Peaky Blinders (TV Series)

Mr. Jones (2019)

Tom Hardy: Alfie Solomons

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• Thomas Shelby : Hello, Alfie.

  Alfie Solomons : Yeah, did you, did you look through the binoculars?

  Thomas Shelby : Yeah.

  Alfie Solomons : I watch ships. No two are the same. Yeah. That is how God sees us both in his eyes.

  Thomas Shelby : God, eh?

  Alfie Solomons : Yeah, sort of, I mean, you know, someone who's responsible for all this fucking mess. Now, how soon did you know that I was not dead?

  Thomas Shelby : You wrote me a letter, Alfie.

  Alfie Solomons : Did I?

  Thomas Shelby : Yeah, you asked about your dog.

  Alfie Solomons : Oh, they, they gave me a lot of drugs at first, yeah, all right. I was lyin' out there, and the tide come in, and it woke me up. I remember lookin' around and thinking, you know, "Fuck... if this is hell... then it looks a lot like Margate."

  Thomas Shelby : Maybe that's just what hell looks like, eh?

  Alfie Solomons : [picking up a copy of the Torah]  No, no, not accordin' to this holy book right here, yeah? It gives a very, very vivid description. You and I are both fucked, mate.

• Thomas Shelby : You read the papers, Alfie?

  Alfie Solomons : No, don't be silly.

  [he casually pulls out a pistol, cocks it, and aims it at Tommy] 

  Thomas Shelby : But you've heard.

  Alfie Solomons : What, fascism, yeah?

  Thomas Shelby : Three... two... one... bang.

  [Alfie doesn't shoot] 

  Thomas Shelby : No? All right.

  [Alfie lowers his gun] 

  Alfie Solomons : Good Lord, your fucking condition has got worse, mate. Mine, on the other hand, I, I've been livin' the dream. Sometimes I will shoot at the side of a ship, and sometimes I'll sit here, I may shoot at the ol' seagull.

  Thomas Shelby : Alfie... I'm gonna shoot Oswald Mosley.

  Alfie Solomons : Right, well, I hope you do a better job on him than the one you done on me, yeah? I mean, what, what were you thinkin'? Was your mind somewhere else, Tommy?

  Thomas Shelby : Yes, it was, actually.

  Alfie Solomons : Yeah. All right. Oh, look. A ship.

  [he makes a show of looking through his binoculars] 

• [talking about assassinating Mosley] 

  Alfie Solomons : How much you payin'?

  Thomas Shelby : Thought you might do it for the cause, Alfie.

  Alfie Solomons : Oh, fuck off.

  Thomas Shelby : Each man will get 20 pound. You'll get 5,000.

  Alfie Solomons : You know, as a god, Tommy, right, I am now able to just rise above those kinds of insults, mate.

  Thomas Shelby : Ten?

  Alfie Solomons : How is my dog?

  Thomas Shelby : Your dog is fine.

  Alfie Solomons : In that case, ten should be enough. Where do you want the men?

  Thomas Shelby : Birmingham.

  Alfie Solomons : No, no. 20 will not be enough for my lads to step inside that fucking shithole. It'll have to be 25 at least.

  Thomas Shelby : 25 it is. You can take your dog back, then, eh?

  Alfie Solomons : No, it is better for him to think that I am still dead. As is also with the police. Right. So you're still at it, eh, Tommy? Mmm. Ain't got no Margate to go to. Tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk.

  Thomas Shelby : No. And I have no interest in shooting seagulls.

  Alfie Solomons : Oh, but you have in shooting Cabinet ministers?

  Thomas Shelby : Yeah. And their paid informants.

  Alfie Solomons : Hm. I was on a lot of drugs at first, right, due to the pain, you know, on account of, well, you know, bein' shot in the face by some cunt. I won't bore you with the details, it'd chill you. Nonetheless, I had a recurring dream. I saw you in a field, right, with a big black horse, and you said, "Goodbye," and then, bang.

  [pause] 

  Alfie Solomons : All right, then. Well... what now?

  [pause] 

  Thomas Shelby : I will continue... 'til I find a man that I can't defeat.

• [talking about assassinating Mosley] 

  Alfie Solomons : Why do you want to shoot him?

  Thomas Shelby : I need to organise a riot, Alfie.

  Alfie Solomons : All right.

  Thomas Shelby : And I hear you still have some... standing... in the Jewish community.

  Alfie Solomons : Let me be clear, all right? Since my resurrection, I am considered to be a god, all right? In the Holy Land, someone has made an image of me out of rock embedded in the sand, so I am told, and I am planning to make a pilgrimage to stand in my own shadow.

  [pause] 

  Alfie Solomons : Are you gonna shoot him because this man is evil?

  Thomas Shelby : I need men who can fight. Mosley uses men from Glasgow, so if the men causing the trouble are Jewish, it will be... explicable.

  Alfie Solomons : Since when do you need explanations, Tommy?

  Thomas Shelby : Since I entered politics.

  Alfie Solomons : Oh, that's right, yeah, oh, yeah. And how has that been for you, Tom?

  Thomas Shelby : Gangs, wars, truces. Nothing I didn't already know.

  [Alfie snores sarcastically] 

  Alfie Solomons : So if you, if you kill him, you, you will kill the message, yeah?

  Thomas Shelby : I will kill the man. Then I will kill the message.