Who Is Joe Green in The Gentlemen Season 2? What Happened to Him?

Joe Green enters The Gentlemen Season 2 looking like a complication from Susie Glass’s past, but he quickly becomes something much more dangerous. Played by Tyler Conti, Joe has known Susie and her brother Jack since they were young, and there is an obvious romantic history between him and Susie. He is also a drug dealer who tries to pull Susie into the more lucrative cocaine business. By the middle of the season, however, Joe’s lies catch up with him. Susie sends him to Carlos Vargas’s associates in Peru, and although his death is never actually shown, everything that follows strongly implies that Joe does not survive the trip.

Who Is Joe Green and How Does He Know Susie Glass?

Joe is an old friend of the Glass family who has a particularly complicated history with Susie. When she runs into him at the art auction early in Season 2, they are immediately comfortable with each other in a way that catches Eddie’s attention. Joe also asks about Jack and Bobby, making it clear that he was around the family long before the events of the season. Later, Joe reminds Susie that he fancied her when they were younger and makes no secret of the fact that the attraction is still there.

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Their relationship soon becomes more than nostalgic flirting. Susie refers to what is happening between them as being in the “early days,” and she specifically does not want Jack telling Bobby about it. Joe therefore isn’t simply a business contact who develops feelings for her halfway through the season. He comes back into Susie’s life carrying years of familiarity, which helps explain why she gives him more trust than Bobby believes he deserves.

Why Doesn’t Bobby Glass Trust Joe?

Bobby distrusts Joe because his criminal business is cocaine, an area Bobby has deliberately kept separate from the Glass family’s cannabis operation. When Bobby learns that Susie has become involved with Joe again, his objection is not merely about his daughter’s love life. He sees Joe as someone operating in a far more volatile market and warns Susie against allowing that relationship to drag the family into cocaine.

Joe, however, makes the financial argument that eventually gets Susie’s attention. Cocaine offers greater profits while requiring far less physical product than their cannabis operation. With Eddie and Susie already pushing aggressively to expand the empire, that opportunity is difficult to ignore. Bobby’s concern proves justified, but not simply because cocaine itself is dangerous. The bigger problem is that Joe thinks he can manipulate the people controlling the supply.

What Did Joe Lie to Susie About?

Joe’s biggest betrayal is lying about Carlos Vargas approving their cocaine arrangement. Susie believes they have permission to operate because she is told Vargas has agreed to the deal. The truth is much worse. Vargas had rejected the proposal, and Joe knew it.

Instead of accepting that decision, Joe and Hector effectively go around Vargas and proceed anyway. When Susie finally confronts Joe, he admits that he knew the approval was false. By that point Hector has also disappeared, and Susie works out another disturbing part of the story. She accuses Joe of killing Hector to cover his tracks, and Joe does not meaningfully deny it, instead insisting that what he did was for their future.

That response destroys the distinction Joe has been trying to maintain between romance and business. He repeatedly treats the two as inseparable, believing that his relationship with Susie gives him latitude to make dangerous decisions on her behalf. Susie ultimately sees the opposite. Someone who lies to her about a cartel boss and potentially kills a partner to conceal the lie cannot be trusted simply because they share history.

Why Does Susie Send Joe to Peru?

Susie sends Joe to Peru because Vargas has discovered what happened, and Joe is the person responsible for creating the problem. At the airfield, Joe still appears to think that he and Susie might leave together and somehow preserve both their relationship and their business. Susie has already made a different decision. Joe is put on a flight to Madrid, with Vargas’s associates expected to take him onward to Lima.

It is a particularly cold punishment because Susie does not personally kill Joe or even explicitly tell him what will happen when he reaches Vargas. She simply returns him to the criminal organization he deceived. Joe had gambled on being able to use Vargas’s operation without Vargas’s permission, and Susie removes herself from the consequences of that gamble.

The scene also ends their relationship without requiring a conventional breakup. By this point, Susie’s problem with Joe is no longer that he is reckless or that Bobby dislikes him. He has compromised her business and her credibility with people far more dangerous than either of them.

Does Joe Green Die in The Gentlemen Season 2?

Joe’s death is strongly implied, but it is never directly shown on screen. That distinction matters because The Gentlemen does not give viewers a body, a murder scene or an explicit statement that Vargas killed him. Joe simply disappears from the story after being handed over to Vargas’s network.

The strongest confirmation comes afterward. When the South American operation is discussed, Joe is referred to as “Poor Joe” and described as someone who tried but was out of his depth. Eddie responds in the manner of someone hearing that things ended badly for him. The conversation would be an unusual way to discuss a man who had simply changed jobs or remained in Peru.

The intended conclusion is therefore that Joe was most likely killed after arriving in Vargas’s territory, presumably as punishment for going behind his back. What the season does not establish is exactly how Joe died, who carried it out or even whether he reached Lima before it happened. Without an on-screen death, a future reveal could technically change that interpretation, but Season 2 gives viewers no positive evidence that he survived.

Joe’s downfall is ultimately less about entering the cocaine trade than believing his relationship with Susie would protect him from the rules of it. Susie does care about him, and that is precisely why his betrayal lands so badly. Once she discovers he has lied about Vargas and dragged her operation into a potentially lethal dispute, their shared past no longer buys him another chance. Joe enters Season 2 hoping to become both Susie’s partner and her lover, but he ends it as a liability she is willing to hand over to someone far less forgiving.