Holding (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Episode #1.3 - full transcript
They found bones up
at the Burke farm.
Jesus, Mary and Holy St Joseph.
Who around here would have
reason to want Tommy Burke dead?
Apart from the woman he
left standing at the altar?!
Everyone thinks I killed Tommy.
He was fixated on Evelyn Ross!
Are you arresting
me? I'm watching you.
Get out of there!
I might potentially
love you. [GRUNTS]
[HORN BLARES] Whoo!
Why did you help me?
How dare you! How dare you!
Who do you think
sent it? I dunno.
The DNA from the
exhumation is back.
The body, it's not Tommy Burke.
[RADIO:] 'And Duneen's annual
concert, Duneen Rocks, coming up.
'Great news for the village
'after all the nastiness
they've been through.
'You might remember a body
was discovered a while back,
'and can you believe local Gardi
'have still not
identified the corpse?!
'It's sitting idle
for over a month now
'while the Guards
twiddle their thumbs.
'I mean, the population
of Duneen is about 45!
'What's the problem?!' [LAUGHS]
[BIRDSONG]
[VEHICLE APPROACHES]
[HORN HOOTS TWICE]
Slow down, Aoife,
you're over the limit!
Hi, there! Hi.
Jesus, PJ, you're
out here again!
Having a rest, are you, now you gave
up trying to solve the murder case?
I did not give up!
The body wasn't Tommy's,
as well you know.
There were no other leads,
so... But who was it, then?
We don't know.
And what are you doing
to find out? [HE SIGHS]
Tommy Burke could
have murdered someone.
He could be on the run for murder
and no-one is trying to find him
or to find out what poor forsaken
corpse we have on our hands!
There were no other leads.
This is where I'm needed.
You must be missing Linus?
Hm. Poor PJ.
I'm just doing my
job, Mrs O'Driscoll.
Ah, yeah, of course.
Oh! And tell Mrs Fecking
Meany she owes me 50 euro.
I think she's ghosting me.
Leave him alone, Eileen.
Huh! Bye, Peej.
It's not Peej... Ah,
it doesn't matter.
[VIBRATING AND THE
SWEENEY THEME TUNE PLAYS]
Hello?
[DISTANT CHATTER]
What do you think?
I think we need Linus.
Baby bones. I expected
you to be here already,
but they came to me first.
Straight to the top, Peej!
So, the remains were found just
outside, practically in the garden.
They found fibres.
The bones were decomposed, but
inside a little wicker basket.
They say they've been
here decades. Jesus!
Right at Tommy's door.
This is a mad one.
We find a body,
assume it's Tommy B.
It's not, it can't be,
the science says so,
and now we find a baby a
few metres away from him.
Sad things. This has to
be connected to Tommy.
He was shagging Evelyn and Brid.
A baby is dead. A man is gone.
We still have an
unidentified corpse!
[SIGHS]
Let's see which one is the
mother and get this solved, Peej.
Here, can I, er, have
my old sofa back?
How long are you staying?
Missed you, too, buddy.
Oh. What's been going on here?
This place is a kip,
man, no offence.
You need to give
Mrs Meany a raise.
She quit. What?!
Really? Headhunted?
No, I dropped her over a pot
plant, she never answered.
Is she all right?
I think so. [MICROWAVE BELL]
Pizza! Listen.
Maybe Brid found out Evelyn
had a secret Tommy baby
and couldn't hack the jealousy,
or maybe the other way round.
Or maybe something
less sinister.
I don't know yet, but it's one
of those women's baby, has to be.
[CHATTERING]
Are you all right? Huh?
You look a bit demented.
Yeah, I'm grand. Shut up!
Hiya. Look who it is.
God, how are you
healing, Stephen?
He still has five weeks in the
cast, shattered the whole elbow.
You'll find it hard
to do your exams now!
After losing my place
on the Cork team,
a once in a lifetime
gig, ruined,
I'm not thinking about
Higher fucking Maths!
[FOOTSTEPS]
I need to pop out.
Pigeon in a fuse
box, no power, so...
I'll see you at the pub.
Evelyn's opening up this
morning. [DOOR SLAMS]
'To my absent bride,
to poor old Brid,
'everyone, to poor old Brid.
'Brid!' 'Brid!'
Mummy? Hmm?
I drew you a picture. Why?
Because I love you and
you're so beautiful.
Oh, so beautiful.
Go on, off. Liar!
You fucking hypocrite! What?!
[WHISTLING] Why are you
blocking me out, Ev?
I can't do melodrama
today, Stephen.
That's it, yeah, so
I'm binned, done?
Look, we've talked
about this, it's...
You're all I have, Ev.
How can you do
this? I can't play.
I can't go out with
the lads. I'm...
I'm losing it. I need you to go.
Please... Get out.
OK.
I want to talk to you
about the wedding dress.
Look, forget that, it's
irrelevant. I want you to know...
They stopped digging up
above again. What's going on?
They found infant remains.
Oh, Christ. Whose are they?
We don't know yet. I just
thought you should know.
It's not my baby.
Why are you saying that?
That's what he's
insinuating, aren't you, PJ?
It's Evelyn you want. They
were shagging like animals.
Sure Brid and Tommy barely
even kissed, did ye? Did ye?
Well, look, lots of ground to
cover yet. I'll let you go.
Like I said, I just
thought you should know.
[MUTTERING]
I'd like to speak with
you. PJ's meeting me here.
We've found infant remains
up at the Burke farm.
Ev, have you got change for 50?
Er, what?! Oh! Oh, Linus, look!
What's that mean?
You're a terrible gay.
Sorry. Sorry. I'm a bit
late! Croissant now, is it?
Oh, I didn't leave
him any breakfast.
Barracks are in an awful
state without Mrs Meany, so...
Can we focus? We need
to speak to Evelyn.
Maybe she's got a
nervous exhaustion. What?
Mrs O'D says Mrs Meany hasn't
taken a day off in decades.
She's cleaned for everyone in Duneen
at some stage, even your ex, Evelyn.
Who? Tommy B.
She was the Burke family's
cleaner, wasn't she? Was she?
Why would she not tell you
she worked for the Burkes?
You two are thick as thieves.
I don't think I know her
first name, to be honest,
and she's worked for me
for years. Classy (!)
Listen, I should have told you,
I think Mrs Meany had been sending
Brid Riordan sort of hate mail,
notes telling her to confess.
Seriously? And did you
question her about it?
Well, it wasn't
relevant anymore.
The body wasn't Tommy Burke's.
I didn't want to upset her.
I don't like lies. Give me that.
[KNOCKING]
Hello. Look, I
know. I'm sorry...
I'm... I'm really, really sorry.
It is Tommy Burke's body that
ye found down there. It is him.
It is Tommy down there.
And I am so sorry that
I didn't tell you.
I am so sorry.
Take your time. But now
I'll have to go back a bit,
to when I was... much
younger, I suppose.
Yeah, when I was much younger.
I was very, very shy now when
I was young. Was very shy.
And with the boys...
I was useless.
But there was one young fella,
now, his name was Francis.
And I noticed his neck at Mass,
like he had a beautiful neck.
Now, he wasn't from
here at all, no,
he was from way out somewhere,
Roscommon or something.
But he would come down now
every Easter to visit his uncle.
And I used to watch
him, you know.
To look at him.
There was a big parish party
and we had baked up
a rake of fairy cakes
and I was putting the little
cherries on the top, you know?
And the next thing,
someone grabbed my shoulder
and ripped me round hard
and kissed me on the mouth.
He stuck a bit of his
tongue into my mouth!
Oh, Jesus Christ, it-it
was just dreadful. Dirty.
It tasted like
plaque, I'll tell you.
And that was Francis.
And then of course there
was the Irish dancing.
I was very good
at that, you know.
I've made a medal
and all for that.
All through my early 20s, I danced
and I loved it, I lived for it.
And how is this connected
to... Let her speak.
Well, word came down anyway
that there was this big
competition coming to Cork city.
Now, when I say big, I mean big,
it was the Irish Championship
trophy we were dancing for.
So I was thinking to myself, I
might have a go at that, you know.
So I did. And I started
to practise at home.
And I'll tell you now I practised
and I practised and I practised.
And then the night
before the competition,
I went over to Foleys
and I bought myself
a pair of those beautiful, beautiful
thick silk stockings, you know,
do you remember them?
Oh, they're beautiful.
They make you want
to dance, you know.
And I took them under my arm.
Anyway, off I went on
the bus to Cork city.
And I went out onto the
stage and I started to dance.
And I can tell you I beat
my feet against that floor,
the hard dancing, and I had my
hands straight down beside my body.
And I danced and I danced.
And all this went
on until I won!
I won the competition and I became
champion dancer of all Ireland!
Now, how about that?
And then they gave
me a little trophy.
And then it was all over
and everybody was going out,
so I went back and I
joined the others anyway
and we were walking along,
and I saw this youth leaning
on the wall, casual, like,
and didn't he wink at me
and waved his hand at me!
And didn't that turn
out to be Francis!
Francis from the church,
the neck, that Francis.
Oh, then I knew!
I knew that he was going to take
me to that new posh restaurant
down on Jannone Street
beside the bank.
But then, so I
didn't notice at all
that he walked me
round, sort of,
and we were suddenly up there
against that big black wall,
you know, behind the supermarket,
and we were standing there,
anyway, and he took the
trophy out of my arm
and he put it down on the ground
and then he took off his jacket,
and he folded that neat,
like, and he put it down,
gently on the ground.
And then he stood in front of
me and he put his two hands,
like, on my shoulders...
and then he pushed me.
He pushed me so hard
against that black wall,
that I thought my
back was broken.
Oh, and then it started, I can tell
you, the kissing and the kissing
and the tongue out again.
And ten years later, it tasted
the very same, still plague.
Up around my ears, it was in
my neck, it was everywhere
and was fiddling around, I
mean, sure, what could I do?
You can't say no! You know?
And on he went and he
was feeling my breasts
and he was doing this
and he was doing that.
And he forced in down below now
and that hurt a bit, do
you know what I'm saying?
And on he went and he was,
er, he was attacking me,
you know, he was
compromising me.
It was dreadful,
but he wa... Well..
What he was doing,
is he was raping me.
That's what that man
did now, he raped me.
And from that rape...
I got pregnant.
Now, that's a laugh at me, me
pregnant, can you imagine that?
Sure, what did I know about
babies and children? Nothing!
A girl who dialled 999
when she got her first
period, at that bit of blood.
Pregnant. Sure, what
would I do? I had no-one.
Who could I talk to? So I
couldn't tell my mother.
But I had a little
stroke of luck here now.
The weather was beautiful.
So I was able to go up
above to Casey's field,
and sleep there for
four or five nights.
And it was grand. It
was dry. And the baby?
At this stage, I did not
know Tom Burke at all.
But I knew him to see,
so I was just strolling
down the street one day and
I saw him coming towards me.
And didn't he stop and start
talking to me about the weather
and then before I knew it,
he'd offered me a job.
A job up on the Burke Farm cleaning,
cooking a bit, do you know?
So I went up there and do it.
And Mrs Burke, she
opened the door.
Deirdre, that was her name.
And then one day, didn't she tell
me that she was pregnant too?
So she was two months
ahead of me, mind you.
So there we were, two girls in
the house together, pregnant.
She toil up in the basin and
me'd toil up in the bucket.
So we'd went on, you know,
living our lives and everything
and I was down in the
kitchen one night,
there on my own,
and I heard a noise up in
the bedroom. And I knew.
So, now I was very
big at this stage,
but I went up the stairs,
and I opened the door.
Tom was standing
there like a fool.
Well, you know, nature takes
over, I suppose, and I did,
I helped anyway and a little head, I
saw a little head coming out of her
and then the baby, the
full baby came out.
One dear little girl.
But wasn't-wasn't the baby dead.
The baby was dead.
And I had to tell Deidre that.
And when I told her, oh,
Jesus, she was a broken women.
She broke at that moment,
and she started to cry.
A different cry,
it was dreadful.
She started to cry, she cried
and she cried, she cried out
in the garden the next day when they
were burying that little baby girl.
So she was crying then,
she never stopped.
And I said, "Listen
to me, I have a plan."
"I have a plan
for the two of us.
"That when my baby comes out
of me, I'll give it to you.
"And I'll give it to you because
I have nothing to give it.
"What could I do with
the child, I ask you?
"What have I got
to give a child?
"Look at me. Sure,
I have nothing.
"Whereas, you, Deidre,
oh, you and Tom!"
"Think of the life you
could give that child."
"A good life, a safe life."
I was above in the
bath one night,
having a bath and
I felt a twinge.
And before I knew it,
hadn't a little baby
slipped out of me.
I put my hand down and
it slid into my hand.
And I lifted it up above the
water, and it was a little boy.
And I can tell you, that
from that day to this,
I have never seen anything more
beautiful than that baby's face.
But the agreement was made.
I wrapped that little boy
in a little white towel,
and I went over, and I
gave him to Deidre and Tom.
I handed him over and
from that moment on,
he was theirs and
he was not mine.
No-one knew I had him,
and everyone thought
Tommy was theirs.
Look, I know I stopped
the investigation,
holding on to all of this.
And I'm-I'm sorry.
I'm-I'm sorry.
OK, so... what was
all this about?
Why did you leave
this letter for Brid?
PJ knows it was you.
Why are you so
convinced she did it?
That note wasn't
meant for Brid at all.
That note was meant for Kitty.
[KITTY LAUGHS]
Can you not keep
a handle on her?
You need to relax, Tommy.
Oh, God, Kitty, it's
Anthony. Anthony.
It's been 20 years!
Why did those men give
you all that money?
I saw it. Not here!
I sold a piece of the farm.
Under a quarter of it.
To the Flynn Brothers.
We have most of it left.
It's not yours to sell.
Yes, it is. Brid,
we're struggling.
You can see the
bills, can't you?
The farm is all we have,
so, yeah, I offloaded a bit.
Offloaded? I dream about
this fucking land at night.
This farm is us!
There's nothing left without it.
I told you it's just a section,
out beyond the bottom field.
Y'know... I loved you
when I married you.
It wasn't all about the farm.
Did you love me?
Don't be like that. It's not all
candy floss and dancing, Anthony.
We're a normal couple. OK, Brid.
I'm not saying I
don't. It's just...
It doesn't have to be so
fucking joyful for everyone.
And that's fine, that's
normal. [HE SIGHS]
Wh...
'Kitty was using Tommy, '
and all she wanted was for her
grumpy daughter to get married
and for that bit of
land, oh, the land,
she wanted that farmed, I can
tell you. She was obsessed.
But Kitty would have no
reason to want to harm Tommy
if she wanted him to
marry her daughter?
Well, I just wanted
Tommy to know who I was.
And I went up to the Burke farm
the night before the wedding.
She was there, and she
was shouting her head off.
And he was shouting back at her.
Kitty was there? Oh, she was,
they were roaring at each
other, it was dreadful.
I should have done something.
I should have barged in the door,
but I didn't do anything, I left.
See, the longer you stay quiet, the
harder it is to get your voice back.
I suppose I'm in
trouble now, am I?
No. Well, then, you
go and get Kitty.
Get that woman. And she is not as
far along as she's pretending to be,
I can tell you that.
We need to tread carefully
here with Kitty's dementia,
or whatever's up with her.
Anyone who sinks that much drink
is going to lose their
faculties eventually.
Yeah. Detective Casey, my boss,
deals with this kind of
thing a lot, actually.
I could email her quickly.
Yes, you do that. OK.
She'll advise us, and we can go
see Kitty, get the most out of her.
Ah-ha. OK.
Good. Right, I'll
meet you back here
as soon as your woman's been back
in touch with you. See you shortly.
What, secrets again?
What are you playing at?
[BIRDSONG, DISTANT BLEATING]
OK. Why do you
need to test it now
if the body wasn't him?
It was him. I can't go into
it right now, but it's him.
[SHE SIGHS]
Which means this dress
is evidence, Brid,
which I withheld.
That's... serious.
Does Detective Dunne know?
Not yet, but he could recommend
I'm fired when he finds out.
Can you get it tested
without running it by him?
No! If this has Tommy
Burke's blood...
Evelyn and I fought.
The morning of the wedding.
I cut myself on some glass.
The blood is mine. Trust me, PJ.
I can't. Trust me.
And then at least you'll know
I'm not a liar, if nothing else.
I miss you.
Don't say anything.
But I do.
[SHE SIGHS]
It's our land. He can't take it.
I don't have the
strength any more, Mam.
It's my land. My family's land,
and this pudding-faced bastard
thinks he can do what he likes
with it. I know. I know. I know.
Did I tire you out
with my prowess?
I did. You did, yeah.
When you stubbed your toe and
wailed like a donkey! Oh, yeah!
[SHE EXHALES]
Are you all right, are
you? Delighted, love.
[DOOR OPENS] Ab, did
you steal my stripy top?
Hey, Cormac. Hi,
Florence, how are you?
I'll see you later!
Get out of your sex bed
and give me back my top!
I didn't take it.
Makes my boobs look baggy.
Ab? No, no.
Something's wrong.
What's happened?
Abigail? Don't do this
to me. Is Evelyn here?
Evelyn?
Come and sit here with me.
Cancer.
Cop on! I'm so sorry, love.
How bad? Not that bad.
Not that bad, love.
Chemo, is that happening?
All of that, yeah.
All of that, in time.
But what I really need now, Florence
Ross, is thick toast and marmalade.
Yeah. Have you time?
Of course. Of course.
[FLORENCE SOBS QUIETLY]
Flo? Mm?
Please don't tell
anyone... even Ev.
It's too much. Just for
now. Yeah. OK, yeah.
[DOOR CLOSES, EXHALES]
[SPLASHING]
Nice for you, swimming
in the middle of the day.
You shagged off! I had
a five-minute swim.
Any word? Not yet, but we
should just go talk to them.
Let's give her five
more minutes. OK.
Why do you never
swim? Just don't.
It's good to move your body, PJ.
Come on, just touch the water.
Go on. It won't hurt
you. It's just wa...
Fuck off, Linus!
Sorry.
Evelyn Ross... is a
beautiful girl. What?
No reason to let her ruin
your life. I know that.
Tommy was for you. For you!
I'm sorry. What do you mean?
I'll tell you a secret.
[KITTY WHISPERS]
Great, we can go
see Kitty now. OK.
You know you can trust me.
I'm not a prick.
I don't think you're a prick.
I have a boyfriend.
A fiance. Oh, do you?
Leo. You never mentioned him.
[HE SIGHS] I eat. A lot.
I can't seem to stop.
I saw the Post Its.
I feel like a bag of balls.
Don't! You're lovely.
Like a sort of Winnie the Pooh.
Winnie the Pooh?
It's a compliment.
You're a fully-formed person
and I'm a bulbous baby bear?
Please, don't shit
talk Winnie The Pooh.
[THEY LAUGH]
Evelyn! Evelyn Ross!
You and me were best
friends, weren't we?
What is this? You can't
just... Weren't we?!
We were school
friends. Bullshit!
Please, just tell the
truth for once, Evelyn.
You didn't talk.
You stopped talking,
didn't you? Because
of... This isn't fair.
We just pretend we don't know
each other? It's not right!
Your sisters couldn't make you
talk after you found your dad.
You wouldn't cry, you didn't
answer questions, nothing.
For a year! Until me.
And what did we do? Hm?
What did we do, Evelyn?
We went to the cinema.
Every day, didn't we?
We went to the cinema
and we held hands.
First Wives Club. Same
film every day for months.
Until one day when,
er, Goldie Hawn said,
"You always talk about
me behind my back!"
You said Bette Midler's
line, loud and proud.
"You deserved it!"
And you knew that Tommy
was my first kiss.
And I know that he wasn't
with me for wanting me,
but Jesus, you knew I
was obsessed with him.
And you humiliated me.
You made his stomach turn.
Fuck you. Fuck you!
Mrs Riordon. What
did you do to him,
you fucking lizard?
What did you do?
I know you saw him
that night! Brid...
Don't you get involved!
Brid, the Garda are here.
What's wrong?
Are the kids OK?
[SIGHS]
[BRID CRIES] Mam!
Why have they done this to her?
She'd murder me if she saw!
You can't stand over
her all day, Brid.
We left her on her own too
often when we had her with us.
[DOORBELL] I'll get that, Mam.
[DOOR OPENS] Hi.
I'm sorry.
My mam looks like
the clown from IT.
And I can't fix it. Right.
It's OK.
[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE]
I'm worried about
Stephen. Abigail is...
[LAUGHS]
Maybe we should stop
worrying about everyone else
for half an hour?
Hm-mm. Hm-mm.
Hm-mm. Hm-mm. Hm-mm.
Close the fucking door!
Jesus! Do you give a shit about
anyone except yourselves?!
Sorry!
Sorry!
At least you won't have to wear
lipstick for Nana anymore now, Mam.
Garda's here.
Go out and get a drink
for Carmel. Go on.
Just bringing you
this back to you...
I'll, um... leave you to it.
Well? I didn't tell anyone.
OK. And?
You told the truth.
The blood on the
dress was yours.
Cheers.
Desperate shame.
Shocking altogether.
Brid didn't look after
her properly at all.
Her blood alcohol level was
through the roof, apparently.
Awful. And where is she now?
Skulling wine in the
kitchen, no doubt!
I mean, it's outrageous.
Mrs Meany is Tommy
Burke's mother now!
I mean, what are we
meant to believe?
I can't face anyone. That's OK.
They think I killed
her with the drink.
She's been drinking like that
since I was seven years old.
Any time I tried to
limit her drinking,
she'd block me out for weeks.
Impossible bloody woman! And now...
I know.
And still, I'd strangle
someone for a wine.
[CHUCKLES]
Excuse me. Sorry.
Mam told me something.
She was talking about the past,
nonsense, black finger
nails, all sorts... but...
Well, anything helps.
I told you that she was
in all night with me
the night of the stag. [SIGHS]
I didn't know this.
But she went out. To find Tommy.
She told Tommy to
keep away from Evelyn.
OK... Oh, God.
Go on, Brid. I need to know.
She said Tommy left
her to go find Evelyn,
that he was swaying and looking
for a fight or a shag or whatever,
and that he went over
to the Ross's farm,
I suppose later that night.
Mam said she saw him cross
the field to the Ross's.
I had no idea.
Did they tell you that?
No. [SHE SIGHS]
Thank you.
And I'm so sorry about your mam.
Mm.
[SHE CHUCKLES,
MAN CLEARS THROAT]
Just excuse us a
second, Aoife, please.
Tommy went to see Evelyn after he
saw Kitty on the night of the stag.
This must have been late, late.
Evelyn Ross may have been the last
person to see Tommy Burke alive.
C'mon, lads, buck
up, a woman is dead!
To Kitty. Exactly. To Kitty.
Kitty. To Kitty. To Kitty.
♪ So fill to me
the parting glass
♪ Good night
♪ And joy be with you all
♪ Of all the comrades
That e'er I had
♪ They are sorry
for my going away
♪ And of all The
sweethearts that e'er I had
♪ They'd wish me
One more day to stay
♪ But since it fell
[ALL:] ♪ Into my lot
♪ That I should go
♪ And you should not
♪ I'll gently rise
And softly call
♪ Good night And
joy be to you all. ♪
Excuse me. Sorry. Sorry.
Sorry for your loss.
Hey, does everyone know Evelyn
Ross and me are fucking?
Yeah, my mam and her sister are
fucking and me and her are fucking,
so that's basically
incest. Don't!
Don't talk to me like
you don't know me!
It's me, Evelyn. I love you.
Were you? OK, Stephen,
let's tone it down a bit, OK?
Now, this is a wake...
I'm speaking the truth.
No-one's honest in
this fucking place!
Evelyn, I love you!
You can't make me feel like
this and then discard me!
You're making a
fool of yourself.
I'm making a fool of myself?
You lot are literally all
living the same day you lived
20 years ago over and over!
Brid got left at the
altar, yeah? So what?
Yeah, you were shagging
some guy. So what?
You lost Tommy
Burke's baby. [GASPS]
Jesus, Stephen!
Yeah, then you lost
your whole life... Ev!
Stephen, that is enough! Ev!
Evelyn. Ev! Will you
please talk to me?
Cormac, can you take that? Yeah.
I'm sorry, Anthony.
Stay there.
We should go after them.
Listen to me. You
need to move on!
Ev, you're 39 years old,
you can't live in his shadow
forever. Come on, I have you.
Don't do that, don't push.
Don't fucking push me, Stephen!
Come on, you can't
live in the past!
Let him go, Evelyn!
Argh! Argh! Get your
fucking hands off me!
Why do you do that?!
Why do you grab and push and push
when we tell you it's too much?!
Fuck off! Just fuck off!
Ev. Ev. Ev, it's me.
I have you. I have you.
Evelyn Ross. Abigail,
she has to come with us.
No...
at the Burke farm.
Jesus, Mary and Holy St Joseph.
Who around here would have
reason to want Tommy Burke dead?
Apart from the woman he
left standing at the altar?!
Everyone thinks I killed Tommy.
He was fixated on Evelyn Ross!
Are you arresting
me? I'm watching you.
Get out of there!
I might potentially
love you. [GRUNTS]
[HORN BLARES] Whoo!
Why did you help me?
How dare you! How dare you!
Who do you think
sent it? I dunno.
The DNA from the
exhumation is back.
The body, it's not Tommy Burke.
[RADIO:] 'And Duneen's annual
concert, Duneen Rocks, coming up.
'Great news for the village
'after all the nastiness
they've been through.
'You might remember a body
was discovered a while back,
'and can you believe local Gardi
'have still not
identified the corpse?!
'It's sitting idle
for over a month now
'while the Guards
twiddle their thumbs.
'I mean, the population
of Duneen is about 45!
'What's the problem?!' [LAUGHS]
[BIRDSONG]
[VEHICLE APPROACHES]
[HORN HOOTS TWICE]
Slow down, Aoife,
you're over the limit!
Hi, there! Hi.
Jesus, PJ, you're
out here again!
Having a rest, are you, now you gave
up trying to solve the murder case?
I did not give up!
The body wasn't Tommy's,
as well you know.
There were no other leads,
so... But who was it, then?
We don't know.
And what are you doing
to find out? [HE SIGHS]
Tommy Burke could
have murdered someone.
He could be on the run for murder
and no-one is trying to find him
or to find out what poor forsaken
corpse we have on our hands!
There were no other leads.
This is where I'm needed.
You must be missing Linus?
Hm. Poor PJ.
I'm just doing my
job, Mrs O'Driscoll.
Ah, yeah, of course.
Oh! And tell Mrs Fecking
Meany she owes me 50 euro.
I think she's ghosting me.
Leave him alone, Eileen.
Huh! Bye, Peej.
It's not Peej... Ah,
it doesn't matter.
[VIBRATING AND THE
SWEENEY THEME TUNE PLAYS]
Hello?
[DISTANT CHATTER]
What do you think?
I think we need Linus.
Baby bones. I expected
you to be here already,
but they came to me first.
Straight to the top, Peej!
So, the remains were found just
outside, practically in the garden.
They found fibres.
The bones were decomposed, but
inside a little wicker basket.
They say they've been
here decades. Jesus!
Right at Tommy's door.
This is a mad one.
We find a body,
assume it's Tommy B.
It's not, it can't be,
the science says so,
and now we find a baby a
few metres away from him.
Sad things. This has to
be connected to Tommy.
He was shagging Evelyn and Brid.
A baby is dead. A man is gone.
We still have an
unidentified corpse!
[SIGHS]
Let's see which one is the
mother and get this solved, Peej.
Here, can I, er, have
my old sofa back?
How long are you staying?
Missed you, too, buddy.
Oh. What's been going on here?
This place is a kip,
man, no offence.
You need to give
Mrs Meany a raise.
She quit. What?!
Really? Headhunted?
No, I dropped her over a pot
plant, she never answered.
Is she all right?
I think so. [MICROWAVE BELL]
Pizza! Listen.
Maybe Brid found out Evelyn
had a secret Tommy baby
and couldn't hack the jealousy,
or maybe the other way round.
Or maybe something
less sinister.
I don't know yet, but it's one
of those women's baby, has to be.
[CHATTERING]
Are you all right? Huh?
You look a bit demented.
Yeah, I'm grand. Shut up!
Hiya. Look who it is.
God, how are you
healing, Stephen?
He still has five weeks in the
cast, shattered the whole elbow.
You'll find it hard
to do your exams now!
After losing my place
on the Cork team,
a once in a lifetime
gig, ruined,
I'm not thinking about
Higher fucking Maths!
[FOOTSTEPS]
I need to pop out.
Pigeon in a fuse
box, no power, so...
I'll see you at the pub.
Evelyn's opening up this
morning. [DOOR SLAMS]
'To my absent bride,
to poor old Brid,
'everyone, to poor old Brid.
'Brid!' 'Brid!'
Mummy? Hmm?
I drew you a picture. Why?
Because I love you and
you're so beautiful.
Oh, so beautiful.
Go on, off. Liar!
You fucking hypocrite! What?!
[WHISTLING] Why are you
blocking me out, Ev?
I can't do melodrama
today, Stephen.
That's it, yeah, so
I'm binned, done?
Look, we've talked
about this, it's...
You're all I have, Ev.
How can you do
this? I can't play.
I can't go out with
the lads. I'm...
I'm losing it. I need you to go.
Please... Get out.
OK.
I want to talk to you
about the wedding dress.
Look, forget that, it's
irrelevant. I want you to know...
They stopped digging up
above again. What's going on?
They found infant remains.
Oh, Christ. Whose are they?
We don't know yet. I just
thought you should know.
It's not my baby.
Why are you saying that?
That's what he's
insinuating, aren't you, PJ?
It's Evelyn you want. They
were shagging like animals.
Sure Brid and Tommy barely
even kissed, did ye? Did ye?
Well, look, lots of ground to
cover yet. I'll let you go.
Like I said, I just
thought you should know.
[MUTTERING]
I'd like to speak with
you. PJ's meeting me here.
We've found infant remains
up at the Burke farm.
Ev, have you got change for 50?
Er, what?! Oh! Oh, Linus, look!
What's that mean?
You're a terrible gay.
Sorry. Sorry. I'm a bit
late! Croissant now, is it?
Oh, I didn't leave
him any breakfast.
Barracks are in an awful
state without Mrs Meany, so...
Can we focus? We need
to speak to Evelyn.
Maybe she's got a
nervous exhaustion. What?
Mrs O'D says Mrs Meany hasn't
taken a day off in decades.
She's cleaned for everyone in Duneen
at some stage, even your ex, Evelyn.
Who? Tommy B.
She was the Burke family's
cleaner, wasn't she? Was she?
Why would she not tell you
she worked for the Burkes?
You two are thick as thieves.
I don't think I know her
first name, to be honest,
and she's worked for me
for years. Classy (!)
Listen, I should have told you,
I think Mrs Meany had been sending
Brid Riordan sort of hate mail,
notes telling her to confess.
Seriously? And did you
question her about it?
Well, it wasn't
relevant anymore.
The body wasn't Tommy Burke's.
I didn't want to upset her.
I don't like lies. Give me that.
[KNOCKING]
Hello. Look, I
know. I'm sorry...
I'm... I'm really, really sorry.
It is Tommy Burke's body that
ye found down there. It is him.
It is Tommy down there.
And I am so sorry that
I didn't tell you.
I am so sorry.
Take your time. But now
I'll have to go back a bit,
to when I was... much
younger, I suppose.
Yeah, when I was much younger.
I was very, very shy now when
I was young. Was very shy.
And with the boys...
I was useless.
But there was one young fella,
now, his name was Francis.
And I noticed his neck at Mass,
like he had a beautiful neck.
Now, he wasn't from
here at all, no,
he was from way out somewhere,
Roscommon or something.
But he would come down now
every Easter to visit his uncle.
And I used to watch
him, you know.
To look at him.
There was a big parish party
and we had baked up
a rake of fairy cakes
and I was putting the little
cherries on the top, you know?
And the next thing,
someone grabbed my shoulder
and ripped me round hard
and kissed me on the mouth.
He stuck a bit of his
tongue into my mouth!
Oh, Jesus Christ, it-it
was just dreadful. Dirty.
It tasted like
plaque, I'll tell you.
And that was Francis.
And then of course there
was the Irish dancing.
I was very good
at that, you know.
I've made a medal
and all for that.
All through my early 20s, I danced
and I loved it, I lived for it.
And how is this connected
to... Let her speak.
Well, word came down anyway
that there was this big
competition coming to Cork city.
Now, when I say big, I mean big,
it was the Irish Championship
trophy we were dancing for.
So I was thinking to myself, I
might have a go at that, you know.
So I did. And I started
to practise at home.
And I'll tell you now I practised
and I practised and I practised.
And then the night
before the competition,
I went over to Foleys
and I bought myself
a pair of those beautiful, beautiful
thick silk stockings, you know,
do you remember them?
Oh, they're beautiful.
They make you want
to dance, you know.
And I took them under my arm.
Anyway, off I went on
the bus to Cork city.
And I went out onto the
stage and I started to dance.
And I can tell you I beat
my feet against that floor,
the hard dancing, and I had my
hands straight down beside my body.
And I danced and I danced.
And all this went
on until I won!
I won the competition and I became
champion dancer of all Ireland!
Now, how about that?
And then they gave
me a little trophy.
And then it was all over
and everybody was going out,
so I went back and I
joined the others anyway
and we were walking along,
and I saw this youth leaning
on the wall, casual, like,
and didn't he wink at me
and waved his hand at me!
And didn't that turn
out to be Francis!
Francis from the church,
the neck, that Francis.
Oh, then I knew!
I knew that he was going to take
me to that new posh restaurant
down on Jannone Street
beside the bank.
But then, so I
didn't notice at all
that he walked me
round, sort of,
and we were suddenly up there
against that big black wall,
you know, behind the supermarket,
and we were standing there,
anyway, and he took the
trophy out of my arm
and he put it down on the ground
and then he took off his jacket,
and he folded that neat,
like, and he put it down,
gently on the ground.
And then he stood in front of
me and he put his two hands,
like, on my shoulders...
and then he pushed me.
He pushed me so hard
against that black wall,
that I thought my
back was broken.
Oh, and then it started, I can tell
you, the kissing and the kissing
and the tongue out again.
And ten years later, it tasted
the very same, still plague.
Up around my ears, it was in
my neck, it was everywhere
and was fiddling around, I
mean, sure, what could I do?
You can't say no! You know?
And on he went and he
was feeling my breasts
and he was doing this
and he was doing that.
And he forced in down below now
and that hurt a bit, do
you know what I'm saying?
And on he went and he was,
er, he was attacking me,
you know, he was
compromising me.
It was dreadful,
but he wa... Well..
What he was doing,
is he was raping me.
That's what that man
did now, he raped me.
And from that rape...
I got pregnant.
Now, that's a laugh at me, me
pregnant, can you imagine that?
Sure, what did I know about
babies and children? Nothing!
A girl who dialled 999
when she got her first
period, at that bit of blood.
Pregnant. Sure, what
would I do? I had no-one.
Who could I talk to? So I
couldn't tell my mother.
But I had a little
stroke of luck here now.
The weather was beautiful.
So I was able to go up
above to Casey's field,
and sleep there for
four or five nights.
And it was grand. It
was dry. And the baby?
At this stage, I did not
know Tom Burke at all.
But I knew him to see,
so I was just strolling
down the street one day and
I saw him coming towards me.
And didn't he stop and start
talking to me about the weather
and then before I knew it,
he'd offered me a job.
A job up on the Burke Farm cleaning,
cooking a bit, do you know?
So I went up there and do it.
And Mrs Burke, she
opened the door.
Deirdre, that was her name.
And then one day, didn't she tell
me that she was pregnant too?
So she was two months
ahead of me, mind you.
So there we were, two girls in
the house together, pregnant.
She toil up in the basin and
me'd toil up in the bucket.
So we'd went on, you know,
living our lives and everything
and I was down in the
kitchen one night,
there on my own,
and I heard a noise up in
the bedroom. And I knew.
So, now I was very
big at this stage,
but I went up the stairs,
and I opened the door.
Tom was standing
there like a fool.
Well, you know, nature takes
over, I suppose, and I did,
I helped anyway and a little head, I
saw a little head coming out of her
and then the baby, the
full baby came out.
One dear little girl.
But wasn't-wasn't the baby dead.
The baby was dead.
And I had to tell Deidre that.
And when I told her, oh,
Jesus, she was a broken women.
She broke at that moment,
and she started to cry.
A different cry,
it was dreadful.
She started to cry, she cried
and she cried, she cried out
in the garden the next day when they
were burying that little baby girl.
So she was crying then,
she never stopped.
And I said, "Listen
to me, I have a plan."
"I have a plan
for the two of us.
"That when my baby comes out
of me, I'll give it to you.
"And I'll give it to you because
I have nothing to give it.
"What could I do with
the child, I ask you?
"What have I got
to give a child?
"Look at me. Sure,
I have nothing.
"Whereas, you, Deidre,
oh, you and Tom!"
"Think of the life you
could give that child."
"A good life, a safe life."
I was above in the
bath one night,
having a bath and
I felt a twinge.
And before I knew it,
hadn't a little baby
slipped out of me.
I put my hand down and
it slid into my hand.
And I lifted it up above the
water, and it was a little boy.
And I can tell you, that
from that day to this,
I have never seen anything more
beautiful than that baby's face.
But the agreement was made.
I wrapped that little boy
in a little white towel,
and I went over, and I
gave him to Deidre and Tom.
I handed him over and
from that moment on,
he was theirs and
he was not mine.
No-one knew I had him,
and everyone thought
Tommy was theirs.
Look, I know I stopped
the investigation,
holding on to all of this.
And I'm-I'm sorry.
I'm-I'm sorry.
OK, so... what was
all this about?
Why did you leave
this letter for Brid?
PJ knows it was you.
Why are you so
convinced she did it?
That note wasn't
meant for Brid at all.
That note was meant for Kitty.
[KITTY LAUGHS]
Can you not keep
a handle on her?
You need to relax, Tommy.
Oh, God, Kitty, it's
Anthony. Anthony.
It's been 20 years!
Why did those men give
you all that money?
I saw it. Not here!
I sold a piece of the farm.
Under a quarter of it.
To the Flynn Brothers.
We have most of it left.
It's not yours to sell.
Yes, it is. Brid,
we're struggling.
You can see the
bills, can't you?
The farm is all we have,
so, yeah, I offloaded a bit.
Offloaded? I dream about
this fucking land at night.
This farm is us!
There's nothing left without it.
I told you it's just a section,
out beyond the bottom field.
Y'know... I loved you
when I married you.
It wasn't all about the farm.
Did you love me?
Don't be like that. It's not all
candy floss and dancing, Anthony.
We're a normal couple. OK, Brid.
I'm not saying I
don't. It's just...
It doesn't have to be so
fucking joyful for everyone.
And that's fine, that's
normal. [HE SIGHS]
Wh...
'Kitty was using Tommy, '
and all she wanted was for her
grumpy daughter to get married
and for that bit of
land, oh, the land,
she wanted that farmed, I can
tell you. She was obsessed.
But Kitty would have no
reason to want to harm Tommy
if she wanted him to
marry her daughter?
Well, I just wanted
Tommy to know who I was.
And I went up to the Burke farm
the night before the wedding.
She was there, and she
was shouting her head off.
And he was shouting back at her.
Kitty was there? Oh, she was,
they were roaring at each
other, it was dreadful.
I should have done something.
I should have barged in the door,
but I didn't do anything, I left.
See, the longer you stay quiet, the
harder it is to get your voice back.
I suppose I'm in
trouble now, am I?
No. Well, then, you
go and get Kitty.
Get that woman. And she is not as
far along as she's pretending to be,
I can tell you that.
We need to tread carefully
here with Kitty's dementia,
or whatever's up with her.
Anyone who sinks that much drink
is going to lose their
faculties eventually.
Yeah. Detective Casey, my boss,
deals with this kind of
thing a lot, actually.
I could email her quickly.
Yes, you do that. OK.
She'll advise us, and we can go
see Kitty, get the most out of her.
Ah-ha. OK.
Good. Right, I'll
meet you back here
as soon as your woman's been back
in touch with you. See you shortly.
What, secrets again?
What are you playing at?
[BIRDSONG, DISTANT BLEATING]
OK. Why do you
need to test it now
if the body wasn't him?
It was him. I can't go into
it right now, but it's him.
[SHE SIGHS]
Which means this dress
is evidence, Brid,
which I withheld.
That's... serious.
Does Detective Dunne know?
Not yet, but he could recommend
I'm fired when he finds out.
Can you get it tested
without running it by him?
No! If this has Tommy
Burke's blood...
Evelyn and I fought.
The morning of the wedding.
I cut myself on some glass.
The blood is mine. Trust me, PJ.
I can't. Trust me.
And then at least you'll know
I'm not a liar, if nothing else.
I miss you.
Don't say anything.
But I do.
[SHE SIGHS]
It's our land. He can't take it.
I don't have the
strength any more, Mam.
It's my land. My family's land,
and this pudding-faced bastard
thinks he can do what he likes
with it. I know. I know. I know.
Did I tire you out
with my prowess?
I did. You did, yeah.
When you stubbed your toe and
wailed like a donkey! Oh, yeah!
[SHE EXHALES]
Are you all right, are
you? Delighted, love.
[DOOR OPENS] Ab, did
you steal my stripy top?
Hey, Cormac. Hi,
Florence, how are you?
I'll see you later!
Get out of your sex bed
and give me back my top!
I didn't take it.
Makes my boobs look baggy.
Ab? No, no.
Something's wrong.
What's happened?
Abigail? Don't do this
to me. Is Evelyn here?
Evelyn?
Come and sit here with me.
Cancer.
Cop on! I'm so sorry, love.
How bad? Not that bad.
Not that bad, love.
Chemo, is that happening?
All of that, yeah.
All of that, in time.
But what I really need now, Florence
Ross, is thick toast and marmalade.
Yeah. Have you time?
Of course. Of course.
[FLORENCE SOBS QUIETLY]
Flo? Mm?
Please don't tell
anyone... even Ev.
It's too much. Just for
now. Yeah. OK, yeah.
[DOOR CLOSES, EXHALES]
[SPLASHING]
Nice for you, swimming
in the middle of the day.
You shagged off! I had
a five-minute swim.
Any word? Not yet, but we
should just go talk to them.
Let's give her five
more minutes. OK.
Why do you never
swim? Just don't.
It's good to move your body, PJ.
Come on, just touch the water.
Go on. It won't hurt
you. It's just wa...
Fuck off, Linus!
Sorry.
Evelyn Ross... is a
beautiful girl. What?
No reason to let her ruin
your life. I know that.
Tommy was for you. For you!
I'm sorry. What do you mean?
I'll tell you a secret.
[KITTY WHISPERS]
Great, we can go
see Kitty now. OK.
You know you can trust me.
I'm not a prick.
I don't think you're a prick.
I have a boyfriend.
A fiance. Oh, do you?
Leo. You never mentioned him.
[HE SIGHS] I eat. A lot.
I can't seem to stop.
I saw the Post Its.
I feel like a bag of balls.
Don't! You're lovely.
Like a sort of Winnie the Pooh.
Winnie the Pooh?
It's a compliment.
You're a fully-formed person
and I'm a bulbous baby bear?
Please, don't shit
talk Winnie The Pooh.
[THEY LAUGH]
Evelyn! Evelyn Ross!
You and me were best
friends, weren't we?
What is this? You can't
just... Weren't we?!
We were school
friends. Bullshit!
Please, just tell the
truth for once, Evelyn.
You didn't talk.
You stopped talking,
didn't you? Because
of... This isn't fair.
We just pretend we don't know
each other? It's not right!
Your sisters couldn't make you
talk after you found your dad.
You wouldn't cry, you didn't
answer questions, nothing.
For a year! Until me.
And what did we do? Hm?
What did we do, Evelyn?
We went to the cinema.
Every day, didn't we?
We went to the cinema
and we held hands.
First Wives Club. Same
film every day for months.
Until one day when,
er, Goldie Hawn said,
"You always talk about
me behind my back!"
You said Bette Midler's
line, loud and proud.
"You deserved it!"
And you knew that Tommy
was my first kiss.
And I know that he wasn't
with me for wanting me,
but Jesus, you knew I
was obsessed with him.
And you humiliated me.
You made his stomach turn.
Fuck you. Fuck you!
Mrs Riordon. What
did you do to him,
you fucking lizard?
What did you do?
I know you saw him
that night! Brid...
Don't you get involved!
Brid, the Garda are here.
What's wrong?
Are the kids OK?
[SIGHS]
[BRID CRIES] Mam!
Why have they done this to her?
She'd murder me if she saw!
You can't stand over
her all day, Brid.
We left her on her own too
often when we had her with us.
[DOORBELL] I'll get that, Mam.
[DOOR OPENS] Hi.
I'm sorry.
My mam looks like
the clown from IT.
And I can't fix it. Right.
It's OK.
[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE]
I'm worried about
Stephen. Abigail is...
[LAUGHS]
Maybe we should stop
worrying about everyone else
for half an hour?
Hm-mm. Hm-mm.
Hm-mm. Hm-mm. Hm-mm.
Close the fucking door!
Jesus! Do you give a shit about
anyone except yourselves?!
Sorry!
Sorry!
At least you won't have to wear
lipstick for Nana anymore now, Mam.
Garda's here.
Go out and get a drink
for Carmel. Go on.
Just bringing you
this back to you...
I'll, um... leave you to it.
Well? I didn't tell anyone.
OK. And?
You told the truth.
The blood on the
dress was yours.
Cheers.
Desperate shame.
Shocking altogether.
Brid didn't look after
her properly at all.
Her blood alcohol level was
through the roof, apparently.
Awful. And where is she now?
Skulling wine in the
kitchen, no doubt!
I mean, it's outrageous.
Mrs Meany is Tommy
Burke's mother now!
I mean, what are we
meant to believe?
I can't face anyone. That's OK.
They think I killed
her with the drink.
She's been drinking like that
since I was seven years old.
Any time I tried to
limit her drinking,
she'd block me out for weeks.
Impossible bloody woman! And now...
I know.
And still, I'd strangle
someone for a wine.
[CHUCKLES]
Excuse me. Sorry.
Mam told me something.
She was talking about the past,
nonsense, black finger
nails, all sorts... but...
Well, anything helps.
I told you that she was
in all night with me
the night of the stag. [SIGHS]
I didn't know this.
But she went out. To find Tommy.
She told Tommy to
keep away from Evelyn.
OK... Oh, God.
Go on, Brid. I need to know.
She said Tommy left
her to go find Evelyn,
that he was swaying and looking
for a fight or a shag or whatever,
and that he went over
to the Ross's farm,
I suppose later that night.
Mam said she saw him cross
the field to the Ross's.
I had no idea.
Did they tell you that?
No. [SHE SIGHS]
Thank you.
And I'm so sorry about your mam.
Mm.
[SHE CHUCKLES,
MAN CLEARS THROAT]
Just excuse us a
second, Aoife, please.
Tommy went to see Evelyn after he
saw Kitty on the night of the stag.
This must have been late, late.
Evelyn Ross may have been the last
person to see Tommy Burke alive.
C'mon, lads, buck
up, a woman is dead!
To Kitty. Exactly. To Kitty.
Kitty. To Kitty. To Kitty.
♪ So fill to me
the parting glass
♪ Good night
♪ And joy be with you all
♪ Of all the comrades
That e'er I had
♪ They are sorry
for my going away
♪ And of all The
sweethearts that e'er I had
♪ They'd wish me
One more day to stay
♪ But since it fell
[ALL:] ♪ Into my lot
♪ That I should go
♪ And you should not
♪ I'll gently rise
And softly call
♪ Good night And
joy be to you all. ♪
Excuse me. Sorry. Sorry.
Sorry for your loss.
Hey, does everyone know Evelyn
Ross and me are fucking?
Yeah, my mam and her sister are
fucking and me and her are fucking,
so that's basically
incest. Don't!
Don't talk to me like
you don't know me!
It's me, Evelyn. I love you.
Were you? OK, Stephen,
let's tone it down a bit, OK?
Now, this is a wake...
I'm speaking the truth.
No-one's honest in
this fucking place!
Evelyn, I love you!
You can't make me feel like
this and then discard me!
You're making a
fool of yourself.
I'm making a fool of myself?
You lot are literally all
living the same day you lived
20 years ago over and over!
Brid got left at the
altar, yeah? So what?
Yeah, you were shagging
some guy. So what?
You lost Tommy
Burke's baby. [GASPS]
Jesus, Stephen!
Yeah, then you lost
your whole life... Ev!
Stephen, that is enough! Ev!
Evelyn. Ev! Will you
please talk to me?
Cormac, can you take that? Yeah.
I'm sorry, Anthony.
Stay there.
We should go after them.
Listen to me. You
need to move on!
Ev, you're 39 years old,
you can't live in his shadow
forever. Come on, I have you.
Don't do that, don't push.
Don't fucking push me, Stephen!
Come on, you can't
live in the past!
Let him go, Evelyn!
Argh! Argh! Get your
fucking hands off me!
Why do you do that?!
Why do you grab and push and push
when we tell you it's too much?!
Fuck off! Just fuck off!
Ev. Ev. Ev, it's me.
I have you. I have you.
Evelyn Ross. Abigail,
she has to come with us.
No...