More of Luca’s soldiers – snipers aiming at the mourners at John’s gypsy funeral – were taken out, and Tommy killed another three after he was ambushed in a plan involving the aggrieved mother of a young gang member killed in series two. Two more men were sent after Arthur at a Shelby factory, but he killed them both and took out one man’s heart. Luca sent a killer posing as a cook into Tommy’s house, whom Tommy dispatched personally in a bloody fight. Really, Polly was in cahoots with Tommy and let him know when Luca planned to ambush him. She made it look as though she was betraying Tommy to Luca in exchange for protection for Michael. She wanted to emigrate to Australia with her son Michael, but he refused until the threat was over. Arthur and Linda slummed it, Ada was under investigation by the military for her links to Communism, and Polly, it seemed, plotted revenge on Tommy.Īfter coming round from her booze and drug period, Polly unwillingly moved back to the slums where she kept Tommy at a distance.

Tommy ran the factories, which faced a growing Union and strike threat led by political firebrand Jessie Eden (Charlie Murphy), started a gin distillery and bought a race horse that he sent to May Carleton to train. To survive the Changretta threat, the family moved back home to Small Heath, armed the locals like a platoon and hunkered down. After John and Esme decided they weren’t prepared to bury the hatchet with Tommy and could survive on their own, John and Michael were shot by the Italians, and John died. He served each member of the Shelby family (including Ada, who’d come back from the US) a Black Hand, and promised to kill them all, leaving Tommy until last. In retribution for the murders of Angel and Vicente last series (killings carried out in revenge for Grace’s accidental death from a bullet meant for Tommy in the feud between the Italian Changretta family and the Shelby clan), Vicente’s son Luca arrived from the New York mafia. The Changretta VendettaĪt Christmas in 1925, necessity forced the Shelby family back together. Tommy lived between a city hotel and his country pile, isolated from, and mistrusted by them all. After her experience in the noose, Polly was haunted by the spirits of the dead, and sank into a medicated, alcoholic stupor. Michael returned to work for the Shelby Company but John and Arthur bought country houses and tried (unhappily) to live quiet lives.

After their series three arrests, Polly, Arthur, John and Michael spent six months in prison and got as far as the gallows before Tommy arranged their reprieves (in that Russian jewel heist, he’d bagged some incriminating personal correspondence from King George V, which he used to blackmail the Crown into releasing his family, bagging himself an OBE in the process).

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