Peaky Blinders season 5 ended with Thomas Shelby’s biggest failure. In all his time as a bookie, a gangster, or a politician, he’d never met an adversary whom he couldn’t defeat, except Oswald Mosley.
In the season 5 finale, Thomas plots an elaborate plan to get Mosley assassinated, but it fails with Tommy losing some of the most important people, such as Aunt Polly, Aberama Gold, and Thomas’ friend who served with him in the war.
After the season got over, the question that kept haunting all of us was who exactly betrayed Thomas Shelby and who was the black cat. Season 6, episode 1 reveals to us a part of the answer: the IRA. But why did the IRA shift their stance, and who helped them botch Mosley’s assassination?
Gina Gray’s uncle, Jack Nelson, might have helped the IRA botch Oswald Mosley’s assassination. Gina is suspected of having connections with Mosley in America, and perhaps that’s why Uncle Jack saved him from Thomas Shelby’s assassination attempt.
According to all the hints dropped in season 5, I already suspected that Gina Gray might be behind everything that took place in the season 5 finale. Gina might be the black cat who used Michael’s hate against Tommy and made him propose the new structure and take over Tommy’s entire business.
Furthermore, Mosley had known which clubs Michael went to regularly while he was in America, which means Mosley has some important connections with people in the USA. In season 6, episode 1, Gina boasts to Tommy about Uncle Jack’s reach and connections. She says that he knows people who are right at the top. Mosley had to know someone powerful enough to intervene and prevent his assassination. Currently, there’s no one more powerful than Jack Nelson in the eyes of Tommy and the audience.
While we still don’t know what incentive Uncle Jack has to support Mosley, we know he’s so powerful that he’s going with the USA’s President, Roosevelt’s son, and Gina to London for a business meeting.
So I wouldn’t be surprised if Uncle Jack has connections with organizations such as IRA, and it was he who helped them botch the assassination. But for this, Mosley would’ve had to have known Uncle Jack directly or through Gina.
Thus, all fingers point to Gina and her Uncle Jack, but the motive is still unclear. Was it to take over Tommy’s business so that the Americans could expand their business to the UK, or was it something else? I guess we’ll just have to wait and find out in season 6, episode 2 of Peaky Blinders.
The episode will air on 6th March 2022, and Uncle Jack will debut in the show. I can’t wait to see this enigmatic figure and find out what he’s gotten in store for us.
About Peaky Blinders
Peaky Blinders is a British period crime drama television series created by Steven Knight. Set in Birmingham, England, the series follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family and their leader Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy) in the direct aftermath of the First World War.
The fictional family is loosely based on a real urban youth gang of the same name, active in the city from the 1890s to the early 20th century. It stars Cillian Murphy, Sam Claflin, Aidan Gillen, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Finn Cole, and Tom Hardy
Peaky Blinders season 6, which is also its last, will premiere on February 27 on BBC One.
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