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Damien?

It's a quid pro quid thing. Quid pro quo? What? Doesn't make any sense. Quid for a quid, see?

Balfs give me their free whiskey. I promote their fine beverage. I make a profit.

And they get free advertising. It's a win-win-win.

Win-win-win-win-o for free whiskey.

Looks like I'm going to have to do whiskey night with that methylated spirit

stuff Petra picked up in Tashkent. You coming, by the way?

I have a headache that night.

I said which night yet?

Operational now for about five years. Thank you.

So, you were saying that the fire brigade think it's deliberate?

They found evidence of arson and the pathologist said that Damien had been struck.

State pathologist, Piers Kennedy? Yes.

Damien was murdered and the police said the fire was started to try to cover it up.

Do the police have any suspects? That's why I'm here, to be honest. Their main suspect is me.

One of the guards suggested that we plan the fire as an insurance job and something went wrong.

And because I was at home sick that night, I don't have an alibi.

Everybody else was at the staff party.

Do you kill him?

What? I would never hurt him. I wouldn't hurt anybody.

Why would they think you need the insurance?

Damien and I, and my brother Finn, took a gamble a couple of years ago,

a different approach to the business. So yes, money's tight.

But Palf's has been in our family for generations.

We got a distilling license from James II.

Practically everybody in the village either works for us or has someone in the family who does.

Did Damien or the company have any enemies?

Weird things have been happening.

A few weeks ago, one of our trucks got run off the road and we lost most of that delivery.

Then one of our batches was tainted.

And somebody made an anonymous health and safety complaint about us.

Sabotage?

Damien was convinced somebody was out to get us. And now this.

Sorry, just missing. Do you believe her?

I think I do. Did I ever mention that I'm a fan of good whiskey? Me too.

I am not asking her.

Bugger.

7am. Charlie, the alarm didn't go off.

I didn't set the alarm.

Why wouldn't you set the alarm?

I'm not going anywhere.

I have so much work today.

The right thing.

25 years and I just...

It's not the first time you've been disappointed with the system, love.

But you need to see the positives. Look, Vivian said it's a sabbatical, right?

And you've never had time off. We can do some fun things and Lola's back for a haul soon.

I need some stuff done around the house.

Just keep busy and if in a few weeks or months you change your mind...

I won't change my mind.

If you do, you can go back. So why not see this as an opportunity? Enjoy it. Have an adventure.

Right. I have things I want to do.

Right. I have to get a wriggle on. I probably missed about 40 emails already.

I'll be in my office if you need me, okay?

Don't worry about me.

Joking about the town being reliant on the business. Home of bulbs.

We should try some with our lunch.

Good soup. Mm. Yeah.

Any good? Mm. Lovely, yes.

I slime my stomach. Not used to whiskey.

Mm-hmm. That's very sensible. Your accent's Hennessy.

Yes, ma'am. That's impressive.

She knows everything about everything. It's a skill. Oh, no, stop. Tennessee.

That's the home of bourbon.

Surely you must know a thing or two about whiskey.

Tennessee's also the home of the Grand Old Opry. Doesn't mean I can hold a tune. Mm-hmm.

So you're here for business or pleasure?

Oh, very much pleasure. I hear Balfe's is one of the finest independent distilleries in Ireland.

Going on tour tomorrow. You? Oh, a little business. You know much about Balfe?

Not as much as we'd like.

Mm-hmm. Novices like me.

Mm, not quite.

Sir, you drink?

I should let you folks finish your lunch. Chuck Muller, by the way. Harry Wilde.

And Fergus Reed. Friendly guy?

Yeah, he'll be friendly until the fourth glass when he'll be maudlin and depressed.

Did you notice that he changed the subject when I mentioned bourbon?

People like that always make me suspicious.

Oh, everyone makes you suspicious. Can I get you guys anything else?

Information. About the fire at Balfe's? Do you know anything?

It was a bloody tragedy. Christ knows what this village would do without that business.

The man who died? Did you know him?

He's Nazi, so we wouldn't know him like we know the rest of the village.

He seemed like a good chap. You should talk to Moira about him. She's the mammy up there.

Oh, Laura and Finn's mammy?

No. She's just the mammy.

We should add her to our list. We'll talk to her after we speak to Laura's brother, Finn.

My parents wanted both of us to run this place.

Laura's always been the one with their heads screwed on. She took the whole thing on.

I fecked off to Oz. Leaving her with all the work. She doesn't deserve this.

Well, nobody deserves that. Damien was Australian. What did he do there?

Well, he'd had a bit of a rough time when we first met.

Found out his fiancée was cheating on him. He was heartbroken and out of work.

Did the two usually go together?

Well, the fiancée owned a sheep farm up north and he worked on it. We hit it off.

Became best mates. It was Damien who told me it might be time to grow up.

That's when we came back here. He and Laura met. It was love at first sight.

Laura said that you had money issues, but you've been turning it around.

The truth is we were limping along when Laura took over.

My dad was never the greatest businessman.

A lot of the indies end up selling to the bigger brands.

Laura had an idea for something completely different. She brought in this new approach. Terroir.

Do you know what that is?

Well, as it applies to wine, the ground, the grape, the environment,

they all matter for the taste, right?

Exactly. We were celebrating the first mature batch the other night when it happened.

Uh, this is the party everybody but Laura was at.

When did Damien leave?

I honestly don't know. I was behind the bar making sure everyone had a drink.

I couldn't even get to the toilet.

Who do you think wanted him dead?

I don't know. But I can tell you one thing.

My sister would never harm a hair on his head.

Finn?

Never end. I'll, uh, leave you with Moira here.

That's fine. We wanted to talk with her anyway. Fancy trying a sub?

Brought you a cup, love?

Oh, I'm actually still drinking, the last one.

I've been doing some research. Looking at hobbies I could take up. That's good, yeah.

I never had time for hobbies with work. There was always some case I had to deal with.

But you're right. You're dead right. I should be enjoying this. I should get back into running.

Learn a language. Read more.

Ah! Don't worry, don't worry.

It's a lovely day out. Do you fancy a walk?

I really need to work, love. And I have to meet a client soon, so.

Oh, of course. Well, I'll leave you to it. I'll, uh, hop back in in a while. Bring you a snack.

No, no.

Lemonade to mix with that.

Put hairs in your chest, though, Will. I hear you're the mammy here.

Well, I started here when I was a teenager. So I'm here the longest.

I suppose I should be grateful for not calling me granny. I saw Laura and Finn growing up.

They've done a great job here. Especially Laura. Good heading her.

Laura and Damien must have made quite the team. Yeah, well, that's what they say.

But Laura and Finn now, they're putting this place back on the map.

Are they now? Messing around with methods nobody cares about. Putting jobs at risk.

That's what that is. They should sell up like the rest of the Indies. Give us some security.

You don't know what you're talking about. Pay no heed to Rick. We're family in this place.

There have been a few over the years who only see it as a job. And money. He's one.

He was hassling Damien. Looking for a pay rise. Was Damien in charge of that?

He ran the payroll. Business didn't have it this year. We all knew that.

We're in this for the long haul.

So sorry. I asked you to come and let up and run off my feet all afternoon.

I have to make sure we can keep the business open even with this investigation going on.

I will be back. Make sure to watch yourself.

Of course. Finn keeps making a fuss of me. Typical protective brother. I'll be great.

Friendly bunch. Not one of them has a bad thing to say about Balfe's ordainment.

I'm thinking he was killed.

By a spirit? Since Moira didn't like him.

She's fond of Laura and Finn. Maybe she just didn't rate him for Laura.

Thought you could do better. Talking of love interests.

It's okay for you being outside of Dublin. Do you have any dates planned? Oh. Believe me.

I'm not going on another date and nap for the rest of my life. But I do have a plan though.

Okay. I'm going to get Lola back. Okay.

I had the best woman in the world and I let her slip through my fingers. Ryan or no Ryan.

I am fixing that mistake. Oh that's admirable.

Even if apparently Lola has no agency in this.

What about you? Is there a special, I don't know, pathologist you might date?

And men who can't make up their minds. I mean, I'm too old to play games.

All right. Give us a pint there Mikey will ya?

Rick, I think you've had enough. Hey Grant. Just had a drink will ya? I'm not serving ya.

Just not bother on me. Give us a pint will ya? I'm not serving ya.

Finn tell him to give us a drink there would ya? Go and sober up. You bloody fool.

Don't tell me what to do. People better start taking me seriously. I know things.

I ain't gonna talk if things don't change.

Rick, out.

Go to hell.

Yeah, what did he mean he was gonna talk?

I don't know. We need to get him on his own once he sober's up. I'm gonna nip to the loo.

I'll see you back in the car.

Chuck say he was going on the whiskey tour tomorrow?

Yep.

Guess we are too. Yep.

Anybody hope?

Did I drive you crazy today? I'm not used to being here when you're working.

Not at all.

I wanted to do something special for you. Forgive me that. You know it's not much.

I am king of the one-pot meal.

It's perfect. Let me grab us a bottle of wine.

Oh, I'll sort out the dishwasher when we're done.

Excuse me. The chef doesn't clean up. I'll do it.

Okay.

What's wrong? You never told me you were coming over. I thought somebody was breaking in.

I would never let anyone harm you. I brought you dinner. Come on.

We'll eat and then you're going to bed and you're going to take one of those

pills the doctor gave you. He's asleep, sis. I'll keep on the couch. You're safe. I promise.

Right.

Welcome, everybody, to our tour of Bals.

Now, I am sure some of you will have heard about our tragic fire recently.

But we are a family here at Bals. We all pull together.

And what better way to show that than by letting you see the love and

commitment that we put into our product. So if you'd like to follow me.

Some people say the

process of whiskey making starts here.

But still, we press our barley here into what we call mash.

What do you mean some people say whiskey making starts here?

Ah, well, see, we believe that whiskey starts in the field where the crop is grown.

You see, we don't just buy in any old grain.

We select the finest and we invest in the farmers who grow it.

Where are you going for a run?

Nah, tendons playing up.

You're watching telly?

Yep.

I know. There's nothing on.

Okay, guys. Next, we ferment the wort with yeast,

which eats the sugar and produces carbon dioxide and alcohol.

Now, at this point, the wash is around 8% alcohol.

And that is when we start our three-step distillation process.

Now, triple distilling is, of course, unique to Irish whiskey.

Don't you lose Latin vapor by going through three steps?

Uh, not a lot, but that is true.

We lose around 2% of whiskey every year through evaporation over the whole process.

We call this the angel's share. That's right.

So when the wash goes through the three pots,

the alcohol content rises to around 80%. 80%? That's rocket fuel.

Yeah, well, from there, it goes into barrels.

Now, we buy our barrels in from America. They've mostly been used for bourbon,

so that lends another taste element to our whiskey.

The newly made whiskey has to be allowed to mature for three years in order to be called Irish.

Where do you get your casks? Uh, Texas. You should try Tennessee. Smooth a blend.

Well, the, uh, the warehouse where we keep our barrels is just out back.

And that is where we are going next.

You store your grain on side. Can we see it? It's just vats of barley. Sounds fascinating.

All right, if you'd like to join me, guys.

Miller is only his nickname. Dee, go speak to Mr.

Miller, shall we?

Whiskey novice, my Charles A. Miller III, you own one of the largest distilleries in Tennessee.

Who are you?

Who are you with? What do you mean, who are we with?

You another distillery?

We're private investigators. We're here to look into Damien's death.

When the real question is, what are you doing here?

And why are you taking all these notes about their practices? Are you trying to buy this place?

I was buying the place. And then Laura Balfe changed her mind. Wait. Laura was going to sell.

I'd done a deal with them. Now they're welching. Well, then why are you coming here now? Wait.

You're trying to see what they're doing in this distillery. You want to steal their system.

Don't be ridiculous. I buy and sell small places like this.

If Balfe's agreed to sell and are now backing out,

do you think it has something to do with Damien's death?

I don't know, but that Rick guy said that they should sell. What if he knew about the deal?

I got angry when it wasn't happening.

We work with three farmers in our local area.

We've examined their soil and water supplies,

and we found that the pH levels are absolutely perfect for our purposes. Come on. Take some.

Smell it. The whiskey-making process is brutal,

but we believe you can smell and taste the barley through the whole time.

The DNA is maintained, so it matters.

Johnny, on the phone.

Police have said we have to close. It'll be okay, Pat. It won't be for long.

Did they say what happened?

They think he was drowned in the barley and then shoved inside a pearl?

Laura, could you come with us, please? Sorry, this is ridiculous. Why are you picking on her?

Laura, don't say anything. I will sort out a solicitor, all right, Laura?

What's going on with her arrest?

They brought her in. It must be for good reason, even if they're wrong.

Darling, I need your help.

I am sort of busy.

We're on a case. And the local guards have their eye on the woman who hired us.

I need you to find out why they're focusing on her.

I told you, I'm done with the police. I don't have that kind of access anymore.

And besides, I have a lot on.

I'm taking on a few new hobbies, and Orla has me doing stuff around the house.

Oh, you'll get right on it, Harry. Send through the details.

This is not the sort of sabbatical I had in mind.

You are going to clean up this place and start doing something with your day.

And for the love of God, help your bloody mother.

Orla, help. Ah, he might be. Okay, well, I couldn't speak to Finn.

He was on the phone sorting a solicitor, I think. I'll have to find him later.

Now, I did speak to one of the distillers in there about that batch of whiskey

that was tainted a few months ago.

Now, he says he's convinced it was in-house because security's tight.

Do you think Rick might have been working with Chuck and they planned the sabotage between them?

And maybe he had to stop him from spilling the beans.

It's a place to be tidy when she gets home. They're keeping her overnight?

They claim they have new evidence. Laura would never do any of this.

I mean, surely that's obvious. Why won't they let her go?

We've been wondering if Rick may be working with someone to sabotage the distillery.

We saw him speaking with Chuck Miller.

American on the tour today. He's Charles A. Miller III. What?

He owns one of the largest distilleries.

That's the one.

Well, he was there today.

He said that you and Laura were planning to sell the distillery to him.

That's a lie. We'd never sell. I've never even met the guy, I swear.

I mean, I could see that. Possible that Laura and Damien planned to sell to him? No.

Laura would never do that to me.

It was Finn's best mate, right? Sure.

So what if Laura wanted to sell and keep it a secret from her brother,

but Damien was struggling with it?

So Laura killed her own husband and hired us to investigate?

Well, it wouldn't be the first time, right?

I mean, you remember that one who killed your own sister? Oh.

Look, the police are obviously on to Laura.

Maybe, maybe she was hoping to send us in a different direction, right? Frame somebody.

Like Rick. But he's dead. Why kill him too?

That I don't know, but something is, something's not right.

Well, we have two dead bodies and a suspect who's hired us to investigate.

Something is very not right here. Look, it's Charlie texting.

It's a link to a video. What of? It's from a dash cam from a truck parked outside the house.

She is?

Whoa, Harry, look at the date stamp. Yeah, the day you died.

That's why the police are after her. What is it? See that? What am I looking at?

It's the window in the building behind them. Someone's watching.

Oh, pause it, Harry. Tomorrow. Go see if you can find that window. Time stamp says 8 a.m.

We need to find out who was watching what happened and why they never mentioned it to Laura.

It was nothing. Sometimes I'd say stupid things, do stupid things.

Damien was very patient with me. Sometimes he'd lose his temper, but it was my fault.

I see why the police suspect you.

Damien loved me. He really did, and I loved him. I never would have hurt him.

Why didn't you tell Finn that you were going to sell? I wasn't going to sell. To Charles Miller?

There was an agreement?

No, there wasn't. Damien wanted to sell because of all the bad things that were happening.

I told him I'd think about it, but I wouldn't have gone through with it.

I was just worried because we were having such bad luck, and he was so upset about it.

But we hadn't gone as far as talking to anybody.

Now, Laura, there's nothing you could say or do that allowed Damien to inflict

personal harm on you. You realise that?

Damien never hit me. Everybody gets mad in an argument. He didn't do anything wrong.

That fight you had was early in the morning.

Did you see anyone else at Palfe's when it happened?

I didn't go in. I went home. I was ill. I didn't see anybody.

But Moira's usually the first thing you could ask her.

Why? I just wondered if somebody else saw that fight and got angry at Damien.

It didn't look good.

That's it, I'm afraid.

You weren't home when you went home, Laura.

I'm not allowed to serve you. Technically, we're still closed.

That's all right. We came to speak to you. You're really fond of Laura and Finn.

That's not news. And not so much Damien.

I just left Laura. Is she okay? No, I don't think so. She said things that really worried me.

Things about her and Damien's relationship.

We really want to know what he was like.

Well, I can't tell you anything. Were you here that morning, Moira?

I mean, did you see them fighting in the car park? I'm here every morning.

But I don't know what you're talking about.

Well, if he was hurting Laura, you're not doing her any favours by protecting him.

Protecting him? As if I would.

Wouldn't bloody stand him. That man charmed his way in here. But I saw right through him.

He reminded me of my first husband. All hail fellow well met to the outside world.

But a right controlling bastard behind it all. Do you think he was controlling her?

I think Laura is a very strong woman. And she was becoming a shadow of herself.

She didn't even realise it. Nobody did. But I saw. Saw from the start.

That window was just on a corridor, so it could have been anyone looking out.

Hmm. Right. I didn't have heard of the term.

Comes from the 1938 play. The husband tricked the wife for financial gain.

Hmm.

And is that what happened here? And then Laura killed him.

Oh, no, I don't think Laura had it in her to kill him.

But Moira was very fond of her and Finn. Speaking of.

Thanks for visiting Laura. She needs all the support she can get right now.

Well, giving her whatever we can. Finn, the night of the party.

Did Moira leave for any length of time?

Look, like I said before, I was stuck behind the bar. I couldn't tell you who was in and out.

Why?

No reason. But we, uh, we have to be somewhere.

Oh, somebody, a very big thing.

Yeah, and I have an idea of my own. About?

Well, I think there might be a way to see if Moira was missing that night. I'm intrigued.

Got back straight away. I shouldn't have worried. He's a decent man. No grudges.

Even if I did break his heart. Ego much?

Anyway, he had heard of the sheep farm that Damien worked on,

and he spoke to a contact he had in the police hub there. Damien had no convictions.

But the police knew about him, not least because of what happened in the farm.

Oh, and there's more. Somebody has been asking about Damien recently.

Well, while your ex-knight in shining armour was doing that,

I was going through every photograph taken the night of the party to see if Moira was missing.

Now, she wasn't. But somebody was. I think I know who it is.

Is it enough to confront our suspect? I need to confirm the motive, Fergus.

For heaven's sake, what does this have to do with me?

The police are closing in on you.

They know you're working with somebody to sabotage Bals from the inside so you get a quick sale.

That is complete horse shit. They made a deal with me. They're the ones in the raw.

You keep saying they, but who do you actually mean? Damien and Laura.

Laura has no idea who you are. Well, who do you actually meet with?

Damien. He was speaking for her. He called me old-fashioned, but where I come from,

men do the talking when it comes to business.

Why were you talking to Rick the other night?

Drunk guy. I figured out who it was. Said he had some information to sell me.

I told him I didn't buy information.

You say you only do business with men. Why not talk to Finn Balfe?

I had it on good authority that he was a useless fool. I don't deal with fools.

I'm sure that good authority was Damien.

You know, for a man who prides himself in his business acumen, you really are quite the fool.

You should have spoken to more women. They'd have told you that.

I

don't have time for this, okay?

Finn, we know everything. We know you killed Damien and Rick. Damien was my brother-in-law.

He was my best mate. Which made what he did so hard for you to understand. He hurt your sister.

But your silence is doing the same.

The sheep farm Damien worked on. His ex-fiancée. He tried it over there, too.

I have a contact in Australia.

The police never convicted him.

But they suspected Damien to be a serial fraudster of wealthy women.

Her family intervened in that instance.

But he almost had her close to marrying him and sowing up.

You know, I was really happy for him and Laura at first. But I started to see a change in her.

I think she was afraid to tell me because he was my best friend.

He was sabotaged on that sheep farm, too.

That was his M.O. I didn't know anything about that then.

But I was getting suspicious of his breakup story.

And I knew there was something going on with Laura.

You contacted the police over there.

The day of the party. I'd seen them fighting with Laura that morning.

Caught them when I was looking out the window.

And Australia came back to me. Told me what Damien was. I had to confront him.

Hey, mate. I was just going to come back and help. What's up? Who's that on the phone? Nobody.

Just checking on Laura. Oh, yeah? I've been making a few calls of my own.

And I know what you've been doing. What are you on about, mate?

I know what happened with your ex. Are you drunk?

You're trying to sell this place out from under us. You've been sabotaging us. All right.

You sound like a crazy man. I brought you in. I introduced you to Laura.

You just want to destroy us.

Shove off, mate.

Rick saw you.

Yeah. He was outside in the corridor. Lurking in the darkness, as usual. He saw me come out.

And the smoke. He tried to blackmail you. I never meant to kill Damien. But Rick.

I met him in the barrel storage building that night. Things got out of hand.

You drowned him in Bali and then led a tour right through the place.

I didn't know how to get him out. I was waiting to move him.

What were you doing in Laura's house?

Packing. They don't have enough to hold her, but they won't stop until they do.

They bought us two tickets to Thailand.

You really think your sister's the type to run away?

I mean, I hoped I might convince her, but I guess it's all over now. I'll hand myself in.

I swear. I would never put the blame on Laura.

But I just thought the police would see they were wrong.

And still you left her in there for two nights.

He didn't mean it.

Any of you should have said something about Damien, but it's harder to get better.

I thought the man I first met was still in there. You'll be okay. You have to be.

So many people are lying on balls. Yeah, she'll just sell. You'll do what's best.

There are good people around you. Come on, Pat. Let's get you inside.

She doesn't sell to that misogynistic arse, Chuck.

I'd say when she's had a chance to process it all,

she'll realize that she's had her fill of men manipulating her.

That was like she's

making a go of keeping the business going, last we heard. Oh, fair play to her.

Hey, thanks for getting us that video.

Oh, turn the case around for us. See?

Doesn't that feel good to have helped?

It does. And actually, I want to make an announcement.

Good God, Harry. You got a new job, right?

No. Well, yes. Sort of. Look, I was right to hand in my notice. Take a sabbatical. Whatever.

But I miss feeling like I've done some good in the world. Solved a case.

Got justice for somebody.

You're going back. Oh, love. I think that's the right thing to do. I'm not going back.

I need to work. But on my terms, I have a new plan.

I'm going to join Wild Reid. I'm going to work with you guys. Charlie did.

It's going to be brilliant, just like on this case.

You guys will really benefit having an actual detective around.

I'll get the drinks to celebrate. Charlie, just hold on a second. Please, please.

What can I say? He's your problem now.

Bye.