Tommy decides to call a truce with the Lee family so that he can have an ally against Billy Kimber and marries John to the Lees' daughter Esme to secure the agreement. The Lees rob the Shelbys' gambling den as revenge for the Peaky Blinders having protected Billy Kimber's bookies at the races. His suspicions are confirmed when he requests her services as a test and she agrees. Tommy disapproves because he does not think Lizzie has given up her former profession. John calls the family together to tell them he wants to marry Lizzie, a local prostitute. Although he does not quite trust her and is suspicious of her, Tommy hires Grace as his secretary. Tommy makes his business legitimate by obtaining a betting licence.
Freddie decides Tommy is not going to scare him off and returns. At the last minute, he has a change of heart and claims that Grace is actually a prostitute with Gonorrhea (The Clap). Kimber agrees if he can have some time alone with Grace, to which Tommy agrees. Tommy brings Grace as his date to Cheltenham races in an attempt to distract Kimber as well as convince him that he should hire the Blinders as his security. Tommy warns Kimber that Lee's people will once again rob Kimber's bookies at the races. Grace manages to shoot her attacker dead in self-defence. Grace overhears them trying to blackmail Tommy and follows one of them, but he attacks her.
Despite Tommy's best efforts to keep the guns a secret, people keep finding out about them, including two IRA members. Billy Kimber and his men confront the Shelbys, but Tommy convinces them to join forces in fighting the Lees, their common enemy.Īda and Freddie marry Aunt Polly gives them money to leave the country. Freddie instead proposes to Ada and decides to stay in town. Polly realises Ada is pregnant and tells Tommy, who threatens to kill Freddie but then instructs him to take Ada away. Campbell agrees but instructs Grace to get close to Tommy and find the location of the guns. Tommy meets with Campbell and gives him an ultimatum: if the Peaky Blinders are left alone, he will return the guns if the Inspector interferes with his plans, Tommy will send the guns to the IRA and ruin Campbell's work in Belfast. In retaliation, Tommy arranges for a reporter to write about a burning of the King's picture, which prompts Churchill to pressure Campbell. Campbell confronts Polly and attacks all the Shelby establishments. Freddie and Ada escape, but Freddie has to leave town. Campbell's special force launches a surprise crackdown, targeting communists and looking for the guns. The Lees insult the Peaky Blinders and a fight breaks out. Tommy, Arthur and John meet with a rival Romanichal gang, the Lees, to look at a horse for the next race. However, Danny's death is faked and he goes to London on a special assignment. To avoid a war with the Italians, Tommy agrees to kill Danny, with the Italians witnessing. Tommy's friend Danny has a PTSD episode and kills an Italian business owner. She has been placed in Birmingham by Campbell to help find the guns. A barmaid named Grace Burgess starts working at the Garrison, a bar owned by the Peaky Blinders. Tommy's sister Ada is involved with Freddie Thorne, a communist. Campbell propositions Arthur and the gang to work with him to find the guns. Inspector Campbell and his men capture Arthur and beat him while inquiring about the gun robbery.
His brother Arthur does not agree with Tommy about fixing horse races, believing it will cause trouble with Billy Kimber, who runs the races. Tommy's aunt Polly urges Tommy to return the guns, but he feels that he can use them to his advantage. Winston Churchill sends Inspector Campbell to Birmingham to retrieve the guns. In 1919 following the Great War, the Peaky Blinders, led by Thomas "Tommy" Shelby, a decorated former sergeant major, appropriate a consignment of guns from the local arms factory.
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