List of Peaky Blinders episodes

Peaky Blinders is a British period crime drama television series created by Steven Knight. Set in Birmingham, England, it follows the exploits of the Peaky Blinders crime gang in the direct aftermath of the First World War. The fictional gang is loosely based on a real urban youth gang of the same name who were active in the city from the 1910s. It premiered on 12 September 2013, telecast on BBC Two until the fourth series, then moved to BBC One for the fifth and sixth series.

On 18 January 2021, it was announced that the sixth series would be the final television series of Peaky Blinders. During the course of the programme, 36 episodes of Peaky Blinders aired over six series, between 12 September 2013 and 3 April 2022.

Series overview

Series	Episodes		Originally aired			Average UK viewers (millions)
			First aired	Last aired	Network
1	6		12 September 2013 (2013-09-12)	17 October 2013 (2013-10-17)	BBC Two	2.38
2	6		2 October 2014 (2014-10-02)	6 November 2014 (2014-11-06)		2.18
3	6		5 May 2016 (2016-05-05)	9 June 2016 (2016-06-09)		2.38
4	6		15 November 2017 (2017-11-15)	20 December 2017 (2017-12-20)		3.35
5	6		25 August 2019 (2019-08-25)	22 September 2019 (2019-09-22)	BBC One	5.87
6	6		27 February 2022 (2022-02-27)	3 April 2022 (2022-04-03)		TBA

Episodes

Series 1 (2013)

No. overall	No. in series	Episode	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
1	1	Episode 1	Otto Bathurst	Steven Knight	12 September 2013 (2013-09-12)	3.05
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. Winston Churchill sends Inspector Campbell to Birmingham to retrieve the guns. Tommy's aunt Polly urges Tommy to return the guns, but he feels that he can use them to his advantage. His brother Arthur does not agree with Tommy about fixing horse races, believing it will cause trouble with Billy Kimber, who runs the races. Inspector Campbell and his men capture Arthur and beat him while inquiring about the gun robbery. Campbell propositions Arthur and the gang to work with him to find the guns. Tommy's sister Ada is involved with Freddie Thorne, a communist. A barmaid named Grace Burgess starts working at the Garrison, a bar owned by the Peaky Blinders. She has been placed in Birmingham by Campbell to help find the guns. Tommy's friend Danny has a PTSD episode and kills an Italian business owner. To avoid a war with the Italians, Tommy agrees to kill Danny, with the Italians witnessing. However, Danny's death is faked and he goes to London on a special assignment.
2	2	Episode 2	Otto Bathurst	Steven Knight	19 September 2013 (2013-09-19)	2.45
Tommy, Arthur and John meet with a rival Romanichal gang, the Lees, to look at a horse for the next race. The Lees insult the Peaky Blinders and a fight breaks out. Campbell's special force launches a surprise crackdown, targeting communists and looking for the guns. Freddie and Ada escape, but Freddie has to leave town. Campbell confronts Polly and attacks all the Peaky Blinder establishments. In retaliation, Tommy arranges for a reporter to write about a burning of the King's picture, which prompts Churchill to pressure Campbell. 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. Campbell agrees but instructs Grace to get close to Tommy and find the location of the guns. Polly realises Ada is pregnant and tells Tommy, who threatens to kill Freddie but then instructs him to take Ada away. Freddie instead proposes to Ada and decides to stay in town. Billy Kimber and his men confront the Peaky Blinders, but Tommy convinces them to join forces in fighting the Lees, their common enemy.
3	3	Episode 3	Otto Bathurst	Steven Knight	26 September 2013 (2013-09-26)	2.20
Ada and Freddie marry; Aunt Polly gives them money to leave the country. Despite Tommy's best efforts to keep the guns a secret, people keep finding out about them, including two IRA members. Grace overhears them trying to blackmail Tommy and follows one of them, but he attacks her. Grace manages to shoot her attacker dead in self-defence. Tommy warns Kimber that Lee's people will once again rob Kimber's bookies at the races. 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. Kimber agrees if he can have some time alone with Grace, to which Tommy agrees. At the last minute, he has a change of heart and claims that Grace is actually a prostitute with Gonorrhea (The Clap). Freddie decides Tommy is not going to scare him off and returns.
4	4	Episode 4	Tom Harper	Steven Knight, Stephen Russell	3 October 2013 (2013-10-03)	2.31
Tommy makes his business legitimate by obtaining a betting licence. Although he does not quite trust her and is suspicious of her, Tommy hires Grace as his secretary. John calls the gang together to tell them he wants to marry Lizzie, a local prostitute. Tommy disapproves because he does not think Lizzie has given up her former profession. His suspicions are confirmed when he requests her services as a test and she agrees. The Lees rob the Blinders' gambling den as revenge for the Peaky Blinders having protected Billy Kimber's bookies at the races. 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. Ada comes to the wedding but goes into labour soon after. Freddie comes to see the new baby but is arrested when he shows up.
5	5	Episode 5	Tom Harper	Steven Knight, Toby Finlay	10 October 2013 (2013-10-10)	2.03
Believing Tommy betrayed Freddie, Ada does not want to see or speak to her family. Arthur Sr. (Tommy Flanagan), who deserted the family a decade ago, comes back into town. Tommy wants nothing to do with him, but Arthur Jr. believes he has changed. He gives Arthur Sr. a large sum of money to build hotels in America, only for Arthur Sr. to abscond with it. An IRA member starts inquiring about the man Grace killed. Grace and Tommy kill the other IRA members. Now in love with Tommy, Grace tells Inspector Campbell that if she tells him where the guns are, he must leave Tommy and his family alone. She suspects the guns are buried in a false grave after discovering that Danny is not really dead. Grace gives up the location to Inspector Campbell and resigns service to the Crown. Inspector Campbell proposes marriage, which Grace rejects. Grace and Tommy consummate their connection, secretly witnessed by Campbell. Arthur Jr. attempts suicide by hanging himself, but survives when the rope snaps off its hook.
6	6	Episode 6	Tom Harper	Steven Knight	17 October 2013 (2013-10-17)	2.24
Campbell confirms to Winston Churchill that Grace should be commended for her part in finding the missing guns. Polly meets with Grace to reveal she knows Grace's secret and that she will never forgive her. The Peaky Blinders, led by Danny, spring Freddie from jail. Tommy gathers the Peaky Blinders and the Lees to take on Kimber's men at the tracks, but Kimber catches the Blinders off guard and outnumbered by confronting them at home. Freddie helps the Peaky Blinders by bringing out a machine gun from the stolen weapons, but Ada jumps into the middle of the standoff trying to bring peace. Kimber opens fire on the Peaky Blinders, killing Danny and injuring Tommy. Tommy, in turn, shoots Kimber dead. Tommy meets Grace and she tells him she loves him and will go to London for a few days; she has an idea of how they can be together. Tommy writes a letter and flips a coin to decide if he will go with Grace. As this happens, Campbell confronts Grace at the railway station and points his pistol at her. As the scene fades, there is a gunshot.

Series 2 (2014)

No. overall	No. in series	Episode	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
7	1	Episode 1	Colm McCarthy	Steven Knight	2 October 2014 (2014-10-02)	2.31
Grace shoots Campbell and leaves. Two years later, the Garrison is blown up while the Peaky Blinders are attending Freddie Thorne's funeral. Tommy asks Ada to come home as he is planning an expansion into London. Tommy goes to the Black Lion to confront those responsible for the explosion. Instead, he is taken to meet with the IRA and asked to assassinate someone, which he does. Tommy is informed that Campbell, now a major, is returning to Birmingham. The Peaky Blinders have a meeting regarding the expansion of the bookie business, during which Polly and Esme have reservations. Nonetheless, Tommy, Arthur, and John decide to get familiar with the London scene and end up causing a rumpus at Darby Sabini's club. Polly visits a medium for information on her children that were taken from her. Tommy hires Lizzie as his secretary. In retaliation for the club incident, Sabini has his thugs kidnap and attempt to rape Ada, as well as beat Tommy to within an inch of his life. Major Campbell intervenes before Sabini and his men can finish him off, having agreed with Churchill that Tommy will be useful to them.
8	2	Episode 2	Colm McCarthy	Steven Knight	9 October 2014 (2014-10-09)	2.18
Major Campbell visits Tommy in the hospital and reveals that he knows about the murder Tommy committed for the IRA, and has had Tommy under surveillance for some time. Tommy discharges himself early and takes a barge down to London. He meets with the vicious gang-leader Alfie Solomons (Tom Hardy) in Camden Town. Tommy has a hard time convincing Solomons that he should align with the Peaky Blinders against Sabini. Tommy buys Ada and Polly houses as a means of laundering money. Esme has told Tommy about Polly trying to find her children. Tommy tells Polly her daughter is dead, but he has managed to track down her son. Unfortunately, due to the law, Polly is unable to see her son until he is 18 years of age. Arthur's flashbacks from the war are getting worse, and during one, he kills a boy while sparring. He starts using cocaine to self-medicate. Following the reopening of the Garrison, Polly's son, Michael, shows up on her doorstep.
9	3	Episode 3	Colm McCarthy	Steven Knight	16 October 2014 (2014-10-16)	2.20
The gang hire the Digbeth Kid, a neighbourhood boy who loves cowboy movies, to get stood up for gambling to help the local cops meet their arrest quota. While in jail, Sabini's thugs murder the Digbeth Kid to get back at the Peaky Blinders for their intrusion on his turf. Polly and Michael try to get to know each other. Tommy and John meet with Billy, of the Black Country Boys, who fought with them in the war. Tommy tells Billy to round up his men for them to go to work in Camden Town for Alfie Solomons. Arthur is threatened by the mother of the boy he killed. Tommy tells Major Campbell that the officers played a joke on him and have boarded him in a house that is owned by a not-so-former Madam. The Peaky Blinders and Michael go to an auction to purchase a horse and meet horse trainer May Carleton. On the way home, they are ambushed by Sabini's right-hand man, who tries to shoot Tommy, but is stopped when Arthur intervenes and beats him severely.
10	4	Episode 4	Colm McCarthy	Steven Knight	23 October 2014 (2014-10-23)	2.06
Tommy meets with his Irish handlers and discovers they are backed by Major Campbell and the Crown. They order another hit, but Tommy turns them down. Arthur and the gang attack one of Sabini's clubs. Michael requests that Tommy give him a job. Tommy hires Carleton to train his horse. Tommy wants to export whisky to America and Canada – both of which are currently under prohibition. Arthur's cocaine habit is starting to spiral out of control and Tommy tells him to straighten up. Tommy visits Ada and tells her he has set up a trust fund for John's children and her son, Karl. Solomons and Sabini meet and settle their differences. As Michael and his black friend Isaiah try to drink in a bar, they get into an argument with a racist patron. When John and Arthur learn that the Shelby name was disrespected, they burn the bar. Tommy calls Grace in London but hangs up without saying anything when a man answers.
11	5	Episode 5	Colm McCarthy	Steven Knight	30 October 2014 (2014-10-30)	2.10
Alfie Solomons hosts a Passover Seder and invites an unaware Arthur and some of his men, who are soon equally slaughtered, and has Arthur sent to prison. Major Campbell has Michael arrested as well. Sabini and the now gruesomely scarred Mario take back control of the Eden Club. Tommy finds his fledgeling empire crumbling before him, as his power-base in London is obliterated. Tommy struggles to save his family and regain the upper hand, as the tentative Black Country/Brum alliance is in tatters after the untimely death of Billy Kitchen. Tommy further complicates his love life, by escorting the returning Grace to a passionate date, though still stringing May along, who had earlier expressed her feelings for him. Having slept with Tommy, Grace admits being in London with her husband to procure fertility treatment. Campbell forces Polly to have sex with him, in exchange for Michael's freedom. Tommy attempts to end his romantic relationship with May, though he still wants her to continue training his horse.
12	6	Episode 6	Colm McCarthy	Steven Knight	6 November 2014 (2014-11-06)	2.24
Tommy decides to settle all his affairs in case he meets an untimely death. He also meets with Alfie Solomons regarding business contracts. Alfie gets Arthur out of prison. Derby Day has arrived. Polly tries to pay off Michael to get him to leave. Tommy collects the Peaky Blinders and gives them their mission at the races. Without firing a shot, they are to collect and burn the licences of Darby Sabini's bookies and steal the bets. Tommy runs into Grace, who informs him that she's pregnant with his child. Lizzie lures Field Marshal Russell to the horse stables for Tommy to kill him for Major Campbell, but Tommy gets there late, and Lizzie is brutally assaulted by Russell before Tommy can kill him. Major Campbell's men from Northern Ireland, three members of the Ulster Volunteers, kidnap Tommy and take him to an empty field while Aunt Polly meets with Major Campbell and shoots him dead. Instead of Tommy being executed, one of the Ulster Volunteers kills the other two, and tells Tommy that Winston Churchill will be contacting him in the future. Michael decides he wants in on the family business. Tommy tells Michael that he plans on getting married in the future.

Series 3 (2016)

No. overall	No. in series	Episode	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
13	1	Episode 1	Tim Mielants	Steven Knight	5 May 2016 (2016-05-05)	2.95
Two years later, in 1924, Tommy Shelby and Grace Burgess get married. The Peaky Blinders and their kin have been invited, as well as Grace's family. Composed of cavalrymen, Irish members of the British Army, Grace's family dismays the Peaky Blinders, due to the cavalry's late arrival on the battlefield during the war. The Peaky Blinders have a meeting in the kitchen, where Tommy, in a state of stress, orders the men to be on their best behaviour. Meanwhile, a refugee from Soviet Russia, named Anton Kaledin, makes contact with the Peaky Blinders, offering the code "Constantine" as confirmation for the money-exchange meeting with the young Duchess Tatiana Petrovna (Gaite Jansen). Tommy informs her that Kaledin provided the wrong code name, meaning the man must be killed. Arthur confides in Tommy, not wanting to do the job they must carry out, but Tommy tells him they have no choice, or else Tommy will hang. In the end, Arthur kills the impostor.
14	2	Episode 2	Tim Mielants	Steven Knight	12 May 2016 (2016-05-12)	2.43
Tommy inspects armoured vehicles for a business deal with Father Hughes. He meets with Mr. Romanov, who pays him with a sapphire for murdering Kaledin. Vicente Changretta meets with Arthur and John to demand an explanation for his son Angel's restaurant burning down. John threatens Vicente and later beats Angel when Vicente publicly vows to murder him. During a gang meeting, Tommy sides with John. Later, he is taken by Scotland Yard to a prison cell, where he is greeted by Father Hughes. Hughes threatens to kill Charlie if Tommy visits Ada again, due to her communist connections and remarks that he has easy access to Tommy's family. Tommy later finds a card under his son's pillow, which reads "Charles Shelby - R.I.P.". Grace wears Romanov's sapphire to the Shelby Charity Foundation dinner. Father Hughes and Patrick Jarvis inform Tommy that the Russians want to inspect the vehicles. Suddenly, a guest shouts "For Angel!" and shoots Grace in the upper chest. Arthur, John and Finn beat the man to death as Tommy shouts for an ambulance.
15	3	Episode 3	Tim Mielants	Steven Knight	19 May 2016 (2016-05-19)	2.20
Following Grace's funeral, Tommy meets with Polly and Michael to give them a list of things to do for their "legitimate" business. Afterwards, he orders Arthur and John to retrieve Vicente Changretta alive and shoot Changretta's wife, but they are reluctant to murder her. During a meeting, the Peaky Blinders realise that Tommy has left, leaving a note that he will be gone a few days. Tommy travels to Wales with the sapphire necklace, where he confers with a gypsy, whom he asks whether it is cursed. He returns home with some sense of normality having left the necklace with the woman. Arthur and John have procured Changretta, who Tommy threatens to torture, but Arthur shoots him in the head as an act of mercy. Following her help in finding the Soviet informant in the Economic League, Tommy invites Ada to head the Blinders' future office in America. He then interrupts a meal hosted by the Grand Duchess Izabella Petrovna to secretly alert her to the information he has acquired. Tatiana sees Tommy to his car; he tells her that Hughes is betraying them to the Soviets and offers to kill him for free.
16	4	Episode 4	Tim Mielants	Steven Knight	26 May 2016 (2016-05-26)	2.19
On Easter 1924, Tommy receives news that the family's father has died and Tommy announces the plan to the Blinders: they have been hired to provide the Russians with weapons stolen from a train for a rebellion. They will be paid in jewels but, believing the Russians will betray him, Tommy plans to break into their vault. Linda tells Arthur she is pregnant and wants him out of the business, which he agrees to do after the job with the Russians is over. His vagueness irritates Linda, who demands a bigger cut for Arthur so they can move to America together. Polly goes to church while drunk and during confession she reveals Tommy's plan to assassinate Father Hughes to the priest, who in turn notifies Hughes. Hughes foils Tommy's attempt on his life and watches him being seriously injured by his guards. He humiliates Tommy by threatening to kidnap Charlie, and makes Tommy apologise for wrongfully accusing him in front of Tatiana and her family at the Ritz. Tommy meets with a representative from the Soviet embassy and tells him Father Hughes is double-crossing the Soviets. He then collapses from his injuries.
17	5	Episode 5	Tim Mielants	Steven Knight	2 June 2016 (2016-06-02)	2.24
Three months later, Tommy has recovered and the planned massive heist involving the Russians is drawing near. Tommy enlists the Peaky Blinders' old antagonist Alfie Solomons to appraise the Russian's jewels, ruining their plan to give Tommy fakes. The Peaky Blinders begin to tunnel underneath their mansion. Tommy makes a deal with the Soviets to ensure the guns on the train will be useless, negating the need to blow up the train and sabotaging the plan to plant evidence at the scene of the explosion incriminating the USSR, thus causing an international incident which would lead to Britain cutting off diplomatic relations with Russia. Ada officially joins the Peaky Blinders when she is offered a place in their new Boston office. After previously revealing that he was abused by Hughes, Michael reveals that he too, wishes to kill the priest but Polly tells Tommy that she will bring the business to its knees should her son be the murderer. Polly finally views her portrait, after which Ruben and she take their relationship to the next level.
18	6	Episode 6	Tim Mielants	Steven Knight	9 June 2016 (2016-06-09)	2.27
Tommy's son, Charlie, is kidnapped. Father Hughes demands the jewels as payment and for Tommy himself to blow up the train in exchange for the safe return of his son. Tommy agrees unconditionally. After some investigation, he discovers that Alfie Solomons divulged the plans to Hughes. During a confrontation, Michael kills Alfie's associate, but Michael talks Tommy out of killing Alfie. After deducing Charlie's whereabouts, Tommy sends Michael to retrieve Charlie and kill Hughes. At the same time Arthur and John set off to bomb the train in case Michael cannot rescue Charlie in time. Even though Michael is successful, word does not reach the Blinders in time, and the train is blown up. Meanwhile, Tommy frantically completes the tunnel and blasts into the Russian's vault, stealing many jewels. With his son safe, he meets with Grand Duchess Tatiana, who has been in on the jewel heist the whole time, and plans on taking her share to Vienna. Tommy returns home to distribute the remaining loot to his accomplices, but at the end of the meeting announces that the police have come to arrest everyone. The rest of the Peaky Blinders are taken away in handcuffs.

Series 4 (2017)

No. overall	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
19	1	"The Noose"	David Caffrey	Steven Knight	15 November 2017 (2017-11-15)	3.44
As Arthur, John, Michael and Polly prepare to hang for their crimes, Tommy's reprieve comes just in time to save their lives. A year later, the Peaky Blinders are scattered and estranged from one another. Ada returns from Boston for Christmas and visits each of them: John and Esme continue their relationship of sex and arguments, Arthur remains stifled by Linda's watchful eye, Michael uses cocaine to stay on top of the business, and Polly has fallen into an alcohol-fuelled mania, taking prescribed tablets to quell her visions of spirits. Tommy advises Michael to dispose of Polly's medication and help her through her mental illness without them. Each of the Blinders receives a letter from Luca Changretta, a black hand in New York City's Sicilian Mafia, marking him or her for death in retribution for the murder of Angel and Vincente. Tommy and Ada attempt to convince the others to meet on Boxing Day, believing that they will be safer if they come back together. However, when Tommy discovers and kills a mafia agent among his staff, he realises the assassination attempts are due to take place on Christmas Day and gets word to the rest of the gang. Michael goes to collect John and Esme, with whom Tommy could not get in contact. A cart pulls up, and John and Michael are riddled by a hail of bullets.
20	2	"Heathens"	David Caffrey	Steven Knight	22 November 2017 (2017-11-22)	3.31
Michael survives his injuries but John is killed. In the wake of his death, Tommy and the rest of the Peaky Blinders agree to put their differences aside while they deal with the mafia threat. Tommy suggests contacting Aberama Gold, a killer-for-hire, something Polly is strongly against. Disobeying her orders, Tommy uses John's funeral to draw Gold out so that they can make a tentative deal. Enraged, Polly attempts to get Michael to flee with her to Australia but he refuses until she helps the gang through their current predicament, something she reluctantly agrees to do. Linda discovers that Ada is under investigation by the government because of her marriage to a communist but doesn't pass the message on. Gold agrees to fight for the Peaky Blinders if they take on his son, Bonnie. After seeing him knock out a man much larger than he, Tommy and Arthur induct him into the Peaky Blinders. Jessie rallies Tommy's workforce and convinces the entire factory to strike. Changretta visits Tommy and sets several bullets on the table, stating that each is for a member of the Peaky Blinders. He plans to keep Tommy alive until the rest are dead but insists that their vendetta be an honourable one, with Tommy agreeing not to involve the police or the death of children or civilians.
21	3	"Blackbird"	David Caffrey	Steven Knight	29 November 2017 (2017-11-29)	3.43
The Italians launch another attack on the Peaky Blinders. Tommy realises that the Blinders need to evolve if they are to survive, but some of the gang are reluctant to part with tradition. As the strike takes hold at the Lanchester factory, Arthur is almost killed at the factory by Luca's men. Tommy pays a personal visit to Jessie Eden to help find out how this ambush took place, but he is outmanoeuvred when she reveals something she knows about his past. Later, it is revealed that Polly and Luca have a previous connection from the past, and they meet in a public place to discuss business. Polly claims that she will give Thomas to Luca if he will spare the other members of the Shelby family.
22	4	"Dangerous"	David Caffrey	Steven Knight	6 December 2017 (2017-12-06)	3.17
Arthur goes to the house of the family whose son he killed in a boxing match, expecting it to be an ambush by the Italian Mafia. Instead, it is a decoy, and their real target is Michael, still convalescing in the hospital. Luca spares Michael, but repeats that he is expecting that Polly keeps her end of the agreement they made. Later, Luca is almost murdered by Amberama Gold at an ambush. Meanwhile, May Carleton comes to Small Heath to visit Tommy to have him sign documents for his horse. Tommy later sets up a fight for Amberama Gold's son. After visiting Michael in the hospital, Tommy drives away, only to be followed by Luca and his gang.
23	5	"The Duel"	David Caffrey	Steven Knight	13 December 2017 (2017-12-13)	3.16
Thomas Shelby leads Luca's gang to Artillery Square. Thomas has prepared for the battle ahead of time thanks to Polly's heads-up. He kills three of Luca's gang members before coming face to face with Luca. However, the police arrive and break up the fight. Lizzie Stark tells Thomas that she is pregnant with his child. After hiding Michael away from Luca's gang, Polly shares an intimate moment with Aberama Gold. Meanwhile, an army colonel has questions for Ada about her past as a communist. Jessie Eden and Thomas have an intimate dinner, as Thomas looks to find out Jessie's Communist contacts. Sensing an opportunity to capitalize on his situation, Luca Changretta makes his way to London to present a plan to Alfie Solomons on how to kill the Shelbys at the upcoming boxing match.
24	6	"The Company"	David Caffrey	Steven Knight	20 December 2017 (2017-12-20)	3.56
As the stage is set for the boxing match between Bonnie Gold and Goliath, Tommy gets a visit from Alfie. The Peaky Blinder girls meet to discuss Lizzie's pregnancy. Tommy watches the match ringside with Arthur who is suspicious of Goliath's seconds. When one of the seconds leaves the arena, Arthur follows and attacks him, and appears to be mortally wounded in the fight that ensues. At Arthur's funeral, the widow Changretta approaches with a white flag. Later at the family home, she reveals the vendetta will be over if Tommy signs over all his assets to Luca Changretta. Luca and his men meet with the remaining Peaky Blinders in Tommy's basement distillery for Tommy to sign over his possessions. Tommy reveals to Luca that he has sent Michael to America to negotiate with other American mafiosi and turn Luca's men against him (despite treating him with contempt for not telling him he was about to be killed). Realizing he has been outmanoeuvred, Luca attacks Tommy, and a fight ensues. As Tommy is getting the upper hand, Arthur enters the distillery and shoots Luca. It is revealed that Tommy had Arthur fake his death to lure Luca into the trap. The Peaky Blinders celebrate the end of the vendetta at Tommy's countryside estate, and it is announced that Tommy will take a holiday from the business. Tommy confronts Alfie for his betrayal, who reveals he did so knowing Tommy would track him down and kill him, and that he has cancer. Tommy then shoots Alfie and proceeds to take his holiday. However, as the boredom from fishing and golf sets in, Tommy's post-traumatic stress comes back, and he returns to Small Heath. Tommy returns to Shelby Company, Ltd., and contacts Jessie to let her know he wants to help her and thus acquires the name of her Communist party contacts. He takes this information to the Crown to secure an endorsement for his campaign for Member of Parliament, an election which Tommy wins.

Series 5 (2019)

No. overall	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
25	1	"Black Tuesday"	Anthony Byrne	Steven Knight	25 August 2019 (2019-08-25)	6.25
29 October 1929. Tommy travels to a phone booth on Lickey Hills where on the phone Arthur reads a letter from "Angels of Retribution" which states that they have never even heard of Peaky Blinders and therefore are not scared of their threats. Tommy sends Aberama and Isiah to send a message to them and tells Finn to stay out of it. But Finn with the desire to prove himself joins them and during a shootout gets shot in the arm. Meanwhile, Michael—who runs the Peaky Blinders' operations in the United States—gets a message that Wall Street has crashed and leaves for Birmingham with his lover, Gina. Tommy gets the news from Arthur about the stock market crash and becomes furious after learning that Michael held on even after being instructed not to do so. Tommy calls for a board meeting where it is clear that Linda is infuriated by the fact that Tommy made Arthur the chairman of the company so that he could maintain a clean image and let others do his dirty work. Later the exclusive members of the Peaky Blinders have a family meeting at the Garrison pub where Tommy reveals that Aberama and Isiah were sent to kill a pimp who was blackmailing a senior member of House of Lords. During the meeting, Polly tells Tommy and Arthur that Ada is pregnant. At the House of Commons, Tommy meets Oswald Mosley and later threatens Lord Suckerby, the Lord who had commissioned Shelby to kill the pimp to protect his reputation, for paying the full contract amount. Michael Levitt, a journalist, conducts an interview with Tommy and asks him questions about his past with a view to damaging his image as MP, but Tommy outmanoeuvres him by threatening to expose Levitt’s homosexuality. Levitt is later killed by two men.
26	2	"Black Cats"	Anthony Byrne	Steven Knight	26 August 2019 (2019-08-26)	5.92
Tommy wakes up and sees a scarecrow in his farmland dressed up as him. Confused and angry, he approaches the scarecrow where he finds a note and quickly discovers that he is standing in the midst of landmines. Carefully he makes his way through the field, saving his son Charles in the process and ragefully shooting the mines and the scarecrow. At his mansion, Tommy gets a call from Captain Swing, who informs him that she has captured Michael from the men who supposedly want to kill Tommy and asks whether to spare him or kill him; as per Tommy's request, Michael walks free. At the Garrison, Arthur and Tommy warn Finn not to get involved with guns, and Tommy tells Arthur that he doesn't sleep because he dreams that someone wants his crown and that it might be Michael. Polly and Arthur go to the station to receive Michael, where he introduces his new wife Gina Gray. Polly tells Michael that he won't be coming home until he tells the truth about what happened at the dock and gets a suite for him. Tommy and Ada meet with Mr. Mosley where Tommy tells Mr. Mosley that Ada (Tommy's political advisor) advised against meeting him as he seems to be moving in the direction of fascism. At the Garrison, Tommy tells Polly about his black cat dream, which implies that there is a traitor close by. Michael tells his side of story that he wanted a witness for his and Gina's wedding and he found a purser, whose friends at the dock came on board and started talking to Michael about Tommy having a bullet in his name, and that's when IRA caught him and told him that the men he was talking to were the Billy Boys. Meanwhile, in a forest, the Billy Boys shoot Aberama in the shoulder and kill his son Bonnie after crucifying him. A wounded Aberama goes to Tommy's house with Johnny Dogs, whom he supposes to be the traitor, as he and the Lee boys were the only ones that knew about their position. Enraged, Lizzie comes out with a gun and Tommy calms her down.
27	3	"Strategy"	Anthony Byrne	Steven Knight	1 September 2019 (2019-09-01)	5.76
Tommy and Polly head towards a Catholic orphanage to shut down funding after receiving grim reports of violence against children that led to one committing suicide by hanging. Aberama Gold, while recovering at the hospital, is taken to a gypsy camp by Polly and told to lay low, but he disobeys orders and departs to Scotland to wage war against the Billy Boys in revenge for the death of Bonnie, prompting Tommy to send Arthur and Johnny Dogs to travel there and rescue Gold. Arthur, falling deeper in decay through alcohol and cocaine abuse, agrees to go to Scotland in exchange for the whereabouts of one of Linda's friends, whom he ends up beating, blinding and disfiguring when he fails to get Linda's whereabouts. Linda herself wishes to divorce from Arthur, but Lizzie discourages her. Lizzie confides to Tommy, allowing herself to be used by him in exchange for Tommy allowing Linda to heal his haunted mind. Michael continues to be given degrading orders as punishment for losing Tommy's fortune in the Wall Street Crash and his supposed alignment with Captain Swing, nearly reaching a breaking point. Despite Ada attempting to sway otherwise, Gina is adamant on departing with Michael back to New York so they can have their son, and tries to convince Polly to go along. Mosley, in a meeting with Tommy, Arthur and Michael, utilizes his leverage of withholding investigations of the murder of Mr. Levitt to coerce Tommy into joining the soon to be created British Union of Fascists. Tommy reluctantly agrees in order to infiltrate their organization and become an informant.In Scotland, Aberama Gold and his men have a violent confrontation with a group of Billy Boys, which ends with Gold pouring hot tar on one of them and swearing revenge on Jimmy McCavern for his son's death. The following morning, McCavern and the Billy Boys seek retaliation against Gold by raiding his camp, only to discover it has been booby-trapped with grenades planted by Gold and Arthur, killing several of McCavern's men.
28	4	"The Loop"	Anthony Byrne	Steven Knight	8 September 2019 (2019-09-08)	5.74
Tommy and Arthur meet with Chang, a Chinese Triad businessman who uses an assassin posing as a hooker to hold Finn at gunpoint, to discuss a lucrative opium shipment, whose value is promised to make up for the losses at the Wall Street Crash. Tommy meets with Jimmy McCavern to form a truce, especially given their mutual connection to Oswald Mosley, and uses this to test the opium shipment.To keep the truce, Tommy forces Aberama Gold to withhold his quest for vengeance, offering a marriage to Polly in return. Oswald, in a meeting with Tommy, confides that he knows of Lizzie's past as a prostitute, and in response Tommy tells Oswald that he is aware of the latter's affairs with his sister-in-law and his wife's stepmother. Tommy, despite attempting to both hold his House of Commons standing and his agreement with Mosley, continues hallucinating about Grace, to the point of almost committing suicide, as he confesses to Ada, who in turn suggests he withdraw from opium himself. In an eventful private exhibition of Swan Lake in Tommy's estate, which Mosley attends, Gold proposes to Polly, who accepts; Michael tells Gina that he will be taking on the Blinders' opium business, and lured by the amount of money they'll earn, Gina accepts; Arthur is confronted by Linda, who attempts to shoot him in retaliation for Arthur disfiguring her friend, but is shot by Polly.
29	5	"The Shock"	Anthony Byrne	Steven Knight	15 September 2019 (2019-09-15)	5.42
Tommy, Polly and Arthur tend to Linda's gunshot wound, and as she recovers, she abandons Arthur. Mosley uses the stage at the end of the Swan Lake to make an impassionate speech concerning the advent of fascist movement in Great Britain, which all the Shelbys witness, in particular his anti-semitist sentiment. Tommy attempts to deliver information and evidence to a hesitant Ben Younger, who informs him both the government, the Ministry of Defense and Section D are all in support of Mosley, as they believe him to be a bulwark against a possible communist insurgency. As he leaves with the evidence, Ben is killed by a bomb in his car which also kills a child playing football in the street. Tommy informs Ada of Ben's death, who in turn reveals Ben wasn't aware of Ada's pregnancy with his child. Arthur, Charlie, Curly, Aberama Gold and Isiah head to meet Chang and load the opium within their boat, but are attacked on arrival by unknown assailants who became aware of Chang's deal with Tommy. Tommy meets with Barney, an old comrade from the Great War and helps him escape from the insane asylum he is locked in, in exchange for assassinating Mosley.
30	6	"Mr Jones"	Anthony Byrne	Steven Knight	22 September 2019 (2019-09-22)	6.12
Tommy is called at the House of Commons by Winston Churchill, who inquires Tommy on his affiliation with the fascist party, whom Tommy informs it's an infiltration. At a meeting, Michael and Gina attempt to propose a total restructuring of the Peaky Blinders company, which Tommy rebukes and Michael declares open rebellion, being cast out of the Peaky Blinders. Aunt Polly later resigns from the company. At the Garrison, Tommy and Arthur execute Micky, the bartender, after it's discovered he was the one who informed on both Ben Younger's meeting with Tommy prior to his death, as well as Arthur's ambush at London. Tommy then travels to Margate to ask for help from Alfie Solomons, to stage a mutiny at Mosley's rally as a cover for the assassination. Finn accidentally spills the assassination plan to Billy Grade, who runs the fixed football racket, who makes a telephone call even though he receives a bribe for his silence. At the rally, Tommy saves Jessie from being arrested as the communists attempt a protest. The assassination plan backfires at the nick of time however, as Barney, who prepares to fire, is executed by an unknown person with a silencer pistol, and Aberama Gold is killed when he attempts to kill Jimmy McCavern. Mosley's rally is a success as Tommy breaks down in the aftermath. The following day, in the middle of the morning mist, his torment over last night's events and Grace's apparition drive Tommy over the edge, screaming as he keeps a pistol pointed to his head, intent on committing suicide.

Series 6 (2022)

No. overall	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
31	1	"Black Day"	Anthony Byrne	Steven Knight	27 February 2022 (2022-02-27)	6.58
Following Tommy’s failed suicide attempt, he receives a call from IRA agent Captain Swing who takes credit for foiling the attempted assassination of Oswald Mosley. She returns the bodies of Barney Thompson, Aberama Gold & Polly Shelby (Helen McCrory) who were also killed during the assassination attempt. The entire Shelby family gather for Polly’s funeral with Michael swearing revenge on Thomas for his role in Polly’s death. In 1933, Thomas now alcohol free, sets up a meeting with an estranged Michael and business associates of Jack Nelson, a south Boston gang leader and uncle of Gina Grey (Anya Taylor Joy) on Miquelon Island. Following unsuccessful talks to re-enter into business, Thomas lands Michael in prison for possession of opium. Meanwhile, back in Small Heath, Arthur's drug addiction continues to spiral following Polly’s death. Later, Thomas is phoned by Lizzie who announces she and the children cannot travel to Canada due to Ruby’s sudden illness. Believing her sickness is a message and gypsy related, Tommy decides to return to Britain. This episode was dedicated to Helen McCrory, and rather than music, the end credits comprised the song of a male blackbird.
32	2	"Black Shirt"	Anthony Byrne	Steven Knight	6 March 2022 (2022-03-06)	5.96
Tommy, still a Labour MP, returns to the United Kingdom and is informed Ruby is recovering. He has a seizure in the Shelby bathroom and Lizzie urges him to see a doctor, but he refuses. After Jack Nelson expresses interest to meet the fascists, Tommy sees an opportunity in an alliance with Captain Swing. He visits Alfie Solomons and announces the death of Charlie Solomons, Alfie's uncle, on the Cotton Club at the hands of Nelson's gang. After a tense meeting with Mosley and Diana Mitford, Tommy meets Nelson and agrees to feed information about England's political goings to his gang in exchange for opium. Tommy is informed that Ruby is sick again and decides to contact Esme Shelby, the former wife of John.
33	3	"Gold"	Anthony Byrne	Steven Knight	13 March 2022 (2022-03-13)	5.08
As Ruby falls sick with consumption and treated with gold, Tommy goes in search of the source of the curse that he believes has been laid upon his family and eventually reunites with Esme, the widow of his late brother John. Ada takes over Tommy's role in Birmingham and meets with Oswald Mosley, his mistress Diana, Jack Nelson, and Gina. Meanwhile, Arthur heads to Liverpool to confront Haydn Stagg (Stephen Graham) but ends up being belittled as Stagg further confronts Arthur about the state of his own mental health. Tommy discovers that the person who he gave the cursed Sapphire that once belonged to his late wife, Grace, who died after Tommy gifted it to her, had a daughter that died at the age of 7, prompting Tommy to believe that it was this woman who had cursed Ruby in revenge. Tommy returns to Birmingham and goes straight to the hospital where Ruby is. His wife Lizzie meets him at the entrance to tell him that the gold salts treatment didn't work, and that Ruby had died.
34	4	"Sapphire"	Anthony Byrne	Steven Knight	20 March 2022 (2022-03-20)	4.70
As the Shelby family mourns, Tommy enacts revenge as he murders the family of the woman who cursed his daughter. Distraught in grief, Tommy ignores letters from his personal doctor as his relationship with Lizzie strains even further. Ada is targeted by Nazis and Arthur's addiction continues to spiral. The meeting between Captain Swing of the IRA, Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford, Jack Nelson and Tommy takes place: Jack agrees to let Tommy trade opium in Boston as he gains information from Mosley about the political future of England and agrees with Captain Swing that the Irish working class can be turned. Tommy finally meets with his doctor and is told that due to coming into contact with his daughter while she was ill, he has developed inoperable tuberculoma and that he now only has between 1 year and 18 months left to live. The episode ends with Tommy talking to his late Aunt Polly asking her to give him the time he needs to do what he must do.
35	5	"The Road to Hell"	Anthony Byrne	Steven Knight	27 March 2022 (2022-03-27)	5.01
Tommy deals with the Chinese business that got Arthur hooked on Opium by walking into their shop, taking their remaining drugs and throwing them into the canal with a bomb. He introduces his newly found son, Duke, at a family meeting, to Lizzie's disliking. Linda returns, wanting to help Arthur redeem himself once and for all, while Arthur himself kills a rogue referee who won't take their bribes. Billy Grade is threatened by Jack Nelson and becomes his informant so that eventually, he can give up Arthur to him. Tommy sleeps with Diana Mitford as a payment for Diana's cause. Eventually she arrives at the Shelby family home with Oswald and tells Lizzie that her husband was disloyal to her in an act purely devised to split her and Tommy away from each other with Mosley believing that Tommy deserves better if he is to move up in the world. Finally, Michael meets with a priest in prison and is told that he can leave if he answers a question, Michael says that he has consulted his mother from beyond the grave and says that he is going to kill Thomas Shelby.
36	6	"Lock and Key"	Anthony Byrne	Steven Knight	3 April 2022 (2022-04-03)	N/A
Michael is released from prison, swearing revenge on Tommy. Lizzie finally leaves Tommy after the discovery about him and Diana, with Tommy giving permission for her to take Charles with her. Tommy sets the rest of the Peaky Blinders to dismantle his house, and gives false information to the informant Billy Grade to lure the IRA into a trap. They interrogate Billy and Duke eventually kills him, with Finn being unable to carry out the order himself and therefore cut from the business entirely. The IRA fall into the trap and go to kill Arthur at the Garrison, only to be captured by him, Charlie, and Jeremiah. After a shootout in Garrison Lane, Captain Swing and the other IRA assassins are killed, avenging the death of Polly. On Miquelon Island, Michael meets Tommy. His gang had put a bomb with a timer of 30 minutes in a car, which Tommy sits in alone after the meeting. But Johnny Dogs had switched the bomb into another car, which explodes and kills all of Michael's associates. Tommy confronts and shoots Michael, and fulfills what Aunt Polly had predicted. With all his business complete, Tommy says his final goodbyes to his family, with none of them knowing (apart from Arthur) that he has inoperable tuberculoma. One month later in an unknown location, Tommy prepares to shoot himself, but he sees a vision of Ruby, his late daughter, who tells him that he is not ill, and then he is drawn to a picture in a partially burnt newspaper of his personal doctor pictured with Oswald Mosley. Realizing his doctor had given him a false diagnosis, Tommy goes off to kill him, but in the end decides to spares his life. After returning Tommy watches as a man sets his wagon alight and all his remaining possessions burn, he gets on his horse and rides off into the hills.

Ratings

Peaky Blinders : UK viewers per episode (millions)

Series		Episode number						Average
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	1	3.05	2.45	2.20	2.31	2.03	2.24	2.38
	2	2.31	2.18	2.20	2.06	2.10	2.24	2.18
	3	2.95	2.43	2.20	2.19	2.24	2.27	2.38
	4	3.44	3.31	3.43	3.17	3.16	3.56	3.35
	5	6.25	5.92	5.76	5.74	5.42	6.12	5.87
	6	6.58	5.96	5.08	4.70	5.01	TBD	TBD

Audience measurement performed by Broadcasters' Audience Research Board

External links

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