Episode One - BLUE AMENDS - 17/10/12
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FINN It’s John’s. I found it on the sideboard. ADA Put it down on the ground very, very softly because the trigger is cocked.
Finn begins to slowly put the gun down. Then, a sudden bang from the foundry makes him jump and the gun slips from his hand and the gun goes off. Ada does a little dance of shock but the bullet flies wide. Ada then leaps forward and grabs the gun. She unloads it like a professional and puts the gun into her handbag. ADA (CONT’D) John is a dead man. Aunt Polly will rip his balls off. Ada grabs Finn’s hand and marches off down the tow-path. INT. 1ST CLASS TRAIN CARRIAGE (TRAVELLING) - DAY 1 - 18:30 1/12 The carriage is spacious and the blinds are half drawn. Only one man sits inside the six seat carriage. He is a barrel- chested man with a bushy moustache and a wing collar. He wears a heavy, dark suit. This is CHIEF INSPECTOR CAMPBELL. He has round-rimmed spectacles on the tip of his nose as he pulls a cardboard folder from a leather case. The desk in the compartment is already covered in paperwork, all laid out neatly in sections. There is a large blue print map of ‘ The BSA Factory (Small Heath)’ with intricate detail of workshops and offices. The map has been pushed to the top of the table. Campbell is taking a bound folder from a leather case. The cover of the new folder is labelled in red. ‘ SPECIAL BRANCH’. Beneath it is written in black ‘Top Secret. BSA robbery. Prime suspects’. He opens the folder. On the first page we see a small mug shot photograph of Arthur Shelby. His name is beneath the photograph and among the text we might glimpse the words ‘ Gangster. Racketeer. Illegal bookmaker ’ in bold type. Beneath it reads ‘ GANG-NAME....PEAKY BLINDERS’. He turns the page and we see a photograph of Thomas Shelby. It is a head and shoulders shot but we see he is wearing military uniform. Campbell scans the page, his pen hovering over the text.
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