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This is the first episode of the first series of Peaky Blinders. It aired on BBC Two on September 12, 2013. Birmingham, 1919. Thomas Shelby controls the Peaky Blinders, one of the city's most feared criminal organizations, but his ambitions go beyond running the streets. When a crate of guns goes missing, Thomas recognizes an opportunity to move up in the world. Summary The Shelbyโ€™s have a family meeting, where Arthur presents information about a copper recruiting Protestant Irishmen to come to Birmingham as Special police men to clean up the city. Aunt Polly At a church, Polly Gray pressures Thomas until he finally tells her about how his men accidentally acquired the wrong crate during a routine pick-up, instead taking a crate that contained Lewis machine guns, ammunition, semi-automatic rifles, and pistols with shells. Polly tells Thomas to dump the machine guns before he gets hanged for having them. Thomas, Curly and Charlie when they find the wrong crate at Charlie Strong's Yard Grace Burgess enters The Garrison Pub and talks to Harry Fenton, the landlord, about a job posting. At first Harry turns her down, but Grace sings part of a song (the Irish ballad โ€œI wish I was in Carrickfergusโ€) that wins him over. Arthur Shelby goes to the cinema with two women, but gets captured by policemen and taken to Chief Inspector Campbell. Campbell asks Arthur what he knows about the robbery, and beats him when Arthur does not give him the answers he wants. Arthur Shelby and Chief Inspector Campbell Grace and Harry help serve a full house of men on their way to a football game. Grace meets Thomas for the first time, and brings him a bottle of rum on the house. Harry warns her to stay away from him. The Shelby family helps patch Arthur up. Arthur tells Thomas that Campbell said Winston Churchill sent him to Birmingham on a case of national interest related to a robbery. Campbell told Arthur that he wants the Peaky Blinders to help him. Thomas says nothing, which irritates Arthur. In his bedroom, Thomas pours brown opium into his pipe and lights a match. He puts flame to the opium and draws. He dreams an old memory of himself, Freddie and Danny in the tunnels during the War, trying to listen in behind a wall, before they get attacked. He wakes, looks out the window and sees two policemen walking down the street. At Charlie Strongโ€™s Yard, Thomas decides to keep the guns. Chief Inspector Campbell and Grace Burgess Mr. Campbell meets Grace at the statue room of a museum, proving that she is an agent of the Crown. It is revealed that Graceโ€™s father, an officer, was killed by the IRA, and that at some point, Campbell had worked with him. The two Italians that had witnessed Danny Whizz-Bang murdering a waiter in Little Italy watch with satisfaction as Thomas kills Danny. A boat with Charlie Strong in it comes up and Danny falls into it. Thomas and Danny Whizz-Bang Danny wakes up under a canal tunnel, still on the boat with Charlie Strong. Thomas had only shot a shell full of sheep brains at the back of Dannyโ€™s head. Charlie tells him they are heading to London, because Thomas has a job for Danny to do there. He tells Danny that he is a member of the Peaky Blinders now. Polly asks Thomas if he got rid of the guns, and Thomas lies and tells her that he did. In a final scene, Grace and Thomas see each other while Thomas is walking outside The Garrison Pub, and he continues walking down the street. For exclusive content, visit Gxcciโ€™s Trap House on instagram @thestonyhillpodcast. Or follow the host @gxccifromthehood. Gxcciโ€™s Trap House is a product of Ultimate Records

10/01/22 โ€ข 9 min

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