Peaky Blinders recap: series six finale – a thrumming, electrifying signoff
The gangster saga went out in a blaze of Brummie glory and with more twists than Spaghetti Junction. Here’s your postmortem on the feature-length finale, Lock & Key …
Polly’s prophesy came to pass
“One of you will die. Which I cannot tell.” This barrelling episode began with vengeful Michael Gray (Finn Cole) finally getting out of jail, where he’d been simmering all series after being set up by Tommy (Cillian Murphy). His intentions to kill his cousin had been stated all series. Now moustachioed Mikey (don’t call him that) put his plan into action.
Tommy flew (how new-fangled) to the smugglers’ haven of Miquelon Island to collect the $5m payment for his opium shipment. Michael placed a briefcase bomb in his car. Well, his mother, Polly, (flashbacks of the mighty Helen McCrory) foresaw that Tommy wouldn’t be killed by a bullet. When Michael made his excuses to leave the motor, there was a window-shattering kaboom. Except it was the car behind, full of Boston mobsters, which blew to smithereens.
