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 all right.
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.
[theme music playing]
[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?
Uh, 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, um... Just stay here, and be as quiet as you can.
Aggie, it's all right.
I have him now.
Yes.
[door closes]
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 all right?
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 handover.
That's our home...
There's no place here for you here 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 the 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 say 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.
Hmm?
Whiskey.
[sighs]
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 for 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.
Oh, 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.
[gun clicking]
So.
What's it to be?
Buy me one last drink before you leave.
To toast our deal.
[stabbing]
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.
[laughter and shouting]
- Don't move. - All right, Jim, all right.
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.
Look, 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. - [scoffs] 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. - Thank you.
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.
[engine rumbling]
- 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, Seanie.
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.
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 handover.
- Will you go for me? - Yes, sir.
Oh, sure, I never asked, did the christening all go off all right?
Little Mick got his name and the drop of water.
You sent my apologies?
Ah, they understand 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.
No, 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 about 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.
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.
Women, sir, 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.
[cheering]
What's wrong with you, Joe?
Have you thought about what this means?
Hmm?
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.
- Seanie, 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 into enemy hands,
before the handover to Mr Collins.
Where's Joey?
Uh, he went to see Father Leonard.
Father Leonard? Why?
Had a bee in his bonnet.
I think your niece is giving him the runaround.
Sure he 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.
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. 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 any more.
- 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. - [all] Long live the Republic!
[theme music playing]