Who thought Sherwood Season two was supposed to give us an insight into the brutal world of gang violence and was a rude awakening.

In the first episode, Ryan (Oliver Huntingdon) shoots Nicky Branson at point blank range. Either he’s unaware of the fact that Nicky’s family consists of the most hated gangsters in the area, or he’s simply insensitive to it in his stoned state.

We quickly learn that the Branson clan is out to avenge their son’s murder. After Ryan’s family – namely his step-uncle Dennis and his step-mother Pam Bottomley (David Harewood and Sharlene Whyte) and Steffie (Bethany Asher) – are shot through their living room windows, they are placed under police protection and sent to “Skeg Vegas”.

Unfortunately, the bloodthirsty Ann Branson (Monica Dolan) and her husband Roy (Stephen Dillane) want to go even further. By threatening Daphne Sparrow (Lorraine Ashbourne) – her son Ronan (Bill Jones) and long-lost daughter Rachel (Christine Bottomley) witnessed the murder – Daphne and Rachel embark on a road trip to a mass contract killing that plays out in the closing scenes of the second episode.

Here is the breakdown of what exactly happened in the bloodiest Sherwood Scene to date:

What happened during the mass murders in episode two?

Daphne and Rachel track down the Bottomleys in a cafe, but when Daphne tries to warn them that they have to leave by dropping a cell phone in Pam’s coat, the battery dies.

Ann then realizes from their facial expressions that they have identified the right family (note that Rachel pays for Ann’s whiskey with a credit card, which could prove to be her undoing later in the series) and the women head back to the car.

The corrupt cop tips off the Bransons when Pam Bottomsley calls the police and says they’ve been given a strange phone. This alerts them that someone is on to them and so their plan is put into action.

After asking his neighbor to borrow his lawnmower—crucial for the loud violence to come—Dennis also asks him if he has a charger for his newly acquired phone.

Roy enters the house and shoots Pam in the head (“for Nicky”), while Kyre (Conor Deane) murders Dennis on the lawnmower in the garden. But they forget about Steffie, who is fortunately out on the beach.

After a very close call when Roy calls the number he gave the Bottomleys – no one has ever been more relieved to have put their phone on silent than Daphne, although surely that deep vibration should have been enough to alert Roy? – they head off, leaving their nephew Kyre to put the guns away in his van next to the house. In a flash of grotesque detail, Roy stops in the woods to retrieve a blood-spattered cigarette.

If you thought the massacre was over, you’re wrong: Then Steffie shows up again, apparently knowing that Kyre murdered her only surviving relatives. With a scream, he rams a pair of garden shears into Kyre’s back, closes the door of the van and locks him in there to die. Horrible? Yes. But there’s more to come.

Laura Martin is a freelance journalist specializing in pop culture.