Peaky Blinders: Tommy's New Son Confirms A Dark Shelby Theory
WARNING! Contains SPOILERS for Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 5.
Peaky Blinders season 6 episode 5 saw Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) reunite with his long-lost son, Duke (Conrad Khan), and their conversation confirms a dark theory about Tommy's other son, Charles (Jensen Clarke). The BBC show's sixth and final season has Tommy struggle to put his affairs in order and «change the world» with a terminal illness looming in the background (reminding viewers all too well of Breaking Bad). This is also the season Tommy loses his daughter Ruby to tuberculosis, only to find another child — an illegitimate son — soon afterward, thanks to Esme (Aimee-Ffion Edwards).
InPeaky Blinders' episode «Road to Hell,» Tommy welcomes young Duke into the family and gives him a menial job at the betting shop. There, Duke witnesses Arthur (Paul Anderson) have Billy Grade (Emmett J. Scanlan) kill a righteous referee who was threatening to take the Shelbys' corruption to the police. Duke flinches and turns away as the blood spills. In his very next scene, Duke is trying to get away from the Shelby Enterprise and roam«all the hills of England.» Tommy thus realizes Duke is just like he was before the war: wild and free. Furthermore, Duke says «horses are better than people» (which explains him leaving the betting shop), something the Romani in Tommy can deeply empathize with. Finally, Tommy convinces Duke to stay and work with Charlie (Ned Dennehy) and Curly (Ian Peck), where there are horses and only two people.
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Initially, Duke is fairly surprised Tommy welcomes him as a son and offers him a future: «You already have a son,» he says, to which Tommy replies: «My
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