The ending of Deep Cover was all about Kat, Marlon, and Hugh trying to obtain solid proof of the fact that the dreaded gangster, Metcalfe, and the Albanians were partaking in a business exchange that involved half a ton of cocaine. The aforementioned trio of improv comedians were hired by Billings, an officer of the Metropolitan Police, and tasked with infiltrating the group run by Metcalfe’s employees, Fly and Shosh. Since Billings promised to make them rich, Kat, Marlon, and Hugh didn’t question his intentions and used all their acting skills to win Fly and Shosh’s trust. But, as a seasoned player in this line, Metcalfe wasn’t convinced and questioned Fly’s decision to vouch for these three amateurs. In order to help Kat, Marlon, and Hugh prove their worth in front of Metcalfe, Fly sent those three to handle the deal with a deadly smuggler called K-Lash. However, that backfired on all of them royally, thereby causing Metcalfe to go ballistic. Was Fly forced to face the consequences of Kat, Marlon, and Hugh’s actions? Who suffered and who survived Metcalfe’s wrath? Can we expect a sequel to Deep Cover? Let’s find out.
Spoiler Alert
Billings Died
Kat, Marlon, and Hugh were sent to K-Lash to obtain drugs. When she offered them only laughing gas, which is probably as lethal as drugs, the trio began to panic as they weren’t prepped to handle a situation that didn’t involve drugs. K-Lash realized that something was off, and she called their bluff. She was about to kill Kat, Marlon, and Hugh when Billings barged in and saved them. Kat always kept Billings in the loop, which was why he ended up at the right place at the right time. However, he wasn’t actually there to rescue them from K-Lash’s clutches; he was there for the drugs. You see, Billings was a corrupt police officer who was set to retire the next year. His savings and pension wouldn’t have cut it. Hence, he decided to employ these three dunderheads to help him earn a lot of money illegally before he had to bow out of this job. His initial plan (or what he presented as his initial plan) was to wait until Metcalfe revealed his hand, as that’d allow him to hit the mother lode. Since he jumped the gun, he ended up with a few canisters of nitrous oxide, all while exposing his true intentions to Kat, Marlon, and Hugh.
The trio, realizing that they were risking their lives for a cop who didn’t even care about them, wanted out, but Billings wasn’t willing to let them go. Now, coincidentally, Shosh was at the scene too, as she was tailing the trio just to check if the deal with K-Lash was going alright. When she saw a cop car outside K-Lash’s lair, she intervened to rescue Kat, Marlon, and Hugh and killed Billings (he was being played by Sean Bean; nobody expected him to make it all the way to the end). Shosh delivered Billings’ body to Metcalfe, who found the officer’s cell phone in his pocket. When he saw that Billings used that device to call only one number—Kat’s burner phone—Metcalfe immediately called that number to identify the rat in his operation. Since Kat had discreetly pulled the battery out of her burner phone, it didn’t ring, thereby allowing her and her compatriots to maintain their ruse. Was Metcalfe dissuaded from conducting a hunt for the rat just because nobody in the room’s phone rang? Nope, he still went ahead with it.
Fly Allowed Kat, Marlon, and Hugh to Live
After disposing of Billings’ body, while Hugh went to Shosh’s home to get freaky, Kat and Marlon went to the electronics shop where Billings’ phone was being hacked into in order to unveil the identity of the individual he used to call. Before taking up this job, Marlon had starred in a bunch of commercials. Since the shop had a bunch of television sets in there, all of them randomly began featuring an advertisement featuring Marlon. He tried his best to prove that the guy on the TV wasn’t him, but it was of no use. Meanwhile, Kat rummaged through the workshop and found nothing, which meant that the information that Billings’ phone was being hacked was a hoax. Metcalfe peddled that lie to see who showed up to retrieve that phone, and Kat and Marlon played right into that trap. If those two were rats, it was obvious that Hugh was a rat too. They were presented in front of Metcalfe, who ordered Fly to kill and bury them because he was the one who had vouched for them.
Fly and Shosh took the trio to a discreet location, but instead of putting a bullet in their heads, he set Kat, Marlon, and Hugh free because, over the course of the operation, he had grown to like them a lot. I mean, Fly trusted the trio so much that he revealed that his daughter was in Portugal, which was a piece of information that all of his enemies would’ve loved to use against him. Given how Kat, Marlon, and Hugh weren’t hardened criminals, Fly decided to give them a second chance at life. That said, he warned them that if they showed their faces in London ever again, they’d be dead, for real. The issue I have with this plot twist is, why did Metcalfe allow Fly to kill them instead of killing them himself and then forcing Fly to bury them? That would’ve been enough to rub salt in Fly’s wounds, right? Metcalfe was portrayed as this incredibly paranoid but shrewd guy, and he didn’t anticipate Fly not killing the people that he trusted? Maybe that’s a logical fallacy. Or maybe the writers wanted to show that Metcalfe was growing old and losing his edge, thereby making a lot of silly mistakes; hence, he needed to be replaced with some young blood.
Fly Was Sold Out By Metcalfe
The whole affair between Billings, Kat, Marlon, Hugh, Fly, Shosh, Metcalfe, the British gang, and the Albanian gang was being observed from afar by detectives Dawes and Beverley. Based on everything they had seen—the trio killing a dangerous hitman called the Iceman, orchestrating a sit-down between Fly and the Albanians, and making a daring escape from right under Dawes and Beverley’s noses—they were under the impression that those three were the top bosses of every illegal operation happening in London. So, when Kat, Marlon, and Hugh were deciding how they were going to make the most of their newfound second lease on life, Dawes and Beverley arrested them and even basked in the hollow glory that they had nabbed the biggest criminals in the country. Their enthusiasm was almost immediately dampened by the trio as they revealed that they were actually improv comedians who were working for Billings and had bitten off more than they could chew. Dawes and Beverley pointed out that, with nobody to vouch for the fact that they were “undercover” informants, the trio could still be arrested for murder, disposing of a dead body, and colluding with criminals.
If they wanted to avoid that scenario, they would have to “wear a wire” and get Metcalfe to admit that he was bringing tons of drugs into the UK via the Albanians. In addition to that, that’d save Dawes and Beverley’s reputation after making such a hoopla about catching a trio of improv artists. But Kat, Marlon, and Hugh had no way of getting into that drug exchange after being outed as rats. That said, they knew that Fly was opposed to Metcalfe’s methods and just wanted to leave this life of crime behind to live with his daughter in Portugal. Once Dawes and Beverley assured that they’d ensure Fly’s safety, Kat, Marlon, and Hugh, pretending to be undercover cops, extended that offer to Fly and requested that he wear a wire during the aforementioned deal between Metcalfe and Skender (the leader of the Albanian gang) and expose them to the law enforcement authorities. Fly accepted the offer, but a major issue arose when Metcalfe paid Skender for the drugs in cash and Fly’s life as punishment for all the problems that he and his former minions had caused.
Kat, Marlon, and Hugh saved Fly
The trio hoped that Dawes, Beverley, and the police who were on standby would rush in to save Fly, but they didn’t because they weren’t allowed to make a move until there was confirmation of the quantity of drugs in question. So, Kat, Marlon, and Hugh had no option but to rush to Fly’s rescue, thereby leading to a standoff. While exchanging words, as soon as Metcalfe revealed they, the trio, were ruining a half-ton drug deal, the detectives and the police swooped in, which caused the scene to erupt in gunfire and explosions (incited by Marlon). The trio took Fly to safety, but Metcalfe caught up to them, and he shot down Fly. Before Metcalfe could target the rest, Shosh killed him. Since Fly was wearing a bulletproof vest, he was safe, and, as revealed at the end of Deep Cover, he was sent off to Portugal by the authorities to meet his daughter. Before leaving, though, he had distributed the money, which was acquired by Shosh during the chaos, that Metcalfe would’ve paid to Skender, amongst the five of them. While the trio had bargained for Fly’s immunity, Shosh wasn’t a part of the deal. Therefore, she had to fend for herself, which she successfully did.
In Deep Cover’s ending, Dawes and Beverley took all the credit for bringing down the nexus between the British and Albanian gangs, and found themselves promoted as a result of it. Kat, Marlon, and Hugh were told to go back to their usual lives while being ready to use their improv skills to bring down some other drug operation if the need arises. Hugh, who was unhappy with his blue-collar job, was seen managing a wine shop. Kat went back to teaching budding improv artists. And Marlon secured a job in a real acting project. Now, I have a feeling that if a sequel to Deep Cover is greenlit in the future, I suppose we’ll see someone who was benefiting off of Metcalfe and Skender’s supply chain going after Fly and Shosh in order to punish them for colluding with the police and a trio of improv artists. Maybe the drug lord will drag Fly, Shosh, Kat, Marlon, and Hugh back into the drug business and force them to cover his/her losses. And they would have to find a way out of that operation without losing their lives. I would love to watch that, or some other story involving these characters, in a potential sequel. What about you? Let me know in the comments section below.
