A Thousand Blows Series Trailer HD - Plot Synopsis: A Thousand Blows is inspired by the true-life stories of a group of characters battling for survival in the brutal East End of London in the 1880’s. Hezekiah (Malachi Kirby) & Alec (Francis Lovehall), two friends from Jamaica, find themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. It's there 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. What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new. A Thousand Blows is a series created and showrun by the acclaimed British screenwriter Steven Knight.
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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.
00:22And we are looking to make some money in the ring tonight.
00:25My name is Mary Cole, Queen of the Forty Elephants.
00:31The biggest gang of female thieves in the whole of London.
00:36You have all the power.
00:37Yes.
00:38I want that.
00:40You can do it.
00:42You can be the next champion.
00:45I want him off my patch.
00:55Watch me kill him.
00:57Can't happen.
00:58I need him for something.
01:00Clans are forming.
01:02It's high time now, brother.
01:05He doesn't get to just walk in here and take everything from me.
01:11He's already taken it all.
01:16And you just let him.
01:18Don't take my protection for granted.
01:20And 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,
01:36and I am here to fight like my people are watching.
01:40Ready for more.
01:40Ready for more.
01:55you