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♪ "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" playing ♪

There was something about seeing...

that oyster-washing machine.

And it felt like all those oysters were citizens

somehow,

and-and I was one of 'em, you know?

All those oysters were just, like, getting,

you know, rinsed and tumbled and separated

and jostled and woken up and shaken up and...

eventually, you're gonna be, like, a-a meal for somebody.

That's kind of what it feels like

you're supposed to do everywhere.

Let the...

You know, let the forces just sort of, like...

polish the rough edges and...

pierce the center.

You see that man there?

That's me, Eddie.

I met Bill Murray when he stopped in my shop.

- You like this? - Ah, that looks well on you,

so it does. Yeah.

On a trip around Ireland.

Leave it on, leave it on. Can I get a photograph

- with you? - Oh, okay.

They'd come to play golf...

That's where you want to hit it.

...meet up with friends and enjoy the craic.

Bill's younger brother Joel had joined the trip.

They'd even celebrated Bill's birthday together.

A salute to all of us that are working together.

This is a-a wonderful time.

I think I wear this face that says,

"I can't believe I got here."

How the hell did I end up here, you know?

By now, the lads hadn't stopped moving

for nearly two weeks, filming and meeting the people.

The people, people, all the people.

- Thanks, man. - Uh-huh.

But just two days after his 75th birthday...

Okay, Bill, we're good.

...Bill awoke tired and irritable,

and it was clear he wasn't much in the mood for the cameras.

Fucking brainless people.

Stay away from those people. Stay away from them.

All they want to do is, like...

Good?

Jesus. God Almighty.

The plan was to go surfing

at nearby Enniscrone Beach,

but Bill first wanted to see the hotel's birds of prey.

This is Phantom.

- Phantom. - Phantom.

Phantom is a peregrine falcon.

He's the fastest animal on the planet.

Whoa. Hey, friend. How you doing?

And, uh, he should just come down with us, basically.

Let's go.

I'll take the back route.

All right.

Where's Bill?

I hope one of the owls didn't get him.

- Okay. - By this point,

they'd been joined by another Murray,

his brother Johnny, who'd just flown in that morning.

I'm not going in. You're going in.

- He's going in. - You're not--

Oh, nice!

Are you wearing a wetsuit?

I'm not going in.

You're not going in.

What?

Now it's just me and you, Johnny.

Where's Bill?

Bill who?

You mean the coward?

Bill the coward?

- He's not here. - Up there...

If you hadn't noticed, he's not here.

- Drinking coffee. - Yeah. Hot tea and...

scones and...

wishing they were brave enough to surf.

Wasn't part of the deal

that you would do it if Bill was doing it?

Uh, that's-that's what I understood, yeah.

Has Bill always been like this?

Has he always just marched to his own beat,

does what he feels like in the moment?

Bill is Bill.

Uh, they broke the mold with that one.

They...

There's no one else exactly like him.

He's, uh... he's a funny guy.

And... sometimes odd, too.

Some places think that means the same thing.

But, yeah, he's-he's funny,

he's odd, he's different.

He's different.

Keeps it interesting, though.

He keeps it interesting. Yeah.

Yes.

Always interesting.

What do you say? Should we do this thing?

Yeah, let's fucking do this.

- Job done. - Good day.

And, uh, Johnny said, "I'm getting the hell out of here."

It just reminds me

how much I love golf.

Looks exhausting, being Bill Murray.

Yeah. Yeah, from my perspective, it-it-it seems the same as well.

Um...

And, uh, it's--

I'm just always impressed how well he handles it.

I mean, I have no idea what it's really like to be Bill Murray.

But, still, at the end of the day, you got to be tired.

You got to be tired.

I mean, there probably aren't that many places

where you can escape that kind of noise.

But a big field where you're only with three other people

at any given time,

that's probably a real gift.

Out here...

...no one really cares who you are.

Everybody seems to want a Bill Murray moment.

What do you think those people get out of it?

What do you think they want from him?

I think

the Bill Murray that they've come to know

is funny, charming, likable.

He's-- He has that--

He's that person you want to have a beer with.

Someone that you'd get along with.

Someone that would make you laugh, you know?

So he just--

He's-- I think he's just incredibly, um...

...charismatic in all the roles that he's played, right?

You know,

what-what Bill Murray

do you have in your imagination?

Like, what role? I don't, I don't know, like...

But all those roles have something in common.

They're just, they're just incredibly likable and...

He comes off as large and funny

and someone that you'd want to spend time with.

And, uh, and then you see him

in real life and you want to suddenly spend time with him.

And people generally try to do that.

Will you stand here for a picture, Bill?

I know you're famous because you were

- in the Ghostbusters. - Hi.

- Photo? Photo? - Sure, okay.

Give me 15 seconds of your time.

- Thank you very much. - We appreciate it. Thank you.

Will you stand here for a picture, Bill?

I know you're famous because you were

- in the Ghostbusters. - Hi.

- Photo? Photo? - Sure, okay.

Give me 15 seconds of your time.

- Thank you very much. - We appreciate it. Thank you.

Will you stand here for a picture, Bill?

I know you're famous because you were

- in the Ghostbusters. - Hi.

- Photo? Photo? - Sure, okay.

Give me 15 seconds of your time.

I just wanted to quickly ask you a question.

Will you stand here for a picture, Bill?

I know you're famous because you were

in the Ghostbusters. - Can you walk through...

Give me 15 seconds of your time.

Hi.

- Photo? Photo? - Sure, okay.

- Give me 15 seconds... - Okay, it'd be nice

if you were looking away from us

so we just get the back of your head.

Let's just do a quick read.

We're gonna do a quick

couple of shots of just you walking up the street.

Can we get one shot first, just walking up here?

- I heard that. - Can I just quickly ask you

one quick question? Can I just get you here like this?

Before you tee off... Just whilst we're...

Bill, just carry on walking.

There's always one more thing.

- Last one, Bill. - Always one more thing.

Um, it'd be nice to get a little shot here.

Every day at the end, there's more

- and there's more. - Bill.

Bill. Whenever you're ready, Bill.

Don't talk like that, okay?

I don't like that.

That's not nice.

On the way through Sligo,

they stopped at Drumcliffe Churchyard

in the shadow of Benbulbin's peak...

...to pay their respects at the grave

of the great Irish poet W. B. Yeats.

All right, let me try this one.

You go for it.

"In a field

by the river my love and I did stand,

And on my leaning shoulder

she laid her snow-white hand.

She bid me take life easy,

as the grass grows on the weirs;

But I was young and foolish,

and now am full of tears."

"A Cradle Song."

"The angels are stooping Above your bed;

They weary of trooping With the whimpering dead.

God's laughing in Heaven To see you so good;

The Sailing Seven are gay with His mood.

I sigh that kiss you, For I must own

That I shall miss you When you have grown."

- That one stings a little. - Yeah.

That one stings.

Mm.

That was good.

Thank you.

Yeah.

- How are you? - What's happening?

How are you, Bill?

- Nice to see you. - Great.

- Good morning. - How are you?

Good morning.

All right, here we go.

- Here we go. - Okay.

- This is gonna be good stuff. - Now...

This is where I come in.

- Good morning. - Hello there.

Tom Coyne. Great to be back.

I was working with my grandson Conor

when Bill came to pay us a visit

with an entire television crew in tow.

Hey, easy on that grip, will you, you big weaver?

Goddamn weaver. Let go of my hand.

Let go of my hand.

- Hey, everybody. - How's it going?

- How's everything going? - Going good.

- Going good. Yeah. - Great.

That's grandson Conor.

- Hey, Conor. - I'm looking forward

- to today, yeah. - How big are you gonna get, man?

How tall are you gonna get? Oh, let me hit you

in the stomach, toughen you up a little bit.

Just practice.

Well, there's not a lot there to hit.

I need a jacket like Tom got last time.

Tom got a beautiful coat last time.

Eddie, I'm still wearing my jacket.

Oh, you've raised the prices, Eddie.

- Yep. - Oh, no.

- Whoa, you did, Eddie. - You raised all the prices.

Eddie, no, no, no.

Aw. Let's go to McGee's. Come on.

You pay more there.

♪ upbeat music

Wow. Look at that.

All-all-all small fabrics, those are.

Those are m-miniatures.

What-what do you got, the-the fairies

and the-the leprechauns shopping in here?

- And here's one. - Holy cow.

Wow, look at that.

Wow.

I've been weaving since I was 16 years old.

These days, there aren't many of us master handweavers

left in Ireland, and I could well be

the last generation to do it for a living.

Is Conor gonna carry it on?

Conor's just graduated from his master's.

Mechanical engineering.

He needed a better job.

Well, who are you gonna hand this on to?

I have five sons and three daughters,

and all have better jobs.

Uh, who needs anything?

Do you need socks?

- Do you need socks? - No, I'm good, thank you.

Do you need a hat?

Socks? A scarf?

No, no, I'll buy some socks.

Yeah. What do you need?

There's a, there's a mirror-- over there.

So, this might be you, you know?

Mm, that fits you.

- What do you think? - Yeah.

You like this?

Ah, that looks well on you.

- So it does. - Yeah.

Look at that.

- These are smart, right? - It's really good.

As Tom and Bill shopped,

the Murray brothers found other ways to occupy their time.

That is a good one.

I think it's too early for Guinness.

Very happy to be in Ireland.

I don't know, something about it, it just,

it feels so right, and everybody has been so nice.

- What's up with that? - I don't know, I...

- I could live here. - Yeah, I hear that a lot.

And it's my inner voice saying that, that...

"You should live here. Yes.

Come home."

It's all been good.

And we know each other well enough to know, you know...

Billy might be a little bit late.

And then, next thing you know, he's asleep, and...

And you can't get, you can't pry that remote control

out of his sleeping hand.

It's amazing.

Well, you've lived with him a lot more than I have.

He's been famous for, like, 50 years, so it's kind of...

"Yeah, that's my brother."

But some people...

"some people" being some friends of Bill, said

"You never want to work with family."

But we've always, we've had good luck working with family.

Not crazy successful, but it's been fun.

I can deal with it. Sit down, you big goof.

- Come on. - All right.

So, you wanted to talk to me?

- Well, yes, sir. Uh... - For the Murrays,

working together really was just another excuse

to spend time together.

But I've been dating your daughter Judy

for six months now, and it's been so--

You want to marry my daughter?

Back in the '90s, that even brought them here,

performing at the Kilkenny Comedy Festival.

I don't like you one bit, John.

I'm kidding you! I'm kidding you.

♪ somber music

But the family had its share of hard knocks.

Their father Edward died suddenly,

when Bill was just 17.

After that, childhood didn't last much longer.

The older kids talk about...

...there being two families, that it's like AD and BC,

but before Dad and after Dad, you know, died.

My father died when I was five,

- you-you nine. - I was nine.

And, uh...

Mom was a little bit more lenient.

She kind of had seen it all by the time we came along.

The boys started caddying

to help their mother pay the bills.

What started as necessity over time became tradition.

To this day, it's on the golf course

that the brothers find their way back to each other.

Golf is the glue, you know, that kind of

- keeps the family together. - There you go. Mm-hmm.

Mmm.

That is good coffee.

It's a good glass, too, huh?

- We'll steal those. - That's my glass now.

It'll look good in my suitcase.

♪ upbeat music

Uh-oh.

Here comes the rest of the Murrays.

Here's Johnny right here. This is the guy.

You had some good hats.

Oh, yes. Good.

Good morning.

You got to have a hat to play golf in.

That's pretty good.

- All right, how we doing? - Your card, receipt.

Thanks a lot.

What a hat.

It's nice.

Are we going golfing now?

We're going golfing.

Next stop was tiny Cruit Island,

off the coast of Donegal

in the far northwest of the country,

the most remote golf course in all of Ireland.

All right, Cruit Island.

How many minutes?

- Forty-eight minutes. - Forty-eight minutes.

Did you guys play a lot together

growing up, or was that,

was there too much of an age difference?

- There was a big age difference. - Both.

There was that. We didn't start playing until

we were... uh, together much until we were adults.

The older brothers used to play with Dad.

And, uh, they actually bought him a set of clubs at one point.

Yeah, he had a nice set of clubs.

He had some Tourney irons and some Walter Hagen woods

that were really wonderful.

What happened to those?

Yeah, where are the clubs?

They were still in the garage last time we checked,

but the garage is gone.

♪ gentle music

I'm proposing a match today.

- A match. Okay. - I'm proposing a match

of Murrays against the lone Coyne.

- Ooh. - What would you say to that?

Three against one, your best ball against mine.

Well, Tom, we are now adversaries.

Years ago, the people of Cruit

wanted a golf course so badly,

they persuaded the local bishop to give them the land.

Then they built it themselves.

Wow, we are really getting out here.

Yeah, we are.

Mind you, in those days,

the only way onto the island was on foot at low tide.

Look at how gorgeous it is out there.

Oh, my God.

Look at this. This is crazy.

- Mm-hmm. - Nailed it.

- All right. - Good job.

I'm childproofed, Tom.

That's not bad.

I'm trying, Johnny.

Oh, this happened to Bill yesterday.

I don't know why it's on child lock.

- Sorry. - Ah.

Oh, yeah.

Before teeing off, they all headed to the clubhouse

for a pre-match pint.

We're going to the best clubhouse bar in Ireland.

Pardon me.

So, you've got Golfer's Journals,

then you got bourbons and whiskeys.

Yeah, I can think of worse ways to spend a sunny day.

I've heard of sharing a bottle before, but never a bottle...

Check that out.

What is that, Tom?

What is this?

I'll tell you. Looks like it's never been cracked.

Oh, yeah...

Wait a second. "Bargain"? "Bargain copy"?

No, no, it's, uh...

it's so cool to come back here and see this here.

Um...

And there's Bill Murray on the cover, and then...

For both of us to come back here and play golf together,

uh, pretty... it's very humbling.

It's very, very kind.

Your book has brought a lot of, uh, visitors.

Almost all the Americans that come

always say that it was your book that brought them.

Aww. That's so nice. Thank you.

Yes. So, then I bring it out to go,

"Oh, we have it always on show as well."

Oh. That's so cool.

♪ majestic music

Tom had laid down the challenge for the day,

him against the three brothers.

All right, so, we've got a big battle today.

It's Coyne versus Murrays, so it'll be

my ball against the best of their three balls.

This is golf at the edge of the Earth.

Nine holes of magic at Cruit Island.

Nice, Bill.

Good hit, man.

Johnny.

You're on the green, Johnny.

You're on the green!

- Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. - Get the fuck out.

- Oh! - Oh, it's just...

- All right, that-that works. - Yeah, Johnny.

- Get over. - Lovely.

Nice. It is a competition today,

and today, Tom Coyne is going down.

Oh, no!

"At Cruit, the holes dropped off precipices

with winding banks like something

out of a skateboard park,

while all around you, the waves of the North Atlantic burst

on the black claws of Donegal's coast.

And whether you enjoyed the rest of the course or not,

whether you spent the other parts of your afternoon

wondering why you had wandered so far from Doonbeg,

I dare any sighted golfer to deny

that the sixth at Cruit Island was, yard for yard,

one of the best holes in the world."

Oh, look at this.

Oh, boy.

The famous six,

just 150 yards,

but with nothing between you and the green

except the Atlantic.

Get in.

"Get in," he says.

- Oh! - Oh, it felt good,

he liked it.

- Golfer. - That went.

- Hey! - There you go.

- Nice shot, Tom. - Thank you.

- Just like... - Oh!

Oh, oh...

Joel won the hole for his brothers,

bringing the sides all square.

Oh, shit, get down.

- Uh-oh. - Oh, trouble.

Believe me, Tom's insides are roiling.

This is the kind of drama they asked for.

When I played him the other day and he lost,

he didn't speak to people for hours.

- Yeah. - Hours.

Yeah, he was walking around graveyards.

And it got really close.

- Oh... - Good shot, Joel.

Give me a break on that!

- He's very good. - Whoo!

But this is gonna be another rough one

'cause this will be a public humiliation.

All the people on this island are gonna know.

All 45 people are gonna be there,

and they'll know what happened to Tom Coyne today.

- Lovely fella. - Aww. Yeah.

But he's just another Philly loser today.

Just another Philly loser.

Bear down.

A bit of trash talk? I would say...

No, Bill keeps it...

You won't hear it from him.

Oh, he was?

- Ah, fuck. - Yes.

Yeah, it is kind of a relief.

Yeah, it's nice. We're-we're not,

we're competing against him and not against each other.

Have we got to walk it?

With Tom and his brothers around,

our man didn't seem much like the famous Bill Murray anymore.

He was just Bill.

I hit it pretty good.

Come on, roll down the hill and get in the cup.

And after all these years, that suited him

- just fine. - ♪ gentle music

You know, I've traveled with the brothers a little bit,

and it's-it's awesome to see them get together.

I mean, they're a really close family,

and, uh, it's cool to see the dynamic and...

They're also, like, incredibly supportive

of each other, too.

They have a relationship that you would,

like, kind of envy, you know?

Looks good.

Making good contact.

Not so bad yourself.

I mean, in the time I'm spending with Bill,

it's pretty clear that the most important thing to him

is family.

You try to explain it to people

that don't understand, you say, "Well,

imagine that you're walking around in nature for four hours

and you're with your-your friends.

And just your friends.

And the phone doesn't ring, you don't have to work,

you don't have to answer to anything but yourself."

All of that dissatisfaction just steamed away

like a boiling pot of tea.

You know? It just went away.

- Oh, yeah. - Oh.

- Really good. - Smooth whiskey there.

That's nice.

Thanks, everybody.

- Thank you, everyone. - Nice shot.

Oh, shit.

As he come to the eighth hole,

Joel needed to sink his putt

to win the match for the brothers.

♪ gentle Irish music

- My man. - Oh!

- Well done. - It was two up...

- Well, I made it to the eighth. - It's hard to beat

- all the Murrays. - I made it all the way

to number eight. I learned my lesson.

It was like Hector and Achilles.

- It was fantastic. - Nice.

- Good day. - Good day.

- Good day. Good day. - Good day.

All right. Yeah, that beats prison.

It had been a tough few days for Bill.

Come on. Double or nothing?

- Double or nothing. - But an afternoon

with the people who know him best

seemed to be just the tonic he needed.

The golf might be forgotten soon enough.

I would say that photograph won't be.