Fallout is a one-off television film-length crime drama, broadcast on 3 July 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 led by DS Joe Stephens (Lennie James).
[1] Fallout begins with Kwame, playing basketball followed by him happily making his tragic journey home, on the phone to a girl.
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.
Detective Sergeant Joe Stephens (Lennie James) stars as a former resident of the estate, assigned to this case alongside his partner, Matt (Nicholas Gleaves).
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.
Emile reacted by observing the height distance between the floor level he was on and the ground before jumping in an attempt to escape as Clinton flees the scene.
Joe, who was left heavily angered by his dismissal of the job that defied the stereotypes of unemployed black men, and violently began to beat Emile up.
The drama was critically well received by Gerard O'Donovan of The Telegraph, who stated, "Indeed for all its 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.