ART AUTOMATED_VOICE BARRY CHEMIST CIARA_KATE CONALL CONLON COUNCILLOR_MCGREEVY DARRAGH FATHER_MCGINLEY GERRY GRAINNE IARLA JAMES JERRY JOAN KEOGH MARTIN ORLA PAITEOLAI_STAIT PATSY RAY RIONA TARA ORLA She�s over here. BARRY Isn�t there some bird flu around? I don�t want to be patient zero. ORLA It wasn�t bird flu, she was poisoned. CONALL You sure? ORLA The lab will confirm it. Likely farmers leaving poisoned bait out for foxes. CONALL And he spotted an easy meal. ORLA She. Muireann. BARRY Who�s Muireann? ORLA She was a breeding female. CONALL NODS. ORLA Find who�s doing this, stop them. BARRY A dead eagle. They didn�t cover this one in training. CONALL I�m making you lead in this. BARRY Me? CONALL Now, stay here. Search the area for evidence. Document anything odd. BARRY Evidence? CONALL Footprints. Half-eaten bait. BARRY But� but Eagles can fly for miles. CONALL Yes, yes they do. IARLA You wanna race old boy? CONALL Well, what about you? Where? CIARA KATE Hey. DARRAGH Ciara-Kate are you in Carricknanaul yet? CIARA KATE Nearly. DARRAGH The dead eagle. I�m going to need eight hundred not four hundred words. CIARA KATE What do you want me to do? Turn it into a murder mystery? CIARA KATE Bollox. DARRAGH Excuse me? CIARA KATE No, not you. My car. Well, you too if I�m being honest. I�m out of battery. I gotta go, I gotta go. CIARA KATE Hello! CONALL What happened? ART Goddamn boy racer ran me off the road. RAY Iarla! Don�t let him do that! RAY Howarya Balor? Come here to me, would you come out of retirement? We need a new keeper, Marty�ll be out of action for a while. CONALL You wouldn�t be leaving out poisoned bait for the foxes would you? CONALL We had another dead eagle up the bog. RAY They should never have been reintroduced. Waste of money. CONALL No more poisoned bait, Ray. RAY Aye aye. CONALL What happened you? MARTIN Nothing, you should see the other lad IARLA Yeah, I�ll see you down later. IARLA Fuck! Conall. CONALL Were you on the Falcarragh road about one twenty pm earlier? IARLA (not convincing) Naw. CONALL I want you don�t the station tomorrow at 11. Don�t make me come looking for you. BARRY I don�t care if it�s a wild goose chase. CIARA KATE You mean wild eagle chase. BARRY Oh. Very good. You should write that down. CONALL ENTERS. CONALL What�s this? BARRY Her car ran out of battery. CIARA KATE Ciara-Kate Brennan, The Sligo Voice. I�m here to cover the story of the dead eagle. CIARA KATE I�ve a few questions. Do you think this is deliberate poisoning- CONALL Look, Claire. CIARA KATE Ciara-Kate. CONALL I don�t discuss on going investigations. Your friend should have told you that. BARRY I did. CIARA KATE Hang on. My charger. CONALL We�re closed. CIARA KATE I can�t leave without my charger. CONALL We�re open in the morning. BARRY At ten am. CIARA KATE Dick. CONALL How�s the head? ART Grand. CONALL What�s going on? Where�s Anca? ART Who? CONALL The cleaner. ART Her. I fired her. CONALL Why? ART She had sticky fingers. CONALL She stole from you? ART Doesn�t matter. CONALL You�ve got to tell me these things. ART I dealt with it. CONALL So what? You can�t wash up? CONALL Fuck�s sake. CONALL What�s the craic with your prescription? ART Huh? CONALL Your insulin. When did it run out? ART (confused) I don�t know... yesterday.... CONALL Jesus, Da. CHEMIST We phoned him last week about that. Maybe we should call you in future. CONALL Fine. TARA Martin�s a good man. A good dad. CONALL (pointed) How�s your hand? TARA (riled) If I want your fuckin� help, I�ll fuckin� ask. CIARA KATE So what�s it like being a Garda in a place with no crime? BARRY I wouldn�t say that. I was flat out this summer. Traffic management, mostly. Illegal parking. And then the students were here for Irish College. CIARA KATE What were you making sure they didn�t speak English? BARRY No. They were up to all sorts. Bunking out. Drinking down at the beach. Robbing from the shop. CIARA KATE What about the Provos? Someone�s organising the shootings and the bomb scares across the border. BARRY Not around here, they�re not. . CIARA KATE Let�s get out of here. Where�s the nearest nightclub? BARRY Dunno. Boston probably. CIARA KATE You�re funny. CIARA KATE We�ll have to make our own fun. CONALL Ray. RAY See this roll? How is killing a chicken okay but not an eagle? All animals are equal but some are more equal than others? CONALL I�m out. RAY For God�s sake, Balor, if your Da knew I was getting them for you he�d shoot me. I�ll make some calls. CONALL Thanks. RAY And here, go easy on young Iarla. He�s a good lad. Don�t take him off the road. RAY Don�t give me that look, Balor. He is without sin cast the first stone. BARRY I don�t have a key. CIARA KATE What you do mean? BARRY I mean I don�t have a key BARRY He has the key. (friendly) Hey, Conall. CONALL Shouldn�t you be up the bog? CIARA KATE Open up so I can get the hell out of here. BARRY You�re going? JAMES Hello. This is Josie Logan, listen to me now, Barney McGreavey is rebuilding the wall that collapsed in the storm last- AUTOMATED VOICE Next message. JOAN Joan O�Donnell, somebody stole my phone. CONALL No they didn�t Joan, you�re using it right now. COUNCILLOR MCGREEVY Conall, Councillor O�Grianna here, we�ve had several complaints of people leaving their plastic bags of dogshit down at Tr�- IARLA I didn�t know it was your Dad who was driving. CONALL What difference does that make? IARLA�S DA Please, Conall, can�t you turn a blind eye? CONALL You could have killed him. IARLA That�s the thing. He was the one who was driving mad. He was all over the road, he wouldn�t let me pass. IARLA Ask Hughie Sharkey, he was there too. We tried to overtake him and your Ol� boy pulled out in front of us. He floored it. IARLA Please, I need the car for work. BARRY Oh Jesus. BARRY Delta three eight two to Charlie eighty? CONALL Go ahead. BARRY Can you get up here, I�ve found a body. CONALL It�s probably a bit of bog oak. BARRY It�s not bog oak. CONALL Where are you? BARRY Two hundred yards from where we found the eagle yesterday. You�ll see me. CONALL Where? CONALL Did you start a logbook? BARRY No. CONALL Do. CONALL Take the car, get a hold of Ray, they have portable floodlights in the clubhouse. BARRY Floodlights, gotcha. CONALL Make sure they�re working before you bring them up. Also grab the tent from the station. BARRY Tent. Floodlights. PATSY Seargent O�Sullivan, to what do I owe the pleasure? CONALL �Chig, we�ve found a body in the bog, half a mile outside town. PATSY Oh, any idea who? CONALL It�s her. PATSY (stunned) You found her? CONALL I think so. PATSY Jesus. CONALL I can only see a hand, the rest of her�s buried but it�s her watch. PATSY I�ll call you back. RIONA Chips are vegan. CIARA KATE Are they cooked in the same oil as the meat? RIONA Yes. CIARA KATE Then they�re not vegan. I�ll have a salad, to go. PATSY The technical team and the state pathologist are on their way from Dublin. CONALL Right. PATSY And I�ve requested detectives from the missing person�s squad too. They�ll be with you at first light. CONALL Why can�t they come tonight? PATSY They�ll be with you in the morning. Now, you understand you won�t be able to have any part in this investigation. CONALL I do. PATSY You�ve lots of leave to take, so take it. Good man. CONALL Right. PATSY Have you told your father? CONALL No. PATSY Do you want me to? CONALL No, I�ll do it. PATSY And Conall. CONALL What? PATSY I�m very sorry. CONALL I�ve got to go. BARRY Yesterday an eagle, today an actual body. CONALL Get started on the tent. BARRY Right, protocol. Tent. So, what have we got? Do you think it�s sectarian? Drug gangs or - CONALL Tent, Barry. BARRY I had Covid when we did this in College. Well, I thought I did. It turned out to be food poisoning but do you remember in the early days any old symptom freaked you out- CONALL I�ll be back. CONALL Dad. Dad. ART CONALL What? It�s Mam. We found her. ART Sabine? Where? CONALL In the bog, beyond McClafferty�s. ART God almighty. What happened her? CONALL Too early to tell. ART Did she suffer? CONALL I don�t know. ART I want to see her. CONALL You can�t. ART I want to see her. CONALL You will but not yet. CONALL Take this. ART She was the love of my life. CONALL I�ll call Ray and ask him to come up, keep you company. BARRY Conall's mum? Jesus. PATSY Right. So hold the fort until the team arrive in the morning. BARRY Sure thing Patsy, sorry, Cigire. BARRY Shite. BARRY You have to leave, now! CIARA KATE What have you found? Body? It�s a body isn�t it? Wink once for yes. BARRY I�m not kidding. Go. That�s an order. CIARA KATE Ooh. An order. Careful now, you�re turning me on. A BEAT. CIARA KATE Come on, I�ll find out one way or another. BARRY It�s a body. Conall's mum. CIARA KATE Conall who? (realisation) Your boss. Oooooh. CONALL You. Leave. Now. CIARA KATE I�m going. I�m going. CONALL I�ll take over. BARRY Listen. The Cigire called me. I am really sorry. BARRY She told me to stay here and that you shouldn�t be here. So if you don�t mind... em. BARRY Whatever. You stay. Be with your mum. Fuck Patsy. Sorry. Cigire. CIARA KATE Darragh. Have I got a breaking story for you. You heard of Sabine O�Sullivan, she went missing fifteen years ago... CIARA KATE She�s been found. Dead. Well that�s what I intend to find out. And I want to resurrect the podcast idea. This has it all, a former bigwig�s wife disappears only to be discovered fifteen year�s later. Buried in a bog half a mile outside town. Fingers crossed she was murdered, right. Bye. CONALL Log it that they came. ART I want to see her. CONALL Dad. I told you no. RAY I�m sorry, I tried to stop him. ART Have you called the priest? ART Sabine. ART Who did this? RAY It could have been an accident. She could have fallen. CONALL You can�t be here. RAY Come on. ART Find out who put your mother here. An eye for an eye, son. RAY Come on. CONALL You can head on. BARRY Okay. BARRY Can I help you? CIARA KATE Shush. I�m writing. BARRY Is that my hoodie? CIARA KATE Yeah. Thanks. CIARA KATE Did you know Sabine was a famous painter? Famous-ish. She was a member of Aos D�na. Did Conall ever talk about her? BARRY No. CIARA KATE The story was that she took her own life. BARRY Maybe she did. Or maybe she fell. Who knows. BARRY Are they my headphones? Is that my mic? CIARA KATE Yeah. I need them. BARRY So do I! CIARA KATE I�m making a podcast. You can go one night without gaming. Can you make me something to eat, I�m marvin. BARRY Like what? CIARA KATE Anything. Beans on toast. Pasta. Whatever. BARRY Sausages? CIARA KATE I�m vegan. BARRY Really? I could have sworn you ate a saus[age last night.] CIARA KATE For your sake, don�t finish that sentence. CONALL Thanks. CONLON D.S. Sorcha Conlon this is my partner- KEOGH Detective Keogh. CONLON Cathal. BARRY Garda Barry Roche. That�s Sergeant Conall � S�illeabh�in. So did you have to come from far? KEOGH Great, well that�s the pleasantries out of the way. Log book? CONLON We�ll take it from here. We�ve been fully briefed by the Cigire. And on a personal note, I�m very sorry for your loss. Go be with your family. CONALL I�ve been told to take holidays. BARRY Good idea. CONALL I need you to keep me posted about what�s going on.Any developments, you don�t decide if it�s important or not, you tell me. Got it? BARRY Sure. CONALL Good man. CONALL Where are you going? BARRY I haven�t had breakfast so- No, I�m going back up there to monitor what�s happening and let you know if there are any developments. CONALL Correct. PAITEOLAI STAIT We can rule out accidental death. BARRY How�s that? KEOGH She�s wrapped in a cloth. CONLON She didn�t do that to herself. BARRY Right. I knew that. CONALL Barry? BARRY They�re taking your Mam to the Regional Hospital for a post-mortem. CONALL Any indication of cause of death? BARRY They�re saying she was wrapped in some sort of cloth, so they�ve ruled out accidental death. CIARA KATE Any evidence of foul play? BARRY You know I can�t say. CIARA KATE Barry, I�m a professional. protect my sources. BARRY We�re treating her death as suspicious. CONLON What are you doing? CONALL Next of kin. I have a right to be kept informed under the EU directive and the Victims of Crime Bill 2017. KEOGH And we will appoint a family liaison officer. CONALL Great and they�ll find me here. CONLON Is this really how you�re going to play it? PATSY Conall, don�t make my job, our job, more difficult. PAITEOLAI STAIT So. PATSY This is the victim�s son. PAITEOLAI STAIT My condolences. CONALL What happened? PAITEOLAI STAIT She was unlucky. Sabine died of a single stab wound, it pierced the coronary artery. PATSY Okay, I�m sorry, really I am but this is a murder investigation, you can appreciate that, Conall? CONALL She was wrapped in a cloth, any idea what that was? Bed sheet? Towel? PATSY Conall. Don�t say anything else. CONLON Make sure you log that he showed up. KEOGH How did he know she was wrapped in a cloth? CIARA KATE And would Sabine have shopped here often? GRAINNE God yes, she�d be in every few days. Such a beautiful woman. I�d order German stuff for her from the wholesalers, weird stuff, banana juice, cured sausages. CIARA KATE It must have been hard coming from Bremen, did you say, to West Donegal? GERRY You wouldn�t have known it, she spoke Irish as well as any of the locals. And she knew everyone because of the hotel of course... JAMES I did the gardens above in the hotel. She looked after the money, she drove a hard bargain, fair play to her, we�d call her the Rottweiler, but to be fair, she paid her bills, like clockwork. GRAINNE When she disappeared, that�s when the hotel went to the dogs. JERRY Closed a few weeks later. CIARA KATE You were working that night? RIONA I was. CIARA KATE Did you see Sabine? RIONA Yeah, she came to cash out. She always did. CIARA KATE You couldn�t have been working on your own. RIONA Naw, Ray was the night porter. He did the residents bar and, God, I think Annemarie was on too. CIARA KATE Annemarie? RIONA Gillespie. CIARA KATE Where would I find her? RIONA Who knows. She moved to the State years ago. CIARA KATE Conall. CIARA KATE I�m really sorry about your mother. I�m covering the story and was hoping I could have a quick word. CONALL No. CIARA KATE I know this is awful for you, I know how frustrated you must be, not being able to work the case yourself. CONALL I�ll do you for trespassing. CIARA KATE I know that your mother disappeared sometime between the night of Good Friday, April 10th 2009 and the following Saturday the 11th. I know you were in the Curlew Hotel, drinking with your mates, the last time Sabine was seen alive. It�s all online. CIARA KATE Anne Marie Gillespie, any idea where I could get a hold of her? CONALL Why? CIARA KATE Herself and R�ona were the only sober ones in the village, she�d be someone worth talking to, no? CIARA KATE Weird that your father happened to be �missing� that weekend... Not at all suspicious. CONALL Fuck off. CIARA KATE Fact, 75% of women are murdered by someone known to them. Someone in her life killed her. In your life... but you aren�t allowed investigate. I can help you. FATHER MCGINLEY God�s help is closer than the door and tonight, we ask God to help us with our grief for our departed friend, mother and wife...Sabine. FATHER MCGINLEY A dark shadow that has shrouded us in sadness but today there is the first faint glimmer of light... FATHER MCGINLEY We pray that God�s light will shine upon us and guide the investigation to uncover the truth so that Sabine may rest in peace and her family may begin to heal. CIARA KATE ... that provided a year round river of tourism and employment for all the locals. If Art was the king, then his wife Sabine was the Queen... CIARA KATE And it was in this wild, untamed land, that Sabine met her death. CIARA KATE This is Ciara-Kate Brennan and on my new podcast series, Faighte, I will be reporting, in real time, on a murder that has rocked a community. CIARA KATE But in Carricknanaul in 2009, the king of the land, was a man named Art � S�illeabh�in, owner of the Curlew Hotel... CIARA KATE We will follow every twist, every turn in the search of the answer, who killed Sabine N� Sh�illeabh�in?