Resistance (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Episode #1.5 - full transcript
All set.
Good man, you and the
boys best go take communion.
You're going to need
all the help you can get.
GUNSHOTS
Twenty attacks, 12 confirmed dead so
far, there's a Gaelic football match
this afternoon, shall
I issue orders cancelling it?
I want you to get back out there,
if they didn't come for you then it
means your cover's not blown.
We left ourselves wide open.
What are we going to do about it?
Tell him, the interview is back on.
I think they're looking for you,
they'll be police all over the port.
We need to come up with a new plan.
Give me some food,
and something to drink!
I want to talk to General Winter.
Jimmy Mahon was taken care of.
Well there was a body
found, but it was not Jimmy Mahon.
So you find him, and you kill him,
and Ursula Sweeney his informer,
I want that woman dead.
Can I help you?
I'm looking for someone, Father.
Joey?
How did you find me?
You told me about
your friend, the priest.
Jimmy here with you?
Why would he be?
He went to Cork after his brother.
I heard there was trouble alright.
Thank God, Jimmy
wasn't among the dead.
Why were you
wanting him, Mr. Brogan?
Mick Collins has had word, the Castle
knows it was Jimmy put the drop on
their agents.
He needs me to get
him out of the country.
His whole family may be in danger.
I know you're sweet on his niece.
Could you ask him to meet me?
Good man.
KNOCK ON DOOR
Who is it, Bridget?
Gentlemen.
Won't you take
off your hats and coats?
They say they've
come from Mr. Jacobs.
To fetch you.
Can I help you?
I was wondering
if you had a room free?
How many nights?
Just the one.
Name?
Mrs. Agnes Moore.
Will your husband be joining you?
No.
Can I get you to sign here, please?
Do you have any luggage?
The one bag, out back.
I can manage though, thank you.
Are you sure I can't help you?
Quite sure, I'm fine.
Thank you.
Will you mind this?
Were we seen?
I hope not.
Listen, I'm going to go back out.
I have a plan.
Ursula.
You know the real reason
I wouldn't adopt him back then?
It's because I wanted
my first to be my own.
Yes I wanted to continue at College
but I'm sure we could have found a
way.
Lawrence was all
for making it work out.
There you have it, I'm sorry.
It was so selfish.
Just stay here, and
be as quiet as you can.
Aggie, it's alright.
I have him now.
Yes.
Mrs. Butler.
Mr. Jacobs.
Why have you
brought me to this place?
I thought we should have our
conversation in a more formal
environment.
And what conversation is that?
Please sit down, Mrs. Butler.
This is one of our
courts, isn't it, Mr. Jacobs?
It serves as one.
Do I stand accused of something?
Yesterday evening Senator
Shea's hotel room was raided.
I hadn't heard.
Is he alright?
He's fine, I imagine.
But the British have sent him
home in secret rather than face the
embarrassment of having to
arrest a United States Senator.
He's gone?
Yes.
However he had papers in his
possession which he was to convey to
Mr. DeValera.
I am not aware of such papers.
That's as may be, but the tip off
about the Senator's involvement came
from your husband.
Harry?
I don't understand.
But if he did, then why's
he not here instead of me?
Mr. Butler is being held
in custody at Dublin Castle.
And when he's released you and he
must leave the country immediately.
I have been one of
your staunchest supporters.
In light of that I've persuaded
the army council to treat you with
leniency.
They wanted to execute him.
Your house shall be made over to the
State in recompense of lost funds.
I've drawn up this document
to enable a swift hand over.
That's our home...
There's no place here
for you now, Mrs. Butler.
What's happened?
We took them all out.
Every last rat.
Where were you?
Business, Cork.
Sorry you missed it.
Heard it was you got
the fix on all of them.
Where's everyone going?
Got orders to clear out.
Word is they've
shot Dick and Peadar.
Where's Brogan?
I haven't seen him.
He missed the big day too.
Here, but your
niece is in the office.
Minnie?
Insisted on waiting on ya.
You shouldn't have come here.
Joey asked me to.
Why?
Mr. Brogan wants to meet you.
Brogan?
Where is he?
I don't want to tell you.
I need to know, Minnie,
he's a danger to all of us!
That's why I don't want to tell you.
Joey said that he wants you dead.
I know he wants me dead.
Yeah well I don't.
First Ma and Da, not you.
I've got to, Min.
Look, I've put money aside.
Joey knows where it is,
it's for you and the girls.
It's not about money.
I know it's not.
Would you not
ask Joey to go with you?
I don't want to drag him into this.
You two deserve a chance.
He thought there'd
be safety in numbers.
Excuse me.
Constance?
Constance, what in
heaven's name is going on?
LOUD SLAP
Don't you care that I just
spent the past night in prison?
Doing what?
Betraying your country?
Your family?
Betraying me?
The Senator's been sent away.
To hell with the Senator.
And they've taken our house,
do you think to hell with that too?
Stolen it from us.
And now you're back...
We've got a day
to leave the country.
What?
They can't take the house.
We don't have to do what they say.
No we don't, but if we
don't they will kill you.
And you only got that stay of
execution thanks to me and all I did
for the cause.
And because of you I am
a stranger in my own country!
My own home!
Look we'll go to England, for the
time being, that's the best idea.
But they are not
going to take our home.
Or the bank.
I'll go down and pick up the
deeds, and our share certificates.
You and Bridget pack.
You know, maybe this is our
chance, Connie, to start again.
Whiskey.
Here you go.
Barrett?
Mr. Butler, I wasn't expecting you.
I'm sure you weren't.
It being a Sunday.
And given the lies you told your
friends at the Castle about me.
I'm sure you were hoping they'd
lock me up and throw away the key.
I was only...
Senator Shea's dollars?
Mr. Butler I've only done what I
believe to be right for the bank and
our depositors.
Let me guess, you were going to take
the money to your friend General
Winter as proof of
your loyalty, isn't that it?
It's dirty money, and you knew it.
Did I?
He was over here to buy and
run whiskey illegally to America.
That was his real business.
The great Senator, nothing
more than a cheap bootlegger.
Indeed.
And cleaning his
dirty money through our bank.
That's why I'm
taking this to the Castle.
You're doing no such thing.
But it's illegal.
Neither the distilling nor the
purchase of whiskey is illegal in
this country yet,
I'm very glad to say.
But...
Therefore the Senator's
money is not illegal here, is it?
But this money was obtained
illegally in the United States.
Get out Barrett.
Excuse me sir?
Out!
What about the money?
It's no longer any concern of yours.
You're no longer an
employee of Butler's Bank.
But I've worked here for 35
years, for your father before you.
I'm the deputy manager.
You're nothing!
Out.
Out!
You got my note.
I'm here.
I understand Mr. Collins didn't show.
The man who wiped out an
entire British spy network before
breakfast.
I'm glad to get a
second chance to interview him.
Diarmuid kept a file on
the General's spy network.
Just reports from the international
press on the Egyptian revolt.
A few photographs.
Like this one.
Did you kill Robert Lennox?
What difference does it make.
You're setting me up
like you set up Saunders.
Anyway I've had enough.
Winter's lost.
Let's make a deal.
What kind of deal?
I'll let you walk out.
You let me walk out.
I give you my word, I'll never
set foot in this country again.
Your word.
Whose word is that?
A soldier's word of honour.
And why would you let me go?
Because you're expecting
when I shoot my way out of here,
I'm going to kill you first.
And I will.
So a deal would
be best for both of us.
CLICKING SOUND
So.
What's it to be?
Buy me one last
drink before you leave.
To toast our deal.
STABBING SOUNDS
Mrs. Moore.
Will you be joining us for dinner?
No, thank you.
I'll tell the chef so.
You're going to be
me and I'm going to be you.
You're going to take my passport and
write Tomás's name in the back of
it.
What about you?
You give me your papers.
I'll wait here as you.
I'll give you enough time to get
down to the boat and I'll call the
Police, let them know I'm here.
It's too dangerous.
They'll arrest you.
And I'll play along with it for a
while, until they bring me up to
Dublin.
By which time you and Tomás will
be hundreds of miles from here.
And then they'll really arrest you
for aiding and abetting a traitor.
If I've to spend time in prison to
help save my sister's life, then so
be it.
I can't let you do that for me.
Yes, you can.
Goodbye Tomás.
Goodbye.
Look after yourself.
Yeah.
Go on.
Ursula.
You'll need this.
Look after it for me, won't you?
I will.
This match this afternoon, Major,
I want you to take a few units down
there.
They're saying the
town's very tense, sir.
Quite, all the more reason to
show the public who's in control.
Yes sir.
I'll scramble a squad.
And some armoured vehicles,
in case there is trouble.
Here kid.
Want a better view?
Name?
James Kinsella, my nephew Peter.
Move on.
Excuse me, is there
a telephone I could use?
Booth on the right, I'll
put it through to the operator.
Thank you.
Cork RIC headquarters, please.
Yes.
There's a woman I believe
you're looking for, Ursula Sweeney.
I know where she is.
Quick, quick.
Men are a bit jumpy, sir.
Well see they
don't jump unless ordered.
What's the target?
Just make sure they're ready.
Programmes.
Programmes.
Don't move.
Alright, Jim, alright.
Whatever you say.
Expecting trouble?
The reason I wanted to see you Jim,
wasn't to kill you but to talk to
you.
All right Frank, let's go.
I'm not going anywhere.
If you want to shoot
me, you shoot me here.
Frank, let's go.
Everything I did, I did for
you, and for Mick, and the cause.
McLeod got to me.
But I used him, Jim.
Think about it, didn't
I save Mick a dozen times?
I'd tip off the Brits, but that
meant I knew when they were coming,
and I'd get Mick out of there.
I saved you too, Jim.
I knew they were onto you,
I got you moved, a new identity.
I at least deserve a hearing.
Take me to Mick, take me...
GUNFIRE IN THE BACKGROUND
GUNSHOT
GUNFIRE, SCREAMING AND SHOUTING
See what your friends are doing?
Murdering the lot of us.
They're not my friends.
You'll see.
This game, it eats you up, the
deeper you get in, look at you
already.
I know what I'm fighting for.
Do you?
Freedom.
Freedom!
You tried to kill me.
You got too close.
You used my brother as bait.
He was a Tan.
He gone to me now isn't he.
And for what?
So you can have your own freedom?
Sorry Frank, you can't back
two winners in the one race.
What do you think this glorious
freedom you're fighting for will
look
like?
Go on, do me a favour.
Finish it!
I already did.
SHIP'S HORN AND CRY OF SEAGULLS
There you are Mr. Deasy.
Mrs. Agnes Moore?
Yes.
KNOCK ON DOOR
Ursula Sweeney?
Yes.
Can you open the door please?
What are they doing, Mummy?
Checking our passports.
You're free to board.
Thank you.
Miss Sweeney...
Who are you?
Frank Brogan sent us,
from IRA Dublin Command.
DISTANT SOUND OF GUNSHOT
Major Mills assures me
there were gunmen in the crowd.
They opened fire first.
That's as may be, O, and doubtless
will be the line we take in public,
but you know this looks like sheer,
bloody revenge against unarmed
civilians.
I'll offer my resignation.
I already offered it
to the Prime Minister.
He refused.
He wants you to keep your
post, though from now on you'll be
strictly answerable to me.
Is he inside?
Yes, Sir.
Mr. Griffiths, I'm so sorry
to have to bring you in like this,
but I thought your arrest the
best way to cover our discussions.
The Prime Minister wishes me
to convey his deepest sympathies,
but also urges you
not to lose your nerve.
We are ready to talk.
Excuse me, General Winter, sir?
You'll forgive me if I
finish my supper, Miss Lawlor?
I'm sorry sir,
but they found Miss Sweeney.
Where?
A hotel in Cork.
She'd been shot by the IRA.
She's dead.
Well I'm surprised.
I thought if anyone could outsmart
the lot of us, it would be her.
RUMBLE OF ENGINE
AND SPLASH OF WAVES
What are you doing here?
Where is she?
Where's who?
My wife.
She went off with her
sister to fetch her child.
She did?
She put herself in
danger because of you.
You came to me.
If your sister-in-law's
got her child back...
In return for what?
Murder?
What was the price
my wife had to pay?
Where is she?
I don't know.
Mr. Jacobs wants to see you.
Right away.
I have to go.
If I hear anything
I'll let you know.
Anything at all, you have my word.
The car's outside Ma'am.
We need to take it
now to make the night boat.
With the state of the town, who knows
when the next one will be leaving.
Harry?
Still no sign of him ma'am.
Very well.
Can I have a word?
I'm with someone.
Excuse us.
What is it?
I've one last night
in dear dirty Dublin.
And I intend to enjoy myself.
With you.
Mr. Jacobs.
Done?
Yes.
What's the session been called for?
The British have made contact,
they want to start secret talks.
They're willing to allow DeValera to
return from the States, as a sign of
goodwill.
They've acknowledged the Republic?
That remains our
aspiration, in due course.
Excuse me Eithne.
But Mr. Collins said
the Republic and nothing less.
What else have we been fighting for?
For this, self-rule.
Jimmy.
Mr. Jacobs.
Mr. Collins would like
to see you before we begin.
This way.
Been here before?
Not through the front door.
Take your seats
please, Gentlemen, Countess.
This exceptional sitting of
Dáil Éireann is about to commence.
You heard Frank Brogan was found
amongst the dead at Croke Park?
I heard.
I wouldn't have taken him
for a fan of Gaelic Games.
Well at least this way
he dies a hero's death.
But I'll need
someone to replace him.
Someone I can trust with my life.
It's not going to be easy.
We might have victories like this
morning, or a hundred more martyrs
like this afternoon, but
we'll never beat them outright.
We'll have to talk.
That's what I'm about to
ask this House to do today.
Sanction secret talks
towards a peace treaty.
But one thing I do know is that
the British might never give us a
Republic.
And there'll be
those who won't accept that.
Maybe you won't accept it...
Mr. Collins, sir,
they're waiting for you.
I need to know,
Jim, what it's to be?
Are you with me?
Gentlemen, Daoine Uaisle, please.
The Minister of Finance, Acting
President of the Irish Republic, Mr.
Collins.
APPLAUSE
Everyone, up!
APPLAUSE
And watch the birdy!
Lovely, thank you.
Thanks for standing
godfather, Jim, means a lot.
It's an honour, Seánie.
But I have to be getting back.
Look after baby Michael
James for me won't you.
Congratulations
again to the both of yous.
Will we see you
later to wet his head?
Yeah, I'll do me best.
Let me walk you
to your car, Mr. Mahon.
Of course, Father.
Joey.
Min.
What about a
photograph with the godmother?
Here you go.
He's lovely.
She looks the part, huh?
When are you going to
make an honest girl of her?
Things are sweet, why ruin them?
So you expect it to
go through this afternoon?
Yes.
There's plenty fought for the
Promised Land, not this Free State.
The country's falling apart.
The Treaty's not what any of us
would have wished for, but it gives
us the chance to help the people.
What should it profit a man if he
gains the whole world, but loses his
own soul?
What about the people who share
my faith in the Irish Republic,
whatever parliaments and assemblies
and so-called majorities say?
Come back to the one true faith.
What we all fought for.
Look...
I need to know if you don't want to
marry me, so I know not to bother you
again about it.
I didn't say I don't want to.
What then?
It's just...
What about the future?
What about it?
We won.
I told you, you'll never have
to go back to the tenements again.
It's not the money or
the jobs that worries me.
What then?
It's you.
Why me?
You took an oath to the Republic.
Free State,
Republic, it's just words.
I lost my brother to the Republic.
You got tortured for it.
Do you know what that did to me?
We all lost people, we all suffered.
So how can you swear an
oath to the King of England.
I'm not going to
swear no oath to the King.
Your Mr. Collins, the
rest of them, they will.
Like Jimmy says it's this or all-out
war, and we're not up to all-out war
against the entire British Army.
Don't make me choose
between Jimmy and you.
Please Minnie, come on.
Thanks Eamon.
Mr. Mahon?
Miss Drury, can I help you?
Perhaps you'd ask them to let me in.
The Irish Bulletin
stopped publishing last July.
Our new publication,
Poblacht na hEireann.
That means the Irish Republic.
I am head of
government intelligence.
I know what it means.
Not my government,
not if they pass this Treaty.
There's no intelligence in that.
This Treaty will pass.
No journalists.
Liam.
Liam.
What you said in there.
You don't mean it.
I always say what I mean.
We all have our principles.
Indeed without them what are we?
Sometimes we must balance those
abstract principles against the real
human cost.
Balance?
You and I took an
oath to the Republic.
We did and that same oath binds us to
use the best possible instrument to
achieve our victory.
The Treaty is that instrument.
The Brits have no right
to constrain our freedom.
You're head of army ordnance.
You know what we have
and what we don't have.
You of all people know we do not
have the guns to wage a protracted
war against them.
Better to die with
honour than live in shame.
And sacrifice our men, women
and children for that particular
rhetoric?
Don't go with DeValera,
he wants to divide us.
If I go with the President, it's
because our conscience leads us in
the same direction.
It's your Treaty that divides us.
Excuse me a moment.
The usher told me Cathal
Brugha called you a fraud.
I think that charge is
somewhere in the litany.
'A war hero only in
the eyes of the press!'
Was he not ruled out of order?
I said to let him speak.
The more he goes off against the
Treaty, the more people will warm to
it.
What are the numbers?
The gap's narrow and it's getting
narrower, but I reckon it'll pass.
A majority's a majority.
Nevertheless.
The arrangements we discussed.
I think it's time
to put them in place.
I think we should wait.
We can't risk the likes of Liam and
the others getting their hands on
government funds.
DeValera too.
If the President repudiates
the vote of his own parliament,
he's no longer the President.
The Castle sent word, they
want to see me about the hand over.
Will you go for me?
Yes sir.
Oh sure I never asked, did the
Christening all go off alright?
Little Mick got his
name and the drop of water.
You sent my apologies?
Ah, they understood you've more
important things to be thinking
about.
Nothing's more
important than new life Jimmy.
Nothing.
Either way it's war.
If the Treaty's rejected,
it's war with the English, again.
If it's accepted...
'What bondage and dejection will
we be consigning ourselves to if,
having fought this
far, we do not fight on?'
I was there too when Mick said that,
but there are other bonds, other
allegiances.
What about our
allegiance with the dead?
Some of them were
our closest friends.
Did they die for nothing?
I never wanted to see
Irish men fighting Irish men.
They're not Irish.
They're agents of the English.
No better than the RIC or the Tans.
But that's the great crime Eithne.
They're forcing
us into this position.
Nobody wanted this,
but that's what we've got.
They've made this mess.
Let them pay the price for it.
Back again O?
I could have seen to this.
Yes, I'm sure you would have.
But then I see you already have
your feet under the table in my old
office.
Now I wanted to do it properly.
Lord knows this
intelligence was hard enough won.
I don't want you to
just hand it over to them.
Speaking of which, when are
they getting the keys to the Castle?
Soon as possible.
Can't wait to get
back to civilisation.
I was surprised not to see
your name on the honours list?
The reward for failure!
I thought I'd see yours.
We didn't fail, O.
We resolved the situation.
The Irish Question is finally out of
British politics, and handed back to
the bloody Irish to answer.
I see you've a new post?
As Director of
Resettlement for the disbanded RIC.
But I imagine you knew that already
since you probably proposed me for
it.
In case any of your old boys decided
to spill the beans on operations
here, I thought you might like to
be in charge of their pension fund.
Sir, a representative from the
Irish Government is here to see you.
'Irish' 'government'?
Bloody contradiction in terms.
Like 'military' 'intelligence'?
Is it Collins?
No sir, a James Mahon.
There, you see Sturgis.
There's your reward, your reward
for 'resolving the situation'.
You get to hand over a Crown
territory that we have held since
1144, to a known murderer!
That was very well done.
Goodbye 'O'.
Sorry about the state of the place.
We're all at sixes and
sevens, getting it ready for you.
Well I hope you'll leave
us a chair to sit on at least.
We'll leave you an
excellent civil service.
If you want it.
What concerns us most
are British Army positions.
They need to be handed
over to approved IRA battalions.
Approved?
Loyal to the new
Provisional Government.
I'm head of the civil administration,
Mr. Mahon, the British Army marches
to its own drum.
As I'm sure you're aware,
Mr. Sturgis, this Treaty has many
opponents within the IRA.
I am well aware of that.
My job is to
effect a smooth transition.
When we depart Dublin
Castle, we depart entirely.
The administration at least.
That is what you have fought
all this time for, is it not?
You asked Mr. Griffith and Mr.
Collins to lay their lives on the
line by supporting this treaty.
I'll see what I can do.
An Pob-loch?
It means The Free State.
In that case, how can I help you?
My editor thought it would help
'sell' the Treaty, if you could
give our readers details
of official plans to withdraw.
Joey, there you are.
Here.
For the little man,
from Minnie and myself.
It's got his name engraved on it.
Born with a silver
spoon in his mouth, eh?
And here look.
So, I saw you two talking,
did you pop the question?
What happened?
Not like you to shoot and miss.
It's just...
What's wrong?
I don't know.
Don't worry about it boy.
the one thing you've got
to understand, is that there's no
understanding them.
Sure, after that
it gets a lot easier.
Lads, just heard they voted.
The Treaty's through.
Up Mick.
Up the Free State.
What's wrong with you, Joe?
Have you thought
about what this means?
Any of you?
Yeah we won, that's what it means.
Yeah we won.
And now we're working for the
King of England, that's what we won.
We won?
Sixty four to fifty seven.
That's a win.
It's close enough, but that's a win.
Too close for peace.
Question now's not if
there'll be trouble, but when.
Ah, you made it.
Seánie, lads.
What is it?
Leave the drinks,
we've still got work to do.
Treaty's through, isn't it?
We've got to
secure the Castle barracks.
Tonight?
Can't risk letting it
fall in to enemy hands,
before the handover to Mr. Collins.
Where's Joey?
He went to see Fr. Leonard.
Fr. Leonard? Why?
Had a bee in his bonnet.
I think your niece is
giving him the run around.
Probably wants Father Leonard
to pop the question for him!
Meet me outside the Castle.
Where are you going?
To find Joey!
It was good of you to show
us, Father, no need to stay.
I'd like to give my
blessing to the resurrected bones.
He was a great patriot.
Pass it along.
KNOCK ON DOOR
Joey?
Joey is that you?
What are you doing here?
What's going on?
I need you.
I need you.
Thought the war was over.
We have to defend the new State.
Against who?
For who?
For us.
I know it's not what you wanted.
I know it's not
what any of us wanted.
It's like Mick says, this Treaty is
the freedom to achieve our freedom.
And what is that freedom?
The freedom to live our lives.
I know you and Min wanted to marry.
Yeah we do.
We're as good as brothers already.
I wouldn't ask family to
do something I didn't believe in.
Have I ever let you down?
Look at me, look at me in the eye.
I'm asking you to
trust me one last time.
I just can't.
I can't.
If it's Minnie, I'll talk to her,
I know she's been mad at me, but I'm
asking you both to give me a chance.
You just don't get it, do you?
She's up there.
Minnie's with them?
You were supposed to protect her.
She's not a child anymore.
She says you betrayed us.
I haven't...
Everything we fought for.
Don't do this.
Those who treat with the enemy are
now our enemies, those who spoke as
one with us, now
speak with forked tongues.
Our numbers are growing
because our cause is the just cause.
We shall not fire unless fired upon;
we shall not kill unless they come
to murder us.
If they do come for us, we will
defend the Republic with our last
drop of blood.
Long live the Republic.
Long live the Republic!
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Good man, you and the
boys best go take communion.
You're going to need
all the help you can get.
GUNSHOTS
Twenty attacks, 12 confirmed dead so
far, there's a Gaelic football match
this afternoon, shall
I issue orders cancelling it?
I want you to get back out there,
if they didn't come for you then it
means your cover's not blown.
We left ourselves wide open.
What are we going to do about it?
Tell him, the interview is back on.
I think they're looking for you,
they'll be police all over the port.
We need to come up with a new plan.
Give me some food,
and something to drink!
I want to talk to General Winter.
Jimmy Mahon was taken care of.
Well there was a body
found, but it was not Jimmy Mahon.
So you find him, and you kill him,
and Ursula Sweeney his informer,
I want that woman dead.
Can I help you?
I'm looking for someone, Father.
Joey?
How did you find me?
You told me about
your friend, the priest.
Jimmy here with you?
Why would he be?
He went to Cork after his brother.
I heard there was trouble alright.
Thank God, Jimmy
wasn't among the dead.
Why were you
wanting him, Mr. Brogan?
Mick Collins has had word, the Castle
knows it was Jimmy put the drop on
their agents.
He needs me to get
him out of the country.
His whole family may be in danger.
I know you're sweet on his niece.
Could you ask him to meet me?
Good man.
KNOCK ON DOOR
Who is it, Bridget?
Gentlemen.
Won't you take
off your hats and coats?
They say they've
come from Mr. Jacobs.
To fetch you.
Can I help you?
I was wondering
if you had a room free?
How many nights?
Just the one.
Name?
Mrs. Agnes Moore.
Will your husband be joining you?
No.
Can I get you to sign here, please?
Do you have any luggage?
The one bag, out back.
I can manage though, thank you.
Are you sure I can't help you?
Quite sure, I'm fine.
Thank you.
Will you mind this?
Were we seen?
I hope not.
Listen, I'm going to go back out.
I have a plan.
Ursula.
You know the real reason
I wouldn't adopt him back then?
It's because I wanted
my first to be my own.
Yes I wanted to continue at College
but I'm sure we could have found a
way.
Lawrence was all
for making it work out.
There you have it, I'm sorry.
It was so selfish.
Just stay here, and
be as quiet as you can.
Aggie, it's alright.
I have him now.
Yes.
Mrs. Butler.
Mr. Jacobs.
Why have you
brought me to this place?
I thought we should have our
conversation in a more formal
environment.
And what conversation is that?
Please sit down, Mrs. Butler.
This is one of our
courts, isn't it, Mr. Jacobs?
It serves as one.
Do I stand accused of something?
Yesterday evening Senator
Shea's hotel room was raided.
I hadn't heard.
Is he alright?
He's fine, I imagine.
But the British have sent him
home in secret rather than face the
embarrassment of having to
arrest a United States Senator.
He's gone?
Yes.
However he had papers in his
possession which he was to convey to
Mr. DeValera.
I am not aware of such papers.
That's as may be, but the tip off
about the Senator's involvement came
from your husband.
Harry?
I don't understand.
But if he did, then why's
he not here instead of me?
Mr. Butler is being held
in custody at Dublin Castle.
And when he's released you and he
must leave the country immediately.
I have been one of
your staunchest supporters.
In light of that I've persuaded
the army council to treat you with
leniency.
They wanted to execute him.
Your house shall be made over to the
State in recompense of lost funds.
I've drawn up this document
to enable a swift hand over.
That's our home...
There's no place here
for you now, Mrs. Butler.
What's happened?
We took them all out.
Every last rat.
Where were you?
Business, Cork.
Sorry you missed it.
Heard it was you got
the fix on all of them.
Where's everyone going?
Got orders to clear out.
Word is they've
shot Dick and Peadar.
Where's Brogan?
I haven't seen him.
He missed the big day too.
Here, but your
niece is in the office.
Minnie?
Insisted on waiting on ya.
You shouldn't have come here.
Joey asked me to.
Why?
Mr. Brogan wants to meet you.
Brogan?
Where is he?
I don't want to tell you.
I need to know, Minnie,
he's a danger to all of us!
That's why I don't want to tell you.
Joey said that he wants you dead.
I know he wants me dead.
Yeah well I don't.
First Ma and Da, not you.
I've got to, Min.
Look, I've put money aside.
Joey knows where it is,
it's for you and the girls.
It's not about money.
I know it's not.
Would you not
ask Joey to go with you?
I don't want to drag him into this.
You two deserve a chance.
He thought there'd
be safety in numbers.
Excuse me.
Constance?
Constance, what in
heaven's name is going on?
LOUD SLAP
Don't you care that I just
spent the past night in prison?
Doing what?
Betraying your country?
Your family?
Betraying me?
The Senator's been sent away.
To hell with the Senator.
And they've taken our house,
do you think to hell with that too?
Stolen it from us.
And now you're back...
We've got a day
to leave the country.
What?
They can't take the house.
We don't have to do what they say.
No we don't, but if we
don't they will kill you.
And you only got that stay of
execution thanks to me and all I did
for the cause.
And because of you I am
a stranger in my own country!
My own home!
Look we'll go to England, for the
time being, that's the best idea.
But they are not
going to take our home.
Or the bank.
I'll go down and pick up the
deeds, and our share certificates.
You and Bridget pack.
You know, maybe this is our
chance, Connie, to start again.
Whiskey.
Here you go.
Barrett?
Mr. Butler, I wasn't expecting you.
I'm sure you weren't.
It being a Sunday.
And given the lies you told your
friends at the Castle about me.
I'm sure you were hoping they'd
lock me up and throw away the key.
I was only...
Senator Shea's dollars?
Mr. Butler I've only done what I
believe to be right for the bank and
our depositors.
Let me guess, you were going to take
the money to your friend General
Winter as proof of
your loyalty, isn't that it?
It's dirty money, and you knew it.
Did I?
He was over here to buy and
run whiskey illegally to America.
That was his real business.
The great Senator, nothing
more than a cheap bootlegger.
Indeed.
And cleaning his
dirty money through our bank.
That's why I'm
taking this to the Castle.
You're doing no such thing.
But it's illegal.
Neither the distilling nor the
purchase of whiskey is illegal in
this country yet,
I'm very glad to say.
But...
Therefore the Senator's
money is not illegal here, is it?
But this money was obtained
illegally in the United States.
Get out Barrett.
Excuse me sir?
Out!
What about the money?
It's no longer any concern of yours.
You're no longer an
employee of Butler's Bank.
But I've worked here for 35
years, for your father before you.
I'm the deputy manager.
You're nothing!
Out.
Out!
You got my note.
I'm here.
I understand Mr. Collins didn't show.
The man who wiped out an
entire British spy network before
breakfast.
I'm glad to get a
second chance to interview him.
Diarmuid kept a file on
the General's spy network.
Just reports from the international
press on the Egyptian revolt.
A few photographs.
Like this one.
Did you kill Robert Lennox?
What difference does it make.
You're setting me up
like you set up Saunders.
Anyway I've had enough.
Winter's lost.
Let's make a deal.
What kind of deal?
I'll let you walk out.
You let me walk out.
I give you my word, I'll never
set foot in this country again.
Your word.
Whose word is that?
A soldier's word of honour.
And why would you let me go?
Because you're expecting
when I shoot my way out of here,
I'm going to kill you first.
And I will.
So a deal would
be best for both of us.
CLICKING SOUND
So.
What's it to be?
Buy me one last
drink before you leave.
To toast our deal.
STABBING SOUNDS
Mrs. Moore.
Will you be joining us for dinner?
No, thank you.
I'll tell the chef so.
You're going to be
me and I'm going to be you.
You're going to take my passport and
write Tomás's name in the back of
it.
What about you?
You give me your papers.
I'll wait here as you.
I'll give you enough time to get
down to the boat and I'll call the
Police, let them know I'm here.
It's too dangerous.
They'll arrest you.
And I'll play along with it for a
while, until they bring me up to
Dublin.
By which time you and Tomás will
be hundreds of miles from here.
And then they'll really arrest you
for aiding and abetting a traitor.
If I've to spend time in prison to
help save my sister's life, then so
be it.
I can't let you do that for me.
Yes, you can.
Goodbye Tomás.
Goodbye.
Look after yourself.
Yeah.
Go on.
Ursula.
You'll need this.
Look after it for me, won't you?
I will.
This match this afternoon, Major,
I want you to take a few units down
there.
They're saying the
town's very tense, sir.
Quite, all the more reason to
show the public who's in control.
Yes sir.
I'll scramble a squad.
And some armoured vehicles,
in case there is trouble.
Here kid.
Want a better view?
Name?
James Kinsella, my nephew Peter.
Move on.
Excuse me, is there
a telephone I could use?
Booth on the right, I'll
put it through to the operator.
Thank you.
Cork RIC headquarters, please.
Yes.
There's a woman I believe
you're looking for, Ursula Sweeney.
I know where she is.
Quick, quick.
Men are a bit jumpy, sir.
Well see they
don't jump unless ordered.
What's the target?
Just make sure they're ready.
Programmes.
Programmes.
Don't move.
Alright, Jim, alright.
Whatever you say.
Expecting trouble?
The reason I wanted to see you Jim,
wasn't to kill you but to talk to
you.
All right Frank, let's go.
I'm not going anywhere.
If you want to shoot
me, you shoot me here.
Frank, let's go.
Everything I did, I did for
you, and for Mick, and the cause.
McLeod got to me.
But I used him, Jim.
Think about it, didn't
I save Mick a dozen times?
I'd tip off the Brits, but that
meant I knew when they were coming,
and I'd get Mick out of there.
I saved you too, Jim.
I knew they were onto you,
I got you moved, a new identity.
I at least deserve a hearing.
Take me to Mick, take me...
GUNFIRE IN THE BACKGROUND
GUNSHOT
GUNFIRE, SCREAMING AND SHOUTING
See what your friends are doing?
Murdering the lot of us.
They're not my friends.
You'll see.
This game, it eats you up, the
deeper you get in, look at you
already.
I know what I'm fighting for.
Do you?
Freedom.
Freedom!
You tried to kill me.
You got too close.
You used my brother as bait.
He was a Tan.
He gone to me now isn't he.
And for what?
So you can have your own freedom?
Sorry Frank, you can't back
two winners in the one race.
What do you think this glorious
freedom you're fighting for will
look
like?
Go on, do me a favour.
Finish it!
I already did.
SHIP'S HORN AND CRY OF SEAGULLS
There you are Mr. Deasy.
Mrs. Agnes Moore?
Yes.
KNOCK ON DOOR
Ursula Sweeney?
Yes.
Can you open the door please?
What are they doing, Mummy?
Checking our passports.
You're free to board.
Thank you.
Miss Sweeney...
Who are you?
Frank Brogan sent us,
from IRA Dublin Command.
DISTANT SOUND OF GUNSHOT
Major Mills assures me
there were gunmen in the crowd.
They opened fire first.
That's as may be, O, and doubtless
will be the line we take in public,
but you know this looks like sheer,
bloody revenge against unarmed
civilians.
I'll offer my resignation.
I already offered it
to the Prime Minister.
He refused.
He wants you to keep your
post, though from now on you'll be
strictly answerable to me.
Is he inside?
Yes, Sir.
Mr. Griffiths, I'm so sorry
to have to bring you in like this,
but I thought your arrest the
best way to cover our discussions.
The Prime Minister wishes me
to convey his deepest sympathies,
but also urges you
not to lose your nerve.
We are ready to talk.
Excuse me, General Winter, sir?
You'll forgive me if I
finish my supper, Miss Lawlor?
I'm sorry sir,
but they found Miss Sweeney.
Where?
A hotel in Cork.
She'd been shot by the IRA.
She's dead.
Well I'm surprised.
I thought if anyone could outsmart
the lot of us, it would be her.
RUMBLE OF ENGINE
AND SPLASH OF WAVES
What are you doing here?
Where is she?
Where's who?
My wife.
She went off with her
sister to fetch her child.
She did?
She put herself in
danger because of you.
You came to me.
If your sister-in-law's
got her child back...
In return for what?
Murder?
What was the price
my wife had to pay?
Where is she?
I don't know.
Mr. Jacobs wants to see you.
Right away.
I have to go.
If I hear anything
I'll let you know.
Anything at all, you have my word.
The car's outside Ma'am.
We need to take it
now to make the night boat.
With the state of the town, who knows
when the next one will be leaving.
Harry?
Still no sign of him ma'am.
Very well.
Can I have a word?
I'm with someone.
Excuse us.
What is it?
I've one last night
in dear dirty Dublin.
And I intend to enjoy myself.
With you.
Mr. Jacobs.
Done?
Yes.
What's the session been called for?
The British have made contact,
they want to start secret talks.
They're willing to allow DeValera to
return from the States, as a sign of
goodwill.
They've acknowledged the Republic?
That remains our
aspiration, in due course.
Excuse me Eithne.
But Mr. Collins said
the Republic and nothing less.
What else have we been fighting for?
For this, self-rule.
Jimmy.
Mr. Jacobs.
Mr. Collins would like
to see you before we begin.
This way.
Been here before?
Not through the front door.
Take your seats
please, Gentlemen, Countess.
This exceptional sitting of
Dáil Éireann is about to commence.
You heard Frank Brogan was found
amongst the dead at Croke Park?
I heard.
I wouldn't have taken him
for a fan of Gaelic Games.
Well at least this way
he dies a hero's death.
But I'll need
someone to replace him.
Someone I can trust with my life.
It's not going to be easy.
We might have victories like this
morning, or a hundred more martyrs
like this afternoon, but
we'll never beat them outright.
We'll have to talk.
That's what I'm about to
ask this House to do today.
Sanction secret talks
towards a peace treaty.
But one thing I do know is that
the British might never give us a
Republic.
And there'll be
those who won't accept that.
Maybe you won't accept it...
Mr. Collins, sir,
they're waiting for you.
I need to know,
Jim, what it's to be?
Are you with me?
Gentlemen, Daoine Uaisle, please.
The Minister of Finance, Acting
President of the Irish Republic, Mr.
Collins.
APPLAUSE
Everyone, up!
APPLAUSE
And watch the birdy!
Lovely, thank you.
Thanks for standing
godfather, Jim, means a lot.
It's an honour, Seánie.
But I have to be getting back.
Look after baby Michael
James for me won't you.
Congratulations
again to the both of yous.
Will we see you
later to wet his head?
Yeah, I'll do me best.
Let me walk you
to your car, Mr. Mahon.
Of course, Father.
Joey.
Min.
What about a
photograph with the godmother?
Here you go.
He's lovely.
She looks the part, huh?
When are you going to
make an honest girl of her?
Things are sweet, why ruin them?
So you expect it to
go through this afternoon?
Yes.
There's plenty fought for the
Promised Land, not this Free State.
The country's falling apart.
The Treaty's not what any of us
would have wished for, but it gives
us the chance to help the people.
What should it profit a man if he
gains the whole world, but loses his
own soul?
What about the people who share
my faith in the Irish Republic,
whatever parliaments and assemblies
and so-called majorities say?
Come back to the one true faith.
What we all fought for.
Look...
I need to know if you don't want to
marry me, so I know not to bother you
again about it.
I didn't say I don't want to.
What then?
It's just...
What about the future?
What about it?
We won.
I told you, you'll never have
to go back to the tenements again.
It's not the money or
the jobs that worries me.
What then?
It's you.
Why me?
You took an oath to the Republic.
Free State,
Republic, it's just words.
I lost my brother to the Republic.
You got tortured for it.
Do you know what that did to me?
We all lost people, we all suffered.
So how can you swear an
oath to the King of England.
I'm not going to
swear no oath to the King.
Your Mr. Collins, the
rest of them, they will.
Like Jimmy says it's this or all-out
war, and we're not up to all-out war
against the entire British Army.
Don't make me choose
between Jimmy and you.
Please Minnie, come on.
Thanks Eamon.
Mr. Mahon?
Miss Drury, can I help you?
Perhaps you'd ask them to let me in.
The Irish Bulletin
stopped publishing last July.
Our new publication,
Poblacht na hEireann.
That means the Irish Republic.
I am head of
government intelligence.
I know what it means.
Not my government,
not if they pass this Treaty.
There's no intelligence in that.
This Treaty will pass.
No journalists.
Liam.
Liam.
What you said in there.
You don't mean it.
I always say what I mean.
We all have our principles.
Indeed without them what are we?
Sometimes we must balance those
abstract principles against the real
human cost.
Balance?
You and I took an
oath to the Republic.
We did and that same oath binds us to
use the best possible instrument to
achieve our victory.
The Treaty is that instrument.
The Brits have no right
to constrain our freedom.
You're head of army ordnance.
You know what we have
and what we don't have.
You of all people know we do not
have the guns to wage a protracted
war against them.
Better to die with
honour than live in shame.
And sacrifice our men, women
and children for that particular
rhetoric?
Don't go with DeValera,
he wants to divide us.
If I go with the President, it's
because our conscience leads us in
the same direction.
It's your Treaty that divides us.
Excuse me a moment.
The usher told me Cathal
Brugha called you a fraud.
I think that charge is
somewhere in the litany.
'A war hero only in
the eyes of the press!'
Was he not ruled out of order?
I said to let him speak.
The more he goes off against the
Treaty, the more people will warm to
it.
What are the numbers?
The gap's narrow and it's getting
narrower, but I reckon it'll pass.
A majority's a majority.
Nevertheless.
The arrangements we discussed.
I think it's time
to put them in place.
I think we should wait.
We can't risk the likes of Liam and
the others getting their hands on
government funds.
DeValera too.
If the President repudiates
the vote of his own parliament,
he's no longer the President.
The Castle sent word, they
want to see me about the hand over.
Will you go for me?
Yes sir.
Oh sure I never asked, did the
Christening all go off alright?
Little Mick got his
name and the drop of water.
You sent my apologies?
Ah, they understood you've more
important things to be thinking
about.
Nothing's more
important than new life Jimmy.
Nothing.
Either way it's war.
If the Treaty's rejected,
it's war with the English, again.
If it's accepted...
'What bondage and dejection will
we be consigning ourselves to if,
having fought this
far, we do not fight on?'
I was there too when Mick said that,
but there are other bonds, other
allegiances.
What about our
allegiance with the dead?
Some of them were
our closest friends.
Did they die for nothing?
I never wanted to see
Irish men fighting Irish men.
They're not Irish.
They're agents of the English.
No better than the RIC or the Tans.
But that's the great crime Eithne.
They're forcing
us into this position.
Nobody wanted this,
but that's what we've got.
They've made this mess.
Let them pay the price for it.
Back again O?
I could have seen to this.
Yes, I'm sure you would have.
But then I see you already have
your feet under the table in my old
office.
Now I wanted to do it properly.
Lord knows this
intelligence was hard enough won.
I don't want you to
just hand it over to them.
Speaking of which, when are
they getting the keys to the Castle?
Soon as possible.
Can't wait to get
back to civilisation.
I was surprised not to see
your name on the honours list?
The reward for failure!
I thought I'd see yours.
We didn't fail, O.
We resolved the situation.
The Irish Question is finally out of
British politics, and handed back to
the bloody Irish to answer.
I see you've a new post?
As Director of
Resettlement for the disbanded RIC.
But I imagine you knew that already
since you probably proposed me for
it.
In case any of your old boys decided
to spill the beans on operations
here, I thought you might like to
be in charge of their pension fund.
Sir, a representative from the
Irish Government is here to see you.
'Irish' 'government'?
Bloody contradiction in terms.
Like 'military' 'intelligence'?
Is it Collins?
No sir, a James Mahon.
There, you see Sturgis.
There's your reward, your reward
for 'resolving the situation'.
You get to hand over a Crown
territory that we have held since
1144, to a known murderer!
That was very well done.
Goodbye 'O'.
Sorry about the state of the place.
We're all at sixes and
sevens, getting it ready for you.
Well I hope you'll leave
us a chair to sit on at least.
We'll leave you an
excellent civil service.
If you want it.
What concerns us most
are British Army positions.
They need to be handed
over to approved IRA battalions.
Approved?
Loyal to the new
Provisional Government.
I'm head of the civil administration,
Mr. Mahon, the British Army marches
to its own drum.
As I'm sure you're aware,
Mr. Sturgis, this Treaty has many
opponents within the IRA.
I am well aware of that.
My job is to
effect a smooth transition.
When we depart Dublin
Castle, we depart entirely.
The administration at least.
That is what you have fought
all this time for, is it not?
You asked Mr. Griffith and Mr.
Collins to lay their lives on the
line by supporting this treaty.
I'll see what I can do.
An Pob-loch?
It means The Free State.
In that case, how can I help you?
My editor thought it would help
'sell' the Treaty, if you could
give our readers details
of official plans to withdraw.
Joey, there you are.
Here.
For the little man,
from Minnie and myself.
It's got his name engraved on it.
Born with a silver
spoon in his mouth, eh?
And here look.
So, I saw you two talking,
did you pop the question?
What happened?
Not like you to shoot and miss.
It's just...
What's wrong?
I don't know.
Don't worry about it boy.
the one thing you've got
to understand, is that there's no
understanding them.
Sure, after that
it gets a lot easier.
Lads, just heard they voted.
The Treaty's through.
Up Mick.
Up the Free State.
What's wrong with you, Joe?
Have you thought
about what this means?
Any of you?
Yeah we won, that's what it means.
Yeah we won.
And now we're working for the
King of England, that's what we won.
We won?
Sixty four to fifty seven.
That's a win.
It's close enough, but that's a win.
Too close for peace.
Question now's not if
there'll be trouble, but when.
Ah, you made it.
Seánie, lads.
What is it?
Leave the drinks,
we've still got work to do.
Treaty's through, isn't it?
We've got to
secure the Castle barracks.
Tonight?
Can't risk letting it
fall in to enemy hands,
before the handover to Mr. Collins.
Where's Joey?
He went to see Fr. Leonard.
Fr. Leonard? Why?
Had a bee in his bonnet.
I think your niece is
giving him the run around.
Probably wants Father Leonard
to pop the question for him!
Meet me outside the Castle.
Where are you going?
To find Joey!
It was good of you to show
us, Father, no need to stay.
I'd like to give my
blessing to the resurrected bones.
He was a great patriot.
Pass it along.
KNOCK ON DOOR
Joey?
Joey is that you?
What are you doing here?
What's going on?
I need you.
I need you.
Thought the war was over.
We have to defend the new State.
Against who?
For who?
For us.
I know it's not what you wanted.
I know it's not
what any of us wanted.
It's like Mick says, this Treaty is
the freedom to achieve our freedom.
And what is that freedom?
The freedom to live our lives.
I know you and Min wanted to marry.
Yeah we do.
We're as good as brothers already.
I wouldn't ask family to
do something I didn't believe in.
Have I ever let you down?
Look at me, look at me in the eye.
I'm asking you to
trust me one last time.
I just can't.
I can't.
If it's Minnie, I'll talk to her,
I know she's been mad at me, but I'm
asking you both to give me a chance.
You just don't get it, do you?
She's up there.
Minnie's with them?
You were supposed to protect her.
She's not a child anymore.
She says you betrayed us.
I haven't...
Everything we fought for.
Don't do this.
Those who treat with the enemy are
now our enemies, those who spoke as
one with us, now
speak with forked tongues.
Our numbers are growing
because our cause is the just cause.
We shall not fire unless fired upon;
we shall not kill unless they come
to murder us.
If they do come for us, we will
defend the Republic with our last
drop of blood.
Long live the Republic.
Long live the Republic!
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