What happened to Billy Grade in Peaky Blinders?

Peaky Blinders' season 6 episode 5 confirmed that Billy Grade was the "black cat" who outed Tommy's assassination plan to the IRA. After Arthur forces him to kill a referee threatening to take the Shelby Company's corruption to the press, a shaken Billy goes to the bathroom to clean himself up.
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Did Billy Grade betray the Peaky Blinders?

Billy Grade (Emmett J Scanlan) is revealed to be the informant or 'black cat' that betrayed the Peaky Blinders. In the last season, Finn informed him that Tommy had devised a plan to kill Mosley, and it was happening that night.
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What happened to Billy Kimber in Peaky Blinders?

Tommy kills Billy Kimber, ending the brewing war between the Peaky Blinders and the Birmingham Boys.
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What happened Billy Shelby?

Billy is last seen being held by his mother, at his supposedly dead father's funeral.
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What did Jack Nelson do to Billy?

Whipping off the towel, Jack clamped his weapon to Billy's genitals with the sound alone being enough to make viewers wince before the blood dripped down his leg.
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Why did Michael betray Tommy?

The Americans didn't want to deal with “an old-fashioned, back-street razor gang”, said Michael. They wanted the next generation. Tommy rejected the proposal and fired Michael, leaving Gina and Michael to “the second option”, which was stage the coup anyway, against Tommy's will.
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What happened to Arthur Shelby's child?

Gray and together they had two kids, Anna and Michael Gray born in 1906. Both children were taken away by the parish authorities and separated right after their birth. Anna Gray was sent to Australia where she died of spring fever. Arthur Shelby Sr.
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Who killed Billy Peaky Blinders?

Alfie Solomons ends up informing the two that Thomas and the Peaky Blinders are no longer Alfie's allies by attacking both Arthur and Billy at a meeting. Minutes later, Billy is shot dead by one of Alfie's men.
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Did Billy Kimber exist?

Yes, Billy Kimber was a real Birmingham gangster and leader of the real Birmingham Boys. The Birmingham Boys were a street gang who had significant power in the North of England and London between the 1910s and 1930. The head of The Birmingham Boys was William 'Billy' Kimber, from Aston, Birmingham.
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Who was the real leader of the peaky blinders?

Shelby, brother of Arthur, John, Ada and Finn Shelby, father of Charles and Ruby Shelby, as well as being the husband of Grace and Lizzie Shelby. He is the leader of the Birmingham criminal gang, the Peaky Blinders and the patriarch of the Shelby Family.
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Who died in the fight against Kimber?

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The character to go was Danny Whizz-Bang, real name Daniel Owen. Danny initially leaves Birmingham, leading everyone to think that he was dead. However, he later returns in order to break Freddie Thorne from jail. However, he is later killed during the shootout with Billy Kimber.
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Who betrayed Aberama gold?

The first time we see JD in season 5 is when Aberama [Gold] (Aidan Gillen) drives up to Tommy's mansion. “He claims that JD betrayed him. He was the only one who knew where they were camped.
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What did Billy Grade do?

Billy Grade was a retired footballer and bookmaker, for the violent criminal gang, Peaky Blinders.
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Who betrayed Tommy?

The implication is that a mutually beneficial partnership is on the cards. Though the nature of characters within the gangster show is inherently duplicitous, the IRA betraying Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders season 6 at first appears to be in direct contrast to what was set up in season 5.
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Is Tommy Shelby Billy Kimber?

Billy Kimber (1882-1919) was a British gangster and businessman from Birmingham who led the Birmingham Boys gang during the early 20th century. He took over the city during the 1910s, only to be murdered by up-and-coming Romani gangster Tommy Shelby in 1919 during a war between his gang and the Peaky Blinders.
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Was Thomas Shelby a real person in history?

None of the names of people previously reported to have been in the real Peaky Blinders' heyday have Shelby as a surname. Cillian Murphy's character Thomas Shelby may have been a work of fiction, but the real gang's antics were just as dramatic, violent and dark as the show makes out.
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How much of Peaky Blinders is true?

Created by Steven Knight, Peaky Blinders is technically based on a true story but has also been heavily fictionalized for dramatic purposes. The BBC-Netflix crime drama focuses primarily on the Shelby family, a gang of outlaws who infiltrate high society in 1920s Birmingham, England.
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How many times did Alfie betray Tommy?

Thomas Shelby

The two have a very strange relationship given that Solomons has crossed Thomas three times and yet the latter continues to trust him.
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Why did Finn betray the Shelbys?

Others joined the conversation to remind us that Finn had actually betrayed the Shelby family last season by acting as an informant for Billy Grade. One explained: "Billy was quite blatantly obviously an informant, and the Shelbys knew it. They were distrusting of Finn because he trusted Billy far too much.
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Was Finn Shelby a traitor?

But probably the most shocking thing in the last and final episode of Peaky Blinders was Finn Shelby's betrayal of the family. Yes! You heard it right the little Finn we all adored in the first season grows up to betray the family. While the episode does show his betrayal, it leaves the reasons unrevealed.
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What mental illness does Arthur Shelby have?

One of the major symptoms of PTSD is "recurrent, unwanted distressing memories or dreams of the traumatic event"[1]. A number of characters in Peaky Blinders appear to suffer from it, the most notable ones being Thomas Shelby, Arthur Shelby Jr., and Danny Whizz-Bang.
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Are Polly and Arthur siblings?

Elizabeth "Polly" Gray (née Shelby) was the mother of Michael and Anna Gray, aunt of Arthur, Thomas, John, Ada and Finn Shelby, as well as being the matriarch of the Shelby Family.
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Is Charlie Polly's brother?

Charlie is Tommy's mother's brother, isn't he? And she never mentioned he was her brother when he showed up. I don't think the writer was very bothered with such details at the beginning hence Finn suddenly ageing overnight. Polly is Arthur's sister, that's why she's a Shelby, later Gray.
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Does Polly betray Tommy to Luca?

Polly made vendetta-driven mobster Luca Changretta (Adrien Brody) a deal in the explosive finale, offering up Tommy's life in exchange for the safety of the rest of the family.
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Who does Polly sleep with in Peaky Blinders?

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Yet the worst act he has ever committed is forcing Polly to sleep with him to keep her son from spending the rest of his life behind bars.
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