Two year have elapsed. Freddie has succumbed to illness and at his funeral Thomas asks Ada to return...
Two year have elapsed. Freddie has succumbed to illness and at his funeral Thomas asks Ada to return home though she is scornful that he has been so successful with his mix of legal and illegal businesses. When his pub the Garrison is blown up he goes straight to the Black Lion to accuse his Irish rivals, who have a proposition for him involving murder. Returning home he informs the family that he plan to expand his bookies' business to London but John's wife Esme warn him of its danger given the existing racial turf war. He takes Arthur and John to London to a club run by Darby Sabini, who controls the southern race coures, where they are anything but welcome. Back in Birmingham Ada is abducted by Sabini's thugs, who give Thomas a severe beating, his being saved by the reappearance of Chester Campbell, who has told Churchill that he has a new undercover agent working in the area. Polly meanwhile visits a medium for news of the children who were taken from her in infancy.