Peaky Blinders (TV Series)

The Duel (2017)

Cillian Murphy: Thomas Shelby

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• Ada Shelby : And how is Tommy Shelby OBE going to stop a revolution?

  Thomas Shelby : Jessie Eden has accepted my invitation to dinner.

  Ada Shelby : Of course. I'm sorry. Tommy Shelby is going to stop the revolution with his cock.

• Ada Shelby : Tommy, this can only happen if you're still alive.

  Thomas Shelby : I'm planning on staying alive. Now, if I'm dead, you can all go back to being what you were. The British Army came to me, Ada. And I said: "Why not?"

  Ada Shelby : We'll put that on your grave, Tom: Tommy Shelby - Why not?

• Thomas Shelby : She gave me sixpence and she sends me to the shop. Margarine, eggs and bread. And I came back...

  Jessie Eden : ...with a top hat and a coconut.

  Thomas Shelby : And that was all the money we had, for the whole fucking week. And my Mum beat me with a fucking frying pan.

  Jessie Eden : Why the hell did you buy a top hat and a coconut?

  Thomas Shelby : Because I thought she deserved it. I thought we all did. And I could never understand... why people like us only had bread and fucking lard. I wanted to be different. That's all I wanted.

  Jessie Eden : And you are.

• Thomas Shelby : As you can see, my natural side of the barricades is the same as yours, and as you know, I once believed.

  Jessie Eden : But the war changed you.

  Thomas Shelby : Yeah.

  Jessie Eden : The man I loved couldn't speak when he got back, not one word.

  Thomas Shelby : I've said very few true words since.

• Charles Shelby : Dad, you got three what?

  Thomas Shelby : I got three shillings for a two shilling 'orse.

• Jessie Eden : I've researched you. *We* have researched you. You've never been a friend of the government. They've used you. Now I image you've found out already that no amount of money allows you to pass through the steel sheets that separate class from class.

  Thomas Shelby : Yes, yes that I have learned.

• Thomas Shelby : Charlie, Curly, this is Jessie Eden. Jessie, this is my uncle Charlie and my... whatever Curly is.