Peaky Blinders (TV Series)

Episode #1.1 (2013)

Cillian Murphy: Thomas Shelby

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• Aunt Polly : This family does everything open. You've nothing more to say to this meeting, Thomas?

  Tommy Shelby : No, nothing that's women's business.

  Aunt Polly : This whole bloody enterprise was women's business while you boys were away at war. What's changed?

  Tommy Shelby : We came back.

• Arthur Shelby : Where are you? It bloody won! Monaghan Boy bloody won!

  Thomas Shelby : Yeah. It won. And word will spread. So the next time we do the powder trick, it wont be just the Garrison that'll bet on the horse, it'll be the whole of Small Heath. And you know what? The horse will win again. And the third time we do it, we'll have the whole of Birmingham betting on it. A 1000 quid bet on the magic horse. And that time, when we are ready, the horse will lose. Think about it.

• Arthur Shelby : You think we can take on the Chinese and Billy Kimber. Billy's got a bloody army...

  Tommy Shelby : I think, Arthur. That's what I do. I think. So that you don't have to.

• Freddie Thorne : She found the list of names, left on the telegraph machine. And on that list was your name and my name, together. What kind of a list would have the name of a communist and the name of a bookmaker side-by-side?

  Tommy Shelby : Perhaps it's a list of men who give false hope to the poor. The only difference between you and me, Freddie, is that sometimes my horses stand a chance of winning.

• Thomas Shelby : In the bleak midwinter.

• Grace Burgess : Harry said it's on the house.

  Tommy Shelby : Are you a whore?

  Tommy Shelby : Because if you're not, you're in the wrong place.