Peaky Blinders season 5 finale: 10 questions we need answers to in season 6

Peaky Blinders season 5 ended with some serious cliffhangers that could change the world of the gang forever.

Major characters have died, there’s a snake in the grass of the gang, and the evil Oswald Mosley (Sam Claflin) seems to be on a winning streak.

Season 6 now seems a million miles away, and we’ve got nothing to do but come up with our own theories and panic as we dissect what the hell we just watched.

The Blinders are essentially destroyed, and basically anything is possible at this point as we career towards writer Steven Knight’s endgame of the beginning of World War II.

Here’s everything we need answers to and now need to sit and dwell on for the next year…

***Warning: Spoilers Ahead***

What will Polly do now Aberama is dead?

Aberama Gold died in the line of duty for the Peaky Blinders and horrifically stabbed to death by an unknown assailant during the assassination ambush.

Polly had just handed in her notice in the family business, deciding to start life afresh and lead a life in line with what son Michael (Finn Cole) had in store.

Will his death push her over the edge and have her disown Tommy (Cillian Murphy), Arthur (Paul Anderson) and the rest of the men that have kept her safe all these years.

Or will she retreat, and return to the fold hellbent on revenge on the men that killed her fiancée, just weeks before she was due to finally get the happy ending she’s been longing for.

Who are the mystery mob who ambushed the assassination?

It seems that Mosley genuinely had no idea about the attempt on his life, and if he did, he did a damn good job at hiding it.

So who else would potentially be up for stopping the Shelby’s plans on the fascists?

There’s actually a number of people who this could be, but whoever they are is going to be close to home for sure – because why else would their identities be so hidden?

Will Arthur leave the Blinders?

Arthur has been Tommy’s most loyal soldier, but after Linda (Kate Philips) left him, and with his own mental health falling to pieces, he wants out.

Despite his pleas to maybe follow Michael’s suggestion to break free of the gangster life, he still falls in line when need be, and almost died at the assassination because of it.

Now’s the time for him to leave and start again. Question is, could he really do that to Tommy?

Where is Finn?

Finn announced his plans to head over to Bingley Hall for the assassination attempt, but by the looks of things he either never arrived, or hid in the shadows for the duration of the brawl.

Where the hell did he go?

Seeing as it looks awfully likely that he has been spilling all the details to his new right hand man, Billy Grade (Emmett J Scanlan) who isn’t as stupid as he seems, it looks like he could actually be the one that’s accidentally told the enemy what’s going on.

Did he make it to the rally? Or was he stopped before he could get there?

Who did Billy call?

Billy Grade has been playing a long game with Finn, something Tommy knows all too much about as he told Jessie himself: ‘You can do more damage from the inside.’

He’s definitely inside the group now – at least to Finn, even though Arthur has his wits about him and doesn’t trust him just yet.

Seems he had a point, with Billy picking up the phone after Finn let the assassination attempt slip.

So who did he call? Are they in league with the fascists? Or is it someone else who is just planning to take down the Shelby’s and everything they have planned?

What is Michael and Gina’s second option?  

When Tommy turns down Michael’s business proposal for him to take over the family business and start again in New York, Gina (Anya Taylor-Joy) tells Michael it’s ‘time for the second option’.

Thing is, we never found out what that was by the time season five came to an end. What exactly is it?

They can always continue to go behind the Blinders’ backs, and completely cut themselves off from the Shelby family fold, or then they could go into business with someone worse.

The IRA made the proposal to them back on the boat as they came in from Boston, but they refused. Could they return to them?

Alternatively, could they even be in league with the men who sabotaged the assassination attempt, forcing Tommy’s hand into accepting the deal?

Was Mosley having sex with Gina?

Ahead of his rousing rally that should’ve seen him killed (but didn’t), Mosley was seen having sex with someone in his dressing room.

The woman’s face was never seen, but that blonde bob looked awfully familiar, and we already know that the pair knew each other.

Is Mosley in cahoots with Gina as well as in her knickers?

Will Tommy try to kill himself?

Tommy’s mental health has officially disintegrated, and in the last seconds of season 5 we saw him holding a gun to his head, spurred on by his dead wife Grace (Annabelle Wallis).

So is he going to pull the trigger?

The chances are slight but this isn’t the first time we’ve seen him do that this season. Beginning the season by shooting a horse and then turning it on himself, only to back out.

However, this time he is full of rage and as he admits that he’s out of his depth and someone is coming for him and winning.

What will the gang actually do without their leader?

Is Alfie Solomons going to come back permanently?

Alfie’s return was a long-teased but welcome sight for fans everywhere when Tommy headed to Margate in the hope of joining forces with him.

Now that he knows just what kind of enemy Tommy is fighting against, there’s a chance he might be more open to his proposal of working together.

Tommy needs someone like Alfie around now more than ever, and with an ally like that, he could actually stand a chance of beating whoever’s against him.

Who could beat Tommy?

Whether it’s one man, or numerous people attacking him at once, Tommy is officially rattled, and he knows that he could be fighting a losing battle.

But just who is it that’s behind it all? Is there someone behind it all?

Because if there is, then it’s pretty obvious who the Big Bad of season six it.

As much as Mosley’s been a formidable opponent, it could just as easily be Michael, Billy, or another member of the gang.

Could it even be Polly? Tommy goes on about the man that can beat him, but what if it’s actually, after all this time, a woman?

Peaky Blinders is available on BBC iPlayer now, and on Netflix from 5 October.

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