Now, I know what you’re thinking: Sully’s murderer remains at large, with their identity still unknown. Countless fan theories, too, have erupted online as people try to figure out who killed Sully, presumably of the belief that uncovering the truth will unveil the identity of the new Top Boy (or Top Girl) of Summerhouse. All of these people, however, are surely missing the point of the show, right?

Think about it: there was no real way that Dushane or Sully could survive the world they had created for themselves, and no real way that either could emerge victorious. Each perpetuated a murderous cycle, which saw victims reduced to numbers in a running body count. Each was granted relevance by the other’s existence, too; come the end of it all, their lives only mattered to each other.

Is it any wonder, then, that Sully was left feeling dead inside after Dushane bit the big one? Is it any wonder, too, that showrunners allowed an unknown killer – a metaphor for the cruel anonymity of the world in which these two characters lived – to take out our anti-hero? Hardly. Because, just as Tony Soprano had to die for his sins when the screen suddenly cut to black on the final episode of The Sopranos all those years ago, so, too, did Sully and Dushane. If either had survived, then they themselves would have been a loose end, as another rival would have risen up to take the other’s place… and thus the cycle would have begun again.

Top Boy season 3 finale: why people are missing the point of that explosive ending