Thomas is the one who brings strength and power to the Shelby family, so that the same thing won’t happen to Ada, and that Thomas will get Freddie out of jail. She tells Ada about her children and how the police took them away from her. Later, Polly tries to convince Ada to forgive Thomas. Polly is not surprised when he cons his own son, Arthur, out of five hundred pounds. While his father proclaims that he's a changed man, Thomas does not trust him. When Thomas walks in, his reaction is the same. When Arthur brings home his absentee father Arthur Shelby Sr., having happened upon him in a boxing club, Polly is disgusted to see the "thieving whore-monger" who abandoned his family. Polly is furious and bursts into the Garrison Pub, yelling at Thomas and calling him a liar. However, after the baby is born, the police raid the house and take Freddie away. She asks Thomas to allow Freddie to come to see his son and he agrees. Polly tries to offer Freddie 200 pounds and a ticket to New York for him and Ada, but he again refuses to leave.Īt John's wedding to Esme Lee, Ada’s water breaks and Polly takes her home to deliver the baby boy. However, when Polly tells Thomas, he confides that he promised Campbell that Freddie wouldn’t come back. He proposes to Ada and she says yes, but he tells Polly that they are staying in Birmingham and that he is not afraid of Thomas. The next day at the train station, Freddie arrives as they are about to board the train. She tells Ada that they should take the train the following day for Ada to get a proper abortion. Polly tells Ada about how she was sixteen when she first became pregnant and how she almost died from the abortion, hoping that the father of her child would come back. Polly finds out that Ada is pregnant with the child of Freddie Thorne, who has since fled the city from Inspector Chester Campbell. When she is eventually able to wheedle the information out of him, she tells him to dump the guns before he gets hanged for having them. Polly is the only one that Thomas will confide in. Thomas keeps many things close to his chest, such as the fact that his men accidentally acquired the wrong crate during a routine pick-up, taking a crate that contained Lewis machine guns. However, Polly remains the matriarch and heart of the family. Series 1 Īfter John, Arthur, and Thomas return from the war, they retake control of the Peaky Blinders, with Thomas eventually assuming leadership. She managed the Peaky Blinders and its businesses while the Shelby boys were fighting in WWI. Īunt Polly has looked after her nephews, Arthur, Thomas, John, Finn, and her niece Ada since they were young. However, her husband died drunk, squeezed between a boat and a lock, and both her children were taken from her by the parish authorities, in part due to the intervention of a neighbor. She later married a river Gypsy whose last name was Gray and had two children, Michael and Anna Gray. She managed to do a self-administered abortion and almost died. When she was sixteen she got pregnant, however the father did not return and she was forced to abort the child on her own terms. When she was young and the police were after her father, he used to take the family out, living in the wood. Polly tells her son Michael Gray that his grandmother was a Gypsy Princess. Polly originates from the criminal Gypsy family the Shelbys. Polly Gray to Mother Superior Background " If I come for you, and I still might yet decide to come for you, I will wear high heels so you can hear my approach on the cobblestones, and have time to repent.
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