David Bianculli

For Terry Gross and Tanya Mosley, I'm David Biancullo.

Oh, no.

We've got to do something.

What are you talking about?

The droids belong to her.

She's the one on the message.

We've got to help her.

But he didn't know she was here.

I'm not going anywhere.

They're going to execute her.

Look, a few minutes ago you said you didn't want to just wait here to be captured.

Now all you want to do is stay?

Marching into the detention area is not what I had in mind.

During his decade on the BBC period drama Peaky Blinders, Cillian Murphy matured visibly as a man and also as an actor.

Stephen Knight wrote such a challenging and nuanced role for him as gangster Tommy Shelby that it wasn't surprising at all that when the series concluded, Murphy was tapped to star as J. Robert Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan.

It also wasn't surprising, if you devoured all six seasons of Peaky Blinders, that Murphy would be not only willing but eager to revisit the character of Tommy Shelby one last time.

Especially when the script is written by night and brings the story to a dramatic conclusion.

The drama in The Immortal Man is provided by both personal and historical challenges.

We last saw Tommy Shelby in the final episode of Peaky Blinders in the 1930s.

Prohibition had been repealed in the U.S., the Nazi party was rising in Germany, and Tommy's volatile brother, Arthur, was about to die.