Capital punishments

Ex-cop Elliot has a target on his back as Gangs of London returns

- IAN MACEWAN

Undercover police officer Elliot (Sope Dirisu) has been on quite the journey since he first infiltrated London crime dynasty the Wallaces in the first season of Sky drama Gangs of London.

After rising through the ranks to become an assassin, he was last seen stringing up Sean Wallace (Joe Cole), who'd inherited the family's lucrative criminal enterprise, in a junkyard, promising to take over everything he'd built.

RIDING HIGH

'At the end of Season 2, Elliot told Sean: “Watch, I’m going to become you, I’m going to do it better than you ever did,”' says Dirisu. 'And at the beginning of Season 3, he's living up to his promise.'