01x06 - Episode 6

[bunniefuu]

♪We fished a body from the lake.

We're investigating the
death of Róisín Hurley

and we are treating this
as a m*rder investigation.

Why did you k*ll her?

Oh, that would make things all
nice and neat for you, wouldn't it!

Charlie looked me in the eye
right before he pulled that trigger

and said he didn't k*ll Róisín.

Tell her I'm sorry.

- [g*nsh*t]
- [CRIES OUT]

Whatever else your father did, he
was never guilty of Chloe Whelan.

Someone came in, I heard his voice.

Thanks sunshine.

Charlie Reid wasn't driving the
car that night Chloe Whelan drowned.

It was Bill Maguire.

He's behind everything.

[♪ THEME SONG BY LISA HANNIGAN:]

♪ We, the drowned ♪

♪ Hold our hollow-hearted ground ♪

♪ We know not the fire in which we burn ♪

♪ But we sing and we sing
and we sing and we sing, ♪

♪ Oh, we, the drowned ♪

♪ The lost and found out ♪.

Oh, ***

Bill...

Fia, what brings you over here?

Can we do this
inside, with clothes on?

It's Detective
Lucey, if you don't mind.

What can I do for you, detective?

I just wanted to
ask you a few questions.

What about?

The events of 20 years ago.

What has your personal
tragedy got to do with me?

I actually meant
Chloe Whelan's death.

But now that you mention it,
it was pretty close in time

to what happened
to my family, wasn't it?

I remember.

It must be why
people said what they said.

About my father and Chloe?

Yeah.

But they're not
saying that now, are they?

I mean my father wasn't one
to mess around with young girls.

He wasn't a sick f*ck like that.

She was just 16, 17, and
that's practically paedophilia.

- 17.
- Only just.

Funny how you remember
that just off the bat!

Were you close?

If you're trying to imply I somehow
knew about her relationship

with Charlie Reid, I certainly didn't.

She didn't have a
relationship with Charlie Reid.

Someone else was
driving the car that night.

And you know that how exactly?

Evidence found, in the car.

Oh well if it's evidence,
there'll be no time at all

until you've solved the mystery.

There was also a witness.

Who?

My father.

Jack. Well I'm no expert
in Garda matters, but...

what can a dead witness tell you?

The dead can be
very informative, Bill.

But of course you wouldn't know that,

not being versed in Garda matters.

I'd love to hear more,

but just the b*llet points,
I'm starting to run a bit late.

I know.

I know what you did, Bill.

Did she reach for you
as the car filled up with water?

Do you still hear her scream?

- Really, Fia?
- Yeah.

[HE CHUCKLES]

Oh, I remember you as a child.

A real daddy's girl.

Always out on that boat.

I'd see ye from the shore.

Envied Jack, if I'm honest, envied
that bond between father and child.

Of course he envied what I had.

There was no secret he didn't like
my plans for the distillery, lodged

objections, would have said
it was environmental concerns,

but... it was just plain old jealousy.

I single-handedly dragged his town

out of the muck and into the future.

I made it into a place
that could hold its head up high.

Whereas Jack, Jack couldn't
stop looking down into the depths,

into the darkness.

Everyone knew he wasn't well.

People were shocked, but not
surprised when he did what he did.

Even if he was alive to say
what he wanted against me,

nobody would believe him.

So whatever you think you know, Fia,

your theory has less
than nothing going for it.

I'm sorry.

Oh no.

You've been more helpful
than you realise, Bill.

Maybe next time make an appointment.

Next time, I won't need one.

The only thing that links Bill
to Chloe's death

and therefore potentially
to the events of the barn,

is Niamh's memory.

And whatever way you look at it,
that's not proof, not after 20 years.

I know you know
it's all circumstantial.

I know you're just trying to prove
to yourself that you're right...

I am right.

I proved it to myself this morning
when I looked him in the eye.

You did what now?

I went to Bill's.

Why?

I have a memory.

It would have been
the night of Chloe's death.

Dad was in the barn,
changing out of his wet clothes.

He had them draped
over this clothesline, I showed you.

Charlie must have been
told to get rid of the clothes.

Charlie!?

Well it was Charlie
who Bill went to

for help after he
crashed into the lake.

- It stands to reason...
- It doesn't stand to any reason.

Charlie saying his car was stolen
to help Bill is one thing.

Committing out and out
m*rder is another.

Why would Charlie Reid do
such a thing for Bill Maguire?

I don't know...

Yet.

How are you feeling?

Fine.

Just trying to
keep my head straight.

Trying to keep things out of it.

So you're going tonight?

Yeah.

Do you not think maybe you should...

It's not as simple as that, okay?

- *I just...
- [KNOCK ON DOOR]

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

What the f*ck is so
important it couldn't wait?!

[DOOR OPENS]

Ah Niamh, you're here, great.

We could really do with some space.

Charlie had a history
of cheque fraud,

kicked out of three separate
jobs for the same scam.

- Cheques? When was this?
- Late 90s.

So?

So explain to me how a
degenerate loser like him

ended up with a share
in a prosperous business.

I checked his credit history
this morning, it's a complete joke.

Carrie told me that Charlie and
Róisín had done some sort of deal

back in the day.

A deal that involved
k*lling your family.

Can you prove it?

I need a little peek
at someone's accounts first.

[BEEPING] System Arming.

[FAST BEEPING]

[FAST BEEPING STOPS]

[CAR STARTS]

[ALARM BEEPING FAST]

[BEEPING]

[FAST BEEPING STOPS]
System unset.

[CHATTER]

[INAUDIBLE]

[CLEARS THROAT]
Deirdre, Bill, hi.

Niamh, and Cian!

So lovely to see you both out.

We'll leave you both to it.

[BOTH EXCLAIM]

Oh, no, no, sit down please, yeah.

- Well...
- *Go, sit down, yeah.

♪What're you having, Bill?

♪I'll have a pint.

Will you have another Bill?

Yeah, go on.

Better drain the spuds so.

Bill!

I don't know what
I'm going to do with that man.

[DEIRDRE SPEAKING UNINTELLIGIBLY]

- [PHONE BEEPS]
- ***

[SIGHS]

[PHONE BUZZES]

Fia Lucey: desk safe?

Everything okay?

Yeah, just babysitter.

[BEEPING]

[BEEP-BEEP]

[WHISPERS:] Jesus.

Hello?

[KEYS ON DESK]

Charlie bought the restaurant two
days after your family were k*lled.

The same amount was moved
from an account the day before.

Bill paid Charlie the
money to buy the restaurant.

Yeah, and look at this.

Charlie wasn't the only one
to get a sh*t

at a future he didn't deserve.

Róisín Hurley, same setup.

Jesus!

Charlie must
have told Róisín what he did.

So, what, she blackmailed Bill into
giving her a share of the hotel?

Look at the date.

She was paid first.

She didn't just hear about
what he did, she was in on it.

When Róisín told Charlie,
"it's all coming out,"

she wasn't talking about
the girls, was she?

But none of this is gonna
stand up in court,

everything's inadmissible.

Even without all the accounting
chicanery, I'd still have to explain

where we got all
this information from.

Fia, Bill knows how to cover
his tracks, that man plans ahead.

What if there was
one time he just couldn't?

One time he just had to act fast.

I don't believe
Charlie k*lled Róisín.

Ultimately he was just a coward.

A sick, slimy bastard
who preyed on young girls.

I mean, Róisín's wounds...

It was something else.

It was real anger.

I mean that was rage.

Bill?

[PHONE BUZZES]

Webster?

Hey, Lucey.
Sup wants to see you

about the chat you
had with Bill Maguire.

You had no authority
to go to his house like that.

Bill Maguire is guilty, sir.

- There is reams of evidence.
- There is circumstantial nothing!

Look, it would be
negligent to ignore it.

Is this is how you were in Dublin?

Deciding for yourself
what's the law and what's not.

You accused the man
of m*rder, multiple murders.

He didn't personally carry those out.

He's too clever for that.

That's how he's been able to
get away with it all these years.

Do you even hear yourself?

You have nothing that says he
had a part in Chloe Whelan's death,

less than nothing that he
had anything to do with it,

what happened to your family,
and yet you see all this

as evidence that he's
hiding something.

It never occurred to you that
the reason there's no evidence is

- because he's not guilty!
- He's been able

to cover his tracks in the past,
but in Róisín Hurley's case...

Róisín Hurley was k*lled by
Charlie Reid, the case is closed!

It isn't, sir.

I've requested that we hold it.

- You what?!
- At least until we examine...

I was with him!

When?

The night of the Friends of Blackwater
thing, the night...

Róisín Hurley d*ed.

He invited me to his house

and we opened a bottle
of the 20 years reserve.

It was light by the time I left.

Bill Maguire didn't
go anywhere that night.

And as far as I'm concerned,
you can get out of this office,

get into that squad car and go out
and do some proper police work!

Now get out!

CIAN: I've never seen
him like that before.

I've seen it before.

Where?

Interrogation rooms.

When you're closing
in on them they go spare.

He was scared. He doesn't want me
anywhere near Bill,

because to get near Bill
is to get near him.

Ah, come on!

I did say you
mightn't like the truth.

The truth...

Don't take this out on me, I'm on
the sh*t list too because of you

and I've a family
to support, remember that.

Christ!

Shanahan's involved is he?

Do you know how
ludicrous that sounds?

It's not ludicrous.

There had to have been
Garda collusion.

[HE SIGHS]

I need to get my hands on
the coroner's report at the time.

DONAL: You don't need to do that.

When I recused myself
from the investigation,

it was Shanahan took over.

- See you.
- Yeah.

I'll be back at the station.

Why didn't you tell me, Donal?

I didn't think he did much
more than sign the paperwork.

He's not a good guard.

Lazy, that's all.

If I'd told you it was him,
what would you have done?

Well, I would have confronted him.

Like you confronted
Bill, how did that go?

You moved too soon, Fia.

Bill knows he's in your sights.

If there were any loose ends

you can be damn sure
he's tied them up now.

Are you heading back
to the station this evening?

Shanahan's given me the day off.

Well Sandra's out at one of her
classes, do you fancy

having a spot
of dinner with me?

That'd be nice.

Wait now till I see, Sandra might
have left something in the freezer.

- [DOOR CLOSES]
- Hey!

DONAL: Hi, Emma. ***

Mam says he's not
sleeping, night terrors,

she thinks it's connected to
something you're working on. Is it?

You know I knew
he recused himself for a reason.

Stupid of me to think
that reason might have changed.

I'm sorry.

I think Bill
ordered my family's m*rder.

I think it was him
in the car with Chloe.

Jesus, Fia!

That's what you
have dad helping you with.

He'd do anything for you,
you do know that don't you?

Yeah.

[♪ MELANCOLIC MUSIC]

Niamh?

What if Bill finds out what we did?

What I did.

He won't.

Fia knows what she's doing.

I'm finding it hard, Cian, being
around him, knowing what I know now.

But what could I do?

You could leave.

DEIRDRE: So what time
did you leave last night?

I left at 5.30.

And when you left, did you set
the alarm *and lock up the door?

Yes, I definitely locked the
door and then I set the alarm.

♪

Bill, hi. Erm, hum, we
need these signed off ASAP.

You'll need your coat.

Come with me.

[BEEP]

Hi, this is Garda Cian Furlong,
please leave a message.

Hey Cian, I'm on my way to the
coroners, see if they have

any of the old records on file.

If you want access to
my father's official records,

you're going to need to go
through the proper channels.

Yeah, look, kind of hoping
you'd be able to do that for me,

you know, your name
carries more weight.

You mean my name isn't your name?

What are you so worried about
anyway, I'm sure you've a legitimate

- reason to want to see them?
- [SIGHS]

Tell that to Shanahan,
sorry, I shouldn't have said that.

No, my father was never
Shanahan's biggest fan.

My dad was a professor at the
College of Surgeons

and he mentored
a student there at the time.

Kind of sheltered bloke, said grace
before meals when he came around.

Anyway, they kept in touch.

And years later when that man's
daughter went missing and the Gardaí

weren't doing
much, dad tried to help.

He spoke to the investigating
officer at the time and tried

to get him to keep the search
going, but he shut him down.

Hang on, you're talking
about James Whelan, Dr Whelan?

Shanahan was the
investigating officer in charge

of Chloe Whelan's disappearance,
and he shut it down?

Jesus Christ!

I can't help you access the files,

but dad had a habit of making notes.

If you can drop by my place
later, you can have a look.

See what's in storage.

Yeah, I will.

Thank you.

- Where's your mam?
- I don't know.

What happened today?

I couldn't reach you.

Bill took me out to lunch to talk.

He offered me a
codirector position, Cian.

That's not a raise, that's
three times my salary,

better benefits, scope
to go much higher.

Niamh, that's just what he does.

He keeps his enemies close,
he keeps them in his debt,

- so they depend on...
- Yeah, but don't you know

what a job like that could
mean for us, Cian, for the boys?

What did you say?

That I'd have to think about it.

He laughed at that, he said it was
important you're informed,

make you feel like you're
a part of the decision.

Resign.

Resign, but what about
everything, we need two salaries?

I'll do all the overtime I can,
I'll get another job, whatever,

- we'll manage like we always do.
- That's easier said than done, Cian.

Look, you're trustworthy,
you're talented, you're honest,

you'll find something
else, anything else.

- No, we don't know that though.
- Listen, you don't need him!

But I need you.

Okay.

Is there any correspondence
from that time?

Emails, letters?

Anything the investigating
officer would have put in writing?

I there any official
statement for his reasoning

for calling off the search.

You think he was
remiss in his duties?

I can't say that.

But you think he
should have known,

that if he hadn't
shut down the case

he would have
caught Charlie Reid earlier.

I can say that either...

It wasn't Shanahan's fault
he didn't suspect Charlie Reid.

Nobody would ever have
thought Chloe was seeing him.

She was a good girl.

And she'd still be with us if it wasn't

for the damned vanity of others.

Let me see you out.

Dr Whelan... what
did she mean "others"?

She was talking about me.

At the time, your mother, she was
coming to church with her sister.

They were praying for Emma.

That the cancer would go, and God
forgive me, I saw an opportunity

in their desperation.

You hoped Chloe would encourage
our family into your church group.

I wanted to bring you all into the
light, but instead I allowed demons

to gain access to Chloe.

She used the freedom I gave her to
be with the likes of Charlie Reid

or perhaps another just like him.

I heard on the grapevine
you visited the Maguire house.

You questioned Bill didn't you?

Dr Whelan, I have no
proof, no evidence at all.

Tread carefully Fia,

this town won't hear a bad
word said against Bill Maguire.

There's not a soul in the parish
doesn't owe him a favour

for a good deed of some sort.

I mean you yourself must know that.

What did Bill Maguire ever do for me?

Well, not you exactly but...

You don't know?

_

_

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

Hi.

I'm so sorry to come here so late.

Not at all, come
on in, it's freezing.

Thanks.

All of dad's stuff is
down here in the basement.

He was coroner for 40
years, so there's loads of boxes.

I'll leave you to it.

Yeah.

Let me know if you need anything.

Right, thanks.

_

This might have
to wait for another day.

I just have an early
start in the morning...

_

This... These look like originals.

Duplicates maybe, I mean he would
have photocopied stuff if he...

wanted to revisit it later.

Have you found what you wanted?

_

You never recused
yourself from the case.

I did.

Only after you signed off
on the coroner's report, why?

You knew that when
Shanahan took over,

that would never see
the light of day again.

Why did you want to bury it Donal?

Fia, I had no choice.

Because Bill paid
for Emma's cancer treatment!

- Yes.
- But how,

how could you let everyone think
my father m*rder*d his wife and son?

How could you let me think that?

Emma's treatment
had only just started.

For the first time I allowed myself

to believe that we were
going to get to keep her.

If Bill went to jail,
it would have stopped.

She'd have d*ed, Fia,

and God knows it wouldn't
have been an easy death.

Can you imagine what that would
have been like for my daughter?

My mother, my brother,
my dad, your best friend!

What about them?

Fia, they were
dead when I got there.

Nothing I could have
done would have changed that.

I had one choice that night,
to let Emma live or to let Emma die.

Bill?

Bill called me, saying
there'd been an accident.

Charlie and Róisín had
been sent to... persuade Jack

to forget he pulled Bill Maguire
from the lake,

to never mention anything
about that night to anyone.

I think they just meant to rough
him up, to make sure he kept quiet.

But something went wrong.

Dad?

Elizabeth and Aidan
came back to the house.

[g*nsh*t]

And they must have panicked.

Aidan?

[MUFFLED CRIES]

[g*nsh*t]

[MUFFLED SCREAMS]

[g*nsh*t]

They were gone when I got there.

I did what had to be done.

I've been carrying this,
the weight of it for too long.

Fia, I'm not asking you
to keep this secret,

I wouldn't do that to you.

I just need you to know
why I did what I did.

Jack would have done the same.

He would have done the same...

to save you.

[DOOR OPENS]

[AND CLOSES]

You didn't come home last night.

Look, I'm late for work,
I need to see Cian.

Yourself and Donal,
you're at odds with each other.

Did he talk to you?

He said nothing.

Don't be too hard on
him, Fia, you weren't there.

What he saw...

It haunts him, his failure.

His failure?!

To see the signs.

That Jack... was so unwell.

I need to go.

Please come tonight?

Be at Emma's party?

You're cousins, but...

I know she thinks
of you as a sister.

Like your mam was to me.

I need to go.

- Any luck with the coroner?
- Mm?

You were gonna ask her if she could
access her dad's records for you.

Oh right, yeah, she didn't.

sh*t, so nothing?

Well I got his notes...

- Anything in there?
- No.

I mean the records aren't gonna
show us anything anyway.

- But what if Shanahan signed off...
- He didn't!

And even if he did, it's not
gonna bring us any closer to Bill

and that's the only
person who we should be on.

W...

- We tried to get closer, we couldn't.
- Yeah, I know.

So what, we just give up?

Great.

Well, I don't know
what we're doing here.

Nothing's gonna change
if we just sit on this.

We got to see it through.

We're in this now, Fia.

Here he is, cheer
up it's not a funeral.

It's a surprise birthday party.

Fia! I've been calling you all day!

Sorry.

- We're gonna go, are you ready?
- No.

Thank God you said that!

Look, I need to get showered up,

why don't you go ahead,
I'll be right behind you.

Okay, see you there.
Come on.

I'm going to show my face in the pub,

but I'm leaving for Dublin tonight.

I do love you, you know.

[LIVELY CHATTER, MUSIC]

Well she didn't sink anyhow.

What do you mean?

The Lady Elizabeth...

I called into Jack's old boathouse
and I saw that you'd taken her out.

After all this time, you're taking
your life in your hands

going out
without a proper checkup.

But I didn't, Fergus.

Ah, come on, who else
would have taken her out?

Excuse me everybody, can
I have your attention please?

Thank you Victoria
for the gorgeous cake.

- [GASPING]
- [CONVERSATIONS CONTINUE INDISTINCTLY]

[MUSIC CONTINUES AND GROWS LOUDER:]

[♪ Les Fleurs by Minnie Ripperton]

[♪ MUSIC FADES]

I thought you were in Dublin.

I've called
forensics to dad's old boat.

They'll be checking your car, too.

We both know what they're
gonna find there, Donal, don't we?

She k*lled your family...

Don't you dare say
you did this for me!

You m*rder*d
her to protect yourself...

So that no one would find out you
covered up my family's slaughter.

Fia, please.

Who the f*ck are you?!

Okay, okay, Róisín came here.

She told me what Charlie
had done to her daughter.

He's lying there on top of her
like some kind of filthy animal.

I don't care what happens to me, I
have spent my entire life

running from what I did that night.

And I stood by while
all those girls were hurt.

I'm gonna tell the guards
everything, I want everyone to know

who Bill and Charlie truly are.

After I talk, he
won't have anything over me.

No Róisín, you can't do that!

You're a victim, Donal, I know
how Bill dragged you into this,

but if we do this together,
people will understand.

People will understand, Donal.

Will you help me finish this?

[EXHALES] Thank you.

I knew you wouldn't let me down.

[LOUD THUD]

[LOUD SPLASH]

[LOUD SPLASH]

FIA: You m*rder*d her just
to cover up your filthy secret.

I had no choice!

Dad?

Emma go back to bed, this isn't...

What is she saying you covered up?

- What did you do?
- Tell them!

What did you do?

Why don't you tell them, Donal?!

[WRETCHING]

Emma, I'm so sorry.

I only did it to save you.

Róisín was going
to tell them everything.

She... [CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]

Fia, Fia!?

***

[FIA SNIFFS]

I'm sorry.

Stop will ya, I didn't know.

I never thought to ask how
they paid for the treatment.

Even if I did I
could never have known.

You were just a kid.

So were you.

But it was taken away from you.

Your life, your family.

Please Fia, don't take away mine?

You know what it's like to
lose the people you love, you know!

Emma...

What he did was wrong,
but he did it to save me.

k*lling Róisín wasn't about you!

It was about him.

He k*lled the woman
who m*rder*d your family.

And you want to destroy him?!

Us, for that?

Fia, you should be thanking him.

Róisín Hurley was a f*cking monster!

He's the f*cking monster!

He k*lled Róisín
because she wanted to come clean.

He's let me live in
agony for the past 20 years!

If that's how you feel,
then go, just, just go away.

No...

It's just going to be buried again.

You can Fia.

We love you, Fia.

We are your family.

Family?!

Oh, Fia!

Fia, please.

Donal O'Reilly, I'm arresting you
for the m*rder of Róisín Hurley.

No, Fia, I raised you, so
did he, you cannot ignore that.

You do this, you
will be on your own again.

I've always been on my own.

[SIRENS]

Any word from Maguire?

He'll be brought in, but without
Donal's co-operation,

- it will be your word against his.
- Yeah.

The biggest, most beloved
employer in the region.

I heard.

Ah, time has a habit of
bringing things to the surface.

Yeah!

I'll be waiting, watching.

So will I.

[CHURCH BELL]

[♪ END THEME]

♪ We, the drowned ♪

♪ The lost and found out ♪...

[♪.]