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The Bannik

Played by Jimmy Vee

A strange presence through which Bobby reads omens about business and loyalty.

Biography

The Bannik enters Bobby’s prison story through a belief in a bathhouse spirit capable of seeing the future. The series preserves uncertainty about the nature of that presence rather than requiring it to be dismissed as a simple joke or accepted as proven supernatural fact.[1][2]

The Gentlemen

Season 1

Reveal Season 1 story spoilers

The retrieved TVmaze record credits The Bannik in 2x01, 2x02, 2x07, all in Season 2, and contains no Season 1 appearance. This is a statement about the scope of that published credit record, not a claim about an invented earlier life.[6]

Season 2

Reveal Season 2 story spoilers

Bobby describes asking the Bannik questions and reading its response as an omen: a pat means good fortune and a scratch means danger. He takes an encouraging response as support for buying the Botticelli for Marco, then later asks whether Eddie can be trusted and receives a scratch. By the finale, the official explanation says the Bannik’s mystical aura has become harder to dismiss as merely Bobby’s delusion. The uncertainty belongs to the story and should remain intact in a character guide.[1][2]

Physical Appearance

Reveal story spoilers

In Bobby’s description, the Bannik communicates without speech by touching the questioner’s back: a reassuring pat or a scratch made with claws. These are the specific attributes reported in the character’s in-story explanation; the profile does not invent a full creature anatomy.[1][2]

Source coverage

Some details are not yet documented by the cited sources; an unrecorded storyline does not establish that a character is absent.

References

  1. ↑The Gentlemen Season 2, Episode 8 Ending Explained — Netflix Tudum · primary

    Retrieved current S2 source; plot claims are bounded to its text.

    Source access recorded: 2026-10-24
  2. ↑The Gentlemen Series 2 Episode 1 Recap — Reel Mockery · secondary

    Retrieved episode recap; plot only, with actor/name spellings checked against credit listings where available.

    Source access recorded: 2026-10-24
  3. ↑The Gentlemen 2x07 guest cast list — TVmaze · tertiary

    Community-maintained episode-credit inventory, not an official Netflix end-credit capture. A credit does not establish whether footage is new, archival, a vision, or a flashback.

    Source access recorded: 2026-10-24
  4. ↑The Gentlemen 2x02 guest cast list — TVmaze · tertiary

    Community-maintained episode-credit inventory, not an official Netflix end-credit capture. A credit does not establish whether footage is new, archival, a vision, or a flashback.

    Source access recorded: 2026-10-24
  5. ↑The Gentlemen 2x01 guest cast list — TVmaze · tertiary

    Community-maintained episode-credit inventory, not an official Netflix end-credit capture. A credit does not establish whether footage is new, archival, a vision, or a flashback.

    Source access recorded: 2026-10-24
  6. ↑The Bannik — The Gentlemen: credited appearances — TVmaze · tertiary

    Character appearance page successfully retrieved before the later rate-limit failures. Used only for the published record’s S2-only credit scope, not an invented S1 backstory.

    Source access recorded: 2026-10-24
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