However, it turns out that Alfie had an ulterior motive with his betrayal. He had just found out that he had cancer, and he knew Tommy would kill him before the cancer did.
The two have a very strange relationship given that Solomons has crossed Thomas three times and yet the latter continues to trust him.
After some investigation, Tommy discovers that Alfie divulged the plans to the League and to Father Hughes, thereby betraying the Blinders. During a confrontation, Tommy's cousin Michael Gray (Finn Cole) kills Alfie's associate, but Alfie talks Tommy out of killing him.
This history shows that the two have formulated a bond out of a mutual agreement that the two of them are wicked men who will both be damned to eternity in Hell, and that even with Alfie's consistent betrayals of Tommy that the two are one and the same.
Tommy confronts Alfie about his betrayal, and he admits that he did so knowing Tommy would find him and murder him, as well as the fact that he has cancer.
Alfie reveals he has cancer and leads Tommy to a place where he could die on his own terms, knowing Tommy would inevitably take his revenge. Tommy shoots Alfie | S04E06 | Peaky Blinders.
Both an enemy and ally of the Peaky Blinders, Alfie Solomons, played brilliantly by Tom Hardy, is a volatile and dangerous force whose loyalty changes based on his own ambition and greed.
He put a plan in motion to warn Tommy of both his immediate and existential peril, but in a way that lead to Tommy giving Alfie a warrior's death at the hand of a worthy adversary.
Solomons, a longtime fan favorite played by Tom Hardy, made his triumphant return in the series final of season five—a major surprise considering the character was shot in the head by series protagonist Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) at the end of season four.
Tommy shoots Alfie dead at the end of a long feud between the two, during which Solomons sells Shelby out to the Italians. Solomons also claims that he's dying of cancer, and once Alfie shoots Tommy in the side to goad him into putting him out of his misery, Shelby has no real reason to keep him alive.
While it appeared that Tommy Shelby had killed Alfie at the end of season 4, he made a surprise return in Peaky Blinders season 5, having retired to Margate.
After Jack Nelson violently forced Billy Grade into becoming an informant for his operation, somehow Tommy found out (possibly because Billy was passing information to Gina Gray, whom Tommy had surveilled and was blackmailing over her adultery with Oswald Mosley).
During the season five finale, Tommy hallucinated and shared a conversation with Alfie. Alfie told him: “I had a recurring dream, I saw you in a field with a big black horse and you said goodbye and then 'bang.
Billy Grade (Emmett J Scanlan) is revealed to be the informant or 'black cat' that betrayed the Peaky Blinders. In the last season, Finn informed him that Tommy had devised a plan to kill Mosley, and it was happening that night.
Lizzie officially reached the end of her tether after discovering Tommy had slept with Diana Mitford and decided to leave him.
Alfie told him to look after Cyril once he was gone, as he would be very upset and distressed. Thomas was hesitant to full the trigger, ordering Alfie to look him in the eyes. Alfie shot him in the side, to provoke him to fire and Thomas shot him in the face, presumably killing him.
Alfie is the former-foe-turned-sort-of-friend who Tommy shot in the face at the end of season four then returned at the end of season five to help the Peaky Blinders bring down Mosley.
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Alfie Solomons: Solomons is based on a real-life gangster named Alfred Solomon. Like most Tom Hardy characters, the accent is purely of his own invention. No one but Tom Hardy would ever talk like that. Sir Oswald Mosley: The founder and leader of the British Union of Fascists was a real political leader.
That suggests that Tommy's handing on a mixture of "you're up, kidda" business stuff and straightforward "I'm gonna die, kidda" stuff. Certainly, that's what the direction and editing hints at. We see young Charles, buttoned up in his grey coat, looking distinctly miffed.
Michael Gray is the man that Tommy Shelby cannot defeat - not because Tommy is incapable but because the cost of doing so is Tommy's soul. Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) said that he will keep going until he finds the man he cannot defeat – that man must be his cousin, Michael Gray (Finn Cole).
The sapphire was thrown into the river and Evadne duly cursed Tommy Shelby, that if he should ever have a daughter, she would also die at that age.
What Was Peaky Blinders Villain Oswald Mosley Like in Real Life? The latest Birmingham bad guy is based on a real British politician.
Oswald Mosley
A character based on a real-life politician, Mosley is depicted as evil through his fascist politics.
Thomas Shelby
As the leader of the Blinders, he held the most power, and his business dealings with the right (or wrong?)