Gerard Sullivan

Gerard John "Sully" Sullivan' is a drug kingpin who served as an underboss for Dushane Hill in Top Boy, he is portrayed by Kane Robinson.

He is the deuteragonist of the series, serving as the deuteragonist in season 1, anti-hero in season 2 and the deuteragonist in season 3.

Biography
Sully partnered up with Dushane in the drug trade (with close friend Dris Wright serving as the number 3.) Dris eventually took over his position after Sully killed Leon. Sully is a father figure for Jason. He also has a daughter but his position as a father for her has been filled by his ex's new boyfriend. Family-wise, Sully has 2 estranged cousins; Jermaine and Rafe. Both of which act as antagonists in Sully's storylines.

Season 1
Sully is first seen with Dushane and Dris at the Summerhouse market, while Tareek and Chantelle are waiting for them in the Summerhouse estate, Tareek calls Dushane as Kamale and his crew are driving to rob them, Dushane, Dris and Sully are too late to help.

Later, Dushane and Sully are in the café talking to Lee Greene, who explains they owe Bobby Raikes £3,000 as a result of the lost drugs. The two leave the café and debate whether to talk to Raikes about Greene, who they believe is hindering their progress. They then call on Femi to help them with the money problem, who is unable to assist. Dushane and Sully meet back up with Femi who provides them with an address in Swiss Cottage for them to set up shop. Femi asks for money back in return but Dushane says he’ll get it within three days. Sully was sat in the Summerhouse market, as Gem and Ra'Nell are walking to school, Dushane stops them both and gets them to come work for him and Sully. Meanwhile, Sully and Dushane are in the gym and they are approached by Leon to talk them out to leave Ra'Nell out of their drug business. Sully doesn't like it but Dushane tells him to leave it for now. Dushane and Sully meet Lee Greene at the café. Greene gives the two an envelope with a name in and some pliers. Ross Rosten is at the barber's. Dushane and Sully are waiting for him there. As he leaves, the two exit and follow him. The two confront him and beat him, before taking him to a warehouse and cutting off a finger. However, it’s the wrong one and they have to cut off the other. It is revealed Rosten is the reason Raikes’ nephew has a glass eye. He reveals to the two that Lee has been promoted and Dushane and Sully are now free to run Summerhouse – although exactly on his terms, but whatever they need to do is fine by him. They confront Kamale by the car park at the football pitches. They warn him that they’re running Summerhouse now. Sully stabs him in his leg and warns him to stay out of Summerhouse. Dushane informs Raikes about the place in Finchley. Raikes has his concerns but allows them to go ahead. Sully, Chantelle and Tareek pick up Gem after school. Ra’Nell tries to follow but Sully tells him he can’t come, and he should talk to Leon if he has a problem. They drive to Finchley and go to the house where Dris and Andre are, with a crackhead named Robert. While the whole crew are in the drug house in Finchley, Gem is meeting a customer and then Chantelle receives a phone call randomly. It happens to be Kamale, Ninja and the rest of the Fields crew they go and rob them again.

Dushane and Sully are meeting with Bobby. Bobby points out they’ve lost £40,000 and they have three days to get the money back. Dushane requests guns from Bobby, who then gives them two weeks to get the money back. Meanwhile Lee Greene takes a visit to Dushane's brother and burns him with an iron on his chest. Dushane and Sully discuss their plans with what to do with Kamale. Sully says they should’ve killed him when they had the chance, but when Dushane questions him if he’s really ready to kill he says nothing. As when Dushane finds out, Sully and Dushane go together and they go and beat up Lee for what they did to Chris. Dushane and Sully are at the gym. An unknown man gives them a package with some guns. The two discuss how to deal with Kamale as they plan to lure him out. Sully is adamant Gem could be the snitch and Dushane is dubious about that, but tells him to make sure Dris keeps an eye on him. As the two walk sto the market, Dushane sees Wendell and his son. Dushane reveals to Wendell’s son that he’s his brother. When Sully asks who Wendell is Dushane says no one. Tareek rings Dushane and Sully and notes that he has saeenNinja and some of the Fields gang at the bowling alley. Dris gives the two their guns. Tareek mentions that he isn’t sure Kamale is there and as Ninja always carries It might not be worth the risk. Dushane sends two of the girls he was with n there to see if Kamale is there. However, he’s not there. Dushane, Sully and the two girls are driving when they spot Shaun, Kamale’s cousin from the year below. Sully is eager to send a message to Fields by hurting Shaun, despite him not being involved in that lifestyle. Dushane on the other hand,would rather hold him until Kamale pays back for him. Dushane follows Shaun off the tube and onto the streets. Sully lures Shaun in and strikes him with a hammer. They load him into the boot and drive to an abandoned location. Upon reaching their location they realise they’ve killed him. Dushane and Sully torch the car they used.

Dushane is at church with his mother. As they leave, Dushane spots Sully waiting for him in a car opposite. He walks over and asks him what he’s doing. Sully says he hasn’t seen him in three days. Dushane expresses remorse over Shaun’s death and wishes it was someone that deserved it. Dris is with the others as Dushane and Sully pull up. Tareek says he’s sad about what happened to Shaun but Dushane says it’s just hard luck. Either way it’s an opportunity as Kamale will show up either at the shrine to him or at his auntie’s house, so when he shows up it’s time to make a move on him. Sully sends Chantelle and Andre to the shrine. Michael and his friend come past and Dushane tells them they have the day off school, and he sends them to London Fields, and if they see Kamale or Ninja they’re to ring him instantly. Tareek says he has a girl living opposite Shaun’s mum’s yard, so he goes there. Sully pressures Dushane about the snitch. He thinks its Gem but Dushane has his doubts and tells him it’s like he wants it to be him and he should leave it. Sully gets annoyed and thinks he’s getting ordered,and sends Dris to the school to collect Gem for him. As Dris goes there, Gem runs away but loses his tail. Dris rings Sully and tells him Gem gets away, but Sully doesn’t want to hear excuses. Sully goes to see his daughter Tash. He’s bought her a teddy bear. Her mother, Taylor watches on before hsheand Sully go to the bedroom. Whilst Dris was confronting Ra'Nell, chasing Gem about Kamale and possibly killing his dog. Leon confronts Dushane, Sully and Dris. Sully pulls a gun on him as Leon tells him that the kids trust them. But Dushane tells Sully to lower the gun and Leon to leave. Michael rings Dushane to tell him he’s spotted Kamale. Dushane, Sully and Dris make their way over in the van. The trio enter sKamale’s house. Dris stabs Dwight in the arm as the others run upstairs. They kidnap Kamale and drive away. They ask him where the dugs are but Kamale refuses to tell them. They bury him for a bit and when they let him out he tells them its at Trust Tyres. Sully gives the gun to Dris who shoots Kamale before covering him back up again. Dushane and Sully go to Trust Tyres. When they get there, they find Lee Greene, who tries to tell them he’s not the snake. Dushane aims the gun at Lee who tries to reason with him but Sully nudges him, causing him to pull the trigger, killing Lee, as Sully finishes him off. Dushane, Sully and Tareek go to the club to Giggs' event. Tareek is dancing with a girl who takes him outside. However, it’s a trap and Ninja appears and stabs Tareek. As he bleeds on the ground Ninja tells him to tell Dushane and Sully not to fuck with them.

Bobby Raikes meets Dushane and Sully at a car park. Dushane informs him that Lee was the snitch. Bobby is still not happy and maintained that it was his choice what to do with Lee. Ra’Nell goes to meet Dushane and the others. He informs that he has five keys of the weed to sell for the right price. Dushane requests a sample. Bobby rings Dushane and tells him to meet him at the snooker hall at 7PM. Sully asks why he just wants to meet him and is annoyed that he’s not involved. Bobby asks Dushane if he’s been making money and warns him and Sully to stop making so much noise. Bobby says that he should give Sully up or he’ll get dragged down with him, but Dushane refuses. Dushane goes to the club to meet Sully and he tells them about the weed Ra’Nell brought him. He says it’s good and Sully wants to rob him and get it for free but Dushane refuses, saying he likes Ra’Nell and wants to work with him. Sully is angered though and behind Dushane’s back requests Dris to follow Ra’Nell and find out where the farm is. Sully meets Dris at the bottom of the flats. Ra’Nell makes his way downstairs as the two wait sfor him. Sully confronts him and tries to take the bag but Ra’Nell insists for Dushane. As this is happening, Leon arrives at the scene and fights with Sully, but in the scuffle Sully fires his gun, fatally wounding Leon. Dushane goes to Taylor’s house, where Sully is,and tells him that he’s fucked up. The two argue before Dushane requests the gun so he can go get rid of it. Dushane then rings Bobby and tells him he was right earlier. He tells him that he has the gun that was used to kill Lee Greene, and Bobby says he’ll take care of that too. The two arrange to meet. After Dushane killed Raikes, Dushane goes and tells Sully that Raikes is dead, and he killed him. When Sully asks why Dushane tells him what Raikes said about him being a liability, to Sully’s surprise. Dushane then tells him things are going to be run differently in Summerhouse before leaving with Dris.

Season 2
Sully comes on as a minor antagonist in his former friend Dushane's storyline and also an anti hero. Kamale's body is found and the police make a further investigation, Dushane, Sully and Dris are arrested by the police and questioned about the murder of Kamale Lewis but all 3 are released as Kamale's henchmen was already killed in a new years party. Meanwhile, Sully is a rival against his former friend and partner Dushane and has a new sidekick named Mike who is a man who has served so many times in prison, Mike is a proper psychopath and they have 2 other people to take out Dushane's operation.

Dushane and Sully discuss their plans with what to do with Kamale. Sully says they should’ve killed him when they had the chance, but when Dushane questions him if he’s really ready to kill he says nothing.

Sully and Mike are hired to kill Jermaine Newton who happens to be Sully's cousin, they both kidnap him, also during the season a little kid named Jason steals Sully's phone, so between Jason stealing his phone and making sure Jermaine get away, Sully chooses to focus on getting at Jermaine instead and taking him to his flat and tying him to a radiator. Jermaine said he needs to eat so he calls his phone and rings Jason, Jason comes over and Sully automatically forgives him and treats him like a son. Sully's other cousin and Jermaine's cousin Rafe tracks down Sully's flat to rescue Jermaine and try and kill Sully but gets away kidnapping Jermaine with Mike and Jason and goes to Jason's house where his mum is a smackhead and his mum's boyfriend abuses Jason which Sully beats him up and has a rant at Jason's mum for not taking care of Jason properly. With Rakes angry about his cousin, Sully goes to Dushane for help to get him off hsm and Mike's back, he sends Jason to go to Summerhouse and look for Dushane to try and negotiate with Rakes to get him off Sully's back. Whilst Dushane speaks with Rafe he tells him if he brings back Jermaine and no comebacks come to Sully so Dushane brings Jermaine back and in return Rafe comes back and his Mike. Sully comes back to confront Dushane he is very upset, Dushane tells him that Mike is slowing him down and Sully walks out and he is upset about it.

With Michael a young dealer in Summerhouse arrested for theft and also Kayla girlfriend to Kamale being questioned by the police about Kamale and what happened the night he was killed, Rhianna Parkes (Dushane's lawyer) is present in Kayla's arrest but Kayla is charged as she is accused of killing Kamale, but the charge is dropped as Dushane used Rhianna to talk her out of the deal as she was close to telling the police that Dris, Sully and Dushane were the ones who killed Kamale but Rhianna talks her out of it.

Sully is back working with Dushane again, Dris and another man named Shaheed come with them to retrieve the stolen drugs from the Albanians that they stoled from the supplier Joe who supplies to Dushane, as they come over the Albanian's warehouse they get back everything, Dushane cuts Sully a lot of money and tries to get him back running Summerhouse with him again. However Sully turns it down and hasn't forgiven Dushane for what happened to Mike and walks out. Sully is seen with Jason and treats him like a son in the end of season 2.

Season 3
Six years later Sully is first seen in the 2nd episode "Building Bridges". Sully is first seen in prison, Modie a former leader of the London Fields gang is also in the same prison with Sully and them 2 don't happen to get along. However, Modie tries everything he can to stop Sully from getting released from prison. Sully gets his own back on Modie by scolding him in his face where his eye site starts getting really bad. On his release day, Sully has Jason who is an old friend and a son figure waiting outside the prison gates for him, they are seen when Sully is watching his daughter Tash in the school playground, then they are sat in the old kebab shop in Summerhouse, Jason told Sully that his mother passed away and Jason confesses to Sully that he was using drugs which he wasn't happy about. Dushane catches up with Sully and tries to get him back to work with him and be partners again but Sully refuses it. Sully and Jason travel to Ramsgate to make some money so they are waiting in Ramsgate beach and then they meet up with an old friend Gem Mustapha. Gem takes them to a house with a lot of immigrants, they are regularly racially abused, they also made racial comments to Sully and Jason. Sully makes a promise to Jason when they return to London which takes Jason to watch his favourite football team Arsenal. They get the money, Sully cuts Gem some money and Gem makes his own way. During the night the arson attack in the house changes everything, Sully escapes the house fire, Jason struggles to get out, he burns to death and Sully is grieving badly over it. Sully returns back to London. Sully goes to Dris's flat and points a gun at Dushane and Dris to tell Dushane that he wants to partner up with him. Dushane and Sully meet up with Haze to do the pick up and Sully and Dushane get back on top again.

Sully's ex girlfriend and the mother of his child Taylor meet up with Sully about getting Sully to get to know Tash and also get to know Paul who is Taylor's new partner. After Taylor speaks with Sully, his estranged cousin walks over, he tells Sully that he is still not over the kidnapping, Sully tells Jermaine to move on and that it was 6 years ago, the 2 then shake hands and walk away. Sully, however, had the opportunity to bond with his daughter, he reads her favourite book to her.

Sully attends Jason's funeral and finds some peace at his funeral, however it doesn't last long and Sully gets ambushed by Jermaine and Modie's cousin Layton as he leaves. Sully survives the ambush but suspects there is a snitch. Meanwhile ,with Dushane and Sully back on top with Summerhouse, the ZTs lead by Jamie Tovell a young ruthless leader decide to go to war with Summerhouse. Sully and Dushane kidnap Lizzie and ask her to supply to them and kill Jamie. Sully and Dushane go over to Haze, Dushane kills Haze in his car while Sully looks out to see if no one is coming.

It didn't go well as Sully's suspicions were confirmed when Dushane and Sully are both shot up, they survive it but they kill both of their 2 henchmen, Modie escaped and he and Jermaine come to kill Sully and Dushane but fail. The information was given by Dris a long time friend of Sully and Dushane who betrayed them both.

Dushane and Sully suspect Dris and hatch a plan to set him up by giving him their location and waiting for the ZTs to arrive. Jamie and his crew get information off Dris and go over there to kill Sully and Dushane but they are not there as they knew Dris was the snake.

Sully comes over to Dris' flat he takes him out of his flat and takes him to a rooftop. Jaq is up there, Sully tells her to leave, Sully points his gun at Dris, Dris says "if you're gonna, do do it fam" and Sully fires the gun.

With Jamie in prison after setting up his brothers knowing Jamie would take the rap for it, Dushane is back on top again, Sully comes back to see Dushane, they meet outside Dushane's girlfriend Shelley's flat. Sully is disappointed and he says to Dushane "Just because we didn't lose doesn't mean we won" and he walks off.

Season 4
To be added

Murders committed by Sully

 * Shaun Campbell: Accidentally killed with a hammer. (2011)
 * Lee Greene: Shot to death along with Dushane, (2011)
 * Leon: Shot to death after Leon was defending Ra'Nell. (2011)


 * Dris Wright: Shot to death for selling him out to his cousin Jermaine. (2019)

Murders connected to Sully

 * Kamale Lewis: Kidnapped by Dushane, Sully and Dris and interrogated him, Dris shot Kamale. (2011)
 * Jason: Burnt to death in a fire set by the racists at a immigrant’s house in Ramsgate. Sully could only helplessly watch the events. (2019)
 * Haze: Shot in the head by Dushane, Sully was looking out to make sure no one was coming. (2019)

Trivia

 * Sully serves as a deuteragonist and anti hero in season 1 & 3.
 * Sully is a minor antagonist and anti hero in season 2.
 * When Sully first met Jason, he robbed Sully and then Sully forgave Jason and treat him like a son.
 * Sully made a promise to Jason to watch Arsenal play.
 * Sully was the first character to make the first kill which was Shaun which was accidental.
 * Sully owns a black iPhone SE (2016)