| Season | Episode | Title | Key Index Event | |--------|---------|-------|----------------| | 1 | 1 | “Episode 1” | Thomas Shelby’s first encounter with Inspector Campbell; stolen guns | | 2 | 6 | “Episode 6” | Sabini’s defeat; Grace leaves for America | | 3 | 2 | “Episode 2” | Russian duchess; assassination of a priest | | 4 | 1 | “The Noose” | Changretta’s vendetta begins; John Shelby’s death | | 5 | 6 | “The Shock” | Tommy hallucinates on his birthday; Mosley survives assassination | | 6 | 6 | “Lock and Key” | Michael Gray’s death; Tommy destroys his caravan; Ruby’s funeral remembered |
Key Conflict: The arrival of Chief Inspector Chester Campbell and the search for a missing crate of government machine guns. index series of peaky blinders
Series 4 (1925-1926): A vendetta with the Italian Mafia (Luca Changretta) and the General Strike. Creator : Steven Knight Original Network : BBC
Synopsis: Tommy enters high-stakes politics and espionage, working for the British Crown to steal jewels from exiled Russian aristocrats (the Romanovs) in exchange for his freedom. The series ends with Tommy’s wife Grace murdered, and Tommy, Arthur, John, and Polly arrested. | Season | Episode | Title | Key
The Shelby family is fractured and living separate lives until the Sicilian Mafia, led by Luca Changretta (Adrien Brody), sends "Black Hands" to every family member.
What makes Peaky Blinders extraordinary is that its index series is not decorative but compulsive. Tommy Shelby cannot stop arranging the world into indices—cigarettes, whiskey, guns, speeches, betrayals—because he survived the war by reading indices: the tremble of a sniper’s scope, the smell of gas, the silence before a shell. The entire series is his attempt to control a world by reducing it to a chain of signs.
Before we dive into the index of themes, here is the literal index of every episode by season.