Why Did Sully Kill Jamie?

Exactly why Sully decided to kill Jamie with two gunshots to the chest and one to the head was never explicitly stated in Top Boy.

In fact, there was no dialogue spoken between the pair before Sully pulled the trigger, but there were a few factors at play leading to Sully’s decision.

For starters, Sully had been suffering from PTSD, following the death of Jason (Ricky Smarts) in Season 1 in a house fire he was unable to save him from.

The guilt of killing his former close friend, Dris (Shane Romulus), also seemed to have taken a toll.

It looked as if Sully was stepping back from the world that had caused him so much pain, but instead, he was thrust back into it after being kidnapped and beaten by Peckham gang members Khadeem (Khali Best) and Cyprus (Michael Balogun).

Sully had been rescued by Dushane and the Summerhouse gang and perhaps out of loyalty to his “brudda,” he was back on top, with Dushane, just like how things used to be.

However, since his return to Summerhouse, Sully had been more violent than ever, unafraid to pull the trigger at any given moment.

So, when Dushane told Sully he had plans to keep Jamie in his drug operation after he proved his loyalty by killing his best friend Kit (Kadeem Ramsey) for being responsible for Ats’s (Keiyon Cook) death, out of anger and not in the right state of mind, Sully may have pulled the trigger on a whim.

On the other hand, Sully may have calculatedly pulled the trigger on Jamie to get rid of him. Before the killing, Dushane told Sully he intended to continue working with Jamie to secure his and Sully’s “retirement plan.”

Sully did not like that idea, stating his and Dushane’s plans “ain’t aligning.”

Sully had also been suspicious of Jamie after meeting him in Morocco, where drug lord Juan revealed to Sully that Jamie had previously spoken to him about having his “own big plans.”

Sully had other reasons not to trust Jamie, especially after he tried to have Sully killed in Season 1.

Despite Jamie proving his loyalty to Dushane by killing Kit, Sully may have suspected he was playing the long game and would one day turn against Dushane and Sully to become the Top Boy.

Who knows, maybe Sully thought he was doing Dushane a favor by eliminating Jamie once and for all.

In hindsight, there was also some small foreshadowing that Sully was on track to take out Jamie.

In Morocco, he threatened Jamie he would “bury” him if he looked at him wrong, adding: “You think I’ve forgotten?” referring to the prior attempts on his life at the hands of Jamie

“Dushane told me everything that happened in the past is done,” replied Jamie, to which Sully asserted: “Dushane don’t speak for me.” With Jamie now set in Dushane’s eyes to become the next Top Boy, Sully, who was now becoming even more and more comfortable in this life, wiped out his competition.

The saddest part of it all is the fact Jamie killed his best friend to ensure a better life for his brothers, but in the end, he was killed by the company he was trying to keep and his brother’s lives are set to change for the worst.

After all, the shooting happened in front of Jamie’s younger brothers Aaron (Hope Ikpoku Jnr.) and Stef (Araloylin Oshunremi), and they both knew it was Sully who delivered the fatal shots.

Jamie, played by Michael Ward was shot dead by Sully in the Season Finale.