Acceptable Risk (2017) s01e02 Episode Script
Episode 2
1 Sarah Manning? Detective Emer Byrne.
I'm so, so sorry to have to tell you that your husband was found dead today in Montreal.
She told you that he was here for a medical conference, but his body was found in the red-light district.
Or did whoever kill him want to muddy the waters by dumping him there? Three years ago, her first husband died.
Now this.
The guards have been asking about Ciaran's death.
I think maybe they're wondering if there was a connection.
NUALA: There was somebody looking for something under Lee's car.
I disturbed him.
He ran away.
MacNALLY: It's a very sophisticated bit of gear.
Real-time GPS, active monitoring system.
BYRNE: I know him.
Cormac Walsh.
One of the traffic-control cameras picks Walsh up here.
He's meeting a female, 5'7".
Watch where I pick that vehicle up again.
The embassy of the United States of America.
Stop the car! Barry? [ Gasps .]
[ Indistinct talking on radio, siren chirping .]
Excuse me.
There's a Detective Emer Byrne.
Can you get in touch with her? I need to see her straightaway.
MAN: Yes, ma'am.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
[ Indistinct talking on radio .]
He gave chase as the SUV drove away then collapsed? Yeah.
And the driver didn't bother to check on him? She wanted to get away as fast as she could.
She? It was a woman at the wheel.
I'm sure of it.
I wouldn't be able to identify her.
She was driving away, and I was concerned with him.
He said you asked him about Ciaran's death.
I asked him about it, yeah.
He was working at the firm when Ciaran died.
Maybe he knew something we need to know.
I can't be opening a new inquiry into this until I have something to go on.
I was hoping Mr.
Lehane would have it.
Did you know him well? I know he's good at what he does.
Tough.
Smart.
Bull at a gate.
He'll keep working away until he gets the answers, one way or another.
[ Monitor beeping, respirator hissing .]
Oh.
The kids.
Do you think there's a connection? Lee's death is a murder inquiry, but there's no proof that Ciaran's was anything but an accident.
And if you prove that it wasn't? There's something very, very wrong inside that firm.
Do you have any idea what it could be? Me? You worked there.
Years ago.
You were legal affairs.
A lot of things would've crossed your desk -- things that you couldn't talk about 'cause you were an officer of the company.
If I knew something, would I cover it up when it got my two men killed? [ Footsteps approaching .]
The same piece of kit that was on your husband's car at the airport was on your car too, Mrs.
Manning.
High-end, well concealed, serial numbers removed so we can't trace it back.
Whoever it was was keeping an eye on your comings and goings, too.
[ Siren chirps .]
We might have to knock a few holes in the walls tomorrow when we do the search of the house.
I'll tell them to leave as little mess as possible, but half the fun of this job is ripping other people's places to pieces.
Go ahead.
Tear it apart.
Maybe I'm hiding something.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
Somebody got hit by a car in the street.
They're in the hospital.
That's what all the fuss was about out there.
Will you be able to get back to sleep? I'll stay here.
I miss Daddy.
He wasn't my daddy.
He loved you, Eamonn.
You know that.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
Police in Canada have launched a murder inquiry into the death in Montreal of a senior executive of a pharmaceutical company, Gumbiner-Fisher.
The victim has been named as Lee Manning, an American citizen living and working in Ireland.
[ Dog barking .]
[ Music continues .]
What the story with that thing in Montreal? What happened in Montreal? You really want to ask me that now? Do I come here to talk about work, Maurice? Wasn't there some kind of news you were supposed to be breaking to your wife? [ Grunts .]
I've put a lot of chips on the table to help your firm out with that new plant.
Item one of the news is one of your salesmen getting -- getting himself killed.
Those are the wrong kind of headlines.
I can see why your boss is so worried.
Lee Manning was vice president of international sales and marketing, not a salesman.
He was vice president to getting his head blown off, according to the news.
You're human resources.
You'd have had to handle the paperwork.
There is no paperwork.
There's no records of how he was hired, who hired him, where he went to work before he came to us.
What little there was led me back to Zurich.
There's no files there either.
He was hired on a private contract, and the details are sealed.
Somebody's gone to a lot of trouble to wipe him out of this firm's system and to make sure it stays that way.
I'm as much in the dark as you are.
I want to be happy.
Are you happy? You're not just telling me what I want to hear again? Would I do that? It's your stock in trade.
How else do you get the votes? [ Chuckles .]
[ Birds chirping .]
[ Indistinct conversations .]
[ Door opens, closes .]
Redecorating? SARAH: I'm not in bits, Nuala.
At some point, I will be, but right now I'm holding it together.
She had to ask those questions.
You have to watch everything you say to them.
I have had more dealings with the guards than you.
How did that work out? I'm sorry.
I asked for it.
You never really liked Lee, did you? Let's say I was never quite sure of him.
Then again, I was married to a con man myself.
Lee -- Lee wasn't a con man.
The gun.
The lies he told you.
He -- He didn't tell me lies.
He -- Not point blank.
He just went 'round the questions when he was asked.
That's how Patrick operated, and I kept looking away, choosing not to see what was adding up.
But he never put my life in danger the way Lee has put yours and mine and your kids.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
The house is clean, but I'll swing 'round and do a sweep on your car from time to time just to keep your mind at rest.
As far as the gun is concerned, we didn't find any evidence.
But it's a big house.
He could have hidden it anywhere.
DUQUESNE: Detective Beck, why is the German Federal Intelligence agency interested in the death of a pharmaceutical executive? His appointment in Montreal was with the minister of health of one of our state governments.
And this man has responsibility for the budget of several tens of millions of euros.
We've been concerned for some time that his financial affairs could open him to blackmail.
If Mr.
Manning's death is in any way connected with these affairs If his job title concealed another reason for being in Montreal -- one that required him to carry a gun -- and a gun modified to military specifications for use in close combat situations.
Seems to have been worth the risk to him to bring it into Canada even though he has no criminal record in the United States or elsewhere.
Are the Americans investigating? They have no jurisdiction here.
This is a Canadian matter.
I have spoken with the police in Dublin.
Mr.
Manning was not known to them either.
Another thing of interest is that we have surveillance footage from the hotel lobby which shows him carrying an envelope as he left with the man he thought was the security guard.
BECK: And now it's missing.
DUQUESNE: Indeed.
A dead American working out of Ireland for a Swiss company whose death in Canada excites the interest of the German security services.
Quite a headache.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
I have spoken to our people in North America.
They will handle the formal identification to spare you any further distress.
You have too much to cope with as it is.
That goes without saying how much I personally feel the loss you have suffered.
Thank you.
I thought I saw him just now.
"There's Lee," I thought.
"He's heard I'm here.
He's coming to say hello.
" Instead, Ican't get my head around finding out that I have no idea who he was.
I didn't know anything about him -- anything at all.
I do not understand.
Nor do I.
But if I don't know who he was, how do I know who I am anymore? Does that make sense? He carried a gun.
A gun.
W-Why would he do that? It was not in connection with his duties for us.
I would hope, with all respect, that you could throw some light on that.
Me? -You were unaware he had one? -Y-- Of course I was.
You had no knowledge of why he might carry one? No.
It's a serious matter to this company.
I have to find out why he armed himself.
What does it say about our security practices? Also, I'm afraid, what does it say about your husband's state of mind, the serious personal issues he must have had that we didn't know of? We were happy.
He was happy.
You wish to believe that, of course, but you do not know who he was.
Your own words.
You do not know what kind of secret life he had, what else he was involved in that he kept from you.
He didn't keep -- Okay, I didn't know about the gun.
But the personal things, what we felt for each other -- All I know is the facts in front of me.
In the meantime, my concern is to do what I can to help you and your children get through this.
[ Dial tone, beep .]
Please tell Ms.
Kilbride and Mr.
O'Sullivan we will be there shortly.
WOMAN: Yes, Dr.
Hoffman.
I have no idea who the real Lee Manning was.
You say you have none either.
But, uh, I have to be aware that your relationship with him was personal and mine professional.
You think I know something I'm not telling? Isn't that what the police think? Isn't that why our head of security came to your house? [ Mid-tempo music plays .]
[ Grunts .]
Walsh! [ Grunts .]
Cormac Walsh! Stop! All right.
All right.
All right.
I'm clean.
Are you carrying anything else? No.
Show me.
[ Breathing heavily .]
I heard you moved on from bag snatching to bigger and better crimes, Mr.
Walsh.
Hadn't realized you'd come so far.
Thinking of going into the diplomatic service now? The what? You have some very interesting friends, one of them in the U.
S.
embassy out at Ballsbridge there.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
You have me at a loss.
You went to see her right after you were found trying to remove the bug from the car in the airport.
Why is she in Dublin? What else has she used you for that she doesn't want to get her fingerprints on? Have you had a bang on the head? Is that why you're seeing stars and stripes? Another time, yeah? I can place you at the airport.
-It's enough to hold you on.
-It's pretty thin.
I know, but it'll do.
Come on.
[ Indistinct conversations .]
-I'm so sorry, Sarah.
-Yeah.
Thank you.
We can't bring your husband back, but we can try to make things financially comfortable for you.
I don't need charity.
DR.
HOFFMAN: We have, uh, put together a package which will maintain a standard of living reflecting your husband's dedication to this company.
I'm thinking of the years ahead, not just tomorrow.
I'll leave you in good hands.
Take care, Sarah.
[ Door closes .]
AIDAN: I was instructed to make the package as generous as possible, Sarah.
I think you'll be satisfied with it.
If you want to take the papers away and find somebody in trusts and estates to advise you I'm sure you did a great job, Aidan.
I trained you, after all.
SARAH: Confidentiality clause.
What's all this new stuff in it? Everyone leaving the company is required to sign one -- to protect our intellectual and commercial property.
I haven't worked here for years.
You'll be a beneficiary of the corporation.
You helped draft the language yourself when you were here.
Look, this is difficult, I know -- for me as well as you.
But through your husband, you may have come into possession of information about what we're working on -- what new drugs are in the pipeline, what our research and investment strategy is.
I never asked him about his work, and he never told me.
Is there a problem? It's just standard legal boilerplate.
No, not quite.
There's -- There's some new language in here.
I wouldn't have the right to disclose what Lehane said to me last night or -- or what we talked about just now.
It could be read as saying I can't even ask what happened in Montreal.
That is not the intention.
-It's the way it could be used.
-Not by anyone in this office.
By somebody else in the company with a different agenda? I don't think anybody has an agenda here.
Words mean something.
It's a complete package.
Our best offer.
My instructions are that it's all or nothing.
Take it or leave it.
You mean take it and leave it, Aidan.
Take the money and leave the questions alone.
Okay.
I need to talk to Sarah alone.
We need your signature as soon as possible.
Let me know when you're ready to sign.
[ Door opens .]
[ Indistinct conversations, telephone ringing .]
You can go.
The footage doesn't actually show you removing it.
It's your lucky day.
I said it was thin.
Ah, I kept you out of the rain for an hour or so.
Watch yourself out there.
Don't get out of your depth.
More risk of that for you than there is for me.
Believe me.
You have no idea the size of this thing or the forces you're messing with.
Is that right? Hasta la vista.
Unless I see you first.
Do you even know what "hasta la vista" means? [ Mid-tempo music plays .]
CORMAC: She just pulled me in to jerk my chain.
They don't have anything, but we have to meet now.
I have to get out of Dublin fast.
-You got that, amigo? -[ Horn blares .]
You're my ticket out -- or you're gonna be back home on the range before you know it.
[ Cellphone beeps, clicks .]
SARAH: I understand you have to cover yourselves, and I don't want to be unreasonable.
But when your own head of security comes to my house last night and wants to know if Lee's death is somehow connected to Ciaran's If -- If he tells me the guards are beginning to think that, what am I supposed to do? Sit on my hands? Just let it go? Or try to find the answers? Like the answer to why the man I lived with had a gun hidden in the house somewhere -- my house, his house, our house, the -- the kids'.
I don't believe that Lee went to that place in Montreal to buy a girl.
I don't believe that our marriage was all a joke.
I don't believe somebody killed Ciaran.
I want to believe he fell into the canal like any old drunk because even that's better than the idea of somebody pushing him in.
I have to keep asking the questions.
I can't sign anything that stops me from doing that.
And trust me -- take my word as a lawyer -- That's what that document is intended to do, whether they admit it or not.
The gun changes everything.
Everything.
You're bleeding lucky I don't talk to the guard.
-What did she want from you? -What do I want from you? That's the thing we have to focus on, pal.
And you might want to do it with a sense of urgency 'cause she knows it was you I met after the ructions in the airport car park, yeah? Figured out you work for the stars and stripes out of the embassy here.
Let's hear it.
There's a couple of people I need to get away from in Dublin.
Far away.
Permanent.
Thought you had a nice little business going here.
I have a bullet waiting on me.
That's what I have.
I'm an old man already.
I want a green card.
Permanent.
Legal.
Aboveboard.
The real deal, Mr.
McCoy.
There are lotteries for green cards.
I've used up all my luck, and I'm not getting back in the queue at my age, thanks.
I have two bad knees.
I owe money everywhere.
My kids hate me.
My girlfriend just left me, taking the telly with her, and this guard's gonna keep coming at me and coming at me and coming at me.
I'm still not out of the woods over the other thing I helped you with.
That was the Drug Enforcement Agency.
-Not my department.
-You're not listening.
That's very disappointing.
This guard's gonna keep me in her sights.
I know her.
Once she gets her teeth into you, she never lets go.
She'll be back.
That's not gonna be healthy for me.
Someone's gonna take notice and decide to do something about it, and bang.
She knows my name.
She wants your name.
A green card and a grubstake is my price for keeping it from her.
It was his car, wasn't it? The fella who got killed in Canada.
It says he flew out from Dublin Airport that morning.
That's why you needed me to get rid of the evidence pronto.
Smile for the birdie.
[ Shutter clicks .]
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
[ Bells chime .]
[ Monitor beeping, respirator hissing .]
If there is anything you need, Mrs.
Lehane -- anything at all -- call me directly.
And be sure to let me know the moment he comes around.
The Gumbiner-Fischer family takes care of its own.
Thank you.
WOMAN ON P.
A.
: Dr.
Phelan to pediatrics.
Dr.
Phelan to pediatrics.
Excuse me.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
[ Birds chirping .]
[ Music continues .]
[ Cellphone ringing .]
-SARAH: Sarah Manning.
-Hi.
Donna Welty here from the Canadian consulate again, Mrs.
Manning.
I hate to push at a time like this, but we really need to talk about those arrangements for the deceased.
Yes.
Of course.
Has anyone been arrested yet? Do you have any idea who did this? Well, the consulate is not a law enforcement agency, I'm afraid.
Is there a connection with the work he did? Was it a private matter? Whatever I can do for you through consular channels, -I will.
-I'm not asking just for me.
I'm asking for the sake of my children.
They're in shock now, but when they ask me what happened, I want to be able to answer.
I'll do what I can.
That's all I'm asking for -- to know everything's being done that can be done and for somebody I can trust to tell me the truth, whatever it is.
[ Cellphone beeps .]
She wants answers.
DUQUESNE: So do I.
I'm fighting a very bad case of jet lag because I'm hoping that she will lead me to them.
I want answers.
We both do.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
If Lehane doesn't make it, your office Christmas party is going to be a darn sight smaller this year.
I might have to be thinking about taking out life insurance just to be around you.
Can't you take it seriously for one moment, please? I am.
Believe me.
Your firm is one of Ireland's biggest companies.
If Barry Lehane was on the track of something that connected Lee with another death, they'd want him silenced too.
That's crazy, I know.
But right now he's in intensive care.
A heart attack.
As far as we know right now.
Now you are looping the loop.
What if Lee Manning had something on someone at the firm, someone who had a hand in Sarah's first husband's death? That he knew it was murder and what he knew scared him enough to carry a gun? Scared him so much, in fact, that he didn't even feel safe flying 3,000 miles away, where they still got him? Just who in the firm would have the reach to pull that off? [ Down-tempo music plays .]
Well, the file he was carrying.
It's important to know whether he died before he could deliver it.
If so, it's vital to know where it is now, whose hands it's in.
MAN: We sympathize with the loss of your employee, Dr.
Hoffman, but what our clients do with the intelligence we supply them is none of our concern.
Once the file was handed over to your representative in Montreal, our connection came to an end.
That file contains information of great value, detailed, hard-to-find information that this company paid a lot of money for you to locate.
There are those who would like to know exactly what you had to do to obtain it, what laws you may have broken.
-Is that a threat? -A statement of fact.
I suggest it's in your interest and that of your firm that you obtain the answers I'm seeking.
And if I tell you to go screw yourself? Then I would remind you that you are a part of a multimillion-dollar corporation, but I work for a multibillion-dollar one.
If that file isn't found, we're both -- in your words -- screwed.
[ Cellphone beeps .]
[ Children shouting, laughing .]
Why not get away for a few days? I'll come with you, help with the kids.
We can all just clear our heads.
Hide, you mean? Lee was killed in Canada.
Where would we be safe here? Anyway, I have a funeral to arrange.
What do I say? That I'm burying somebody but I can't really tell you anything about him? Who he really was, where he was from, what he did to get himself killed.
So just leave the headstone blank.
Would save you a few bob at the stonemason's.
[ Snorts .]
Ah, there's a bright side to everything.
The answers are in that firm somewhere.
I helped build a wall around it.
It was my job.
Now I have to find a way around it or under it or through it.
And with Lehane in hospital, I have no idea where to start.
The last people I can ask are the -- the ones who know -- Gumbiner-Fischer's merry men and women.
All those people in their nice offices on the riverside, who only get to keep that view once they don't rock the boat.
Who maybe really, truly believe that what's good for the firm is good for them, so it must be good for me, too.
Didn't you use to think like that? I'm on the other side now.
If I have to fight them, I will.
You were always the one with the common sense.
I was the tearaway.
Now you're going to war with a company worth billions, thousands of people working for them, on a hunch, an idea that Lehane planted in your head.
What if you heard him wrong? What if you're jumping to conclusions? Ciaran died, my car was bugged, Lee's car was bugged, somebody searched my house, Barry Lehane is in hospital, and, um Oh, yeah -- My husband was killed.
Those are facts, Nuala.
Facts.
Mum.
There's nothing to worry about, Rose.
Go on.
It's grand.
You want to see some kind of shape to this because then there would be some meaning.
What if there isn't any? I've lost my marbles.
I would go to war alongside you if that is what you want, but please at least go into this with your eyes open.
I should move on? I did that when Ciaran died.
I moved on at the speed of light, and I won't do it again.
I just won't.
It's a fine speech, Sarah, one my brilliant, overachieving sister, the corporate lawyer, might make.
Come back down to the real world.
You are a mother, too.
I'm scared for myself.
I am even more scared for you and those two.
Maybe you should listen to your screw-up of a sister for once and be a bit more scared on their behalf.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
BYRNE: Are you better now? Yeah.
It was a fall.
I slipped on a mat.
I heard it was a stroke.
Doctors.
If 33 years in the Gardaà couldn't finish me off, nothing will.
I'll live forever.
So, what do you make of her -- the widow? [ Sighs .]
We could talk about something else if you like.
No.
It keeps me going, being in touch.
I like to think I can still be of some use to you young whippersnappers.
I'm hardly that anymore.
[ Laughs .]
So, is she on the level, or is she in on whatever her husband was up to that meant he had to carry a gun? No.
She seemed genuinely shocked when I told her.
Just as she looked knocked off her heels when I broke the news he was dead.
That doesn't mean anything.
You know that.
She was a lawyer? Yeah.
She ran the firm's legal side.
A highflier.
So she'd know where the bodies are buried.
She might even have buried a few herself.
I'm trying not to go there.
Hm.
Because she's got two kids and a nice house in the Wicklow hills? And because she made all the right noises when you told her her old man wasn't coming back.
She's got a bit of education and a lot to lose, and maybe you want to believe her.
See, you're thinking of her as a woman -- a woman you had to be the first to break the bad news to.
But you didn't do that as a woman.
You did it as a guard.
That's how you have to keep on thinking about her.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
[ Siren wailing .]
DEIRDRE: There are no files on Sarah's first husband, like there are no files on her second.
Nothing on paper.
Nothing on computer.
Payroll records, annual accounts, evaluations -- all gone.
Somebody's gone to a lot of trouble to wipe him out of this firm's history.
Was it any part of your professional responsibility to go looking? Well, if something's been swept under the carpet -- You let it stay there.
Unless you're told differently.
If there's a cover-up and we're being used to make it stick -- I do my job.
Do yours.
That's how the world keeps going around.
Mm.
Look.
All that I owed to Sarah Manning was to persuade her to take the deal.
Wouldn't you take it -- for the sake of your kids? If you had any.
What about truth? What about justice? This is legal.
Justice and truth are down the corridor somewhere maybe.
Look.
I like this desk.
I like this office.
I like making a left instead of a right when I get onto a plane.
I thought you would've got used to that kind of life as well.
I don't know if there's anything here, but even if I did, it's not my affair, and it isn't yours.
-I'll decide that.
-Will you? And damage the firm? Drag me down with you? I'm just asking you to open your eyes.
Well, I-I can't help.
Barry Lehane will know what to do with this.
I'll take it to him.
Some people can't be bought for an office and expense account.
How's the boyfriend? Maurice O'Hanlon.
That's -- That's his name.
He's on his way to becoming party leader, isn't he? Unless his private life blows him up.
That'll be a tough one to break to the wife.
And the kids.
And the media.
Jesus.
It's in hand.
Let's be very clear, you and I.
Sarah Manning might have sat here once, but I run legal now.
You run human resources.
We both have to do what's best for the company, not for her.
That's what we signed up for.
I think it would be in yours and O'Hanlon's best interest not to give her inside help.
[ Door closes .]
Of course I remember you, Sarah.
You worked there, too.
We met a few times.
And you've had some troubles yourself, I know.
Worse than this, even.
Terrible thing.
Are you coping? Just.
You? All those years he spent in the guards, the undercover stuff he couldn't tell me about.
When he joined that firm, I breathed a sigh of relief.
And now this.
And right outside your house.
The guards told me some of it.
We were talking.
My car alarm went off.
He jumped up, flew out the door.
He was He was trying to protect me.
Instinct, I suppose.
Duty.
He's very big on that.
I guess that he was there to tell you how sorry he was about your husband's death.
There was something else on his mind, too.
Did he seem worried about anything at the firm in the last few weeks or days? It's a big job.
He's always worried about something.
He tries not to bring it here.
I'mtrying to find answers.
And I'm not sure the people who should be helping me are doing that.
He was trying to help.
He was on my side.
I can't help you, Sarah.
If I could, I would -- like he would.
But I've told you the truth.
[ Telephone ringing .]
I've got to get back to the hospital.
I'll see you out in a moment.
Excuse me.
[ Telephone rings, beeps .]
Hi.
Yes.
Hello.
Yes, he's fine.
Well, no.
He's -- He's being looked after.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
How dare you! I'm I'm sorry.
What gives you the right to do that when my husband is lying in his hospital bed? Mine's in the morgue and he's never coming home, and the answers are in that firm somewhere.
I told you I can't help you.
And if Barry can, well, you'd better pray just as hard as me that he's gonna pull through this so he can tell you himself.
Now, you'd better leave.
And if you want to speak to him -- when you can speak to him -- you know where to find him.
Now get out! And shame on you! DUQUESNE: Her husband's murder was a contract killing.
As I told Ms.
Beck, it is no accident that I was handed this case.
I started my career in Griffintown, near the Port of Montreal.
The Irish-Canadian gangs ran it.
They were dangerous people with a long criminal tradition.
They kill for hire.
They're good at it.
One of your more successful exports.
These are the names of Irish crime families who have connections in both Montreal and Dublin.
It is a long list, and everyone on it is dangerous.
If someone wanted Lee Manning professionally killed, any one of them could have arranged it.
I need you to help me find out who it was.
[ Keys jingling, vehicles passing .]
Keep your trap shut.
Open the door.
-You.
-I said get in.
[ Alarm beeping .]
Don't press the panic button, okay? [ Beeping stops .]
-Get in.
-What do you want? Just a bit of business.
That's all.
Now get in.
My husband's due home from work any minute.
[ Chuckles .]
You live alone.
Yeah.
Well, my boyfriend's due to pick me up.
Stop lying to me, Nuala.
It's not polite.
It's not taking me seriously.
Business.
That's what I'm here.
[ Door closes .]
A commercial proposition.
First item on the agenda is I need you to call your sister.
Tell her to get herself around here, tout suite.
[ Note plays .]
Don't tell her I'll be waiting for her.
We'll keep that as a little surprise.
Give me the phone.
I'll dial.
That's how we're gonna do this, okay? [ Breathing heavily .]
[ Cellphone ringing .]
Lee Manning worked for the CIA? BECK: At one time.
Several years ago, he was accredited to the U.
S.
mission in Bonn.
It's not quite clear what he was doing there, although around then there were a number of disappearances in the special rendition program.
Terror suspects kidnapped on the streets, secretly imprisoned.
He was running an operation for the CIA here in Dublin? I think that is unlikely, or the Americans would be all over this.
You have met his wife.
How much does she know? On the face of it, nothing at all.
Perhaps she may have known without admitting to herself that she knew.
That is possible, yes? Till that is clear, one way or the other she must be a person of interest, too.
Do you trust her? I honestly don't know.
If she's not involved, then she's got two nightmares to deal with -- what happened in Montreal and what happened here.
Her first husband drowned here.
Worked for the same firm.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
Hey.
Move.
I said move! Do what he says, Sarah.
I don't think he's here to hurt us.
Who are you? The airport car park.
SARAH: Why are you here? I was just telling Nuala what a nice place she's got here.
What do you do, Nuala? Some of this, bit of that.
[ Exhales deeply .]
Must be a bit of money in it.
Up and down.
As the trampoline salesman said when he was asked how's business.
That's a good one, yeah? Do you want a drink? If this is a social event.
Get away from that.
You have a nice place too, Sarah.
I've been inside it.
Had a look around.
A few months back, then again the other day.
Good taste.
You can't buy it, can you? What were you looking for? A package, I was told.
An envelope.
Something to do with your husband.
I'd know when I found a hidey-hole.
The company didn't allow my husband to bring anything home from work, so you wouldn't have found anything.
Maybe the company didn't know.
Maybe he had reason to keep it from them.
The ins and outs of it were none of my business.
I was just given the job.
I've been doing a bit of work for a Yank, you see -- the one who wanted me to take the bug off the car, which is how me and Nuala met.
Miss America might know why your old man's lying on a slab in Canada.
I could lead you to her.
All it's gonna cost you is money.
I took the liberty of having a screw at Nuala's bank stuff.
Be fair, Nuala.
You wouldn't grudge a few grand if Sarah here couldn't stretch to it.
She's got the kids to pay for, after all.
It's a private school, isn't it? How do you know where my children go to school? Do you know why my sister's husband was killed? I said maybe the all-American girl does.
Maybe she can put you on to those that might.
Giving you her contact information will come at a price -- 50 grand.
By this time tomorrow.
And if you don't come through with it or you go to the guards, then you'll never have answers, will you? Business.
That's what this is.
A willing seller trying to find a willing buyer.
That's all.
Did you know Lee? Did you ever meet him? It's a nice chat.
Start putting that money together, girls.
'Cause if I don't get it by asking nicely, I might get a bit desperate.
And who knows how I'll ask the next time I come around? Youse both live in a classy part of Dublin, but that doesn't mean the Dublin I come from won't come knocking one day or night.
We do things a bit different there if we have to.
[ Door opens, closes .]
What do we do? I don't know.
I need to make sure Rose and Eamonn are safe.
It's Sarah Manning.
My children are doing after-school activities.
I need you to check that they're wherever they're supposed to be right away.
O'HANLON: You want me to nobble the guards? That's what you're asking me? That's why we're here? That is not what I'm asking for at all.
A job application at your place must come with a health warning.
Are you enjoying this, Mr.
O'Hanlon? Is that why you agreed to meet me? I want this place up and running and providing good jobs for the people who vote for me.
What do you want? My staff informs me that Mrs.
Manning is causing some trouble over some routine paperwork.
She seems to be a little unstable.
That worries me.
As she casts around for answers, she might direct her anger at my firm.
She's a problem? Like all good lawyers, she can make something out of nothing, twist the facts even if nothing is there.
If a scandal forced Zurich to re-examine our position here, this field would remain as it is.
I-I get it.
You share my vision for this plant.
I know that.
Help me realize it, and you'll have my undying gratitude.
I'll do what I can.
There's a couple of people I can call without making a song and dance.
We both want the same thing for this country.
But in view of the heavy loss of life and limb at your firm I'd be careful about using the word "undying.
" [ Down-tempo music plays .]
[ Children shouting in distance .]
[ Indistinct conversations .]
Mum.
[ Siren wailing .]
[ Up-tempo music playing .]
[ Indistinct conversations .]
[ Birds crying .]
That's him? That's the man who made threats against against Nuala and me.
BYRNE: The same man you saw at the airport? The one I gave you a statement about, who still seems to be on the loose despite all the resources of the GardaÃ.
We got off on the wrong foot, you and I.
I regret that.
I'd like to put it right, but if I can't, I'll live.
I'll get on and do my job.
You decide.
I pulled him in, but I had nothing to hold him on.
Did he lay a hand on either of you? No.
He made a threat before he left.
That it would be different if we couldn't come up with the money.
Did you have breakfast? SARAH: What? Did you have something to eat today? I grabbed something before seeing Eamonn and Rose off to school.
I wanted to keep them home, but I'm trying to keep things as normal as possible for them.
The school promised to keep an extra eye on them.
-But if he's still out there -- -He's not.
NUALA: Are you sure about that? I am.
And I asked about breakfast because you need to see the latest on Cormac Walsh.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
They fished him out of the canal last night.
He had a bash to the back of the head, which indicates he was helped on his way.
That's him, isn't it? The same man? Yeah.
NUALA: Yes.
That would have happened inside of a few hours after he left the house.
Your first husband died under the same circumstances, of course, Mrs.
Manning.
I didn't have anything to do with this -- if that's what you're suggesting.
And I didn't push my first husband into the canal.
Is that what you think? I have no evidence either way.
Come on, Sarah.
We're out of here.
What, you think it's possible? If I did, you'd be under caution.
As it stands -- You have nothing to hang her with yet.
I know who you are.
I was big on music for a while.
Oh.
You were doing your homework on me too, were you? Went to see some of the shows you put on.
You handled some big names.
Yeah.
That was me and my partner.
I can't take all the credit.
But thanks.
He's back in Dublin for his court case, I hear.
I heard that too.
Can we go now? That's all I need from you for now.
Unless there's anything else about your first husband's death you want to tell me that's not in the file.
I was at home.
I got a knock at the door to tell me he was dead.
That's it.
And after you left your sister's house yesterday, you were at home all night, too? -Yes.
-You never saw that man again? -No.
-The man who threatened you? The man who said he could do what you can't -- tell her why Lee was killed.
So why would she want him dead? I didn't say she did.
I'm just moving the pieces, trying to find a pattern.
That's it for now.
This must be very hard for you, Mrs.
Manning.
I understand.
If you're thinking about getting out of Dublin for a day or two, take the pressure off you and your children, you might want to let me know.
Keep tabs on me? To make sure you're safe.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
I'm so, so sorry to have to tell you that your husband was found dead today in Montreal.
She told you that he was here for a medical conference, but his body was found in the red-light district.
Or did whoever kill him want to muddy the waters by dumping him there? Three years ago, her first husband died.
Now this.
The guards have been asking about Ciaran's death.
I think maybe they're wondering if there was a connection.
NUALA: There was somebody looking for something under Lee's car.
I disturbed him.
He ran away.
MacNALLY: It's a very sophisticated bit of gear.
Real-time GPS, active monitoring system.
BYRNE: I know him.
Cormac Walsh.
One of the traffic-control cameras picks Walsh up here.
He's meeting a female, 5'7".
Watch where I pick that vehicle up again.
The embassy of the United States of America.
Stop the car! Barry? [ Gasps .]
[ Indistinct talking on radio, siren chirping .]
Excuse me.
There's a Detective Emer Byrne.
Can you get in touch with her? I need to see her straightaway.
MAN: Yes, ma'am.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
[ Indistinct talking on radio .]
He gave chase as the SUV drove away then collapsed? Yeah.
And the driver didn't bother to check on him? She wanted to get away as fast as she could.
She? It was a woman at the wheel.
I'm sure of it.
I wouldn't be able to identify her.
She was driving away, and I was concerned with him.
He said you asked him about Ciaran's death.
I asked him about it, yeah.
He was working at the firm when Ciaran died.
Maybe he knew something we need to know.
I can't be opening a new inquiry into this until I have something to go on.
I was hoping Mr.
Lehane would have it.
Did you know him well? I know he's good at what he does.
Tough.
Smart.
Bull at a gate.
He'll keep working away until he gets the answers, one way or another.
[ Monitor beeping, respirator hissing .]
Oh.
The kids.
Do you think there's a connection? Lee's death is a murder inquiry, but there's no proof that Ciaran's was anything but an accident.
And if you prove that it wasn't? There's something very, very wrong inside that firm.
Do you have any idea what it could be? Me? You worked there.
Years ago.
You were legal affairs.
A lot of things would've crossed your desk -- things that you couldn't talk about 'cause you were an officer of the company.
If I knew something, would I cover it up when it got my two men killed? [ Footsteps approaching .]
The same piece of kit that was on your husband's car at the airport was on your car too, Mrs.
Manning.
High-end, well concealed, serial numbers removed so we can't trace it back.
Whoever it was was keeping an eye on your comings and goings, too.
[ Siren chirps .]
We might have to knock a few holes in the walls tomorrow when we do the search of the house.
I'll tell them to leave as little mess as possible, but half the fun of this job is ripping other people's places to pieces.
Go ahead.
Tear it apart.
Maybe I'm hiding something.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
Somebody got hit by a car in the street.
They're in the hospital.
That's what all the fuss was about out there.
Will you be able to get back to sleep? I'll stay here.
I miss Daddy.
He wasn't my daddy.
He loved you, Eamonn.
You know that.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
Police in Canada have launched a murder inquiry into the death in Montreal of a senior executive of a pharmaceutical company, Gumbiner-Fisher.
The victim has been named as Lee Manning, an American citizen living and working in Ireland.
[ Dog barking .]
[ Music continues .]
What the story with that thing in Montreal? What happened in Montreal? You really want to ask me that now? Do I come here to talk about work, Maurice? Wasn't there some kind of news you were supposed to be breaking to your wife? [ Grunts .]
I've put a lot of chips on the table to help your firm out with that new plant.
Item one of the news is one of your salesmen getting -- getting himself killed.
Those are the wrong kind of headlines.
I can see why your boss is so worried.
Lee Manning was vice president of international sales and marketing, not a salesman.
He was vice president to getting his head blown off, according to the news.
You're human resources.
You'd have had to handle the paperwork.
There is no paperwork.
There's no records of how he was hired, who hired him, where he went to work before he came to us.
What little there was led me back to Zurich.
There's no files there either.
He was hired on a private contract, and the details are sealed.
Somebody's gone to a lot of trouble to wipe him out of this firm's system and to make sure it stays that way.
I'm as much in the dark as you are.
I want to be happy.
Are you happy? You're not just telling me what I want to hear again? Would I do that? It's your stock in trade.
How else do you get the votes? [ Chuckles .]
[ Birds chirping .]
[ Indistinct conversations .]
[ Door opens, closes .]
Redecorating? SARAH: I'm not in bits, Nuala.
At some point, I will be, but right now I'm holding it together.
She had to ask those questions.
You have to watch everything you say to them.
I have had more dealings with the guards than you.
How did that work out? I'm sorry.
I asked for it.
You never really liked Lee, did you? Let's say I was never quite sure of him.
Then again, I was married to a con man myself.
Lee -- Lee wasn't a con man.
The gun.
The lies he told you.
He -- He didn't tell me lies.
He -- Not point blank.
He just went 'round the questions when he was asked.
That's how Patrick operated, and I kept looking away, choosing not to see what was adding up.
But he never put my life in danger the way Lee has put yours and mine and your kids.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
The house is clean, but I'll swing 'round and do a sweep on your car from time to time just to keep your mind at rest.
As far as the gun is concerned, we didn't find any evidence.
But it's a big house.
He could have hidden it anywhere.
DUQUESNE: Detective Beck, why is the German Federal Intelligence agency interested in the death of a pharmaceutical executive? His appointment in Montreal was with the minister of health of one of our state governments.
And this man has responsibility for the budget of several tens of millions of euros.
We've been concerned for some time that his financial affairs could open him to blackmail.
If Mr.
Manning's death is in any way connected with these affairs If his job title concealed another reason for being in Montreal -- one that required him to carry a gun -- and a gun modified to military specifications for use in close combat situations.
Seems to have been worth the risk to him to bring it into Canada even though he has no criminal record in the United States or elsewhere.
Are the Americans investigating? They have no jurisdiction here.
This is a Canadian matter.
I have spoken with the police in Dublin.
Mr.
Manning was not known to them either.
Another thing of interest is that we have surveillance footage from the hotel lobby which shows him carrying an envelope as he left with the man he thought was the security guard.
BECK: And now it's missing.
DUQUESNE: Indeed.
A dead American working out of Ireland for a Swiss company whose death in Canada excites the interest of the German security services.
Quite a headache.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
I have spoken to our people in North America.
They will handle the formal identification to spare you any further distress.
You have too much to cope with as it is.
That goes without saying how much I personally feel the loss you have suffered.
Thank you.
I thought I saw him just now.
"There's Lee," I thought.
"He's heard I'm here.
He's coming to say hello.
" Instead, Ican't get my head around finding out that I have no idea who he was.
I didn't know anything about him -- anything at all.
I do not understand.
Nor do I.
But if I don't know who he was, how do I know who I am anymore? Does that make sense? He carried a gun.
A gun.
W-Why would he do that? It was not in connection with his duties for us.
I would hope, with all respect, that you could throw some light on that.
Me? -You were unaware he had one? -Y-- Of course I was.
You had no knowledge of why he might carry one? No.
It's a serious matter to this company.
I have to find out why he armed himself.
What does it say about our security practices? Also, I'm afraid, what does it say about your husband's state of mind, the serious personal issues he must have had that we didn't know of? We were happy.
He was happy.
You wish to believe that, of course, but you do not know who he was.
Your own words.
You do not know what kind of secret life he had, what else he was involved in that he kept from you.
He didn't keep -- Okay, I didn't know about the gun.
But the personal things, what we felt for each other -- All I know is the facts in front of me.
In the meantime, my concern is to do what I can to help you and your children get through this.
[ Dial tone, beep .]
Please tell Ms.
Kilbride and Mr.
O'Sullivan we will be there shortly.
WOMAN: Yes, Dr.
Hoffman.
I have no idea who the real Lee Manning was.
You say you have none either.
But, uh, I have to be aware that your relationship with him was personal and mine professional.
You think I know something I'm not telling? Isn't that what the police think? Isn't that why our head of security came to your house? [ Mid-tempo music plays .]
[ Grunts .]
Walsh! [ Grunts .]
Cormac Walsh! Stop! All right.
All right.
All right.
I'm clean.
Are you carrying anything else? No.
Show me.
[ Breathing heavily .]
I heard you moved on from bag snatching to bigger and better crimes, Mr.
Walsh.
Hadn't realized you'd come so far.
Thinking of going into the diplomatic service now? The what? You have some very interesting friends, one of them in the U.
S.
embassy out at Ballsbridge there.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
You have me at a loss.
You went to see her right after you were found trying to remove the bug from the car in the airport.
Why is she in Dublin? What else has she used you for that she doesn't want to get her fingerprints on? Have you had a bang on the head? Is that why you're seeing stars and stripes? Another time, yeah? I can place you at the airport.
-It's enough to hold you on.
-It's pretty thin.
I know, but it'll do.
Come on.
[ Indistinct conversations .]
-I'm so sorry, Sarah.
-Yeah.
Thank you.
We can't bring your husband back, but we can try to make things financially comfortable for you.
I don't need charity.
DR.
HOFFMAN: We have, uh, put together a package which will maintain a standard of living reflecting your husband's dedication to this company.
I'm thinking of the years ahead, not just tomorrow.
I'll leave you in good hands.
Take care, Sarah.
[ Door closes .]
AIDAN: I was instructed to make the package as generous as possible, Sarah.
I think you'll be satisfied with it.
If you want to take the papers away and find somebody in trusts and estates to advise you I'm sure you did a great job, Aidan.
I trained you, after all.
SARAH: Confidentiality clause.
What's all this new stuff in it? Everyone leaving the company is required to sign one -- to protect our intellectual and commercial property.
I haven't worked here for years.
You'll be a beneficiary of the corporation.
You helped draft the language yourself when you were here.
Look, this is difficult, I know -- for me as well as you.
But through your husband, you may have come into possession of information about what we're working on -- what new drugs are in the pipeline, what our research and investment strategy is.
I never asked him about his work, and he never told me.
Is there a problem? It's just standard legal boilerplate.
No, not quite.
There's -- There's some new language in here.
I wouldn't have the right to disclose what Lehane said to me last night or -- or what we talked about just now.
It could be read as saying I can't even ask what happened in Montreal.
That is not the intention.
-It's the way it could be used.
-Not by anyone in this office.
By somebody else in the company with a different agenda? I don't think anybody has an agenda here.
Words mean something.
It's a complete package.
Our best offer.
My instructions are that it's all or nothing.
Take it or leave it.
You mean take it and leave it, Aidan.
Take the money and leave the questions alone.
Okay.
I need to talk to Sarah alone.
We need your signature as soon as possible.
Let me know when you're ready to sign.
[ Door opens .]
[ Indistinct conversations, telephone ringing .]
You can go.
The footage doesn't actually show you removing it.
It's your lucky day.
I said it was thin.
Ah, I kept you out of the rain for an hour or so.
Watch yourself out there.
Don't get out of your depth.
More risk of that for you than there is for me.
Believe me.
You have no idea the size of this thing or the forces you're messing with.
Is that right? Hasta la vista.
Unless I see you first.
Do you even know what "hasta la vista" means? [ Mid-tempo music plays .]
CORMAC: She just pulled me in to jerk my chain.
They don't have anything, but we have to meet now.
I have to get out of Dublin fast.
-You got that, amigo? -[ Horn blares .]
You're my ticket out -- or you're gonna be back home on the range before you know it.
[ Cellphone beeps, clicks .]
SARAH: I understand you have to cover yourselves, and I don't want to be unreasonable.
But when your own head of security comes to my house last night and wants to know if Lee's death is somehow connected to Ciaran's If -- If he tells me the guards are beginning to think that, what am I supposed to do? Sit on my hands? Just let it go? Or try to find the answers? Like the answer to why the man I lived with had a gun hidden in the house somewhere -- my house, his house, our house, the -- the kids'.
I don't believe that Lee went to that place in Montreal to buy a girl.
I don't believe that our marriage was all a joke.
I don't believe somebody killed Ciaran.
I want to believe he fell into the canal like any old drunk because even that's better than the idea of somebody pushing him in.
I have to keep asking the questions.
I can't sign anything that stops me from doing that.
And trust me -- take my word as a lawyer -- That's what that document is intended to do, whether they admit it or not.
The gun changes everything.
Everything.
You're bleeding lucky I don't talk to the guard.
-What did she want from you? -What do I want from you? That's the thing we have to focus on, pal.
And you might want to do it with a sense of urgency 'cause she knows it was you I met after the ructions in the airport car park, yeah? Figured out you work for the stars and stripes out of the embassy here.
Let's hear it.
There's a couple of people I need to get away from in Dublin.
Far away.
Permanent.
Thought you had a nice little business going here.
I have a bullet waiting on me.
That's what I have.
I'm an old man already.
I want a green card.
Permanent.
Legal.
Aboveboard.
The real deal, Mr.
McCoy.
There are lotteries for green cards.
I've used up all my luck, and I'm not getting back in the queue at my age, thanks.
I have two bad knees.
I owe money everywhere.
My kids hate me.
My girlfriend just left me, taking the telly with her, and this guard's gonna keep coming at me and coming at me and coming at me.
I'm still not out of the woods over the other thing I helped you with.
That was the Drug Enforcement Agency.
-Not my department.
-You're not listening.
That's very disappointing.
This guard's gonna keep me in her sights.
I know her.
Once she gets her teeth into you, she never lets go.
She'll be back.
That's not gonna be healthy for me.
Someone's gonna take notice and decide to do something about it, and bang.
She knows my name.
She wants your name.
A green card and a grubstake is my price for keeping it from her.
It was his car, wasn't it? The fella who got killed in Canada.
It says he flew out from Dublin Airport that morning.
That's why you needed me to get rid of the evidence pronto.
Smile for the birdie.
[ Shutter clicks .]
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
[ Bells chime .]
[ Monitor beeping, respirator hissing .]
If there is anything you need, Mrs.
Lehane -- anything at all -- call me directly.
And be sure to let me know the moment he comes around.
The Gumbiner-Fischer family takes care of its own.
Thank you.
WOMAN ON P.
A.
: Dr.
Phelan to pediatrics.
Dr.
Phelan to pediatrics.
Excuse me.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
[ Birds chirping .]
[ Music continues .]
[ Cellphone ringing .]
-SARAH: Sarah Manning.
-Hi.
Donna Welty here from the Canadian consulate again, Mrs.
Manning.
I hate to push at a time like this, but we really need to talk about those arrangements for the deceased.
Yes.
Of course.
Has anyone been arrested yet? Do you have any idea who did this? Well, the consulate is not a law enforcement agency, I'm afraid.
Is there a connection with the work he did? Was it a private matter? Whatever I can do for you through consular channels, -I will.
-I'm not asking just for me.
I'm asking for the sake of my children.
They're in shock now, but when they ask me what happened, I want to be able to answer.
I'll do what I can.
That's all I'm asking for -- to know everything's being done that can be done and for somebody I can trust to tell me the truth, whatever it is.
[ Cellphone beeps .]
She wants answers.
DUQUESNE: So do I.
I'm fighting a very bad case of jet lag because I'm hoping that she will lead me to them.
I want answers.
We both do.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
If Lehane doesn't make it, your office Christmas party is going to be a darn sight smaller this year.
I might have to be thinking about taking out life insurance just to be around you.
Can't you take it seriously for one moment, please? I am.
Believe me.
Your firm is one of Ireland's biggest companies.
If Barry Lehane was on the track of something that connected Lee with another death, they'd want him silenced too.
That's crazy, I know.
But right now he's in intensive care.
A heart attack.
As far as we know right now.
Now you are looping the loop.
What if Lee Manning had something on someone at the firm, someone who had a hand in Sarah's first husband's death? That he knew it was murder and what he knew scared him enough to carry a gun? Scared him so much, in fact, that he didn't even feel safe flying 3,000 miles away, where they still got him? Just who in the firm would have the reach to pull that off? [ Down-tempo music plays .]
Well, the file he was carrying.
It's important to know whether he died before he could deliver it.
If so, it's vital to know where it is now, whose hands it's in.
MAN: We sympathize with the loss of your employee, Dr.
Hoffman, but what our clients do with the intelligence we supply them is none of our concern.
Once the file was handed over to your representative in Montreal, our connection came to an end.
That file contains information of great value, detailed, hard-to-find information that this company paid a lot of money for you to locate.
There are those who would like to know exactly what you had to do to obtain it, what laws you may have broken.
-Is that a threat? -A statement of fact.
I suggest it's in your interest and that of your firm that you obtain the answers I'm seeking.
And if I tell you to go screw yourself? Then I would remind you that you are a part of a multimillion-dollar corporation, but I work for a multibillion-dollar one.
If that file isn't found, we're both -- in your words -- screwed.
[ Cellphone beeps .]
[ Children shouting, laughing .]
Why not get away for a few days? I'll come with you, help with the kids.
We can all just clear our heads.
Hide, you mean? Lee was killed in Canada.
Where would we be safe here? Anyway, I have a funeral to arrange.
What do I say? That I'm burying somebody but I can't really tell you anything about him? Who he really was, where he was from, what he did to get himself killed.
So just leave the headstone blank.
Would save you a few bob at the stonemason's.
[ Snorts .]
Ah, there's a bright side to everything.
The answers are in that firm somewhere.
I helped build a wall around it.
It was my job.
Now I have to find a way around it or under it or through it.
And with Lehane in hospital, I have no idea where to start.
The last people I can ask are the -- the ones who know -- Gumbiner-Fischer's merry men and women.
All those people in their nice offices on the riverside, who only get to keep that view once they don't rock the boat.
Who maybe really, truly believe that what's good for the firm is good for them, so it must be good for me, too.
Didn't you use to think like that? I'm on the other side now.
If I have to fight them, I will.
You were always the one with the common sense.
I was the tearaway.
Now you're going to war with a company worth billions, thousands of people working for them, on a hunch, an idea that Lehane planted in your head.
What if you heard him wrong? What if you're jumping to conclusions? Ciaran died, my car was bugged, Lee's car was bugged, somebody searched my house, Barry Lehane is in hospital, and, um Oh, yeah -- My husband was killed.
Those are facts, Nuala.
Facts.
Mum.
There's nothing to worry about, Rose.
Go on.
It's grand.
You want to see some kind of shape to this because then there would be some meaning.
What if there isn't any? I've lost my marbles.
I would go to war alongside you if that is what you want, but please at least go into this with your eyes open.
I should move on? I did that when Ciaran died.
I moved on at the speed of light, and I won't do it again.
I just won't.
It's a fine speech, Sarah, one my brilliant, overachieving sister, the corporate lawyer, might make.
Come back down to the real world.
You are a mother, too.
I'm scared for myself.
I am even more scared for you and those two.
Maybe you should listen to your screw-up of a sister for once and be a bit more scared on their behalf.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
BYRNE: Are you better now? Yeah.
It was a fall.
I slipped on a mat.
I heard it was a stroke.
Doctors.
If 33 years in the Gardaà couldn't finish me off, nothing will.
I'll live forever.
So, what do you make of her -- the widow? [ Sighs .]
We could talk about something else if you like.
No.
It keeps me going, being in touch.
I like to think I can still be of some use to you young whippersnappers.
I'm hardly that anymore.
[ Laughs .]
So, is she on the level, or is she in on whatever her husband was up to that meant he had to carry a gun? No.
She seemed genuinely shocked when I told her.
Just as she looked knocked off her heels when I broke the news he was dead.
That doesn't mean anything.
You know that.
She was a lawyer? Yeah.
She ran the firm's legal side.
A highflier.
So she'd know where the bodies are buried.
She might even have buried a few herself.
I'm trying not to go there.
Hm.
Because she's got two kids and a nice house in the Wicklow hills? And because she made all the right noises when you told her her old man wasn't coming back.
She's got a bit of education and a lot to lose, and maybe you want to believe her.
See, you're thinking of her as a woman -- a woman you had to be the first to break the bad news to.
But you didn't do that as a woman.
You did it as a guard.
That's how you have to keep on thinking about her.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
[ Siren wailing .]
DEIRDRE: There are no files on Sarah's first husband, like there are no files on her second.
Nothing on paper.
Nothing on computer.
Payroll records, annual accounts, evaluations -- all gone.
Somebody's gone to a lot of trouble to wipe him out of this firm's history.
Was it any part of your professional responsibility to go looking? Well, if something's been swept under the carpet -- You let it stay there.
Unless you're told differently.
If there's a cover-up and we're being used to make it stick -- I do my job.
Do yours.
That's how the world keeps going around.
Mm.
Look.
All that I owed to Sarah Manning was to persuade her to take the deal.
Wouldn't you take it -- for the sake of your kids? If you had any.
What about truth? What about justice? This is legal.
Justice and truth are down the corridor somewhere maybe.
Look.
I like this desk.
I like this office.
I like making a left instead of a right when I get onto a plane.
I thought you would've got used to that kind of life as well.
I don't know if there's anything here, but even if I did, it's not my affair, and it isn't yours.
-I'll decide that.
-Will you? And damage the firm? Drag me down with you? I'm just asking you to open your eyes.
Well, I-I can't help.
Barry Lehane will know what to do with this.
I'll take it to him.
Some people can't be bought for an office and expense account.
How's the boyfriend? Maurice O'Hanlon.
That's -- That's his name.
He's on his way to becoming party leader, isn't he? Unless his private life blows him up.
That'll be a tough one to break to the wife.
And the kids.
And the media.
Jesus.
It's in hand.
Let's be very clear, you and I.
Sarah Manning might have sat here once, but I run legal now.
You run human resources.
We both have to do what's best for the company, not for her.
That's what we signed up for.
I think it would be in yours and O'Hanlon's best interest not to give her inside help.
[ Door closes .]
Of course I remember you, Sarah.
You worked there, too.
We met a few times.
And you've had some troubles yourself, I know.
Worse than this, even.
Terrible thing.
Are you coping? Just.
You? All those years he spent in the guards, the undercover stuff he couldn't tell me about.
When he joined that firm, I breathed a sigh of relief.
And now this.
And right outside your house.
The guards told me some of it.
We were talking.
My car alarm went off.
He jumped up, flew out the door.
He was He was trying to protect me.
Instinct, I suppose.
Duty.
He's very big on that.
I guess that he was there to tell you how sorry he was about your husband's death.
There was something else on his mind, too.
Did he seem worried about anything at the firm in the last few weeks or days? It's a big job.
He's always worried about something.
He tries not to bring it here.
I'mtrying to find answers.
And I'm not sure the people who should be helping me are doing that.
He was trying to help.
He was on my side.
I can't help you, Sarah.
If I could, I would -- like he would.
But I've told you the truth.
[ Telephone ringing .]
I've got to get back to the hospital.
I'll see you out in a moment.
Excuse me.
[ Telephone rings, beeps .]
Hi.
Yes.
Hello.
Yes, he's fine.
Well, no.
He's -- He's being looked after.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
How dare you! I'm I'm sorry.
What gives you the right to do that when my husband is lying in his hospital bed? Mine's in the morgue and he's never coming home, and the answers are in that firm somewhere.
I told you I can't help you.
And if Barry can, well, you'd better pray just as hard as me that he's gonna pull through this so he can tell you himself.
Now, you'd better leave.
And if you want to speak to him -- when you can speak to him -- you know where to find him.
Now get out! And shame on you! DUQUESNE: Her husband's murder was a contract killing.
As I told Ms.
Beck, it is no accident that I was handed this case.
I started my career in Griffintown, near the Port of Montreal.
The Irish-Canadian gangs ran it.
They were dangerous people with a long criminal tradition.
They kill for hire.
They're good at it.
One of your more successful exports.
These are the names of Irish crime families who have connections in both Montreal and Dublin.
It is a long list, and everyone on it is dangerous.
If someone wanted Lee Manning professionally killed, any one of them could have arranged it.
I need you to help me find out who it was.
[ Keys jingling, vehicles passing .]
Keep your trap shut.
Open the door.
-You.
-I said get in.
[ Alarm beeping .]
Don't press the panic button, okay? [ Beeping stops .]
-Get in.
-What do you want? Just a bit of business.
That's all.
Now get in.
My husband's due home from work any minute.
[ Chuckles .]
You live alone.
Yeah.
Well, my boyfriend's due to pick me up.
Stop lying to me, Nuala.
It's not polite.
It's not taking me seriously.
Business.
That's what I'm here.
[ Door closes .]
A commercial proposition.
First item on the agenda is I need you to call your sister.
Tell her to get herself around here, tout suite.
[ Note plays .]
Don't tell her I'll be waiting for her.
We'll keep that as a little surprise.
Give me the phone.
I'll dial.
That's how we're gonna do this, okay? [ Breathing heavily .]
[ Cellphone ringing .]
Lee Manning worked for the CIA? BECK: At one time.
Several years ago, he was accredited to the U.
S.
mission in Bonn.
It's not quite clear what he was doing there, although around then there were a number of disappearances in the special rendition program.
Terror suspects kidnapped on the streets, secretly imprisoned.
He was running an operation for the CIA here in Dublin? I think that is unlikely, or the Americans would be all over this.
You have met his wife.
How much does she know? On the face of it, nothing at all.
Perhaps she may have known without admitting to herself that she knew.
That is possible, yes? Till that is clear, one way or the other she must be a person of interest, too.
Do you trust her? I honestly don't know.
If she's not involved, then she's got two nightmares to deal with -- what happened in Montreal and what happened here.
Her first husband drowned here.
Worked for the same firm.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
Hey.
Move.
I said move! Do what he says, Sarah.
I don't think he's here to hurt us.
Who are you? The airport car park.
SARAH: Why are you here? I was just telling Nuala what a nice place she's got here.
What do you do, Nuala? Some of this, bit of that.
[ Exhales deeply .]
Must be a bit of money in it.
Up and down.
As the trampoline salesman said when he was asked how's business.
That's a good one, yeah? Do you want a drink? If this is a social event.
Get away from that.
You have a nice place too, Sarah.
I've been inside it.
Had a look around.
A few months back, then again the other day.
Good taste.
You can't buy it, can you? What were you looking for? A package, I was told.
An envelope.
Something to do with your husband.
I'd know when I found a hidey-hole.
The company didn't allow my husband to bring anything home from work, so you wouldn't have found anything.
Maybe the company didn't know.
Maybe he had reason to keep it from them.
The ins and outs of it were none of my business.
I was just given the job.
I've been doing a bit of work for a Yank, you see -- the one who wanted me to take the bug off the car, which is how me and Nuala met.
Miss America might know why your old man's lying on a slab in Canada.
I could lead you to her.
All it's gonna cost you is money.
I took the liberty of having a screw at Nuala's bank stuff.
Be fair, Nuala.
You wouldn't grudge a few grand if Sarah here couldn't stretch to it.
She's got the kids to pay for, after all.
It's a private school, isn't it? How do you know where my children go to school? Do you know why my sister's husband was killed? I said maybe the all-American girl does.
Maybe she can put you on to those that might.
Giving you her contact information will come at a price -- 50 grand.
By this time tomorrow.
And if you don't come through with it or you go to the guards, then you'll never have answers, will you? Business.
That's what this is.
A willing seller trying to find a willing buyer.
That's all.
Did you know Lee? Did you ever meet him? It's a nice chat.
Start putting that money together, girls.
'Cause if I don't get it by asking nicely, I might get a bit desperate.
And who knows how I'll ask the next time I come around? Youse both live in a classy part of Dublin, but that doesn't mean the Dublin I come from won't come knocking one day or night.
We do things a bit different there if we have to.
[ Door opens, closes .]
What do we do? I don't know.
I need to make sure Rose and Eamonn are safe.
It's Sarah Manning.
My children are doing after-school activities.
I need you to check that they're wherever they're supposed to be right away.
O'HANLON: You want me to nobble the guards? That's what you're asking me? That's why we're here? That is not what I'm asking for at all.
A job application at your place must come with a health warning.
Are you enjoying this, Mr.
O'Hanlon? Is that why you agreed to meet me? I want this place up and running and providing good jobs for the people who vote for me.
What do you want? My staff informs me that Mrs.
Manning is causing some trouble over some routine paperwork.
She seems to be a little unstable.
That worries me.
As she casts around for answers, she might direct her anger at my firm.
She's a problem? Like all good lawyers, she can make something out of nothing, twist the facts even if nothing is there.
If a scandal forced Zurich to re-examine our position here, this field would remain as it is.
I-I get it.
You share my vision for this plant.
I know that.
Help me realize it, and you'll have my undying gratitude.
I'll do what I can.
There's a couple of people I can call without making a song and dance.
We both want the same thing for this country.
But in view of the heavy loss of life and limb at your firm I'd be careful about using the word "undying.
" [ Down-tempo music plays .]
[ Children shouting in distance .]
[ Indistinct conversations .]
Mum.
[ Siren wailing .]
[ Up-tempo music playing .]
[ Indistinct conversations .]
[ Birds crying .]
That's him? That's the man who made threats against against Nuala and me.
BYRNE: The same man you saw at the airport? The one I gave you a statement about, who still seems to be on the loose despite all the resources of the GardaÃ.
We got off on the wrong foot, you and I.
I regret that.
I'd like to put it right, but if I can't, I'll live.
I'll get on and do my job.
You decide.
I pulled him in, but I had nothing to hold him on.
Did he lay a hand on either of you? No.
He made a threat before he left.
That it would be different if we couldn't come up with the money.
Did you have breakfast? SARAH: What? Did you have something to eat today? I grabbed something before seeing Eamonn and Rose off to school.
I wanted to keep them home, but I'm trying to keep things as normal as possible for them.
The school promised to keep an extra eye on them.
-But if he's still out there -- -He's not.
NUALA: Are you sure about that? I am.
And I asked about breakfast because you need to see the latest on Cormac Walsh.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
They fished him out of the canal last night.
He had a bash to the back of the head, which indicates he was helped on his way.
That's him, isn't it? The same man? Yeah.
NUALA: Yes.
That would have happened inside of a few hours after he left the house.
Your first husband died under the same circumstances, of course, Mrs.
Manning.
I didn't have anything to do with this -- if that's what you're suggesting.
And I didn't push my first husband into the canal.
Is that what you think? I have no evidence either way.
Come on, Sarah.
We're out of here.
What, you think it's possible? If I did, you'd be under caution.
As it stands -- You have nothing to hang her with yet.
I know who you are.
I was big on music for a while.
Oh.
You were doing your homework on me too, were you? Went to see some of the shows you put on.
You handled some big names.
Yeah.
That was me and my partner.
I can't take all the credit.
But thanks.
He's back in Dublin for his court case, I hear.
I heard that too.
Can we go now? That's all I need from you for now.
Unless there's anything else about your first husband's death you want to tell me that's not in the file.
I was at home.
I got a knock at the door to tell me he was dead.
That's it.
And after you left your sister's house yesterday, you were at home all night, too? -Yes.
-You never saw that man again? -No.
-The man who threatened you? The man who said he could do what you can't -- tell her why Lee was killed.
So why would she want him dead? I didn't say she did.
I'm just moving the pieces, trying to find a pattern.
That's it for now.
This must be very hard for you, Mrs.
Manning.
I understand.
If you're thinking about getting out of Dublin for a day or two, take the pressure off you and your children, you might want to let me know.
Keep tabs on me? To make sure you're safe.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]