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!
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...
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