But Murphy does a terrific job of showing us the toll it's really taking – the invisible weight, the pain behind the eyes – until his grief explodes in the episode's closing scene, in a touching exchange between Tommy and Arthur. Tommy, of course, puts up a cold and ruthless front, even using John's funeral to draw out the Mafia hoods targeting the family. Each responds to the loss in their own way: Arthur (Paul Anderson), as always, is an open wound, while a traumatised Polly (Helen McCrory) is whittled down to her very core, and it's pure steel. It may have been done partly out of necessity, but writing out John Shelby lends a pleasing vulnerability to the show's family of anti-heroes.
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