What did Michael do in Peaky Blinders?

Throughout Series 6 Michael plots to kill Tommy. After being framed by Tommy and thrown in prison. Michael is eventually released thanks to his wife Gina's uncle Jack Nelson Michael sets up his plan to kill Tommy by blowing him up with a car bomb.
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Does Michael Gray betray Tommy?

Following his apparent willingness to betray Tommy, Michael was sent to head up the company in America. Now based in Detroit, he has fallen in love with an American woman, Gina. But his tendency to see himself as Tommy's heir, with an added veneer of legitimacy, has led him to make a hubristic decision.
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What happened to Michael in Peaky Blinders?

Tommy then shoots Michael through the eye, killing him instantly and fulfilling Polly's prophecy that there will be a war between the cousins and one of them will die.
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What does Michael want in Peaky Blinders?

The creator of Peaky Blinders has teased that outcast Michael Gray "wants to kill" Tommy Shelby, potentially fulfilling Aunt Polly's prophecy when she predicted that either her son Michael or nephew Tommy would kill the other.
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Why did Michael betray the Peaky Blinders?

With Polly Gray's death at the start of Peaky Blinders season 6, Michael blames Tommy and his boundless ambition for his mother's murder and swears vengeance upon him before departing for America.
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What did Campbell do to Michael in jail?

Meanwhile, Polly Shelby's son Michael Gray is thrown behind bars by Major Campbell for the burning down The Marquis of Lorne pub. Thomas goes see May Carleton and check on his filly. May introduces him to Mick, whom she calls the best horseman in England.
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Was Michael in Peaky Blinders abused?

While he's convalescing, Michael Gray visits Tommy and tells him that he knows things about the priest. It's heavily insinuated that Michael was abused by clergymen during his time in foster care, and these things made Michael want to be the one to kill Father Hughes.
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Why does Michael not like Tommy?

After his Mother Polly is murdered by the IRA due to Tommy attempting to assassinate Oswlad Mosley Michael blames Tommy for her death and declares revenge against him. Throughout Series 6 Michael plots to kill Tommy.
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Why are Tommy and Michael fighting?

Following the tragic death of actress Helen McClory, Polly's death was written into the show. At her funeral, Michael addressed his mother and swore revenge on Tommy, who he blamed for her death. In her final meeting with Tommy, Polly predicted the conflict, “There will be a war and one of you will die.
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Does Michael want to be Tommy?

Since the start of this final season of Peaky Blinders, Michael Gray (Finn Cole) has made it very clear that he wants to be the one to bring an end to Tommy Shelby's life.
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What did Michael do with Polly?

When Polly pricks Michael's finger for blood, it adds credence to theories that Polly was the one who placed the curse upon Tommy. It has previously been implied that Polly has supernatural abilities and visions.
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Does Polly sleep with her son?

They came from a different society, he's a well-educated artist but she has never been educated, is the matriarch of a criminal gang and a murderess. However, he pursues and seduces her until things have begun to develop between them. Finally, Polly decides to come for him at night and sleeps with him.
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Does Tommy shoot Michael?

In his absence, Tommy and Michael come face to face. Eventually Tommy shoots Michael right through the eye, pointing out he has no limitations and ending Michael's revenge mission once and for all. With Michael dead, Tommy heads inside the bar where Alfie Solomons shows up.
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Who ruined Tommy Shelby's plan?

Billy Grade Informed The IRA About The Mosley Assassination

Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 5, confirmed that Billy was the one who leaked Tommy Shelby's assassination plan to the IRA. Billy meets his end at the hands of Duke, after Finn refuses, in the Peaky Blinders season 6 finale.
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Is Finn Shelby a traitor?

Following this, Finn was deemed a traitor in the ranks and as a result was largely absent from future family plans. In the final episode, Finn was kept in the dark about Tommy's plans for his manor home and was shaken when Duke Shelby (Conrad Khan) announced he had to kill Billy.
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Who was the mole in Peaky Blinders season 5?

Billy Grade (Emmett J Scanlan) is revealed to be the informant or 'black cat' that betrayed the Peaky Blinders.
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Why did Tommy betray his family?

Tommy had seemingly double crossed his family in order to escape the clutches of his enemies, and while he promised them they would be released – that he had a bigger plan in mind – his act of betrayal, as they see it, is likely to be a big theme of series four.
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What illness does Tommy Shelby have?

Tommy was diagnosed with terminal tuberculoma earlier in the season, and in light of this, he tied up all loose ends with his family, naming his illegitimate son as his successor. Following a series of revelations, Tommy discovered that his diagnosis was a ruse, setting the stage for the show's final moments.
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Is Johnny Dogs a traitor?

There's a theory on the Internet that Johnny Dogs, resentful of Aberama Gold's connection to the Shelbys, is the ultimate traitor. After all, Aberama had accused him of treason before and ended up being murdered in the attempted coup.
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Did Father Hughes molest Michael?

In the season finale, it was Michael Gray (Finn Cole) who killed him, stabbing him in order to save Charlie. During the series, it was also insinuated Hughes was a child molester who had assaulted Michael when he was a young boy.
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What does Father Hughes want?

, which Father Hughes (who molested Tommy's cousin Michael) and The Economic League want to sabotage to provoke a Soviet act of aggression on UK soil which will further their Right Wing agenda even though they set up the whole thing in the first place, but don't worry because the Tommy told the Soviets all about it.
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What did the priest do to Thomas Shelby?

The episode's violent turn came when Paddy Considine's deeply sinister priest Father John Hughes got the upper hand in his conspiratorial chess game with Tommy, having the Shelby leader's jaw crushed and drugging him.
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What did Sabini take from Tommy's mouth?

Their raid gains the attention of the other faction in London, the Jews, who invite him to a sit down. However, Thomas is set upon by Sabini and his thugs, who slice the inside of Thomas's mouth with the sharp end of a razor, while his sister Ada is also accosted.
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Who burned Tommy's caravan?

But spine-tingling all the same. As the clock struck 11 for Armistice hour, Tommy spared Holford's life. “Peace at last,” he murmured. His caravan was set ablaze by Holford's manservant.
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Who killed Polly in Peaky Blinders?

But without McCrory, the show acted swiftly in deciding Polly's fate. In the opening of Peaky Blinders' sixth season, it's revealed that Polly has been killed by the very same people who ruined Tommy's assassination plan against Oswald Mosley (Sam Claflin) in the season 5 finale.
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