Fallout (Channel 4 drama)
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| Genre | Crime drama |
| Created by | Roy Williams |
| Directed by | Ian Rickson |
| Starring | Lanre Malaolu Aml Ameen Charles Mnene Gugu Mbatha-Raw Lennie James Nicholas Gleaves Clare Holman |
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| Location(s) | South London |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
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| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 3 July 2008 |
Fallout is a one-off feature-length crime drama, broadcast on July 3, 2008, as part of Channel 4's Disarming Britain series. The drama explores the lives of a group of teenagers in South London, following the fatal stabbing of a mutual associate, Kwame Abena (Lanre Malaolu), and the subsequent investigation lead by DS Joe Stephens (Lennie James). The drama was critically well received, with Gerard O'Donovan of The Telegraph stating; "Indeed for all it's raw observation and subtle insight into the problem of youth violence, the one thing Fallout could never offer was anything in the way of a solution. True to it's dramatic form, it offered resolution - or redemption of sorts - [but only] to one character."
Fallout begins with Kwame, playing basketball followed by him happily making his tragic journey home, on the phone to a girl. Just after telling this girl he loves her, Kwame notices a small gang, led by Dwayne (Aml Ameen). Kwame is quickly spotted by one of the gang members, Emile (Charles Mnene), and him and his fellow gang members stop him, while Emile searches him for any valuable goods. Finding nothing of value, Emile lets him go, but another gang member, Perry (Jumayn Hunter), urges him to go after Kwame. Kwame runs through the local park, whilst frantically requesting help on his phone. The gang eventually catch up with him, and Emile stabs Kwame in the chest, after which he decides to steal Kwame's trainers. The gang flees from the scene. A friend of the gang, Ronnie (Bunmi Mojekwu), witnesses Kwame's murder from across the road. She runs to the other side of road, to meet Kwame dying in a pool of his blood from his stab wound, begging for help. Shocked by what was in front of her, she ran away and left him to die. Kwame's death sets the pace for the rest of the film.
Ronnie runs to her best friend, Shanice (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), who is Emile's girlfriend, and works nearby in a fast-food restaurant and tells her what she saw. Shanice is seen placing flowers at the scene of the crime. The gang flee to a nearby river, and dump Kwame's trainers in the river, to do away with any evidence and Dwayne orders his gang to get rid of their clothes to eradicate any evidence. Detective Sergeant Joe Stephens (Lennie James) stars as a former resident of the estate, assigned to this case alongside his partner, Matt (Nicholas Gleaves). It wasn't long before it became evident that the gang were responsible for the murder. Knowing that the perpetrator was one of the gang members, Joe set out to get to the bottom of the crime and began pursuing Shanice, with the motive that she had something to hide.
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