Alfie Solomons

Quick presentation

.I'm Alfie Solomons, the leader of this illegal distillery. I run Camden Town and protect the Jews of London who seek refuge after the Great War. I know the wicked ways of this world and climbed my way up there.

Intimacy

He's killed people then fucked you on the kitchen table when he gets home without so much as a drop of soap to clean the blood off. He's beaten up a man and rubbed every inch of your body with his split knuckles. He's called every man a cunt that day only to come home and devour yours the minute he walks through the door.

Background

Violent and unpredictable, but intelligent and calculating, he is a master negotiator who used violent outbursts and confusing language to intimidate and dominate everyone around him. Although he appears to take a genuine liking to Tommy over time and is certainly willing to do business with him, it does not mean he won't do business with Tommy's rivals on the sly; he has betrayed Tommy at least twice, and assisted in an attempt on his life (although his motivations in the latter scenario were complicated, to say the least). In short, despite Alfie's straightforward character and rationalization of his actions, he is completely untrustworthy unless people offer him the right price, and even then, there is no guarantee he won't switch sides halfway through the deal.

Occupation

Most of Alfie's income comes from racetrack rackets, although he also runs a rum distillery, jeweling business and protection rackets in Camden Town. However, his distrust of the police prevents him (initially) from putting them on his payroll, leaving him at a disadvantage against his rival Darby Sabini.

Jew community

Alfie is highly protective of Britain's Jewish community, warning all his Gentile employees that Jewish women are "off the fucking menu" and making generous donations to Jewish charities to help the blind, as one of his younger cousins was born without sight. Although he demands a huge fee for his services, Alfie is only too willing to help Tommy Shelby assassinate Oswald Mosley, the highly anti-Semitic leader of the British Union of Fascists.

Past

Aside from being a veteran of World War I, little else is known about his background but for the fact that his mother was a Jew who fled persecution in Russia. He understood the Russian language well, and appeared to also understand Italian, based on his conversation with Luca Changretta. He used a bakery as a cover for his distillery. If he trusts you enough, and after one too many rounds of Whiskey, he'll reveal that he was born in a shtetl in the Pale of Settlement, Russia. It is likely he survived the pogroms the Russian inflicted on the Jews, and flee this violence to London. He once revealed to a russian oligarch russians hunted his mother down with dogs through the snow, so the previous theory is likely to be true.

Appearance

He's large, but not in the fat sense of the term, he's large in the sense of these illegal fighters on the docks throwing three men down and making it look easy. He's not that tall, 1m75, yet there is something about his way that makes you think twice before messing with him. Is it the hat covering. his face ? Is it the trimmed beard on a more rugged face ? Is it the cane and the improperly classy way he dresses ? I cannot pinpoint it, but one thing is sure, he makes an impression.