ANNEMARIE ART BARRY BRIAN CONALL CONLON FEMALE_ICE_AGENT GERRY GRAINNE IARLA ICE_AGENT_1 KEOGH MOURNER_1 MOURNER_2 PATSY PRIOR RAY TARA CIARA-KATE CIARA-KATE There is an ancient Irish saying. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. ANNEMARIE Hey bear. Hey bear. Hey FEMALE ICE AGENT Not a bear.Immigration Control Enforcement. Annemarie Gillespie-You have outstayed your welcome. ICE AGENT 1 Am I going to need this? CIARA-KATE An artist, a wife, a mother? Who would kill a well- respected woman in her prime? Questions must be asked about her husband. Was his grip on his much younger wife slipping, like the grip on his crumbling empire.Don't forget to subscribe. It will attract advertisers. CONALL You've some neck pointing the finger at my Dad. CIARA-KATE I report what I find. His last two cleaners said he was a creepy little fucker. Well I can get his side out with an interview. When�s he free? CONALL Never. Fuck off home. CIARA-KATE How long had you been looking for Annemarie Gillespie? I found her in an hour. You know nothing about who your mother really was. GRAINNE I don't want to be spreading stories about her but if you think it might help get the killer caught go on Gerry, tell her.You�d be over in Letterkenny at the crack of dawn and you�d see her, Sabine, leaving the hotel there, arm in arm- With a fancy man. CIARA-KATE How many other people were too embarrassed or too afraid to tell you the truth when you asked questions about your mother?Cut me out, cut your chances of finding the killer. I bet you never even checked your father's alibi. KEOGH She was last seen alive, leaving the hotel at 12.05am on Saturday the 11th. R�ona Spear was working the bar and said they'd a bumper night.You can see Sabine leaving here with the takings. CONLON So we're looking at a window of 12.05am to 3.27am when the bog water stopped her watch. Where were this pair? PATSY Art was at a pilgrimage on Lough Derg the entire weekend. KEOGH Could he have sneaked off the island? PATSY Unlikely but check he stayed for the duration. KEOGH Did you not check it at the time? PATSY Conall passed out drinking with his college friends, up at the hotel. PATSY Most of the village were at the lock in and saw him there. KEOGH He didn't actually stay the night at the hotel though? PATSY No. CONLON The preliminary autopsy report said a kitchen knife was found with the body. PATSY In all likelihood she was killed up at the house. KEOGH And Conall slept through it? CONLON Or arrived home after. We need to figure that out. PATSY Get a warrant for the house. BARRY 'Chig, Sabine's phone isn't with the evidence but it is in the log. Was it returned to the family? PATSY If it's in the log it should still be here. BARRY But it's not. PATSY I need you to sift through the dashcam footage that came in from the Martin O Turaisg assault. BARRY But- PATSY Go through it at reception. CONLON The missing phone is worrying. KEOGH Smacks of Conall helping himself to evidence. PATSY I hope not. Brian, thanks for the making time. I have Detectives Conlon and Keogh here with me. Your email said some of the forensic results are back. BRIAN Yes. You've been lucky and unlucky on this one. There was no sign of sexual assault but given the body was submerged for 15 years any DNA samples would have been long destroyed. And the knife found with the body is a match for the wound on the victim's neck. Again, no DNA. KEOGH And the lucky bit? BRIAN There were fibers under Sabine's nails, consistent with a black fleece material. CONLON We talking blanket or clothing? BRIAN More likely clothing. Onto the scarf that was around the victim's wound, as you'll see from the images I sent- PATSY One sec BRIAN It was originally green in colour and there is an insignia. KEOGH Celtic or Ireland scarf, maybe? PATSY Or Donegal. CONLON What's the Lettering? BRIAN Don't know yet. We're giving it one more clean, although it could disintegrate. I'll let you know how we get on. Lastly, the table cloth she was wrapped in was Plauen lace, its- PATSY German.It came from the house. ART They called. They're releasing your mother's your mother. CONALL Right. ART We've to send the undertaker an outfit for CONALL You sent it yesterday, Dad. ART Of course. I'm losing track of everything. CONALL Were you really in Lough Derg that weekend? ART Not you too. Yes I was! KEOGH That was quick. CONLON Small towns are all the same. PATSY I'm sorry about this, Conall but we need to search the house. CONALL You've got new evidence? PATSY The liaison officer will let you know what she can. PATSY It's all in order. CONALL You must be thinking i happened here. PATSY I won't have to remove you from the house, will I Conall? PATSY Hi Art. I know this might be upsetting ART I'm upset you didn't do it 15 years ago. It's your fault she lay on that bog alone all this time. PATSY Can we go through your statements? Both of you? ART You took it when she went missing. Nothing has changed. CONALL Same for me. PATSY "Fine. I'd ask you to leave the house so the team can work uninterrupted. CONALL He needs his insulin so we'll be staying put for a while. CONALL Sit down there, Dad. KEOGH Bag this. How long has that knife been missing? CONALL Check the dishwasher. KEOGH It's not there. Can you leave the room,please? CONALL Nope. CONLON Look for a laptop. PATSY I never found one but the hotel went into liquidation a fortnight into the investigation. Anything to do with the business was seized. It was a red tape nightmare. PATSY I walked that bog path a hundred times after she went missing. Never knew she was there. CONLON Your investigation was comprehensive. There was no evidence to find. PATSY But I knew her personally. Knew the pressure she was under with the hotel failing. That the marriage was rocky and I stopped looking. CONLON You tracked her passport, her bank accounts and had the RNLI sweep the coast, 'Cig. There was nothing else you could have done. PATSY There is always something. PRIOR Hello? CIARA-KATE Don�t hang up! Don�t hang up! PRIOR Hello? I�m afraid you have caught me at a bad time. CIARA-KATE Don�t hang up. I�m a journalist making a podcast about the Sabine O Sullivan murder. PRIOR What an interesting thing to do. I was just watching Angela Lansbury there on the television solving a very complicated murder involving a diamond thief and a cat breeder. CIARA-KATE Sounds great. Listen, the prime suspect is Art O Sullivan, the victim�s husband. PRIOR No that can�t be right. Art has been visiting here, on pilgrimage, at Easter for years. CIARA-KATE Well he says he was on Lough Derg at the time of the murder. You�re essentially his alibi. PRIOR Me? CIARA-KATE Yup so if you could just confirm if he was or wasn�t on the Easter Pilgrimage in 09 you�ll be helping Sabine to get justice and find her killer. PRIOR I don�t know if I can or not-Hello? I�m afraid you have caught me at a bad time. CIARA-KATE Don�t hang up. I�m a journalist making a podcast about the Sabine O Sullivan murder. PRIOR What an interesting thing to do. I was just watching Angela Lansbury there on the television solving a very complicated murder involving a diamond thief and a cat breeder. CIARA-KATE Sounds great. Listen, the prime suspect is Art O Sullivan, the victim�s husband. PRIOR No that can�t be right. Art has been visiting here, on pilgrimage, at Easter for years. CIARA-KATE Well he says he was on Lough Derg at the time of the murder. You�re essentially his alibi. PRIOR Me? CIARA-KATE Yup so if you could just confirm if he was or wasn�t on the Easter Pilgrimage in �09 you�ll be helping Sabine to get justice and find her killer. PRIOR I don�t know if I can or not- BARRY Bad time? CONALL You any good with this stuff? BARRY I placed in 14th at the E Sports Cup in CONALL They are all Mam's passwords but I've run out of tries. The first one got me into the computer but the next three aren't valid. BARRY If thats her laptop I should bring it in and log it. The tech lads CONALL Not an option. Can you do it? BARRY There are apps and the dark web I guess CONALL How long will it take? BARRY A few days? I don't know. You checked the search history, yeah? CONALL Cleared. BARRY People�s search history is never really cleared. Let me check. It's all pretty generic..eh... cinema times, news site for Bremen. CONALL BARRY What is it? I think it's a clinic for women. For BARRY There wasn't any mention of a pregnancy in the autopsy. CONALL The report's back? BARRY Just some preliminary stuff. It's not easy reading, Conall. CONALL Get into those emails and tell me if she made an appointment.And I want to know whatever Patsy knows, got it? BARRY I found you on dashcam footage in the vicinity of Martin O Turaisg's assault. CONALL Doing what? BARRY Walking. CONALL And? BARRY Nothing. PRIOR I'm not meant to give youthat information. I'm not meant to give you that information. CIARA-KATE Whoever invented GDPR never meant it to keep a killer in a community. PRIOR You have a point. CIARA-KATE Did anyone ever tell you, you have a great voice for the radio, Father. PRIOR It�s funny you say that I often thought that myself. CIARA-KATE Well, if you could send me a picture of whatever that ledger says in front of you I think you might be the star of my next episode. PRIOR I'm not meant to give you that information. CIARA-KATE Whoever invented GDPR never meant it to keep a killer in a community. PRIOR You have a point. CIARA-KATE Did anyone ever tell you, you have a great voice for the radio, Father. PRIOR It�s funny you say that often thought that myself. CIARA-KATE Well, if you could send me a picture of whatever that ledger says in front of you I think you might be the star of my next episode. CONLON It's a coincidence. KEOGH No. I told you he was off. CONLON Cathal, he'd just found his mother murdered. KEOGH And he had zero emotion. None. CONLON It was shock. KEOGH Or he is a psychopath. GRAINNE It�s quieter than I expected. RAY Not everyone is as charitable as you. GRAINNE It�s been a shock to us all. Poor Sabine. ART Don't you have an investigation to be doing? PATSY I'm here as a friend of Sabine's. ART The friend who spread lies about suicide? GRAINNE But sure they were thick as thieves, Art. RAY Respects paid. You can leave. BARRY She's lying in there in her coffin. CIARA-KATE And her murderer is probably propped up against it. BARRY You can't tell him now. CIARA-KATE I'd want to know my father lied about his alibi. You can go to the station in the morning and pretend you found out. Get some credit. BARRY You and Conall are going to get me fired. PATSY It's not the place for a domestic, Roche. CIARA-KATE This your boss? The big Cig? I'm doing a podcast PATSY Any relationship with this woman is a conflict of interest. CIARA-KATE You're hurting my feelings and dare I say, you're being very presumptive about my pronouns. BARRY Eh what are your pronouns? CIARA-KATE I was just winding her up. BARRY Not a good idea. CIARA-KATE Let's go. BARRY No. Between the abortion and this. It's too much. CIARA-KATE Excuse me? CONALL Have you any news for me? BARRY No but she has CIARA-KATE Your father's alibi is bullshit. BARRY Christ, Ciara-Kate. CIARA-KATE What? CONALL Did you do it? ART CONALL what? Did. You. Kill. My. Mother? CONALL You weren't in Lough Derg. No more fuckin' lies or I'll put you in the coffin with her. ART No. I wasn't in Lough Derg. CONALL Where were you? ART I was in Edinburgh. With another woman. CONALL Start talking. ART You won't like what you hear. CONALL I said, start talking. Can I have a word? TARA What's going on? CONALL I have to ask you something. TARA If you already know don't make me say it. CONALL If he doesn't have an alibi he gets the blame and her murderer walks free. I have to hear it from you.Were you with him the weekend my Mam was killed? TARA The whole weekend. He took me to Edinburgh on the ferry from Belfast, after school on the ThursdayI was so stupid. I thought it was glamorous staying in a fancy hotel CONALL When did ye get back? TARA The Sunday morning. You won't tell anyone will you? CONALL They'll ask you to confirm his alibi but it shouldn't get out. ART I was flattered by the attention.It was a mistake. A dreadful mistake. CONALL Don't. She was a kid. ART But do you believe me now, I didn't hurt your mother. CONALL It's not me you need to convince. You can make your own way home. KEOGH Can I help you? ART I need to amend my statement. TARA Do you hate me, Balor? You're my only friend left around here. I didn�t know what I was doing back then. CONALL You don't have to explain- TARA He gave it to me. Said I was one in a million. I thought I was somebody- CONALL Not here. He has an alibi, a real one, thats all you need to know. CIARA-KATE Who is the dude in the pinstripe suit? CONALL Feilim Dwyer. He owns a gallery, used to show Mam's work. CIARA-KATE He's a fancy man. Wouldn't you say? CONALL Mum loved poetry, and birds too, especially the curlew.The music. The folklore about them. Long ago peoplebelieved that to hear the curlew�s song was a bad omen. They were right. This is poem by William Butler Yeats. O CURLEW cry no more in the air, Or only to the water in the West; Because your crying brings to my mind passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair That was shaken out over my breast There is enough evil in the crying of wind ART Sabine loved simple things. Practical things and she was a straight talker- So, I have decided to talk straight today. I did not kill my wife and shame on any of you, who gossiped and pointed fingers this last week, in our most painful moments. Smearing her reputation for five minutes of fame on a podcast. Shame on you. Someone in this church, someone looking at me now, knows who murdered her and left her in the bog, cold and alone for fifteen long years. She deserved better from each and every one of you. She talked with you, she laughed with you, she shared with you and one of you took her life. God knows she deserved better from me but I won't let her down again. Whichever one of you did this, you'll be caught and you'll pay. You'll burn in hell. I won't be silenced by hearsay and gossip and neither will Sabine. MOURNER 1 Sorry for you loss. MOURNER 2 You were dead right. ANNEMARIE Come here to me. CONALL Thanks for ANNEMARIE No problem. RAY Come on to the car with me, Art. You want to see the day through for her. KEOGH Did you buy Art�s grandstanding? CONLON The grieving husband. KEOGH What about the son? Walks like a thug, acts like a thug- TARA Annemarie? ANNEMARIE Great to see you, T. And this must be BlAith�n.Aren't you gorgeous? The image of your mammy. TARA Did you come back for the funeral? ANNEMARIE No, I was over working in Alaska and bloody ICE got me. TARA ANNEMARIE It's a nightmare. CONLON Could Art have wound his very angry son up to kill Sabine? KEOGH Mammy was breaking up the family? No hotel and a divorce, there'd be nothing left for him to inherit. CONLON What's with the nickname? Balor's, like a beast right? PATSY A one eyed God. KEOGH Cute. PATSY When he was playing for the minors, Conall punched a ref so hard, the man was blinded in one eye. KEOGH Any charges pressed? PATSY Art bought his way out of it. CONLON So a clear history of violence and no alibi. KEOGH I told you.Hello? Thanks for staying late I appreciate it. I'm putting you on speaker. Its the lab. BRIAN So, as suspected the scarf started to disintegrate but we cleaned up the insignia. It's a Chonnacht UniversityscarfConall went there. CONLON Hold your horses. Thousands of those scarves have been made. BRIAN There is extra lettering under the insignia. This was a special edition specific to the 2009 University soccer team. We sent a picture to the University and they confirmed. I hope that helps. CONLON Conall was on the team, wasn't he? KEOGH Shame Daddy's money is all gone, CONALL might actually end up in prison this time around. BARRY I have something. Art's alibi, in Lough Derg KEOGH Is a pile of crap. He was having a dirty weekend with a local teenager. It's already in the file. Nice try, Sherlock. RAY Your aul boy looks shook.You two have a falling out? CONALL Something like that. RAY Many's a funeral caused a ruckus. Keep the head, son. CIARA-KATE Have you never heard of video calls? CIARA-KATE You set ICE on that poor girl so you could ask her questions? CONALL Why did you want to know about Feilim? CIARA-KATE He was overly camera shy. I wondered why. GRAINNE I'm telling you that's what I saw. GERRY We look like informants. GRAINNE You're always ringing Conall when James leaves the pub scuttered, hoping he'll be caught drink driving GRAINNE You're not stopping me. ANNEMARIE Hey. ANNEMARIE Do you want to be alone? CONALL Jesus no.Gets cold when you stay put a while. ANNEMARIE Ever the gent. She raised you well. CONALL With a clip around the ear."Stop, she spoiled you rotten. She did, aye. It's good to see you. ANNEMARIE Looking like an auld one in my Mam's dress.I came home in my running gear and cuffs. ICE got me.Didn't even let me get my wallet from my car.Everything's gone. CONALL That's terrible. ANNEMARIE It's my own fault. I got lazy and stayed in the one place too long. CONALL I'm sorry. ANNEMARIE Easy come, easy go. I'll tell you one thing. I'll never so much as j-walk again. Three lovely days in a cell with a prostitute and a schizophrenic shoplifter, scared me straight. CONALL If you need a dig out. Money wise. ANNEMARIE I'll hit you up for a pint. CONALL Can you help me with something? ANNEMARIE There's always a catch. I'm joking. Go on. CONALL I passed out that night.. her last night. I can't remember anything. It's killing me. ANNEMARIE It was a long time ago. CONALL Mam collected the takingsWas she acting strange? Were any of the guests off? ANNEMARIE You had those dicks from college with you that night, didn't you? CONALL Were they dicks? ANNEMARIE You weren't much better. CONALL Go on ANNEMARIE You were showing off and the two lads they kept pawing me. One of them followed me home or tried to. CONALL What? ANNEMARIE I didn't catch on until I was well down the road. He was so sneaky, sticking to the shadows but I could feel him, you know.I cut across the bog and lost him. Never ran so fast in my life." CONALL Do you remember which one, followed you? ANNEMARIE Sorry. It was so dark and he had that scarf the three of ye had pulled high around his face. It was kind of what scared me. Like why was he wrapped up like that?You don't think CONALL I don't know what to think anymore. BARRY They found a scarf with your mum's body.It's a University of Chonnacht scarf, with a soccer badge. CONALL Right. BARRY They think it was yours.They think you might have done it. IARLA Where'd you get that? I thought you came back with nothing. ANNEMARIE Conall leant it to me. IARLA Did he give you the dress too? ANNEMARIE This was Mam�s. IARLA Are you going to go through the rest of her shit before you leave? ANNEMARIE Iarla. Relax IARLA Conall? You were always brown nosing those posh pricks. ANNEMARIE They were good to Mam when Dad was sick. IARLA Shame there was no one around when mam was sick. Are you going to go through the rest of her shit before you leave? ANNEMARIE Iarla. Relax. IARLA Conall? You were always brown nosing those posh pricks. ANNEMARIE They were good to Mam when Dad was sick.