Tom Hardy credited as playing...
Alfie Solomons
- Thomas Shelby: Hello, Alfie.
- Alfie Solomons: Yeah, did you, did you look through the binoculars?
- Thomas Shelby: Yeah.
- Alfie Solomons: I watch ships. No two are the same. Yeah. That is how God sees us both in his eyes.
- Thomas Shelby: God, eh?
- Alfie Solomons: Yeah, sort of, I mean, you know, someone who's responsible for all this fucking mess. Now, how soon did you know that I was not dead?
- Thomas Shelby: You wrote me a letter, Alfie.
- Alfie Solomons: Did I?
- Thomas Shelby: Yeah, you asked about your dog.
- Alfie Solomons: Oh, they, they gave me a lot of drugs at first, yeah, all right. I was lyin' out there, and the tide come in, and it woke me up. I remember lookin' around and thinking, you know, "Fuck... if this is hell... then it looks a lot like Margate."
- Thomas Shelby: Maybe that's just what hell looks like, eh?
- Alfie Solomons: [picking up a copy of the Torah] No, no, not accordin' to this holy book right here, yeah? It gives a very, very vivid description. You and I are both fucked, mate.
- Thomas Shelby: You read the papers, Alfie?
- Alfie Solomons: No, don't be silly.
- [he casually pulls out a pistol, cocks it, and aims it at Tommy]
- Thomas Shelby: But you've heard.
- Alfie Solomons: What, fascism, yeah?
- Thomas Shelby: Three... two... one... bang.
- [Alfie doesn't shoot]
- Thomas Shelby: No? All right.
- [Alfie lowers his gun]
- Alfie Solomons: Good Lord, your fucking condition has got worse, mate. Mine, on the other hand, I, I've been livin' the dream. Sometimes I will shoot at the side of a ship, and sometimes I'll sit here, I may shoot at the ol' seagull.
- Thomas Shelby: Alfie... I'm gonna shoot Oswald Mosley.
- Alfie Solomons: Right, well, I hope you do a better job on him than the one you done on me, yeah? I mean, what, what were you thinkin'? Was your mind somewhere else, Tommy?
- Thomas Shelby: Yes, it was, actually.
- Alfie Solomons: Yeah. All right. Oh, look. A ship.
- [he makes a show of looking through his binoculars]
- [talking about assassinating Mosley]
- Alfie Solomons: How much you payin'?
- Thomas Shelby: Thought you might do it for the cause, Alfie.
- Alfie Solomons: Oh, fuck off.
- Thomas Shelby: Each man will get 20 pound. You'll get 5,000.
- Alfie Solomons: You know, as a god, Tommy, right, I am now able to just rise above those kinds of insults, mate.
- Thomas Shelby: Ten?
- Alfie Solomons: How is my dog?
- Thomas Shelby: Your dog is fine.
- Alfie Solomons: In that case, ten should be enough. Where do you want the men?
- Thomas Shelby: Birmingham.
- Alfie Solomons: No, no. 20 will not be enough for my lads to step inside that fucking shithole. It'll have to be 25 at least.
- Thomas Shelby: 25 it is. You can take your dog back, then, eh?
- Alfie Solomons: No, it is better for him to think that I am still dead. As is also with the police. Right. So you're still at it, eh, Tommy? Mmm. Ain't got no Margate to go to. Tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk.
- Thomas Shelby: No. And I have no interest in shooting seagulls.
- Alfie Solomons: Oh, but you have in shooting Cabinet ministers?
- Thomas Shelby: Yeah. And their paid informants.
- Alfie Solomons: Hm. I was on a lot of drugs at first, right, due to the pain, you know, on account of, well, you know, bein' shot in the face by some cunt. I won't bore you with the details, it'd chill you. Nonetheless, I had a recurring dream. I saw you in a field, right, with a big black horse, and you said, "Goodbye," and then, bang.
- [pause]
- Alfie Solomons: All right, then. Well... what now?
- [pause]
- Thomas Shelby: I will continue... 'til I find a man that I can't defeat.
- [talking about assassinating Mosley]
- Alfie Solomons: Why do you want to shoot him?
- Thomas Shelby: I need to organise a riot, Alfie.
- Alfie Solomons: All right.
- Thomas Shelby: And I hear you still have some... standing... in the Jewish community.
- Alfie Solomons: Let me be clear, all right? Since my resurrection, I am considered to be a god, all right? In the Holy Land, someone has made an image of me out of rock embedded in the sand, so I am told, and I am planning to make a pilgrimage to stand in my own shadow.
- [pause]
- Alfie Solomons: Are you gonna shoot him because this man is evil?
- Thomas Shelby: I need men who can fight. Mosley uses men from Glasgow, so if the men causing the trouble are Jewish, it will be... explicable.
- Alfie Solomons: Since when do you need explanations, Tommy?
- Thomas Shelby: Since I entered politics.
- Alfie Solomons: Oh, that's right, yeah, oh, yeah. And how has that been for you, Tom?
- Thomas Shelby: Gangs, wars, truces. Nothing I didn't already know.
- [Alfie snores sarcastically]
- Alfie Solomons: So if you, if you kill him, you, you will kill the message, yeah?
- Thomas Shelby: I will kill the man. Then I will kill the message.