Blue Lights (2023) s03e04 Episode Script

This is everything.
The Ginleys are running drugs
through Northern Ireland.
This coastline is all that matters,
and we protect it at all costs.
The threat level
has been raised to severe.
I was visiting my Ma.
She's dying, Sandra.
She's gone.
No, don't! Don't! Please don't!
We will kill your kid.
All you have to do
is stay out of our way.
Tell me what you want.
It's not what. It's who.
We've had a call from this address.
There must be some mistake.
He's going to hurt them.
I think you need to talk
to somebody, Aisling
- Hail Mary, full of grace.
- about the accident.
Do you think it's an
accident that we came here?
We were supposed to come here.
Turn around!
Sarge, there's something going on there.
You want me to go against
the advice of C1 and C3?
Sean, Grace knows this kid.
And if Grace thinks
she's in serious trouble,
then she's in serious trouble.
Lindsay, where are you going?
I got you that interview.
Front of house.
Like I said I would.
Hang on, is that Lindsay? Stevie
Stop!
TYRES SCREECH
Shit!
Ah, you're all right
BIRDSONG
BUZZING
SLOW POP ON RADIO
Good morning, skipper.
Stop that.
Mwah.
What was that for?
Backing me up.
Well, that's my job.
Hm.
So they want you to interview her?
Yeah.
They think I might be able
to get through to her.
- Stepping up.
- Ah
I'm making it up as I go along.
Join the club.
Oh, er, have you heard from Annie?
No.
Do you think she's safe up there?
Well, we've got our best man on the job.
CRUNCHING
SEAGULLS CRY
Um
Lovely.
Why don't you come inside?
You look like a peeler standing there.
I am a peeler.
For God's sake.
I'll take that.
Thanks.
Can I give you a hand?
No, it's fine.
Is everything OK?
This is supposed to be a wake,
not a bloody police station.
KNOCK ON DOOR
Yep?
Dana, there's someone here
interested in membership.
Membership is closed.
Yeah, I told her that.
- So?
- She says she's not leaving.
What in the name of God
were you thinking?
I was worried about her.
You were off duty, on your own.
She could have been killed.
Aisling, there's going to be
a PSD investigation.
OK, fine.
Excuse me?
- I can stand over it.
- Constable
Skipper.
I don't regret it.
Aisling
we think you're
suffering from trauma.
Trauma?
- Yous think I'm going mad?
- No. No.
That is not how I would
describe it at all.
Ma'am. When we came back from that call
and flagged it on the system,
I knew nothing was going to happen,
because it never does.
She could have been killed last night.
So is it me losing the plot
or is it this whole place?
- You're not working today.
- You're suspending me?
I'm recommending that you go home,
whilst we decide on next steps.
And I'd like you to leave your gun.
Have you got my back here?
- Aisling
- Have you got my back?
Come on in, Tommy.
Has she talked about it? The RTC?
A bit, ma'am. Not much.
How is she, in her head?
The truth, Tommy.
Is that her gun?
Have you suspended her?
- What rule did she break?
- She acted like a vigilante!
Where does it say that,
if we're worried about someone,
we can't check up on them
in our own time?
Tommy
I'm sorry.
This is wrong.
What did you say to them?
I stood up for you.
Thanks.
Aisling, are you going to be OK?
Course I am.
Got a call this morning from
the Domestic Violence Unit.
She's telling them everything.
Years of abuse. Coercive control.
Sexual assault. He was charged.
They rang to thank me.
So if they want to punish me
for that, then fuck them.
So, Mrs McIntyre,
you're interested in joining us?
If you'll have me.
Do you have any friends here?
Right now, mostly enemies.
OK.
Let's end the pretence, shall we?
How did you find me?
I put you here.
Just before I retired
Fogerty asked me
if I knew of any properties
for a new private club.
When they put you in to run it,
I thought to myself
"Who's this?"
- What do you want?
- A quiet life.
But it's not really working out.
I have nothing to say to you.
That's fine. I'll do the talking.
Fogerty's going to bring you down.
He's running this place
like it's inner-city Dublin.
You can't do that.
You don't know what you're up against.
- What am I up against?
- The peelers.
You mean the police?
They're fucked up, like the rest of us.
They don't play by the rules.
Fogerty doesn't get that.
And you do?
30 years, never got a parking ticket.
Getting rid of me was a mistake.
Let me know if I got in.
There's some flowers
in the parochial house.
Would you go and get them?
- I'm on duty.
- Ach, wise up.
What's a parochial house?
A priest's house, you eejit!
Come on. Make yourself useful.
Here's the address, it's up the lane.
Sorry for your loss.
Thank you.
How are you doing?
I don't know.
Yeah.
I mean, how do you even?
Sorry, Annie.
I need some fresh air.
It's not safe. Sandra
Where's Lawrence?
Come on.
Have you come to confess your sins?
Um
No, Father. I'm here
to pick up some flowers.
Just taking the hand
out of you. Come on.
Are you religious?
I'm, er spiritual.
"Spiritual."
Fuck's sake.
Sorry?
Nothing.
These are all for the Conlons.
Who delivered this?
It was on the doorstep this morning.
CLOCK CHIMES
That's not addressed to you.
Forgive me, Father.
I'm not sure your Auntie Bea likes me.
I'm not sure she likes anyone.
It's beautiful here.
Yeah.
I always took it for granted,
growing up.
I just thought
..this is how the world was.
Yeah. I thought the same about Dagenham.
- Mm.
- Sandra!
What the hell's going on?
We're leaving.
What happened?
I'm sorry.
Just tell me what happened.
I'm sorry, Ma.
There's a threat. It's active.
- We need to get out of here.
- Annie. Let's go.
Just give me a minute.
Sandra! We need to leave!
You tell me now, what is going on!
- We have to go.
- "Go"? Go where?!
Father, did anyone see
who delivered that package?
- Doorbell camera? CCTV?
- No.
- It's her mother's wake
- Let's go.
- Annie, you can't just
- What?
- Bea, I'm sorry
- Come on!
ENGINE STARTS
BELL DINGS
Can I help you?
We're here to talk about your licence.
Well, this way, please.
You were here before.
The night Mr McClelland became
..unwell.
You mean the night
he overdosed on cocaine.
Have you any CCTV
from the night it happened?
Constable, this is
a private members' club.
We don't surveil our clients.
Well, have you a guest book we could
look at for the evening?
Why?
We're following up on witnesses.
Just standard procedure.
No, I'm sorry.
That's private information.
We're authorised to take it.
Lucia, can you photocopy
the members' register
for last Saturday, and leave
a copy at the front desk?
Thank you.
Was George McClelland here with
friends the night it happened?
We're all friends here.
Ah, that's lovely, mate, isn't it?
Look, constables, I'm not sure
what else I can do for you.
Maybe we should join.
What do you think, mate?
I'm afraid we're full.
Shame.
Lindsay, this is really serious now.
You must know that.
Where were they taking you?
Can you tell us
what happened last night?
No.
I was hours away from putting
a full C4 team onto her.
With respect, sir, a few hours too late.
C1 want to talk to her as soon as.
Sir, this takes time
Take your shot.
You miss? It's our turn.
All right?
Now, you call me if anything changes.
- I told you, I don't want to talk about it.
- Lindsay
Who were they?
I want to go home.
You know, it's our job to protect you.
I want to go home.
I'm not under arrest, am I?
Can we just?
Grace, enough.
Lindsay, what happened to you?
Why do you even care?
What do you mean, why do I
even care? Of course I care.
Bullshit.
If you cared about me,
you wouldn't have left.
OK, I think that we should
probably take a
..take a beat there, all right?
Right.
Well, it's nice to feel like you're a
bit of shite on someone's shoe.
LINE RINGS
PHONE BUZZES
What do you mean,
we're running out of time?
I mean, we've only just started.
If we can't get her to talk,
they're sending in a team from C1.
Are you joking?
No, this kid is a victim,
she's not a suspect!
Grace, it's out of our hands.
What?
OK.
OK.
Grace"OK" what?
Right.
So you're still doing well at school.
Yeah, the principal says
if you continue like this,
do your A-Levels
you'll be going to
university, and then
Uni?
Wise up.
Lindsay.
The way things are.
The way everything seems to
It doesn't always have to be that way.
And you
you have the ability to change that.
You're smart and you're tough
and you can make that happen.
- Just leave it, OK?
- Lindsay
Stop trying to change me!
Stop trying to make things better!
You don't have a clue, Grace!
Not a clue.
- Well, I do.
- Pfft. No, you don't.
- I do.
- You fucking don't.
I do.
I grew up in care!
Yeah.
So did I.
My home life
was very difficult, Lindsay.
So, um
so, yeah
I was in the system.
What do you mean by difficult?
Well, I had a mum who
I had a mum who had addiction problems.
Addiction problems
and mental health problems.
She was there, but she wasn't there,
if you know what I mean.
My dad was great. He was, um
He was an angel.
Whatever my mum did
however she messed up
he was always there.
He was always there for both of us,
to pick up the pieces.
And then, when I was ten
my dad died.
He died of a stroke.
At work.
I was at school.
And when my mum told me about it,
it was like she was talking
to me about the weather.
And that was it.
And after that
it was just me.
Me and my mum and that
It really wasn't good.
What do you mean?
Well, she
she drank, she took drugs.
There were parties in her house, people.
You know, I saw things that
And it just never stopped.
And then what happened?
Um
There was a teacher. At school.
Realised what was going on
and they told social services.
And then, one day
a social worker turns up at our house.
Sue.
And she takes one look at my mum
one look at our home, and that was it.
It was an Emergency Protection Order.
- So you went into care.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I went into care.
My mum never fought for me, Lindsay.
She never stopped drinking.
She never visited me.
- Never?
- No.
No.
Do you know, I don't think
she even liked me.
And she died when I was 14.
What was it like for you?
Care?
Care was shit.
But no-one
No-one ever hurt me there.
But No-one ever helped you.
Yeah.
I was angry.
I was so angry.
And I look back now, and I think
what would my life be like?
What would my life be like, if
it if it hadn't been for?
If it hadn't have been for what?
Sue.
You know, she took me aside
and she said to me,
"You will always be angry,
no matter what."
"But you have a choice."
"You can either let it
destroy you, or you"
"or you can put it to work."
"You know, you can use that anger"
"to break free."
And so I did.
How?
You know, the world expected me
to be a failure, so
so
so I just said, "Fuck you."
I did my A-levels out of spite.
I went to university just
just to prove all of them wrong.
So your whole life's
just a giant "fuck you"?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
I was a runner.
I delivered coke.
To rich people.
Sir. Something's changed.
PHONE BUZZES
Hi, Aisling here. Send me a text,
for God's sake.
- Thanks.
- I can't be bothered listening
What?
It's Aisling. She's
She's not answering.
Maybe she's worried you're
going to sing her a song.
Mate. She's fine.
ALARM PIPS
Oh What are you doing here?
I'm not here as a police officer.
I'm just here as me.
Is that the, um? Are those the?
I don't know why I kept them.
He was holding them when he
We both were.
- I think you need to leave.
- No.
No.
I want to know.
He wanted me to tell you he loved you
and
you should know
he was at peace when he died.
I'm glad there was
someone there with him.
And I'm glad it was you.
Thank you.
- Why did you come here?
- John.
No.
Tell me.
Partly for you.
Partly for me.
I should go.
I'll show you out.
Thank you.
Stop.
It doesn't really help us.
It's just a list of pricks.
Bit weird, wasn't she?
Who?
Fancy Knickers. In that club.
RADIO CHIRPS
7-4 from Uniform.
Welfare check on a Brendan Higgins.
Sister says he's threatened suicide.
5 Belvedere Gardens.
Uniform from 7-2. Responding.
Brendan Higgins.
Big Brendan. Mental health case.
Likes a scrap.
Put your helmet on, mate.
What?
So the night that Sandy died,
that's what you were doing?
Delivering to order?
Same as we did every night.
She needs a solicitor.
Marian, it
Can you tell me,
on that night that he died,
why did he go down there, to the mill?
They told him to.
Who told him to?
The Ginleys.
Fuck.
What can you tell me about the Ginleys?
They run the place.
Like, you know
..everything.
And who was taking you away
from the home last night?
Lindsay?
Fogerty.
Bloody hell.
Where was he taking you?
He said we were going back to Dublin.
Back? Had he brought you there before?
Why?
To go to parties.
With men.
What men?
Men from here.
They bring them down there.
And they bring us, too.
They brought me to the parties.
Gemma? I need some time with the boss.
We've had a breakthrough.
OK, cheers.
Hello?
Police. Open up!
DOOR HANDLE RATTLES
All right. Smashy-smashy, breaky-breaky?
I think it's called an
Article 19 forced entry, but
Aye, right. One of those.
Brendan, if you don't open up,
we're going to have to force entry.
- All right?
- Yeah.
Hello? Hello?
Brendan? Hello?
Brendan?
FLIES BUZZ
Bollocks.
SNEEZES
Oh! Fuck me!
Jesus, Brendan!
All right, lads?
How'd you get in?
Aye. Don't worry about it.
I break stuff all the time.
Who called yous?
Your sister.
Bitch!
She's just worried about you, mate.
She just wanted to make sure you're OK.
Aye. Right.
Sorry, guys. I just
FLIES BUZZ
These phones are a curse.
Hi, Aisling here.
Send me a text, for God's sake.
I can't be bothered
listening to voice messages.
BEEP
Did you ever get
that mental health appointment?
Turned it down.
You turned it down?
Why?
Cos there's no point.
Ah, Brendan. You need to see someone.
Everybody's always telling me
I'm not right in the head!
I'm fine, OK? I'm fucking fine!
All right. All right.
All right. Take it easy, mate.
You're all right. Just, er
give us a second, yeah?
Tell Barney we need an emergency nurse.
Tell him it's Article 2.
Article 2?
Yeah. Seriously.
Right, I have an idea.
What are you doing?
No, Brendan.
What are we doing?
FLIES BUZZ
Well done.
What now?
Er, we're going to do it officially.
Do a witness interview.
So it has to be you.
- What?
- Well, she trusts you.
We need you on this full time.
No, I don't
No, I don't think I can.
Well, nobody else can do it.
I'll have a word with upstairs.
Well done.
I'm sorry.
Where am I going?
Somewhere safe.
I'm just going to
Why didn't you tell me before?
I've never told anyone.
His name was George.
What?
At one of the parties, we
He
You can do this tomorrow if it's easier?
He wanted me to say his name.
I was drunk, but
I remembered it.
I googled him.
He's this rich accountant guy.
The night Sandy was killed, I saw him.
Where?
In the street.
I delivered him coke.
He didn't even recognise me.
Maybe he didn't do anything wrong.
What?
I mean
..I'm 17. I was there
I was drunk, too. And maybe
No.
No, no, no.
Look, when you were there
if you'd have told them
you wanted to leave,
if you'd have told them
you didn't want to do it
what would have happened?
They would have hurt me.
Yeah.
So don't you ever, ever, ever think
that any of this is your fault.
OK?
Lawrence, can we get her to the funeral?
Get her there? Yes.
Protect her there after a death threat?
Different story.
We'd need at least three TSGs,
maybe a couple of CPU.
- We don't have it.
- Christ.
What are we going to say to her?
Who are you calling?
My spiritual adviser.
LINE RINGS
Why are you doing this?
I don't like mess.
Seriously?
Yous have nothing better to do?
No, mate. We don't.
DOOR BUZZER
- Who's that?
- It's a mental health nurse.
- What the fuck?!
- Brendan
I told you I don't want
to talk to anybody!
Listen to me, Brendan. You need this.
You stitched me up, you bastard!
You need this, Brendan!
I don't fucking need anything
You need help, Brendan!
Here's the thing, Brendan.
You're not seeing straight.
Other people can see where you're at.
Us two. Your sister.
She's just trying to help.
She doesn't want you to hurt yourself.
Neither do we.
Look, sometimes in life
we can't see ourselves. You know?
Yeah? We've got the blinkers on
and all we can see is that
wee bit of road in front of us.
We can't see the whole picture.
And sometimes, we just need to
get out of our own heads, mate,
and listen. You know?
Just fucking listen.
Now, if you let us answer that door,
this could be the start
of something for you, mate.
Just the first step
on a long road, maybe.
But at least it's a step. You know?
DOOR BUZZER
Good man, Brendan.
Good man.
So, you can't stop me from going?
I can't stop you, no.
OK.
Fine, then.
But I will say this.
If the threat is real, and if you go,
you won't just be endangering yourself,
it'll be everyone else there.
Why did you escalate that
to an Article 2?
Do you ever just have a bad feeling?
PHONE RINGS
Tommy.
Since when?
You've tried both phones?
Meet me at your apartment.
Yeah. Now.
Uniform from 3-2, put 7-2 on enquiries.
RADIO: 7-2 from Uniform.
That's you on enquiries.
What's going on?
I have a bad feeling.
I feel like I'm dogging.
I'm game if you're game, big lad.
So, why did you want to see me?
Do what I asked you to do.
It's a big ask.
I'm going to need something
in return. Something concrete.
You make a difference for me, and
I'll make a difference for you.
Keep your phone on you.
It's surgically attached.
Right.
Well
y'know, unless you want to
get down to it?
See you later.
Doors opening.
- Skipper.
- Tommy.
Aisling?
Aisling?
Shit.
What now?
Uniform from 3-2, we have
a potential misper here.
DOOR OPENS
Is everything all right?
Where were you?
Uniform, cancel last.
Just out.
Without your phones?
I'll, er
I'll see you back at the station, yeah?
- Aisling.
- See you.
Skipper.
Can you wait in the hall for a second?
- Why?
- Just can you, please?
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Where were you?
I went to give the rosary beads
back to his parents.
You
You went to Carrick View?
I had to.
So you went in there by yourself,
in your own fucking car, Aisling?!
Tommy
listen, I feel better.
Like, a lot better.
He also gave me something.
Four names.
Intelligence.
I don't know who they are
or why he gave it to me,
but it's important, Tommy, I know it is.
He didn't say anything.
He just gave it to me, and
told me to leave. But
we should send it up the line, right?!
We can't tell anybody
how I got it. So
how do we do that?
I can't believe you did this.
I needed to do it!
You can't see yourself.
What?
Everybody else can see it,
but you can't.
I'm so sorry, Aisling.
What? See what?
- Tommy, see what?!
- Skipper!
Tommy, what are you doing?
Tommy, no, don't do this, please.
Tommy, no.
That's a list of four names.
Possibly dissidents.
Maybe the people who are after us.
Where did you get this?
Aisling went back to the house
where we delivered the death notice.
In Carrick View.
Sarge, she went to see John O'Boyle.
She went on her own. In her own car.
With no cover.
Aisling, I need you to come in.
Constable Byrne, that's an order.
Aisling
Aisling, your behaviour is dangerous.
There's somewhere you can go.
It's residential.
They have a place today.
I can't force you.
It has to be your decision.
But at this point, I believe it's the
only way for you to keep your job.
Is that a yes?
OK.
OK, we'll take you home. Pack a bag.
You can go tonight.
Aisling.
You will get through this.
You think it's good intel?
Considering where
it's come from, yeah. I do.
Aisling. No!
Don't say a word.
I was going to be OK.
No, you weren't, Aisling!
I couldn't let it go on.
I love you, Aisling.
I don't want to lose you!
Well, guess what, Tommy?
You just have.
I was chatting to your priest
on the phone there.
Bit unusual, isn't he?
You think I'm a bit unusual.
What were yous chatting about?
This and that.
You see, if he asks
if you're religious
don't say you're spiritual.
He fucking hates that.
I'll bear that in mind.
Listen, I've got a plan B.
All right, mate?
Oh, er how did it go today?
Yeah, it went well.
But I think she's going to need
some support after all that.
OK, I'll get on to Marian and see
what we can get set up for her.
Not for Lindsay.
For Grace.
For Grace?
So you said it in an interview suite
and you didn't tell me?
Well, I've never told anyone.
We've been together for nearly a year.
I just don't get it. I mean
how could you not?
Because I thought you'd label me.
What?
I thought that you would
form an opinion of me.
What do you mean?
Stevie, every time you've ever
talked about kids in care,
it's just to say that they're a fuck-up.
So I thought that if I told you,
then it would become a thing.
A thing. A thing.
Well, you've lied to me.
About everything, actually!
No, I haven't lied!
You said your mum and dad were dead.
Yeah, that's because they are.
- You know what I mean, Grace.
- No, I don't know what
You don't understand.
Well, I don't understand this,
maybe because you never
talk about it with me!
Because I've never
talked about it with anyone.
I've always done everything
by myself, because
And I've never felt close enough
What, we weren't close enough?
Listen to what you're saying, Grace.
- We weren't close enough?!
- I wasn't ready!
Well, you said it in an interview suite.
Yeah. I said it because
that kid needed to hear it!
And I didn't?
What else was bullshit?
What? Everything else you told me.
Meeting Cal's dad at college
and him moving back to England.
He's not living down the road, is he?
No! Jesus. Stevie
Grace, don't make me out like
I'm the one in the wrong here.
Oh, no, no, because that would
be impossible, wouldn't it?
I mean you could never be in the wrong.
- For fuck's sake.
- I didn't tell you because
you would label me,
which is what you are doing now.
How am I labelling you?!
How am I labelling you?!
"This woman with
this dark past, you know,
"she's obviously a liar,
she's a fuck-up."
I mean, you're you're looking at me
like you don't even know me.
Well, maybe I don't know you!
Maybe I never really have!
I knew this would happen.
- What would happen?
- This would happen.
That I would
tell you, or you would find out and
that would be it.
What would be it, Grace?
There's a reason why I've
always been on my own, Stevie.
Why it's always been
just me and Cal and
that's because no-one
will ever really understand.
Not really, not
And I just
I just thought that you
Well, I hoped that
it would be OK.
But it's not OK, is it?
Oh, f
DOOR SLAMS
You need to tell me
where you got these names.
I can't.
Doesn't work like that, Helen.
This time it does.
Take it or leave it, Colly.
I already have.
These are the men from that list.
They're part of a bigger dissident
group coming out of Derry.
Expelled two years ago for drug dealing.
Moved to Donegal.
Our contacts in the Garda confirmed
that they're currently off-grid
and have been for two weeks.
So this is them.
But what does it tell you?
That it's not political.
- It's not?
- No. They're guns for hire.
They're working for somebody else.
The Ginleys?
Yeah.
I think you need to see
the bigger picture.
Do you remember that,
a couple of years ago?
All that cocaine washed up
on the shore of Donegal,
and every kid in Ireland came up to
try and get their hands on it?
It's like that old black-and-white film,
whatcha call it, um Whisky Galore!
Except it was coke.
They're using the north
as a transit zone,
to shift cocaine
from South America up and into GB.
You see, the west coast of Ireland
is completely unprotected.
They drop the gear off the side
of the cargo ships
with location beacons,
fishing boats come out,
pick 'em up, take 'em back to shore.
It's here
..but it's not exactly
where they want it to be.
Has to get across the Irish Sea.
Yeah. Geographically,
it makes sense, you know -
short hop from here to Scotland.
But you've never caught them moving it?
No.
They're always one step ahead.
What about the app?
Any progress?
We're still trying to find an
open phone with access to it.
There's a bail hearing coming up soon.
We've decided to withdraw
police objection.
Who is it?
No.
Mo McIntyre? No way!
He's on remand for Gerry's murder.
We have to.
Why?!
Colly, what the fuck are you doing here?
My job.
And now it's your job, too.
You OK, mate?
You ready?
Come on.
Thanks for this.
You're all very welcome here today
for this requiem Mass of Bridie Conlon.
But I'd like to extend
a very special welcome
for those who are
not able to attend in person,
and who are watching this Mass online.
In particular
to Bridie's daughter, Annie.
Please be seated.
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