“Unfinished Business” quotes from Criminal Minds

Today... this is my fucking wedding day.

JSJohn Shelby

Yeah. And you said there'd be no bloody uniforms.

Nevertheless. Nevertheless, John. Despite the bad blood, I'll have none of it on my carpet. Now, for Grace's sake, nothing will go wrong. Those bastards out there and our family. And if you fuckers do anything to embarrass her, your kin, your cousins, your horses, your fucking kids... IF YOU DO ANYTHING TO-

IJIsiah Jesus

Tom.

WHAT!?

IIsiah

What about snow?

JJohn

Yeah, their women are sport, I'd say that.

No, no, no. [points to Isiah] No cocaine. No cocaine. [points to John] No sport. No telling fortunes. No racing. [grabs Finn's jaw and slaps him] No fucking sucking petrol out of their fucking cars. And you, Charlie, stop spinning yarns about me, eh?

CCharlie

I'm just trying to sell you to them, Tom.

But the main thing is, you bunch of fuckers, despite the provocation from the cavalry, no fighting. Oi! No fighting. No fucking fighting. No fighting. NO FUCKING FIGHTING! Good.

[A waiter comes and bumps into him.]

Thomas [pushes the waiter]: Get the fuck off me!

[Arthur throws a carrot at him.]

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LCLuca Changretta

I heard you had trouble. It's good of you to see me.

You just came from Paris, eh?

LCLuca Changretta

You know Paris?

I left Paris in a cattle truck. And they said you were French.

LCLuca Changretta

Well, I came here from Paris. That does not mean I'm French. Guess where I'm from?

Well, in that cattle truck, in Paris... There were American soldiers who played cards. They sound like you.

LCLuca Changretta

Yeah. Did you win?

You didn't come on a train. Your suit is pressed, your shoes are clean. Where you'd get your suits made?

LCLuca Changretta

I've a tailor, in New York City. Look. Funacci, Italian. He's my uncle. Makes suits in a basement in Madge street. He is my uncle, so every stitch, stitched with blood. I heard you dressed well, Mr. Shelby, but now I see, not so well as me.

You know, I have uncles as well. But they're not the sort of men who would, who would work in a basement with a needle and thread, Mr. Changretta.

LCLuca Changretta

I am surprised how easy it was to get into a room with you.

[Draws his gun] And now?

LCLuca Changretta

And now? And now you should know that during the trouble you had earlier on your factory floor, I sent an accomplice into your office in overalls. He found your gun. And unloaded it. [Takes out the bullets]

LCLuca Changretta

[Places the bullets on the table with each name]. Arthur Shelby, Polly Gray, Michael Gray, John Shelby, [flicks bullet] spent. Ada Thorne. And finally, Tommy Shelby. None of you will survive. Your level of security is pitiful and we are an organization of a different dimension. I could've killed you when you walked through the door. But you see, I want you to be last. I want you to be alive after your entire family is dead, 'cause my mother says, that is what will hurt you the most. You people have traditions of honor, as do we. Instead of sending you a black hand I could have you killed in the night. You don't know why? But I want you to know why, and I wanna suggest to you that we fight this vendetta with honor.

No civilians, no children.

LCLuca Changretta

No police.

Welcome to Birmingham, Mr. Changretta

LCLuca Changretta

Grazie

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PGPolly Gray

It starts when you stop. When you rest. Could be nerves. The War. Might be the alcohol. Blue devils, they call that.

Yeah, well yeah, yeah. It's the fucking booze. It's the booze, the booze got hold and the booze got in me bones.

PGPolly Gray

Lizzie wants to see you.

No.

PGPolly Gray

Tom she's showing.

I don't want to see Lizzie, Pol.

PGPolly Gray

Shit, maybe it's in us? Cause were Shelbys. It's in our gypsy blood. We live somewhere between life and death. Waiting to move on, and in the end, we accept it. We shake hands with devils, and we walk past them.

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PGPolly Gray

Arthur asked, whose side I was on. [Tommy sits down] There will be a war, and one of you will die. But which one, I cannot tell.

Hmm. He's gonna do it anyway.

PGPolly Gray

Yeah.

You should know. If Aberama takes his side, I will kill him.

PGPolly Gray

And what about me?

[pause] I'll do what I have to do, Pol.

PGPolly Gray

Kill, and kill.

The only way to make people listen.

PGPolly Gray

[approaches his desk] Soon, you will have a stage to stand on. Millions of people will listen to you. And you will run the country, like you run this family.

It appears to be what people want.

PGPolly Gray

But not me. Not anymore. [drops a letter on the desk] My resignation. [leaves]

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Mother. They let you pass through. They wouldn't let me pass.

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I was angry with my friend. I told my wrath. My wrath did end. I was angry with my foe. I told it not. My wrath did grow.

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HSHayden Stagg

My name's Hayden Stagg. I hear there's some men here from Birmingham looking for me. I was in the banana warehouse playing football with the boys. [Throws his football, which is shot by Isiah]. I'm guessing you gentleman aren't here to kick footballs.

No. We're here about other business. We like to call it 'Black Star Business.'

HSHayden Stagg

'Black Star' a pub, is it?

'Black Star'- Yeah, 'Black Star's' a pub. Last pub you'll ever fucking drink in.

IJIsiah Jesus

Peaky Blinders take you to the 'Black Star', and all your troubles are done.

But the pub you drink in, Mr. Stagg is called 'The Dolphin', right? Every night, you're in there. Not to drink. You're there divvying up the day's takings, ain't ya? And there's a woman there. She sings out "Opium for Sale." [Guns are drawn on the dock workers].

HSHayden Stagg

Sit down, boys. The rules says the king puts his head on a block and the game is up.

Your'e stealing from the Shelby Company Limited. You're stealing from the Peaky Blinders, man. Therefore, punishment is a visit to the 'Black Star' pub. Hmm? But out of kindness, of my heart, your sentence has been commuted. Praise the fucking Lord! And our lovely Ada, eh? Instead...Instead, Mr Hayden Stagg, it's just a beating for you.

HSHayden Stagg

Well, before I take this beating. Arthur Shelby is it, yeah? You know comrade, beneath your sleeves lies the truth. The marks on your arm. Yeah. The stories about you come up the canal. You know, where once you walked fine alone, now you need a stick.

IJIsiah Jesus

Let's just fucking do it, Arthur.

You know, for me, it was the morphine they gave us in France. I got a taste for it Arthur. 1924 before I realized the fucking war was over. There's a warehouse full of it just across the yard there. Where the boys play football. And they steal it. Just roll around laughing. And it floats in the air. But I'm strong, comrade.

IJIsiah Jesus

Arthur, let's just fucking do it.

Liar.

HSHayden Stagg

It's me that's due a beating. But it's me who feels sorry for you, Mr Shelby, because you take your beating every hour of every day. Your own blood betrays you because it demands dilution. Sometimes you want to cut a doorway in your arm so your blood can escape and leave you to blessed peace. Yeah.

Fuck you man.

HSHayden Stagg

I was once where you are now, Arthur. If you're going to do it, do it. But look at me as a man you can be. You've tried Jesus, yeah? Yeah he looked you up and down and he shook his head. Your loved ones. Your wife. Your kids. Jesus and your wife and your kids can't help you. Only you, Arthur Shelby. Only you. Don't count the days. Futile. You get to a hundred and then you wake up and its fucking one again. No, don't build mountains, walk like it's a flat plain. Easy step, by easy step. [Isiah punches him]

IJIsiah Jesus

Arthur just give me the fucking word and I'll fucking do it!

HSHayden Stagg

He's your stick, Arthur. Give him the order.

IJIsiah Jesus

Arthur, I'm not gonna ask you fucking twice!

Isiah, leave him alone.

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Remember The January, Arthur? The family boat?

Yeah.

A whole family living on something the size of ten of these fucking barrels.

Hmm.

Remember that night at Tile Cross? Sixteen of us sleeping on the boat. The coppers come. We all swim like rats. Except for Arthur. Arthur holds them off with a boat hook, all on his own. And I remember. I climbed back up on the lock and I looked back, and I saw you waving that fucking boat hook in the coppers' faces...

[Laughs]

On your own. That's when I realized, when I had on you on the ground, all those years ago, it's cause you let me win.

[Laughs]

You wanted me to win. You've wanted me to win ever since.

What chance do I have if you... start doing that again [motioning to the wine]? Eh?

You'll stop. You'll stop because the family needs you to. It's like that long tunnel on the Dudley stretch. Remember Dudley Canal, line number one, 3,172 yards of fucking pitch blackness? And rats swimming.

Yeah

And then we come round the corner and there'd be a shaft of light, and then we'd know. And then, you and me, we'd both know it was nearly done. That's where we are now Arthur. Just a few more yards to go. And then you will change your ways. And I'll change the fucking world.

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I know. I know. I stole your keys. Tuberculoma. In your brain.

Yeah. But I still have time to do what I need to do.

Fuck you, Tommy.

I don't need anyone to know, Arthur.

No, you don't, do ya? You don't need anything, do ya?

No, I don't need anything. I don't need anything. How long have we been dead for, eh? You and me. How long? At least now I'll have a certificate. Whatever it is, I'll get the drinks in and I'll wait for you.

Fuck's sake.

Yeah. All them bullets that missed. It's funny Arthur. It's funny is what it is. So don't you fucking weep.

Weep.

When everyone is taken care of financially I'll take myself away. On my own. I don't want anyone... Anyone who may or may not love me... to have to see me crawl or grow insane and helpless. That would be a cruelty to me and to them. By the time people know the truth, I will be gone.

What about Lizzie?

I have some papers I need you to sign on behalf of the company.

Told Lizzie?

I'm working with the housing minister. I will be allocating contracts, construction contracts, worth ten million pounds.

You haven't told Lizzie?

Some of the contracts I'll be allocating are with companies in which we have an interest--

Fuck you and your contracts.

So the Shelby Company Limited will continue to earn money. But mostly, Arthur, I'm doing it because it's a good thing. Building houses.

Oh.

Yeah, for ordinary working people.

Yeah. Good for you. Fucking--

In the interest of a fairer future. Before that, I will be going to Canada to collect payment for the shipment. Five million pounds!

Oh five fucking million?

Which I will share among the Shelby family. And that will be my legacy. Instead of me, there will be money. Because for most of the people who are close to me, that is what I am! Fucking money. That is my agency.

Is that all you think you are, eh? Hmm? Stand up. You heard me. Stand up. On your feet. On your fucking feet.

Arthur!

On your feet, soldier. On your feet. Stand the fuck up! Come here!

Arthur! No! Enough! You hear me? Enough! Enough! Now you know. You tell no one else until I'm gone.

Until you're gone, yeah?

When the time comes, I'll call ya. I'll tell you where. It will be a wagon.

Fuck your wagon.

You light the flame. You bring Charlie and curly and no one else. Get drunk. Rake the ashes for silver and gold.

Fuck you! And your fucking plans! That time I did let you fucking win. John. Fuck you, John. Fucking both of ya.

Arthur. Arthur. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Let me see your eyes.

I'm clean, man. The dragons fucking gone. Thanks to you. Fucking thanks to you.

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HSHayden Stagg

Apologies for the initial misunderstanding.

My brother dealt with it. [Hands Stagg money]. For the care you took.

HSHayden Stagg

Even though I succumbed to temptation?

Part of the reason my brother is back dealing with it, is down to you. You spoke to him.

HSHayden Stagg

As a comrade.

The beating is still owed to you.

HSHayden Stagg

Do you still do that kind of work yourself, Thomas Shelby, MP.

Mr. Stagg, you see, I could use men like you. I have friends, that are in need of guns. Soon there will be a shipment of Thompson submachine guns, coming here from Boston. I need you to unload and store those weapons. There will also be ammunition, like this. [Hands Stagg a bullet with his name on it]. You have a good look. And I need you to take better care of the guns and ammunition than you did of the powder. You understand? Previously, all of my import and export went through Belfast docks. Now we're dealing with Boston, I am considering shifting my supply line to Liverpool. You'll be a very rich man. Don't you ever say thank you?

HSHayden Stagg

[Picks up the bullet]. Thank you.

HSHayden Stagg

Is that why you do it, Mr. Shelby? Is that why keep all this going? To help people say thank you? You could close all this down. You could leave the sport behind. You could live like an ordinary, mortal man. On your gravestone. "An ordinary, mortal man." But instead, you still go around collecting "please" and "thank you" and "sorry" and "forgive me, Mr. Shelby." That what it's all for?

Want to know? Want to know why I've carried on... all these years. It's so I can do this [aims gun and cocks it at Stagg]. And then, do this [uncocks gun and lowers it]. Feel it?

HSHayden Stagg

I feel it.

Junk doesn't even come close. [sighs]. Soon, Mr. Stagg, when my last bit of business is done, I will indeed be an ordinary mortal man. You have a good day.

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You know, the thing is Mosley, you're right. You're right, she doesn't deserve me. She doesn't deserve what I am. She doesn't deserve what I will become.

JNJack Nelson

What will you become?