Episode One - BLUE AMENDS - 17/10/12
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ARTHUR How do you know so bloody much? THOMAS Because I asked the coppers on our payroll. ARTHUR Why didn’t you tell me? THOMAS I’m telling you.
The meeting looks flustered but Polly has fixed Thomas with a stare. She has suspicions about Thomas which will grow. POLLY So why are they sending him to Birmingham? There is silence. Arthur is about to speak but instead takes a swig. He evidently has no idea. Thomas steps to the head of the meeting (we should be free to feel that Thomas’s usurping of Arthur is unsubtle and done without grace). THOMAS There have been a lot of strikes at the Austen works and the BSA factory lately. Papers are talking about sedition. Revolution. I reckon it’s Communists he’s after. Thomas and Polly stare at each other. We might see even now that these two are the real power in the family. Polly senses deceit in Thomas with a sixth sense... POLLY So this copper will leave us alone, right? THOMAS
There are Irishmen in Green Lanes who left Belfast to get away from him. They say Catholic men who crossed him used to disappear in the night.
John is on his feet.
JOHN Yeah but we ain’t IRA. We bloody fought for the King.
John looks around...
JOHN (CONT’D) Anyway, we’re Peaky Blinders. We’re not scared of coppers.
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