Aberama Gold disobeyed Tommy’s orders

On her 45th birthday, Aunt Polly visited Aberama Gold (Aidan Gillen) to pass on Tommy’s message that there was a plan in place to avenge the slaying of his son Bonnie (Jack Rowan) by Glaswegian gang The Billy Boys, so not to do anything rash. Fat chance. 

After tenderly giving the birthday girl a red rose, Aberama persuaded his old flame to break him out of hospital and take him to a gypsy camp, where his sister could nurse him. The minute he arrived, however, he gave instructions to fetch his hunting rifle and recruit the Fury family to help him on his revenge mission to Scotland. As he’d told Polly: “I’ve dealt death. Now death has dealt with me. I have one more killing to do, then I‘ll be done.” I’ve got a bad feeling about this. 

Hell hath no Furies

Heavyweight boxer Tyson “Gypsy King” Fury and little brother Tommy of Love Island runner-up fame are members of the Fury family of Irish travellers. Their broad chests would have swelled with pride when their dynasty got name-checked, even if it wasn’t in the most complimentary terms. 

Aberama Gold joined forces with the Furies for his Caledonian mission and when Johnny Dogs was sent after him, he blanched at having to deal with the notoriously tough clan. “They don’t even use words to talk, Tom, just gestures and hounds,” pleaded Johnny. Pretty handy in a scrap, though.