PEAKY BLINDERS II Page #8

Season #3 Episode #18
Synopsis: Peaky Blinders is a British television crime drama based upon the exploits of the Peaky Blinders gang, operating in Birmingham, England during the aftermath of the First World War. The series was created by Steven Knight and produced by Caryn Mandabach Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions. The series centres around and stars Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby, the gang's leader, and Sam Neill as a commissioned detective tasked with the suppression of the gang.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Year:
2013
4,596 Views


Tommy is busy with the combination, which he knows from

memory...

TOMMY:

We’ve got eighteen staff.

AUNT POLLY:

Who you trust with two hundred quid

takings?

Tommy pulls the safe door but it doesn’t open. Unconcerned he

begins to enter the combination again. Aunt Polly speaks

flatly...

AUNT POLLY (CONT’D)

I changed the combination.

Tommy takes a moment and looks skyward.

AUNT POLLY (CONT’D)

What’s going on Tommy? Who did you

meet at the Black Lion?

A stand off. Tommy looks directly at the safe door.

TOMMY:

Give me the combination Polly.

Aunt Polly’s silence is her reply. Tommy speaks clearly as if

at a business meeting.

TOMMY (CONT’D)

What happened to the pub is Irish

business.

Still Aunt Polly doesn’t budge.

TOMMY (CONT’D)

We are in a situation where for

everyone’s safety it is best if

some things remain undisclosed.

Aunt Polly softens a little but holds out.

AUNT POLLY:

Why tomorrow?

Tommy realizes some things will need to be divulged if he is

to get the safe open. He lights a cigarette...

TOMMY:

Like you said, tomorrow is

Newmarket. So all the London bosses

will be at the races...

AUNT POLLY:

And you just roll up and take the

city...

(CONT'D)

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TOMMY:

We take the opportunity to show our

hand.

Aunt Polly waits.

TOMMY (CONT’D)

The Italian gangs and the Jewish

gangs have been at war for six

months in London.

AUNT POLLY:

Not our war.

TOMMY:

The Jews have been having the worst

of it. They need allies.

AUNT POLLY:

We don’t.

TOMMY:

But we need a foothold. At the

Southern end of the Grand Union.

The Jewish gangs control Camden

Town.

Tommy turns to Aunt Polly as if his case has been made but

she shakes her head...

AUNT POLLY:

Your mother used to say ‘it’s his

cleverness that’ll kill him’.

TOMMY:

No one gets killed. We go down

tomorrow when the town is quiet and

leave our message. If Alfie

Solomons and his Camden boys come

to us, we’ll negotiate the use of a

secure bonded warehouse. Then we

can begin our legal operation in

London.

A pause.

TOMMY (CONT’D)

Without a shot being fired.

He turns to Aunt Polly...

TOMMY (CONT’D)

Now Polly, please. Open the f***ing

safe.

Aunt Polly holds his look for a moment. She studies him.

(CONT'D)

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30

AUNT POLLY:

That was a fine speech you made in

there about this company believing

in equal rights for women.

A pause.

AUNT POLLY (CONT’D)

But when it comes to it, you don’t

listen to a word we say.

Tommy looks away.

AUNT POLLY (CONT’D)

Maybe you don’t trust us.

A pause. Aunt Polly smiles...

AUNT POLLY (CONT’D)

She was just one woman Tommy. It’s

time you forgot about her.

Tommy is dead pan....

TOMMY:

Forgot about who?

Aunt Polly despairs. She quickly opens the safe door....

AUNT POLLY:

You and the boys go and get

yourselves killed.

The door swings open and Aunt Polly leaves. Tommy peers at

the stack of cash.

31 INT. GARRISON PUB, OFFICE - NIGHT 1 31

We find Tommy having sex in the back room.

The sex is functional and Tommy has his eyes closed. There is

a whisky bottle on the table. The sex reaches climax...

Tommy rolls away and reaches for a cigarette. After a moment

the St.Andrews clock begins to chime midnight (memories for

Tommy perhaps). Tommy lights his cigarette. The woman is

revealed and we see that it is LIZZIE STARK (and we see she

has feelings now for Tommy).

Tommy begins to button his shirt.

LIZZIE (CHECKING THE TIME)

You’re going to London now?

TOMMY:

No. I have something to do first.

(CONT'D)

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She sits up. Tommy grabs his shirt, discarded on a table, and

reveals a brand new typewriter underneath it. Lizzie smiles,

trying to make conversation...

LIZZIE:

I’ve got a typewriter like that. I

got it out of a catalogue. I’m

doing a correspondence course.

Tommy holds his revolver to the window light and checks the

bullets in the chamber. Lizzie reacts but continues

brightly.

LIZZIE (CONT’D)

I’m learning to do it with my eyes

shut. It’s a test you have to do.

Tommy puts his revolver into his holster, not hearing. He

grabs his jacket.

LIZZIE (CONT’D)

Will you come back before you go?

TOMMY:

No.

He reaches into his jacket pocket and puts two ten shilling

notes on the table beside the typewriter. Lizzie reacts...

LIZZIE:

Tommy, I wish just once you

wouldn’t pay me. As if we were

ordinary people.

TOMMY:

Yeah.

Tommy walks. We stay with Lizzie’s reaction as a car engine

fires up outside.

32 INT. BLACKSMITHS SHOP - NIGHT 1 32

The images are uncertain. Forges burn. There is one large

dray horses tethered. Long lines of stables are lit by

flashing light from hammered metal.

We are in the Birmingham Co-operative dray-shop, where the

horses, used to pull deliveries, are shod on an industrial

scale through the night, ready for morning deliveries.

We see this through the slats in a wooden divide that

separates the workshop from a straw-strewn walkway.

We find Tommy walking down the walkway with grim purpose, his

long black coat buttoned, his right hand in the inside

pocket.

We are close to his impassive face with flames flickering.

(CONT'D)

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Tommy stops and peers through a split in the wooden divide.

We see an image of a forge with ‘Bay 7’ above it. A red

haired man is pumping the bellows, turning his face from the

sparks.

The images become more uncertain in a heat haze. Tommy walks

and we walk with him. A big dray horse clatters in his path.

Then Tommy sees the red haired man drawing a pint from a beer

barrel up on planks.

Tommy approaches the beer barrel and waits. The target guy is

wiping his mouth after downing a pint. He glances at Tommy

and Tommy raises the brim of his cap just a little to reveal

his eyes.

The red haired guy draws himself another half pint and

drinks. Tommy allows him to drink his last pint on earth.

As the man turns to go back to work, Tommy steps up, pulls

his Webley revolver and puts a single bullet into the man’s

head...

Tommy reacts for a moment. The noise of hammering hid the

sound of the bullet. Tommy grabs the body and begins to drag

it into the shadows. Then he is gone in a shower of sparks...

33 EXT. WATERY LANE - NEXT MORNING 2 33

The street looks peaceful and deserted. Tommy turns the

corner in his Fiat and parks. Arthur is already waiting on

the pavement. Tommy checks his watch as he gets out of the

car. They are both on time but someone is missing.

They both turn to look up at the house beside where they’ve

met. Tommy leans into the car and hoots the horn. A window

flies open and John appears, still in his vest.

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Steven Knight

Steven Knight was born in 1959 in Marlborough, England. He is a writer and producer, known for Eastern Promises (2007), Peaky Blinders (2013) and Locke (2013). more…

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