Cillian Murphy credited as playing...
Thomas Shelby
- Arthur Shelby: [scoffs] I don't know how you do this, Tom. I really don't.
- [both acknowledge open door]
- Thomas Shelby: [jots note in journal] You learn things, Arthur.
- Thomas Shelby: [puts down cigarette to assemble drinks] That woman has only two rooms downstairs. Her husband has lost his job, and he beats her, and yet,
- [Arthur exhales]
- Thomas Shelby: the thing that brings her to see her member of parliament is songbirds. Now that's politics, Arthur.
- [both have a drink]
- Arthur Shelby: It's not for me...
- Jimmy McCavern: You know, it's a pity. I was lookin' forward to killin' you.
- Thomas Shelby: You're at the back of a long queue.
- Jimmy McCavern: My white flag is a flag of truce. Yours is more a flag of surrender.
- Thomas Shelby: Whatever you say, Mr. McCavern. The colour is the same, the outcome is the same. I believe we have friends in common. We should postpone our war.
- Jimmy McCavern: Your brother left me a hand grenade.
- Thomas Shelby: He sends his apologies. You left me land mines.
- Jimmy McCavern: For which I, too, apologise.
- Thomas Shelby: Then peace it is.
- Jimmy McCavern: Your message said you wanted to seal our truce with some business.
- Thomas Shelby: Since we're men of similar interests and distribution networks, I thought we might use our temporary settlement for our mutual benefit.
- Jimmy McCavern: You stand in a yard full of scrap metal and stolen goods, and you talk like a politician.
- Thomas Shelby: No, nothing here is stolen, Mr. McCavern. Charlie simply finds things before they're lost. The nature of the deal is explained in my proposal.
- [he hands Jimmy an envelope]
- Thomas Shelby: I've booked you a suite at the Midland Hotel. If you need anything in this city, just mention my name.
- Jimmy McCavern: So you want to impress me, Mr. Shelby?
- Thomas Shelby: Isaiah!
- [Isaiah steps out from behind a nearby tree holding a rifle]
- Thomas Shelby: Also in the envelope is a cheque for 500 pound for your wife. She can use it to buy a black dress and a black horse with black feathers to pull a black carriage with your body in it, should you break the terms of the white flag. Now please, enjoy the city it's my honour to represent.
- Ada Shelby: How much opium do you have left?
- Thomas Shelby: Seven tons.
- Ada Shelby: Seven tons?
- Thomas Shelby: Yeah, i would hate for it to run out.
- Aberama Gold: When you check that little stopwatch you've got that controls the turning of the earth?
- Thomas Shelby: Yeah.
- Aberama Gold: Does you vanity have no limits?
- Thomas Shelby: I believe it's called the ego, these days.
- Thomas Shelby: Always have your whores searched at the door.
- Finn Shelby: [to Chang] If I see that bitch on the street, I'll fucking cut her, yeah?