Peaky Blinders: Alfie's Return Teased How Tommy's Story Ends
Warning: Contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 2.
In Peaky Blinders season 6, Alfie Solomons returns to the TV show, and the song that is playing when he and Tommy meet teases how Tommy’s story will end. Alfie Solomons has been a long-standing member of the Peaky Blinders cast, first appearing in season 2. 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.
Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 2, “Black Shirt,” sees Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) return to England after having set deals up in America. Tommy goes to see Alfie Solomons (Tom Hardy) to request his help selling his opium to the Jewish gangs in Boston. When Tommy gets off the elevator in Alfie’s new warehouse home, the song Nessun Dorma can be heard playing and it is revealed that Alfie is listening to the song on a record. Alfie goes on to explain that he has taken to trying to write an opera but is struggling to find his final act.
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Peaky Blinders season 6 use of this song is a big hint towards the ending because of the context and meaning of the song’s origin. Nessun Dorma is an aria that appears early in Act 3 of Puccini’s opera Turandot. In the opera, the beautiful princess Turandot has said that she will only marry the man who can solve her three riddles, and if a man attempts and fails then he will be executed. Despite being warned away by everyone on his path, a young prince, Calaf, undertakes the riddles and succeeds. The princess is upset as the riddles were intended to be unsolvable so she would not have to marry anyone and share her rule, so Calaf
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