"If we are not monsters, we're food... and I could never be food."
―Sully to Dushane Hill after mortally wounding him.
Gerard John Sullivan, also known as Sully, is the deuteragonist of Top Boy, serving as the deuteragonist in Season 1-4 and the main antagonist of Season 5.
Sully was the co-leader of the powerful Summerhouse gang, founded in the Summerhouse Estate of Hackney, London with his childhood friend Dushane Hill. Cynical, impulsive, violent yet somewhat compassionate, Sully was both respected and feared.
Biography[]
Background information[]
Sully was born on the 13th of February, 1984, in the Summerhouse estate of Hackney, London. His past remains ambiguous, but it is hinted that his family struggled financially, with Sully recalling that he never went on a single vacation except going to Birmingham to see his grandmother, or laid eyes on the ocean. Sully has two maternal cousins Jermaine Newton and Rafe Newton with whom he appears to be estranged.
Sully became friends with Dushane Hill from a young age, having gone to school with him. The two became closer than brothers, developing a mutual, undying loyalty. At some point, he also befriended Dris Wright. The three would partner up and founded the Summerhouse Gang, a drug gang operating on the Summerhouse estate. They were able to build up a profitable business, selling drugs for retail from the local distributor Lee Greene, who himself worked for the powerful distributor Bobby Raikes. However, they were regularly caught up in rival gang disputes, namely with the gang of Kamale Lewis who also operated on their turf and regularly stole their product.
At some point, Sully began a casual relationship with a girl named Taylor. The two have a beloved daughter Tash, who lives with Taylor but was regularly visited by Sully.
Season 1[]
Sully is Dushane's right hand man in Summerhouse, when rival gang member of London Fields, the leader Kamale and his 3 soldiers Ninja and 2 others steal the drugs from them, Sully and Dushane try to find Kamale. They come up with a plan to kidnap Kamale's cousin Shaun. Which goes horribly wrong as Sully accidentally kills Shaun.
Later with the help of Michael, Sully and Dushane bring Dris along and they track down Kamale and kidnap him. Before killing Kamale, he tells them where the stolen drugs are at Trust Tyres where Lee Greene is, Dris then kills Kamale and Sully and Dushane kill Lee Greene and retrieve the stolen drugs.
Sully kills Leon who was defending Ra'Nell when Sully and Dris went to rob the cannabis that Ra'Nell intended to sell to Dushane. As Sully killed Leon with the same used to kill Kamale and Lee this forces Dushane to cover his crimes by killing Bobby Raikes to make it look like a suicide. Dushane then cuts Sully off the gang and has Dris as his 2nd in command.
Season 2[]
Sully is hanging out with his new friend Mike who is a major criminal as they start a rival with Dushane and join forces with Kamale's 2 lieutenants who now run the fields Ninja and Trevor.
Sully meets a young child called Jason, who he takes a shine to. Sully, Dushane and Dris are later arrested for Kamale's murder but released on bail.
Sully and Mike are offered a contract killing Sully's cousin, Jermaine. They kidnap Jermaine intead, which this angers Jermaine's brother, Rafe. Sully uses Jason to go to Dushane and ask for help to defuse the situation. As a part of the deal Sully has to help him steal back drugs from an Albanian gang. Dushane convinces Rafe to let Sully live as long as he frees Jermaine, but Sully is furious when Rafe kills Mike, as Dushane didn't include him in the deal.
He still helps Dushane get his drugs back, before telling him they're done. Sully then concentrates on his life and having a father figure supporting Jason.
Season 3[]
Seven 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 the two don't happen to get along due to Sully's Disliking to Modie. However, Modie tries everything he can to stop Sully from getting released from prison. Sully gets his own back on Modie by scalding him in his face where his eyesight 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 a key character in Top Boy Season 1. 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 5 years ago, the two 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[]
Sully suffers to PTSD through the death of Jason and feeling his guilt of killing Dris. Sully distances himself from Dushane and goes and live on a canal boat. Sully is angry when he finds out Dushane now has Jamie under his wing after his prison release.
Sully's exile comes to an end when his niece Pebbles asks for help. Sully visits Cypress and Khadeem in Peckham to talk about how to get their drugs back in one condition not to come after Pebbles, Sully is then kidnapped and tortured by the gang later. When the Peckham gang post it on social media, it gets the attention to Summerhouse and London Fields crew which then makes way to Dushane. Dushane rounds up Summerhouse and Fields gang to rescue Sully from the gang.
Sully comes back in the game and comes to Spain to help out Jamie with a deal. Sully and Jamie meet up with Emilio and meet Juan el Bueno. Sully doesn't trust Jamie, especially when Juan el Bueno hints that Jamie is going behind Summerhouse's back. Sully instantly kills Juan's men while Emilio executes Juan el Bueno.
With the deal sorted, Dushane tells Sully he wants to retire after Jamie's loyalty to Dushane by killing Kit and says Jamie is part of their retirment plan and wants to hand the top boy to Jamie when going legit and Sully agrees. Moments later Sully goes to Jamie's flat and shoots him in cold blood in front of Stefan before telling him to kill himself.
Season 5[]
After killing Jamie, Sully quickly exits the building and gets in the car and leaves.
He goes to a restaurant where Dushane is having dinner with Shelly, and meets him in the bathroom. Dushane already knows what he just did. He forces Dushane off the roads and Dushane only agrees as long as Sully pays him his money.
Sully self appoints himself as the new Summerhouse leader. The Irish mob muscles into the Summerhouse operation and kills Chaash and Mounir. Sully and Junior visit Bill about Jonny and Tadgh and come to the stable to find Jonny but Jonny gets Dotz shot with Bill's help. Sully doesn't trust them, but is forced to work with them as they're his only supply.
Sully hatches a plan to take out Jonny and Tadgh, taking their drugs for Summerhouse. Sully brings Dushane in the plan to kill Jonny and Tadgh at the old people's home where Tadgh's dad's birthday party is set. Sully kills Jonny and Tadgh. Dushane and Sully take their stashed drugs.
The plan worked but Jaq who was one of Sully's lieutenant then decides to steal the drugs from Sully. Kieron knew about but then double crosses by telling him it was Si which then Kieron, Sully and Junior confront Si and Sully violates him infront of his gang. Jaq then tries to make things right with Sully and tells him she will bring the drugs back to him on one condition to not go after her, Becks or her nephew. Sully then gets his 2nd in command Junior to kill Kieron.
Sully waits for Jaq but discovers Dushane robbed the drugs off Jaq. Sully tells Jaq that she is not getting no pass like Kieron didn't. Sully then calls up Junior as they chase down Dushane. Sully and Junior fight off Isaac's as one of them also kills Junior. Sully catches up to Dushane and fatally shoots him. After Dushane has bled out and died.
The next morning Sully sees Tash one last time. Sully then walks over past the park and is confronted by Stefan, with Stefan still grieving about his brother, Sully then tells Stefan that he is OK with him shooting him and then Stefan tells him he is not worth as he sees Sully is numb from his years of dealing and leaves him with his hollow victory.
Sully shot to death by an anonymous shooter
As Sully entered his car, an anonymous shooter passed the drivers window of Sully’s car and shot him in the head, ending Sully’s life.
Kill count[]
Murders committed by Sully[]
- Shaun Campbell: Hit with a hammer, in order to kidnap him in ransom against Kamale, but then Shaun turns out dead. (9/3/2011)
- Lee Greene: Shot multiple times alongside Dushane for leaking information to Kamale where Dushane and Sully's bando was. (14/3/2011)
- Leon: Shot in a stomach after Leon was defending Ra'Nell against him and Dris during the fight. (16/3/2011)
- Dris Wright: Shot to death for finding out he was leaking information to Jermaine about him and Dushane. (12/10/2019)
- 2 of Juan el Bueno's men: Shot to death, so that him and Emilio can get rid of Juan. (21/5/2020)
- Jamie Tovell: Shot in the chest and head, as Sully knew that Jamie would regain as "top boy". (7/7/2020)
- Tadgh McGee: Shot in the neck and head to take the drugs that Tadgh and Jonny had stashed. (10/7/2020)
- Jonny McGee: Shot in the heel and then shot in the forehead to take the drugs Tadgh and Jonny had stashed. (7/7/2020)
- Isaac Latiff's enforcer #2: Shot in a crossfire for killing Junior and to get at Dushane to regain the drugs he stolen. (12/7/2020)
- Dushane Hill: Shot in the abdomen and bled to death for stealing nearly £500,000 of his drugs. (12/7/2020)
Murders connected to Sully[]
- Marnie: Sully ordered Dris to kill Gem's dog as they accused Gem for talking to Kamale. (14/3/2020)
- Kamale Lewis: Shot in the head by Dris on orders from Dushane and Sully for robbing the crew regularly. (14/3/2011)
- Bobby Raikes: Indirectly caused by Sully, as Raikes pressured Dushane to kill Sully but Dushane kills Raikes instead. (16/3/2011)
- Mike: Shot in the head by his cousin Rafe, as Rafe wanted revenge against Sully and Mike kidnapping Jermaine, but Dushane talked Rafe out and having to spare Sully so Rafe kills Mike instead. (21/9/2012)#
- Collins: Stabbed in the throat by Dardan when Dardan and the Albanians went looking for Dushane, after Sully went with Dushane, Dris and Shaheed to retrieve Joe's drugs back what Dardan stolen. (24/9/2012)
- Michael: Thrown off the flat balcony by Dardan when Dardan and the Albanians went looking for Dushane, after Sully went with Dushane, Dris and Shaheed to retrieve Joe's drugs back what Dardan stolen. (24/9/2012)
- Jason: Died in the fire where him and Sully were staying where the Ramsgate racist men then burn down the house. (30/9/2019)
- Jamaal Green: Shot in the back of the head by Jamie, while Sully, Jamaal, Ricky and Gerry we're out looking for Jamie. (5/10/2019)
- Haze: Shot in the back of the head by Dushane after Dushane and Sully look to have Lizzie as their main supplier. (10/9/2019)
- Ricky: Shot in the chest by his cousin Jermaine, along with Jamie and Modie to come at Dushane and Sully after Dris told Jermaine where Dushane and Sully's safehouse is at but then Dushane and Sully escape in time. (10/10/2019)
- Gerry: Shot by Modie, along with Jamie and Jermaine to come at Dushane and Sully after Dris told Jermaine where Dushane and Sully's safehouse is at but then Dushane and Sully escape in time. (10/10/2019)
- Koka, Khadeem, Cyprus and 2 Peckham gang members: All shot to death by Dushane, Kit & Jaq for posting them beating up, kidnapping and falsly imprisoning Sully. (16/5/2020)
- Juan el Bueno: As Sully shoots Juan in the back, Emilio will then execute Juan. (21/5/2020)
- Curtis: Sully along with Jaq, Kieron & Romy dispose Curtis' body after Lauryn stabbed Curtis to death. (23/5/2020)
- Dotz: Shot in the back of the head by one of Jonny's men after finding out Sully was going after him. (8/7/2020)
- Jonny & Tadgh's enforcer: Shot by Dushane to get to Jonny and Tadgh. (7/7/2020)
- Kieron Palmer: Kidnapped and killed by Junior after covering up for Jaq assisting her escape from Sully and Dushane. (12/7/2020)
- Isaac Latiff's enforcer #1: Shot by Junior to get at Dushane. (12/7/2020)
- Junior: Shot by Isaac's other enforcer in the shootout. (12/7/2020)
Possible murders by Sully[]
- Ramsgate Local: Beaten and hit with a baseball bat for killing Jason and racially abusing him. (3/5/2019)
Trivia[]
- Sully serves as a deuteragonist and anti hero in season 1 & 3-4.
- Sully is a minor antagonist and anti hero in season 2.
- Sully was a main antagonist and anti-hero in season 5.
- He could be seen as an antagonist in Ranell’s story in season 1 despite serving as a deuteragonist.
- 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)
- Sully killed two of his best friends, he killed Dris and Dushane for betraying him.
- Sully was the first character to commit murder when he killed Shaun Campbell by accident.
- Sully is also the final character to die as he is killed in the final scene.
- His killer isn't revealed yet but some people who have inside information say that it was Jaq who murdered him.
Appearances[]
- Building Bridges (incarcerated/released)
- Big Flame
- Bonfire Night
- Smoke Gets In Your Hands
- Press Gang
- The Squeeze
- Bad Eye
- Everyone's Got Family
- You Don't Know Me
- Good Morals
- How Can I Fix This?
- Likkle Favour
- Fully Loaded Headache
- 15 Points
- De Capa y Espada
- We Ride Out for Family
- Prove Yourself
- Step Back
- The Tour
- Birthday Party
- The Food is Killing Us
- Has It Come To This
- If We Are Not Monsters (deceased)
Bruk up was the only episode Sully didn't appear on.