List of Peaky Blinders episodes

Peaky Blinders is a British crime drama television series created by Steven Knight, that premiered on BBC Two on 12 September 2013. The series is primarily set in Birmingham, England, and follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family in the aftermath of World War I. The following is a list of episodes, listed in order of their original air date, along with brief plot descriptions.

As of 22 September 2019, 30 episodes of Peaky Blinders have aired, concluding the fifth series.

Overview
SeriesEpisodesOriginally airedAverage UK viewers
(millions)[lower-alpha 1]
First airedLast airedNetwork
1612 September 2013 (2013-09-12)17 October 2013 (2013-10-17)BBC Two2.38
262 October 2014 (2014-10-02)6 November 2014 (2014-11-06)2.18
365 May 2016 (2016-05-05)9 June 2016 (2016-06-09)2.85
4615 November 2017 (2017-11-15)20 December 2017 (2017-12-20)4.05
5625 August 2019 (2019-08-25)22 September 2019 (2019-09-22)BBC One7.20
  1. The average rating for the first two series have been calculated using 7-day viewing figures, while the ratings for the latter three series use 28-day viewing figures.

Episodes

Series 1 (2013)
No.
overall		No. in
series		EpisodeDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUK viewers
(millions) [1][lower-alpha 1]
11Episode 1Otto BathurstSteven Knight12 September 2013 (2013-09-12)3.05
In 1919, following the Great War, the Peaky Blinders, led by Thomas "Tommy" Shelby, appropriates a consignment of guns from the local arms factory. Winston Churchill sends Inspector Campbell to Birmingham to retrieve the guns. Campbell reviews Tommy's record, which notes that he was a decorated former sergeant major. Aunt Polly urges Tommy to return the guns, but he feels that he can use them to his advantage. His brother Arthur does not agree with Tommy about fixing horse races, believing it will cause trouble with Billy Kimber, who runs the races. Inspector Campbell and his men capture Arthur and beat him while inquiring about the gun robbery. Campbell propositions Arthur and the gang to work with him to find the guns. Tommy's sister Ada is involved with Freddie Thorne, a communist. Barmaid Grace starts working at the bar. Unbeknownst to the Peaky Blinders, she has been placed in Birmingham by Inspector Campbell to help find the guns. Danny has another PTSD episode and kills an Italian business owner. To avoid a war with the Italians, Tommy agrees to kill Danny, with the Italians watching from across the canal. However, Danny's death is faked and he goes to London on a special assignment.
22Episode 2Otto BathurstSteven Knight19 September 2013 (2013-09-19)2.45
Tommy, Arthur and John meet up with the Lees to look at a horse for the next race. The Lees insult the Peaky Blinders, a fight breaks out and later Tommy receives a bullet with his name on it. Campbell's special force launches a surprise crackdown, targeting socialists and looking for the guns. Freddie and Ada manage to escape, but Freddie has to leave town. Campbell confronts Polly and attacks all the Shelby establishments. In retaliation, Tommy arranges for a reporter to write about a protest burning of the King's picture, which prompts Churchill to pressure Campbell. Tommy meets with Campbell, and gives him an ultimatum: if the Peaky Blinders are left alone, he will return the guns; if the Inspector interferes with his plans, Tommy will send the guns to the IRA and ruin Campbell's work in Belfast. Campbell agrees but later instructs Grace to get close to Tommy and find the location of the guns. Polly realizes Ada is pregnant and tells Tommy, who threatens to kill Freddie. However, he later tells Freddie to take Ada away; Freddie instead proposes to Ada and decides to stay in town. Billy Kimber and his men confront the Shelbys, but Tommy convinces them to join forces in fighting the Lees, their common enemy.
33Episode 3Otto BathurstSteven Knight26 September 2013 (2013-09-26)2.20
Ada and Freddie marry, and Aunt Polly gives them money to leave the country. Despite Tommy's best efforts to keep the guns a secret, it seems that people keep finding out about them, including two IRA members. Grace overhears them trying to blackmail Tommy and follows one of them, but he attacks her. Grace manages to shoot her attacker dead in self defence. Tommy warns Kimber that Lee's people will once again rob Kimber's bookies at the races. Tommy brings Grace as his date to Cheltenham races in an attempt to distract Kimber as well as convince him that he should hire the Blinders as his security. Kimber agrees if he can have some time alone with Grace, Tommy agrees. At the last minute, he has a change of heart and claims that Grace is actually a prostitute with 'the clap' (syphilis). Freddie decides Tommy is not going to scare him off and returns.
44Episode 4Tom HarperSteven Knight, Stephen Russell3 October 2013 (2013-10-03)2.31
Tommy dies the business legitimate by obtaining a betting licence. Although he does not quite trust her and is suspicious of her, Tommy hires Grace as his secretary. John calls the family together to tell them he has decided his four children need a mother, and he has decided he wants to marry Lizzie, a local prostitute. Tommy disapproves because he does not think Lizzie has given up her former profession. The Lees rob the Shelbys' gambling den as revenge for the Peaky Blinders having protected Billy Kimber's bookies at the races. Tommy decides to call a truce with the Lee family so that he can have an ally against Billy Kimber and marries John to Lees' daughter Esme to consummate the agreement. Ada comes to the wedding but goes into labour soon after. Freddie comes to see the new baby but is arrested when he shows up.
55Episode 5Tom HarperSteven Knight, Toby Finlay10 October 2013 (2013-10-10)2.03
Believing Tommy betrayed Freddie, Ada does not want to see or speak to her family. Although Arthur Sr. (Tommy Flanagan) deserted the family a decade ago, he comes back into town. Tommy wants nothing to do with him, but Arthur Jr. believes he has changed and wants to do anything to help him, including financing the opening of hotels in America. However, Arthur Sr. takes off with the money Arthur Jr. gave him. When Arthur Jr. finally tracks his father down, Arthur Sr. admits he never had any plans and felt that the Shelby family owed him. An IRA member starts inquiring about the man Grace killed. Grace and Tommy kill the other IRA members. Now in love with Tommy, Grace tells Inspector Campbell, if she gives him the location of the guns, he has to leave Tommy and his family alone. She suspects the guns are buried in a false grave after discovering that Danny is not really dead, but in London on business for the Shelby family. Grace gives up the location to Inspector Campbell and resigns service to the crown. As she has resigned, and the guns found, with the exception of one, Inspector Campbell proposes marriage, which Grace rejects.
66Episode 6Tom HarperSteven Knight17 October 2013 (2013-10-17)2.24
Inspector Campbell knows that Grace has been with Tommy. Nevertheless, he confirms to Winston Churchill that Grace should receive some commendation for her part in finding the missing guns. Polly meets with Grace to reveal she knows Grace's secret and that she will never forgive her. The Peaky Blinders, led by Danny, spring Freddie from jail. Tommy gathers the Peaky Blinders and the Lees to take on Kimber's men at the tracks, but Kimber catches the Shelbys off guard and outnumbered by confronting them at home. Freddie helps the Peaky Blinders by bringing out the machine gun from the stolen weapons, but Ada jumps into the middle of the shoot out trying to bring peace. Kimber fires off at the Peaky Blinders, injuring Tommy and killing Danny. Tommy, in turn, shoots Kimber dead. Tommy meets Grace and she tells him she loves him and will go to London for a few days; she has an idea of how they can be together. Tommy writes a letter and flips a coin to decide if he will go with Grace. As this happens, Campbell confronts Grace at the railway station and points his pistol at her. As the scene fades, there is a gunshot.

Series 2 (2014)
No.
overall		No. in
series		EpisodeDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUK viewers
(millions) [1][lower-alpha 2]
71Episode 1Colm McCarthySteven Knight2 October 2014 (2014-10-02)2.31
Grace shoots Campbell, leaving him lying in his own blood. Two years later, the Garrison is blown up while the family is attending Freddie Thorne's funeral. Tommy tries to get Ada to come back home as he is planning an expansion to London. Tommy goes to the Black Lion to confront those who he thinks blew up the Garrison. Instead, he's taken to meet with the IRA and asked to murder someone – which he does. Tommy is informed that Campbell, now a major, is returning to Birmingham. The Shelby family has a meeting regarding the expansion of the bookie business, but Polly and Esme, John's wife, have reservations. Nonetheless, Tommy, Arthur, and John decide to get familiar with the London scene and cause a rumpus at Darby Sabini's club. Polly visits a medium for information on her children that were taken from her, which Esme discovers before being sworn to secrecy by Polly. Tommy hires Lizzie as his secretary. In retaliation for tearing up Sabini's club, Sabini has his thugs kidnap and attempt to rape Ada, as well as beat Tommy to within an inch of his life. Major Campbell intervenes before Sabini and his men can finish him off. Campbell has agreed with Winston Churchill that Tommy will be useful to them.
82Episode 2Colm McCarthySteven Knight9 October 2014 (2014-10-09)2.18
Major Campbell visits Tommy in the hospital and threatens him with the knowledge that he knows about the murder Tommy committed for the IRA, and has clearly had Tommy under surveillance for some time. Tommy discharges himself from hospital early and takes a barge down to London. Tommy meets with vicious gang-leader Alfie Solomons (Tom Hardy) in Camden Town. Tommy has a hard time convincing Alfie that he should align with the Peaky Blinders against Sabini. Tommy tracks down Ada, and buys her a house as a means of laundering money. He also buys Polly a house. Esme has told Tommy about Polly trying to track down her children. Tommy tells Polly her daughter is dead, but he has managed to track down her son. Unfortunately, due to the law, Polly is unable to track down her son until he is 18 years of age. Arthur's flashbacks from the war are getting worse, and during one, he kills a boy during sparring. He starts using cocaine to self-medicate. Following the reopening of the Garrison, Polly's son, Michael shows up on her doorstep.
93Episode 3Colm McCarthySteven Knight16 October 2014 (2014-10-16)2.20
The Shelby brothers hire the Digbeth Kid, a neighbourhood boy who loves cowboy movies, to get stood up for gambling to help the local cops meet their arrest quota. While in jail, Sabini's thugs murder the Digbeth Kid to get back at the Peaky Blinders for their intrusion on his turf. Polly and Michael try to get to know each other. Tommy and John meet with Billy, of the Black Country Boys, who fought with them in the war. Tommy tells Billy to round up his men for them to go to work in Camden Town for Alfie Solomons. Arthur is threatened by the mother of the boy he killed. Tommy tells Major Campbell that the officers played a joke on him and have boarded him in a house that is owned by a not-so-former Madam. The Shelby boys and Michael go to an auction to purchase a horse and meet horse trainer May Carleton.
104Episode 4Colm McCarthySteven Knight23 October 2014 (2014-10-23)2.06
Tommy meets with his Irish handlers and discovers they are backed by Major Campbell and the Crown. They order another hit, but Tommy turns them down. Arthur and boys attack one of Sabini's clubs. Michael requests that Tommy gives him a job. Tommy hires May Carleton to train his horse. Tommy wants to export whisky to America and Canada – currently under prohibition. Arthur's cocaine habit is starting to get out of control and Tommy tells him to straighten up. Tommy visits Ada and finds out she has a lodger named James (Josh O'Connor). James is an artist, but Ada explains to Tommy, James is not interested in women. Tommy tells Ada he has set up a trust fund for John's children and her son, Karl. Alfie Solomons and Darby Sabini meet and patch up their differences. Michael and his new friend Isaiah, Jeremiah Jesus' son, try to drink in a bar, but get into a fight because they do not want a black man drinking there. Michael and Isaiah return to the Garrison, but when John and Arthur find out that the Shelby name was disrespected, they burn the bar. Tommy calls Grace in London but immediately hangs up without saying anything when a man answers.
115Episode 5Colm McCarthySteven Knight30 October 2014 (2014-10-30)2.10
Alfie Solomons hosts a Passover Seder and invites unaware Arthur and some of his men; who are soon equally slaughtered and has Arthur sent to prison. Major Campbell has Michael arrested as well. Sabini and the now gruesomely scarred Mario take back control of the Eden Club. Tommy finds his fledgeling empire crumbling before him, as his power-base in London is obliterated. Tommy struggles to save his family and regain the upper hand, as the tentative Black Country/Brum alliance is in tatters after the untimely death of Billy Kitchen. Tommy further complicates his love life, by escorting the returning Grace to a passionate date, though still stringing May along, who had earlier expressed her feelings for him. Having slept with Tommy, Grace admits being in London with her husband to procure fertility treatment. Campbell forces Polly to have sex with him, in exchange for Michael's freedom. Tommy attempts to end his romantic relationship with May, though he still wants her to continue training his horse.
126Episode 6Colm McCarthySteven Knight6 November 2014 (2014-11-06)2.24
Tommy decides to settle all his affairs in case he meets an untimely death. He also meets with Alfie Solomons regarding business contracts. Alfie gets Arthur out of prison. Derby Day has arrived. Polly tries to pay off Michael to get him to leave. Tommy collects the Peaky Blinders and gives them their mission at the races. Without firing a shot, they are to collect and burn the licences of Derby Sabini's bookies and steal the bets. Tommy runs into Grace who informs him she's pregnant. Tommy tells her after the race, they will talk. Tommy completes his mission for Major Campbell, but at Lizzie's expense. Major Campbell's men from Northern Ireland, members of the Ulster Volunteers, kidnap Tommy and take him to an empty field while Aunt Polly meets with Major Campbell and shoots him. Tommy is let go with a message from Winston Churchill promising future contact. Michael decides he wants in on the family business.

Series 3 (2016)
No.
overall		No. in
series		EpisodeDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUK viewers
(millions) [1][lower-alpha 3]
131Episode 1Tim MielantsSteven Knight5 May 2016 (2016-05-05)3.46
Two years later, in 1924, Tommy Shelby and Grace Burgess get married. The Shelby family and their kin have been invited, as well as Grace's family. Composed of cavalrymen, Irish members of the British Army, Grace's family dismays the Shelby family, due to the cavalry's late arrival on the battlefield during the war. The Peaky Blinders have a meeting in the kitchen, where Tommy, in a state of stress, orders the men to be on their best behaviour. Meanwhile, a refugee from Russia, named Anton Kaledin, makes contact with the Peaky Blinders, offering the code "Constantine" as confirmation for the money-exchange meeting with the young Duchess Tatiana Petrovna (Gaite Jansen). Tommy informs her that Kaledin provided the wrong code name, meaning the man must be killed. Arthur confides in Tommy, not wanting to do the job they must carry out, but Tommy tells him they have no choice, or else Tommy will hang. In the end, Arthur kills the impostor.
142Episode 2Tim MielantsSteven Knight12 May 2016 (2016-05-12)2.93
Tommy inspects armoured vehicles for a business deal with Father Hughes. He meets with Mr. Romanov, who pays him for murdering Kaledin with a sapphire. Vicente Changretta meets with Arthur and John to demand an explanation for his son Angel's restaurant burning down. John threatens Vicente and later beats Angel when Vicente publicly vows to murder him. During a Shelby family meeting, Tommy sides with John. Later, he is taken by Scotland Yard to a prison cell, where he is greeted by Father Hughes. Hughes threatens to kill Charlie if Tommy visits Ada again, due to her communist connections and remarks that he has easy access to Tommy's family. Tommy later finds a card under his son's pillow, which reads "Charles Shelby - R.I.P.". Grace wears the sapphire, which Tommy gave her, to the Shelby Charity Foundation dinner. Father Hughes and Patrick Jarvis inform Tommy that the Russians want to inspect the vehicles. Tatiana tells Tommy that the sapphire Grace is wearing was cursed by a gypsy. Tommy attempts convincing Grace to take off the necklace when a man shouts "For Angel!" and shoots Grace in the upper chest. Arthur, John and Finn beat the man to death as Tommy shouts for an ambulance.
153Episode 3Tim MielantsSteven Knight19 May 2016 (2016-05-19)2.70
Following Grace's funeral, Tommy meets with Polly and Michael to give them a list of things to do for their "legitimate" business. Afterwards, he orders Arthur and John to retrieve Vicente Changretta alive and shoot Changretta's wife, but they are reluctant to murder her. During a family meeting, the Shelbys realise that Tommy has left, leaving a note that he will be gone a few days. Tommy travels to Wales with the sapphire necklace, where he confers with a gypsy, whom he asks whether it is cursed. He returns home with some sense of normality having left the necklace with the woman. Arthur and John have procured Changretta, who Tommy threatens to torture, but Arthur shoots him in the head as an act of mercy. Following her help in finding the Soviet informant in the Economic League, Tommy invites Ada to head the family's future office in America. He then interrupts a meal hosted by the Grand Duchess Izabella Petrovna to secretly alert her to the information he has acquired. Tatiana sees Tommy to his car; he tells her that Hughes is betraying them to the Soviets and offers to kill him for free.
164Episode 4Tim MielantsSteven Knight26 May 2016 (2016-05-26)2.67
Easter 1924. The Shelbys receive news that their father has died and Tommy announces the plan to his brothers: they will have been hired to provide the Russians with weapons for a rebellion stolen from a train and will, in turn, be paid in jewels but, believing the Russians will betray him, Tommy plans to break into their vault. Linda tells Arthur she is pregnant and wants him out of the family business, which he agrees to do after the job with the Russians is over. His vagueness irritates Linda who demands a bigger cut for Arthur so they can move to America together. Polly goes to church while drunk and during confession she inadvertedly reveals Tommy's plan to assassinate Father Hughes to the priest, who tells Father Hughes about it. Knowing he is the target, Hughes foils Tommy's attempt on his life and watches him being seriously injured by his minders. He humiliates Tommy by threatening to kidnap Charlie, and makes Tommy apologise for wrongly accusing him in front of Tatiana and her family at the Ritz. Tommy later meets with a representative from the Soviet embassy and tells him Father Hughes is double-crossing the Soviets. He then collapses from his serious cranial injury.
175Episode 5Tim MielantsSteven Knight2 June 2016 (2016-06-02)2.65
Three months later, Tommy has recovered and the planned massive heist involving the Russians is drawing near. Tommy enlists the Peaky Blinders' old antagonist Alfie Solomons to appraise the Russian's jewels, ruining their plan to give Tommy fakes. The Peaky Blinders begin to tunnel underneath their mansion. Tommy makes a deal with the Soviets to ensure the guns on the train will be useless, negating the need to blow up the train and sabotaging the plan to plant evidence at the scene of the explosion incriminating the USSR, thus causing an international incident which would lead to Britain cutting off diplomatic relations with Russia. Ada officially joins the Shelby company when she is offered a place in their new Boston office. After previously revealing that he was abused by Hughes, Michael reveals that he too, wishes to kill the priest but Polly tells Tommy that she will bring the business to its knees should her son be the murderer. Polly finally views her portrait, after which Ruben and she take their relationship to the next level.
186Episode 6Tim MielantsSteven Knight9 June 2016 (2016-06-09)2.71
Tommy's son, Charlie, is kidnapped. Father Hughes reveals to Tommy that he knows about his subterfuge. He demands the jewels as payment and for Tommy himself to blow up the train, which must kill six people, in exchange for the safe return of his son. Tommy agrees unconditionally. After some investigation he discovers that Alfie Solomons divulged the plans to Father Hughes. During a confrontation, Michael kills Alfie's associate, but Michael talks Tommy out of killing Alfie. Tommy figures out where Charlie is being held and sends Michael to retrieve him and kill Father Hughes. At the same time Arthur and John set off to carry out the train bombing in case Michael cannot rescue Charlie in time. Even though Michael is successful, word does not reach the Shelbys in time, and the train is blown up. Meanwhile, Tommy frantically completes the tunnel and blasts into the Russian's vault, stealing several jewels and a valuable Fabergé egg. With his son safe, he meets with Grand Duchess Tatiana, who has been in on the jewel heist the whole time, and plans on taking her share to Vienna. Tommy returns home to distribute the remaining loot to his accomplices, but at the end of the meeting announces that the police are at the residence to arrest everyone. The rest of the Peaky Blinders and Shelby family are taken away in handcuffs.

Series 4 (2017)
No.
overall		No. in
series		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUK viewers
(millions) [1][lower-alpha 4]
191"The Noose"David CaffreySteven Knight15 November 2017 (2017-11-15)4.12
As Arthur, John, Michael and Polly prepare to hang for their crimes, Tommy's reprieve comes just in time to save their lives. A year later, the Shelby family is scattered and estranged from one another. Ada returns from Boston for Christmas and visits each of them: John and Esme continue their relationship of sex and arguments, Arthur remains stifled by Linda's watchful eye, Michael uses cocaine to stay on top of the business, and Polly has fallen into an alcohol-fuelled mania, taking prescribed tablets to quell her visions of spirits. Tommy advises Michael to dispose of Polly's medication and help her through her mental illness without them. Each of the Shelbys receives a letter from Luca Changretta, a Sicilian mafia member, marking him or her for death in retribution for the murder of Angel and Vincente. Tommy and Ada attempt to convince the others to meet on Boxing Day, believing that they will be safer if they come back together. However, when Tommy discovers and kills a mafia agent among his staff, he realises the assassination attempts are due to take place on Christmas Day and gets word to the rest of the family. Michael goes to collect John and Esme, with whom Tommy could not get in contact. A cart pulls up, and John and Michael are riddled by a hail of bullets.
202"Heathens"David CaffreySteven Knight22 November 2017 (2017-11-22)3.86
Michael survives his injuries but John is killed. In the wake of his death, Tommy and the rest of the Shelby family agree to put their differences aside while they deal with the mafia threat. Tommy suggests contacting Aberama Gold, a killer-for-hire, something Polly is strongly against. Disobeying her orders, Tommy uses John's funeral to draw Gold out so that they can make a tentative deal. Enraged, Polly attempts to get Michael to flee with her to Australia but he refuses until she helps the family through their current predicament, something she reluctantly agrees to do. Linda discovers that Ada is under investigation by the government because of her marriage to a communist but doesn't pass the message on. Gold agrees to fight for the Shelbys if they take on his son, Bonnie. After seeing him knock out a man much larger than he, Tommy and Arthur induct him into the Peaky Blinders. Jessie rallies Tommy's workforce and convinces the entire factory to strike. Changretta visits Tommy and sets several bullets on the table, stating that each is for a member of the Shelby family. He plans to keep Tommy alive until the rest are dead but insists that their vendetta be an honourable one, with Tommy agreeing not to involve the police or the death of children or civilians.
213"Blackbird"David CaffreySteven Knight29 November 2017 (2017-11-29)3.96
The Italians launch another attack on the Peaky Blinders. Tommy realises that the Shelbys need to evolve if they are to survive, but some of the family are reluctant to part with tradition. As the strike takes hold at the Lanchester factory, Tommy pays a personal visit to Jessie Eden, but he is outmanoeuvred when she reveals something she knows about his past. Changretta plots to continue the vendetta in the most devastating way possible. As well as identifying an enemy of the Shelby family who could help him, Luca makes direct contact with someone at the heart of the Peaky Blinders organisation.
224"Dangerous"David CaffreySteven Knight6 December 2017 (2017-12-06)3.87
The Peaky Blinders are lured by the Italians into a cat-and-mouse chase on the streets of Birmingham, where it becomes clear that the Italians are outmatched. Trapped in Small Heath, Tommy tries to console himself with a visit from an old flame but it soon becomes clear that he can't always get what he wants. As his factory lies idle, Tommy confronts the possibility that the Communists might win and he will be deemed a traitor to his class. Meanwhile, Changretta prepares to spring another trap.
235"The Duel"David CaffreySteven Knight13 December 2017 (2017-12-13)4.06
Thomas Shelby has figured out Polly and Michael have betrayed him but goes to the meeting Polly has set for him and finds himself engaged in bloody battle with Luca Changretta and his gang. Thomas has prepared for the battle ahead of time and manages to single-handedly kill three of Luca's gang members before coming face to face with Luca, however, the police arrive and break up the fight. The family gather to find out what happened, Tommy explains what happened, it appears he had been in on it with Polly, he does not tell the family of Michael's betrayal. Lizzie Stark has even greater news to break. Polly Shelby shares a rather magical woodland scene with Aberama Gold. Meanwhile, an army colonel has questions for Ada Shelby about her past as a communist, and Jessie Eden confirms just how far she is prepared to go in pursuit of her cause. And sensing an opportunity to capitalize on his situation, Luca Changretta makes his way to London to present a plan to Alfie Solomons.
246"The Company"David CaffreySteven Knight20 December 2017 (2017-12-20)4.44
As the stage is set for the boxing match between Bonnie Gold and Goliath, Tommy gets a visit from Alfie. The Shelby girls meet to discuss Lizzie's pregnancy. Tommy watches the match ringside with Arthur who is worried about Goliath's seconds. When one of the men leaves the arena, Arthur follows in pursuit and appears to be mortally wounded. At Arthur's funeral, the widow Changretta approaches with a white flag. Later at the family home, she reveals the vendetta will be over if Tommy signs over all his assets to Luca Changretta. Luca and his men meet with the remaining Shelbys in Tommy's basement distillery to sign the documents. Tommy reveals to Luca that he has sent Michael to America to negotiate with other American mafiosi and turn Luca's men against him. Realizing he has been outmanoeuvred, Luca attacks Tommy, and a fight ensues. As Tommy is getting the upper hand, Arthur enters the distillery and shoots Luca. It is revealed that Tommy had Arthur fake his death to lure Luca into the trap. The Shelbys celebrate the end of the vendetta at Tommy's countryside estate, and it is announced that Tommy will take a holiday from the business. Tommy confronts Alfie for his betrayal, who reveals he did so knowing Tommy would track him down and kill him, and that he has cancer. Tommy then shoots Alfie and proceeds to take his holiday. However, as the boredom from fishing and golf sets in, Tommy's post-traumatic stress comes back, and he returns to Small Heath. Tommy returns to Shelby Company, Ltd., and contacts Jessie to let her know he wants to help her and thus acquires the name of her Communist party contacts. He takes this information to the Crown to secure an endorsement for his campaign for Member of Parliament, an election which Tommy wins.

Series 5 (2019)
No.
overall		No. in
series		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUK viewers
(millions) [2][lower-alpha 5]
251"Black Tuesday"Anthony ByrneSteven Knight25 August 2019 (2019-08-25)7.41
In the wake of the Wall Street Crash, Tommy faces new dangers from unexpected quarters. [3]
262"Black Cats"Anthony ByrneSteven Knight26 August 2019 (2019-08-26)7.22
As the Peaky Blinders come under fire, Tommy is warned about a traitor in their midst. [4]
273"Strategy"Anthony ByrneSteven Knight1 September 2019 (2019-09-01)7.18
As the charismatic Mosley shows his hand, Tommy makes a treacherous new alliance. [5]
284"The Loop"Anthony ByrneSteven Knight8 September 2019 (2019-09-08)7.28
Tommy calls a truce and meets with Jimmy McCavern and a lucrative business opportunity presents itself.
295"The Shock"Anthony ByrneSteven Knight15 September 2019 (2019-09-15)6.79
Ben Younger faces unexpected consequences for reporting Tommy's intel on fascists. Tommy visits an asylum patient.
306"Mr Jones"Anthony ByrneSteven Knight22 September 2019 (2019-09-22)7.30
At the family meeting, Michael makes a bold proposal. Tommy asks an old rival for help with his plan to take down Mosley.

Ratings
Peaky Blinders : UK viewers per episode (millions)
SeriesEpisode numberAverage
123456
13.052.452.202.312.032.242.38
22.312.182.202.062.102.242.18
33.462.932.702.672.652.712.85
44.123.863.963.874.064.444.05
57.417.227.187.286.797.307.20
Audience measurement performed by Broadcasters' Audience Research Board.

References
  1. "BARB Top 30s". Archived from the original on 1 September 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  2. "Four-screen dashboard". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  3. "Peaky Blinders (Black Tuesday)". 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  4. "Peaky Blinders (Black Cats)". 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  5. "Peaky Blinders (Strategy)". 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
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