After Grace’s loss of life, Tommy went with Johnny Dogs and child Charles in a wagon to the Black Mountains. There, he sought the recommendation of gypsy matriarch Madame Boswell. He advised her he was giving the sapphire away and requested whether or now not she would take it. His wife was once dressed in it on the evening she used to be shot, he told the sensible woman, and he blamed himself. “You want me to inform you this jewel is cursed and then her loss of life won’t be all of your fault?” she asked. “If I thought in priests,” Tommy stated, “I'd confess and express regret, but all I've is you, Madame Boswell”. She said that the sapphire was once indeed cursed, she may feel the curse burning via her hand. Tommy left the stone together with her, and she shouted after him that any longer, he could be blessed with just right fortune.
“Vengeance will come”
It’s an excellent scene that, at the time, used to be marked by ambiguity. Was Madame Boswell lying to land herself a valuable jewel, or did she in reality feel the stone’s curse? Did Tommy really believe in the curse, or did he just need an reason for Grace’s homicide that absolved him of guilt? In season six, that ambiguity was once changed with certainty. The sapphire was indeed cursed, Esme Shelby-Lee tells Tommy. Madame Boswell (renamed Barwell right here, most likely to keep away from insult to the real-life Boswell gypsy tribe) gave it to her daughter Evadne, who put it around the neck of her seven-year-old daughter Connie, who right away began coughing and was dead sooner than morning.
The sapphire used to be thrown into the river and Evadne duly cursed Tommy Shelby, that if he will have to ever have a daughter, she would additionally die at that age. Her kid’s grave was marked by a move bearing the inscription: “Connie Barwell, seven years previous, died of a cursed stone now not forgotten,” and then in purple, what looks as if the words “Vengeance will come”.
In season six, episode three ‘Gold’, vengeance did come. Tommy’s seven-year-old daughter Ruby died of tuberculosis, after hearing voices, seeing visions and speaking the Romani words for the devil. Ruby died from a curse laid in retaliation for Tommy having passed on an already-cursed sapphire to the Barwell circle of relatives. Evadne Barwell (nonetheless indexed beneath the family’s authentic identify of ‘Boswell’ on IMDb), is credited as showing in the subsequent two episodes of season six, played by means of actor Gwynne McElveen.
If viewers selected to, they could push aside all this communicate of curses and jewels, and simply imagine that Grace was once shot by way of a foe, and that Ruby and Connie each died of TB and the sapphire had not anything to do with any of it. Tommy felt guilt over Grace’s loss of life and wanted one thing accountable that wasn’t himself, so he seized on the thought of the cursed stone as a proof. Tommy’s mind almost says as a lot when he had a vision of Grace retaining the sapphire in season 5 and she gave voice to his biggest concern: “It wasn’t the blue stone, Tommy, it was you.”
None of that boring rationalism regardless that, could be very Peaky Blinders. This is a drama that believes in gypsy superstition, so why shouldn’t we consider it too? The stone used to be cursed, and that curse killed Grace, Connie and not directly, Ruby.
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