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A Thousand Blows

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  • He Really Can Act: Admittedly, Stephen Graham had long and varied career up to this point; but if, for whatever, reason, you remember him mostly as Tommy you're in for a ride and a half, as he plays a character who could conceivably get Bullet-Tooth Tony to call him "sir."
  • Moral Event Horizon: Sugar's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Treacle is treated that way by everyone, including Sugar himself.
  • One-Scene Wonder: Billy, Sugar's boxing opponent at the West End Boxing Club in episode 5, absolutely leathers Sugar and knocks him down for the count (that's after the latter claimed not to feel gloved punches of another opponent); then, when Sugar decides to do things the old-fashioned way Billy proves more than up to the mark, damn near ripping out Sugar's eye and getting in some good hits before receiving some very memorable Nasal Trauma to cap off his time on screen. Not bad for a non-speaking part.

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