Narrow squeak for Peaky crew

AFTER a dreary series, Peaky Blinders finally played a blinder.

Tommy Shelby and his Brummie hoods went out on a violent, revengefuelled high.

His new-found son Duke executed Billy Grade, the traitor in the gang, and saw off Billy’s accomplice, Tommy’s own brother Finn.

Mad Arthur stopped chasing the dragon long enough to lure Aunt Polly’s killer, “Captain Swing”, and her IRA cronies into an ambush.

They might have turned the tide of battle with their sniper if Arthur hadn’t unveiled “an old keepsake from Passchendaele” – mustard gas.

“Vengeance is for the Lord,” said Swing.

“Not in Small Heath it ain’t,” replied Arthur, before shooting her stone dead.

The final set-to was on Miquelon. Tommy met slippery cousin Michael and his Boston Irish heavies to trade opium for a £5million bank draft.

They’d planted a timebomb in Tom’s car, but our drug-smuggling MP anti-hero was one step ahead. Johnny Dogs transferred “the ticker” into the mob’s vehicle, then Shelby ironed out Michael too.

Believing he was terminally ill, Tommy was about to top himself when the spirit of his dead daughter Ruby rocked up to tell him he wasn’t sick at all. His doctor, a close pal of Oswald Mosley, had faked his diagnosis to push Tommy to suicide. Mumbo-jumbo aside, it was a righteous end to this once-gripping gang show. But even swathes of fog and gas couldn’t hide the script blunders. Mosley’s wedding in Berlin didn’t happen until 1936, three years later. PEAKY puzzles: When did The Garrison move under a railway bridge? And if Tommy wasn’t sick, why was he having seizures? DIANA asked Tommy to screw her on the Tory front benches in the Commons. Tsk. Totally inappropriate. They’re only for screwing the country...

ANYONE else spot that Jason Williamson from Sleaford Mods played that pulpit-chewing preacher?