Greta eventually died from her illness, which broke Thomas’ heart. A few months later, Greta became extremely ill with consumption and although the disease was contagious, Thomas stayed by her bedside for three months, holding her hand. Her parents didn’t approve of a Gypsy boy dating their daughter, but Thomas eventually won them over with his charm and sweetness. Sometime before 1914, Thomas fell deeply in love with an Italian girl, Greta Jurossi. This resulted in the Shelby siblings gaining immense respect for Polly as they got older since they were extremely grateful for all she had done for them. Polly was left alone to raise her niece and nephews, and became the head of the house, as well as their mother figure. He eventually abandoned them all in the care of his sister, and left Birmingham. Shelby’s death, Thomas’ father began finding it hard to cope, raising five children on his own. Shelby’s body from the canal, which broke his heart, as he was secretly in love with her. Shelby jumped into the canal and committed suicide, like her own father before her. Charlie believed she was better, however he was wrong. She watched Thomas ride the pony around for a few weeks, seemingly in a much better mindset than she was before her trip. When she returned from her trip, she bought back a white pony and gifted it to Thomas. Their father was no help, so Charlie intervened and convinced her to go on the road, so she left Birmingham and travelled to Worcester. In 1909, when the youngest Shelby sibling was still an infant, their mother became severely depressed and contemplated suicide. Their mother had a close friend, Charlie Strong, who was around a lot during their upbringing, which resulted in them looking up to him as their ‘uncle’. Thomas pinned Arthur against the ground and began hitting him several times over the head, later winning the fight, although Thomas acknowledged that Arthur let him win. Thomas would also fight with his brothers over cigarettes and one time, when Thomas was 9 and Arthur was 12, they got into a massive physical argument. However, because they were so little, it would take two of them to carry one bucket back to their house. Thomas and his siblings would have to get their fathers beer from The Garrison. While growing up in Small Heath, Birmingham, Thomas carried a razorblade and a screwdriver on him and would tell the other children in the area that he could lay curses, so they were afraid of him and didn't pick on or tease him because of it. It is also heavily implied that their father was a partial Irish Traveller. They also have Irish Traveller ancestry, this is because Polly mentioned that alongside Romani, they should not speak Shelta around Karl Thorne, which is the language spoken by Irish Travellers. It is implied by Thomas’ paternal aunt, Polly Gray, that the Lee Family are the Shelby Family’s kin, through their mother. Thomas’ parents were both Gypsies, making him and all of his siblings full-blooded Gypsies as well. Over the years, Thomas’ parents welcomed three more children, John, Ada and Finn Shelby. He was born on a boat, in a barge called ‘The January’ and had an elder brother, Arthur Shelby, who he was extremely close with as a child. Thomas Michael Shelby was born in 1890, to Arthur and Mrs. Nothing in comparison to that one minute." One minute of everything at once, and anything before is nothing. Patrick Diericks (Jeroen Van Der Ven) has a proposition for Bob: he can make his court case disappear if Bob goes undercover again to infiltrate Serkan’s gang as a civilian informer and unmask the traitor.īob reluctantly takes on this life-threatening mission in order to get his life back on track and secure a future with his new family." The one minute. When a young undercover agent is murdered, the police realise that they have a mole in their midst. Ferry is released from prison, but finds out that his place at the top of the XTC-world has been taken over by a new, stronger, and smarter gang which is led by the Turkish couple Serkan and Leyla Bulut (Murat Seven and Nazmiye Oral). Inspired by real events." -Official Netflix synopsisĪfter the murder of an undercover agent, sworn enemies Bob Lemmens (Tom Waes) and Ferry Bouman (Frank Lammers) must work together to roll up Serkan and Leyla Bulut’s Turkish XTC-network.Īfter the events of season 2, Bob has been fired from the police department, and a court case and possible prison sentence are looming over him. " Undercover agents infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation by posing as a couple at the campground where he spends his weekends.
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