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These are the names of Irish crime families who have connections in both

Montreal and Dublin.

Someone wanted Lee Manning professionally killed. Any one of them

arranged it.

I've been doing a bit of work for a yank, you see.

Miss America might know why your old man's lying on a slab in Canada.

I could lead you to her. They fished Walsh out of the canal.

He was helped on his way. He had a bash to the back of the head.

I don't have your name yet, but I know where you work.

You meet me and talk or I'll come knocking on the door of the US Embassy.

Jimmy! We've shut out Rowling's out in the past, I know. But your advice on

would be very welcome, before it turns into the kind of headlines that none of

us want. Lee Manning used to work for the CIA.

I assume full operational control.

I'm off the case.

You got close to something, so they closed you down, and you're going along

it. What Cormac Waltz was sent here to look for, it's got hotel bills,

a record of everywhere he'd been for the firm, all the places they sent him.

It's an address here.

It's where Barry Lahanna is.

Lee was scared that Lahan suspected him of being there the night Ciarán died.

Yeah, you're making this up, aren't you? Now, Lee Manning, whoever the hell he

was, got what he wanted. Ciarán was in his way, and Ciarán had to go.

A little bird tells me you're going away for a few weeks.

Monday, London, of course.

They're very big on those now.

Policing has changed since I left. It's not all clearing bars with your fists in

Dolphin's Barn or getting to know the chancellors on your beat.

I'm not sure about it.

This case I'm working, I told you about, it'll be hard to let go of the reins.

I know the feeling. Some of them you take personally.

You want to be the one to make the arrest.

You're under enough pressure without adding to it yourself, though, don't you

think?

It was a different world when I started.

The Stone Age.

I was one of the first to get to high rank.

I thought they'd give me a chance to prove myself.

Instead, I was sent around the country inspecting accounts.

Then I got saddled with a hit -and -run driver.

A very rich man with powerful friends.

I was told if I made waves, I'd be proven I wasn't a team player.

And that'd be bad news for any other woman trying to follow in my footsteps.

If I wanted to join the boys' club, I'd have to prove I understood the rules.

So I took the long view.

I let it slide.

I went with the force instead of my feelings, and I think I was right.

I paid my dues on behalf of you and the other women that followed.

Are you giving me a message?

What message would that be then?

To straighten yourself out.

To realise that not all the battles have been won. To understand that you have a

responsibility too to the women who will come after you. What, to keep my head

down and my mouth shut?

You didn't write the rules on policing and at your level you don't get to see

the big picture. If something stinks, cover your nose.

Can I guess who the little bird was who sent you?

Jimmy Nulty is one of the best friends we ever had in the guards.

Look how he forced them to give that course to you instead of to the blue

boy the rest of them wanted.

He'd make a fine commissioner, maybe even a great one.

Sarah Manning is in the clear as far as I'm concerned, though there are some

that are trying to set her up. Listen to yourself.

There's people in Dublin, important people, that want her headed off or

as a lunatic. I really don't want to think that it goes up to chief

superintendent level and you're doing this dirty work. If you want to make an

enemy of me and sabotage your career, then go right ahead. I'm not trying to

make an enemy of you.

I respect you.

I learned everything from you.

This is my life, my career and my name on that file.

And I'm making a phone call.

I want you to hear this.

Sarah.

Eimear.

I'm coming to see you.

Let's just say tea with an old friend gives you a chance to calm down and

things through.

The CIA?

Lee worked for the CIA?

As far as we know, he was an ex -employee.

That explains this and those.

Put them somewhere safe.

I'm taking you to meet somebody.

The person who arranged for your car to be bugged and your house broken into

looking for them.

What's she doing here?

You need her on your side.

She found the file you paid Walsh to break it to her house to look for.

I had nothing to do with that. Cormac Walsh said you did.

He offered to sell you out. For 50 ,000 euros, he was gonna hand you over.

He never got the chance.

We can do this here now.

No record of who says what, or we could do it the other way.

Leave here. Go back to the U .S. Embassy.

Make it official. Your call.

I want the truth.

I'm going to get it.

Lots of people say that.

But they don't want the whole truth.

They only want the one that they can handle.

The one that fits into the way they see the world.

How they want to keep thinking about somebody.

Especially somebody they're close to. I want to know everything.

about Lee, about the company, about why he was in danger. I want to know who you

are and what gave you the right to do what you did to my family.

I work for the FBI on attachment to the embassy in Dublin.

The case I'm working on falls under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which

authorizes us to bring charges against any firm or employee of that firm using

bribery or corruption to obtain financial advantages.

Gumbiner Fisher was using Lee to do that.

Do you have proof of that?

I can tell you exactly what he was going to do in Montreal if he had the chance.

It's what he did every time he made a trip on behalf of that firm.

Have an appointment with the minister?

We had been watching Lee for some time.

Every trip followed a similar pattern.

I'm not here to offer anything as crude as a bribe, Minister.

You're a man of the highest ethical integrity with an unblemished

So far.

Your promotion to health minister in one of the German federal republics puts

you in charge of the bidding process for a drug that we manufacture.

We want to invest in you, in your career, your success in that career,

well -being, and when you leave political life, if you should choose to

talents in the business world.

We'd be more than happy to talk.

In public life, people make enemies.

You've made them.

One in particular.

He'd destroy you if he could. But we'd prefer it if you destroyed him first.

would regard this as a down payment on our investment with you.

That's how it was meant to go down.

That day, of course, it all went south.

I was planning to approach him, show him the evidence that we already had, offer

him a deal, get him to wear a wire.

He was the last piece of the puzzle.

I want to say how sorry I am that your husband was killed in a place where we

couldn't intervene.

Or are you just sorry you can't make your case anymore?

I would like to believe that he would have cooperated willingly once I had the

means to get his attention.

But he could have ended up on the witness sheet instead of in the dock.

When did you last see Walsh?

I tried to talk to him two nights ago.

See how serious he was about his threats to go public?

I couldn't find him.

The night he was killed?

I had nothing to do with that.

He had enemies, too.

The Drug Enforcement Agency used him as an informant in a smuggling case at

Dublin Airport.

I'm not holding anything back.

You asked me for the truth, and now I'm asking you to act on it.

Your husband was a highly trained... undercover intelligence officer who

no one, not even the firm that he worked for.

If something went wrong, he might have kept a record as an insurance policy in

case they tried to throw him under the bus.

Why should I help you blacken his name, even if I believed any of this?

Because the answer to the person who killed your husband is what he was doing

with that firm.

Don't you want that answer?

I'll make a deal with anybody to find who killed me, but I have to be sure I'm

going to get the right answer and not be fed another pack of lies. I am not

lying to you. I have put my career in your hands by telling you all of this.

Let's go.

I am going to get an indictment on that company one way or another, and I will

include in those indictments anyone who tries to obstruct my investigation.

You have no idea how broad the reach of the United States government is.

Do you believe it?

I didn't know your husband.

Do you?

If I wanted somebody to do a job like that, I'd be looking for somebody with a

background like his.

Somebody who could guard a secret.

Keep his nerve.

Look somebody in the eye and make a threat or tell a lie without blinking.

But that same person...

It's a car knife!

You gonna be alright?

He gave me this last year.

It's from Italy.

Changes colour.

It's red from one angle and green from the other.

Depends how you look at it.

It's not just one thing.

Two things all at once.

Maybe he was sending me a message.

In case one day I ever thought the other side of him, the other lady.

I have to take this.

Han is dead Had another

heart attack he was never gonna make it Are

you sure you've given us a list of everything he was taking for his

heart He was on a lot of things. We found quilladine in his system We have

record of the quilladine having been prescribed

Sarah Manning to see Aidan O'Sullivan or Deirdre Kilbride. Do you have an

appointment? If you tell them who it is, they'll see me.

I'm not willing to let anybody through without an appointment.

Well, you're not supposed to spend your time doing your nails and texting your

boyfriend, are you, love?

This is Manning to see you.

Yes, thank you.

Sarah? Sarah?

These are the dates he was in those cities on your behalf Paris, Rome, Hong

Kong, Nairobi, Singapore, Cairo East.

Comes on and on and... Oh, Montreal.

The last trip, the one he didn't come back from.

You sent him there to very cleverly threaten to blackmail people to swing

contracts and deals your way.

I've the originals of all his travel details, expenses, instructions on who

meet and where.

I've just come from meeting an FBI agent attached to the U .S. Embassy in Dublin

who'd be very interested in seeing them.

She wants to send you to jail.

You should not foresee what means she has to use. She's already had my house

broken into, booked my car. She'll... she'll do what it takes.

Oh, that's not, um...

That's not jail here, by the way. That's federal prison in the U .S. where

there's no parole and they can sent you down for 150 years without cracking

their faces.

The way they work is to round up the small five births, the lower and middle

ranking executives like you, and work their way up to the big fish.

Which of you wants this?

Legal?

Human resources?

Or... Should I find my way to Dr. Hoffman's office and hand it to him

personally?

I knew nothing about this.

Neither do I, and Sarah, I resent you forcing your way in here. I resent

to bury my husband in a few days, so I think we're quits.

Well, things have changed since your time here. You work here, the pair of

Gumpiner Fisher pays your wages. If you didn't know about this, you should have

guessed. And if you did know, you both have Lee's blood on your hands.

What do you want from us?

I want the name of the man in the file Lee carried.

The man who was going to be destroyed because of the information in it. He had

the most to gain by Lee being killed before he could hand it over.

If I don't get that, I'll go back to the FBI and show them everything I have.

I'm still hoping there's another explanation.

That...

Maybe he was planning on blowing the whistle on the whole rotten deal. That

was sick and tired of the lie.

The ones he told on your behalf.

The ones he had to tell me that he was going to bring you down. That he was a

good man.

And not a crook.

And a blackmailer who saw the light in the end.

Give me that name or I will do to you what Lee did to people on your behalf.

Destroy you.

Sarah Manning was in the office just now. It's no longer vague threats

She's got something in writing that could destroy this vermin. Send a lot of

people to prison.

Prison in America as well as here.

I'm told one of the best views in the world is from the cells at San Quentin.

No more jokes, Morris.

Scared.

For the first time, really scared.

The FBI is involved, and God knows who else.

Sarah Manning is coming straight at Hoffman, and you're a little too close

him for comfort.

She'll do anything to find the answers.

And if they can help her do that... I have done no more for convener Fisher

I would do for any major employer in this country.

We have a vital national interest in working with those who can bring good,

steady jobs here, but I am also fully aware that there are lines never to be

crossed. This sounds like something you'd say outside the four courts before

going in to be sentenced.

Look, don't panic.

In the meantime, stay clear of Sarah Manning.

There's nothing more I can tell her. That won't stop her asking questions.

Aidan O'Sullivan, though, I wouldn't be sure about him and what he knows and

what he is willing to tell to save his own neck.

There's not much to tell about that night.

And I have told it many times.

You still have to ask?

I was on my way to work.

That time of the night?

Yes.

I worked two, three jobs in those days to have money to buy this.

My night job was to clean the vents in the restaurant.

I stripped the grease and it was recycled into new cooking oil.

I'll think of that next time I'm down and out.

So I walked by the canal, and I heard blood, as if someone had fallen in.

So, you were here when you heard Kieron Boyle call for help, yeah?

Yes, yeah.

Help!

Help! Help me!

Did you see anyone else?

No, no, I see no one else. Only the man in the water.

He's in the lock, trying to get out, but the water is too deep.

I'm shouting for help.

There is no one to hear me.

The man in the water is trying to get hold of something.

There is nothing there.

He tries to reach my hand when I reach down for him, but... Take your time.

One moment.

Do you drink?

I do, but I'm on duty.

Sometimes I have nightmares.

Then I saw lights of police car on the road.

So I leave the man in the water and I run to them.

We get man out of the water and it's too late.

So this is my statement.

Nothing to add.

It's your statement word for word.

But I think you're lying.

I think you saw something else that night.

There was a knife found here.

Knife? Don't know nothing about knives.

A short -bladed folding knife that somebody would use to protect themselves

they had to be going around the city late at night, going from job to job

cash. Was yours, wasn't it?

And on your way to ask the guard for help, you stopped and you got rid of it

because you didn't want them to find it on you.

I think you were nervous because you saw something.

That's why you got rid of the knife.

Which means that if there was somebody else there that night, you saw them.

So what really happened? Who did you see?

If I tell you about the knife, will you put me in trouble?

I don't care about the knife.

It's only important because it tells me you were too scared to say what you

really saw.

So what happened?

What did you see?

At first I hear shouting.

As if someone was in a fight. Two voices of two men.

So I think to myself, Kirilko, this is none of your business. Don't get

involved. Just go.

But then I hear shouting for help.

So I run towards lock gate.

And that's when I hear splash.

And that's when the other man sees me.

And he runs away.

So he gets away, the other man that was fighting with him.

Yeah.

I lied because I don't want to get into trouble.

You see, if they send me to jail, they send me home straight away.

Are you going to put me to jail?

I just want to know what the other man looked like.

I did not get a good look at him. Yeah, but you did see him.

Yes, I saw.

Was this him?

It was a very long time ago.

Yeah, but you said you still have nightmares.

You see it all again. Was this him?

Yeah. Yes, I think that I am. Yes.

Yes.

You're a very capable man, Mr. Lahan.

And I'm sure you do whatever it takes to protect the people you're working for.

You don't get a free pass just because you work for one of the biggest firms in

Ireland.

Not just one of the biggest.

One of the most important and powerful.

You should remember that.

Are you going to look for him now?

And put him into court?

Well, I have to say what I saw.

You may not have to do that.

Not now.

Let me walk this back.

You carried out an illegal surveillance operation against an employee of one of

Ireland's biggest and most profitable companies without informing me as legal

attache.

To do so, you use the Dublin criminal who even the Drug Enforcement Agency

flaky.

He's dead, and now you've opened a bad channel to a detective in the Dublin

police force who seems to have an agenda of her own and conducted an interview

with a potential suspect, your target's widow.

She's just told you to get lost, so you're bringing it to me in case she

public, in which case the ambassador is going to be asking me some very awkward

questions.

I have strong circumstantial evidence that contracts have gone to Gunbeiner

Fisher instead of the lowest bidder. Or that the terms of bids changed at the

last minute to favor them. I think we can still pull a case together.

And Sarah Manning is the key.

Given what you've done already, it could also turn into one of the nastiest

diplomatic dogfights in Foreign Service history.

Ireland is not a hostile power.

These are our friends.

We like them. They like us. We don't have too many people left in the world

do that unconditionally these days.

We're through here.

I want nothing to do with this.

Fold the case and walk away.

You said it yourself.

It started off as an illegal surveillance operation in a friendly

went downhill from there. If you didn't know about it, you should have.

I have no intention of holding this case while there's still a chance that we

can get indictments.

You ordered a guard to sit by the hospital bedside of a man connected with

case that you were warned of.

You spoke to that guard and to the doctor in charge in direct defiance of

order given to you by me in this office.

Is that right? The death of Sarah Manning's first husband is now a murder

inquiry. I have a witness.

He said Lehan was there the night he died.

Somebody gave Lehan medication that would kill him if taken in combination

his regular prescription, which means Lehan was killed to stop him revealing

name of whoever he killed for.

You're accusing an ex -guard of murder for hire?

I think we could make that case.

On whose behalf?

Somebody in that firm wanted Ciarán Boyle out of the way because of what he

about their corrupt operations.

Operations that Lee Manning was part of.

Why do you think I took that case from you? Or tried to?

You really think it can be handled at your level? I don't know why you took me

off the case. I know what I'm told.

Sir.

I know what I was told, sir.

By you, sir.

Your current daybook.

Now.

You've not spoken to anyone else about this case, either by phone or in person,

and left details out?

No, sir.

Don't get cute with me, have you?

I have not, sir.

Because if you have, it's a very serious disciplinary matter.

I'm well aware of that, sir.

It wouldn't just be a matter of missing this course in London.

You could be out on your ears. I realise that, sir.

Did you talk to Sarah Manning this morning?

I did, sir.

I don't see a note about it in here.

My friend, Sarah, that's a private thing, not official business.

Don't get cute with me.

Should I ask for a member of the Garda Representative Association to get

involved in this, sir? I put my own brother away once.

He was a bad lot, but he was still my flesh and blood.

I could have dipped in the wig to get the next boat out of here before they

nabbed him. But I didn't make that call. I had my loyalties sorted out.

Everything I do is knowing my loyalties, sir.

As I said to ex -guarded Detective Heffernan when she tried to warn me to

off. I sent her to you to give you that warning.

In the hopes that you'd see reason back off when you were told that this inquiry

involves issues that are way out of your league. But you said no. You tried to

make an idiot out of me.

That's not true, sir.

All I tried to do was follow the case to where it led.

It leads here to my desk, where it should have been all this time.

You might as well hand in your resignation here and now, because

you do from now on, there'll always be a red flag against your name.

Neymar Byrne asked Jimmy Nolte about her.

She never gave 100 % when she was asked.

She knew better.

Your career's over.

It's our loss as much as yours, but there it is.

Get out of here.

Cool your heels while I decide what to do with you.

Whatever it is you won't like it because it'll be a total waste of your time

training and talent Go

You

did

that for me put your career on the line

For the case, to get the truth no matter who's standing in the way.

It burnt me bridges.

Now all I can do is do what you did.

Take the fight to them.

That list of Canadian organized crime figures with Irish family connections

here, I think I can help.

Hila Beck.

The German Federal Intelligence Service. Amos told me who you are.

We're on the same side, Mrs. Manning. Are we?

Are we really?

I want to find the man who killed my husband and see him punished.

Is that what you want?

I want the same name as you do.

that of the man who had reason to take the file from your husband, even if he

had to kill him to do so.

This one is doing 20 years in Portlaoise.

This one is in jail in England.

This one has got a big family, but they're all Egypt. Nobody would trust

And this one is strictly small time.

Him and him.

It may be worth giving a shake.

I'll have a sniff around for you.

Do you really think that you can get one of them to give somebody up?

That depends on how good a deal I'm in a position to make.

You two make a good team.

I just want it all to be over.

To close the door behind me.

Be with my kids.

And around people who tell me the truth.

I regret the deception I had to practice on you, Mrs. Manning.

I especially regret that you saw through it so easily.

Do what you have to do, Mr.

Duquesne.

You too, Miss Beck.

You tell me who in there arranged to kill my husband, and I'll tell you who

stood most to gain from it.

Once I know.

As well as all the stuff about the firm, he's got all these details about how

you financed the properties you and Patrick got into.

You know, who your partners were, the banks you used.

There's also a lot of things about Patrick's legal problems.

The fraud charges.

All the shenanigans he got into when he got desperate.

It brings it back.

It was great for a while.

When we went out for the night, we never knew where we'd end up.

Paris by Charterjet, Ibiza to go clubbing.

Be honest.

Sister to sister.

You were always a bit jealous of me back then, weren't you?

Maybe I was.

Sister then.

You had all the money in the world and you weren't shy about showing it off.

I'd worked hard to get where I was and you'd dropped out of school and were

living like a queen.

Why would Lee care about it?

And care enough to put all this together?

I've no idea.

I need to talk to him.

To Patrick. How do I find him?

I would have said in the biggest suite at the most expensive hotel in Dublin.

These days.

Did I ever tell you about the time he didn't like how the hotel manager spoke

him? He tried to buy the place so he could sack him. He did. Can you keep to

subject? I have nothing to do with him anymore.

You knew he was back.

He came round the day he flew back.

He wanted to borrow some money for the taxi fare from the airport. He didn't

even have that. Can you imagine?

How do I find him?

No.

I'm doing as well as you can when it looks like the jig is up.

Thanks for asking.

As well as you can do when this is your lunch.

Not the culinary razzle -dazzle of the best restaurants in Dublin.

I'll take you to lunch. Put that away.

Hold on a sec.

With the compliments of somebody who was at one point the 15th or possibly 16th

richest man in Ireland.

Some touch of the old style there.

Yeah, you always had plenty of that.

That's all I've left.

When that's gone, it'll really be over.

I've asked Sarah to lunch, too.

How's she holding up?

Sometimes I think my sister is made of spring steel.

Sometimes I think she's made of strawberry jelly.

Be careful what you say to her.

What about losing Lee?

Bringing up the kids on her own?

About everything.

Are you listening to me?

You're wide awake. This is getting through.

Everything.

Right.

You're not staying.

I said I'd take you to lunch. I didn't say I'd eat with you.

I have a business to run.

Feels like an ambush.

It's about Lee.

I just found out that he put a file together about your property deal.

Why would he do that?

Why would he care about them?

Care about them and hide them. Hide them with a bunch of other things about the

firm he worked for. Things.

That might have got him killed.

I like Lee.

He was one of those quiet Americans.

Most of them tell you in the first five minutes about their Irish roots and how

their grandfather was in the GPO in 1960.

Lee didn't tell any stories about where he was from. That's one of my problems.

This is what he had.

A lift of all your properties.

Why? Huh? Why are you going to all this trouble?

You know, I actually think I owned this restaurant at one point.

If I still did, I'd fire everybody for keeping us waiting this long.

Yes, sir?

Yeah, I apologize for disturbing your slumbers, but we wish to eat.

I'm so sorry, sir.

The lady will be paying.

Can we get back on track?

You and Lee.

The property deal. Why would he go to all this trouble to get these details?

I need to know how this fits in with everything else.

I figure you're firing all these questions at me because there was a lot

good old Lee than met the eye.

Why else would we be here?

Could it be anything to do with this deal?

Or this one?

Or this?

Yeah, you'll have to excuse me. I won't be having lunch with you after all. I

mustn't keep the judge waiting. She isn't in for me already.

I hope this has been useful.

To repeat, however, I have no idea why Lee did what he did or what those papers

add up to. That you've been waving a little bit rudely, I'd have to say, in

face. I need to know.

You're the only one who can tell me what this means.

I should say, do let's do this again, but even if by some legal loophole they

don't put me in jail.

I really don't have anything to say about Lee, and I resent being cross

-examined about it. That's not what I'm doing.

I have quite enough people in my life firing questions at me at the moment,

it is what you're doing.

And I've nothing to tell you, so leave me alone. He wouldn't have done this

without a reason.

I'm not at the dock here, and nor is Nuala.

This isn't about me and her. This is about you and Lee.

And if that was a mess that you're only now getting around to sorting out, don't

bring us into it.

Understood?

Ex this room alone?

Oh, come on!

I made quite a little scene out of it, too.

I was always good at that, wasn't I?

You were.

I don't think she'd be back for more.

How much do you think she really knows about that deal with Kieron?

She has no idea of it. Not yet.

I hope she never does.

She'd never forgive me.

It'd be over for me and her as sisters.

Do you know that name?

I'm a legal officer of this corporation.

What I know and don't know is privileged.

You do, don't you?

Even if I did, I wouldn't be able to share it. Whatever the circumstances

Sarah Manning or anybody else.

However, if that meant I'd be complicit in a crime, that if by

withholding the information I was furthering a conspiracy, malfeasance or

something that would put me on the wrong side of the law, it would be a

different matter.

I'd have no choice. You tell her.

A couple of months ago, the US authorities extradited two directors and

treasurer of a London bank. None of them had even set foot in the States ever.

They're in jail there now, awaiting trial.

There are arrests for and save for the members of staff who did the paperwork.

I like those documentaries about American jails, but I don't want to be

But why?

Who are you going to call?

Your boyfriend, the TD.

How deep is he in?

He's not.

Look, I know a little bit about how this firm got the planning permission and

the buying credit for the new plant, the one in O 'Hanlon's constituency.

He's the man who can get things done. But this is the FBI.

The FBI, if they broke into Sarah's house, booked her car, and you're... But

call them.

Go on.

Put your head in the news. I'm going to do what's best for me.

You're going to tell her?

Yeah.

If that's what it takes.

Barry Lehan.

That weasel is the reason I'm serving up my time in traffic.

We were both in the running for promotion to inspector.

My qualifications would even be a bit better than his.

I was ready for the challenge.

The promotion was mine for the having.

Then things started to go wrong.

I started getting sideways looks from the station.

People would clam up when I walked by.

People I'd worked with for years wouldn't want to be seen with me.

I found out why.

He was putting it around, but I was dirty.

that I was doing favours for cash.

So Lahan was behind it?

He got the job and I got shuffled into traffic.

He said, I told you I wanted that job, Brian.

You know me.

You know I'd do anything to get it.

I'm in two minds whether to go to his funeral or not.

I'm damn sure I'll go to his grave at some point and have a good laugh.

Could Lahan have arranged for somebody to be killed in Montreal using his

connections here?

Lahan was a walking who's who of Irish crime love.

Spent his life dealing with it.

Sometimes there's a line that gets a little blurred, if you take my meaning.

What you're dealing with day in, day out, rubs off.

If anybody could do it, he'd know who.

The rumour mill says that you've made a bit of an enemy for yourself at

headquarters, Emer.

I might have done.

Be careful, or you might end up like me, staring at a bank of traffic monitors

and waiting for the day the pension check's in the bank.

Of a single malt I've been saving for a special occasion.

Between you and me, I prefer scotch to Irish whiskey, but I can't be seen

drinking it in public.

Chief Superintendent Nolte has some good news.

He's taken back complete control of the operation.

Eimear Byrne is out the door.

Isn't that right, Jimmy?

There's no reason for the guard that you called it to celebrate.

Quite the opposite.

A good, smart, hard -working detective, who also happens to be a decent human

being, has had her career derailed.

Slated her own door, but it's a damn shame, anyhow.

Combiner Fisher is one of this country's most valuable companies.

We reached out to offer you whatever help we could.

All we expected in return was to be kept informed of developments in your

inquiry. Can I make it plainer that after this, I won't have nothing to do

any deals with you or anyone in your firm or the goings -on going on there,

whether it comes through your poodle or Hanley or not?

That's what I came here tonight to tell you.

You came in with your eyes open, and I regret it the minute I did.

I still reserve the right to take this further.

Once I get my head all the way around the facts.

How much pain is your wife in, Chief Superintendent?

Mr. O 'Hanlon tells me she's very ill.

That's no business of his or yours. We have some people achieving very good

results on a new pain management protocol.

Life -changing results.

If you would like me to speak to them on her behalf. We've tried everything.

This is new.

It's cancer, right?

It's not a cure, you understand.

But a way to make the final months bearable.

Family support is vital.

So I could make arrangements for you to be with her full -time, without

financial penalty.

If she would be more comfortable in another house.

At the coast, perhaps.

Even abroad.

In the sun somewhere.

It would be part of our therapeutic commitment to you.

I'm not ready to retire.

A man like yourself has a great deal to offer to an industry such as mine.

Of course, there is a vacancy here in Dublin following the regrettable death

Mr. Lahan.

Take his job, you mean?

And end up like him?

Thank you very much, no.

I don't want anything from your firm.

What about your wife, Nolte?

Siobhan. What about her?

I would need an answer tonight, I'm afraid.

Before we all leave here.

You can sit in your high horse, but at her expense.

What kind of man are you?

You're not as smart as you think you are, Mohand.

You might think you've got a nice little out -of -the -way place here, but

nowhere is really out -of -the -way these days.

A local guard, knowing it belongs to a TD, keeps a very close eye on it.

He's aware of the comings and goings.

He keeps a lookout for strange cars, makes a note of regular visitors.

We ran a couple of number plates to be on the safe side.

Man in public life.

One stood out.

Do you know your head of human resources, Deirdre Kilbride, is a

here day and night?

Especially night.

Night through to the early hours of the morning.

She has her own key.

This is true, Mr. Allen.

Miss Kilbride comes here?

That's nobody's business but hers and mine.

You're a married man. It opens you up to blackmail. If it's another kind of

relationship you're looking for. Do you want your mouth washed out for your

nutty? I'm in pretty good shape for a man who sits behind a desk all day. Do

want to try me?

Gentlemen, please.

What does she know?

What have you told her, and what has she told you?

She's not a problem, and she's not going to be a problem.

You are sure?

Women get to her age, and yeah, sure, you know, the career's gone great guns,

but they're lonely.

Their looks are beginning to fade, and the biological clock is going boom,

boom.

Leave it to me.

I'll keep an eye on her.

She's not going to do anything to rock the boat or to talk out of turn.

Not when she hopes that I'll cause a scandal by leaving my family for her.

I've been keeping her dangling with that for a couple of years. It's good for a

few years more.

I came to...

I wanted... Aidan O'Sullivan is going to...

I heard.

I've been in the hall. Deirdre, what is Mr. O'Sullivan going to do?

You've kept me dangling for a couple of years. I'm good for a few more. I have

to tell them what I thought they wanted to hear. What is it Mr.

O'Sullivan intends to do?

You're a guard, right?

But you're doing it for your wife, not for you.

What did you hear? Stay here, Mr. Ryland.

I'll talk to her. She'll listen to me.

I'll handle this.

I don't take orders from you.

No, you do.

You both do.

Perhaps she didn't hear everything, but she heard enough.

Sarah Manning? Sarah.

Deirdre.

Is this the most safe we can meet?

What?

It's anywhere safe.

Maybe not.

I need to see you anyway. Can I come round?

Now? Well, if it wasn't something you needed to know, what I'd be calling.

Of course you can.

How long will you be?

Not too long.

The stuff you need to be made aware of.

Do it rather than later.

I'm on my way.