Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) – Transcript

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026)
Director: Tom Harper
Screenplay: Steven Knight
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, Sophie Rundle, Barry Keoghan, Stephen Graham
Release dates: 6 March 2026 (United Kingdom); 20 March 2026 (Netflix)

Plot: Amidst the Battle of Britain in November 1940, Nazi Germany initiates a plot to economically subdue the United Kingdom by utilizing copious amounts of counterfeit British currency manufactured by the inmates of the regime’s concentration camps — which are to be injected into the British economy with the assistance of pro-Nazi agents, with the goal of triggering hyperinflation. Concurrently, a Luftwaffe night raid in Birmingham decimates a BSA munitions factory, killing the factory’s female workforce.

Elsewhere, Tommy Shelby lives in isolation, having retreated from public life after the death of his elder brother Arthur, who supposedly committed suicide in December 1938. His only company is his loyal assistant Johnny Dogs; Tommy is working on his autobiography but is haunted by visions of his deceased daughter, Ruby. Ada Shelby, who has succeeded Tommy as the MP for Birmingham South, visits him to inform him of the acts committed by the Peaky Blinders, now led by his son Duke Shelby. Concurrently, the gang raids the destroyed factory and steals its munitions. In private, Duke has joined forces with Nazi agent John Beckett, who intends to have the Peaky Blinders distribute £70 million of counterfeit currency inside Britain through the gang’s networks.

Meanwhile, Tommy is approached by Kaulo Chiriklo, the twin sister of Zelda Chiriklo – with whom Tommy had conceived Duke in 1914. Calling Tommy the Rom Baro, or the Gypsy King, Kaulo claims to have spoken to Arthur from beyond the grave, and goads Tommy into divulging that he had accidentally killed Arthur, who had acted erratically under the influence of opium. She nevertheless interprets Tommy’s act as a kindness, and convinces him to return to Birmingham to save Duke, whom she deduces is in trouble. Elsewhere, Beckett discovers that Ada had collected testimony of Duke’s raid at the factory and that she intends to submit it to the military police, which could derail the plot. He orders Duke to kill Ada, but Duke emotionally fumbles at the last minute; Beckett, who had anticipated this, kills Ada himself, much to Duke’s helplessness.

Tommy learns of Ada’s death and confronts Duke, admonishing him for his ill-disciplined ways. He learns of the plot, and plans to kill Beckett at the mortuary where Ada’s body is, deducing that Beckett would be there to kill him as well. At the mortuary, Tommy confesses to his deceased sister the true nature of Arthur’s death: he had killed Arthur after becoming exasperated by his volatility. Beckett appears and tries to kill Tommy, but escapes after an exchange of gunfire. Meanwhile, Kaulo privately visits Duke and instructs him to ally with his father, and hands him a bullet inscribed with Tommy’s name – an order to kill him after achieving their common goal.

Tommy, who has now reassumed his leadership of the Peaky Blinders, plans to use the arrival of the counterfeit money to defeat Beckett, with the assistance of his old allies Charlie Strong, Curly and dockyard boss Hayden Stagg – who has traced Beckett’s car to a warehouse at the Liverpool docks. However, Duke reconnects with Beckett and promises to ensure the safe passage of the counterfeit money, as was previously agreed. Tommy plans to have the Blinders travel by barge to Liverpool to confront Beckett’s Nazi mercenaries, while he travels through a disused tunnel to surprise Beckett personally; both teams are to strike simultaneously at midnight.

Before leaving, Tommy has a private audience with Kaulo and reveals he is aware of her intentions, but does not explicitly oppose it. Beckett, who has been personally warned by Duke of the plan, has his forces intercept the barges, not knowing that they are rigged with explosives. The resulting detonation kills the mercenaries; Duke reveals to a surprised Beckett that he had chosen to support his father all along, before escaping. The Blinders arrive, and kills the remaining of Beckett’s mercenaries. Tommy, who has arrived as well, uses a landmine to successfully incinerate the counterfeit money, thus suppressing the plot. Beckett attempts to escape in his car, and exchanges gunfire with Tommy, with the former managing to wound the latter before being killed; Tommy attempts to die in front of Beckett’s speeding car, but Duke saves him in time.

Mortally wounded, Tommy encourages Duke to kill him with the bullet Kaulo gave him. Duke resists, but eventually obeys, and Tommy dies reciting the first line of the poem In the Bleak Midwinter, having finally attained peace. Duke, now the new Rom Baro, leads the Peaky Blinders in conducting a Gypsy funeral for their fallen leader. Kaulo recovers Tommy’s manuscript, The Immortal Man, in which Tommy reminisces that despite his wealth and power, he had his family by his side, and is now reunited with them, wherever they may be.

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Transcript

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[intriguing piano music playing]

[energetic rock music playing]

[music fades]

[steam hisses from train]

[soldiers speaking German]

[energetic drumbeat builds]

[soldiers shout in German]

[train whistle blows]

Heil fucking Hitler.

[whistle blows]

[pilots speaking German]

[pilots count down in German]

[air-raid siren blaring]

[bombs booming]

[girl 1] Ladies, they’re lighting fireworks for us.

Have a good one, girls.

[girl 2] See ya in the morning, comrades.

God willing.

[man] Evening, love.

All right, Sid?

[bell dings]

[woman 1] Make us a cup of tea, darling, will you?

[woman 2] Where you been?

[woman 3] Evening, all.

[woman 4] Come sit down. We’ve saved a space for you.

Okay, ladies. Agnes is here.

Hi.

[they all chatter]

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

[woman 2] Join in.

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

Look at this.

♪ Happy birthday, dear Agnes ♪

[Agnes] What a beauty.

Thanks, everybody.

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

[bombs whistling overhead]

[glass shattering]

[metal snapping]

[sinister music playing]

[debris crashing]

[poignant music playing]

[distant gunshot]

[gunshot echoes]

[birds squawking]

[wings flapping]

[exhales]

[knocking on door]

[door slams shut]

[Johnny] Did you see the glow over the hills last night, Tom?

Birmingham caught hell.

They’ve hit Small Heath, Tom.

Your home.

[softly] Sick.

Last night, a Gypsy family escaping the bombs has cut through the fence and got onto the land.

So move ’em on.

[Johnny] They’re Palmer family, Tommy.

Famous witches, fortune-tellers, palm readers.

[Tommy] I want no one near this house. Not even interesting people.

What I mean is, if I throw them off, I wouldn’t want one of them to curse me, Tom.

You’re already cursed, my friend.

Cursed to be the last man on Earth who works for me.

When I was up there, one of the Palmer women recognized me from the old days.

She asked me if I knew whatever happened to Tommy Shelby.

The lady called you the Rom Baro, the king of all the Gypsies.

Some king I was.

Some king you still are, Tom, to the Gypsies.

What did you say to her?

I said, “As far as I am aware, the famous gangster Tommy Shelby has withdrawn from this world.”

“And he is writing a book.”

[phone ringing]

[dripping]

[ringing continues]

[rings loudly]

[Tommy] Fuck off.

[somber piano music playing]

[Tommy] “I’m not alone when I’m alone.”

[crow caws in distance]

“Spirits show themselves to me.”

“My dead daughter, Ruby, plays in the garden.”

“I found her scarf hanging from a branch…”

[typewriter clacking]

“…where there was no scarf before.”

“It could not have got there any other way.”

“And now it sits here in front of me,

on my desk.”

I saw Ruby again.

It’d be cowardly to say it was all imagination.

‘Cause it isn’t, Arthur.

I’m many things, but I’m not a coward.

Tom? You have a visitor.

It’s your sister. She tried to call you from the phone box to tell you, no matter what you say, she’s coming to see you.

She said she has bad news, Tom.

She’s at the gatehouse. Will I… Will I go let her in?

No. I’ll go to her.

[sternly] Fuck’s sakes, let her in, Tom. It’s your sister.

Arthur.

[horse clopping]

[Tommy] What bad news?

[Ada] Last night, the BSA factory suffered a direct hit.

All of the night shift on the artillery depot were killed.

[Tommy] You’re their MP now.

[Ada] They don’t need an MP.

They pray to Christ and to you. Neither one answers their prayers.

I’ve got a war of me own, Ada.

Inside of me head.

You know, Tommy, you have family who are not ghosts.

How long since you spoke to your sons?

I’ve been reviewing everything.

Everything.

I was never a father, Ada.

I was a form of government.

I no longer believe in government of any kind.

I spoke to, uh…

I spoke to Charles. He’s on the front line in North Africa.

Do you even listen to the radio?

I don’t have a radio.

And your other son, your Gypsy son, is running the Peaky Blinders like it’s 1919 all over again.

Worse than you and Arthur ever were.

Then that is very bleak.

[scoffs]

Tommy, you’ve gotta come back with me.

Speak some words over the graves of the dead, and speak to your son before he gets himself hung by the law or lynched by the people.

Ada.

[takes a deep breath]

I see things.

Yeah, you always did.

But since Arthur died…

Since Arthur died…

[exhales sharply]

Since Arthur died, it’s like a door in me head has blown open.

I can’t close it.

[Tommy sighs]

[sighs emotionally]

[“Nobody’s Son” plays]

[rhythmic rock guitar riff]

[brakes screeching]

♪ Rub, dub You just can’t touch me ♪

♪ Built like a boulder And I’m rolling like I’m lovely ♪

♪ You won’t stop me You won’t shut me ♪

♪ Something inside says It’s gonna get ugly ♪

Boys, the Peaky Blinders are here.

[officer] What shall we do?

The Peaky Blinders are gonna do whatever the Peaky Blinders want to do.

♪ I’m a man I am nobody’s son ♪

Right!

[man] That’s it. Lovely.

You’ve no right. You’ve no fucking right.

The weapons in this armory are bound for the front line.

Are we gonna let them do this?!

You should be arrested.

I don’t care who the fuck you are.

[music ends]

[scoffs]

We’re the volunteer special constables, registered this morning by my good friend the chief inspector of the Birmingham police.

That’s who the fuck we are.

[man 1] Are you just gonna let them take those weapons?

[man 2 whistles]

Any man obstructing us carrying out our lawful duty will be identified.

Their home will be located, and their families will be beaten.

By order of the Peaky Blinders.

By order of the Peaky Blinders.

You Peaky Blinders can scare the chief constable, but you don’t scare me.

I’ve seen worse in the last war than you can imagine.

You’re a very brave man.

Very brave.

But very foolish.

[energetic rock music resumes]

[overlapping commotion]

Stay down.

[straining]

Stay.

[overlapping commotion]

Hey. Hey, hey. Hey.

[man 1 groans]

Shh. Hey, hey, hey. Hey.

You fought your war in Flanders, old man.

Don’t fucking fight me.

[groans in pain]

Right.

[man 3] Come on.

[man 4] Ready?

[man 2] Told him.

[laughing]

[man 5] Bastard!

Hey.

[man 2] Yeah?

Grab all the Stens, Brownings, and all the dynamite you can carry.

And a nice new shiny pistol for me.

What are you expecting, Duke?

Trouble. Opportunity.

Right.

Come on.

[reporter] German aircraft carried out a swarm of attacks

on Great Britain last night.

The raids, which rampaged until dawn, were scattered over the country.

[paperboy] Birmingham ablaze!

[reporter] Enemy aircraft have been reported on the south coast…

[paperboy] BSA factory hit!

…and the northwest, as well as across the capital.

[horn honking]

[reporter] Of the affected areas, Birmingham was the worst hit,

and it is almost impossible to believe the fire…

[switches off radio]

[sighs] The BSA’s been roped off.

But we can lay flowers, talk to the relatives.

Okay.

Mum. Come on.

Well, they want Tommy, they get me.

[people chatter in distance]

[officer] Just don’t take it any further.

[woman] You dare show your face, Ada Shelby.

Your fucking Peaky Blinders did this.

[“People Person” by Mclusky playing]

[rhythmic punk rock beat]

[man] Out you get, boys.

That’s it.

♪ A lot of people Lot of people, lot of people ♪

♪ Lot of people, lot of people Like to be wise after the event… ♪

Boysies.

♪ Most in fact Are wiser after time has passed ♪

You all right, boys?

♪ A lot of people Like to be wise for a bet… ♪

[man] Duke, there’s some fucker from London. He’s in the parlor.

I told the kids to leave his car alone.

[punk rock music stops]

[footsteps approaching]

[visitor] Mr. Shelby.

The ship will dock in Liverpool.

Here.

You can keep that.

Freshly printed counterfeit five-pound note.

There’s plenty more where that came from.

How much more?

350 million pounds more.

It’s my job to introduce the money into the British economy using organized criminal gangs.

So Peaky Blinders gets a 20% cut.

That’s… 70 million pounds to use as you see fit.

But be ready for the anarchy that comes after.

I’m ready. Yeah.

Obviously, Berlin… would much prefer it if I was talking to your father.

[scoffs]

Yeah?

[exhales sharply]

[driver] Oh!

[chuckles softly]

[exhales sharply]

I’m in charge now.

Um… Duke?

Duke.

Duke.

Well, if you’re in charge, I need to know that you are willing to take part in an act of treason that will decide this war for Germany.

The world don’t give a fuck about me.

And I don’t give a fuck about the world.

So you have no allegiances?

There are no lines that you will not cross?

You got lucky finding me. Yeah.

[unsettling music playing]

Good.

Well…

Tonight, when the bombs fall, you’ll have to prove it.

[keys rattling]

[Tommy] Johnny?

[footsteps approaching]

[thudding]

[intriguing music playing]

[screeching]

[woman softly] “I hurt my brothers, mostly Arthur, the beast on chain.”

[whispering continues]

[music swells]

[music halts]

[Tommy] No one comes to my house.

Hey. I just opened the windows to let some of the spirits out.

I’m here to give a message for the Rom Baro.

I’m told you are writing something.

No, fuck…

You think you know me.

It’s my twin sister’s face you see in mine.

Even though she died some time ago, I still speak to her.

In dreams.

In séance.

She wanted me to give you a message.

You are easy to get around.

Just like your house, you’re easy to break into if you have the right key.

Your sister’s name… was Zelda?

Yes. I’m Kaulo Chiriklo.

In Romanes, it means…

[both] Blackbird.

[in Romani]

[in English] That will help.

So you, um…

You slept with my sister.

Stow Gypsy Fair, 1914.

She had your baby, Duke.

I know all about the baby and the man he has become.

I left him my kingdom.

No, you abandoned your kingdom, and you abandoned your son.

He wasn’t ready for it.

If it’s money he wants, I gave him enough. Hear me?

If it’s trouble he’s in, I’ve trouble enough of me own.

I know about your trouble, Mr. Shelby.

I don’t think you’re going to be able to write your way out of it.

You live in a house haunted with ghosts.

Of people who died ’cause of you.

You still haven’t given me your message.

Huh.

Your son is in trouble.

He’s working with evil men.

Men who would destroy our people. Gypsy people.

I do not engage in that kind of work anymore.

If you agree to come back and save your son, my sister and I will help you find peace.

[door opens]

I saw the doors and windows open.

[panting]

What the fuck?

Don’t shoot, Mr. Dogs.

I think down the Lee bloodline we are, what, second cousins?

Johnny, why don’t you cook those two pigeons you shot today?

We have a guest.

We have a what?

That woman is the queen of the Palmer Gypsies.

You understand that, don’t you, Tom?

She runs séances for women who have lost their sons and husbands in the war.

She’s making money from their grieving, Tom.

With voices and banging on the tables and plasma.

Ectoplasm.

[Johnny] Don’t let her use your grief, Tom.

[pigs grunting]

[Duke] Hey, hup, hup, hup.

[footsteps approaching]

[Duke] A socialist who smells like a socialite.

Auntie Ada.

I was just at the BSA.

Oh. Last night’s raids.

Yeah. I thought we’d give them a hand.

Lots of chorers around here these days.

Hmm.

What are those pigs doing out there?

An abattoir in Wolverhampton was hit.

So I thought we’d get the pigs before the Black Country boys did.

Fighting with the neighbors over pigs?

I also provide a medical service for those in shock and grief.

[scoffs]

War and morphine.

It’s like…

It’s like brother and sister. Ask me dad.

That’s morphine stolen from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

I should report you.

To who, eh?

To who?

Arthur’s dead.

Polly’s dead.

Jeremiah’s dead.

And me dad. Well, me dad… [scoffs]

He’s lost his fucking mind.

So it’s just you.

And you’re full of empty threats.

You’ve got the look, Duke.

Just like your dad.

But it’s what you haven’t got that’s gonna fuck you up.

Which is?

When your way of life leads to your death, when your coffin burns, there’ll be no one standing in the smoke.

It’ll just be smoke.

What you’ve not got, Duke, is family.

[somber music playing]

Never did.

Never fucking did.

I’ll tell you what I have got.

Something much bigger than anything me fucking dad ever did.

And it’s me doing it.

[horses grunting]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

We’ll unload in the morning, Curly, when the snow passes.

You go and get warm.

I won’t get warm, Charlie, after what we’ve seen today at the BSA.

No.

What? Is there an election?

Because if there is, you know you have my vote.

Charlie, this morning Duke stole weapons from a government armory.

And the chief constable of Birmingham police gave him written permission to do it.

Tomorrow I’m going to the military police barracks on Montague Street.

Oh, Ada.

There were witnesses to the robbery laying flowers.

I recognized some of them.

I need testimony.

Nobody will speak to you.

I just need their addresses, Charlie.

For your own welfare, Ada.

[sniffs] There’s only one man who can stop Duke Shelby.

And that man is writing a fucking book.

[typewriter clacking]

[Tommy] “In 1914,

meself and me brother Arthur

volunteered for the Tunnelling Brigade.”

[light pings]

[Tommy] “Clay kickers.”

“Digging our way to the enemy front line.”

[glass shattering]

“There were nightmares down there.”

[muffled distant gunfire]

[exhales slowly]

[distant muffled shouts and gunfire]

[breathing heavily]

[pained groaning]

[panicked breathing]

[Tommy] “I came home from war, and I brought war home in me head.”

[unsettling piano music playing]

“And part of me is still buried.”

[ethereal voice singing]

“The tormented soul haunting the border between life and death, with no way out.”

[music swells ominously]

[inhales deeply]

[music fades]

[Tommy] Where the fuck did you get that scarf?

I went for a walk. I, um…

I found it on a grave.

Here.

Your, uh, brother’s grave.

I heard around the fairs and the weddings that… that he took his own life.

All this thinking about it and writing about it…

Sit down. We should eat before the food gets cold.

But can you see it in front of your own eyes?

[whispering] I sometimes borrow my sister’s body like it’s an old dress.

I asked Kaulo to leave me with you alone for a while.

It is me, Zelda.

[inhales sharply] And so the performance has begun.

Belief comes and goes, you know, it… doesn’t matter.

But if it helps, that scarf belongs to your daughter, Ruby.

She said she left this for you hanging off a branch.

So I went to your brother’s grave, and I spoke to him.

You told him it would be cowardly to believe all of this is imagination.

I don’t want to scare you.

I need to speak to you.

What else did me brother say to you?

I’ll tell you what else your brother said to me if you agree to help our son.

Whatever it is, I can’t help him.

I can’t help him.

Because I’m not that man anymore.

Then I will help you be that man again.

I will take you back to where it all began.

I need to wake you, Tommy.

And not with words.

With, um… a different kind of séance.

[haunting piano music playing]

You remember when, uh, we were at the fair?

And we laid down under a hazel tree?

And we hid from the world?

That was the day Duke came into being.

Remember.

And then come back to the world.

♪ Life is but a dream ♪

[“Black Dahlia” plays]

♪ And the world’s on fire ♪

♪ Everybody’s down ♪

♪ And everyone is fine ♪

♪ The lily on the water ♪

♪ The money in the wall ♪

♪ The money in the slaughter ♪

[bell ringing]

♪ The pride before the fall ♪

♪ Life is but a dream ♪

[babies crying]

♪ And the world’s on fire ♪

[Ada] This morning there was a robbery.

Duke Shelby stole weapons from the BSA factory.

There were witnesses.

I recognize some faces of people who were there.

I need people who will give evidence to me as your MP.

There is a way to stop him.

[rain gushing]

[car approaches]

[air-raid sirens blaring]

[explosions rumbling]

[man] Ugh.

[Duke] Drink?

[man] No, thank you.

So this is Virgil.

He’s deputy head of the British Fascist League.

I’ll be helping to distribute the money to our partners across the country.

I have to decide if we are able to work with your organization.

[bombs booming overhead]

So Virgil has some questions for you.

How will you collect the cash?

I’ll arrange three canal boats.

Trucks leaving the docks are searched, and the coal boats just come and go.

You’ve done your research.

[Duke] I have.

And the people with the boats are my kin.

[Virgil] That is both good and bad.

And if they say no?

They won’t say no.

We are asking you to take possession of 70 million pounds, Mr. Shelby.

I need certainty.

I understand Gypsies have rules about family.

Accidents of blood do not concern me.

Anyway, I’m told I don’t have a family.

Good.

So you have a plan in place.

Which means that now it’s just a question of your character.

[lighter clicks]

[man] This afternoon I called you, and I told you the truth about our friend Virgil here, didn’t I?

Yes, you did.

[inhales] And what truth did you tell him about me?

[man] Well, last night I was contacted by Berlin, and they gave me an important piece of intelligence.

[Virgil] What intelligence?

[man] They told me that you had been talking to your mistress.

And that you could no longer be trusted.

Now, I spoke with the woman, and, uh, she confirmed what I’d been told.

She was a nice woman.

It’s… It’s a shame.

What the fuck are you talking about?

[bomb whistling]

No!

[gunshot echoes]

[Virgil gasping]

[gasping for air]

[gunshot echoes]

[casing rattles]

No, give him another one.

Eh?

Give him another one.

He’s fucking dead.

No, he’s not. Trust me. Gi… Give him another one.

[rapid gunshots]

Yeah?

Good boy.

Fucking animal.

[chair thudding]

[sighs]

[man] Deeper and deeper you walk into the blood until you are out of your depth, and then you must learn to swim in it.

Commanding officer told me that back in 1914.

He’s dead now.

Have a drink.

He couldn’t keep his fucking mouth shut.

It’s that upper-class certainty, you know?

The… The voice of nations. The voice I’m sure your father hated too.

It probably gave him orders in some muddy field somewhere.

There will be no repercussions for what you’ve just done.

I’m working with some very powerful people.

Politicians, industrialists, members of the royal family.

In the coming regime, I will make sure that you are protected.

So…

Tomorrow.

You take the boats to Liverpool, and you collect the money.

Yeah.

But now, you find a way to get rid of this piece of shit.

[footsteps retreating]

[door opening]

[rain pattering]

[door closing]

[quietly] Fuck.

[grunts]

[glass shattering]

[Kaulo in Romani and English]

[in English] Was it good?

Yeah. Maybe.

Huh?

Maybe?

Huh? Maybe?

[Kaulo exhales]

Now you smile like that…

[softly] …it just reminds me how much sadness is in you, Tommy.

Do you want to know what else your brother Arthur said to me?

He said he wasn’t alone that night.

This is where the performance ends.

No, he doesn’t blame you.

Stop talking.

Everyone believes Arthur Shelby took his own life on the bridge.

Stop fucking talking!

He wasn’t by himself.

You were there with him.

He went to your office.

[huffs]

He wanted to borrow money from you.

No.

Listen to me.

He had a gun and he stole your car.

[tense music playing]

You went looking for him.

Tell me.

There was a fog.

[exhales sharply]

When I found him, he was injured, but he was still wild.

[thudding]

[Tommy] He’d taken that much opium.

[sighs]

He started… He started to believe I was the devil.

[gunshot echoes]

It was an accident.

It was an accident.

And that’s when the door in me head blew open.

[Kaulo, softly] Hey.

[Tommy breathes deeply]

[Kaulo] Hey.

You could close the door.

You could have the peace that we promised you, Tommy.

You can’t save Arthur.

You can’t save Ruby.

But you can save your son.

[pigs grunting]

Get. Get, get. Get.

[grunts]

[exhales sharply]

[munching and crunching]

[music becomes sinister]

[men speaking German]

[men speaking German]

[man speaks German]

[sinister music fades]

[birds tweeting]

[unsettling piano music playing]

[exhales sharply]

[“A Hero’s Death” by Fontaines D.C. playing]

[post-punk rock beat]

[Johnny] Tom?

Tom.

What the fuck?

I’m going to Birmingham.

To fucking where?

To see me son.

Tom, you are not ready for this world.

Wh… What weapons you taking with you?

Just meself.

No weapons? And no Arthur by your side?

Right. I’ll go.

And I’ll drive.

I’m not looking for trouble, Johnny.

[Johnny] No, but in Garrison Lane, Tom, trouble will be looking for you.

♪ Never let a clock tell you What you got time for ♪

♪ It only goes around Goes around, goes around ♪

♪ Take your family name For your own great sins ♪

♪ ‘Cause each day is where it all begins ♪

♪ And Don’t give up too quick ♪

♪ You only get one line You better make it stick ♪

♪ If we give ourselves to every breath ♪

♪ Then we’re all in the running For a hero’s death ♪

♪ Life ain’t always empty ♪

♪ Life ain’t always empty ♪

♪ Life ain’t always empty ♪

♪ Life ain’t always empty ♪

♪ Life ain’t always empty ♪

♪ Life ain’t always empty ♪

[song fades out]

[man] Morning.

Got rid of the body.

Spare me the details. I just had breakfast.

Uh… But I’m afraid that this morning there will be another body to dispose of.

Last night, a fascist sympathizer was at the air-raid shelter, and your father’s sister…

Ada?

Ada.

She was there too.

Now, she is taking witness statements against you for the theft of munitions.

She’s planning to deliver them to the military police over on Montague Street later this morning.

So if she hands these statements over, you will hang.

70 million pounds, or the noose.

What do you think?

Good.

You know, I have a son, and

I’m so ashamed of him.

Uh, he writes fucking poetry.

If you were my son, I would cherish you.

Make me proud.

[footsteps squelching in mud]

[Johnny] You leave that fucking gun where it is, Tom. That is mine.

Because if you’re the father and Duke Shelby is the son, then the Holy Ghost Johnny Dogs is gonna need at least a fucking revolver.

I’m coming with you.

I’m dropping it off at the barracks. It’s guarded by military police, Karl.

[Karl] Mum, I’ll walk with you.

[Ada] I’m only going to Montague Street.

[door closes]

[Ada] Listen, Karl. I’m not frightened of anything.

So you needn’t be either.

[“Puppet” plays]

[deep bass strums]

[Duke sighs]

♪ How does it feel To be a puppet hanging from a nail? ♪

♪ I could tell you secrets That would turn you pale ♪

Hello, Mr. Shelby, sir.

♪ These are the things That keep a dreaming man awake ♪

♪ Shaking all the hands That wanna drain yer ♪

♪ You’re just a figure In somebody else’s sorry scene ♪

[gun cocking]

♪ How far do you think That they can bend you? ♪

Fucking hell.

[breathing heavily] Okay.

♪ If you’d a way to live a life Where you was living clean ♪

[breathes deeply]

♪ Do you think it’s heaven They would send you? ♪

[nervously] Ah.

♪ In the moon ♪

♪ I found change ♪

Fucking… [panting]

♪ In my heart, only rage ♪

[shouting angrily]

♪ In my feet there’s no running ♪

♪ How does it feel To be a freak among the freaks? ♪

♪ Hiding all yourself under the table ♪

♪ How does it feel To be a savage and a beast? ♪

♪ And all the world sees a fallen angel ♪

♪ In the moon, I found change ♪

♪ In my heart, only rage ♪

♪ If I smile That means nothing’s wrong… ♪

Ada!

Ada, run!

[Karl] Mum!

[Karl] No!

Mum!

You did not make me proud.

Stop the car, Johnny.

Stop the fucking car. Stop the car!

[Karl crying hysterically]

♪ And now the truth is everywhere ♪

♪ You’re long gone ♪

♪ No paper trail ♪

♪ Another light begins to fail ♪

♪ You’re long gone, you’re yesterday ♪

♪ And still I feel you in this place ♪

♪ You’re long gone You’re changed away ♪

[song fades out]

Mr. Shelby, did someone call you?

No one called me.

There’s been a shooting this morning.

Get your fucking hands off me.

Your sister is dead, and we believe your son has information.

Where’s the body?

St. Elizabeth Mortuary.

Tom. Tom.

Go to the mortuary, Johnny.

We’ll both go, Tom.

Take this and stand guard over her.

It’s too late. A gun is no good. She’s dead.

Johnny, do as I say.

Where you going, Tom?

You’re unarmed.

[worker] Welcome back, Mr. Shelby.

Thank you, Peggy.

[lively piano music playing]

[joyful chatter]

[music halts]

[chatter subsides]

I need to speak to the owner of this pub.

It may have escaped your notice, you war-shy fucker, but we were dancing to that music.

When I get an answer to me question, you can dance again.

Who the fuck are you?

Just need to speak to him.

Right, sweetheart.

Here’s what’s gonna happen, all right?

You, you’re gonna turn around, you’re gonna put that fucking music back on, okay?

You’re gonna pick a slow number, all right?

Then you and me, we’re gonna waltz around this dance floor like Fred Astaire and Ginger fucking Rogers.

[laughter]

D’you like to dance?

I asked you a question.

Do you wanna dance with me, sweetheart?

Holy fuck.

Everybody stay calm.

Anyone thinking of pulling a weapon, do not pull a weapon.

Because this man, ladies and gentlemen, is Tommy Shelby.

[murmuring]

Who the fuck is Tommy Shelby?

[scattered chuckles]

Perhaps someone should explain to him who I am.

Uh… I don’t give a fuck who you are.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

You and me, we’re gonna dance.

Now.

Put that fucking music back on.

[tense silence]

There is a dance called the quickstep.

Perhaps you’ve heard of it.

[clip rattling]

[man] Go!

[bustling panic]

Fuck! Fuck!

Fu…

[booming explosion]

[glass shattering]

Music in pubs is always a bad idea. Right, you.

I’m looking for me son.

[Duke grunts]

You crossed every fucking line.

Hey!

You stole from your own.

You sold women.

I didn’t kill her!

You stole medicine from children.

Get up!

I didn’t fucking kill her!

He wanted me to kill her.

But I couldn’t. ‘Cause I’m not that man.

What are you, then? What are you?

Fuck you.

What are you?

I will not kill me own kin.

[in Romani]

[in English] And yeah, I’ve sinned. ‘Cause sin is all I fucking know.

Yeah, ’cause sin is all you fucking left me.

You hear that, Dad?

Sin is all you fucking left.

Fucking sin is all you fucking left me, eh? Eh?

[Duke straining]

[both grunting]

[Duke straining]

Now talk.

[Duke groaning]

[Tommy] Talk.

Ah! The man who fucking killed her drives a Morris with three bullet holes in it.

He came to me with a plan.

It was bigger than anything you fucking ever did.

[under breath] Fuck.

[Duke groaning]

Tell me.

Tell me what he’s planning to do.

[unsettling music playing]

[Johnny] I see you found your son, Tom.

Do you want me to leave you alone for a bit?

[Tommy] I have business here.

[Johnny] What business?

Give me the gun.

Huh?

Give me the gun.

I’m expecting someone to come.

Who, Tom?

The man who shot Ada.

He will come here ’cause he will guess that I will say goodbye to me sister.

He will want to kill me before I kill him.

Tell my son to take the guns he stole to Charlie’s yard.

Tom, I should stay here with you.

Go.

[door closes]

All of us dead.

Except for the one who wants to be dead.

[sighs]

I should’ve come back when you told me to, Ada.

I confess to you, sister.

[poignant music playing]

I killed our brother, Arthur.

It wasn’t an accident.

[gunshot echoes]

[Tommy grunting]

[Arthur struggling]

It wasn’t an act of mercy.

I killed him ’cause I was full of booze and rage.

[grunts]

[Arthur straining]

[Tommy] And I had a moment when I could’ve spared him.

I killed me own brother.

‘Cause I wanted to be free of him.

I promise you, sister.

I promise, Arthur.

I promise, Ruby.

From this bad will come some good.

[vehicle approaching]

[music swells]

[Tommy panting]

[tiles shattering]

[rapid gunfire]

[horses whinnying]

[tense music playing]

I heard you’re cavalry.

Yeah, but I’m not a fucking toff.

I hear they put you underground.

Clay kickers.

[quietly] Yeah.

Hitler’s having all the toffs quietly butchered. You know that?

At least he’s got a plan.

Solutions.

All this garbage.

Growing among us, you know, infecting us.

Needs cutting out.

Let the good stuff grow.

What I’m doing is a good thing, Tommy.

End the war with banknotes instead of bombs.

Everyone gets rich. No one dies.

Fucking simple.

A Sten gun has 30 rounds.

Gonna be out soon, pal.

[rapid gunfire]

[horse whines]

[gunshot]

[gunshot]

Whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa.

[vehicle drives away]

Good boy. Good boy.

[“Red Right Hand” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds playing]

♪ Take a little walk to the edge of town ♪

♪ Go across the tracks ♪

♪ Where the viaduct looms Like a bird of doom ♪

♪ As it shifts and cracks ♪

♪ Where secrets lie in the border fires ♪

♪ In the humming wires ♪

♪ Hey, man You know you’re never coming back ♪

♪ Past this square Past the bridge ♪

♪ Past the mills Past the stacks ♪

♪ On a gathering storm Comes a tall handsome man ♪

♪ In a dusty black coat With a red right hand ♪

[bell tolling]

[door closes]

[song fades out]

Some time ago, your mother’s spirit came to me.

No, no, no.

It’s not the time for Gypsy magic.

No, that part is done.

Now it’s time to be practical.

[in Romani]

[in English] So now is your chance.

Chance for what?

When you were a little boy, you decided that you were a duke.

And everyone laughed.

Now it’s time for you to be king, and this time no one will laugh.

You will fight side by side with your father.

You will do as he says.

And in the fog, as the dust settles…

[foreboding music playing]

He wants peace.

I promised him peace.

And he knows in his soul that a bullet is the only thing that’s going to bring peace to him.

Mm.

[in Romani]

…Rom Baro.

The Gypsy King.

That is what your mother always wanted for you.

[Duke breathes deeply]

Together we can rule.

[kisses]

But you must decide if you’re ready to be king.

[horse clops in distance]

[Duke sighs]

[grunts]

[Kaulo] Okay?

I spoke to Duke.

He said he wants to help you.

First, I’ll need a four-wheel Gypsy wagon.

[horse clopping]

[coin dings]

[door opens]

[sighs]

[door closes]

[footsteps approaching]

[Tommy coughs]

[glass clinking]

[pours drink]

I’m told you want to help me kill the man who killed Ada.

Yeah.

I do.

Curly.

Tom.

[“Teardrop” playing]

[haunting ethereal vocals echo]

[Elizabeth sobbing]

[lighter clicks]

♪ Love, love is a verb ♪

♪ Love is a doing word ♪

♪ Fearless on my breath ♪

♪ Gentle impulsion ♪

♪ Shakes me, makes me lighter ♪

♪ Fearless on my breath ♪

♪ Teardrop on the fire ♪

♪ Fearless on my breath ♪

[music fades]

[phone ringing]

[bangs on door]

[phone continues ringing]

[Duke] I know I fucked up before,

but I can help you.

[man] I was wondering if you’d call.

He’s coming for you. He knows where you are.

[“Romance” by Fontaines D.C. playing]

I will call you again when we reach Liverpool.

What do you want in return? 70 million. The same as before.

We have a deal, Mr. Shelby.

[chuckles softly]

♪ Into the darkness again ♪

♪ In with the pigs in the pen ♪

♪ God knows I love you ♪

♪ Screws in my head ♪

♪ I will be beside you ♪

♪ Till you’re dead ♪

Tom.

There’s someone to see you.

He say he the king. The King, Tom, of the Liverpool Dock.

[music stops]

[Tommy] Stagg.

Tommy.

[Tommy] Are you sure it’s him?

Yeah. You don’t see many Morrises with three bullet holes in the door.

Waterloo Docks. Warehouse 47.

I bribed the surveyor.

These will show you all the ways in and out.

When we get to Liverpool, I’m gonna need you.

What the fuck’s in this warehouse, Tommy?

A man I want dead.

And a weapon that could lose us the war.

[vehicle approaching]

[Curly] Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa!

We’ll win no medals, and no one will know what we’ve done, but we’ll have done a good thing for a good cause.

I’ve heard you decided this wasn’t your war.

It is now.

But they’re Nazis and you’re a Gypsy.

They’ve been slaughtering your people for years.

So this always was your war.

There were some things I needed resolving in me head.

Oi!

Get here!

[man] Go on. We’ll have it in the neck. Go on.

This is me son.

Call him Duke.

Word of you came up the canal.

Worse than your da, they say.

No, he’s not worse.

He’s not worse.

He doesn’t have the fields of Flanders rotting inside his head.

He’s not cursed like you and me, Stagg.

And I’ve decided I can trust him.

Haven’t I, son?

[tense music playing]

[Stagg] Warehouse 47’s on Waterloo Dock.

To the west, the loading bays are heavily guarded.

To the east, you’ve got the dockside.

[Tommy] The canal boats can approach the warehouse from the water.

That’ll create a diversion.

In the meantime, I need to find Beckett and get to the money.

There’s a ventilation shaft directly under warehouse 47.

I can get in that way through the Waterloo Tunnel.

No. The Waterloo Tunnel’s been closed for 50 years.

Half of it’s collapsed. It’s been sealed off.

The dock authorities put three-inch steel gates over the entrance to stop the dockers from moving their contraband.

Boats are loaded and ready.

[Tommy] Right, you leave the tunnel to me.

I’ll be there at midnight tomorrow.

No later.

Whatever you say, boss.

Can’t be easy being the son of Tommy Shelby, eh, lad?

I’m finding ways to cope.

[Tommy] “I dedicate this book to my daughter Ruby,

and to my two sons.”

[typewriter clacking]

“My eldest son, Duke, should be my natural heir.”

“But tonight will be a test

which will reveal the truth about him.”

“It is my eldest son,

my dark reflection,

who will write the final chapter of this story.”

“How it ends

will be his decision.”

“Tonight we will see if from this bad

some good will come.”

[Curly] Charlie! Charlie! Tommy’s gone!

He’s taken five packets of explosives and a landmine from the hold.

We have our instructions.

[air raid siren wails in distance]

[Tommy] How long?

[Kaulo] They say 30 minutes.

You know, Tommy, there’s not a lock, a fence, or a gate my cousins can’t remove.

[siren continues in distance]

Before I go, Kaulo Chiriklo, I’d like you to read my palm.

[machinery buzzing]

[bombs echoing]

[horse whinnying]

[dogs bark in distance]

[Kaulo] Your heart broken twice.

[Tommy] Now read me head line.

[Kaulo whispering] Your poor head, Tommy. Deep cuts crossing all the way.

[bombs echoing in distance]

Now you read my life line.

War there.

The first war didn’t get you, but it cut you away from who you were before. You see here?

It’s a gap.

And down you went, on and on, like a wheel on the road, rolling just to roll.

[in Romani]

[in English] Still, the crown is mine.

You’ve only told me me past.

I want you to tell me me future.

What’s going to happen to me tonight, Kaulo Chiriklo?

You asked for peace.

Tonight you will have peace.

So, you know my intention.

I’ve known your intention since you first come to my land, and you asked Johnny Dogs about the welfare of the Rom Baro.

Mm.

A long time ago, Polly Gray told me that if a blackbird flies into your house, death will come.

Never thought I’d meet a woman like Polly Gray again.

And yet, behold.

Tommy.

Tonight, either you will kill him… or he will kill you.

[“Angel” playing]

♪ You ♪

[air-raid siren blaring] ♪ Are my angel ♪

[Charlie] Right. That’s it.

All of it is loaded.

Everyone jump on.

[man] Move it.

♪ Come from way above ♪

[Charlie] Remember.

Midnight.

Everything happens at midnight.

♪ To bring me love ♪

♪ But his eyes ♪

♪ He’s on the dark side ♪

♪ Neutralize ♪

♪ Every man in sight ♪

[guard in German]

[in English] “Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father, the son, and children shall rise up against their parents and shall cause them to be put to death.”

[explosion]

[rumbling overhead]

[Beckett] Mark, chapter 13, verse 12.

Now, why don’t you show me what your father’s planning to do?

[planes roar overhead]

[bombs booming]

There will be three boats entering the basin from the tunnel.

[translating into German]

They will be armed with Stens and Brownings.

[translating into German]

[Duke] They will be concealed in the holds of the boats

to use the element of surprise.

[Charlie] Five minutes, boys. Time to go.

[Beckett continues translating]

[Beckett speaking German]

[Charlie] Everybody off.

If you hit them hard, you’ll be able to take them before they get the shot away.

[translation into German continues]

[in German]

Heil Hitler.

[all] Heil Hitler.

[guard in German]

[in English] Let’s have a drink.

Sure you wanna do this?

I’m sure.

♪ Love you, love you, love you Love you, love you, love you, love you ♪

♪ Love you, love you, love you Love you, love you, love you, love you ♪

♪ Love you, love you, love you Love you, love you, love you, love you ♪

♪ Love you, love you, love you, love you Love you, love you, love you, love you ♪

♪ Love you, love you, love you, love you ♪

[music intensifies]

[muffled screaming]

[overwhelming distortion]

[slashing]

[screaming]

[music steadies]

[exhales forcefully]

[loud booming]

[rumbling overhead]

[rumbling, cracking]

[rubble clattering]

[silence falls]

[liquid pours]

[Beckett sighs]

Peace in our time.

[sighs]

[energetic music playing]

[guards yell in German]

[weapons click and clink]

[Tommy breathing heavily]

[grunts]

[straining]

[gasping for air]

[straining]

[panting]

[Tommy moaning]

[slashing]

[moaning in pain]

[music becomes unsettling]

[Tommy moaning]

[straining]

[moaning]

[breathing heavily]

[music becomes energetic]

[officer in German]

Fire!

[gunfire]

[gunfire]

[music building]

[music halts]

[sizzling]

You stupid fucking Gypsy!

What have you done?

I tossed a coin.

The coin told me to betray me father.

But I disobeyed the coin.

Decided to do the right thing.

So send me on me way, and pull the fucking trigger.

Your father always thinks he’s one step ahead.

But he left you behind, didn’t he?

What kind of father leaves his son behind?

[explosion echoing]

[glass shattering]

[Duke groaning]

[“Medusa” plays]

[rhythmic rock music]

[grunting]

♪ In my life I would change it ♪

♪ Pull it down like unclean air ♪

♪ On the pavement, living’s easy ♪

♪ All the shadows know me there ♪

♪ ‘Cause in my life ♪

♪ In my life I would be here ♪

♪ If I was not to be there ♪

♪ I cut an answer from the pages ♪

♪ Let the void in me declare ♪

♪ ‘Cause in my life ♪ All I needed was ♪

♪ All the wanted not to share ♪

♪ Till I’ve conceded ♪

♪ All I need is Is the right end of this knife ♪

♪ ‘Cause in my life ♪

♪ In my life ♪

Hey.

Get the fuck in here now!

♪ In my life ♪

Where the fuck were you, eh?

Midnight came and went.

Where the fuck were you?

[gunfire]

You could at least say well done.

Listen to me!

I’m only here ’cause your mother told me your life’s worth saving.

Mother’s been dead for ten years now.

Well, she’s a very persistent lady.

[Duke panting]

What the fuck is that?

In 30 seconds, you’ll find out.

Get out of here.

Fuck.

♪ All my life is elation ♪

♪ In despair Is a cancer ♪

♪ In the patient Is a murder in the air ♪

♪ ‘Cause in my life Bet I want it ♪

♪ Cling on to whatever’s there ♪

♪ For all my… ♪

[poignant music playing]

[grunts]

[metal crunching]

[glass shattering]

[Duke] We did it, Dad. We fucking did it.

[Tommy grunts]

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Hey, come on. Come on. Come on.

[Tommy groaning]

[Duke straining]

I am a horse.

[grunts]

You’d do it…

You’d do it for a horse.

[labored breathing]

Hey.

Hey.

[panting]

[Duke] Hey.

[somber music playing]

Hey. Hey.

[breathing heavily] Use the bullet she gave you.

[Duke] No, no.

Take it.

Tom.

[Tommy] Go on, son.

[Duke groans emotionally]

Use the bullet she gave you, son.

No, no, no.

Go on.

Fuck…

[both breathing heavily]

Come on, son.

[Duke] I can’t do it, Dad.

[Tommy] Yes, you can.

[gun cocks]

Come on.

Heavy lies the crown.

Come on.

Come on!

[gunshot]

[gun clattering]

[Duke panting emotionally]

[sobbing softly]

[wind gushing softly]

In the bleak…

[Duke exhales sharply]

…midwinter.

[Duke sobbing softly]

Collect it all and burn it.

[sniffs]

Eh?

Yes…

Rom Baro.

[“Hunting The Wren” by Lankum plays]

[rhythmic folk guitar]

♪ Sharp is the wind ♪

♪ Cold is the rain ♪

♪ Harsh is the livelong day ♪

♪ Upon the wide open plain ♪

♪ By Donnelly’s hollow ♪

♪ Under sod, gorse and furze ♪

♪ There lies the young wren, oh ♪

♪ By the saints she was cursed ♪

♪ The wren is a small bird ♪

♪ How pretty she sings ♪

♪ She bested the eagle ♪

♪ When she hid in its wings ♪

♪ With sticks and with stones ♪

[in Romani]

[Tommy in English] “Give my car to Johnny Dogs,

my wine to The Garrison pub,

my horses to someone who’s no work for them,

my bullets to someone who’s no names to write on them,

and my guns to someone who has no use for them.”

“Once, I nearly got fucking everything.”

“But nearly doesn’t count.”

“But throughout it all, I had me family.”

“We are reunited now,

in whichever place will have us.”

“Burn my body.”

“Let the ash blow.”

“I am free.”

♪ There are birds of the earth ♪

♪ And beasts of the field ♪

♪ By spite and by fury ♪

♪ Are people revealed ♪

♪ Attacked in the village ♪

♪ Spat on in town ♪

♪ They come from all over ♪

♪ To hunt the wren On the wide open ground ♪

♪ The wren is a small bird ♪

♪ Though blamed for much woe ♪

♪ Her form is derided ♪

♪ Wherever she goes ♪

♪ With cold, want, and whiskey ♪

♪ She soon is run down ♪

♪ Her body paraded ♪

♪ On a staff through the town ♪

♪ A rag for her ceiling ♪

♪ The sod was her floor ♪

♪ She chose the cold open plain o’er ♪

♪ The dark workhouse door ♪

♪ With two broken wings ♪

♪ And feathers so brown ♪

♪ They come from all over ♪

♪ To hunt the wren On the wide open ground ♪

[song fades]

[“Ellipsis” plays]

[alternative guitar music]

♪ Set me back ♪

♪ Some things Never get themselves on track ♪

♪ If I want you, I’m coming back ♪

♪ Hard of them A very hard attack ♪

♪ Set me free ♪

♪ Some things never let themselves be ♪

♪ If I want to, I’ll be free ♪

♪ Call it Monday ♪

♪ Set me back ♪

♪ Some things Never let themselves on track ♪

♪ If I want you, I’ll come back ♪

♪ Hard of them A very hard attack ♪

♪ City hall ♪

♪ I’ve got nothing Come and take it all ♪

♪ There’s no further we can fall ♪

♪ Call it Monday ♪

♪ Set me back ♪

♪ Some things Never get themselves on track ♪

♪ If I want to, I’m coming back ♪

♪ Hard of them A very hard attack ♪

♪ Set me free ♪

♪ I will melt to every breath I breathe ♪

♪ Once they’re here They’re trying to leave ♪

♪ Call it Monday ♪

♪ Set me back ♪

♪ Some things Never get themselves on track ♪

♪ If I want to, I’m coming back ♪

♪ Call it Monday ♪