RONAN In Early Irish society one�s honour price determined one�s status in the community. In a petty kingdom, the king, the poet and the bishop all had equal standing. Thirty two s�od which in modern Ireland means? EAGER STUDENT A precious object. RONAN Nothing more precious than one�s reputation. RONAN Now, in Brehon Law, punishment for crimes was calculated based upon one�s status, for example in this text, we have the punishment outlined for fingal, kin slaying. If a king murdered one of his own family, his punishment was to lose his status, he would be set adrift with some oats and his fate would be left in the hands of God. RONAN Okay, that�s as good a place to leave it. Remember Thursday�s tutorial has moved to room G341. I�ll put it in an email for all of you who are clearly not listening. And the meaning of life as told to me in a fever dream by. CIARA-KATE What are you filming? This better not be related to my podcast. Rude. PATSY Morning. There has been a development.I�ve decided to engage with the TV people, help jog everyone�s memory. CONLON A reconstruction? PATSY Yes, and they�ll interview all and sunder about their memories of that Good Friday night. KEOGH Conall�s interview will be short. PATSY We�ll see. I�d like to prioritise a visit to Conall today, put the new evidence to him. KEOGH From our informant. CONLON Under caution? PATSY Not yet. Let�s hear his side of the story first. I�ll be away for the afternoon but available on my phone if there are any developments. That�s it. BARRY I can get the statement from Conall. KEOGH That�s okay, Barry, I�ve a much more important job for you. KEOGH We need a proper storage room. CONLON Sabine took the night�s takings home, over ten grand. PATSY A robbery? CONLON Yes but no sign of forced entry. Sabine didn�t feel threatened. PATSY Who�d know that she brought the takings home? CONLON I�d imagine the bar manager, the night porter.Riona Boyle. Ray Lipsett. PATSY We need statements from Riona and Ray. CONLON Not just them.The hotel had umpteen creditors. Lots of final notices, letters from solicitors. None of these people were paid when it went to the wall soon after. PATSY I don�t suppose any of them were in the hotel that night? CONLON That�s what I�m going to figure out. PATSY Good work. Keep me posted. RONAN I�m sorry I didn�t make the funeral. I left a message on RIP.ie, we�re flat out prepping for exams. CONALL That Good Friday, when you came up to the hotel, what do you remember? RONAN I�m ashamed of what happened. I should have told you sooner. CONALL Tell me now. RONAN Do you remember, when we got off the bus, on the Friday, we had lunch in your house. Your Mum cooked. CONALL The same every Good Friday. Fishcakes and a Russian salad. RONAN Remember the flirty banter between Ian and your Mum? CONALL I remember. RONAN Remember he offered to pose nude for one of her paintings. He also told me when we were in the pub, you mum was there for some reason, he told me if he wanted to he could fuck her and he reckoned she�d let him.I�m sorry but I�m just telling you what he said. CONALL I know. RONAN We went to the hotel, we were drinking all day. You, me and Ian. Pints. Then shorts. But, we knew how you felt about drugs so we didn�t tell you. Ian had ketamine.The barmaid. She was a bit uptight, she was finishing her shift and you asked her to join us for a drink. CONALL You gave her ketamine? RONAN I�ve another lecture. CONALL It can wait. What about the ketamine? RONAN You drank it. By mistake. Accident. That�s why you were so fucked up. CONALL Jesus fucking Christ. RONAN There�s more. Ian he. CONALL He what? RONAN You were all over the shop. That barmaid left. Ian said he was going to walk her home. CONALL What time was this? RONAN I don�t remember. The bar was closed, I�d say after midnight. CONALL And then what? RONAN I asked about getting a hackney for you. The manager, she said she�d look after you. I went up to the room.The room I was sharing with Ian. I fell asleep. And then, a couple of hours later, Ian came back. He was covered, and I mean covered, in mud.His clothes, shoes, hands. Face even. RONAN When I heard your mother was found buried in the bog, I have it admit, it crossed my mind. CONALL Are you sure? RONAN One hundred percent. He thought I was asleep but I wasn�t, I watched him. He took a shower. CONALL In the middle of the night? RONAN And that�s when.Ye never knew this about me, nobody did, but I was, back then, I was, in the closet. CONALL I knew. RONAN Ian caught me staring at him after his shower. He taunted me and then It�s taken me a long time, and a lot of therapy, to understand what happened that night wasn�t consensual. For years I blamed myself, I tried to block it out. CONALL Fuck. RONAN Neither of us returned to university after that Easter. I wanted to tell you but you had bigger problems. CONALL Do you know where Ian is now? RONAN He tried and failed to get into the Irish Army. He joined the US Marines. He was accused of rape, found not guilty, but dishonourably discharged nonetheless. CONALL This the same scarf from back then?I need you to find out as much as you can about Ian Coyle. He went to University of Connacht at the same time as me. BARRY Sure.Guys! KEOGH You grab one end, I�ll grab the other. BARRY It�s not the bench. Look. KEOGH Is that what I think it is? CONLON Barry has found our missing phone. FEILIM Can I interest you in anything in particular? CIARA-KATE Yes, I�d like to find out more about the artist Sabine Ni Sh�illeabhAin. FEILIM I�m afraid I�ve nothing of Sabine�s at the moment. CIARA-KATE I�m a journalist and I saw you at her funeral, you were dodging the cameras. I�d like to talk about the nature of your relationship with her. CIARA-KATE Or I could speak to your wife. CONLON Should it be doing this? KEOGH No. BARRY Press the phone app. The green one. See her last dialled numbers. KEOGH Her texts? CONLON Empty. KEOGH Check photos? BARRY The phone has been wiped. KEOGH It was taken into evidence three days after she was reported missing. CONLON Sabine couldn�t have done that. KEOGH Why would the data be erased? Who had access to the phone? EDWINA WRIGHT The murder case of Sabine O�Sullivan that�s making headlines, you oversaw the initial investigation. PATSY I did. PETER TAGGART And concluded Sabine likely died by suicide. PATSY That�s what the evidence suggested at the time. Although it never sat well with me. TOM ROGAN Wise after the fact? PATSY Not at all. There was one person who I felt knew more than they were telling us, unfortunately the evidence wasn�t there fifteen years ago. PETER TAGGART And is the evidence there now? PATSY I cannot discuss an ongoing investigation, not even at a job interview. PATSY I beg your pardon but I must take this. COLON We�ve found the missing phone. PATSY That�s great. CONLON Not quite, the data has all be erased. PATSY Can it be retrieved? CONLON We�ve sent it to Dublin for analysis. The thing is it was erased after it was taken into evidence, it was erased by one of our own. Keogh�s hunch might be right. FEILIM My wife and I were in Florence the weekend that Sabine met her end. CIARA-KATE Your wife will corroborate this? FEILIM Sabine and I were not lovers. CIARA-KATE Can you prove that though? Because she was romantically involved with someone. You fit the bill, Feilim. FEILIM I sold her paintings in my gallery. That was it. We weren�t lovers. CIARA-KATE Me think the Gallery-owner doth protest too much. CONALL Is that what you�re wearingto be on national TV?They�re filming the reconstruction, they�re interviewing us today. ART Why? CONALL It�s a good thing. It�ll jog everyone�s memory. Even yours. ART There�s nothing wrong with my memory. CONALL Great. Put on a suit. And have a wash and a shave.Barry? KEOGH No, it�s Detective Keogh. We need to get a statement from you.A witness has come forward who claims you had a Massive barney with your mother in the hotel, hours before her murder. KEOGH Can you tell us about that? CONALL I told you already, I have no memory of that part of the night. KEOGH Yeah, that�s not great is it? KEOGH Was there bad blood between you and your mother for a while? CONALL Are you going to interview me under caution? KEOGH We�ll see. Anything else to add? CONALL No. KEOGH Oh and Barry found the missing phone. Your mum�s. Someone tried to reset it, someone who worked in Carricknanaul Station, I�m scratching my head here wondering who. KEOGH Anyway. That�s it. Did youget your call-sheet? KEOGH You and your ol� fella are up after lunch. AOIFE The interviews are getting samey.Sabine was a lovely German woman, blah, blah, blah so the juicier the better with your bits to camera, ok? MARTIN Sabine was a Milf. That�s my story and I�m sticking with it. ANNEMARIE You haven�t changed since school. How do you put with him? MARTIN She knows a good thing when she sees it. RIONA Did you ever get the glare from Sabine? You know when she caught you messing, she�d never say anything but you knew you�d let her down. ANNEMARIE Not really. RIONA Of course you didn�t. You and Tara were the favourites. I never got a go on reception. TARA I think the uniform just fit us. RIONA Are you calling me fat Are you okay? TARA The caravan is going to be the death of me. AOIFE How has the last few weeks been for you? ART Awful. AOIFE What? Cut! ART Remember, my questions will be edited out, so you have to answer more fully. It�d be brilliant if you could put the question in the answer It would help us. ART What are you going on about? How long more will this take? AOIFE We�ll try again. Rolling? In your own words how have the last few weeks been, knowing that your wife�s death is now being treated as a murder. ART Tough. Very tough.You don�t think this kind of thing will happen in your town. Sabine was loved by all. She really was. Who could have done this to her. CIARA-KATE Sixteen! Fuuuuuuuck!I�m busy, Darragh. Did you hear they�re filming a documentary on the murder? I�m going to do a special bonus episode on it and an AMA after it airs.A solicitor�s letter? For what?I didn�t accuse him of murder, Darragh, I accused him of possibly having sex with look it doesn�t matter.Excuse me? And if I say no? Fine. Send me my P45. And I expect my back holiday pay too ya bollox. AOIFE We got there in the end, great job. Phone�s are supposed to be switched off! PATSY I wasn�t expecting to hear from you so soon.I understand. Thank you. I�m looking forward to it. CIARA-KATE Why are you ghosting me? Whatever. Look, your mother�s lover. CONALL Lower your voice. CIARA-KATE I�ve been thinking of the possible candidates around here, like, I can�t imagine her with Ray, can you? Unless she took a toy boy. What age is your man, Martin? CONALL Listen, do me a favour, go back to wherever you came from, go back to writing stories about face-painting in children�s festivals. I read your recent articles. AOIFE This is a closed set. PATSY Get her out of here. CIARA-KATE I�m going! CONALL Don�t stop until you reach Sligo. CIARA-KATE Wanker. Annemarie, isn�t it? ANNEMARIE Yeah. CIARA-KATE Ciara-Kate Brennan. I write for The Sligo Voice. ANNEMARIE You�re the podcaster? CIARA-KATE Thanks for listening. ANNEMARIE I didn�t. CIARA-KATE Come here, I�d love to do a piece about you for the paper.That must have been very harrowing, being arrested by ICE, thrown into prison.Deported. ANNEMARIE I don�t want to talk about that. CIARA-KATE Well, if you change your mind. ANNEMARIE I won�t. CIARA-KATE And you�re not pissed off with Conall? You�re a bigger person than I am. CIARA-KATE Why couldn�t he have picked up the phone? Why rat you out to ICE? AOIFE Thanks again and I�m very sorry for your loss. RAY One, two, three. AOIFE You want me to ask him this? BARRY Hey Conall, so your pal Ian Quite a few arrests. Drunken disorderly. Last new year�s eve is the most recent one. He gave his address as Lifford. He works in a gym there too. I�ll text you the eircodes. CIARRA-KATE Hello? CIARA-KATE You can�t be back here!Relax, your bosses are over at the shoot. ANNEMARIE How could you! How dare you put me through that. I went to prison. Prison, Conall. You put me in prison. You prick. CONALL Annemarie. ANNEMARIE Shut the fuck up. AOIFE You were Art�s driver? RAY I was. AOIFE But I am confused, that Good Friday night you were the night porter? RAY Well, the night porter job was a new thing. Like with any business staff get moved around. I was asked to be night porter and I said yes. AOIFE Going from Art O�Sullivan�s trusted driver to the night porter. Some might call that a demotion. RAY God no. I preferred it to be quite honest with you, a bit more craic up in the hotel. AOIFE And where were you when you found out that Sabine was missing? RAY I was outside mass, Easter Sunday. We were getting ready for the parade. AOIFE Were you concerned? RAY Not overly, she was regularly traveling with her work. AOIFE But she didn�t take her phone. RAY That was strange, aye. AOIFE So, that Easter Sunday. RAY We called the guards but the local station was closed, We were told they�d send a car from Millford but it never came. So I, we, organised a search party. It was Tuesday before Sergeant Patsy Sweeney returned and had the station open. Three days and sure by that stage, the suicide story started to take hold. AOIFE You didn�t believe the suicide story? RAY The Sabine I knew wasn�t the type to walk into the sea.There needs to be an independent inquiry why this failure happened. Had Sergeant Patsy Sweeney done her job properly, Sabine�s killer would have been found. I have no doubt in my mind about that. BARRY How did I end up cuffed when you were the criminal? Ciara-Kate? This isn�t funny. Come on, come on, come on. Thank you, God. CIARA-KATE Do you actually believe in God? BARRY I like to hedge by bets. BARRY I need that back. CIARA-KATE She doesn�t look the type, does she? For a tattoo, like. BARRY You can�t be looking at this. CIARA-KATE On the other hand, he does look like he could kill. BARRY Stop. It�s a bad photo. CIARA-KATE And a bad attitude and a bad vibe. BARRY He�s just serious. He clearly joined the Gardai to solve his mother�s case himself. CIARA-KATE Or cover it up. Admit it, if you didn�t know him you would shit yourself if you came across him in a dark alley. BARRY I tend to avoid dark alleys in general. What motive could he possibly have? People don�t just kill their mothers. CIARA-KATE Parricides are more common than you think. CIARRA-KATE Hey BARRY Delete the photos we both know you took. BARRY All of them. ART Sabine! GRAINNE Were you asked to be in the movie? ANNEMARIE Well, it�s not a movie but GRAINNE I�m up in five minutes. I did some amateur dramatics a while back but this is a big step up. ANNEMARIE You�ll be fine. ART Where is she? Where is she I said! GRAINNE Who? ART Sabine. I just saw her. GRAINNE Sabine? ART She was right here. GRAINNE Oh God.Call Conall. You�ll have to bring him home. I�m wanted on set. CONALL Look, your Da�s not well. He was wandering around the village. I took him home, you need to get back here. CONALL I�m in the middle of something. ANNEMARIE Get the fuck back here, he�s your responsibility. Not mine. ANNEMARIE Oh Jesus! Art! GRAINNE God she�s the image of Sabine. AOIFE We had a good casting director. GRAINNE I don�t like my left side, I�m like Padraic Pearse that way. Can you move the camera to the right? AOIFE Props! The tissues aren�t for using. GRAINNE Oh. Sorry. ANNEMARIE I was on the phone to Conall and found him like this, I couldn�t find a pulse. RAY He�s alive. Call an ambulance. Alright big man, you gave us a bit of a fright there. Don�t try and talk. ANNEMARIE Yeah, hello. I need an ambulance to Carricknanaul. RAY How long will that take? ANNEMARIE How long will it take? Five hours! RAY They should be ashamed of themselves. Hang up. We�ll bring him ourselves. Give me a lift with him. Bring him to my van. This way. Easy, Art, we�re going to lift you up and bring you to the hospital. Are you okay? ANNEMARIE I�m okay. Good girl. RAY I�m bringing your aul boy to the regional hospital. CONALL Right. RAY You need to get there. CONALL I can�t right now. RAY Now, Balor. I�m not even sure he�s going to be alive when we get there.Hey. They�re with him now. CONALL What�s going on? RAY I don�t know. They said something about his blood pressure. CONALL Listen, I should�ve told you but last week, I saw him at mass, he didn�t recognise me. He bluffed his way through it but I could tell. I went through it with my own mother, dementia, dreadful business. DOCTOR You�re the son? CONALL Aye. What�s wrong with him? DOCTOR We will do more tests but the good news is your father has a UTI. CONALL Good news?A urinary tract infection.I know what it is. DOCTOR If it�s just a UTI that will explain a lot of the symptoms. Now, there might be other issues, I�ve ordered an MRI for the morning. We�ll have a clearer picture after that. CONALL If it�s just a UTI, he can make a full recovery, right? DOCTOR It�s complicated by his diabetes. Does he live alone? CONALL We�ll have an O.T. assess his needs. Do you live nearby? CONALL I do. DOCTOR That�s good. He�s going to need a lot of help in the short-term. CONALL Doctor? Has something happened with your father? No, no. I�ve a question. It�s a case I�m working on. I�m a Garda. Thought I�d cut a corner since I was here. DOCTOR Okay. CONALL A prime suspect in a violent crime, normal fella no history of violence, claims he was off his head on ketamine at the time of the crime. He�s claiming he blacked out. Is that a possibility? DOCTOR Not just a possibility, a probability. Ketamine�s a �dissociative� and psychedelic. Seemingly �normal� people can have total personality transplants on it. CONALL And violence? DOCTOR You never know what these things are cut with but I�ve also seen young ones half comatose on it too. They wouldn�t be able to hold a toothbrush never mind make a fist. DOCTOR And I had a six foot six farmer in the Emergency Department trying to tear his own skin off on it. Assaulted three security guards before we were able to get him under control. He�d no recollection of it the next morning. IAN What the fuck do you want? CONALL Did you kill my mother? Answer me. Fuck you. Did you go back to the house? Did you see my mother that night? Did you? IAN Old snatch never did anything for me. CONALL Ronan told me everything. Why did you take a shower? Why were your clothes all muddy? IAN Fuck you. CONALL If you don�t start talking, I�ll promise you two things. One: I�ll kill you. And two: it will hurt. IAN What are you doing? Okay, okay, I�ll talk! I followed the barmaid home. She gave me the slip, she took a shortcut up the bog. So I followed her. I fell in a bog hole. That�s why I was muddy. That�s why I had a shower. I wasn�t near your mother, I didn�t touch her. I swear. Please. Whatever you�re about to do. Don�t. CONALL Ronan sends his regards. PATSY And then cut to him. CONALL Are you okay? ANNEMARIE What do you think? CONALL I�ll drop you home. ANNEMARIE Today�s his birthday. He�d�ve been thirty six. My big brother. CONALL That night, I knew he�d been drinking, I should never have got into the car with him. I should have stopped him. ANNEMARIE Why did you do it? Why did you bring me back here? Back to this misery? CONALL I�m sorry, I tried to track you down. I was only thinking of Mam, hoping you�d remember* something, anything that would help me catch whoever did this to her. And I missed you. Us. How we used to be. ANNEMARIE You�re a selfish prick. CONALL I know. ANNEMARIE You could have just phoned me! You didn�t have to bring me back here. CONALL I know. I�m sorry. ANNEMARIE All this place ever held was bad memories. Da dying.Danny�s crash. Then your Mam.* Mo Mhamai. CONALL I�ll run you home. ANNEMARIE You will not. PATSY It�s weird. I know. I felt the same. CONALL She looks so like her. PATSY Listen, this TV show. Expect that there will be developments as a result. CONALL An arrest? PATSY We�re close is all I�ll say CONALL Who? Keogh thinks I did it. PATSY Trust the process. Trust me.