Chief Inspector Campbell delivers a scathing and intimidating introductory speech to a room of corrupt police officers. He establishes his moral superiority and outlines his mission to purge the city of gangs, communists, and internal corruption with religious fervor.
CAMPBELL: Babies. Discarded with the fish bones and egg shells. Girls. Eleven years old. Pierced and punctured by old men for threepence a time. Rutted upon like animals. Degradation. Fathers with their daughters, brothers and sisters sharing beds. Beggars and thieves left to run in the streets and astride the whole stinking pile of wounds and rotten flesh... Your masters. The men who you touch your cap to. The Peaky Blinders. The vicious merciless gangs who blind those who see and cut out the tongues of those who talk.
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