Bloodlands (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - Episode #1.4 - full transcript

My brother was having an affair
with another man's wife. She gave
him a pendant with an owl on it.

He managed to get a parcel to me
before he died. He says

it's a collection of all
the leads he has to Goliath.

I'll take it away as evidence.

Your mum used to say it helped
her see in the dark.

Daddy, this is yours.
Your mum and I both had one.

Emma Brannick -
she was more than just the wife.

Indeed. 14 Intelligence Company.
A spook.

I think I know who Goliath is.
Jackie Twomey.

Adam mentions
Jackie in the documents.

I won't be able to gather
evidence against him effectively,



not without him
being across all of it.

Well, then I'll help you.

It's done.

Are you sure it'll lead
to other things?

I believe it will.

And we have the right man?

We do.

They found a fingerprint
on the postcard.

The print belonged to Adam Corry.

Jackie Twomey, I'm arresting you on
suspicion

of the murder of Adam Corry.

You do not have to say anything but
it may harm your defence

if you do not mention when
questioned

something that you later
rely on in court.



Birdy.

This is the interview
team down from Belfast.

Ma'am. Can you make sure you look
after them while they're here?

Aye, sir.

I do have a soft spot
for the funny-looking ones.

Do you understand?

I said you've been cautioned

because incriminating evidence
has been found in your possession

that has the fingerprints
of a murder victim on it.

Do you understand?

I do.

What else?

Er, I beg your pardon?

What else did they find?

Nothing.

Well, so far.

Just prints on a postcard?

Does that seem right to you?

So, the postcard was
placed in the pages of a book.

It was a First World War history...
She's letting him lead.

She's very good at this, sir.

It's not my book.
It was on your book shelf.

It's not mine.

Well, whose, is it?

Adam Corry had
a collection of similar books.

Is it his?

Our paths never crossed.

Never?

No.

Oh, right.

If I was to ask you when was
the last time you saw Adam Corry...?

I've only ever seen him dead,

as the victim of an ongoing
murder enquiry.

Never alive? No.

Never?

No.

Er, are you aware of a pub called
the Dunfolan Arms?

I am.

Did you drink there regularly

when you were an RUC officer
stationed here from 1986 to 1999?

MOBILE BUZZES
I did.

Er, these are statements from former
officers at RUC Dunfolan,

and each one of them confirms

that Adam Corry was a regular
at the Dunfolan Arms,

and, in the 12 months after
his brother's disappearance in 1998,

he was repeatedly asked to leave
by management

for bothering officers
drinking there.

He was eventually barred.

Do you remember that?

Yeah, I do.

So, an order was signed stopping
officers from RUC Dunfolan

drinking at the Dunfolan Arms.

It was placed OOB.

The fact that they were identified
off duty was deemed a security risk.

Ah, this is that order.

Do you recognise
the signature at the bottom?

It's mine.

But then there is this account
from one of the former officers'

statements, which says one night
you "bawled Adam Corry out",

telling him to stay away
from your officers.

And this disagreement,
shall we say, er, was, um,

supported by an account in
Adam Corry's journal,

where he says that you told him

that his brother got what
he deserved.

Do you remember that?

Um...maybe.

Maybe?

The man was a nuisance.

His brother was a terrorist.

But you did know who he was.

Now that I come to think of him...

His dead face wasn't
enough of a reminder, no?

Now let me ask you again.

When was the last time you saw
Adam Corry, alive?

I...I don't recall.

Oh, Jackie...

Right.

Let's go back to the book.

It's not my bloody book!

I'd like to talk to my client,
please.

Go ahead.

Alone.

Right.
MOBILE RINGS

Um, interview paused at 11:36.

We will resume after lunch.

MOBILE CONTINUES RINGING

HE SIGHS
Listen, I, um...

..I've got to pop out.

Er, Izzy, she's upset about
something. I won't be long.

Wow.

He was taken into custody yesterday.

Thank God.

Apart from what we planted,
what else did they find?

Forensics relating to Adam.

Blood? Fingerprints.

Where? Inside the caravan.

Just fingerprints? So far.

We need more.
You won't get a conviction on that.

Leave it to me.

What about all the other evidence?
The stuff that Adam sent me.

It's still being examined.
And the necklace?

Adam's notes said
that that had significance.

Did they not find any DNA on that?

These things take time.

Time?

I've waited 22 years.

Birdy, what's the latest?

Chasing forensics on the postcard
found in Jackie's caravan,

but I'm getting nowhere.

SHE SIGHS

HE KNOCKS
Can I have a word?

Well, we were just about to go back.

You need to go for the facts that
position him as Goliath.

PHONE RINGS

DCI Brannick's phone. OVER PHONE:
Hi, Niamh. It's Izzy. Oh, hi, Izzy.

Go after his work with
Special Branch, huh?

How he accounts for running
an unofficial IRA source.

You sound like you're
feeling better. Why do you say that?

Oh, just what your dad said.

He was on his way to see you?
That's news to me.

I'm feeling grand. I'm fine.

My mistake.

I must have misheard him.

I'll pass that on. Thanks, Niamh.

No bother. Bye. Bye. Bye.

OVER PHONE: You are
currently on hold.

Is that management hub?
OVER PHONE: Yes, it is, sir.

Can you tell me
the last number to dial this line?

Thanks.

You OK, sir?

Yes, Birdy.

There are gaps in what
we know about you.

We need to talk about the work you
were doing for intelligence,

around the time of
the Peace Agreement.

Part of your operational duties...
HE EXHALES

Izzy said she spoke to you. Aye.

Mm.

Yeah, one minute she's crying,
the next she's grand.

She won't tell anyone
what's going on.

All this, it's...

..taking its toll.

At that time, did you use
a post office box in town

for your operational duties?

Would you like me to repeat the...?

We all did.

Er, what was the number
of your post office box?

Do you remember?

2421.

And did you use it to set up
meetings with an IRA source?

Um...

..Joe Harkin?

Yes.

See, we weren't able to find any
record of that activity.

No handler ID.

Nothing.

Was it approved?

No.

We're talking about a serious
breach of security.

It even made its way into pages
of Adam Corry's journal.

What was the thinking behind it?

I couldn't declare it.

Why not?

I was a Catholic officer
working in the RUC.

To some of my colleagues,
I was the enemy,

even though we were wearing
the same uniform.

They didn't think
they could trust me,

and I certainly didn't trust them.

Well, needless to say,
you were working outside the rules.

The rules, in those days,
were open to interpretation.

Huh.

Do you remain in contact with
Joe Harkin's widow, Siobhan Harkin?

Taped under your sink
in your caravan.

It's only her number
in the call log.

When was the last time you
spoke to her?

Recently.

What did you talk about?

I told her that this might come out.

Shit.

This is where it gets sticky,
because you know

what it's like not to trust
your fellow officers,

and now they know you're in contact

with a woman who is being questioned
in relation to an ongoing case.

The rules, now,
are not subject to interpretation.

Did you talk to Siobhan Harkin
about the kidnapping of Pat Keenan?

I did.

The same Pat Keenan who allegedly
tried to have Siobhan killed.

Have you influenced police

investigation
before for Siobhan Harkin?

I have not influenced anything.

Would Siobhan Harkin see
you as a trustworthy insider?

No.

Did you try to influence
the Goliath investigation

so that Pat Keenan became a suspect?

No.

You never gave Goliath
much credence, did you?

What?

You never believed he existed.

Indeed, in the interests
of keeping the peace,

you encouraged your subordinate
officers to not investigate Goliath.

That is a gross misrepresentation.

You replaced
Superintendent Diane McAllister,

apparently influencing -
there's that word again -

influencing the ACC
District Command's call

on whether she was fit to continue.

On what grounds?

She...

..she was losing
control of the district.

This allowed you to position
yourself with an overview

of the Goliath investigation,
to hinder it, if needs be.

You're wrong.

You pushed the manhunt for Keenan
above all other lines of inquiry,

and there's nothing wrong with that,

but you did it to the detriment
of the Goliath investigation.

Where is your permanent residence...

..DCS Twomey?

Belfast.

And where is your temporary
residence,

while you're working down here?

The caravan.

Can you be more specific?

A static caravan on the shores
of Strangford Lough.

Thank you.

Do you always lock your caravan?

I do.

There was no forced entry.

I'm sorry?

There was no forced entry
to your caravan.

There was no trace of anyone
else but you.

And you say that this book
is not yours,

but how did it get there
without you putting it there?

I don't know. And how did
the postcard get inside the book?

I don't know.

And you denied knowing Adam Corry,
but you did know him.

Not personally. You had, still have,
unsanctioned relationships

with sources within the IRA.

You influenced an ongoing
police investigation

in favour of those sources.

I did not influence anything.

And when her husband, Joe Harkin,

who allegedly was assassinated
by the individual called Goliath,

an individual who you tried to
suppress an investigation into...

That is an outright fabrication!
..in a line of inquiry

over 20 years ago... I will not sit
here while you pull together

strands of unrelated information
into... I can see no other motive

than covering your tracks.
..a tidy bow of bullshit.

Adam Corry, in the pages of his
diary that aren't missing,

comes to the conclusion

that the most likely candidate
for Goliath is you.

And now he's dead, killed
in the same was as his brother.

What conclusion are we supposed
to draw from this?

Whatever you like.

I...I can't watch any more.

Find anything useful yet?

Well, it's still only the postcard
and the fingerprints.

Fingerprints...

Jesus, yous must be desperate.

Thought you said
he was a good fit for it.

On a personal level, aye.

Listen, I don't particularly
care for the man,

but if Jackie is responsible
for this murder, we'd have found

something by now - clothing fibres,
saliva, skin, blood.

An auld lad crumbles
like a leper in a bath.

Adam Corry would have left
something behind.

If it isn't Jackie...?

Then it's your Goliath.

You just need to find the person
who stands the most to gain from

framing Jackie Twomey.

OVER WALKIE: Four, five,
we're on our way to you now.

Is it all clear to enter? Proceed.

Sarge.

Thank you.

DOG BARKS

I got your message.

If Jackie needs help,
I'll do what I can.

Who are you?

I mean, he just gave me your number,
said you owed him one.

I need to know anything you can
tell me

about Emma Brannick's disappearance.

She worked under
the call sign Greenfinch.

Give me a couple of hours.

Come over!
DOG BARKS

PHONE RINGS

Brannick. OVER PHONE: It's Dinger.
I've got some news.

So, the forensic analysis
of the postcard they found

in Jackie's caravan has come back.

It's not from the same batch
found in the Keenan investigation.

And, on closer examination
of the lock on the caravan door,

there are signs that it was
forced...

..most likely by someone
with a skeleton key

that only partially worked.

We have to discount the evidence.

But there are still substantial
concerns about Jackie.

Well, you need to put those
in your report,

but, in the meantime, we need to
focus our attention

on who has tried to frame
DCS Twomey.

Will I get your clothes, sir?

You don't like the tracksuit?

Just get my clothes, Birdy.

This is bullshit.

It was out of my hands.

I did my best.

But they had so much to go on,
a bloody box full of evidence.

It's not enough.
When will it ever be?

You know, I stuck my neck out
for this.

What the hell is going to
happen to me now? I understand.

I'm really sorry.

Sorry?

You're sorry?

I know the boy that owns
this car park.

His wife did the flowers
for my son's first communion.

Oh, come on, Tom,
it couldn't be that bad.

Couldn't be any worse than
being chained to a radiator

in your underwear.

What do you want?

Chief Superintendent Twomey - is it
true you've been investigating him?

That wouldn't have anything to do
with my kidnap, would it?

Have you found out
who that woman is?

Don't you have a business to run?

How's your daughter?

Just remember this -

eventually, someone will
answer for what happened to me,

with or without you.

Find that woman.

I'll be waiting for your call.

You were missed today.

Where are you going?

The Mournes.

I've got a place up there.

Can't commute?

No, I need to get
a bit of head space.

Get myself right.

Do you want to talk about it?

No.

What is that?

It's my birthday
present from my daddy.

My mummy had one just like it.

It's nice, isn't it?

It's an owl.

Mm-hm, to help me see in the dark.

Do you like it?

Boss's medical records.

What is it you're looking for?

When Emma Brannick disappeared,

the boss went on medical leave
for a rugby injury.

There.

The 19th of February 1998,

sickness absence
for a recurring hip injury.

It never happened again.

So, it was cured?

MOBILE RINGS

McGovern.

Go ahead.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

Thank you.

Who was that?

A source.

The Goliath disappearances went
Joe Harkin first,

Simon Quinlan second,
David Corry third,

then the DCI reported
his wife's disappearance

on the 1st of March 1998,

making her the last disappearance
attributed to Goliath at that time.

But the last time Emma Brannick
reported to her unit

was on the 18th of February 1998,

three days before
Joe Harkin went missing.

Emma Brannick wasn't
the last to go missing.

She was the first.

What was the date of the boss's
medical leave again?

It's the 19th of February.

So, on the 18th of February 1998,
Emma Brannick goes missing.

On the 19th of February 1998...

..the boss goes on leave.

Jesus.

This all started with
the boss and his wife.

MOBILE RINGS

Yeah?

You know that necklace
with the owl on it?

Is that still with Adam's evidence?

Uh-huh.

Where is that evidence?

You didn't hand it in, did you?

Adam said David was given that
necklace by a lover

to help him see in the dark.
Well, those same words

were just spoken by your daughter
when I asked her about the necklace

she was wearing,
the one with the owl on it.

The one with your initial
on the back.

Listen to me. No.

That time has passed.

IZZY: Everything OK?

No!

Sorry, just give me a minute.

That's OK, take your time.

Where...

Where are you? Don't...

Don't you touch her.

You have some explaining to do.

I'll send you an address.

Come alone.

Don't call her, don't message her,

and if you were to
try something, well...

..she could always disappear.

Tori...

Tori...!

SHE KNOCKS
Sir?

They've not finished with me,
you know.

They'll regather.

I followed up on the intelligence
contact you gave me, sir.

We need to talk about DCI Brannick.

The way he described his wife's
disappearance is in doubt, sir.

I believe she went missing nearly
three weeks before he reported it.

Something is not right.

MOBILE RINGS

The DCI has switched
his phone off, sir.

When he left the station
we started tracking his phone,

and he's been headed south.

The last place we tracked him
to was here.

In the Mournes.

What's he doing there?

Headed to the border,
to the Free State?

Alert all units at the border.

Keep on him.

Hi.

Don't fuck this up.

Hi.

Right.

Well, I'll leave you two to it,
then. Smells good.

It won't for much longer,
unless I work my magic.

WHISPERS: Good luck.

In here.

Shut the door.

Sit down.

You haven't told her anything?

I said I wanted you here
to take our relationship further.

It's just you, then?

It's just me.

Are you armed?

I am.

I have to be,
but you have nothing to fear.

Is that right?

My daughter is in the next room.

Otherwise I'd be fair game. No, no.

You loved your wife.

I did.

The pendants...

..they're a romantic touch.

And those words, "To help me
see in the dark."

So intimate.

I don't care what you think
you know. But you do, Tom.

You're here.

So fearful that she might find out,

that your daughter might learn
what kind of man you are.

Will I call her in? No.

You took revenge on the man
who stole your wife. That's not...

Maybe you already had
a taste for it.

I mean, Joe Harkin...

My father. Listen, I am telling
you... For God's sake.

You had me plant evidence to
incriminate your boss, your friend.

Were the fingerprints already
on the postcard?

You had me, though.

You did, with your idea of a wife.

Maybe that was my fault.

Maybe I wanted to believe that
we had a common cause.

We do. No, we don't.

I don't know what it is that
makes you tick.

I mean, you could just be
a jealous man.

You could just be greedy.

Maybe there's a darkness in you
that I just don't understand,

but you have killed,

for whatever reason.

I know you have.

Um...

I came home
and found my baby alone in her crib.

She was screaming, she was hungry.

That's when David Corry called.

He told me he had my wife.

He made it clear that
if I ever wanted to see her again,

if my child were to have a mother,
then I was to...

..I was to do certain things.

Kill my father.

You see, I had no choice.

We had a one-year-old.
She was my baby.

I would have raised an army to
protect her.

Joe Harkin, your dad, they never had
any intention of keeping the peace.

You don't know that. They were
waiting on a shipment of weapons,

two high-powered sniper rifles
from America, when I...

HE GROANS

I was best placed
to know their whereabouts.

They had gone to an island to take
delivery of the weapons.

Only we, the RUC,
knew where they'd be,

and even then just a handful of us.

But because Harkin was assisting
the RUC elsewhere,

we were told to leave
the delivery well alone.

How did they die?

Quickly.

A gun makes things brief.
It's the...

It's the memory that's anything but.

I told David Corry that
I had done what he asked.

He told me to leave the weapons,
go home, wait.

Emma would be returned to me.

But I knew those rifles only
had one purpose.

I couldn't let them
onto the streets, so I lay in wait.

Eventually David arrived.

Emma was with him.
They didn't know I was there.

I watched them.

They...

They behaved like a couple.

I knew straight away she was
never...

She had no intention of coming
back to me.

So you shot them? I shot him.

Her, I... I stood over her.

I knew I was capable of doing it...

..after all she had done to me,
to all of us, you know, but...

..she was still my wife.

She was still Izzy's mother.

I told her to leave.

I knew she could just disappear.

Where is she now?

I honestly don't know.

And Adam?

Adam...

Adam worked it out.
I pleaded with him.

I begged him to tell me
who you were.

I thought you knew more
than you did.

I thought you were going to burn
my life to the ground.

I still can.

Killing Adam was the worst thing
I've done in 22 years.

I thought I'd moved on from that.

With each day I tried to...

Each day with Izzy was a step
further away from that.

But I realise now that I'm...

..I'm still the same man.

I don't want to be.

HE STIFLES CRY
I don't want to be.

I cared about my daddy...

..every step of the way...

..even in death.

I was brave enough to find out
what became of him...

..to fight for justice...

..you will face justice
for what you have done.

You will hand yourself in
and you will confess.

Izzy...

..it'll destroy her.

And in case you decide to back
out of it, I need proof,

something that shows beyond doubt
that you are Goliath,

otherwise it's your word
against a terrorist's daughter.

No. Don't tell her.

Why?

So you can enjoy a life
you've no right to?

Leave me alone with her.
Let me talk to her.

There's a gun.

It ties me to all of them.

Where?

You have to promise me,
once you know where it is...

..leave me to tell Izzy.

IZZY HUMS

LINE RINGS

Sir?!

The phone's back online.

It looks like a house about
two miles north of Silent Valley.

Sir.

Eddie, we have his location
out on the Mournes.

We have to stop Tom Brannick now.

Repeat it back to me.

OK.

What's wrong?

She left.

Go after her.

Birdy says the DCI is on the move
heading north, Strangford direction.

I'll take HMSU
and stay with the signal.

You go to that house.
Find out what's there.

Sir. Niamh, don't take any risks.

CREAKING DOOR OPENS

DOOR SHUTS WITH BANG

LOUD THUD,
WIND BLOWS

SHE GASPS

SHE SIGHS

Hello?

LOUD THUD

Is this what you're looking for?
SHE GASPS

Maybe you don't recognise me,
with my clothes on.

GUNSHOTS

BIRDS SQUAWK

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

Jesus.

You were right to call me.

I was humiliated, but somebody
has answered for it now.

Not quite.

You bastard.

HE GROANS

GUNSHOT

Armed police. Do not move.
Hands up, hands up.

Hands where we can see them.

Get on the ground now. Don't move!
On the ground. Don't move!

I'm a police officer.
ALL SHOUT AT SAME TIME

Drop the weapon.
I'm putting it down.

Jackie? Lower your weapons.

Pat Keenan?

He was armed?

The pistol. It's a 9mm.

The Goliath firearm. Has to be.

Did you shoot him, Tom?

Yes. Daddy! Izzy? Daddy!

Izzy, Izzy. Izzy.

I have you. I have you.

Daddy, who's that?

Darling, it's Tori. It's Tori.

Don't look. Don't look.

Don't... No, Izzy. Izzy! No, no, no.
Stop her. Izzy!

Christ's sake, stop her. No! No! No!

Izzy! No! Leave her, leave her.

Let's go home.

We assessed your
communication history

and detected a call made from
your registered mobile phone

at 16:09 for 32 seconds
to an unregistered mobile phone.

Tori Matthews gave me that number.
She said it was her work phone.

I called it when she didn't
come back to the house.

So, why didn't they find it on her?

I don't know.

She wasn't what she seemed.

Tori was Simon Quinlan's daughter.

He kept them secret up
in the mountains.

We now know her DNA proves
she was the woman

involved in the kidnapping
of Pat Keenan.

She must have been convinced
that Keenan was Goliath.

Are you convinced
that Keenan was Goliath?

Well?

Are you?

Yes.