investigating the family. Detectives Fisk and Mukasa try to turn Richie, and he shoots them both. Colin Tattersall, a retired senior officer the inquiry leans on, turns out to be in Richie’s pocket. Alice lifts DNA at a family dinner, and in episode 9 Conrad and Maeve are arrested for murders they did not commit, minutes after Conrad finally confronts Maeve over Antwerp. [1][10][11]

Two private stories run underneath the war. Kevin, Harry’s friend since they met in prison, tracks down the guard who abused them both there and shoots him. And the family’s ugliest secret comes out: Eddie is not Conrad’s grandson but his son. Bella, Kevin’s wife, was once Conrad’s mistress. [1][4][11][13]

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The informer is finally named: O’Hara Delaney, the family’s own lawyer. Archie died for nothing. Harry plays her back against Richie: his men walk into a bomb at her office and an empty safe house, and at the Sinful Monkey Kevin shoots Richie and Harry kills O’Hara. Kiko, one of Harry’s crew, does not survive the night. [13][12]

Kevin steps up. He visits Conrad in prison, tells him Archie was never the traitor, and makes it plain who runs the family now. Harry hands Kevin the family’s likeliest way out: Alice on tape, confessing to the frame. Maeve rings Conrad from her cell and calls the whole bloody business a test of the family. He admits he loves her anyway. [13][12][14]

The loose ends are the point. Maeve has told Eddie that Conrad is his father and ordered him to kill Harry and Seraphina. Kat, turned down by Harry, has threatened Jan and Gina and set up a meeting with Seraphina. In the Harrigans’ kitchen, Jan cuts herself, Harry reaches to help, and her flailing arm puts the knife in his chest. It is an accident, and he makes a joke of it. The last image is Conrad on the prison landing, taking applause from the other inmates as if he owns the place. That is where season 1 leaves things. [13][12][14]