Acceptable Risk (2017) s01e05 Episode Script
Episode 5
1 I want the name of the man in the file Lee carried.
The man who was gonna be destroyed because of the information in it.
He had the most to gain by Lee being killed before he could hand it over.
It's not longer vague threats anymore.
She's got something in writing that could destroy this firm and send a lot of people to prison.
Sarah Manning is coming straight at Hoffman, and you're a little too close to him for comfort.
I want to find the man who killed my husband and see him punished.
Is that what you want? BYRNE: The death of Sarah Manning's first husband is now a murder inquiry.
I have a witness.
This inquiry involves issues that are way out of your league.
All I tried to do was follow the case to where it led.
Your career is over.
Lee's got all these details about how you financed the properties you and Patrick got into.
There's also a lot of things about Patrick's legal problems.
PATRICK: I don't have anything to say about Lee, and I resent being cross-examined.
I need to know.
How much do you think she knows about that deal with Ciaran? She has no idea of it.
I hope she never does.
He's taken back complete control of the operation.
Emer Byrne is out the door.
After this, I want to have nothing to do with any deals with you or anyone in your firm.
DEIRDRE: There's stuff you need to be made aware of sooner rather than later.
I'm on my way.
[ Engine revs .]
Deirdre? [ Dog barking in distance .]
Over here! She's dead.
[ Birds clucking in distance .]
Did you get a look at that car? Deirdre? Deirdre? Was it Hoffman's? Did you see? What? It'sNo, I -- Oh, my God.
Oh, my God! She'd been phoning someone.
She needs help.
Phone for help.
She's gone, man.
She's gone.
I'll report it.
Put that away.
We have to do this right.
If she was on the phone, if she talked to someone, if she told someone that you were angling for a bribe -- -Take that back.
-You never said no.
Take that back! Did you say no? Did you walk out? I don't think so.
[ Grunts .]
She'd be a witness.
You weren't here.
As long as you don't make that call, you can deny it.
You can say you weren't here, and nobody can prove you wrong.
I'm a senior Garda officer.
If she told what she heard, if she blurted it out, how long do you think you're gonna be a guard? [ Grunts .]
I did nothing wrong.
I was just sounding the two of you out to see how far you'd go.
Yeah.
Try that in court.
See how far you get.
You never said no.
That's enough to hang you.
I'll -- I'll take care of this.
Go! [ Cellphone beeps .]
I have to report a hit-and-run.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
Mom? Look at the time.
We'll be late for school.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Let's get breakfast sorted.
I did it.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
[ Indistinct conversations .]
[ Cellphone ringing .]
[ Cellphone rings .]
Sarah.
SARAH: Aidan.
I wonder if Deirdre is in the office yet.
She called me last night.
I've been trying her phone, and I'm not getting anything.
Is she what? No.
She's not here.
Do -- Do you not know? You didn't see the news this morning? WOMAN: head of human resources at the pharma giant Gumbiner-Fisher.
Gardaà have named the woman as Deirdre Kilbride.
The driver failed to remain at the scene.
A Garda spokesperson has appealed for witnesses or anyone with any information on the incident to contact the [ Mid-tempo music plays .]
What happened last night after you left the cottage? You didn't answer the phone.
I called you a dozen times.
I told you.
I failed to find her.
I drove home.
I had some business I had to attend to the rest of the night.
That isn't the car you came in.
For security reasons, I am required to change cars every few weeks.
That's the car I took possession of this morning.
Where is the car you came to my place in? Don't you have an official car and driver? Where were they last night? That wasn't official business.
Or was it to make sure you had no witness as to who you met? For the love of -- I cared for her.
I really did.
If it wasn't an accident -- You know how dangerous those country roads are.
She was in shock when she left at what she had heard you say.
Don't try to pin this on me.
Maybe she simply failed to see the car that hit her or saw it too late -- or perhaps deliberately stepped in front of it.
If it wasn't like that Then you should go to the police with your suspicions.
I have spoken to Chief Superintendent Nulty already.
He agrees that the meeting between the three of us did not take place.
It would be impossible to explain his being there and also preserve his reputation.
That is what he values most in the world.
I might take it to the guards.
I might just do that.
Then tell them everything.
Be fearless.
Destroy your marriage and your career.
It's your choice.
Look me in the eye and tell me you didn't drive the car into her.
I could ask the same of you.
You had a very personal reason for wanting her out of the way.
Not dead.
Or perhaps it was the chief superintendent who drove after her.
You'd just left.
We heard the bang moments after.
I cannot say what happened one way or the other.
That would be for the police to decide.
All I know is that I wasn't there.
Go home to your wife and children, Mr.
O'Hanlon.
You have seen what it requires to play for the biggest stakes.
It is not for you.
Are you mad, Sarah, coming to me now? It wasn't an accident.
You've been away from the law for a few years.
Maybe you need a refresher course.
We still deal in facts, evidence.
There's no proof Deirdre's death wasn't exactly what it looks like -- a hit-and-run by a drunk on a country road.
I came to you for some of those facts a day ago.
Like who Lee was gonna meet in Montreal and what you knew about it.
I know about the file he was carrying.
It was gonna be used to threaten to blackmail somebody into handing Gumbiner-Fischer a contract they couldn't win on a level playing field.
I have no responsibility for that.
-I'm just a middle-- -Middle-ranking employee.
Yes.
But those are the ones who get sacrificed first, Aidan.
Remember that I can put you smack dab in the sights of the FBI.
You talked about all us having blood on our hands.
What about you? Do you have any part in Deirdre Kilbride's death? This crusade you're on, this obsession you have -- Isn't she a victim of it? If I did somehow cause her death, I'll have to live with it.
Well, that's easy to say.
Nothing about any of this, believe me, is easy.
You taught me it's our job to defend the firm at all costs.
You wore down anybody who attacked it with motion after motion, dragged out the depositions, countersued, refused to settle until they had no money left.
And you made no apology for it.
So how dare you -- you of all people -- come to me and make demands of me, tell me to put my career on the line? Your life is on the line, Aidan.
Don't you realize that? Nobody's safe, not even in there.
Somebody who knew Lehane was on digoxin gave him quinidine, knowing it was only a matter of time before it triggered a heart attack.
Who's next? You want me to help you pull the company down? After everything I've given to it? I want you to help me save it.
The company.
Not Hoffman or whoever else is pulling the strings.
I believe in what we do in there -- the -- the end result, the drugs we manufacture that make people's lives better.
I know.
And that's what makes this hard.
But I'm on my way to see the man I loved for the last time, the man I'll be burying next week.
They're gonna be burying Deirdre Kilbride too.
How many more? We need to end this, Aidan, and we need to end it now before there are any more funerals.
Niklas Esser.
That's the name you want.
He's the German health minister's chief rival.
There's even a suggestion he had an affair with the minister's wife.
That makes it personal as well as political.
-He was -- -I don't know this officially.
And -- And I'll deny it if I'm ever asked.
He was the subject of that file? He was Lee's target? I'm not going there, Sarah.
As far as legal is concerned, everything done by our sales and marketing team is completely aboveboard.
Did you not do that sometimes -- turn a blind eye to something it was better not to see for the good of the firm? Not with something like this.
Maybe you'd have done the same if you were still behind that desk.
I wouldn't.
Well, you'll never know that, will you? Thanks for the health warning, but I can take care of myself.
I need Lehane's annual personal details and details of his compensation, including any performance bonuses, who signed off on those bonuses, and the reasons given for them.
You want me to investigate our head of security? Your very ex head of security, who a witness says threw Ciaran into the canal lock the night he died.
I can't just walk into human resources and grab the files.
That's exactly what you have to do.
They do random searches.
If I get caught -- There are fire alarms all over that building.
They won't search a thousand people rushing to the exits.
I can't do that.
Oh, you'd be surprised what you can do.
You really would.
I've learned that in the past week or so.
What are you gonna do with Esser's name? Give it to somebody who can do something about it.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
[ Telephone beeps .]
Niklas Esser.
[ Telephone ringing .]
[ Beep .]
[ Telephone ringing .]
-[ Beep .]
-WOMAN: Gumbiner-Fischer.
How may I help you? Yes.
I'll just check if he's there for you.
[ Music continues .]
Rebecca, I hate to ask you at a time like this.
I know what you must be feeling.
But I need some of Deirdre's files.
Anything that's on the record about Mr.
Lehane.
Let me check if Mr.
Lehane's files are still here.
Why are you so interested in those files, Mr.
O'Sullivan? I need his personnel information.
At a time like this? When the entire Gumbiner-Fischer family is in mourning for another loss? T-There's, uh, an insurance question on my desk as to whether his death happened on company business or private business.
I need background.
You may leave, my dear.
Take a few days away from the office.
Thank you.
These are difficult times for us, Mr.
O'Sullivan.
Even more difficult than events some years ago.
To survive, we need our best people to go beyond their usual professionalism and thoroughness.
I always give 150%.
Our ultimate loyalty in the end must be to the people we work for and alongside.
Don't you agree? I appreciate that.
Sarah Manning, for example, has no loyalty to this company or anyone who works here.
Why should she? She is an ex-employee.
That's true, Dr.
Hoffman, but if there are problems in our international sales division, if those dates and travel details in the file -she brought to our attention -- -File? What file? Who saw it? You? Ms.
Kilbride, who, alas, is no longer here? Perhaps there was no file.
Uh, Sarah Manning says there is, that she has it.
It is what you know about it that concerns me at this moment.
I'm a legal officer of this corporation.
If anything is wrong here and I fail to take action, I stand not only to lose my job.
I could get struck off.
If it's true that Lee Manning carried a gun that Ciaran Boyle's death and now Lehane's and Deirdre's are connected -- Then this company is under attack from one of our rivals.
Isn't that the most likely explanation? Our new head of security -- once we have decided who that is to be -- will provide the answers.
In the meantime I worry about your safety.
My safety? You are a valuable member of the Gumbiner-Fischer family.
It may be the moment, uh, to send you further afield in your own interest as well as ours.
Do you like to travel? To travel? You have done well here in Dublin.
However, it can be fatal to a career to spend too long in the same position.
We are an international corporation.
We're expanding our operations in Singapore.
I've spoken on your behalf to the international division.
Singapore.
The greatest rewards of all come to those who put the company first.
Dublin today.
Singapore next month.
After that, who knows? There is always room at the top for an ambitious executive.
And if this is also a matter of your own personal safety Do you still need to see those files? [ Down-tempo music plays .]
I don't know.
I don't think so.
I need you to be sure.
I'm sure.
Why not leave Dublin right away? After Mr.
Lehane's funeral, say.
I think that -- that would be a good idea, yes.
Ms.
Kilbride -- her personal life, relationships she may have had, things she might have shared with you Uh, we were colleagues.
That's all.
I don't know anything else about her.
If the Gardaà asked? I'll be leaving Dublin later today anyway.
I predict a long and successful career for you in this company, Mr.
O'Sullivan.
Aidan.
Thank you.
Now I want every detail of the conversations you've had with Sarah Manning.
Who has she been talking to? Who else is asking questions? Who's helping her? Where does she get her information from? She's not working alone.
She can't be.
Who? There should be music, you know? To give you your cue? Like in the films.
"You should cry now.
It's okay.
" I can't.
Not yet.
I'm hanging on by my fingertips to the idea that he only lied to me because he thought it was best for me and the kids, that his job wasn't him -- it was just what he did, that maybe he was gonna blow the whistle on that firm because he was sick of the lies, especially the ones he had to tell me, and everything was gonna change.
Mostly I keep thinking about I keep thinking about how lonely he must have been, having no one to share with, not even me.
'Cause when you love someone you want to give them everything.
Don't you? Everything.
If he had just said to me, "Sarah, listen.
" But that would have put you in danger.
Even so.
What would you have done? What could you have done? I don't know.
And that's the worst thing about it.
'Cause I'm never gonna know the answer to that.
Get Detective Byrne.
Tell her to come to my office -- now.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
[ Indistinct conversations .]
I can't do it.
I'm sorry.
If you want to know more about Lehane, you're gonna have to go about it another way.
What do you suggest? That I go up to his widow after the funeral and ask her if she knew that the man she's burying killed somebody for his boss to prove his loyalty to the firm? You asked me if I wasn't afraid for my health, Sarah.
Well, I am.
And you're asking me to keep going until maybe I get myself killed too.
Did he make a threat? Or did he make you an offer? I have to do what's best for me and my career.
Offer or threat? I'm going to Singapore.
First class all the way? -You can laugh.
-I'm not laughing.
If I said no to this offer, I'd be yesterday's man.
You're that already, Aidan.
Don't you get it? Hoffman gave you a shove, and you fell over.
He won't forget that.
Easy touches are no use to him or the firm.
He'll give you six months, then he'll find a reason to fire you.
You're finished.
The only danger you are is to yourself.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
DR.
HOFFMAN: This is a painful time for Mr.
Lehane's family and for all of us in Gumbiner-Fischer.
Though our company operates all over the world, with tens of thousands of employees, we never forget that our success is based on the hard work, dedication, and professionalism of each individual who works for us.
I would like every one here who worked alongside Barry Lehane to remember the real meaning of his work -- our work, the purpose we dedicate ourselves to every day, making the world a better, safer, disease- and pain-free place for all of us.
Sir? [ Indistinct conversations .]
I need some answers.
Dr.
Hoffman.
Detective Charles Duquesne, Montreal Police homicide.
I need some answers, too.
I've been trying to speak to you in connection with my inquiries into the death of one of your employees in my city.
I'm afraid I can't help you.
You should speak to our security advisers.
Alas.
They're just about to lay Mr.
Lehane to rest -- something of which you spoke so eloquently.
Is it possible that you could talk to me, confirm that Lee Manning was carrying a file to a Herr Niklas Esser? I'm not sure where your, uh, information comes from.
We will be appointing a new chief of security here in Dublin as soon as possible.
I'm sure they will be happy to answer all your questions.
Could it be possible that Mr.
Lehane is somehow connected to that death in Montreal? DR.
HOFFMAN: It seems unlikely, but that is why you must wait to speak to the experts.
I'm sure Mrs.
Manning here, more than anyone, would like to, uh, get these matters cleared up once and for all.
Aidan O'Sullivan told you that I know what Lee did for you.
That's why you're sending him out of reach of the GardaÃ.
Unfortunately, Mrs.
Manning prefers to believe in conspiracies rather than fact.
What was Deirdre Kilbride's death? A way to keep her quiet? As you can see, in her grief, I have become the focus of her anger.
Ciaran was a good man.
He struggled with some things.
Lehane and you used one of them against him -- his drinking.
It made the way he died believable.
It made me not dig too deep.
Now you've gotten rid of Lehane too.
There was a witness there that night.
While her logic may seem impeccable, it is deeply paranoid.
With all respect, uh, you should be aware of Mrs.
Manning and her fantasies.
I hope for the sake of our past friendship that you seek expert help as soon as possible.
Medical help.
I cannot allow a sick woman to defame this company.
Please do not allow her to put your investigation on the wrong track.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Let him go.
[ Siren wailing in distance .]
My wife is unwell.
I've been thinking of taking some time off to care for her.
It may be months rather than weeks.
Maybe longer.
I'm the third generation to work in the force.
We have no children, so I'll be the last.
You never know what you'll find in yourself until the time comes.
Then you'd better hope you've got a backbone.
You have that.
Takes 15 minutes to clear away 30 years of memories.
Thirty years of doing the right thing -- or trying your best to.
How many decisions do you take in the job that we do every day? Ten? Twenty? How many in a career? It only takes one wrong one to Remember that when you're sitting here.
Because one day you will.
I've reassigned most of the work that I've left undone.
It wasn't much.
I always ran a tidy desk.
There's this one file, though.
You know which one it is.
You opened it.
I made you hand it over.
Do you want it back? It depends on what the conditions are, sir.
[ Chuckles .]
Forget the "sir.
" You can have it if you want it.
No conditions.
Follow it where it goes, to whoever it goes to.
I'll give you what help I can, although I won't be behind the desk.
I'm recommending we officially reopen an accidental drowning case as a murder inquiry.
Then do it.
I have a witness who can identify the killer as an ex-guard, one of our own.
As I said, to wherever it goes.
But you'd better be sure of your facts.
I am, and I know where it goes.
To one of Ireland's most important companies.
Well, if anyone tries to put pressure on you to stop it, I'll back you as far as I can.
I'll also be investigating a hit-and-run, which could also point back to the company and the man who runs it.
Well, if that is material to your inquiry.
It is if I can place him at the scene.
Can you do that? Not at the moment, but I'm hoping to do so.
But he's very good at covering his tracks.
Well, you can't even interview him unless he agrees.
The dead woman worked for the firm.
Can you tell me anything about her or the night she died? As I said, I'll help you as far as I can as a fellow guard.
Not as a witness.
[ Sighs .]
That is my offer, my commitment.
The accident was reported by a TD who had a cottage nearby.
There were questions asked a few years back as to how close he was to decisions made in the siting of a pharmaceutical plant in his constituency.
If the facts lead you to him -- What if it leads to someone else, too, given his connections, some of them in very important jobs in high positions? Well, then you must do your job.
Isn't that clear? The job comes first.
You do what you have to do, and I'll help you as far as I can.
Do you understand? As far as I can.
Do you understand what I'm saying? I do, but I will take this as far as I have to.
That's your last word? Doesn't it have to be? [ Down-tempo music plays .]
I need to spend some time with my wife.
I would like to spend as much time as I can get.
That might be out of your hands, sir, if I do my duty.
[ Sighs .]
That's all you can do, Detective Byrne.
Emer.
You do your duty to the force, and I'll do my duty to the people who love me and look up to me and need me to be there for them.
Aren't you supposed to be working on that file? I tackled Hoffman head on after the funeral.
[ Sighs .]
It just came out.
He didn't even blink.
Took it on the chin.
He told me how worried he is about how I'm doing upstairs.
And for a minute there, I catch myself thinking, "Could he be right? Am I out of my tree? What am I thinking of, taking on a man like that and a firm that big?" It's the lunatics that get things done, Sarah.
The rest of us are at home watching the telly, doing the scratchers.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
Please find out for me who to call in regard to a concern for the mental health of a mother.
I'm concerned for her young and vulnerable children.
[ Bell chimes .]
BYRNE: There was just you here last night, Mr.
O'Hanlon? After you heard the bang, you went outside to look, you found her there, but you didn't see the car that hit her? That's right.
You're a bit out of the way up here.
Any idea why she was in the neighborhood or what business she had this way? I don't, no.
You didn't know her, then? I might have been in the same room with her the one time.
Uh, a week or so ago, maybe.
Just the one? Yeah, at a press thing, uh, at the place she worked.
Gumbiner-Fischer? It's possible she was there at the go-ahead for the new plant.
I meet a lot of people.
She wouldn't have been here last night at the cottage for any reason? I'd have put it in my statement.
Of course.
You come here for a bit of peace, work on your paperwork and your speeches.
So you were here all night? Then that's it.
That's all I have for you.
Thanks for your time.
You've got a lovely little place, you have, here.
Oh, if you ignore the leaky roof.
Why aren't local guards handling this? Why a serious-crimes detective? We wouldn't be sending a guard on a rusty old bike to talk to a member of the Dáil, somebody in the government like you.
Then again, they've had a run of bad luck at the firm she worked for.
Gumbiner-Fischer has landed on my desk again.
I'm just looking at anything that has any connection to them.
Mm.
I'm sure you'll do a great job.
I'll see you out.
Chief Superintendent Nulty passed the file on to me.
Oh.
Good man, Nulty.
He'll be missed.
He'll be what? He's out.
You didn't know? Hasn't made the papers, but I'd have thought someone with their ear to the ground like you might have heard.
He cleared out his desk this morning.
[ Clock chiming .]
Do you know him? I know everybody -- everybody that matters.
And I know the people they answer to.
Everybody answers to somebody, don't you find? You heard a bang and you came straight out here, but you didn't see the car? No.
[ Birds clucking in distance .]
I'll take a walk up the road.
Thank you again.
And yes, I do find that everybody answers to somebody.
In the end, though, we all answer to the law, however high up the pole we are.
That's the theory.
In practice? BYRNE: Those tire tracks -- You had company last night? Might have slipped your mind? The press were here, the TV people, when it got out that I was the one who made the call.
A lonely way to die.
Why was she even out of her car in the first place? Why was she even within 20 miles of here? If you have any questions you'd like me to answer, I'll be glad to hear them.
As it is, I have to get back to my desk.
I have a pile of papers this high I have to get through.
You're an important man, Mr.
O'Hanlon.
A very busy man.
I won't get in your way any more than I have to.
Thank you, Detective.
[ Door opens, closes .]
[ Indistinct talking on radio .]
[ Dog barking in distance .]
My lunch with Patrick.
How did that go? Did he tell you what you needed to know? The last thing he wanted to talk about was that property stuff Lee was digging into.
He made a song and dance about me even asking.
Left so fast, he nearly knocked a waiter over.
I don't know how right in the head he is these days.
The coke.
The booze.
Everything he's been through.
Hadn't you better be picking up the kids? -Do you want me to do it? -When you set the meeting up, did you tell him what I wanted to ask? He knew it wasn't just for old times' sake.
But can you remember what you said -- exactly how you put it, the words you used? Now, here's the thing, Sarah.
I know you are going through what nobody should have to go through, but I am not giving a deposition here.
What I said, what I didn't say, the exact words -- He made the same complaint -- that I was talking like a lawyer.
I'll go get them.
You're off, too, now? So you don't have to give me any answers? They're my kids.
I'll pick them up.
And when I come back, I'll ask you like a sister, not a lawyer.
What is it in that file that Patrick doesn't want me to get the answers to, that, God help the pair of us, you're trying to keep from me, too? [ Down-tempo music plays .]
[ Door opens .]
[ Indistinct conversations .]
Would you pop into my office for five minutes, Mrs.
Manning? One of the teaching assistants will look after Rose and Eamonn.
We won't be long.
We just need to have a quick chat.
Is everything okay? Are either of them in trouble? Before we start, I just want to assure you that everything discussed here is completely confidential.
We received a call concerning you and your children.
Who from? I'm afraid that's also confidential.
We're a mandated reporting body.
We're obliged to take any concerns that are brought to our attention -- even anonymously -- seriously and pass them on to the duty social worker at the Child and Family agency.
Concerns.
That's what we've done.
We have an obligation to tell you that.
Concerns about what? While there were no allegations of physical abuse, there were concerns about your children's welfare.
Does that mean I'm going to be investigated? This is a difficult situation all 'round.
We have done what the law says we -- Does that mean I'm going to be investigated? A report has been made.
It's out of our hands now.
That's all we can say.
That's all we are allowed -- I get it.
You don't have to give me a name.
I know.
[ Bell rings .]
I'm not losing my kids because of you.
[ Glass shatters .]
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
You know who I am? You know I've been working with the police in Dublin? You have many family connections in Canada, especially Montreal.
One of your relatives is currently in the Bordeaux prison there, awaiting trial.
It's a tough place.
Someone was recently beaten to death there by another prisoner.
Your relative would like to make bail.
I have connections that could help with that if in return you'd be willing to give me one name -- the name of the man who was hired to kill a Mr.
Lee Manning on behalf of a man named Niklas Esser.
KROLL: The photographs were all taken in studio.
I didn't want to get caught in the Irish weather.
-MAN: Really? -Uh-huh.
Well, I'm pretty happy with that one.
Yeah.
Hoffman.
Gumbiner-Fischer.
We met before, at a reception at the embassy.
I remember, of course, Dr.
Hoffman.
Thank you so much for coming today.
These are all yours? Ah.
A hobby.
A little more than that, surely.
These are excellent.
Three years isn't really long enough to get under a country's skin, but, um, photography helps.
This is your first year as legal attaché, I believe.
Yes.
That's right.
And afterwards, provided nothing goes wrong -- Paris? Rome? Possibly.
Provided nothing goes wrong? I can't see that anything is likely to.
I have just attended the funeral of my head of security.
He tried to intervene in an illegal surveillance operation carried out by an employee of your embassy acting in the name of the FBI.
I can't have this conversation.
Your employee installed tracking devices on vehicles belonging to one of my workers and his wife.
This man was later murdered in Montreal.
His wife is being persuaded to work with your employee in attacking my company.
I can't even listen to this.
That's unfortunate.
I came to you seeking a way to resolve this matter quietly.
I have a very efficient press and media operation.
You leave me no option but to raise this in public.
I'm listening.
Your agent seems obsessed with making a case against my firm.
I know nothing about this.
Really? But you should have.
Isn't that what Washington will say? We have very good connections in Washington, lobbyists at the highest levels.
If somebody is trying to develop a legal case here, I can't derail it.
FBI personnel are required to check in with me when they arrive.
They're free to follow their own leads after that.
It's our, uh, company policy to spend a certain percentage each year on art.
I would be honored if you would allow us to purchase some of these photographs to hang on our conference room wall.
Are you trying to bribe me? I am trying to resolve a situation that will embarrass you more than me.
And embarrass the FBI even more.
I am not for sale.
My legal department tells me you have ultimate responsibility for agents of the FBI in Dublin.
If your firm has nothing to hide -- We are the most regulated industry in the world.
Every single decision we make is scrutinized over and over again.
I'm prepared to stand by the decisions I have made in the years I have directed Gumbiner- Fischer's operations here.
Are you prepared to stand by yours? Yes, I am.
And the ones which have been made by others, for which you will be blamed? And what are you offering instead? We can talk of that later -- if we can come to some agreement, if our interests can be aligned.
If that's not possible, then Excellent work.
I mean that.
The work, perhaps, of a gifted amateur -- forgive me -- rather than a professional.
But, uh, if you make the wrong decision now, you will have much time ahead of you to practice.
All the time in the world.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
BYRNE: You bugged Lee's car.
You bugged Sarah's car.
Your real target was Hoffman.
Did you bug his car? Off the record? I'm back on the case officially.
I can get you everything you need, off the record or on.
Were you tracking his car? Yes.
You can tell me where he was last night? If I get the file from Mrs.
Manning.
If we can make a trade.
You tell me where he was last night, help me place him at the scene of the murder, help me nail him for the sad and violent death of Deirdre Kilbride, and you can get what you need to bring that firm down.
How's that for a trade? [ Cellphone ringing .]
Patrick? I thought you said we'd have no more to talk about -- about Lee or anything.
This wouldn't exactly be a social thing, Sarah.
[ Indistinct conversations, mid-tempo music playing .]
Is this about that list of Lee's? The list, yeah.
What do you say, Sarah? For old times' sake, for Ciaran's sake, say -- if you can stretch to it.
Let's put a bottle of champagne on the table.
This is gonna be tough on both of us.
[ Exhales deeply .]
What a complicated life you're leading these days, ex-sister-in-law.
I thought I'd managed to tie my affairs in knots, but yours currently sound, you'd have to admit, less fact than fiction.
What's your story been, Patrick? Fact or fiction? A bit of both.
Maybe a touch of true-life crime thrown in there, too.
Now they've got me cold.
I walked into Doheny and Nesbitt's the other day, and somebody who used to be my closest friend looked right through me and walked out.
I'd turned into a ghost.
What do you have to tell me? Or are you just gonna keep dancing around it? Three years back -- the date's important -- it was just before Ciaran died.
Go on.
I'd lost the lot by then.
Me and Nuala were divorced.
I was still kidding myself I had a comeback in me.
Then Nuala turns up out of the blue one day and said she might have found a way out of the mess we were in.
She takes me to see this piece of property.
I mean, talk about a location.
Next to the motorway.
Next to the airport.
A greenfield site once you cleared the buildings away that were on it.
We tried not to get too excited about it, but if we could get it financed, we'd be back in the game again, use the property deal to get back on top.
First stop, we had to clear the title.
And it came up as belonging to a little firm called Gumbiner-Fischer.
Well, they'd bought the property years back and were still sitting on it, even though they'd done a lot of development on other sites, not one of which was as good as that.
They owned it? Freehold, with commercial zoning rights.
And anybody with a nose for property would know there was a bit of a mystery there.
If you weren't gonna build on it, why not flip it, make a killing? There was what you might call an echoing silence from their property department when we approached them.
And then a flat "no.
" They weren't interested in selling at any price.
Me and Nuala were thinking maybe it was a negotiating tactic.
We'd need a bit of inside information, maybe a word on the Q with somebody who could get the goods.
The obvious person to go to was Ciaran, right? He was head of PR then.
The obvious person to go to would have been me.
You were the legal officer of the firm.
You wouldn't have touched it with a barge pole.
There would've been all sorts of conflict-of-interest issues -- a concept, by the way, that has always driven me up the wall.
I mean, isn't life and death a conflict of interest? Ciaran worked for you on this deal? There wasn't a deal.
Not until we could find out why the company were sitting on the land.
I mean, you had to be kept out of it, at least until it was a done deal.
But why? We -- We didn't need the money.
We had good jobs.
This was wealth, not a salary.
And you were earning three, four times what he was, and that bothered him.
I mean, if he could make that killing -- bad choice of words, but Well, he'd get some of his self-respect back.
He never lost it.
The drinking.
You never asked what was really behind that? What did he agree to do for you? Ask around inside the firm, keep his eyes and ears open, take some of the people from the property department for drinks, pump them for information.
He was good at that.
It's what he specialized in.
Spy for you? Research it.
Look, the deal never came off.
The fraud squad were starting to take a closer look at how I'd been keeping my head above water.
And I legged it.
Nuala started her lettings firm, and neither of us gave that piece of property or the company who owned it another thought.
Not until you found those things in Lee's file.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
Hm.
At one point, I'd buy that by the crate.
[ Glass chimes .]
That's the sound that greets you in heaven.
It's o-- It's okay.
I'll -- I'll pour.
Thank you.
[ Ice cubes clattering .]
Using Ciaran seemed like a good idea at the time.
I'll admit I was doing a fair old bit of coke then.
But if what Nuala says is right, if you really believe you have proof that the security chief had him bumped him off, well, then it points straight back at the pill pushers.
Somebody didn't want him poking his nose any further into their business.
[ Champagne fizzing .]
If Ciaran died because of me -- and maybe somehow Lee did too, then that's just another on the list of things I'm guilty of.
And as a judge pointed out yesterday -- as many of them have pointed out over the weary years -- I have brought nothing but trouble down on everybody and everything that I have involved myself with.
And I can't make amends for that, but I can show that I'm sorry.
Ghosts have to do that to find the peace they're looking for.
[ Exhales deeply .]
It's been a great story, yeah? I mean, I lived it, and I can barely believe it myself.
All that's missing is the big finish.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
The man who was gonna be destroyed because of the information in it.
He had the most to gain by Lee being killed before he could hand it over.
It's not longer vague threats anymore.
She's got something in writing that could destroy this firm and send a lot of people to prison.
Sarah Manning is coming straight at Hoffman, and you're a little too close to him for comfort.
I want to find the man who killed my husband and see him punished.
Is that what you want? BYRNE: The death of Sarah Manning's first husband is now a murder inquiry.
I have a witness.
This inquiry involves issues that are way out of your league.
All I tried to do was follow the case to where it led.
Your career is over.
Lee's got all these details about how you financed the properties you and Patrick got into.
There's also a lot of things about Patrick's legal problems.
PATRICK: I don't have anything to say about Lee, and I resent being cross-examined.
I need to know.
How much do you think she knows about that deal with Ciaran? She has no idea of it.
I hope she never does.
He's taken back complete control of the operation.
Emer Byrne is out the door.
After this, I want to have nothing to do with any deals with you or anyone in your firm.
DEIRDRE: There's stuff you need to be made aware of sooner rather than later.
I'm on my way.
[ Engine revs .]
Deirdre? [ Dog barking in distance .]
Over here! She's dead.
[ Birds clucking in distance .]
Did you get a look at that car? Deirdre? Deirdre? Was it Hoffman's? Did you see? What? It'sNo, I -- Oh, my God.
Oh, my God! She'd been phoning someone.
She needs help.
Phone for help.
She's gone, man.
She's gone.
I'll report it.
Put that away.
We have to do this right.
If she was on the phone, if she talked to someone, if she told someone that you were angling for a bribe -- -Take that back.
-You never said no.
Take that back! Did you say no? Did you walk out? I don't think so.
[ Grunts .]
She'd be a witness.
You weren't here.
As long as you don't make that call, you can deny it.
You can say you weren't here, and nobody can prove you wrong.
I'm a senior Garda officer.
If she told what she heard, if she blurted it out, how long do you think you're gonna be a guard? [ Grunts .]
I did nothing wrong.
I was just sounding the two of you out to see how far you'd go.
Yeah.
Try that in court.
See how far you get.
You never said no.
That's enough to hang you.
I'll -- I'll take care of this.
Go! [ Cellphone beeps .]
I have to report a hit-and-run.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
Mom? Look at the time.
We'll be late for school.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Let's get breakfast sorted.
I did it.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
[ Indistinct conversations .]
[ Cellphone ringing .]
[ Cellphone rings .]
Sarah.
SARAH: Aidan.
I wonder if Deirdre is in the office yet.
She called me last night.
I've been trying her phone, and I'm not getting anything.
Is she what? No.
She's not here.
Do -- Do you not know? You didn't see the news this morning? WOMAN: head of human resources at the pharma giant Gumbiner-Fisher.
Gardaà have named the woman as Deirdre Kilbride.
The driver failed to remain at the scene.
A Garda spokesperson has appealed for witnesses or anyone with any information on the incident to contact the [ Mid-tempo music plays .]
What happened last night after you left the cottage? You didn't answer the phone.
I called you a dozen times.
I told you.
I failed to find her.
I drove home.
I had some business I had to attend to the rest of the night.
That isn't the car you came in.
For security reasons, I am required to change cars every few weeks.
That's the car I took possession of this morning.
Where is the car you came to my place in? Don't you have an official car and driver? Where were they last night? That wasn't official business.
Or was it to make sure you had no witness as to who you met? For the love of -- I cared for her.
I really did.
If it wasn't an accident -- You know how dangerous those country roads are.
She was in shock when she left at what she had heard you say.
Don't try to pin this on me.
Maybe she simply failed to see the car that hit her or saw it too late -- or perhaps deliberately stepped in front of it.
If it wasn't like that Then you should go to the police with your suspicions.
I have spoken to Chief Superintendent Nulty already.
He agrees that the meeting between the three of us did not take place.
It would be impossible to explain his being there and also preserve his reputation.
That is what he values most in the world.
I might take it to the guards.
I might just do that.
Then tell them everything.
Be fearless.
Destroy your marriage and your career.
It's your choice.
Look me in the eye and tell me you didn't drive the car into her.
I could ask the same of you.
You had a very personal reason for wanting her out of the way.
Not dead.
Or perhaps it was the chief superintendent who drove after her.
You'd just left.
We heard the bang moments after.
I cannot say what happened one way or the other.
That would be for the police to decide.
All I know is that I wasn't there.
Go home to your wife and children, Mr.
O'Hanlon.
You have seen what it requires to play for the biggest stakes.
It is not for you.
Are you mad, Sarah, coming to me now? It wasn't an accident.
You've been away from the law for a few years.
Maybe you need a refresher course.
We still deal in facts, evidence.
There's no proof Deirdre's death wasn't exactly what it looks like -- a hit-and-run by a drunk on a country road.
I came to you for some of those facts a day ago.
Like who Lee was gonna meet in Montreal and what you knew about it.
I know about the file he was carrying.
It was gonna be used to threaten to blackmail somebody into handing Gumbiner-Fischer a contract they couldn't win on a level playing field.
I have no responsibility for that.
-I'm just a middle-- -Middle-ranking employee.
Yes.
But those are the ones who get sacrificed first, Aidan.
Remember that I can put you smack dab in the sights of the FBI.
You talked about all us having blood on our hands.
What about you? Do you have any part in Deirdre Kilbride's death? This crusade you're on, this obsession you have -- Isn't she a victim of it? If I did somehow cause her death, I'll have to live with it.
Well, that's easy to say.
Nothing about any of this, believe me, is easy.
You taught me it's our job to defend the firm at all costs.
You wore down anybody who attacked it with motion after motion, dragged out the depositions, countersued, refused to settle until they had no money left.
And you made no apology for it.
So how dare you -- you of all people -- come to me and make demands of me, tell me to put my career on the line? Your life is on the line, Aidan.
Don't you realize that? Nobody's safe, not even in there.
Somebody who knew Lehane was on digoxin gave him quinidine, knowing it was only a matter of time before it triggered a heart attack.
Who's next? You want me to help you pull the company down? After everything I've given to it? I want you to help me save it.
The company.
Not Hoffman or whoever else is pulling the strings.
I believe in what we do in there -- the -- the end result, the drugs we manufacture that make people's lives better.
I know.
And that's what makes this hard.
But I'm on my way to see the man I loved for the last time, the man I'll be burying next week.
They're gonna be burying Deirdre Kilbride too.
How many more? We need to end this, Aidan, and we need to end it now before there are any more funerals.
Niklas Esser.
That's the name you want.
He's the German health minister's chief rival.
There's even a suggestion he had an affair with the minister's wife.
That makes it personal as well as political.
-He was -- -I don't know this officially.
And -- And I'll deny it if I'm ever asked.
He was the subject of that file? He was Lee's target? I'm not going there, Sarah.
As far as legal is concerned, everything done by our sales and marketing team is completely aboveboard.
Did you not do that sometimes -- turn a blind eye to something it was better not to see for the good of the firm? Not with something like this.
Maybe you'd have done the same if you were still behind that desk.
I wouldn't.
Well, you'll never know that, will you? Thanks for the health warning, but I can take care of myself.
I need Lehane's annual personal details and details of his compensation, including any performance bonuses, who signed off on those bonuses, and the reasons given for them.
You want me to investigate our head of security? Your very ex head of security, who a witness says threw Ciaran into the canal lock the night he died.
I can't just walk into human resources and grab the files.
That's exactly what you have to do.
They do random searches.
If I get caught -- There are fire alarms all over that building.
They won't search a thousand people rushing to the exits.
I can't do that.
Oh, you'd be surprised what you can do.
You really would.
I've learned that in the past week or so.
What are you gonna do with Esser's name? Give it to somebody who can do something about it.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
[ Telephone beeps .]
Niklas Esser.
[ Telephone ringing .]
[ Beep .]
[ Telephone ringing .]
-[ Beep .]
-WOMAN: Gumbiner-Fischer.
How may I help you? Yes.
I'll just check if he's there for you.
[ Music continues .]
Rebecca, I hate to ask you at a time like this.
I know what you must be feeling.
But I need some of Deirdre's files.
Anything that's on the record about Mr.
Lehane.
Let me check if Mr.
Lehane's files are still here.
Why are you so interested in those files, Mr.
O'Sullivan? I need his personnel information.
At a time like this? When the entire Gumbiner-Fischer family is in mourning for another loss? T-There's, uh, an insurance question on my desk as to whether his death happened on company business or private business.
I need background.
You may leave, my dear.
Take a few days away from the office.
Thank you.
These are difficult times for us, Mr.
O'Sullivan.
Even more difficult than events some years ago.
To survive, we need our best people to go beyond their usual professionalism and thoroughness.
I always give 150%.
Our ultimate loyalty in the end must be to the people we work for and alongside.
Don't you agree? I appreciate that.
Sarah Manning, for example, has no loyalty to this company or anyone who works here.
Why should she? She is an ex-employee.
That's true, Dr.
Hoffman, but if there are problems in our international sales division, if those dates and travel details in the file -she brought to our attention -- -File? What file? Who saw it? You? Ms.
Kilbride, who, alas, is no longer here? Perhaps there was no file.
Uh, Sarah Manning says there is, that she has it.
It is what you know about it that concerns me at this moment.
I'm a legal officer of this corporation.
If anything is wrong here and I fail to take action, I stand not only to lose my job.
I could get struck off.
If it's true that Lee Manning carried a gun that Ciaran Boyle's death and now Lehane's and Deirdre's are connected -- Then this company is under attack from one of our rivals.
Isn't that the most likely explanation? Our new head of security -- once we have decided who that is to be -- will provide the answers.
In the meantime I worry about your safety.
My safety? You are a valuable member of the Gumbiner-Fischer family.
It may be the moment, uh, to send you further afield in your own interest as well as ours.
Do you like to travel? To travel? You have done well here in Dublin.
However, it can be fatal to a career to spend too long in the same position.
We are an international corporation.
We're expanding our operations in Singapore.
I've spoken on your behalf to the international division.
Singapore.
The greatest rewards of all come to those who put the company first.
Dublin today.
Singapore next month.
After that, who knows? There is always room at the top for an ambitious executive.
And if this is also a matter of your own personal safety Do you still need to see those files? [ Down-tempo music plays .]
I don't know.
I don't think so.
I need you to be sure.
I'm sure.
Why not leave Dublin right away? After Mr.
Lehane's funeral, say.
I think that -- that would be a good idea, yes.
Ms.
Kilbride -- her personal life, relationships she may have had, things she might have shared with you Uh, we were colleagues.
That's all.
I don't know anything else about her.
If the Gardaà asked? I'll be leaving Dublin later today anyway.
I predict a long and successful career for you in this company, Mr.
O'Sullivan.
Aidan.
Thank you.
Now I want every detail of the conversations you've had with Sarah Manning.
Who has she been talking to? Who else is asking questions? Who's helping her? Where does she get her information from? She's not working alone.
She can't be.
Who? There should be music, you know? To give you your cue? Like in the films.
"You should cry now.
It's okay.
" I can't.
Not yet.
I'm hanging on by my fingertips to the idea that he only lied to me because he thought it was best for me and the kids, that his job wasn't him -- it was just what he did, that maybe he was gonna blow the whistle on that firm because he was sick of the lies, especially the ones he had to tell me, and everything was gonna change.
Mostly I keep thinking about I keep thinking about how lonely he must have been, having no one to share with, not even me.
'Cause when you love someone you want to give them everything.
Don't you? Everything.
If he had just said to me, "Sarah, listen.
" But that would have put you in danger.
Even so.
What would you have done? What could you have done? I don't know.
And that's the worst thing about it.
'Cause I'm never gonna know the answer to that.
Get Detective Byrne.
Tell her to come to my office -- now.
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
[ Indistinct conversations .]
I can't do it.
I'm sorry.
If you want to know more about Lehane, you're gonna have to go about it another way.
What do you suggest? That I go up to his widow after the funeral and ask her if she knew that the man she's burying killed somebody for his boss to prove his loyalty to the firm? You asked me if I wasn't afraid for my health, Sarah.
Well, I am.
And you're asking me to keep going until maybe I get myself killed too.
Did he make a threat? Or did he make you an offer? I have to do what's best for me and my career.
Offer or threat? I'm going to Singapore.
First class all the way? -You can laugh.
-I'm not laughing.
If I said no to this offer, I'd be yesterday's man.
You're that already, Aidan.
Don't you get it? Hoffman gave you a shove, and you fell over.
He won't forget that.
Easy touches are no use to him or the firm.
He'll give you six months, then he'll find a reason to fire you.
You're finished.
The only danger you are is to yourself.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
DR.
HOFFMAN: This is a painful time for Mr.
Lehane's family and for all of us in Gumbiner-Fischer.
Though our company operates all over the world, with tens of thousands of employees, we never forget that our success is based on the hard work, dedication, and professionalism of each individual who works for us.
I would like every one here who worked alongside Barry Lehane to remember the real meaning of his work -- our work, the purpose we dedicate ourselves to every day, making the world a better, safer, disease- and pain-free place for all of us.
Sir? [ Indistinct conversations .]
I need some answers.
Dr.
Hoffman.
Detective Charles Duquesne, Montreal Police homicide.
I need some answers, too.
I've been trying to speak to you in connection with my inquiries into the death of one of your employees in my city.
I'm afraid I can't help you.
You should speak to our security advisers.
Alas.
They're just about to lay Mr.
Lehane to rest -- something of which you spoke so eloquently.
Is it possible that you could talk to me, confirm that Lee Manning was carrying a file to a Herr Niklas Esser? I'm not sure where your, uh, information comes from.
We will be appointing a new chief of security here in Dublin as soon as possible.
I'm sure they will be happy to answer all your questions.
Could it be possible that Mr.
Lehane is somehow connected to that death in Montreal? DR.
HOFFMAN: It seems unlikely, but that is why you must wait to speak to the experts.
I'm sure Mrs.
Manning here, more than anyone, would like to, uh, get these matters cleared up once and for all.
Aidan O'Sullivan told you that I know what Lee did for you.
That's why you're sending him out of reach of the GardaÃ.
Unfortunately, Mrs.
Manning prefers to believe in conspiracies rather than fact.
What was Deirdre Kilbride's death? A way to keep her quiet? As you can see, in her grief, I have become the focus of her anger.
Ciaran was a good man.
He struggled with some things.
Lehane and you used one of them against him -- his drinking.
It made the way he died believable.
It made me not dig too deep.
Now you've gotten rid of Lehane too.
There was a witness there that night.
While her logic may seem impeccable, it is deeply paranoid.
With all respect, uh, you should be aware of Mrs.
Manning and her fantasies.
I hope for the sake of our past friendship that you seek expert help as soon as possible.
Medical help.
I cannot allow a sick woman to defame this company.
Please do not allow her to put your investigation on the wrong track.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Let him go.
[ Siren wailing in distance .]
My wife is unwell.
I've been thinking of taking some time off to care for her.
It may be months rather than weeks.
Maybe longer.
I'm the third generation to work in the force.
We have no children, so I'll be the last.
You never know what you'll find in yourself until the time comes.
Then you'd better hope you've got a backbone.
You have that.
Takes 15 minutes to clear away 30 years of memories.
Thirty years of doing the right thing -- or trying your best to.
How many decisions do you take in the job that we do every day? Ten? Twenty? How many in a career? It only takes one wrong one to Remember that when you're sitting here.
Because one day you will.
I've reassigned most of the work that I've left undone.
It wasn't much.
I always ran a tidy desk.
There's this one file, though.
You know which one it is.
You opened it.
I made you hand it over.
Do you want it back? It depends on what the conditions are, sir.
[ Chuckles .]
Forget the "sir.
" You can have it if you want it.
No conditions.
Follow it where it goes, to whoever it goes to.
I'll give you what help I can, although I won't be behind the desk.
I'm recommending we officially reopen an accidental drowning case as a murder inquiry.
Then do it.
I have a witness who can identify the killer as an ex-guard, one of our own.
As I said, to wherever it goes.
But you'd better be sure of your facts.
I am, and I know where it goes.
To one of Ireland's most important companies.
Well, if anyone tries to put pressure on you to stop it, I'll back you as far as I can.
I'll also be investigating a hit-and-run, which could also point back to the company and the man who runs it.
Well, if that is material to your inquiry.
It is if I can place him at the scene.
Can you do that? Not at the moment, but I'm hoping to do so.
But he's very good at covering his tracks.
Well, you can't even interview him unless he agrees.
The dead woman worked for the firm.
Can you tell me anything about her or the night she died? As I said, I'll help you as far as I can as a fellow guard.
Not as a witness.
[ Sighs .]
That is my offer, my commitment.
The accident was reported by a TD who had a cottage nearby.
There were questions asked a few years back as to how close he was to decisions made in the siting of a pharmaceutical plant in his constituency.
If the facts lead you to him -- What if it leads to someone else, too, given his connections, some of them in very important jobs in high positions? Well, then you must do your job.
Isn't that clear? The job comes first.
You do what you have to do, and I'll help you as far as I can.
Do you understand? As far as I can.
Do you understand what I'm saying? I do, but I will take this as far as I have to.
That's your last word? Doesn't it have to be? [ Down-tempo music plays .]
I need to spend some time with my wife.
I would like to spend as much time as I can get.
That might be out of your hands, sir, if I do my duty.
[ Sighs .]
That's all you can do, Detective Byrne.
Emer.
You do your duty to the force, and I'll do my duty to the people who love me and look up to me and need me to be there for them.
Aren't you supposed to be working on that file? I tackled Hoffman head on after the funeral.
[ Sighs .]
It just came out.
He didn't even blink.
Took it on the chin.
He told me how worried he is about how I'm doing upstairs.
And for a minute there, I catch myself thinking, "Could he be right? Am I out of my tree? What am I thinking of, taking on a man like that and a firm that big?" It's the lunatics that get things done, Sarah.
The rest of us are at home watching the telly, doing the scratchers.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
Please find out for me who to call in regard to a concern for the mental health of a mother.
I'm concerned for her young and vulnerable children.
[ Bell chimes .]
BYRNE: There was just you here last night, Mr.
O'Hanlon? After you heard the bang, you went outside to look, you found her there, but you didn't see the car that hit her? That's right.
You're a bit out of the way up here.
Any idea why she was in the neighborhood or what business she had this way? I don't, no.
You didn't know her, then? I might have been in the same room with her the one time.
Uh, a week or so ago, maybe.
Just the one? Yeah, at a press thing, uh, at the place she worked.
Gumbiner-Fischer? It's possible she was there at the go-ahead for the new plant.
I meet a lot of people.
She wouldn't have been here last night at the cottage for any reason? I'd have put it in my statement.
Of course.
You come here for a bit of peace, work on your paperwork and your speeches.
So you were here all night? Then that's it.
That's all I have for you.
Thanks for your time.
You've got a lovely little place, you have, here.
Oh, if you ignore the leaky roof.
Why aren't local guards handling this? Why a serious-crimes detective? We wouldn't be sending a guard on a rusty old bike to talk to a member of the Dáil, somebody in the government like you.
Then again, they've had a run of bad luck at the firm she worked for.
Gumbiner-Fischer has landed on my desk again.
I'm just looking at anything that has any connection to them.
Mm.
I'm sure you'll do a great job.
I'll see you out.
Chief Superintendent Nulty passed the file on to me.
Oh.
Good man, Nulty.
He'll be missed.
He'll be what? He's out.
You didn't know? Hasn't made the papers, but I'd have thought someone with their ear to the ground like you might have heard.
He cleared out his desk this morning.
[ Clock chiming .]
Do you know him? I know everybody -- everybody that matters.
And I know the people they answer to.
Everybody answers to somebody, don't you find? You heard a bang and you came straight out here, but you didn't see the car? No.
[ Birds clucking in distance .]
I'll take a walk up the road.
Thank you again.
And yes, I do find that everybody answers to somebody.
In the end, though, we all answer to the law, however high up the pole we are.
That's the theory.
In practice? BYRNE: Those tire tracks -- You had company last night? Might have slipped your mind? The press were here, the TV people, when it got out that I was the one who made the call.
A lonely way to die.
Why was she even out of her car in the first place? Why was she even within 20 miles of here? If you have any questions you'd like me to answer, I'll be glad to hear them.
As it is, I have to get back to my desk.
I have a pile of papers this high I have to get through.
You're an important man, Mr.
O'Hanlon.
A very busy man.
I won't get in your way any more than I have to.
Thank you, Detective.
[ Door opens, closes .]
[ Indistinct talking on radio .]
[ Dog barking in distance .]
My lunch with Patrick.
How did that go? Did he tell you what you needed to know? The last thing he wanted to talk about was that property stuff Lee was digging into.
He made a song and dance about me even asking.
Left so fast, he nearly knocked a waiter over.
I don't know how right in the head he is these days.
The coke.
The booze.
Everything he's been through.
Hadn't you better be picking up the kids? -Do you want me to do it? -When you set the meeting up, did you tell him what I wanted to ask? He knew it wasn't just for old times' sake.
But can you remember what you said -- exactly how you put it, the words you used? Now, here's the thing, Sarah.
I know you are going through what nobody should have to go through, but I am not giving a deposition here.
What I said, what I didn't say, the exact words -- He made the same complaint -- that I was talking like a lawyer.
I'll go get them.
You're off, too, now? So you don't have to give me any answers? They're my kids.
I'll pick them up.
And when I come back, I'll ask you like a sister, not a lawyer.
What is it in that file that Patrick doesn't want me to get the answers to, that, God help the pair of us, you're trying to keep from me, too? [ Down-tempo music plays .]
[ Door opens .]
[ Indistinct conversations .]
Would you pop into my office for five minutes, Mrs.
Manning? One of the teaching assistants will look after Rose and Eamonn.
We won't be long.
We just need to have a quick chat.
Is everything okay? Are either of them in trouble? Before we start, I just want to assure you that everything discussed here is completely confidential.
We received a call concerning you and your children.
Who from? I'm afraid that's also confidential.
We're a mandated reporting body.
We're obliged to take any concerns that are brought to our attention -- even anonymously -- seriously and pass them on to the duty social worker at the Child and Family agency.
Concerns.
That's what we've done.
We have an obligation to tell you that.
Concerns about what? While there were no allegations of physical abuse, there were concerns about your children's welfare.
Does that mean I'm going to be investigated? This is a difficult situation all 'round.
We have done what the law says we -- Does that mean I'm going to be investigated? A report has been made.
It's out of our hands now.
That's all we can say.
That's all we are allowed -- I get it.
You don't have to give me a name.
I know.
[ Bell rings .]
I'm not losing my kids because of you.
[ Glass shatters .]
[ Mid-tempo music plays .]
You know who I am? You know I've been working with the police in Dublin? You have many family connections in Canada, especially Montreal.
One of your relatives is currently in the Bordeaux prison there, awaiting trial.
It's a tough place.
Someone was recently beaten to death there by another prisoner.
Your relative would like to make bail.
I have connections that could help with that if in return you'd be willing to give me one name -- the name of the man who was hired to kill a Mr.
Lee Manning on behalf of a man named Niklas Esser.
KROLL: The photographs were all taken in studio.
I didn't want to get caught in the Irish weather.
-MAN: Really? -Uh-huh.
Well, I'm pretty happy with that one.
Yeah.
Hoffman.
Gumbiner-Fischer.
We met before, at a reception at the embassy.
I remember, of course, Dr.
Hoffman.
Thank you so much for coming today.
These are all yours? Ah.
A hobby.
A little more than that, surely.
These are excellent.
Three years isn't really long enough to get under a country's skin, but, um, photography helps.
This is your first year as legal attaché, I believe.
Yes.
That's right.
And afterwards, provided nothing goes wrong -- Paris? Rome? Possibly.
Provided nothing goes wrong? I can't see that anything is likely to.
I have just attended the funeral of my head of security.
He tried to intervene in an illegal surveillance operation carried out by an employee of your embassy acting in the name of the FBI.
I can't have this conversation.
Your employee installed tracking devices on vehicles belonging to one of my workers and his wife.
This man was later murdered in Montreal.
His wife is being persuaded to work with your employee in attacking my company.
I can't even listen to this.
That's unfortunate.
I came to you seeking a way to resolve this matter quietly.
I have a very efficient press and media operation.
You leave me no option but to raise this in public.
I'm listening.
Your agent seems obsessed with making a case against my firm.
I know nothing about this.
Really? But you should have.
Isn't that what Washington will say? We have very good connections in Washington, lobbyists at the highest levels.
If somebody is trying to develop a legal case here, I can't derail it.
FBI personnel are required to check in with me when they arrive.
They're free to follow their own leads after that.
It's our, uh, company policy to spend a certain percentage each year on art.
I would be honored if you would allow us to purchase some of these photographs to hang on our conference room wall.
Are you trying to bribe me? I am trying to resolve a situation that will embarrass you more than me.
And embarrass the FBI even more.
I am not for sale.
My legal department tells me you have ultimate responsibility for agents of the FBI in Dublin.
If your firm has nothing to hide -- We are the most regulated industry in the world.
Every single decision we make is scrutinized over and over again.
I'm prepared to stand by the decisions I have made in the years I have directed Gumbiner- Fischer's operations here.
Are you prepared to stand by yours? Yes, I am.
And the ones which have been made by others, for which you will be blamed? And what are you offering instead? We can talk of that later -- if we can come to some agreement, if our interests can be aligned.
If that's not possible, then Excellent work.
I mean that.
The work, perhaps, of a gifted amateur -- forgive me -- rather than a professional.
But, uh, if you make the wrong decision now, you will have much time ahead of you to practice.
All the time in the world.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
BYRNE: You bugged Lee's car.
You bugged Sarah's car.
Your real target was Hoffman.
Did you bug his car? Off the record? I'm back on the case officially.
I can get you everything you need, off the record or on.
Were you tracking his car? Yes.
You can tell me where he was last night? If I get the file from Mrs.
Manning.
If we can make a trade.
You tell me where he was last night, help me place him at the scene of the murder, help me nail him for the sad and violent death of Deirdre Kilbride, and you can get what you need to bring that firm down.
How's that for a trade? [ Cellphone ringing .]
Patrick? I thought you said we'd have no more to talk about -- about Lee or anything.
This wouldn't exactly be a social thing, Sarah.
[ Indistinct conversations, mid-tempo music playing .]
Is this about that list of Lee's? The list, yeah.
What do you say, Sarah? For old times' sake, for Ciaran's sake, say -- if you can stretch to it.
Let's put a bottle of champagne on the table.
This is gonna be tough on both of us.
[ Exhales deeply .]
What a complicated life you're leading these days, ex-sister-in-law.
I thought I'd managed to tie my affairs in knots, but yours currently sound, you'd have to admit, less fact than fiction.
What's your story been, Patrick? Fact or fiction? A bit of both.
Maybe a touch of true-life crime thrown in there, too.
Now they've got me cold.
I walked into Doheny and Nesbitt's the other day, and somebody who used to be my closest friend looked right through me and walked out.
I'd turned into a ghost.
What do you have to tell me? Or are you just gonna keep dancing around it? Three years back -- the date's important -- it was just before Ciaran died.
Go on.
I'd lost the lot by then.
Me and Nuala were divorced.
I was still kidding myself I had a comeback in me.
Then Nuala turns up out of the blue one day and said she might have found a way out of the mess we were in.
She takes me to see this piece of property.
I mean, talk about a location.
Next to the motorway.
Next to the airport.
A greenfield site once you cleared the buildings away that were on it.
We tried not to get too excited about it, but if we could get it financed, we'd be back in the game again, use the property deal to get back on top.
First stop, we had to clear the title.
And it came up as belonging to a little firm called Gumbiner-Fischer.
Well, they'd bought the property years back and were still sitting on it, even though they'd done a lot of development on other sites, not one of which was as good as that.
They owned it? Freehold, with commercial zoning rights.
And anybody with a nose for property would know there was a bit of a mystery there.
If you weren't gonna build on it, why not flip it, make a killing? There was what you might call an echoing silence from their property department when we approached them.
And then a flat "no.
" They weren't interested in selling at any price.
Me and Nuala were thinking maybe it was a negotiating tactic.
We'd need a bit of inside information, maybe a word on the Q with somebody who could get the goods.
The obvious person to go to was Ciaran, right? He was head of PR then.
The obvious person to go to would have been me.
You were the legal officer of the firm.
You wouldn't have touched it with a barge pole.
There would've been all sorts of conflict-of-interest issues -- a concept, by the way, that has always driven me up the wall.
I mean, isn't life and death a conflict of interest? Ciaran worked for you on this deal? There wasn't a deal.
Not until we could find out why the company were sitting on the land.
I mean, you had to be kept out of it, at least until it was a done deal.
But why? We -- We didn't need the money.
We had good jobs.
This was wealth, not a salary.
And you were earning three, four times what he was, and that bothered him.
I mean, if he could make that killing -- bad choice of words, but Well, he'd get some of his self-respect back.
He never lost it.
The drinking.
You never asked what was really behind that? What did he agree to do for you? Ask around inside the firm, keep his eyes and ears open, take some of the people from the property department for drinks, pump them for information.
He was good at that.
It's what he specialized in.
Spy for you? Research it.
Look, the deal never came off.
The fraud squad were starting to take a closer look at how I'd been keeping my head above water.
And I legged it.
Nuala started her lettings firm, and neither of us gave that piece of property or the company who owned it another thought.
Not until you found those things in Lee's file.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]
Hm.
At one point, I'd buy that by the crate.
[ Glass chimes .]
That's the sound that greets you in heaven.
It's o-- It's okay.
I'll -- I'll pour.
Thank you.
[ Ice cubes clattering .]
Using Ciaran seemed like a good idea at the time.
I'll admit I was doing a fair old bit of coke then.
But if what Nuala says is right, if you really believe you have proof that the security chief had him bumped him off, well, then it points straight back at the pill pushers.
Somebody didn't want him poking his nose any further into their business.
[ Champagne fizzing .]
If Ciaran died because of me -- and maybe somehow Lee did too, then that's just another on the list of things I'm guilty of.
And as a judge pointed out yesterday -- as many of them have pointed out over the weary years -- I have brought nothing but trouble down on everybody and everything that I have involved myself with.
And I can't make amends for that, but I can show that I'm sorry.
Ghosts have to do that to find the peace they're looking for.
[ Exhales deeply .]
It's been a great story, yeah? I mean, I lived it, and I can barely believe it myself.
All that's missing is the big finish.
[ Down-tempo music plays .]