By The long-brewing tension between Peaky Blinders' Tommy Shelby and conniving fascist rotter Oswald Mosley is poised to break out into overground hostilities. Have a look at this very, very short preview, which features Sam Claflin's Mosley shouting "FASCIST" very loudly.
Alright, chill out mate. The presumption is that Tommy's got some kind of plan in hand to take Mosley down, though as we've got the benefit of hindsight it's clearly not going to completely destroy him. Mosley remained a prominent figure in British politics up until the outbreak of the Second World War.
So what's likely to happen? There's a few threads to collect. We saw Tommy give his public backing to Mosley's plan for more government intervention across the board, telling Parliament that it "represents not just socialism, but a new breed - of National Socialism". Hmm.
Mosley reckons they'll be "conquering the world together" but a popular fan theory is that Gina Gray has turned into an informer for Mosley. Then there was this very big look in the last episode that convinced many fans that Gina couldn't be trusted.
That's a very large look. So where does Tommy's plan for Mosley go from here? The popular theory is that Tommy is himself informing on Mosley, with the lingering shot of Winston Churchill in the Commons a pointed reminder that Churchill helped Tommy out at the end of season two, and that perhaps it's time Tommy paid him back by feeding him information about the budding British fascist movement.
One slightly obtuse theory is that those three dead songbirds Arthur had to replace are a key pointer. Their owner said her new ones would be named Tommy, Arthur and Finn, and Mosley made the comment that he and Tommy were like "songbirds" in Parliament. Tommy, Arthur and Finn then had guns pointed at them over the course of the episode, not that that's a rare occurrence. Could they all be working together to take down Mosley, and 'sing' to the authorities about him and his lot, only to cop it in the reaction from Mosley?
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