Peaky Blinders Secretly Solves Season 5's Last Big Mystery
Warning: Contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 1.
In Peaky Blinders season 5 one large mystery was left unaddressed, but Peaky Blinders season 6 episode 1, “Black Day,” finally answers who killed Ben Younger. Peaky Blinders season 6 had to wait 3 years after the release of season 5 in 2019 owing to production delays. As the final season before a Peaky Blinders movie concludes the main story, the season has some clearing up to do.
Peaky Blinders season 6 picks up where season 5 left off, with Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) standing in a field and contemplating suicide after his assassination attempt of Oswald Mosley (Sam Clafin) went drastically wrong. After his suicide attempt is foiled by Arthur Shelby (Paul Anderson) having removed the bullets from his gun, Tommy returns to the house and receives a call from the IRA. They explain that they were responsible for stopping his assassination attempt on Mosley and they deliver the bodies of Barney Thompson (Cosmo Jarvis), Aberama Gold (Aidan Gillen), and Polly Gray (Helen McCrory) to Tommy’s house. The IRA explain to Tommy that they need Oswald Mosley alive and this is why they killed Barney and Aberama and that, as part of their power play they killed Polly to “restructure” his organization.
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Colonel Ben Younger (Kingsley Ben-Adir) was introduced in Peaky Blinders season 4 as the head of the army intelligence officers in Birmingham, assigned to monitor Ada Shelby. In season 5, it was revealed that he was in a relationship with Ada, but was killed by a car bomb immediately after Tommy Shelby gave him evidence that tied Oswald Mosley to criminal dealing with instructions to get the information to
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