Love makes you Blind. The episode 4 of Peaky Blinders is all about this single statement. The opening shot of this episode gives us the glimpse of lovely relationship between Freddie and Ada. In the next scene we see Freddie handing out the money to a guy who is running the revolution. The love between Ada and Freddie makes them both vulnerable. Ada leaves her family and her friends for living with the love of her life, she sacrificed for love. Freddie loves her intently, he sacrificed the secrecy of his revolutions and told everything to his Love Ada. Ada does not want to live in a rotten room and raise her child without any money. However Freddie also do not want to raise his child within this rotten room, but the cause of revolution is still greater than the happiness of his own family for Freddie so he let his family live in the rotten house. But Ada had something entirely different planned for them. There is a way a woman can seduce a man and get whatever they wants. The lust overpowers the accountability of revolution for Freddie and he melted into the loving arms of her beloved Ada.
John Shelby has summoned a family meeting to tell them that he is going to marry Lizzie Stark. Which every of his family member thought as a joke as they all knew she is a prostitute. But John (again blind in love) try to convince all of them that Lizzie had changed and she no longer sells herself for money. He wants his older brother Tommy to at least consider his situation.
Meanwhile we got to know that All of the Lee's family arrives at Shelby's Business and take vengeance from them by stealing whatever they get there hands on. It was an impressive scene of robbery and very well written. The Lee's hiding in the horse cart, the child placed within the Booker's Keep. It was a very well planned robbery which makes me wonder how in early 20th century people were so smart to even execute a robbery like this. The main purpose of this robbery is to give a hint of Lee's power. As the news reached to Tommy's ear he promptly goes to the scene and found a wire cutter, which Tommy suddenly realized are the indication of a lethal dynamite hidden in the vicinity of their house. However after giving a little thought Tommy concludes that if there was a dynamite hidden in the home it would have been blasted. So tommy ran towards his car where he found his younger brother Finn sitting he asked Finn to come outside as he got inside but Finn opened the door and the dynamite appeared which with a swift movement of hand Tommy threw in the air and saved the day. Tommy is very protective of his possessions and he consider his family, his business and his memories as his possessions, which leads to the fact that he will be getting hurt if any of those possessions are snatched from him.
As the story progressed we see Tommy going to Lee Family's elder woman. He talks to her and tells her that the dispute can come to an end. But this got me thinking why is he betraying Billie Kimber? Is it because he doesn't trust Billie Kimber? Whatever the reason might be, it is good for Shelby's business. When questioned from the elder woman about his varying loyalty, he told her about relation between Lee's and Shelby's as they are related from his mother side so they are "kin". This is a very smart move by Shelby for his business as he know it will strengthen his relationship with the Lee's and he is also in good books with Mr. Kimber.
Now we get to see the address of Chapman (the guy to whom Freddie handed the money for the cause of revolution) is being written on a telegraph which is in the hand of Tommy Shelby. After seeing the address in Tommy's hand Polly explained it to him that he should give this tipoff to CI Campbell and make a deal with him to let Ada and Freddie leave the city.
In the next scene we see the conversation between Campbell and Tommy. Tommy tells him about the deal which polly suggested tommy. For a fraction of moment I thought Campbell took the deal but Steven Knight (the writer of this epic saga) surprised yet again with his writing skills. Campbell threatens the hell out of Shelby as he swear in front of him that he will destroy each and every possession of Tommy Shelby if he got in the bad books of Churchill. The main backbone of the story is the guns which are in Tommy's possession. The way the threads are woven in this masterpiece is really very fantastic. After all it is what a Police Criminal story, but the related characters are written so strong that it feels almost like a life. Also I would like to mention the expression, dialogue timing and sinister thinking of Sam Neill is amazing. He nailed each and every scene of this conversation. If you are acting infront of Cilian murphy you are getting a very little chance to overshine this wonderful actor, but Sam Neill is much more than that. He not only did overshine Cilian Murphy he ruled each and every second of the scene. As campbell threatens Tommy and walked away from tommy, Tommy took out his gun and the rage in his furious eyes was neatly indicating that he is going to kill this man despite of the fact that he is a cop. But tommy is a smart man he controlled the rage and did not shoot the man. He let him go and save the day again (this time for his future)
We see Roberts confirming the good business that they are going on with the Shelby's are paying them off and he see no harm in giving him what he asked for. After that they see how they are running their business Kimber granted him his own private pitch on which Peaky Blinders can run their business (this time licences).
As being tipped off Campbell arrested Chapman and asked his Police officer to start interrogating (torturuing) Chapman to get the information about Freddie, to which Police officer reminded him of his words towards Mr. Shelby about leaving his sister and Freddie alone. To which Cambell responded by reminding the police officer about the fact that "you may think that the war between me and Shelby is personal, than yes it is personal."
Moving ahead we see Freddie giving flowers to his mother on her birthday and finds out that Polly is there waiting for him because she knew he will not miss to give flower to his mother on her birthday. Polly told him about chapman being tipped off by his own wife Ada. At this moment I think Freddie realized that being in love is making him blind. But that took an innocent man to death. Freddie forced polly to which Polly threatens him that if he ever laid a single hand on Ada, he will send him in wooden box. I don't know what is the matter with Freddie, why doesn't he wants to leave this wretched town and live his dream with his love and his child. However Freddie is staying (but not for long)
Meanwhile we get to see that Tommy unravel the truth of Lizzie Stark by offering her money which she readily accepted. He told the same to Johnny which leads Johnny to break up with Lizzie. At this moment I think Johnny realized that being in love is making him blind. But the break up didn't do good to johnny and he told the same to tommy. Tommy handled it maturely and asked Johnny to move on and be the mature guy as his grandfather told him to be.
When love is in the air for Shelby Family, how can the leader tommy can be spared from it. We see Grace asking questions about the running of the Shelby's business from Arthur. Arthur told her about where are all the inventory coming from. He told her about the boats. Grace then send the information to Campbell. Campbell searched all the boats in possession of Shelby but he didn't found any. Arthur then reverted back to Tommy saying that Barmaid is asking question. This particular time Tommy must have figured out the truth about Grace. Tommy asked grace to be his advisor and accountant and kissed her. This time the love is in the air for Grace as well. The love in Birmingham is sweeping all those who are coming in its way. Grace then told the promotion news to Campbell. Campbell questioned about the loyalty of Grace as the information which she sent leads nowhere close to the guns. To which Grace showed her anger towards Campbell by saying , "I came to you with good news, and you gave me this". I am also doubting the loyalty of Grace, but we can not be sure from the expression of the spy.
The climax is the strongest point of every episode of this beautiful TV show. This time it was taking Johnny to the Lee's family and letting him marry to one of the LEE's girl. Tommy is a great opportunist, he sees the opportunity when he get to know that Johnny is need of a new wife and Lee's are in a need of a husband. So he took the opportunity and hits the bull's eye. Moving forward we see Ada came to the party from an invitation sent by Tommy using Grace's friendship with Ada. Ada showed up and danced frantically as she is practically in a cage with his husband. Polly asked tommy to ask Ada to slow down a bit. When tommy asked Ada to do the same she made a scene and suddenly her water broke!! As they went to the Shelby's home, Polly asked tommy to let this one day Freddie be free and see his own child. However Grace got to know this information from Johnny and Arthur and send this information to Campbell. Now when we see Shelby family be happy and this episode is going to end at a happy note. Boom!! Police enters and capture Freddie which makes Polly furious at Tommy. Tommy who is blinded by the love of grace never figure out that she tipped the information off. May be this is the moment when he figures out that love is making him blind, or may be not.....
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