From the creator of Peaky Blinders comes a series about Hezekiah (Malachi Kirby) and Alec (Francis Lovehall), two friends from Jamaica, who finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of 1880’s London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and run afoul of Sugar Goodson (Stephen Graham), criminal kingpin and notorious boxer.
All episodes of A Thousand Blows are streaming February 21 on Hulu.
All episodes of A Thousand Blows are streaming February 21 on Hulu.
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00:00London, the lion's den.
00:04Don't matter if you were raised here,
00:07or you just got here.
00:10You learn to fight.
00:15Or this city will swallow you whole.
00:19We just get here from Kingston, Jamaica.
00:22We are looking to make some money in the ring tonight.
00:27My name is Mary Cobb,
00:28Queen of the Forty Elephants.
00:31The biggest gang of female thieves
00:34in the whole of London.
00:36You have all the power.
00:38Yes.
00:39I want that.
00:40You can do it.
00:42You can be the next champion.
00:45I want him off my patch.
00:56Watch me kill him.
00:57Can't happen.
00:59I need him for something.
01:01Clans are forming.
01:03It's high time now, brother.
01:06He doesn't get to just walk in here and take everything from me.
01:12He's already taken it all.
01:17And you just let him.
01:19Don't take my protection for granted.
01:21And may the good Lord have mercy on your soul!
01:25This may be the bottom of the barrel,
01:27but we are going to float elegantly all the way to the top.
01:34My name is Hezekiah Moskow
01:37and I am here to fight like my people are watching.
01:40Ready for more.
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