Single-Handed (2007) s01e01 Episode Script
Natural Justice
(PHONE RINGS) Thanks, Johnny.
Jack Driscoll.
Hello, Mr Reilly.
Are you sure about that? Did you call the ambulance? No, I'm sure you do.
And you haven't touched anything? Right.
Stay where you are and I'll be right out.
You won't be getting a signal out at Martin Riley's place.
They're in the Twilight Zone out there.
Do you want me to call Pat Donnelly for you? Yeah.
Tell him it's urgent.
I got the impression there was someone dead.
How could that be urgent? (STARTS ENGINE) (CAR APPROACHES) (CAR DOOR CLOSES) DONNELLY: Martin, how are you? No need to rush, Pat.
Did you know her? She's on your land.
But not in my van.
It's a holiday place.
Are you sure? How did you come to find her? My wife was worried about her.
I couldn't get an answer so I put the door in.
When was this? Just before I called you.
So you don't know who she is but you were worried about her? The wife was worried.
You never know with these sort, what they might be getting up to.
What sort's that? Young girl living on her own.
Foreign.
You never know do you? She's foreign is she? Probably one of these illegal immigrants.
Why would you say that? It's the way people were talking.
Dead about three or four hours.
Is that all? Cause of death? I'd say it was most likely carbon monoxide poisoning.
That gas fire looks knackered.
Was it alight when you went in there? The gas fire? I turned it off, it was like an oven in there.
What's the score with the pathologist? What's the score with the pathologist? Pathologist? You'll be lucky to get anyone out here for this one.
You'll be right at the back of the queue.
But I should be able to confirm a cause of death myself pretty quickly.
That would be great.
Thanks.
Shall I send someone out to collect the body while I'm at it? Can I get on now? Don't leave the farm.
Hello, Mrs Reilly.
I'll fetch Martin for you.
No, you're fine there.
This young woman - your husband says you were worried about her? I didn't know her.
I never spoke to her.
I used to see her up there sometimes waiting for the bus.
How long had she been living up there? Month, maybe two.
Did you ever see anybody calling on her? I wouldn't know about that, it's been empty for years.
And you never thought to ask her who she was, what she was doing? The van's nothing to do with us.
Tommy Gallagher.
Do you know Tommy? I do know Tommy.
Well, talk to him.
The van's his.
Hi.
Is Tommy in? Are you Jack Driscoll? That's right.
And you must be Saoirse.
Come in.
My uncle's with somebody at the moment, but he won't be long.
Will you have some coffee? Thanks.
This is how I spend my time here.
Sergeant Driscoll, I think.
Working back home? Yeah.
How did you swing that one? There's ways around most things, you know.
Friends in high places? Are you enjoying it? It's been a bit slow.
Until today.
Is that right? Saoirse.
One of the Wexford clan.
You've heard of us? Tommy never stopped talking about you when we were kids.
His beautiful sister and her three beautiful daughters.
Didn't bring you up here to see us though.
He wouldn't do that, now would he? You're all heathens up here.
That's true.
Don't go opening the champagne yet, Brendan.
Don't go opening the champagne yet, Brendan.
No, but I'll put it on ice.
That would be the job.
Take care now, good luck.
DRISCOLL: I'd forgotten what it was like, all that space, you know.
I hear Tommy's built you a fantastic house.
Well, he built it for my parents, but my dad can't get my mother to move in, so Well, it's about time.
You're very welcome.
What do you think? Impressive.
I keep telling him to get something more manageable.
He doesn't need all this space.
It's for the grandchildren.
They'll need the space.
How's your old man? Keeping an eye on me.
You won't get far around here without Gerry Driscoll on your side.
Isn't that right, Jack? Seems to be the way of it all right.
There's a lot of us happy to see you in the uniform, another Driscoll.
I haven't forgotten about your shower, by the way.
Tell me what tiles you want and I'll send the boys over.
I think this might be official business, Tommy.
Official, is it? Well, then we'd better go somewhere that feels official.
Come on.
Grab a seat there, Jack.
You've a caravan, Tommy, out at Martin Reilly's place.
That old thing? Yeah.
Do you know the young woman who lives there? Sylvana.
Would you have a surname for her? God, no.
I couldn't pronounce it and I couldn't spell it.
She gave me a hand here for a few weeks before the mother died.
Cleaning, and so on.
Was she living out in the caravan now? Not at all, she was staying here, sure we've plenty of room.
Is she working for you now? No, she moved on after the funeral.
I said she could stay in the caravan till she found somewhere else.
Did you ever see her papers? Her papers? I hope you're not here to bring me up to date on employment law.
It's the girl I'm interested in.
It's hard enough finding anyone here that knows the meaning of work.
She's dead, Tommy.
Can I ask you how you met her? Hold on a second.
How is she dead? Where? In the caravan.
You're not making sense to me, Jack.
We'll know more after the post mortem.
Can you tell me how you met her? This is unbelievable.
Um We got talking in town one night, having a drink.
She was looking for work.
Are you sure we're talking about the same girl? Is that your car there? I took it so she could send it back to her family, let them know she was all right.
I couldn't find a passport.
Nothing to say who she was.
I wouldn't know anything about that.
Have you seen her since she left here? I've been meaning to call in, make sure she was OK.
Do you know if she got work anywhere else? You've no address for her? It was only casual work, Jack.
So nothing at all to help me identify her? She was a beautiful young woman.
I can't believe what you're telling me.
The family will have to be informed.
Yes, of course.
If I remember her name, I Good to meet you.
And you, Jack.
Will you be staying long? Good God, the girl has a career to get back to.
What would she want in this godforsaken place? I don't know, I think it might grow on me.
If you do hear what happened to her after she left I'll be on the phone straight away.
Who's this? The girl who helped me with your grandmother.
Sylvana? Yeah.
I thought you said she was going to work in that hotel - the Lough Feagh, is it? Did I? Yeah.
Sure she's better off down there anyway.
This old fella likes his pound of flesh, don't you? (CHUCKLES) The room will be ready in 10 minutes.
This is on the house.
You've chosen the best time of year for your visit.
Nice and quiet.
Excuse meI'll be right back.
Picture of a girl who used to work here.
Do you know her? No.
So you don't recognise her? No.
Good man, you're needed in the kitchen.
OK.
Can I help? I understand she used to work here? Ah The locals haven't the first idea.
You need to look for Poland or the Balkans.
And that's where she was from? Is it Montenegro? So you'd have a record of her? She promised to bring in her papers, then she said she'd lost them.
I told her I couldn't employ someone with no papers.
But she had a name? Was it Sylvana? No, it's gone.
But someone must remember her.
No, it's the end of the season.
He's leaving at the end of the week.
There's only the family left now.
My wife Kate's away for the day.
What about your son? Hey! Just take a look at that.
Do you recognise her? No.
I think she had a boyfriend.
There was someone picking her up after work anyway.
I used to hear a car out there, butI don't know who that was.
Is she in trouble? She's dead.
Dear God! How? Were you expecting Tommy? He's round to discuss the pension plan.
Didn't you see today's paper? Can I have a word, Gerry? We're in the garden! Can you make us some tea? 'Are you sure it's not a bird's nest or something?' No, sir.
The flue's been completely blocked with a load of old rags.
There's no way it could have got there by accident.
'So we're talking deliberate?' It looks that way to me.
'OK, I'll get a detective out here.
' 'You and Finbarr concentrate on getting a positive ID on her.
' I'm just surprised you didn't hear anyone mention her.
Why is that? Young girl living out there on her own.
I suppose she'd have been keeping a low profile.
Sylvia, did you say her name was? Sylvana.
Sylvana.
Where would you get a name like that, I wonder? Balkans, apparently.
Oh.
That narrows it down a bit (!) Start with Montenegro.
See if you can find an embassy.
GERRY: I told her.
There's nothing going on in that house to keep a peeping tom interested.
More like a fecking monastery.
(LAUGHS) What do you say, Jack? He'll find someone.
In this place? There's one or two coming along that I know of.
Mm-hm.
I hear that it's carbon monoxide poisoning.
Is that right? You have to be very careful with gas.
Aye, you do Danny, you do.
Lucky that Jack's boiler was put in by Tommy's top man.
Speaking of which, do you know who I bumped into? Tommy's niece.
Saoirse.
She said she'd seen you, Jack.
Did she? Good-looking fella, she said.
Thank you, Sean.
Good luck now.
Good luck now.
Come on, Jack.
How will he look after his mother if you take away his driving licence? Sean? What? You're on my way.
No, you're all right there.
Sean.
Look after her now, won't you, Sean? She's the only mother you have, remember? (SCHOOL BELL RINGS) Out you go.
Bye.
Great to see them going in with a smile on their faces, isn't it? They love their school.
How's Martin? Busy.
Anyway, I promised It was a nice gesture.
The flowers.
Particularly as you never showed the slightest bit of interest in the girl while she was alive.
I got the impression that she wanted to be left alone.
Did you ever see anyone up at the caravan? A man perhaps? Tommy was up there sometimes.
But then it's his caravan, isn't it? So he was probably up collecting So he was probably up collecting rent off her.
Or something like that.
Have you seen that thing they have in the papers? Where they get a dietician to look at someone's shopping basket.
What do you reckon they'd make of that lot? It's never yours.
I keep telling him, I've men half his age on the ward every day of the week.
I hope you're looking after your heart, Jack.
I'm not sure you can afford one on this job.
Maybe a small one.
I heard about Sylvana.
It hasn't been easy for him the past few years - first his wife, now his mother.
The money helps, but it's not everything, is it? Why did you come back here, Jack? Where everybody knows who you are and what your business is? Perhaps it's a test.
Well, let's hope you pass it.
Would you fancy a drink some night? Why not? I could do with getting out.
Tonight? OK.
Great.
Will I pick you up? 7:00? 7:15? Right.
Oh, by the way, do you know if Tommy's up at the house? He's down at the GAA ground.
See you later.
You'll have them queuing up to play here.
What do you think? This is all down to you, Tommy? It has nothing to do with pride, Jack.
You have to give something back.
I've been luckier than most, and it's come to me late in life, so I know it's value.
It's still very generous.
I was a devil for the old hurling myself when I was a lad.
Listen, Jack.
I've already told you everything I know about that girl.
You told me you hadn't seen her since she left you.
I was worried about her.
The caravan was supposed to be temporary, it was no place to live.
I spoke to Fergal.
Did you know she had a boyfriend while she worked at the hotel? Why would I know that? So you wouldn't know who it was, then? I'd imagine she had a lot of fellas after her.
She was a beautiful girl.
I want to show you something.
They think she died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Did you know you had a problem with the gas fire up there? The caravan is over 30 years old, for God's sake.
And you're supposed to have them checked, as a landlord.
Landlord? I was trying to do her a favour, I wasn't charging her rent.
I was trying to do her a favour, I wasn't charging her rent.
This lot was blocking up the external flue.
I wouldn't think it got there on it's own, would you? (MOBILE PHONE RINGS) Yeah? I don't have anything yet.
Ah, look it, they haven't even got an embassy.
Yeah, well .
.
you didn't give me much to go on, did you? Just find out, will you? Just find out, will you? Sir.
No, we don't have a positive ID on her yet.
Detective Garda Regan.
OK.
If you can't get me on my mobile, will you ask him to let Finbarr know when he's in town? Are you calling in the cavalry already, Jack? It's all about teamwork these days, Dad.
Did no-one tell you? Maybe where you've been it is.
Out here, it's a team of one.
See you later.
Give me that phone there, will you? What's wrong with your mobile? Put me through to Inspector Walsh, please.
Gerry Driscoll.
Thanks.
Battery's flat.
How you doing? Oh, grand thanks.
ListenI hear Jack's after a bit of assistance out here.
This is the first chance he's had to show what he's worth.
I think you should give him his head.
Sean! Sean! Get out here! (POUNDING ON DOOR) I've already told him, Jack.
If I see him near any of my sites, I'll kill him.
Listen to him! Is that threatening behaviour or not? You'll never prove anything against this one, Jack.
If you want to know what happened to the girl, ask him.
I never touched her! You're a liar, Sean.
Everyone knows what you're like with the women.
Even your own mother knows it! Calm down! Will you take him inside, please, Bridie? All the boys know what he's like with the women.
Ask yourself - what would she be hanging around with him for? She wanted a decent life, she wanted security.
Is that what you were offering her? It's what she came here to find.
I know there was years between us, I'm not stupid.
Even if she'd done it just to get a work permit.
Let me treat her like a father, I wouldn't have minded that.
All I wanted was to take care of her - stop her doing something she'd regret.
But she turned you down and went off with Sean? I didn't hurt her, Jack.
I'd never hurt her.
Go home, Tommy.
Go home.
Go home.
You don't think she was interested in an old fella like that, do you? You were a better bet, I suppose? I tried to help her.
Every man I speak to says he wanted to do that.
Can you imagine her with that sack of shit? She wasn't interested in him.
So she finds a job at the hotel, and instead of one old bastard, she's all of them after her.
Did you know they offered her money for sex? They knew she couldn't go to the guards because she'd no papers.
They knew she couldn't go to the guards because she'd no papers.
I was the one who got her out of there.
Which men are we talking about? Ask Fergal.
He'll tell you who.
Me? I'm saying nothing.
How much were you paying her? I pay all my staff a fair wage.
I mean for the sex.
Er I don't know who you've been talking to, but you've got the wrong end of the stick.
A couple of drinks, things got a bit Look Jack, I wasn't the only one.
You were employing her.
It was only casual work.
Which made it OK for you and your friends to have sex with her? Casually? No-one forced her.
Andshe wasn't complaining.
She couldn't refuse because she needed the money.
And she couldn't make a complaint because she might be deported.
That doesn't add up to consent in my book.
Oh, come on now, Jack.
You know how these things happen.
I mean, you're a man of the world yourself.
Isn't that why you had to leave Dublin and come back here? I think you'd better watch that tongue of yours Fergal.
Now, you might be able to charm the Yanks, but you'd struggle to explain this little episode to the wife and kids.
Are you with me? That's better.
I want names.
How far you going with this? I mean, normally Fergal, right this minute, I'm looking for someone with a motive for wanting that young woman dead.
Martin Reillyand myself.
And? Some of these are very influential people.
People you might need one day.
I think perhaps you should talk to your father.
My father's been retired for six months.
What's he got to do with it? Nothing.
Nothing.
You're right.
No, go on.
Tell me.
There's nothing to tell.
He's a great man, he's been a good friend to me.
(SIGHS) Oh, Jesus Christ.
This looks like work.
Should I? You come with me now, Saorise.
Why didn't you tell me you knew Sylvana? Your inspector's come a long way to see you.
Come on, these two have got a bit of business to discuss.
Hi.
Jack.
Away you go, darling.
After you.
Thanks.
Is that Tommy Gallagher's niece? It is.
Now, I thought I was getting a safe pair of hands, Jack.
Sergeant, big city experience, and now you want me to send you a detective? I could do with some specialist help.
(CHUCKLES) Specialist? And what's that idle bastard Finbarr doing? Polishing his fecking taxi, I suppose.
He's not what you'd call a specialist.
Caravans.
Gas fires.
Alcohol.
You don't need fecking Sherlock Holmes to tell you what that adds up to.
I'm not sure it's that straight forward.
And I thought this was the correct procedure.
Procedure? Out here? All I'm interested in is getting the job done and getting those gobshites in Dublin off my back.
Talk to your dad.
He'll be glad to give you a hand.
Here, let me take that off you.
I was just telling your dad how I'm on men's cardiac.
God in heaven, save us all from that place.
You'd have your work cut out finding a heart in this old fecker.
You wouldn't catch me in there in the first place.
Are you frightened of hospitals, Gerry? Oh no.
If all the nurses look like you, I wouldn't be.
Here.
To your health.
Soda water.
That's the one, all right.
What a beautiful girl, Jack, huh? Just look at her, Johnny - isn't she a beautiful girl? It was good of Walsh to come over.
Does the bastards good to get out of their swivel chairs and see what happens in the real world, huh? Has Jack taken you up to see his new house yet? Not yet, he hasn't.
You are going to love it.
I had Tommy turn the whole place round so that you could watch the sun set from your bed.
Just imagine that.
When you can see the sun.
Well, I'd say it's a great help to Jack having you around.
Well, now, I know a few tricks they don't teach you down at Templemore.
That's for sure, huh? There's a table free.
Don't let him take you away without saying goodbye now.
I won't.
(PHONE RINGS) Fergal.
Now, wait a minute.
Look, I don't care what you said to him, or what he thinks you said.
From now on, you say nothing at all, is that clear? Right.
Conversation over.
Finbarr, are you busy? So, am I coming in for a coffee? This brings you back a bit.
Doesn't it? What time does he go to bed? I have a feeling it could be a late one tonight.
Oh, Jesus! He's worse than my mother was.
Give me a call.
Course.
Do you know where he is? He's not answering his mobile.
Well, you know your father.
He could be anywhere, couldn't he? Do you ever know where he is? I've had 30 years of not knowing.
It goes with the job.
Maybe you don't want to know.
I know you're upset about this girl, but I'll say one thing for your father, he never took his work home.
So he wouldn't have told you what was happening to her? That she was being abused, used for sex by men old enough to be her father.
No, he didn't tell me, because he thought too much of me and of our marriage.
He didn't tell me and I didn't ask.
That's the problem round here, isn't it? Nobody asks because nobody wants to know the answers.
Do you ever think there's some questions better left unasked? Or left festering behind closed doors, everybody pretending there's no stink.
This went on while she was living in Tommy's caravan.
Tommy is Dad's best friend.
Yes, he is.
And you shouldn't be blaming your father for Tommy's faults.
Tommy was always a fool where the women were concerned anyway.
Meaning? Meaning nothing.
He made a few mistakes, that's all.
He was lucky to have a friend like Gerry to sort things out for him.
And do you think this girl was one of his mistakes? Tommy's lonely.
I suppose she needed the money.
I wouldn't be one to judge.
Tell me about his other mistakes.
Is this getting official, Jack? Yeah, why not? Well, you'll have to talk to your father, then.
(HORN BLARES) (HORN BLARES) Would you mind switching off for me? That's grand.
Can you open the door? I haven't had a drink.
I think you'd better get out.
I'm not interested in drinking.
Ah, well, drinking's not a problem.
I like a couple of pints myself now and then.
Whatever turns you on, eh? What is it turns you on, I wonder? Would you believe I've never tried any of this, at my age? Would this be the strong stuff, then? No.
No, no, that's really mild.
That wouldn't hurt you at all.
Is that right? Yeah, you could smoke all that and you'd be fine.
You'd hardly notice it.
Really? Possession is bad enough, but trying to corrupt a police officer is another thing entirely.
So, Cathal .
.
what are we going to do with you now, eh? It's the middle of the bloody night.
I wanted to have it done before you got back.
Thought you might have had someone with you.
And why would you think that? When I was your age, I wouldn't have let one like that get away unscathed.
No, I can imagine.
They're not short of money in that family.
Of course you'd want to keep on the right side of Tommy.
Meaning? Upsetting senior officers is one thing, Jack, I'm right behind you on that one, but these people, they're friends of mine.
And yours if you only knew it.
You have to learn when to let things lie in a place like this.
That was your way of doing things, I suppose.
It's the only way of doing it.
You won't get anywhere making enemies.
You knew what was going on out at the hotel.
Now you're losing me.
You knew, and you turned a blind eye to it.
Come on, Jack, it was a bit of harmless fun.
Well, maybe you even helped yourself to some as well.
Well, I don't deny I was tempted.
But you have to practise a bit of self-denial now and again.
You don't want people laughing behind your back.
I'll take that risk.
And am I not taking a risk? If it wasn't for me, you'd be a bloody security guard in Dublin.
This thing is nothing to get excited about, Jack, get it into perspective.
She was a little foreign tart on the make.
Does anyone really care? I care.
Sylvana.
I'd say she's got a family somewhere that are worried sick about her.
And I think the least I can do is get her home to them.
Don't you? That's a mighty high horse you're riding, Jack.
Did I tell you she was murdered? Oh, it's murdered now, is it? Someone knows who she is.
And someone knows how she died.
No-one's above the law.
Not you, not your pal Tommy.
Jack, Jack.
Why are you making a fool of yourself? Tommy may be a bit of an eejit with the women, but do you really think he's capable of murdering someone? Don't ask me where I found it cos I won't tell you.
Just take it in the spirit in which it's offered.
Case closed.
On to the next, eh? Hm? (WATER TRICKLES) (SIGHS) Sorry to drag you out here.
Don't worry.
I'm always on the lookout for some place I can get three bars up.
What's the situation on DNA tests for paternity? You'd want a result this side of Christmas, would you? Yes.
How many potential fathers do you have? Three, four.
Not sure yet.
My God, she was sure putting it about! I'll make some enquiries.
But if you want a quick result, you'd be better off doing a house-to-house.
OK.
If I wanted to get the state pathologist down here? You're the guard, it's your call.
But what they'll say at your division, I wouldn't know.
What you think it would be a bad idea? I don't get involved in the politics.
I just do what I'm asked.
Sign just there.
Cathal? He's been a silly lad.
Fair play, if he did wrong, he should be punished.
But he's been up all night, you see.
You know the way it is, Jack - mountains of bloody paper.
And who reads it all, I wonder? And he's had nothing to eat.
We had no idea Is this a complaint? No.
No.
No.
I know what's going on.
I just want to make sure he gets treated fairly.
That's all.
Oh, fucking leave me alone, Dad.
They're all using drugs, didn't you know that? Maybe the Dubs ignore that sort of thing, but it does no harm to crack the whip over them every now and again.
If word gets out that you've had that lad chained to a bloody radiator You have to show them who's boss, Jack, or they'll walk all over you.
Fergal knows the score.
Does he? Let me tell you the score.
We're looking into what could be a murder.
I ask you to do one simple thing - find out where she's from.
Instead, you're out chasing around the countryside arresting kids with a bit of dope on them! One kid.
Fergal's kid! I'm not a fecking idiot, Finbarr.
Now Her name's Sylvana Carapic.
See if you can do the rest.
So, you've been let out on your own? Yeah.
Sorry about last night.
Tommy still thinks I'm 16.
He told me it was around here that my grandmother used to meet my grandfather, on long summer evenings.
Yeah, you could imagine it, couldn't you? Yeah, it's a nice thought.
Oh, he's very fond of you.
He wants me to go back to Dublin, thinks he can cope on his own now.
Do you want to go back? What do you think I should do? Me? Well, it's you he wants to get me away from.
He's worried about my intentions.
I think so.
Good.
He should be.
Good.
The gas flue was blocked.
Someone had stuffed a load of old rags into it.
Now that wasn't an accident, that was deliberate.
I told you, we were away that night.
It was nothing to do with me.
And she was pregnant.
Was that you? You see, the problem I have is this.
There was a whole gang of you riding her, and what I have to do is get DNA tests from the lot of you.
That way, we'll know for sure who the father was.
Jesus, if I'd known It was just a bit of fun.
There was no harm in it.
What did Mrs Reilly make of your bit of fun? Did she give you a hard time? (CHUCKLES) I bet she did.
It was nice and handy, having the girl on your land like that.
I take my hat off to you.
You've some gall, right under your wife's nose.
Were you creeping up there at night? Or did you get a quick one while she dropped the kids to school? Listen to what I'm telling you.
We had nothing to do with whatever's happened up there.
Nothing! Now, will you leave us in peace? Nowabout the child this girl was carrying.
Nowabout the child this girl was carrying.
Well, whoever's it was it wasn't mine.
I've had the snip.
What? You bloody fool.
You won't be able to show your face after this.
I won't? Do you know what he's telling me now? He thinks the girl was murdered.
That's right.
And he's over here pointing the finger at you.
Has Sean been in at all? Ah, hello, Jack.
I hope he made you a nice fresh one there.
He did, and I'll even make you another one, Bridie.
Whenever you're ready.
Are you waiting for the bus? No, Sean's coming to pick me up.
I just came in to get my pension from the post office.
Where's Sean working? He's still over in Tommy's.
I thought he wasn't going back to Tommy's.
Ah, well, he has a right to work out his notice you know.
Has Sean never wanted to get married, Bridie? (CHUCKLES) Oh, sure, the girls won't leave him alone.
But he's very fussy, and there's plenty of time.
You're lucky to have him at home.
I am lucky.
Cos I'm nothing but a nuisance to him.
Ah, sure, I couldn't carry on living here without him.
If he went, I wouldn't last five minutes, and that's the truth.
Are you ready, Ma? Can I speak to you a minute? Is she getting to be a burden on you, Sean? We manage all right.
I've seen how you manage.
Is that what happens when they make demands on you? I don't know what you're on about.
Sylvana.
She was pregnant.
It wasn't mine.
And she didn't want to have it.
I tried to help her out.
She was off to England for an abortion.
All she needed was the fare.
All she needed was the fare.
Was that why she didn't go? She didn't have the money? Tommy wouldn't give her her passport.
What was he doing with it? She gave it to him to look after while she was working for him.
I was out there at that shit hole she was living in the night before you found her.
We were having a quiet drink, until Tommy showed up, crying like a big baby, begging for her not to go.
Said he'd marry her and look after the two of them, herself and the kid, if she promised not to go.
But she refused him? You want someone to blame for thisask Tommy.
The guy's a bastard.
You're up to your neck in this, Sean.
Let me see one more mark on your mother I do everything for her, you know.
Everything.
Look, sort this out, Sean, before I'm back here arresting you for assault and she's left on her own.
Are you with me? I'm making him one.
I shouldn't have lost my temper last night.
It's forgotten.
These mistakes of Tommy's you mentioned.
Was there one in particular? I'm asking because the dead girl was pregnant.
Jackthere are questions we don't want answered, you're right about that.
But it might not be because we're frightened or ashamed, it might be because we don't want to hurt someone's feelings.
I shouldn't have mentioned Tommy.
Whatever he did, it's a long time ago, it's over and done with now.
It's time he had a day off.
It's time he had a day off.
He takes the job seriously.
Too bloody seriously.
What did he want this time? Asking about Tommy.
He's got it in for him, all right.
Apparently this girl was pregnant, so let's hope your investment doesn't depend on Tommy's reputation.
One thing you can say about Jack, he doesn't turn a blind eye to anything.
Inspector Walsh? Gerry.
Listen, he knows the girl was pregnant.
Lookthe two of us need to find a way to put the lid on this one, before the place is swarming with outsiders.
(RINGS) Hello? Is that the new Sergeant Driscoll or the old one? No, he's not.
Do you want to leave a message? Uh-huh.
Yeah, I will.
OK, bye now.
Don't worry, they'll get used to the fact that you're not him eventually.
People don't like change.
Or facing up to the truth.
I can't get a straight answer from anyone around here.
Maybe I'm asking the wrong questions.
Maybe you're asking the wrong people.
OK.
Yeah, I certainly will.
What's your number? Yep, I'll get him to call you straight back.
OK.
OK, thank you.
Bye.
Can I speak to Mary McBride, please? Yep, I'll just see if she's free.
Jack Driscoll.
How are you? Sit down, Jack.
Business is good.
It's an exciting field to be in.
Growing all the time.
Did you set the place up yourself? With my husband.
My father used to run a small print works.
It wasn't really my sort of thing.
IT seemed a better bet.
My husband's the technical wizard.
I look after marketing and promotions.
I'm making some enquiries into the death of a young woman.
OK.
I think you know Tommy Gallagher.
If you live within 50 miles of where we're sitting, then you know Tommy.
Oh, he's a great man.
Chairman of this committee, school governors, charities.
I know where he gets the money from, but God only knows where he finds the energy.
They say you can always rely on Tommywhatever the cause.
Um The young woman you mentioned? She was found dead in a caravan out by the coast.
An accident? That's what I'm trying to find out.
How can I help you? She worked for Tommy Gallagher.
I'm not trying to cause you any trouble.
I don't want to embarrass you.
You've been speaking to Tommy about me? I thought I'd get your side of things before that.
But somebody's told you something? Yes.
What happened to me was a long time ago.
I don't see how it I think there might be some connection between what happened to you and the death I'm looking into now.
This particular young woman was pregnant.
What age were you, Mary? 16 when I found out.
Just turned 17 when the baby was born.
Stillborn.
Who knew about it? The father.
Was that Tommy? No.
No, noTommy wasn't the father.
Tommy helped me.
I don't know what I would have done if he hadn't been there.
He .
.
he took the baby and buried her somewhere, I don't know where.
I was onlya girl.
It was my first time.
Unlucky.
Will you tell me who the father was, Mary? I said goodbye to that child a long time ago.
I don't want anyone punished for what happened.
I'm doing well for myself.
Look, you can see I'm doing well for myself.
I'm sorry to have bothered you with this.
You know, I do wish one thing.
I wish I'd been able to give her a name.
I can only ever think of her as "she".
So, here we are.
Listen now, I want to propose a toast.
It's been a long, hard road, some big hills, a couple of nasty hairpins, one or two dodgy corners.
Will you put your foot down and get to the end of this road? I am, Brendan! We're all near the end of it now and we can relax and enjoy the scenery a bit.
And now, I'll pass you over to the And now, I'll pass you over to the man who's about to make us all rich.
Well, I'm not going to make any speeches.
But I will say just one thing.
We all know we wouldn't be sitting here We all know we wouldn't be sitting here if it wasn't for the help of one man, so here's to him.
Jack, come and meet the lads.
Jack Driscoll, Gerry's boy.
Jack, you already know Danny.
This here is Leonard, Patrick, Michael, and this is Brendan over here.
decide to stay around down here.
I'm sorry to spoil your lunch, gentlemen.
Do you think we could have a word in private? It's not the best time right now, Jack.
It won't wait, I'm afraid.
Is this a plot to get out of paying? I won't be long.
You make sure you bring him back now.
And not in handcuffs.
Not until he's signed the cheque anyway.
Did Gerry not tell you? These people could be very useful to you if you only let them.
I suppose they could.
Get the Guard on side and you're home and dry.
I'll take all the help I can, Tommy.
It's the price I'd have to pay that worries me.
You're being unreasonable, Jack.
Not like my father, huh? Your father did a grand job here.
But I'm not my father.
I've got the post mortem back on Sylvana.
Why didn't you tell me she was pregnant? Was it your child she was carrying? Is that why you offered to marry her? To stop her going away for an abortion.
Would that be such a crime? No, murder would.
I was the one trying to stop a murder, save her from a mortal sin, Jack - Killing her own unborn child.
Yeah, cos you knew how that felt, didn't you? You buried an unwanted child yourself a while ago.
Mary McBride's child.
You buried an unwanted child yourself a while ago.
Mary McBride's child.
Why in the name of God are you raking all that up? That's ancient bloody history, for Christ's sake.
What's it got to do with Sylvana? Why don't you tell me? There's nothing to tell.
What? Disposing of a body? It was another world.
Mary was no different from hundreds of others back then.
She got herself into trouble and she kept it to herself.
Jesus, she was on her own in a bloody cowshed when I found her.
The child was stillborn, I was trying to help her.
A girl of 17, and you're a married man with children.
A girl of 17, and you're a married man with children.
That's some risk you were taking.
Someone had to do something.
But why you? Why not the family? Why not the Guard? The Guard? Yeah, if Gerry was doing such a great job, why didn't he help? I was the one on the spot.
That's the way it worked back then, we looked out for one another.
I took the wee thing away from her and buried it.
It was no bigger than a bag of flour.
Where? A plot out there somewhere in the sticks.
Where? A cillin.
For the innocents.
People had been using it for hundreds of years.
I was told I was asked to put her in there.
By the father? Yes, by the father.
Because a children's graveyard is the ideal place to dispose of a child's body.
A couple of spadefuls of dirt, stamp it down out of sight, along with all the other filthy little secrets.
What did you want me to do? Chuck it in the fecking bog? We're talking about a human being here - it deserved a decent burial.
No, spare me that sanctimonious shite.
I don't believe a word of it.
You were disposing of a body for someone.
Concealing evidence.
And my father knew about it, didn't he? Your father knew nothing about it.
I'm his son, for God's sake - I know him.
Nothing goes on here that he doesn't know about.
Why do you protect him like this? No, Jack, you're his son but you don't know him.
You don't want to know him either.
You were told to do this.
Told, not asked.
Gerry was the father of Mary's baby, wasn't he? Wasn't he? (RUMBLE OF THUNDER) (TYRES SCREECH) I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, I don't know what Jack said to him, but when Tommy came back to the table, he looked 10 years older.
(LAUGHTER) You'd better put a pint out for him before he starts on me.
No, you're all right there, thanks.
Gerry? Gerry's just leaving.
Gerry? Gerry's just leaving.
You might want your coat.
Oh, is it going to be a late one, Jack? It could be for you.
Sounds like a bit of a magical mystery tour fellas, huh? (LAUGHTER) Get in.
What are you playing at? I said get in.
I want to show you something.
JACK: Don't tell me you don't know where you are.
(GERRY URINATES) Did you never ask Tommy what he did with the baby? Your baby.
Did you never want to see the grave of your own child? My sister.
Jack, Jack.
You're a bitter disappointment to me, do you know that? You always were a self-righteous little shite when you were a kid.
But this sentimental bollocks! Come out here to this place on a wild-goose chase.
Where the hell has all this come from? You don't deny it? I think getting involved with that woman in Dublin's turned you soft.
Tommy was like this over that other girl - what's her name? Sylvia.
You know well what her name is.
She was a little foreign tart! Over here for whatever she could get.
One quick feel of her in the front of his car, he thinks he's in love.
Did you know he asked her to marry him? Jesus Christ! She could have taken him for every penny he has.
He's lucky he had me to get him out of trouble.
So far, anyway.
He gets rid of your child for you My child? Did you think I was gonna cry over a whole pile of rocks and bones? Is that why you brought me to this fecking place? I thought you might have some little bit conscience left in you! Would it have been better for the girl to have to bring up a baby at her age? Answer me that.
Look at her now and tell me she's not far better off.
Well, lucky for you it was born dead and you had a friend like Tommy to get rid of it for you.
Born dead was it? Is that what he told you? Well, I suppose it would make him feel better to tell you that.
What are you telling me? Are you saying it wasn't dead? Well, he was the one who was there, not me.
Are you saying Tommy killed it? Well, why don't you go and ask him? Jesus Christ, is that what you asked him to do? Kill it for you? All I'm saying is, it was a long time ago.
Who knows? Who bloody cares? Come on.
And that's why you were prepared to cover up a murder for Tommy? Because of what he did for you all those years ago.
You thought because he killed a child once, he could have killed Sylvana as well.
Well, if he did, it was the first time in his life he got himself out of a fix without running to me, begging for help! And don't you think I'd cover up a thing like murder.
Murder's a different thing altogether.
Murder's a different thing altogether.
I think you're capable of anything.
I'll tell you this, Dad.
If I get the slightest bit of evidence against you, I'll arrest you.
Oh, well, you must do your duty, mustn't you? Anyway, if you don't mind, I'd like a lift home.
I'm freezing my balls off out here.
Walk.
(SIGHS) Finbarr, get your arse out of that armchair and come and pick me up.
Take that bloody cap off, for God's sake! It makes you look like a gobshite! Yeah, are you listening to me? Right now, take the road down to Matthew's, right? And just after, there's a bend (RUMBLE OF THUNDER) Have you been out for a stroll, then? (MOBILE PHONE RINGS) Hello? 'It's Walsh.
' 'I thought my orders were clear.
' Yeah, they were.
'But you decided to carry on anyway and ignore me.
' Not 'OK, OK.
' 'I'm getting someone else here to take this one over.
' I thought you couldn't spare anyone.
'Don't push your luck, Jack.
' 'I want all your paperwork available first thing.
Is that clear?' 'You're out of your depth on this one and I am not happy.
' (WALSH HANGS UP) JACK: You asked me what I was doing back here.
SAOIRSE: You said it was a test.
I think I just failed it.
I've been taken off this case.
Do you want to tell me why? I want to .
.
but I'm not sure that I can.
It should have been a good move for me - coming home.
I know the place, I know the people, I thought I knew how everything worked.
It's a cesspit.
My father's the only one who can see into it, and half the time I think he's stirring it up because he enjoys the stink.
Maybe the problem's not the place.
Maybe it's your father.
My father is the place.
That's the problem.
I've just found out he had another child, a daughter, by another woman years ago.
What happened to her? She wasn't allowed to live.
Oh, Jack.
I've just been out to the place where she was buried.
I'm so sorry.
You'd no idea? No.
It's a small town.
Somebody must have known.
Somebody must have known.
They close ranks though, don't they? I had it all wrong, you see.
I thought I was coming back to something I knew.
But I knew nothing.
It's a sick place.
My father's at the heart of it even now.
Just as you were getting to like the place, huh? It wasn't the place I was getting to like.
I knew you'd come through for me.
I need a pint.
(CHUCKLES) (KNOCKS) Tommy! I loved her, Jack, and that's the God's truth.
I never did anything to harm her.
No.
I know you came up here that night.
She'd been drinking heavily, and when she wouldn't do what you wanted, I think you blocked up that gas flue and left her here to suffocate to death.
Her and the child she was carrying.
Are you going to arrest me? I am.
It's from her.
Sylvana.
Read it to me.
Please, Jack.
"Tommy, I know this will make you unhappy and I am sorry.
You were good to me at first and I am grateful.
I know that you cannot help me to get rid of my baby.
It is what you believe and I understand, but without my passport I am like a prisoner here.
I cannot be a mother, and after what happened with the men at the hotel .
.
I cannot go home to my family.
This is my fault because I needed the money very much.
You thought you were being kind .
.
but you must know that I can never have this child.
So now I have no hope and also no future.
So now I have no hope and also no future.
Goodbye, Tommy.
Sylvana.
" (SIGHS) I did kill her, didn't I? Her and the baby.
Noyou didn't kill them.
But there was another child, wasn't there? A child you did kill.
My sister.
You told me she was dead when you found Mary.
That isn't true, is it? I buried her.
After you killed her.
Look at me.
Gerry told me what happened.
The child was alive, wasn't it? And you killed it.
Now he may have made you do that - I believe he could do that.
It's time for you to tell the truth.
Stop covering up for him.
When I got to Mary, the child was still alive.
But I had told your father that I'd take care of it for him.
And it would have been an easy thing to do, you know.
It hardly had a breath of life in it.
It would have been a case of just letting it go.
But once I held the thing in my hands I let Gerry think I had done it because I didn't have the guts to cross him.
But if you didn't kill the child, what did you do with it? Tommywouldn't you like to be free of all this? Free of Gerry? I told Mary that the child was dead.
That I'd take it away and bury it for her.
Instead, I took it down to my sister in Wexford.
She had three kids already and she didn't ask any questions.
She's been a great mother, Jack, treated it like one of her own.
I know she thought the child was mine, but she never reproached me for it, never a word.
I sent her money every month .
.
visited there regular - holidays and things with my own kids.
And she's grown into a beautiful young woman, Jack.
A woman any man would be proud to father.
My sister thought it would be a good idea if I became her godfather.
Which is what I was really, wasn't it? She came up with the name Saoirse.
It means freedom.
But you know that already, Jack, don't you? How many more lives do you think he's wrecked? How many more children are there out there? What else could I have done, Jack? Tell me that.
You could have stood up to him.
And I will.
It can come out now, can't it? I can tell her the truth at last, think of that.
She'll know who she is.
That she has a mother What the fuck are you talking about? Mary and Saoirse Are you fucking insane? They have a right to know.
But you don't have the right to tell them! Do you not get it? It's too late.
What can I do, Jack? You can live with it.
(WHIMPERS) Without the boots would be good.
You have to go.
You asked me to wait.
Ithought this was what you meant.
It is what I meant.
OK.
Here I am.
Here I am.
You can take me.
Would you prefer if I showered or something? Have you got a thing about that? Jack? Is it this house? Do you want to go somewhere else? It's nothing to do with the house.
It's just me.
Yeah, it's just you.
Tommy will be wondering where I am.
That story you told me about Gerry, about him fathering another child somewhere.
I'll tell you one thing about your father, Jack.
I bet he never treated a woman like this.
Well, Jack lad, can we all sleep safely in our beds? Or is there still a killer on the loose? There's a few of them, all right, but I've a fair idea who they are.
Do you now? Will you take a bit of advice? Being a Guard in a place like this, you're administering a different sort of justice.
And what sort's that? Well, I would say it's a sort of natural justice.
People generally get their comeuppance in time.
Isn't that so? It's usually the way of things.
Sylvana Carapic.
Cause of death, suicide by carbon monoxide inhalation.
She drank most of a bottle of vodka, She drank most of a bottle of vodka, blocked up the flue to the gas fire, and went to bed and died with her unborn child.
Ohand she left us a letter explaining why.
I'll let you have a full report.
Well, that's a nice tidy result all right.
Isn't it, Gerry? Yes.
Very.
And we haven't had to bother anyone from outside, which is the way I like it.
So .
.
case closed.
On to the next one, eh, Dad? I hear she's going back to Dublin.
I'd say she was already there by now.
That's a shame.
Jack Driscoll.
That's right.
Did you manage to find a number for her family? Excellent.
And would you know if anybody in the house speaks English? Could you do that for me? Thanks.
No, I'll hold.
'Mr Carapic? This is Sergeant Jack Driscoll calling from Ireland.
I'm the police officer who found your daughter.
'
Jack Driscoll.
Hello, Mr Reilly.
Are you sure about that? Did you call the ambulance? No, I'm sure you do.
And you haven't touched anything? Right.
Stay where you are and I'll be right out.
You won't be getting a signal out at Martin Riley's place.
They're in the Twilight Zone out there.
Do you want me to call Pat Donnelly for you? Yeah.
Tell him it's urgent.
I got the impression there was someone dead.
How could that be urgent? (STARTS ENGINE) (CAR APPROACHES) (CAR DOOR CLOSES) DONNELLY: Martin, how are you? No need to rush, Pat.
Did you know her? She's on your land.
But not in my van.
It's a holiday place.
Are you sure? How did you come to find her? My wife was worried about her.
I couldn't get an answer so I put the door in.
When was this? Just before I called you.
So you don't know who she is but you were worried about her? The wife was worried.
You never know with these sort, what they might be getting up to.
What sort's that? Young girl living on her own.
Foreign.
You never know do you? She's foreign is she? Probably one of these illegal immigrants.
Why would you say that? It's the way people were talking.
Dead about three or four hours.
Is that all? Cause of death? I'd say it was most likely carbon monoxide poisoning.
That gas fire looks knackered.
Was it alight when you went in there? The gas fire? I turned it off, it was like an oven in there.
What's the score with the pathologist? What's the score with the pathologist? Pathologist? You'll be lucky to get anyone out here for this one.
You'll be right at the back of the queue.
But I should be able to confirm a cause of death myself pretty quickly.
That would be great.
Thanks.
Shall I send someone out to collect the body while I'm at it? Can I get on now? Don't leave the farm.
Hello, Mrs Reilly.
I'll fetch Martin for you.
No, you're fine there.
This young woman - your husband says you were worried about her? I didn't know her.
I never spoke to her.
I used to see her up there sometimes waiting for the bus.
How long had she been living up there? Month, maybe two.
Did you ever see anybody calling on her? I wouldn't know about that, it's been empty for years.
And you never thought to ask her who she was, what she was doing? The van's nothing to do with us.
Tommy Gallagher.
Do you know Tommy? I do know Tommy.
Well, talk to him.
The van's his.
Hi.
Is Tommy in? Are you Jack Driscoll? That's right.
And you must be Saoirse.
Come in.
My uncle's with somebody at the moment, but he won't be long.
Will you have some coffee? Thanks.
This is how I spend my time here.
Sergeant Driscoll, I think.
Working back home? Yeah.
How did you swing that one? There's ways around most things, you know.
Friends in high places? Are you enjoying it? It's been a bit slow.
Until today.
Is that right? Saoirse.
One of the Wexford clan.
You've heard of us? Tommy never stopped talking about you when we were kids.
His beautiful sister and her three beautiful daughters.
Didn't bring you up here to see us though.
He wouldn't do that, now would he? You're all heathens up here.
That's true.
Don't go opening the champagne yet, Brendan.
Don't go opening the champagne yet, Brendan.
No, but I'll put it on ice.
That would be the job.
Take care now, good luck.
DRISCOLL: I'd forgotten what it was like, all that space, you know.
I hear Tommy's built you a fantastic house.
Well, he built it for my parents, but my dad can't get my mother to move in, so Well, it's about time.
You're very welcome.
What do you think? Impressive.
I keep telling him to get something more manageable.
He doesn't need all this space.
It's for the grandchildren.
They'll need the space.
How's your old man? Keeping an eye on me.
You won't get far around here without Gerry Driscoll on your side.
Isn't that right, Jack? Seems to be the way of it all right.
There's a lot of us happy to see you in the uniform, another Driscoll.
I haven't forgotten about your shower, by the way.
Tell me what tiles you want and I'll send the boys over.
I think this might be official business, Tommy.
Official, is it? Well, then we'd better go somewhere that feels official.
Come on.
Grab a seat there, Jack.
You've a caravan, Tommy, out at Martin Reilly's place.
That old thing? Yeah.
Do you know the young woman who lives there? Sylvana.
Would you have a surname for her? God, no.
I couldn't pronounce it and I couldn't spell it.
She gave me a hand here for a few weeks before the mother died.
Cleaning, and so on.
Was she living out in the caravan now? Not at all, she was staying here, sure we've plenty of room.
Is she working for you now? No, she moved on after the funeral.
I said she could stay in the caravan till she found somewhere else.
Did you ever see her papers? Her papers? I hope you're not here to bring me up to date on employment law.
It's the girl I'm interested in.
It's hard enough finding anyone here that knows the meaning of work.
She's dead, Tommy.
Can I ask you how you met her? Hold on a second.
How is she dead? Where? In the caravan.
You're not making sense to me, Jack.
We'll know more after the post mortem.
Can you tell me how you met her? This is unbelievable.
Um We got talking in town one night, having a drink.
She was looking for work.
Are you sure we're talking about the same girl? Is that your car there? I took it so she could send it back to her family, let them know she was all right.
I couldn't find a passport.
Nothing to say who she was.
I wouldn't know anything about that.
Have you seen her since she left here? I've been meaning to call in, make sure she was OK.
Do you know if she got work anywhere else? You've no address for her? It was only casual work, Jack.
So nothing at all to help me identify her? She was a beautiful young woman.
I can't believe what you're telling me.
The family will have to be informed.
Yes, of course.
If I remember her name, I Good to meet you.
And you, Jack.
Will you be staying long? Good God, the girl has a career to get back to.
What would she want in this godforsaken place? I don't know, I think it might grow on me.
If you do hear what happened to her after she left I'll be on the phone straight away.
Who's this? The girl who helped me with your grandmother.
Sylvana? Yeah.
I thought you said she was going to work in that hotel - the Lough Feagh, is it? Did I? Yeah.
Sure she's better off down there anyway.
This old fella likes his pound of flesh, don't you? (CHUCKLES) The room will be ready in 10 minutes.
This is on the house.
You've chosen the best time of year for your visit.
Nice and quiet.
Excuse meI'll be right back.
Picture of a girl who used to work here.
Do you know her? No.
So you don't recognise her? No.
Good man, you're needed in the kitchen.
OK.
Can I help? I understand she used to work here? Ah The locals haven't the first idea.
You need to look for Poland or the Balkans.
And that's where she was from? Is it Montenegro? So you'd have a record of her? She promised to bring in her papers, then she said she'd lost them.
I told her I couldn't employ someone with no papers.
But she had a name? Was it Sylvana? No, it's gone.
But someone must remember her.
No, it's the end of the season.
He's leaving at the end of the week.
There's only the family left now.
My wife Kate's away for the day.
What about your son? Hey! Just take a look at that.
Do you recognise her? No.
I think she had a boyfriend.
There was someone picking her up after work anyway.
I used to hear a car out there, butI don't know who that was.
Is she in trouble? She's dead.
Dear God! How? Were you expecting Tommy? He's round to discuss the pension plan.
Didn't you see today's paper? Can I have a word, Gerry? We're in the garden! Can you make us some tea? 'Are you sure it's not a bird's nest or something?' No, sir.
The flue's been completely blocked with a load of old rags.
There's no way it could have got there by accident.
'So we're talking deliberate?' It looks that way to me.
'OK, I'll get a detective out here.
' 'You and Finbarr concentrate on getting a positive ID on her.
' I'm just surprised you didn't hear anyone mention her.
Why is that? Young girl living out there on her own.
I suppose she'd have been keeping a low profile.
Sylvia, did you say her name was? Sylvana.
Sylvana.
Where would you get a name like that, I wonder? Balkans, apparently.
Oh.
That narrows it down a bit (!) Start with Montenegro.
See if you can find an embassy.
GERRY: I told her.
There's nothing going on in that house to keep a peeping tom interested.
More like a fecking monastery.
(LAUGHS) What do you say, Jack? He'll find someone.
In this place? There's one or two coming along that I know of.
Mm-hm.
I hear that it's carbon monoxide poisoning.
Is that right? You have to be very careful with gas.
Aye, you do Danny, you do.
Lucky that Jack's boiler was put in by Tommy's top man.
Speaking of which, do you know who I bumped into? Tommy's niece.
Saoirse.
She said she'd seen you, Jack.
Did she? Good-looking fella, she said.
Thank you, Sean.
Good luck now.
Good luck now.
Come on, Jack.
How will he look after his mother if you take away his driving licence? Sean? What? You're on my way.
No, you're all right there.
Sean.
Look after her now, won't you, Sean? She's the only mother you have, remember? (SCHOOL BELL RINGS) Out you go.
Bye.
Great to see them going in with a smile on their faces, isn't it? They love their school.
How's Martin? Busy.
Anyway, I promised It was a nice gesture.
The flowers.
Particularly as you never showed the slightest bit of interest in the girl while she was alive.
I got the impression that she wanted to be left alone.
Did you ever see anyone up at the caravan? A man perhaps? Tommy was up there sometimes.
But then it's his caravan, isn't it? So he was probably up collecting So he was probably up collecting rent off her.
Or something like that.
Have you seen that thing they have in the papers? Where they get a dietician to look at someone's shopping basket.
What do you reckon they'd make of that lot? It's never yours.
I keep telling him, I've men half his age on the ward every day of the week.
I hope you're looking after your heart, Jack.
I'm not sure you can afford one on this job.
Maybe a small one.
I heard about Sylvana.
It hasn't been easy for him the past few years - first his wife, now his mother.
The money helps, but it's not everything, is it? Why did you come back here, Jack? Where everybody knows who you are and what your business is? Perhaps it's a test.
Well, let's hope you pass it.
Would you fancy a drink some night? Why not? I could do with getting out.
Tonight? OK.
Great.
Will I pick you up? 7:00? 7:15? Right.
Oh, by the way, do you know if Tommy's up at the house? He's down at the GAA ground.
See you later.
You'll have them queuing up to play here.
What do you think? This is all down to you, Tommy? It has nothing to do with pride, Jack.
You have to give something back.
I've been luckier than most, and it's come to me late in life, so I know it's value.
It's still very generous.
I was a devil for the old hurling myself when I was a lad.
Listen, Jack.
I've already told you everything I know about that girl.
You told me you hadn't seen her since she left you.
I was worried about her.
The caravan was supposed to be temporary, it was no place to live.
I spoke to Fergal.
Did you know she had a boyfriend while she worked at the hotel? Why would I know that? So you wouldn't know who it was, then? I'd imagine she had a lot of fellas after her.
She was a beautiful girl.
I want to show you something.
They think she died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Did you know you had a problem with the gas fire up there? The caravan is over 30 years old, for God's sake.
And you're supposed to have them checked, as a landlord.
Landlord? I was trying to do her a favour, I wasn't charging her rent.
I was trying to do her a favour, I wasn't charging her rent.
This lot was blocking up the external flue.
I wouldn't think it got there on it's own, would you? (MOBILE PHONE RINGS) Yeah? I don't have anything yet.
Ah, look it, they haven't even got an embassy.
Yeah, well .
.
you didn't give me much to go on, did you? Just find out, will you? Just find out, will you? Sir.
No, we don't have a positive ID on her yet.
Detective Garda Regan.
OK.
If you can't get me on my mobile, will you ask him to let Finbarr know when he's in town? Are you calling in the cavalry already, Jack? It's all about teamwork these days, Dad.
Did no-one tell you? Maybe where you've been it is.
Out here, it's a team of one.
See you later.
Give me that phone there, will you? What's wrong with your mobile? Put me through to Inspector Walsh, please.
Gerry Driscoll.
Thanks.
Battery's flat.
How you doing? Oh, grand thanks.
ListenI hear Jack's after a bit of assistance out here.
This is the first chance he's had to show what he's worth.
I think you should give him his head.
Sean! Sean! Get out here! (POUNDING ON DOOR) I've already told him, Jack.
If I see him near any of my sites, I'll kill him.
Listen to him! Is that threatening behaviour or not? You'll never prove anything against this one, Jack.
If you want to know what happened to the girl, ask him.
I never touched her! You're a liar, Sean.
Everyone knows what you're like with the women.
Even your own mother knows it! Calm down! Will you take him inside, please, Bridie? All the boys know what he's like with the women.
Ask yourself - what would she be hanging around with him for? She wanted a decent life, she wanted security.
Is that what you were offering her? It's what she came here to find.
I know there was years between us, I'm not stupid.
Even if she'd done it just to get a work permit.
Let me treat her like a father, I wouldn't have minded that.
All I wanted was to take care of her - stop her doing something she'd regret.
But she turned you down and went off with Sean? I didn't hurt her, Jack.
I'd never hurt her.
Go home, Tommy.
Go home.
Go home.
You don't think she was interested in an old fella like that, do you? You were a better bet, I suppose? I tried to help her.
Every man I speak to says he wanted to do that.
Can you imagine her with that sack of shit? She wasn't interested in him.
So she finds a job at the hotel, and instead of one old bastard, she's all of them after her.
Did you know they offered her money for sex? They knew she couldn't go to the guards because she'd no papers.
They knew she couldn't go to the guards because she'd no papers.
I was the one who got her out of there.
Which men are we talking about? Ask Fergal.
He'll tell you who.
Me? I'm saying nothing.
How much were you paying her? I pay all my staff a fair wage.
I mean for the sex.
Er I don't know who you've been talking to, but you've got the wrong end of the stick.
A couple of drinks, things got a bit Look Jack, I wasn't the only one.
You were employing her.
It was only casual work.
Which made it OK for you and your friends to have sex with her? Casually? No-one forced her.
Andshe wasn't complaining.
She couldn't refuse because she needed the money.
And she couldn't make a complaint because she might be deported.
That doesn't add up to consent in my book.
Oh, come on now, Jack.
You know how these things happen.
I mean, you're a man of the world yourself.
Isn't that why you had to leave Dublin and come back here? I think you'd better watch that tongue of yours Fergal.
Now, you might be able to charm the Yanks, but you'd struggle to explain this little episode to the wife and kids.
Are you with me? That's better.
I want names.
How far you going with this? I mean, normally Fergal, right this minute, I'm looking for someone with a motive for wanting that young woman dead.
Martin Reillyand myself.
And? Some of these are very influential people.
People you might need one day.
I think perhaps you should talk to your father.
My father's been retired for six months.
What's he got to do with it? Nothing.
Nothing.
You're right.
No, go on.
Tell me.
There's nothing to tell.
He's a great man, he's been a good friend to me.
(SIGHS) Oh, Jesus Christ.
This looks like work.
Should I? You come with me now, Saorise.
Why didn't you tell me you knew Sylvana? Your inspector's come a long way to see you.
Come on, these two have got a bit of business to discuss.
Hi.
Jack.
Away you go, darling.
After you.
Thanks.
Is that Tommy Gallagher's niece? It is.
Now, I thought I was getting a safe pair of hands, Jack.
Sergeant, big city experience, and now you want me to send you a detective? I could do with some specialist help.
(CHUCKLES) Specialist? And what's that idle bastard Finbarr doing? Polishing his fecking taxi, I suppose.
He's not what you'd call a specialist.
Caravans.
Gas fires.
Alcohol.
You don't need fecking Sherlock Holmes to tell you what that adds up to.
I'm not sure it's that straight forward.
And I thought this was the correct procedure.
Procedure? Out here? All I'm interested in is getting the job done and getting those gobshites in Dublin off my back.
Talk to your dad.
He'll be glad to give you a hand.
Here, let me take that off you.
I was just telling your dad how I'm on men's cardiac.
God in heaven, save us all from that place.
You'd have your work cut out finding a heart in this old fecker.
You wouldn't catch me in there in the first place.
Are you frightened of hospitals, Gerry? Oh no.
If all the nurses look like you, I wouldn't be.
Here.
To your health.
Soda water.
That's the one, all right.
What a beautiful girl, Jack, huh? Just look at her, Johnny - isn't she a beautiful girl? It was good of Walsh to come over.
Does the bastards good to get out of their swivel chairs and see what happens in the real world, huh? Has Jack taken you up to see his new house yet? Not yet, he hasn't.
You are going to love it.
I had Tommy turn the whole place round so that you could watch the sun set from your bed.
Just imagine that.
When you can see the sun.
Well, I'd say it's a great help to Jack having you around.
Well, now, I know a few tricks they don't teach you down at Templemore.
That's for sure, huh? There's a table free.
Don't let him take you away without saying goodbye now.
I won't.
(PHONE RINGS) Fergal.
Now, wait a minute.
Look, I don't care what you said to him, or what he thinks you said.
From now on, you say nothing at all, is that clear? Right.
Conversation over.
Finbarr, are you busy? So, am I coming in for a coffee? This brings you back a bit.
Doesn't it? What time does he go to bed? I have a feeling it could be a late one tonight.
Oh, Jesus! He's worse than my mother was.
Give me a call.
Course.
Do you know where he is? He's not answering his mobile.
Well, you know your father.
He could be anywhere, couldn't he? Do you ever know where he is? I've had 30 years of not knowing.
It goes with the job.
Maybe you don't want to know.
I know you're upset about this girl, but I'll say one thing for your father, he never took his work home.
So he wouldn't have told you what was happening to her? That she was being abused, used for sex by men old enough to be her father.
No, he didn't tell me, because he thought too much of me and of our marriage.
He didn't tell me and I didn't ask.
That's the problem round here, isn't it? Nobody asks because nobody wants to know the answers.
Do you ever think there's some questions better left unasked? Or left festering behind closed doors, everybody pretending there's no stink.
This went on while she was living in Tommy's caravan.
Tommy is Dad's best friend.
Yes, he is.
And you shouldn't be blaming your father for Tommy's faults.
Tommy was always a fool where the women were concerned anyway.
Meaning? Meaning nothing.
He made a few mistakes, that's all.
He was lucky to have a friend like Gerry to sort things out for him.
And do you think this girl was one of his mistakes? Tommy's lonely.
I suppose she needed the money.
I wouldn't be one to judge.
Tell me about his other mistakes.
Is this getting official, Jack? Yeah, why not? Well, you'll have to talk to your father, then.
(HORN BLARES) (HORN BLARES) Would you mind switching off for me? That's grand.
Can you open the door? I haven't had a drink.
I think you'd better get out.
I'm not interested in drinking.
Ah, well, drinking's not a problem.
I like a couple of pints myself now and then.
Whatever turns you on, eh? What is it turns you on, I wonder? Would you believe I've never tried any of this, at my age? Would this be the strong stuff, then? No.
No, no, that's really mild.
That wouldn't hurt you at all.
Is that right? Yeah, you could smoke all that and you'd be fine.
You'd hardly notice it.
Really? Possession is bad enough, but trying to corrupt a police officer is another thing entirely.
So, Cathal .
.
what are we going to do with you now, eh? It's the middle of the bloody night.
I wanted to have it done before you got back.
Thought you might have had someone with you.
And why would you think that? When I was your age, I wouldn't have let one like that get away unscathed.
No, I can imagine.
They're not short of money in that family.
Of course you'd want to keep on the right side of Tommy.
Meaning? Upsetting senior officers is one thing, Jack, I'm right behind you on that one, but these people, they're friends of mine.
And yours if you only knew it.
You have to learn when to let things lie in a place like this.
That was your way of doing things, I suppose.
It's the only way of doing it.
You won't get anywhere making enemies.
You knew what was going on out at the hotel.
Now you're losing me.
You knew, and you turned a blind eye to it.
Come on, Jack, it was a bit of harmless fun.
Well, maybe you even helped yourself to some as well.
Well, I don't deny I was tempted.
But you have to practise a bit of self-denial now and again.
You don't want people laughing behind your back.
I'll take that risk.
And am I not taking a risk? If it wasn't for me, you'd be a bloody security guard in Dublin.
This thing is nothing to get excited about, Jack, get it into perspective.
She was a little foreign tart on the make.
Does anyone really care? I care.
Sylvana.
I'd say she's got a family somewhere that are worried sick about her.
And I think the least I can do is get her home to them.
Don't you? That's a mighty high horse you're riding, Jack.
Did I tell you she was murdered? Oh, it's murdered now, is it? Someone knows who she is.
And someone knows how she died.
No-one's above the law.
Not you, not your pal Tommy.
Jack, Jack.
Why are you making a fool of yourself? Tommy may be a bit of an eejit with the women, but do you really think he's capable of murdering someone? Don't ask me where I found it cos I won't tell you.
Just take it in the spirit in which it's offered.
Case closed.
On to the next, eh? Hm? (WATER TRICKLES) (SIGHS) Sorry to drag you out here.
Don't worry.
I'm always on the lookout for some place I can get three bars up.
What's the situation on DNA tests for paternity? You'd want a result this side of Christmas, would you? Yes.
How many potential fathers do you have? Three, four.
Not sure yet.
My God, she was sure putting it about! I'll make some enquiries.
But if you want a quick result, you'd be better off doing a house-to-house.
OK.
If I wanted to get the state pathologist down here? You're the guard, it's your call.
But what they'll say at your division, I wouldn't know.
What you think it would be a bad idea? I don't get involved in the politics.
I just do what I'm asked.
Sign just there.
Cathal? He's been a silly lad.
Fair play, if he did wrong, he should be punished.
But he's been up all night, you see.
You know the way it is, Jack - mountains of bloody paper.
And who reads it all, I wonder? And he's had nothing to eat.
We had no idea Is this a complaint? No.
No.
No.
I know what's going on.
I just want to make sure he gets treated fairly.
That's all.
Oh, fucking leave me alone, Dad.
They're all using drugs, didn't you know that? Maybe the Dubs ignore that sort of thing, but it does no harm to crack the whip over them every now and again.
If word gets out that you've had that lad chained to a bloody radiator You have to show them who's boss, Jack, or they'll walk all over you.
Fergal knows the score.
Does he? Let me tell you the score.
We're looking into what could be a murder.
I ask you to do one simple thing - find out where she's from.
Instead, you're out chasing around the countryside arresting kids with a bit of dope on them! One kid.
Fergal's kid! I'm not a fecking idiot, Finbarr.
Now Her name's Sylvana Carapic.
See if you can do the rest.
So, you've been let out on your own? Yeah.
Sorry about last night.
Tommy still thinks I'm 16.
He told me it was around here that my grandmother used to meet my grandfather, on long summer evenings.
Yeah, you could imagine it, couldn't you? Yeah, it's a nice thought.
Oh, he's very fond of you.
He wants me to go back to Dublin, thinks he can cope on his own now.
Do you want to go back? What do you think I should do? Me? Well, it's you he wants to get me away from.
He's worried about my intentions.
I think so.
Good.
He should be.
Good.
The gas flue was blocked.
Someone had stuffed a load of old rags into it.
Now that wasn't an accident, that was deliberate.
I told you, we were away that night.
It was nothing to do with me.
And she was pregnant.
Was that you? You see, the problem I have is this.
There was a whole gang of you riding her, and what I have to do is get DNA tests from the lot of you.
That way, we'll know for sure who the father was.
Jesus, if I'd known It was just a bit of fun.
There was no harm in it.
What did Mrs Reilly make of your bit of fun? Did she give you a hard time? (CHUCKLES) I bet she did.
It was nice and handy, having the girl on your land like that.
I take my hat off to you.
You've some gall, right under your wife's nose.
Were you creeping up there at night? Or did you get a quick one while she dropped the kids to school? Listen to what I'm telling you.
We had nothing to do with whatever's happened up there.
Nothing! Now, will you leave us in peace? Nowabout the child this girl was carrying.
Nowabout the child this girl was carrying.
Well, whoever's it was it wasn't mine.
I've had the snip.
What? You bloody fool.
You won't be able to show your face after this.
I won't? Do you know what he's telling me now? He thinks the girl was murdered.
That's right.
And he's over here pointing the finger at you.
Has Sean been in at all? Ah, hello, Jack.
I hope he made you a nice fresh one there.
He did, and I'll even make you another one, Bridie.
Whenever you're ready.
Are you waiting for the bus? No, Sean's coming to pick me up.
I just came in to get my pension from the post office.
Where's Sean working? He's still over in Tommy's.
I thought he wasn't going back to Tommy's.
Ah, well, he has a right to work out his notice you know.
Has Sean never wanted to get married, Bridie? (CHUCKLES) Oh, sure, the girls won't leave him alone.
But he's very fussy, and there's plenty of time.
You're lucky to have him at home.
I am lucky.
Cos I'm nothing but a nuisance to him.
Ah, sure, I couldn't carry on living here without him.
If he went, I wouldn't last five minutes, and that's the truth.
Are you ready, Ma? Can I speak to you a minute? Is she getting to be a burden on you, Sean? We manage all right.
I've seen how you manage.
Is that what happens when they make demands on you? I don't know what you're on about.
Sylvana.
She was pregnant.
It wasn't mine.
And she didn't want to have it.
I tried to help her out.
She was off to England for an abortion.
All she needed was the fare.
All she needed was the fare.
Was that why she didn't go? She didn't have the money? Tommy wouldn't give her her passport.
What was he doing with it? She gave it to him to look after while she was working for him.
I was out there at that shit hole she was living in the night before you found her.
We were having a quiet drink, until Tommy showed up, crying like a big baby, begging for her not to go.
Said he'd marry her and look after the two of them, herself and the kid, if she promised not to go.
But she refused him? You want someone to blame for thisask Tommy.
The guy's a bastard.
You're up to your neck in this, Sean.
Let me see one more mark on your mother I do everything for her, you know.
Everything.
Look, sort this out, Sean, before I'm back here arresting you for assault and she's left on her own.
Are you with me? I'm making him one.
I shouldn't have lost my temper last night.
It's forgotten.
These mistakes of Tommy's you mentioned.
Was there one in particular? I'm asking because the dead girl was pregnant.
Jackthere are questions we don't want answered, you're right about that.
But it might not be because we're frightened or ashamed, it might be because we don't want to hurt someone's feelings.
I shouldn't have mentioned Tommy.
Whatever he did, it's a long time ago, it's over and done with now.
It's time he had a day off.
It's time he had a day off.
He takes the job seriously.
Too bloody seriously.
What did he want this time? Asking about Tommy.
He's got it in for him, all right.
Apparently this girl was pregnant, so let's hope your investment doesn't depend on Tommy's reputation.
One thing you can say about Jack, he doesn't turn a blind eye to anything.
Inspector Walsh? Gerry.
Listen, he knows the girl was pregnant.
Lookthe two of us need to find a way to put the lid on this one, before the place is swarming with outsiders.
(RINGS) Hello? Is that the new Sergeant Driscoll or the old one? No, he's not.
Do you want to leave a message? Uh-huh.
Yeah, I will.
OK, bye now.
Don't worry, they'll get used to the fact that you're not him eventually.
People don't like change.
Or facing up to the truth.
I can't get a straight answer from anyone around here.
Maybe I'm asking the wrong questions.
Maybe you're asking the wrong people.
OK.
Yeah, I certainly will.
What's your number? Yep, I'll get him to call you straight back.
OK.
OK, thank you.
Bye.
Can I speak to Mary McBride, please? Yep, I'll just see if she's free.
Jack Driscoll.
How are you? Sit down, Jack.
Business is good.
It's an exciting field to be in.
Growing all the time.
Did you set the place up yourself? With my husband.
My father used to run a small print works.
It wasn't really my sort of thing.
IT seemed a better bet.
My husband's the technical wizard.
I look after marketing and promotions.
I'm making some enquiries into the death of a young woman.
OK.
I think you know Tommy Gallagher.
If you live within 50 miles of where we're sitting, then you know Tommy.
Oh, he's a great man.
Chairman of this committee, school governors, charities.
I know where he gets the money from, but God only knows where he finds the energy.
They say you can always rely on Tommywhatever the cause.
Um The young woman you mentioned? She was found dead in a caravan out by the coast.
An accident? That's what I'm trying to find out.
How can I help you? She worked for Tommy Gallagher.
I'm not trying to cause you any trouble.
I don't want to embarrass you.
You've been speaking to Tommy about me? I thought I'd get your side of things before that.
But somebody's told you something? Yes.
What happened to me was a long time ago.
I don't see how it I think there might be some connection between what happened to you and the death I'm looking into now.
This particular young woman was pregnant.
What age were you, Mary? 16 when I found out.
Just turned 17 when the baby was born.
Stillborn.
Who knew about it? The father.
Was that Tommy? No.
No, noTommy wasn't the father.
Tommy helped me.
I don't know what I would have done if he hadn't been there.
He .
.
he took the baby and buried her somewhere, I don't know where.
I was onlya girl.
It was my first time.
Unlucky.
Will you tell me who the father was, Mary? I said goodbye to that child a long time ago.
I don't want anyone punished for what happened.
I'm doing well for myself.
Look, you can see I'm doing well for myself.
I'm sorry to have bothered you with this.
You know, I do wish one thing.
I wish I'd been able to give her a name.
I can only ever think of her as "she".
So, here we are.
Listen now, I want to propose a toast.
It's been a long, hard road, some big hills, a couple of nasty hairpins, one or two dodgy corners.
Will you put your foot down and get to the end of this road? I am, Brendan! We're all near the end of it now and we can relax and enjoy the scenery a bit.
And now, I'll pass you over to the And now, I'll pass you over to the man who's about to make us all rich.
Well, I'm not going to make any speeches.
But I will say just one thing.
We all know we wouldn't be sitting here We all know we wouldn't be sitting here if it wasn't for the help of one man, so here's to him.
Jack, come and meet the lads.
Jack Driscoll, Gerry's boy.
Jack, you already know Danny.
This here is Leonard, Patrick, Michael, and this is Brendan over here.
decide to stay around down here.
I'm sorry to spoil your lunch, gentlemen.
Do you think we could have a word in private? It's not the best time right now, Jack.
It won't wait, I'm afraid.
Is this a plot to get out of paying? I won't be long.
You make sure you bring him back now.
And not in handcuffs.
Not until he's signed the cheque anyway.
Did Gerry not tell you? These people could be very useful to you if you only let them.
I suppose they could.
Get the Guard on side and you're home and dry.
I'll take all the help I can, Tommy.
It's the price I'd have to pay that worries me.
You're being unreasonable, Jack.
Not like my father, huh? Your father did a grand job here.
But I'm not my father.
I've got the post mortem back on Sylvana.
Why didn't you tell me she was pregnant? Was it your child she was carrying? Is that why you offered to marry her? To stop her going away for an abortion.
Would that be such a crime? No, murder would.
I was the one trying to stop a murder, save her from a mortal sin, Jack - Killing her own unborn child.
Yeah, cos you knew how that felt, didn't you? You buried an unwanted child yourself a while ago.
Mary McBride's child.
You buried an unwanted child yourself a while ago.
Mary McBride's child.
Why in the name of God are you raking all that up? That's ancient bloody history, for Christ's sake.
What's it got to do with Sylvana? Why don't you tell me? There's nothing to tell.
What? Disposing of a body? It was another world.
Mary was no different from hundreds of others back then.
She got herself into trouble and she kept it to herself.
Jesus, she was on her own in a bloody cowshed when I found her.
The child was stillborn, I was trying to help her.
A girl of 17, and you're a married man with children.
A girl of 17, and you're a married man with children.
That's some risk you were taking.
Someone had to do something.
But why you? Why not the family? Why not the Guard? The Guard? Yeah, if Gerry was doing such a great job, why didn't he help? I was the one on the spot.
That's the way it worked back then, we looked out for one another.
I took the wee thing away from her and buried it.
It was no bigger than a bag of flour.
Where? A plot out there somewhere in the sticks.
Where? A cillin.
For the innocents.
People had been using it for hundreds of years.
I was told I was asked to put her in there.
By the father? Yes, by the father.
Because a children's graveyard is the ideal place to dispose of a child's body.
A couple of spadefuls of dirt, stamp it down out of sight, along with all the other filthy little secrets.
What did you want me to do? Chuck it in the fecking bog? We're talking about a human being here - it deserved a decent burial.
No, spare me that sanctimonious shite.
I don't believe a word of it.
You were disposing of a body for someone.
Concealing evidence.
And my father knew about it, didn't he? Your father knew nothing about it.
I'm his son, for God's sake - I know him.
Nothing goes on here that he doesn't know about.
Why do you protect him like this? No, Jack, you're his son but you don't know him.
You don't want to know him either.
You were told to do this.
Told, not asked.
Gerry was the father of Mary's baby, wasn't he? Wasn't he? (RUMBLE OF THUNDER) (TYRES SCREECH) I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, I don't know what Jack said to him, but when Tommy came back to the table, he looked 10 years older.
(LAUGHTER) You'd better put a pint out for him before he starts on me.
No, you're all right there, thanks.
Gerry? Gerry's just leaving.
Gerry? Gerry's just leaving.
You might want your coat.
Oh, is it going to be a late one, Jack? It could be for you.
Sounds like a bit of a magical mystery tour fellas, huh? (LAUGHTER) Get in.
What are you playing at? I said get in.
I want to show you something.
JACK: Don't tell me you don't know where you are.
(GERRY URINATES) Did you never ask Tommy what he did with the baby? Your baby.
Did you never want to see the grave of your own child? My sister.
Jack, Jack.
You're a bitter disappointment to me, do you know that? You always were a self-righteous little shite when you were a kid.
But this sentimental bollocks! Come out here to this place on a wild-goose chase.
Where the hell has all this come from? You don't deny it? I think getting involved with that woman in Dublin's turned you soft.
Tommy was like this over that other girl - what's her name? Sylvia.
You know well what her name is.
She was a little foreign tart! Over here for whatever she could get.
One quick feel of her in the front of his car, he thinks he's in love.
Did you know he asked her to marry him? Jesus Christ! She could have taken him for every penny he has.
He's lucky he had me to get him out of trouble.
So far, anyway.
He gets rid of your child for you My child? Did you think I was gonna cry over a whole pile of rocks and bones? Is that why you brought me to this fecking place? I thought you might have some little bit conscience left in you! Would it have been better for the girl to have to bring up a baby at her age? Answer me that.
Look at her now and tell me she's not far better off.
Well, lucky for you it was born dead and you had a friend like Tommy to get rid of it for you.
Born dead was it? Is that what he told you? Well, I suppose it would make him feel better to tell you that.
What are you telling me? Are you saying it wasn't dead? Well, he was the one who was there, not me.
Are you saying Tommy killed it? Well, why don't you go and ask him? Jesus Christ, is that what you asked him to do? Kill it for you? All I'm saying is, it was a long time ago.
Who knows? Who bloody cares? Come on.
And that's why you were prepared to cover up a murder for Tommy? Because of what he did for you all those years ago.
You thought because he killed a child once, he could have killed Sylvana as well.
Well, if he did, it was the first time in his life he got himself out of a fix without running to me, begging for help! And don't you think I'd cover up a thing like murder.
Murder's a different thing altogether.
Murder's a different thing altogether.
I think you're capable of anything.
I'll tell you this, Dad.
If I get the slightest bit of evidence against you, I'll arrest you.
Oh, well, you must do your duty, mustn't you? Anyway, if you don't mind, I'd like a lift home.
I'm freezing my balls off out here.
Walk.
(SIGHS) Finbarr, get your arse out of that armchair and come and pick me up.
Take that bloody cap off, for God's sake! It makes you look like a gobshite! Yeah, are you listening to me? Right now, take the road down to Matthew's, right? And just after, there's a bend (RUMBLE OF THUNDER) Have you been out for a stroll, then? (MOBILE PHONE RINGS) Hello? 'It's Walsh.
' 'I thought my orders were clear.
' Yeah, they were.
'But you decided to carry on anyway and ignore me.
' Not 'OK, OK.
' 'I'm getting someone else here to take this one over.
' I thought you couldn't spare anyone.
'Don't push your luck, Jack.
' 'I want all your paperwork available first thing.
Is that clear?' 'You're out of your depth on this one and I am not happy.
' (WALSH HANGS UP) JACK: You asked me what I was doing back here.
SAOIRSE: You said it was a test.
I think I just failed it.
I've been taken off this case.
Do you want to tell me why? I want to .
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but I'm not sure that I can.
It should have been a good move for me - coming home.
I know the place, I know the people, I thought I knew how everything worked.
It's a cesspit.
My father's the only one who can see into it, and half the time I think he's stirring it up because he enjoys the stink.
Maybe the problem's not the place.
Maybe it's your father.
My father is the place.
That's the problem.
I've just found out he had another child, a daughter, by another woman years ago.
What happened to her? She wasn't allowed to live.
Oh, Jack.
I've just been out to the place where she was buried.
I'm so sorry.
You'd no idea? No.
It's a small town.
Somebody must have known.
Somebody must have known.
They close ranks though, don't they? I had it all wrong, you see.
I thought I was coming back to something I knew.
But I knew nothing.
It's a sick place.
My father's at the heart of it even now.
Just as you were getting to like the place, huh? It wasn't the place I was getting to like.
I knew you'd come through for me.
I need a pint.
(CHUCKLES) (KNOCKS) Tommy! I loved her, Jack, and that's the God's truth.
I never did anything to harm her.
No.
I know you came up here that night.
She'd been drinking heavily, and when she wouldn't do what you wanted, I think you blocked up that gas flue and left her here to suffocate to death.
Her and the child she was carrying.
Are you going to arrest me? I am.
It's from her.
Sylvana.
Read it to me.
Please, Jack.
"Tommy, I know this will make you unhappy and I am sorry.
You were good to me at first and I am grateful.
I know that you cannot help me to get rid of my baby.
It is what you believe and I understand, but without my passport I am like a prisoner here.
I cannot be a mother, and after what happened with the men at the hotel .
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I cannot go home to my family.
This is my fault because I needed the money very much.
You thought you were being kind .
.
but you must know that I can never have this child.
So now I have no hope and also no future.
So now I have no hope and also no future.
Goodbye, Tommy.
Sylvana.
" (SIGHS) I did kill her, didn't I? Her and the baby.
Noyou didn't kill them.
But there was another child, wasn't there? A child you did kill.
My sister.
You told me she was dead when you found Mary.
That isn't true, is it? I buried her.
After you killed her.
Look at me.
Gerry told me what happened.
The child was alive, wasn't it? And you killed it.
Now he may have made you do that - I believe he could do that.
It's time for you to tell the truth.
Stop covering up for him.
When I got to Mary, the child was still alive.
But I had told your father that I'd take care of it for him.
And it would have been an easy thing to do, you know.
It hardly had a breath of life in it.
It would have been a case of just letting it go.
But once I held the thing in my hands I let Gerry think I had done it because I didn't have the guts to cross him.
But if you didn't kill the child, what did you do with it? Tommywouldn't you like to be free of all this? Free of Gerry? I told Mary that the child was dead.
That I'd take it away and bury it for her.
Instead, I took it down to my sister in Wexford.
She had three kids already and she didn't ask any questions.
She's been a great mother, Jack, treated it like one of her own.
I know she thought the child was mine, but she never reproached me for it, never a word.
I sent her money every month .
.
visited there regular - holidays and things with my own kids.
And she's grown into a beautiful young woman, Jack.
A woman any man would be proud to father.
My sister thought it would be a good idea if I became her godfather.
Which is what I was really, wasn't it? She came up with the name Saoirse.
It means freedom.
But you know that already, Jack, don't you? How many more lives do you think he's wrecked? How many more children are there out there? What else could I have done, Jack? Tell me that.
You could have stood up to him.
And I will.
It can come out now, can't it? I can tell her the truth at last, think of that.
She'll know who she is.
That she has a mother What the fuck are you talking about? Mary and Saoirse Are you fucking insane? They have a right to know.
But you don't have the right to tell them! Do you not get it? It's too late.
What can I do, Jack? You can live with it.
(WHIMPERS) Without the boots would be good.
You have to go.
You asked me to wait.
Ithought this was what you meant.
It is what I meant.
OK.
Here I am.
Here I am.
You can take me.
Would you prefer if I showered or something? Have you got a thing about that? Jack? Is it this house? Do you want to go somewhere else? It's nothing to do with the house.
It's just me.
Yeah, it's just you.
Tommy will be wondering where I am.
That story you told me about Gerry, about him fathering another child somewhere.
I'll tell you one thing about your father, Jack.
I bet he never treated a woman like this.
Well, Jack lad, can we all sleep safely in our beds? Or is there still a killer on the loose? There's a few of them, all right, but I've a fair idea who they are.
Do you now? Will you take a bit of advice? Being a Guard in a place like this, you're administering a different sort of justice.
And what sort's that? Well, I would say it's a sort of natural justice.
People generally get their comeuppance in time.
Isn't that so? It's usually the way of things.
Sylvana Carapic.
Cause of death, suicide by carbon monoxide inhalation.
She drank most of a bottle of vodka, She drank most of a bottle of vodka, blocked up the flue to the gas fire, and went to bed and died with her unborn child.
Ohand she left us a letter explaining why.
I'll let you have a full report.
Well, that's a nice tidy result all right.
Isn't it, Gerry? Yes.
Very.
And we haven't had to bother anyone from outside, which is the way I like it.
So .
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case closed.
On to the next one, eh, Dad? I hear she's going back to Dublin.
I'd say she was already there by now.
That's a shame.
Jack Driscoll.
That's right.
Did you manage to find a number for her family? Excellent.
And would you know if anybody in the house speaks English? Could you do that for me? Thanks.
No, I'll hold.
'Mr Carapic? This is Sergeant Jack Driscoll calling from Ireland.
I'm the police officer who found your daughter.
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