It's a Fight for Supremacy in 'This City Is Ours'
"You and me, man on man, no blades or shooters, in the ring, in the cage, in a field if you prefer. That way, no one loses and no one dies. Just you and me ..."
War breaks out between the successors to the late Ronnie Phelan’s Liverpool drug enterprise in Episode 6 of This City Is Ours. There are two contenders: Ronnie’s son Jamie and Michael, right-hand man to Ronnie for 15 years. With no real plans for the future, a massive debt incurred from a lost shipment, and 50 kilos of product missing, both men believe their rival's death will clean up everything.
After a workout on a punching bag in his garage, Jamie tells Diana that he’s in charge of the gang, and everyone knows that Jamie isn’t in the running. She, however, is worried, and also shares some sad news with him – she is no longer pregnant. Diana insists they walk away from the whole business now, not three years ahead as they originally planned. Michael’s code of honor won’t allow it; he’s planning to propose that most gentlemanly of solutions – a duel. Once he’s killed Jamie, it will be settled.
After sitting next to Cheryl at the funeral last week, DS Barney Stiles now turns up at her house. We don’t yet know whether Barney is an honest cop or a corrupt one, but he’s buddies with Cheryl now. Despite his questions about the gang, she mostly wants to rant about the Phelans’ betrayal and how hurt she is after she and Davy became godparents to Jamie and Melissa’s son. She’d heard Ronnie had died in Spain, which Barney finds interesting. He flirts mildly as he drives her to the movies.
(It’s not a date, she claimed she was about to go out to see a film when he arrived.)
