Michael (who'd been banished to the US two years earlier as punishment for not warning
However, Billy Grade (Emmett J. Scanlan) was revealed to be the informant after he picked up the phone and tipped off the IRA. The IRA took out Barney as well as Aberama Gold (Aidan Gillen) and Polly Gray (Helen McCrory) to thwart the plan and also to punish Tommy.
It seems the head of the Shelby clan will agree in season six as spoiler pictures point to Michael being sent to prison for betraying his cousin.
Billy Grade Informed The IRA About The Mosley Assassination
Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 5, confirmed that Billy was the one who leaked Tommy Shelby's assassination plan to the IRA. Billy meets his end at the hands of Duke, after Finn refuses, in the Peaky Blinders season 6 finale.
With the threat of tuberculoma giving Tommy a death sentence, Michael (Finn Cole) vowing to kill him for vengeance over Polly's death, and both his business and family crumbling around him, there were more than a few loose strings to tie up by the show's end.
This comes to a head in Peaky Blinders season 5 when Tommy accuses Michael of being untrustworthy, implying that he might be working against the family and gunning for Tommy's throne.
The Shelbys meet with Michael who tells them he only betrayed Tommy “in my heart,” which is like… totally…not… reassuring. Tommy says he believes him but adds a little Gypsy curse, saying, “Your unborn child has witnessed what you said and it will be born accordingly,” which REALLY pisses Michael off.
Michael told Tommy that Polly's death was his fault, to which Tommy said Polly still visited him in his dreams. "She'll visit me no more," Tommy said as he pulled the trigger and shot Michael through the eye. Tommy then retreated into nature, planning to take his own life before illness took him.
Following an unsuccessful attempt on Arthur's life and Tommy's final outmanoeuvring of Changretta, Tommy confronts Alfie for his betrayal. Alfie reveals he knew Tommy would track him down for his actions, and that he has cancer and wishes to die on his own terms.
Tommy then shoots Michael through the eye, killing him instantly and fulfilling Polly's prophecy that there will be a war between the cousins and one of them will die.
Type of Villain
He is the estranged son of Polly Gray who ends up being reunited with her and becoming involved in her family's criminal activities.
Part of the hit show's sixth season was filmed in Portsoy, with Michael Gray – a cousin of the Shelby brothers – shot dead in the village, which was masking as the island of Miquelon.
There's a theory on the Internet that Johnny Dogs, resentful of Aberama Gold's connection to the Shelbys, is the ultimate traitor. After all, Aberama had accused him of treason before and ended up being murdered in the attempted coup.
Peaky Blinders lost a vital member of the squad tonight as Aberama Gold (Aidan Gillan) was brutally stabbed to death during the Oswald Mosley (Sam Claflin) assassination attempt.
8 Aberama Gold
In season 5, Aberama got married to Polly, but their happiness did not last for last. First, Aberama lost his son to the Billy Boys, and then he began to plot the assassination of Jimmy McCavern, but before he could complete the task, Aberama was killed by the IRA.
From one brother to the other, Finn Shelby (Harry Kirton) is banished from the family for his role in bringing a traitor in Billy Grade (Emmett J.
This information became useful in the finale of that season when Tommy went to kill Alfie because of the bad blood between them. Alfie seemingly accepted his fate, stating that "there's an honorable reason now to pull that trigger" and he even forced Tommy to shoot him in self-defense when Tommy showed hesitation.
Alfie commands the screen with his rambling monologues, his “Jewish air of absolute certainty,” and his ability to stand up to Tommy, gaining his respect as an equal and trusted friend (despite a betrayal here and there).
Alfie revealed that he was suffering from skin cancer, which he attributed to the poisonous gas used in the Great War; Alfie had intended for Tommy to discover his betrayal, track him down, and kill him so Alfie could die on his own terms, rather than the Mafia.
Season 5 saw the conflict between the pair escalate. Michael was responsible for Shelby Company Limited losing money in the Wall Street Crash and when Michael and his wife Gina (Anya Taylor-Joy) proposed a restructuring of the company, Tommy was convinced that Michael was after his crown.
What happens to Tommy's brain tumor? Well, he thought he had a brain tumor. But once he discovers that the doctor who diagnosed him is friends with Tommy's onetime fascist political partner, Oswald Mosley (Sam Claflin), he realizes it's all a ruse, and he isn't sick at all.
Nelson is a fascist sympathizer and Tommy agrees to introduce him to Mosley, his fiance, Lady Diana Milton, and McKee, who agrees to promote fascist causes in Ireland. Tommy later sleeps with Milton, who then tells his wife, Lizzie.
The thing is, Tommy earlier slept with Diana on a barge and in front of everyone, she calls out Lizzie for “being a lucky woman to have each day what she's sampled once.” Hearing this, Lizzie up and leaves, but this seems to be the play from those at the table on purpose.
Peaky Blinders' season 5 finale saw the boldest cliffhanger in the show's history with Tommy Shelby's mental trauma culminating with him facing down his dead wife – and horse – while pointing a gun at his head, seemingly poised to pull the trigger.
Tommy believed Michael; however, he threatened to kill his unborn child if he found out that Michael was lying. Michael took offense and tried to get in Tommy's face. Arthur stopped Michael and pushed him back. Tommy told Michael that he had lost the company a lot of money by not listening to him.