1 00:00:28,985 --> 00:00:31,091 Poisons. 2 00:00:43,129 --> 00:00:48,248 Belladonna, a preservative against scarlatina. 3 00:00:48,249 --> 00:00:51,256 Aconite... 4 00:00:51,257 --> 00:00:56,248 Arsenic... 5 00:00:56,249 --> 00:00:59,576 Ergot... 6 00:00:59,577 --> 00:01:02,454 Oil of bitter almonds. 7 00:01:47,705 --> 00:01:48,920 Drink. 8 00:01:48,921 --> 00:01:51,352 Beth, please... 9 00:01:51,353 --> 00:01:53,336 I, I promise I'll conduct myself 10 00:01:53,337 --> 00:01:55,640 as honourably as any man in Ulster from now on... 11 00:01:55,641 --> 00:01:58,776 - Drink. - I'll make amends. 12 00:01:58,777 --> 00:02:00,504 It's too late. 13 00:02:00,505 --> 00:02:03,832 I'll never lay a hand on you again, Beth, I swear. 14 00:02:03,833 --> 00:02:06,648 Jesus, mercy... 15 00:02:06,649 --> 00:02:13,688 ...forgive, forgive a wretched sinner... 16 00:03:19,033 --> 00:03:21,592 Sir? 17 00:03:23,001 --> 00:03:24,598 Sir? 18 00:05:25,433 --> 00:05:33,432 Oh, you poor beast, poor beast... 19 00:05:33,433 --> 00:05:40,152 You'll be all right. 20 00:07:03,353 --> 00:07:06,680 A dowry, love. Yes, a dowry. 21 00:07:06,681 --> 00:07:08,792 What's a dowry? 22 00:07:08,793 --> 00:07:11,352 It's what a girl gets when she marries. 23 00:07:11,353 --> 00:07:13,720 I got a longhorn bull calf... 24 00:07:13,721 --> 00:07:16,408 ...and Corvey Island. 25 00:07:16,409 --> 00:07:21,656 Salmon swim up past there, up from the sea, and there's wild goats and 26 00:07:21,657 --> 00:07:25,304 a herd's bothy and a hidden garden, 27 00:07:25,305 --> 00:07:29,784 and when the sun is shining on the lough, it's like 28 00:07:29,785 --> 00:07:32,408 gold or silver 29 00:07:32,409 --> 00:07:35,864 or diamonds, or velvet at night. 30 00:07:35,865 --> 00:07:42,392 Someday it'll all be yours. 31 00:07:42,393 --> 00:07:45,080 The heartbreak of this place. 32 00:07:45,081 --> 00:07:50,908 Love it and hate it like no place else on earth. 33 00:07:50,909 --> 00:07:54,082 Tomorrow, I leave it for ever. 34 00:08:54,649 --> 00:08:58,552 When there were no fields here, before the Greenes and the Brownes, 35 00:08:58,553 --> 00:09:01,752 and the Winters and the Somers, the rat-poor robbers with nothing 36 00:09:01,753 --> 00:09:04,632 names came here to rob us of what was ours. 37 00:09:04,633 --> 00:09:06,616 Maguire was a proud name. 38 00:09:06,617 --> 00:09:08,280 And it still is. 39 00:09:08,281 --> 00:09:10,712 Oh, there's pride there, to be sure, 40 00:09:10,713 --> 00:09:13,592 and sweet bugger-all to prop it up. 41 00:09:13,593 --> 00:09:17,112 Why must you go on and on at me like a bloody fish woman? 42 00:09:17,113 --> 00:09:19,544 Who are you to look down on a fish woman? 43 00:09:19,545 --> 00:09:20,824 I look down on no-one. 44 00:09:20,825 --> 00:09:24,344 Oh, no, but some spunky boyo looked down on you once, that's for sure. 45 00:09:24,345 --> 00:09:28,504 - Or did he come from behind? - Stop! Stop! For God's sake! I... 46 00:09:28,505 --> 00:09:32,280 I have begged your forgiveness over and over again for that one mistake. 47 00:09:32,281 --> 00:09:36,184 "Mistake"! "Mistake"! That's a nice word for it! 48 00:09:36,185 --> 00:09:38,360 To walk up the aisle with me to wed, 49 00:09:38,361 --> 00:09:41,176 knowing you carried another man's child! 50 00:09:41,177 --> 00:09:43,992 When you knew the love I had for you... 51 00:09:43,993 --> 00:09:46,040 I should have listened to my father. 52 00:09:46,041 --> 00:09:47,448 "Marry one of your own faith. 53 00:09:47,449 --> 00:09:51,160 "Not some treacherous slut of Rome!" 54 00:09:51,161 --> 00:09:54,680 Have mercy on me, Billy, for the sake of the child if nothing else. 55 00:09:54,681 --> 00:09:57,496 That child is not my daughter! 56 00:09:57,497 --> 00:10:01,720 She's not kin to me and she will not inherit, do you hear me? 57 00:10:01,721 --> 00:10:05,560 She will not inherit. I'll disinherit her. 58 00:10:05,561 --> 00:10:08,312 Do you hear? I'll disinherit her. 59 00:10:08,313 --> 00:10:11,320 Neither she nor her kind will ever cut my trees, milk my cows, 60 00:10:11,321 --> 00:10:15,800 pluck my apples, quarry my stone, or plough my acres ever! 61 00:10:15,801 --> 00:10:18,040 "My, my, my, my, my"! 62 00:10:18,041 --> 00:10:20,216 You stole it from us 63 00:10:20,217 --> 00:10:21,944 and you know you stole it. 64 00:10:21,945 --> 00:10:23,992 I'm not stopping you! 65 00:10:23,993 --> 00:10:29,642 On you go, woman, back to Tirkennedy, back to your own people! 66 00:10:55,865 --> 00:10:59,182 A midnight scholar. 67 00:11:09,305 --> 00:11:15,064 What were you hunting for in the Queen's English? 68 00:11:15,065 --> 00:11:17,121 Disinter... 69 00:11:24,153 --> 00:11:28,760 What does it say? Read it out. 70 00:11:28,761 --> 00:11:31,960 "To dig up things, especially from a grave. 71 00:11:31,961 --> 00:11:34,712 "To unearth." 72 00:11:34,713 --> 00:11:39,128 To unearth things that are best left buried. 73 00:11:39,129 --> 00:11:46,552 Undisturbed. It's a good word. 74 00:11:46,553 --> 00:11:49,560 What word were you really looking for? And don't lie to me. 75 00:11:49,561 --> 00:11:53,016 I hate lies. 76 00:11:53,017 --> 00:11:56,920 Disinherit. 77 00:11:56,921 --> 00:11:58,712 Sweetheart... 78 00:11:58,713 --> 00:12:01,656 Yes, sir? 79 00:12:01,657 --> 00:12:03,256 Did you find it? 80 00:12:03,257 --> 00:12:05,368 Yes, sir. 81 00:12:05,369 --> 00:12:08,952 And you believe I'd disinherit you? 82 00:12:08,953 --> 00:12:10,690 I don't know. 83 00:12:19,321 --> 00:12:26,936 Bring the lamp. 84 00:13:28,697 --> 00:13:34,840 And that is what put the shine on this place 100 years ago. 85 00:13:34,841 --> 00:13:37,221 French gold. 86 00:13:43,673 --> 00:13:45,284 Phoo! 87 00:13:52,185 --> 00:13:55,768 15,000 beaver pelts 88 00:13:55,769 --> 00:14:02,424 stolen by my father's grandaddy from the French... 89 00:14:02,425 --> 00:14:05,496 ...who stole it from the poor oul' Cree Indians. 90 00:14:05,497 --> 00:14:11,896 15,000 pelts sold for five boxes of gold... 91 00:14:11,897 --> 00:14:17,727 ...one for each of the crew, but two for Captain Winters. 92 00:14:20,669 --> 00:14:22,712 Now, you mind your step... 93 00:14:22,713 --> 00:14:24,376 ...you bide your time... 94 00:14:24,377 --> 00:14:28,024 ...and you play your part... 95 00:14:28,025 --> 00:14:31,672 ...this could all be yours. 96 00:14:31,673 --> 00:14:34,996 This and what I've added. 97 00:14:44,473 --> 00:14:49,848 Miss Beth? 98 00:14:49,849 --> 00:14:56,440 - Miss Beth? - Coming. 99 00:14:56,441 --> 00:14:59,512 Did you sleep all night in your clothes, miss? 100 00:14:59,513 --> 00:15:02,584 Oh, no, no, I'll explain when I come down. 101 00:15:02,585 --> 00:15:04,504 Today's the day, miss. 102 00:15:04,505 --> 00:15:10,072 What? 103 00:15:10,073 --> 00:15:16,600 Oh, Mercy, you shouldn't have. 104 00:15:16,601 --> 00:15:18,840 Mercy, it's too much. 105 00:15:18,841 --> 00:15:21,982 Many happy returns of the day, miss. 106 00:15:34,457 --> 00:15:38,296 Yeah...? Yes? 107 00:15:38,297 --> 00:15:40,344 I've your hot water, sir. 108 00:15:40,345 --> 00:15:43,668 Hold on, Mercy. Hold on. 109 00:15:49,241 --> 00:15:53,400 - Is Miss Beth up? - She's in her room, sir. 110 00:15:53,401 --> 00:15:55,576 You know what day it is? 111 00:15:55,577 --> 00:15:57,432 I've give her something already. 112 00:15:57,433 --> 00:15:58,968 You're a good girl, Mercy. 113 00:15:58,969 --> 00:16:00,876 I'll be down directly. 114 00:16:25,593 --> 00:16:29,880 Holy Jesus, it's wee Jimmy. 115 00:16:29,881 --> 00:16:32,312 Well, this is an honour. 116 00:16:32,313 --> 00:16:35,192 Your Catholic Bishop of Clogher is here. 117 00:16:35,193 --> 00:16:38,874 Beth! Bishop Donnelly's here. 118 00:17:05,849 --> 00:17:08,216 Welcome back to Clonoula, my lord. 119 00:17:08,217 --> 00:17:10,840 When I was curate here, you called me Seamus, or Jimmy. 120 00:17:10,841 --> 00:17:13,784 - I'd prefer that. - What brings you here, Jimmy? 121 00:17:13,785 --> 00:17:15,192 Elizabeth. 122 00:17:15,193 --> 00:17:16,920 You remembered? 123 00:17:16,921 --> 00:17:18,840 'Course. 124 00:17:18,841 --> 00:17:20,696 You'll stay for a bite of breakfast? 125 00:17:20,697 --> 00:17:21,976 If it's not too much trouble. 126 00:17:21,977 --> 00:17:24,536 Mercy? 127 00:17:24,537 --> 00:17:26,072 Lay another place. 128 00:17:26,073 --> 00:17:28,440 - The best ware. - Yes, sir. 129 00:17:28,441 --> 00:17:30,040 It's Mercy Boyle, isn't it? 130 00:17:30,041 --> 00:17:34,712 Yes, my lord. 131 00:17:34,713 --> 00:17:36,952 You have a lovely name. 132 00:17:36,953 --> 00:17:40,600 Mercy. 133 00:17:40,601 --> 00:17:42,840 - Will you bless my brother, my lord? - Of course. 134 00:17:42,841 --> 00:17:45,464 - Where is he? - He's in the kitchen. 135 00:17:45,465 --> 00:17:49,002 - I'll get him. - No, no, I'll go to him. 136 00:17:54,681 --> 00:17:57,628 ? Rule Romania, Romania rules the Taigs ? 137 00:17:57,629 --> 00:17:58,968 ? Poor Rosie's childer ? 138 00:17:58,969 --> 00:18:02,318 ? Ever, ever shall be slaves. ? 139 00:18:21,177 --> 00:18:25,466 From this window, 12 months ago, I first saw him. 140 00:18:32,953 --> 00:18:36,344 Who could he be? 141 00:18:36,345 --> 00:18:40,504 What is he doing here? 142 00:18:40,505 --> 00:18:44,792 A merchant from Dublin or Belfast? 143 00:18:44,793 --> 00:18:50,808 A new French or Italian mason at the quarry? 144 00:18:50,809 --> 00:18:53,432 - Yes? - Is the boss about? 145 00:18:53,433 --> 00:18:55,160 He's away till Thursday. 146 00:18:55,161 --> 00:18:57,400 I'm Liam Ward of Brackagh. 147 00:18:57,401 --> 00:18:58,680 Tom Ward's nephew? 148 00:18:58,681 --> 00:19:00,472 That's me. 149 00:19:00,473 --> 00:19:02,456 You have a problem, Liam? 150 00:19:02,457 --> 00:19:06,424 Aye, an old fool of a cow in a bog hole and no man body for miles about 151 00:19:06,425 --> 00:19:07,768 to help pull her out. 152 00:19:07,769 --> 00:19:09,368 They're all at hay. 153 00:19:09,369 --> 00:19:11,736 - Do you not have a horse? - I do, but I've... 154 00:19:11,737 --> 00:19:13,592 ...I've loaned her to a neighbour. 155 00:19:13,593 --> 00:19:16,024 We've a big pony here, you're welcome to him. 156 00:19:16,025 --> 00:19:19,608 Do you have someone to lead him? 157 00:19:19,609 --> 00:19:21,144 I'm free. 158 00:19:21,145 --> 00:19:22,981 I can lead him for you. 159 00:20:36,601 --> 00:20:41,336 I'll do what I can to get her back feet up. 160 00:20:41,337 --> 00:20:44,408 Don't give him his head... he could break her neck. 161 00:20:44,409 --> 00:20:46,054 I know what to do. 162 00:21:08,921 --> 00:21:13,144 Come on. 163 00:21:38,041 --> 00:21:40,185 She's very chilled. 164 00:21:51,865 --> 00:21:57,304 I think she's dead, Liam. 165 00:21:57,305 --> 00:21:59,442 Liam, she's dead. 166 00:22:14,713 --> 00:22:17,592 When did you see her last? 167 00:22:17,593 --> 00:22:20,920 Yesterday. 168 00:22:20,921 --> 00:22:23,160 She could have been in there all night. 169 00:22:23,161 --> 00:22:26,040 Likely she was. 170 00:22:26,041 --> 00:22:32,824 - She was agey. - It's a loss, nonetheless. 171 00:22:32,825 --> 00:22:35,512 I'm beholden to you, miss. 172 00:22:35,513 --> 00:22:41,788 I answered to Liz at school, to Beth or Betty hereabouts. 173 00:22:41,789 --> 00:22:44,668 Would it be forward to ask you back to the house, Beth, 174 00:22:44,669 --> 00:22:47,096 or backward not to? 175 00:22:47,097 --> 00:22:50,552 A cup of tea would be welcome. 176 00:22:50,553 --> 00:22:52,280 Would a mug do? 177 00:22:52,281 --> 00:22:54,224 Just as welcome. 178 00:23:23,897 --> 00:23:29,272 Silk? 179 00:23:32,857 --> 00:23:35,224 This was your uncle's house? 180 00:23:35,225 --> 00:23:37,162 Yes. 181 00:23:56,281 --> 00:23:59,992 Where are your parents? 182 00:23:59,993 --> 00:24:01,976 My mother's in Monaghan asylum. 183 00:24:01,977 --> 00:24:04,472 I'm sorry. 184 00:24:04,473 --> 00:24:08,440 She doesn't know anyone this brave while. 185 00:24:08,441 --> 00:24:13,432 And your father? 186 00:24:13,433 --> 00:24:20,472 When I was 12, he walked out one night... for good or bad. 187 00:24:20,473 --> 00:24:28,152 He never came back. 188 00:24:28,153 --> 00:24:32,376 Growing up, I used to think that this townland, Brackagh, 189 00:24:32,377 --> 00:24:37,368 this cottage by the shore, were a kind of faery land... 190 00:24:37,369 --> 00:24:39,224 I still do. 191 00:24:39,225 --> 00:24:41,215 Try living here. 192 00:25:08,153 --> 00:25:10,814 You know I'm Catholic too? 193 00:25:17,625 --> 00:25:21,592 Yes, I do. 194 00:25:21,593 --> 00:25:24,152 The long-tailed lads look to be more fun 195 00:25:24,153 --> 00:25:27,422 than the boy with the showy heart. 196 00:25:38,681 --> 00:25:42,520 Do I understand what I'm risking tonight? 197 00:25:42,521 --> 00:25:47,512 Am I in my right mind or just foolish? 198 00:25:47,513 --> 00:25:50,200 Do I love Liam Ward? 199 00:25:50,201 --> 00:25:56,792 I'm besotted, a moth to the candle, a rabbit in a hawk-shadow. 200 00:25:56,793 --> 00:26:01,080 But do I love? 201 00:26:01,081 --> 00:26:04,728 Do I hate Billy Winters enough to take such a risk? 202 00:26:04,729 --> 00:26:07,228 Do I hate him at all? 203 00:26:07,229 --> 00:26:11,000 - You're halfway to heaven. - The dog days of summer. 204 00:26:11,001 --> 00:26:13,368 Dear God in heaven. It's uncanny. 205 00:26:13,369 --> 00:26:17,784 Heart-breaking. 206 00:26:17,785 --> 00:26:22,072 You're the living replica of your poor mother. 207 00:26:22,073 --> 00:26:23,864 What are you now, Elizabeth? 22? 208 00:26:23,865 --> 00:26:26,428 - 23. - Of course. 209 00:26:26,429 --> 00:26:29,112 And how do you propose to celebrate the day? 210 00:26:29,113 --> 00:26:31,800 Making butter, bringing food to the men in the bog. 211 00:26:31,801 --> 00:26:35,000 - And there's a pig to be killed. - Who does that for you? 212 00:26:35,001 --> 00:26:37,944 - Blinky Blessing. - Ah... 213 00:26:37,945 --> 00:26:39,224 It'll not all be workaday. 214 00:26:39,225 --> 00:26:42,936 I have a surprise or two up my sleeve. 215 00:26:42,937 --> 00:26:45,368 What's this? 216 00:26:45,369 --> 00:26:46,776 It's a gift from Mercy. 217 00:26:46,777 --> 00:26:49,106 May I? 218 00:26:59,577 --> 00:27:01,624 It's empty. 219 00:27:01,625 --> 00:27:04,632 - Don't you have a young man? - No, Father. 220 00:27:04,633 --> 00:27:06,296 Oh, I've tried... 221 00:27:06,297 --> 00:27:09,240 ...brought them here by the cartload. Overbred, underbred, 222 00:27:09,241 --> 00:27:11,800 young bucks, not so young. She'll have nothing to do with them. 223 00:27:11,801 --> 00:27:15,000 She'll find the right man in her own good time. 224 00:27:15,001 --> 00:27:16,932 I'm not looking. 225 00:27:24,345 --> 00:27:26,008 Tell me, Billy... 226 00:27:26,009 --> 00:27:32,472 Do you know a not-so-young man called Maurice Fairbrother? 227 00:27:32,473 --> 00:27:34,712 He called on me yesterday. 228 00:27:34,713 --> 00:27:38,232 Said he was from the Revenue Department, Dublin Castle. 229 00:27:38,233 --> 00:27:42,648 He had authority to look into our accounts. 230 00:27:42,649 --> 00:27:47,512 We gave him a trunk full of papers, all to do with the new cathedral. 231 00:27:47,513 --> 00:27:49,752 He scarcely looked at them. 232 00:27:49,753 --> 00:27:53,016 But he did ask about you in a way I thought curious. 233 00:27:53,017 --> 00:27:55,256 Me? 234 00:27:55,257 --> 00:27:58,712 I don't know what he is, Billy, but he's no taxman 235 00:27:58,713 --> 00:28:00,952 and he intends to call on you. 236 00:28:00,953 --> 00:28:03,000 Well, what could he want with me? 237 00:28:03,001 --> 00:28:04,408 Information. 238 00:28:04,409 --> 00:28:05,752 That's their job. 239 00:28:05,753 --> 00:28:07,608 He'll be in the wrong shop, so. 240 00:28:07,609 --> 00:28:09,912 He also asked about two of your tenants. 241 00:28:09,913 --> 00:28:12,536 Liam Ward and Frank Blessing. 242 00:28:12,537 --> 00:28:14,712 You employ them, Billy. 243 00:28:14,713 --> 00:28:16,952 They buy filler and stone from the quarry. 244 00:28:16,953 --> 00:28:20,024 It's the council that pays them, and then, of course, they pay me. 245 00:28:20,025 --> 00:28:22,072 - It's your quarry. - True. 246 00:28:22,073 --> 00:28:24,312 - You could refuse them. - I could... 247 00:28:24,313 --> 00:28:26,428 - ...yes. - And you should. 248 00:28:26,429 --> 00:28:29,176 Blessing is a wretched creature. 249 00:28:29,177 --> 00:28:31,800 And Ward is worse. 250 00:28:31,801 --> 00:28:34,552 He's evil, or near it. 251 00:28:34,553 --> 00:28:36,028 Wha... 252 00:28:36,029 --> 00:28:38,200 He's full of himself, sure, but evil... 253 00:28:38,201 --> 00:28:39,928 ...that's a big word. 254 00:28:39,929 --> 00:28:42,168 You'll have to tell me why. 255 00:28:42,169 --> 00:28:47,032 I'm not at liberty to disclose. 256 00:28:47,033 --> 00:28:53,496 Well, then, I don't see I can do as you ask. 257 00:28:53,497 --> 00:28:57,080 You do a lot of work for us here in Fermanagh, Billy. 258 00:28:57,081 --> 00:29:02,328 And all that marble work up in Monaghan Cathedral. 259 00:29:02,329 --> 00:29:08,344 Is this a class of blackmail, Jimmy? 260 00:29:08,345 --> 00:29:10,200 I married you and Catherine. 261 00:29:10,201 --> 00:29:13,464 I christened Elizabeth. We've been friends down the years. 262 00:29:13,465 --> 00:29:14,872 It's a request. 263 00:29:14,873 --> 00:29:16,664 I have to say why. 264 00:29:16,665 --> 00:29:21,656 At my request. He'll understand. 265 00:29:21,657 --> 00:29:23,826 How beautiful. 266 00:29:38,233 --> 00:29:44,188 Thank you, Winnie. 267 00:29:44,189 --> 00:29:50,712 I have something for you, Elizabeth. 268 00:29:50,713 --> 00:29:52,893 Thank you, Father. 269 00:30:13,561 --> 00:30:15,550 This is for you. 270 00:30:23,225 --> 00:30:30,712 Tonight? 271 00:30:30,713 --> 00:30:34,082 I don't care much for Percy French, sir. 272 00:30:43,641 --> 00:30:44,984 You don't like Percy French? 273 00:30:44,985 --> 00:30:46,968 No, sir. 274 00:30:46,969 --> 00:30:49,528 What don't you like about him? 275 00:30:49,529 --> 00:30:55,864 The silliness, I think. 276 00:30:55,865 --> 00:31:03,800 - Silliness? - Yes, sir. 277 00:31:03,801 --> 00:31:05,592 The whole world is singing his songs. 278 00:31:05,593 --> 00:31:09,048 Is the whole world silly? 279 00:31:09,049 --> 00:31:13,272 I don't care about what he does. 280 00:31:13,273 --> 00:31:15,832 What do you care about? 281 00:31:15,833 --> 00:31:18,520 John Keats. 282 00:31:18,521 --> 00:31:20,632 What does he sing about? 283 00:31:20,633 --> 00:31:22,872 Death, mostly... 284 00:31:22,873 --> 00:31:27,160 ...and nightingales. 285 00:31:27,161 --> 00:31:30,360 Well, maybe he'll come and warble for us sometime in the Town Hall? 286 00:31:30,361 --> 00:31:31,896 You know he's dead and gone, sir. 287 00:31:31,897 --> 00:31:33,240 Where no birds sing. 288 00:31:33,241 --> 00:31:35,241 If you can quote him, why pretend? 289 00:31:37,081 --> 00:31:44,568 Because I know and I like Percy French. 290 00:31:44,569 --> 00:31:48,028 And it's your birthday. 291 00:31:48,029 --> 00:31:55,064 It's an outing. 292 00:31:55,065 --> 00:31:56,536 No matter. 293 00:31:56,537 --> 00:31:59,382 I'll find someone for your ticket. 294 00:32:06,841 --> 00:32:10,936 Well, Miss Beth is a wonder, and sure the cow is alive and well. 295 00:32:10,937 --> 00:32:13,624 Well, I wouldn't tangle with Miss Beth if she had that yoke in 296 00:32:13,625 --> 00:32:16,568 her pocket. She could do you harm, or could puncture a body badly. 297 00:32:16,569 --> 00:32:18,232 What about Mercy here? 298 00:32:18,233 --> 00:32:19,704 Could you be punctured, Mercy? 299 00:32:19,705 --> 00:32:24,822 Ach. Like a pack of silly wee boys, the whole lot of ye. 300 00:32:56,697 --> 00:32:58,196 Thank you, Mercy. 301 00:33:16,153 --> 00:33:18,584 You're missing a rare chance. 302 00:33:18,585 --> 00:33:20,632 Are you sure you won't change your mind? 303 00:33:20,633 --> 00:33:23,320 I'd rather not go, sir. 304 00:33:23,321 --> 00:33:25,944 It seems a poor way to spend your birthday. 305 00:33:25,945 --> 00:33:30,552 I'm content, sir, truly. 306 00:33:30,553 --> 00:33:33,628 With this house and these fields, maybe, but not with me. 307 00:33:33,629 --> 00:33:35,864 So... 308 00:33:35,865 --> 00:33:40,024 Say what it is that has you moody. 309 00:33:40,025 --> 00:33:43,992 Now? 310 00:33:43,993 --> 00:33:47,896 Yes, let's hear it and be done with it. 311 00:33:47,897 --> 00:33:49,926 I think you know, sir. 312 00:33:56,025 --> 00:33:59,032 I've never harmed you, Beth. 313 00:33:59,033 --> 00:34:02,428 I would rather die than harm you. 314 00:34:02,429 --> 00:34:05,752 You know that. 315 00:34:05,753 --> 00:34:10,552 Do you really want to hear? 316 00:34:10,553 --> 00:34:14,840 Yes. 317 00:34:14,841 --> 00:34:18,424 The last time you came in and sat on my bed, 318 00:34:18,425 --> 00:34:20,920 kissed me, 319 00:34:20,921 --> 00:34:23,608 not fatherly, 320 00:34:23,609 --> 00:34:27,128 said then something I'd rather not repeat. 321 00:34:27,129 --> 00:34:34,040 That's when I got angry and went and slept in Mercy's bed... 322 00:34:34,041 --> 00:34:35,357 Oh, God. 323 00:34:42,937 --> 00:34:45,368 What stuff... 324 00:34:45,369 --> 00:34:47,608 What stuff to launch a sunny day. 325 00:34:47,609 --> 00:34:52,152 You wanted to hear, sir. 326 00:34:52,153 --> 00:34:54,220 I remember nothing of that. 327 00:35:02,841 --> 00:35:06,104 Who was Bishop Donnelly talking about? 328 00:35:06,105 --> 00:35:09,304 - When? - To you, earlier. 329 00:35:09,305 --> 00:35:12,184 He called someone evil. 330 00:35:12,185 --> 00:35:15,064 You heard? 331 00:35:15,065 --> 00:35:18,904 It was our tenant, Liam Ward. 332 00:35:18,905 --> 00:35:22,680 In what way evil? 333 00:35:22,681 --> 00:35:26,584 He refused to say. Confessional stuff, I suppose. 334 00:35:26,585 --> 00:35:29,528 I doubt if Ward confesses. I've never seen him at Mass. 335 00:35:29,529 --> 00:35:33,048 Well, maybe his ladies confess, if you could call his consorts ladies. 336 00:35:33,049 --> 00:35:37,592 Would that make him evil, sir? 337 00:35:37,593 --> 00:35:42,648 His exact words were "near evil". 338 00:35:42,649 --> 00:35:48,472 I suppose most humans are, more or less... 339 00:35:48,473 --> 00:35:53,592 ...this way or that. 340 00:35:53,593 --> 00:35:57,922 There's foolishness and then there's evil. 341 00:36:06,265 --> 00:36:11,064 We'll talk again. 342 00:36:11,065 --> 00:36:13,048 I'll make amends, Beth. 343 00:36:13,049 --> 00:36:15,900 Really, I will. 344 00:36:47,673 --> 00:36:49,016 Are you there, Miss? 345 00:36:49,017 --> 00:36:50,488 I am, Mercy. Yes. 346 00:36:50,489 --> 00:36:52,344 Would you like me to scrub out the kitchen 347 00:36:52,345 --> 00:36:54,072 or start straight in to churn? 348 00:36:54,073 --> 00:36:56,956 The churning, Mercy. I'll be down in five minutes. 349 00:37:09,945 --> 00:37:13,272 What are you doing lurking? 350 00:37:13,273 --> 00:37:16,664 What do you want? 351 00:37:16,665 --> 00:37:18,840 You're hungry? Well, then, go down to the house, so, 352 00:37:18,841 --> 00:37:20,184 and they'll give you food. 353 00:37:20,185 --> 00:37:24,856 And then move on. No malingering in the yard. 354 00:37:24,857 --> 00:37:29,272 Money for lodgings? 355 00:37:29,273 --> 00:37:35,049 Dumb you might be, McGonnell, but you're an artful class of a beggar. 356 00:38:07,353 --> 00:38:09,720 Come butter, come butter, butter come, 357 00:38:09,721 --> 00:38:12,088 every lump as big as my bum. 358 00:38:12,089 --> 00:38:17,400 Come. 359 00:38:17,401 --> 00:38:19,832 Oh, God. Thanks, Miss. 360 00:38:24,121 --> 00:38:26,727 That's Liam Ward's dray. 361 00:38:36,985 --> 00:38:41,016 He is the most breathtaking creature I've ever laid eyes on. 362 00:38:41,017 --> 00:38:43,708 Still, they're a bad lot, mostly. 363 00:38:43,709 --> 00:38:45,304 Who are? 364 00:38:45,305 --> 00:38:47,032 Men. 365 00:38:47,033 --> 00:38:49,080 In what sense, Mercy? 366 00:38:49,081 --> 00:38:52,348 Well, the ones you'd meet at a crossroads dance or a ceilidh, 367 00:38:52,349 --> 00:38:57,016 they've no notion how to talk to a girl, less manners nor a dog. 368 00:38:57,017 --> 00:38:58,872 They've no... 369 00:38:58,873 --> 00:39:00,920 No gentleness? 370 00:39:00,921 --> 00:39:04,888 It's up agin a wall they want you, or down in a ditch and no talk. 371 00:39:04,889 --> 00:39:07,832 And your friend, Constable Shanley, is he like that? 372 00:39:07,833 --> 00:39:12,696 Ach! He's afeared of his shadow, that fella. Gossipy oul' woman. 373 00:39:12,697 --> 00:39:14,936 "Information" is all he's after, 374 00:39:14,937 --> 00:39:18,584 and I've told him things I shouldn't have. 375 00:39:18,585 --> 00:39:23,192 You did? Like what? 376 00:39:23,193 --> 00:39:27,608 Like what, Mercy? 377 00:39:27,609 --> 00:39:29,720 Hey, Mercy. Don't go. Don't go. 378 00:39:29,721 --> 00:39:34,200 Stay, stay a few minutes. 379 00:39:34,201 --> 00:39:35,864 Stop. Go. 380 00:39:35,865 --> 00:39:43,544 Go. 381 00:40:14,649 --> 00:40:17,912 What did you tell Shanley? 382 00:40:17,913 --> 00:40:22,072 I don't know. Stupid things. Like... 383 00:40:22,073 --> 00:40:25,144 ...telling him about Biddy O'Gorman, how she was big like a haystack 384 00:40:25,145 --> 00:40:28,216 one day and thin as a rake the next and nothing to show for it. 385 00:40:28,217 --> 00:40:32,312 And some say that it was born dead and others that it was made to die. 386 00:40:32,313 --> 00:40:35,384 And, then, the day after I told Seamus Shanley, 387 00:40:35,385 --> 00:40:37,688 the constabulary came and searched O'Gorman's. 388 00:40:37,689 --> 00:40:40,632 They found nothing but he must have told. 389 00:40:40,633 --> 00:40:41,848 God help her. 390 00:40:41,849 --> 00:40:43,704 Oh, divil mend the men. 391 00:40:43,705 --> 00:40:47,352 Willie Dawson, Liam Ward and God knows who else. 392 00:40:47,353 --> 00:40:49,144 She was a giddy thing, Biddy. 393 00:40:49,145 --> 00:40:53,624 Man giddy. 394 00:40:53,625 --> 00:40:59,960 Right. 395 00:40:59,961 --> 00:41:04,760 Ward and Blessing. 396 00:41:04,761 --> 00:41:07,000 An unholy brace of hoeboys. 397 00:41:07,001 --> 00:41:09,880 The dynamite. How many men have you watching? 398 00:41:09,881 --> 00:41:12,508 The three lads you can see. Three more you can't. 399 00:41:12,509 --> 00:41:14,232 Waste of time. 400 00:41:14,233 --> 00:41:16,408 You think? 401 00:41:16,409 --> 00:41:20,508 You can watch and watch and still be codded. 402 00:41:32,281 --> 00:41:34,016 Ward! 403 00:41:48,345 --> 00:41:50,072 The law's up high today. 404 00:41:50,073 --> 00:41:52,184 What are you doing here, Inspector Quinn? 405 00:41:52,185 --> 00:41:56,280 Cadging a cheap tombstone from Mr Winters? 406 00:41:56,281 --> 00:42:01,208 I, er... I had a visit this morning, Liam, from your bishop. 407 00:42:01,209 --> 00:42:02,680 Your friend, Jimmy Donnelly? 408 00:42:02,681 --> 00:42:04,920 Client, Liam, client. 409 00:42:04,921 --> 00:42:07,480 I have no friends, no enemies, just clients. 410 00:42:07,481 --> 00:42:08,824 What's he saying? 411 00:42:08,825 --> 00:42:12,216 He's saying he'll cancel all orders from this quarry 412 00:42:12,217 --> 00:42:16,952 if I hire you to deliver for the church avenue. 413 00:42:16,953 --> 00:42:19,256 That's what he's saying. 414 00:42:19,257 --> 00:42:20,344 Jesus. 415 00:42:20,345 --> 00:42:23,800 What have you done, Liam, to make him say that? 416 00:42:23,801 --> 00:42:31,736 I haven't a notion. 417 00:42:31,737 --> 00:42:33,208 Well, then, that's it. 418 00:42:33,209 --> 00:42:37,432 You can't supply for the avenue at Tully. 419 00:42:37,433 --> 00:42:41,080 Give him a chit for that new stretch out at Dernagola. 420 00:42:41,081 --> 00:42:45,850 Country roads go on forever. You'll not be stuck for work. 421 00:42:55,929 --> 00:42:59,665 If it was my quarry, I'd race him. 422 00:43:20,761 --> 00:43:25,240 "Dearest Beth, I am missing you dearly. 423 00:43:25,241 --> 00:43:29,080 "Your Great Aunt Maggie is being laid to rest tomorrow. 424 00:43:29,081 --> 00:43:31,768 "You ask me what it's like to die. 425 00:43:31,769 --> 00:43:33,880 "It can't be all that bad. 426 00:43:33,881 --> 00:43:36,824 "No worse, say, than being born. 427 00:43:36,825 --> 00:43:40,920 "Living your life - that's hard. 428 00:43:40,921 --> 00:43:43,864 "All I ask of you, my love, 429 00:43:43,865 --> 00:43:49,752 "is that, when I go, you make sure my own name is on the stone. 430 00:43:49,753 --> 00:43:53,526 "Catherine Winters, nee Maguire." 431 00:44:24,057 --> 00:44:26,744 Do you have family buried here? 432 00:44:26,745 --> 00:44:29,112 No. 433 00:44:29,113 --> 00:44:33,016 But I know you come here every week and that Billy's away. 434 00:44:33,017 --> 00:44:36,028 And where were you all this while? 435 00:44:36,029 --> 00:44:40,504 It's a long story. 436 00:44:40,505 --> 00:44:42,424 Maybe we could meet later? 437 00:44:42,425 --> 00:44:44,152 How? Where? 438 00:44:44,153 --> 00:44:45,560 Brackagh. 439 00:44:45,561 --> 00:44:47,224 My cottage. 440 00:44:47,225 --> 00:44:50,586 I couldn't travel that lane in the dark. 441 00:44:59,385 --> 00:45:05,784 ...you've seldom been far from my mind and heart. 442 00:45:05,785 --> 00:45:08,280 There must be somewhere... 443 00:46:13,369 --> 00:46:16,982 - I thought you weren't coming. - I said I would. 444 00:46:43,001 --> 00:46:44,728 Am I in your way? 445 00:46:44,729 --> 00:46:46,487 Keep still. 446 00:47:09,241 --> 00:47:12,824 I'm sorry, Liam, did I frighten you? 447 00:47:12,825 --> 00:47:15,000 These things cowp easily. 448 00:47:15,001 --> 00:47:18,392 That'd be a silly start to the day. 449 00:47:18,393 --> 00:47:20,824 Or a bad end. 450 00:47:20,825 --> 00:47:22,424 I don't swim. 451 00:47:22,425 --> 00:47:23,576 I do. 452 00:47:23,577 --> 00:47:25,273 I'd save you. 453 00:47:33,945 --> 00:47:36,080 Dear God, it's quiet. 454 00:48:37,561 --> 00:48:38,776 I'll fetch water. 455 00:48:38,777 --> 00:48:40,848 You make a fire. 456 00:49:02,777 --> 00:49:05,400 To think this is all Billy Winters'. 457 00:49:05,401 --> 00:49:09,112 It's not. 458 00:49:09,113 --> 00:49:13,528 My mother left Corvey Island to me. 459 00:49:13,529 --> 00:49:17,368 Paradise must have been something like this. 460 00:49:17,369 --> 00:49:19,992 Well, Billy Winters could double as a god... 461 00:49:19,993 --> 00:49:21,336 ...of sorts. 462 00:49:21,337 --> 00:49:22,872 Why don't you like him? 463 00:49:22,873 --> 00:49:25,560 Why don't you? You're kin. 464 00:49:25,561 --> 00:49:28,120 You must know I'm not. 465 00:49:28,121 --> 00:49:31,192 That's talk, surely? 466 00:49:31,193 --> 00:49:32,664 You're certain sure? 467 00:49:32,665 --> 00:49:36,184 Since I was 12. 468 00:49:36,185 --> 00:49:39,704 You're better off without his blood. 469 00:49:39,705 --> 00:49:42,200 He's a breed of landlord. 470 00:49:42,201 --> 00:49:46,424 They're all one, that class - criminal. 471 00:49:46,425 --> 00:49:51,480 Tell me Billy's crimes, the ones I don't know about. 472 00:49:51,481 --> 00:49:54,808 They say he works for the Castle. 473 00:49:54,809 --> 00:49:56,984 A spy? An informer? 474 00:49:56,985 --> 00:49:59,224 I've never heard such silliness. 475 00:49:59,225 --> 00:50:01,464 Why is that? 476 00:50:01,465 --> 00:50:04,024 Spying on neighbours for money? 477 00:50:04,025 --> 00:50:05,880 He might do it for nothing. 478 00:50:05,881 --> 00:50:09,912 For Ulster, for the Crown, for the Union, to keep the grip on us. 479 00:50:09,913 --> 00:50:12,472 All gentry are ready-made spies. Everyone knows that. 480 00:50:12,473 --> 00:50:14,712 You're not joking, are you? 481 00:50:14,713 --> 00:50:18,232 He's been seen twice up at the Castle this past while, 482 00:50:18,233 --> 00:50:21,752 Billy Winters, his twin or his double. 483 00:50:21,753 --> 00:50:24,504 Billy goes to Dublin Castle for import licences. 484 00:50:24,505 --> 00:50:27,320 It's quarry business. 485 00:50:27,321 --> 00:50:30,712 Informing's not one of his crimes. 486 00:50:30,713 --> 00:50:33,784 He has others? 487 00:50:33,785 --> 00:50:36,408 I think sometimes he hates me. 488 00:50:36,409 --> 00:50:41,720 Oftentimes, I hate him so much, I wish him dead. 489 00:50:41,721 --> 00:50:43,512 Black thoughts. 490 00:50:43,513 --> 00:50:48,568 Don't you have them about some things? 491 00:50:48,569 --> 00:50:50,808 Anyway, when I'm not hating him, I sometimes think 492 00:50:50,809 --> 00:50:55,480 I maybe love him, in a way. 493 00:50:55,481 --> 00:50:58,744 "Oftentimes", you said. 494 00:50:58,745 --> 00:51:01,496 When I heard him hit my mother. 495 00:51:01,497 --> 00:51:06,296 Then I feared and loathed him and wished him dead. 496 00:51:06,297 --> 00:51:08,088 For hitting her? 497 00:51:08,089 --> 00:51:11,352 And for what I didn't understand at first. 498 00:51:11,353 --> 00:51:16,024 When he'd kiss me not fatherly. 499 00:51:16,025 --> 00:51:17,432 Jesus. 500 00:51:17,433 --> 00:51:19,480 He made my mother suffer. 501 00:51:19,481 --> 00:51:21,443 He should answer for that. 502 00:52:12,665 --> 00:52:15,160 I don't like settle beds. 503 00:52:15,161 --> 00:52:17,182 Like being in a coffin. 504 00:52:32,825 --> 00:52:36,920 You've done this before, Liam. 505 00:52:36,921 --> 00:52:39,992 Question? 506 00:52:39,993 --> 00:52:45,944 A statement. 507 00:52:45,945 --> 00:52:48,183 It doesn't matter. 508 00:53:10,585 --> 00:53:11,992 Am I hurting you? 509 00:53:11,993 --> 00:53:16,408 Yes. 510 00:53:16,409 --> 00:53:19,864 No. 511 00:53:19,865 --> 00:53:21,497 Go on. 512 00:53:37,785 --> 00:53:41,624 Do you ever wonder about your true father? 513 00:53:41,625 --> 00:53:45,336 My untrue father. 514 00:53:45,337 --> 00:53:49,752 Every other day and often in dreams. 515 00:53:49,753 --> 00:53:53,464 In one dream, he was a young boy washed out to sea and drowned 516 00:53:53,465 --> 00:53:56,920 and, oh, the grief of it... 517 00:53:56,921 --> 00:54:01,208 And, yet, I feel he must have been heartless, 518 00:54:01,209 --> 00:54:04,344 a betrayer or a liar, or already married, perhaps. 519 00:54:04,345 --> 00:54:08,504 Weak, unkind. 520 00:54:08,505 --> 00:54:11,640 But my mother was very foolish and dishonest to marry 521 00:54:11,641 --> 00:54:13,944 carrying another's child. 522 00:54:13,945 --> 00:54:17,016 Blame on both sides. 523 00:54:17,017 --> 00:54:18,424 And has he quit? 524 00:54:18,425 --> 00:54:20,856 What? 525 00:54:20,857 --> 00:54:25,656 Billy? Interfering? 526 00:54:25,657 --> 00:54:29,624 It's only when he has drink taken. 527 00:54:29,625 --> 00:54:33,720 One night, when I was 12, he got very drunk, 528 00:54:33,721 --> 00:54:38,328 opened the big safe in the gun room and showed me his gold. 529 00:54:38,329 --> 00:54:41,592 He told me, "Mind your step, bide your time, 530 00:54:41,593 --> 00:54:45,048 "play your part and all this could be yours." 531 00:54:45,049 --> 00:54:48,184 What part, I wonder. 532 00:54:48,185 --> 00:54:52,152 Dairymaid? Housekeeper? 533 00:54:52,153 --> 00:54:53,383 Wife? 534 00:55:01,881 --> 00:55:03,736 Gold? 535 00:55:03,737 --> 00:55:04,952 Yes. 536 00:55:04,953 --> 00:55:06,424 How much gold? 537 00:55:06,425 --> 00:55:07,960 A steel drawer full. 538 00:55:07,961 --> 00:55:12,184 The bottom of the safe. 539 00:55:12,185 --> 00:55:14,104 How long has it been there? 540 00:55:14,105 --> 00:55:15,512 Before Napoleon's time. 541 00:55:15,513 --> 00:55:17,880 100 years. 542 00:55:17,881 --> 00:55:23,000 What kind is he to hoard like that? 543 00:55:23,001 --> 00:55:24,846 Humankind. 544 00:55:34,073 --> 00:55:36,824 Killing's a small thing. 545 00:55:36,825 --> 00:55:38,616 Getting away with it... 546 00:55:38,617 --> 00:55:44,952 ...that's not easy. 547 00:55:44,953 --> 00:55:47,640 What are you saying, Liam? 548 00:55:47,641 --> 00:55:50,264 Why not take what we need... 549 00:55:50,265 --> 00:55:53,080 ...what he doesn't need? 550 00:55:53,081 --> 00:55:55,512 The ill-gotten gold. 551 00:55:55,513 --> 00:55:57,624 I couldn't kill anyone. Nor would I want you to. 552 00:55:57,625 --> 00:56:00,632 There are bromides. 553 00:56:00,633 --> 00:56:03,704 Opiates that will pacify a nervous horse. 554 00:56:03,705 --> 00:56:07,672 Put a man to sleep for two days. 555 00:56:07,673 --> 00:56:13,624 A share in his nightcap and we'd be across the sea before he'd waken. 556 00:56:13,625 --> 00:56:16,056 And I'd just walk out of the house where I was born, 557 00:56:16,057 --> 00:56:20,088 where my mother died, away from Billy Winters forever? 558 00:56:20,089 --> 00:56:21,628 You said you'd be glad to. 559 00:56:21,629 --> 00:56:25,464 In one way. Another way, it'd be kind of a death. 560 00:56:25,465 --> 00:56:27,832 Well, if what the clergy say is true, 561 00:56:27,833 --> 00:56:31,928 that can be a beginning of sorts. 562 00:56:31,929 --> 00:56:34,680 You've an answer for everything, Liam. 563 00:56:34,681 --> 00:56:36,496 Almost. 564 00:56:49,657 --> 00:56:51,768 How often does he go to the safe? 565 00:56:51,769 --> 00:56:55,160 Not often. 566 00:56:55,161 --> 00:56:57,272 All we need is two days and we're away with it. 567 00:56:57,273 --> 00:57:00,344 All we have to do is fix the day. 568 00:57:00,345 --> 00:57:01,816 You're serious. 569 00:57:01,817 --> 00:57:04,760 Are you not? 570 00:57:04,761 --> 00:57:06,552 He's no-one's fool. 571 00:57:06,553 --> 00:57:09,688 He's foolish enough, it seems, when he's drunk. 572 00:57:09,689 --> 00:57:12,120 When will he next have drink taken? 573 00:57:12,121 --> 00:57:15,064 After my mother died, he drank night and day. 574 00:57:15,065 --> 00:57:18,840 Now it's just when there's an outing, a fair day, any celebration. 575 00:57:18,841 --> 00:57:21,656 When's the next? 576 00:57:21,657 --> 00:57:26,072 July 10th, my birthday. 577 00:57:26,073 --> 00:57:27,672 Then it's decided. 578 00:57:27,673 --> 00:57:29,624 July 10th. 579 00:57:47,069 --> 00:57:50,392 One thing is certain sure...