Part 4 of 6 of the 1985 thriller. Geoffrey discovers who his friends really are when he struggles to raise the £3million he needs for the ransom, and his business associates smell blood. He finds a friend in Frances' sister Margaret, but as he gets closer to her he learns some disturbing and somewhat unpalatable truths about his wife and the events that led up to her first husband's death. Meanwhile, at the IRA hideout, as Frank risks discovery while picking up Clare's medication, Frances plots an escape plan, but when things go wrong events take a gruesome turn...
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00:30What are you doing?
00:54I'm marking the day.
00:55Why are you marking it like that?
00:57Go back to sleep.
00:59Why are you marking it like that?
01:01I'm making a week. I'm making a calendar.
01:04Oh.
01:06That's only six days.
01:09Is it?
01:10Oh, damn.
01:15You're going stupid.
01:18What's the point anyway?
01:20Each day is the same as the next.
01:22At least I won't have to hang it up.
01:24What?
01:25The calendar.
01:27Oh, I hate it when you're trying to cheer me up.
01:29I hate it.
01:30Move up.
01:33Move up.
01:34You stink.
01:35So do you.
01:36Oh, I hate you.
01:38Just move up.
01:46Melty cheese.
01:47Old socks.
01:49Old boots.
01:51Pig swill.
01:52Drains.
01:54The bucket.
02:05Frank?
02:09Yeah.
02:35I'm hungry.
02:36Can I have some bread?
02:38There isn't any.
02:40Claire.
02:41You liar.
02:42Claire, save it.
02:43I want it.
02:46I want it.
02:50I'm cold, I'm hungry and I want it.
02:54Do you want some?
02:56Don't be so bloody noble.
02:59Is that where they're going to let us out?
03:00What?
03:01That mark.
03:03Stop it.
03:10Do it properly, 24 times.
03:17What's wrong?
03:19Mummy?
03:20Mummy?
03:25I think I'm getting my period.
03:27Are you sure?
03:30Afraid so.
03:33I thought you were going to have a baby.
03:38So did I.
03:56Christ, you are nervous.
03:58Alert.
04:00Are the roads clear?
04:02No, they're crawling with guards.
04:03Can you not hear them?
04:07Where's my oyster fry?
04:09In the pan.
04:10Can you not smell it?
04:11No, sharp.
04:12Very sharp.
04:13Mind you don't cut yourself.
04:16I'm starving.
04:19Christ.
04:20The loaves are crusty here before they hit the bottom of the tin.
04:23Go and get some.
04:26Where's Frank?
04:28Where's the car?
04:55This picture's all over the bloody town.
05:02Stupid, stupid.
05:09Where's he gone?
05:12Shopping.
05:14Shopping?
05:25Look, we've got to act normal.
05:31If we don't go out, what are people going to think?
05:44What time did he go?
05:46Shopping?
05:47Nine.
05:48He said he'd be back in an hour.
05:51It's nearly ten.
05:53He wouldn't go shopping.
05:55Look, the Pope looks more like that picture than he does.
05:58He could walk into a guardist station and ask the way.
06:01That's probably just what he will do.
06:05Shit.
06:30You should have stopped him.
06:32He's the boss man.
06:33You faded it between us.
06:45If he's picked up, they'll search the area.
06:51Get their breakfast.
06:53What breakfast?
07:22Check the road.
07:32Willie.
07:36Felt her face pressed against me.
07:41He's gone to phone his wife.
07:44He's gone to phone his daughter.
07:46It's her birthday.
07:49Idiot.
07:51Why don't you tell him that?
07:58One's gone out.
08:00Two.
08:02Who's left?
08:07Not the witch.
08:22Come here.
08:23There you are.
08:26Jackie's right there.
08:28Come on.
08:56Bus stop?
08:58Can't you read?
09:00I didn't see that at all.
09:03There's a car park down the bottom there.
09:05Thanks a lot.
09:07I'll remember that.
09:09Aren't you from the north?
09:11I was from the black north, eh?
09:13But I'm a Dublin man now, in spite of the price of petrol.
09:16Can I see your licence, please?
09:18Certainly.
09:25There you are.
09:33Jesus.
09:36Oh, boy, that's right.
09:37You nearly got me.
09:38Jesus, bitch, me watch that child.
09:41Use the car park in future.
09:43Aye, I will.
09:45Hi.
10:11I've ridden to the witch, Mummy.
10:13What's she doing?
10:14What's happening?
10:44When did you do that?
10:46Shh.
11:12Shh.
11:41What are you going to do?
11:58Nothing.
12:02Just in case.
12:04If I shout floor, drop there.
12:07There, behind the bed.
12:26Stay away from there.
12:42What's wrong?
12:58Aren't you hungry?
13:02Pick it up.
13:04Not you.
13:07You move.
13:11Are you deaf?
13:24Please don't point that thing at me.
13:26Don't you tell me what to do.
13:49Willie!
13:55Who is it?
13:56Floor!
14:07Oh, Jesus!
14:35Oh, God!
14:47All right, all right, all right, all right.
14:49I thought they'd got you!
14:50I thought they'd got you!
14:52She's on the train!
14:54He was going to shoot me.
14:55Where the bloody hell were you?
14:56Easy, Kate.
14:57Downstairs!
14:58Out, out, out, out, out!
15:00For God's sake, our pictures are all over Ireland.
15:02We've done it.
15:03Done it?
15:04We've got the money.
15:05You've collected it?
15:06No, no, no, no.
15:07It's in the paper.
15:08He's sold up.
15:09It's in the car, in the paper.
15:10He's sold out of his company.
15:11He's back here.
15:12We've done it.
15:17We haven't done it yet.
15:20There's a way to go.
15:21But that's the bread.
15:23Aye, that's the bread.
15:26I knew they'd be the sort of people who make great, greasy fries.
15:29Aye, that's it.
15:31I don't like it.
15:34I've got grease all over your mouth.
15:36I can see my face in yours.
15:43There's no one to see us.
15:45There's me, you, us.
15:47We mustn't let ourselves go.
15:51You did.
16:04We won't need that now.
16:06No.
16:29You're in.
16:32Yes?
16:36Oh, good morning, Simon.
16:38The last hurdle.
16:39We're 150,000 short.
16:42Feels like a million.
16:45Oh, Margaret, would you phone O'Leary and remind him?
16:47It's done.
16:48He'll see you this evening.
16:49Why don't you go and rest?
16:50I'm all right.
16:52Stay with us tonight after dinner.
16:55I can't keep on running over here.
16:57Coming!
16:58Coffee?
16:59Yes, please.
17:01See, there's some land in this place.
17:04But I wouldn't get much more than a mortgage on it.
17:07I sold it.
17:09In South Africa, a diamond merchant whose wife was kidnapped
17:12told me that jackals which normally fed off a lion's leavings
17:16would eat a dying lion alive.
17:19I know the feeling.
17:25They've come down from three million to two in ten days.
17:28Yes.
17:30I would stick it out a bit longer.
17:33So we can settle for less?
17:35Yes, but that's not the point.
17:37If you settle too easily,
17:39they may try and squeeze more out of you.
17:42There isn't any more.
17:44They don't know that.
17:46To make sure, they might release your wife and keep the child.
17:50This business is not only about how much you pay, but when.
17:54Another week, they might come down another million.
17:57But that's over the deadline.
17:59That's rather a pressure than a serious threat.
18:02The police know who the leader is, so he's less likely to kill them.
18:06Tell them you're having difficulty turning shares into cash.
18:09You'll pay them a quarter of a million for the child now.
18:12But they know how much I have now.
18:14No, they don't.
18:16They only know I'm selling shares.
18:18They don't know what I'm getting for them.
18:20Have you signed that?
18:22Not yet, no. The bank's preparing the cash.
18:26So they might keep the child?
18:28If they think they can get more.
18:33I'm not minimising the risk, sir.
18:37But holding on and keeping our nerve
18:40is just as likely to reduce the risks in the long run.
18:45I can't do it. I must trust them. I must.
18:51If O'Leary buys the land,
18:53I'll pay what they're asking for.
19:13I can't go below 150,000.
19:18She gets higher fat content when she feels my hands on her tits.
19:26For your wife, is it? Easy, no easy?
19:30Yes.
19:32Inside pocket? Checkbook.
19:35Right at home. I can't stop. Rhythm.
19:38That's what comes with women and cows.
19:43What, 150,000?
19:45If that's what you want to borrow,
19:47I'll phone the bank in the morning. I don't want the land.
19:56I wouldn't have sold a field for my wife,
19:59but it's your money.
20:02Interest?
20:04You'll pay that already, several times over,
20:07if you remember the occasion.
20:15I'll do it.
20:31Tell me what you think of that.
20:34I think that's the best milk I've ever tasted.
20:49Well, it wasn't a landowner for long.
20:52You still own it.
20:56Do not pass credit.
20:58You still own it.
21:02Do not pass go. Do not collect 200 pounds.
21:06That's what Jim Slater called his book when he crashed.
21:10Used to be one of my private nightmares, losing everything.
21:14Used to be?
21:16Well, at least I can now contemplate it.
21:20That's progress.
21:23Yes.
21:25Yes, for me it is. Yes, great progress.
21:28Everything must go. It's invigorating. It's a challenge.
21:36It's absolutely appalling.
21:40Make up your mind.
21:42I'm afraid, Margaret.
21:44I used to think I was strong, but I'm not.
21:47I'm terribly, terribly weak.
21:49I had to have everything my own way
21:51before Francis, under my own control.
21:55And I sometimes think what a relief it would be to go back to that.
22:00And sometimes I wish I'd never met her.
22:05Isn't that a dreadful thing to say?
22:08No.
22:10No, no.
22:12I'm amazed I can talk like this.
22:16I don't think I ever talked about my feelings before I met her.
22:21Perhaps I never felt them.
22:25But now she's so much part of me that...
22:30if anything happened to her...
22:41What's this?
22:43Garlic sauce. You don't have to eat it.
22:49It doesn't cook like this for me. Now, that's a fact.
22:54Geoffrey's glasses, aren't they?
22:59More polyglossy.
23:02Or would you prefer whiskey?
23:04He would not.
23:06You sort it out now.
23:15And she doesn't dress like that for me either, Geoffrey.
23:19Only because you wouldn't notice.
23:21I would. I have.
23:24I have noticed.
23:30She's attractive when she blushes.
23:34Don't you think so, Geoffrey?
23:36Shut up.
23:39All you do, Geoffrey, make another fortune.
23:47The fish is good. It's excellent.
23:50Robert, please.
23:52What?
23:57I just want them to be happy.
24:00I know.
24:02I know.
24:04I know.
24:07I just want them back. I can't think beyond that.
24:11Yes, of course.
24:14I won't make a lot of money again.
24:17You're depressed.
24:19It's your cold saying that.
24:22You need an idea,
24:25luck,
24:27energy,
24:29and a belief in your infallibility.
24:32And that combination comes once in a lifetime,
24:35as someone reminded me recently.
24:41I'm still waiting for it.
24:58Shut up, will you?
25:01The light's gone and I've upset the bucket.
25:08There it is, sir. Oak's Farm.
25:11There's an old cottage where we'll pick up the money.
25:15What then?
25:21Take it to Dublin.
25:23They want 50% up front before they bring over the arms.
25:27How do we know how much you'll give them?
25:31Trusting bastard, aren't you?
25:33You'll get your 10,000, don't worry.
25:3610? Out of 2 million?
25:39Look, nobody know how much we got, Frank.
25:43Joke, joke, joke.
25:46Oh, aye, very funny.
25:49Do the rounds. I'll get down.
26:00Bit there.
26:39Oh, dear.
26:41Sorry.
26:54Shit.
27:00Shit.
27:19No, no, no, thanks.
27:21My brother was on the blanket.
27:31Are you from Derry?
27:33How would you know?
27:35What accent?
27:39Brits can't usually tell.
27:42I'm Irish.
27:44That's a matter of opinion.
27:55How did you...?
28:00Stored.
28:04Thrown stones.
28:21Willie?
28:30Willie?
28:55It was 4 o'clock one morning.
28:58There was a hammering at the door.
29:01The troops were thundering upstairs, shouting for William Crawson.
29:07My mother held on to my father,
29:10but they threw her off him,
29:12against the stairs.
29:17He'd done nothing.
29:20We weren't a Provo family.
29:22This wasn't the Bog or the Cregan.
29:28I was 12.
29:31If she caught me throwing stones at the Brits, she belted me.
29:37He had bronchitis. He wasn't a well man.
29:40They ran him across the road on his bare feet, over broken glass.
29:47He was spread-eagled against a wall.
29:52The crucifix round his neck was torn off.
29:56You have a fucking cheek to wear that, Paddy.
30:02And when he collapsed,
30:04they battened him in the stomach or the balls.
30:08And when he could no longer get up,
30:11they stamped on his fingers.
30:14I broke two of them.
30:18When he was released, there were no charges.
30:25That night, it was the week before Bloody Sunday,
30:30I was allowed out to throw stones.
30:56Come.
30:59Come.
31:21Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.
31:24After so many years since my last confession, my sins must be so many.
31:34Mother, release us without more pain and I will be faithful to you and to my husband for the rest of my life.
31:42Amen.
31:54Amen.
32:25Can't you sleep?
32:32I always go for the family album at this time of night.
32:36Can't you?
32:37Oh, I just came down for my pen.
32:39Have a cold cure.
32:42I'm afraid I can't.
32:44I'm afraid I can't.
32:46I'm afraid I can't.
32:48I'm afraid I can't.
32:50I'm afraid I can't.
32:52I'm afraid I can't.
32:54Um...
32:56Yes, all right, thank you.
33:07Don't worry, she'll come through okay.
33:10She always does.
33:13Was she happy with him?
33:15It was idyllic.
33:19She couldn't bear to talk about it.
33:22How can you be so clever and so naive?
33:27What do you mean?
33:29Nothing.
33:36Don't let me drink any more.
33:39After this.
33:52I won a beauty contest from you children.
33:57She was so upset.
34:00I've gone downhill since, of course.
34:14Since no one's allowed in there, I suppose you shall have her bedroom as it was.
34:18Spilled powder, pyjamas on the floor.
34:20All the sheets have been changed.
34:25You're a literal romantic.
34:29Romantically literal.
34:34What's wrong?
34:36Nothing.
34:37Margaret?
34:38Will you go away?
34:39Come on.
34:40Go to bed.
34:45Oh, it's just this last week.
34:48That brute on the telephone and...
34:51I thought...
34:53It's over, it's nearly all over and...
34:56I'll sleep tonight and...
34:58I haven't, that's all.
35:02I don't even like her.
35:04What?
35:05I hate her!
35:09No, I...
35:11Yes, I...
35:13Oh, Holy Mother, help me.
35:18I've been clearing up after all my life.
35:22Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
35:26Come on.
35:31This is absurd, you should be in bed.
35:44I don't want your coat.
35:48Come on.
35:58Idyllic.
36:02She killed him.
36:07I'm just so tired of picking up the pieces for her.
36:13But he fell off his horse, didn't he?
36:15Yes, yes, yes, he fell off his horse.
36:26She destroys men, haven't you realised?
36:31I love men.
36:34There's something wrong somewhere.
36:37They were pissed to a charitable.
36:41Well, not that pissed, to be truthful.
36:45She was having an affair with Andrew.
36:47He'd mortgaged his farm for her.
36:52Well, he knew that, surely.
36:58Oh, God, what am I saying?
37:00Oh, well, I can't stop now, can I?
37:03It was in the big room at Kilnermethe.
37:06It started off as a joke, a bet.
37:10Only she was serious.
37:13There was that terrible gleam in her eyes.
37:17She told me she was going to choose between them.
37:21It's the truth.
37:24It's the truth.
37:25She told me she was going to choose between them.
37:29It's the truth, man.
37:30Can you not hear her saying it?
37:34They saddled up the horses.
37:37They had a jump-off for her up at the cops.
37:44She came here with Andrew afterwards, of course.
37:52They brought the body here.
37:56I was quite fond of him, too.
37:59Is she still with Andrew?
38:01I don't know.
38:05Oh, God, no, you mustn't think that.
38:11Yes, you're right.
38:13What?
38:15I am somewhat naive in these matters.
38:18Don't be so stupid.
38:20She thinks you're wonderful.
38:22She does.
38:23She does.
38:25But you mustn't put her on a pedestal.
38:28There's no need to be that upset.
38:31I'm all right.
38:32No, you're not, you're not.
38:35Oh, God, what a stupid thing to say.
38:39I'll go.
38:41Geoffrey, you're about 150 intellectually and about 14 emotionally.
38:50You look so frightened.
38:51Frightened?
38:52Don't be upset.
38:53Stay and talk, please.
38:56Stay and talk.
38:57I'm just tired, I'm just so tired.
39:01Yes, yes, I am.
39:04Well, we all are.
39:09Take your drink, then.
39:13Shall I hot it up?
39:14No, thank you.
39:16Here.
39:17Here.
39:20You forgot what you came for.
39:47What?
40:18Half a million?
40:19That's right.
40:20The drop will be done in two stages.
40:23But that's not what we agreed.
40:25It's too dangerous to give them the whole lot at once.
40:27Too dangerous?
40:28They may only release one and come back for more.
40:32We'll offer this for Claire.
40:34That's not what they're expecting.
40:36It's not.
40:38It's not.
40:40It's not.
40:42It's not.
40:44It's not.
40:45That's not what they're expecting.
40:47Please, Geoffrey.
40:50I've talked to them, you haven't.
40:53They'll kill them.
40:54They mean it, they're desperate.
40:56They said two million and we must give them two million.
40:59We can't.
41:01We can't.
41:02We must.
41:03We can't because the money isn't there.
41:09You've sold the shares.
41:12Yes.
41:13Well then.
41:16To O'Leary.
41:18I thought you just borrowed a hundred.
41:20I went to see him again.
41:21Now the sale isn't worth as much as Eagle's offer,
41:24but I can now lay my hands on something in excess of a million and a half.
41:30But Simon's sure they'll come down.
41:32Are you?
41:36We've agreed.
41:37No, Margaret, we've never agreed on a specific sum.
41:40We've never agreed on a specific sum.
41:42I agreed to sell the shares, but we've never said what we'll get for them.
41:46But they know how much they're worth.
41:47They're worth what I can get.
41:49Like everything else.
41:51They'll come down.
41:54Yes.
41:55And what are Frances and Claire going to go through?
41:59Now you have to speak to them about the deal.
42:00I'm not talking to them.
42:01Oh, come on, Margaret, come on.
42:03Please.
42:04We won't get anywhere if we don't all calm down.
42:07I don't understand.
42:08If the sale isn't worth as much, why did you do it?
42:11O'Leary's a bloody farmer.
42:12He knows as much about computers as you do about pigs.
42:15What's he going to do with these shares? Feed them to his cows?
42:19Ah, I smell it.
42:21I smell it.
42:22The man's done some kind of a deal.
42:24Have you?
42:26There's a buyback option in six months.
42:29Ah.
42:30What does that mean?
42:32He has to sell the shares back to him after six months.
42:35If I can pay for them.
42:36But they know from the paper about the Eagle deal.
42:38But no sum is mentioned.
42:40So far as they're concerned, this is a better deal.
42:42Ah, you have all the answers, haven't you?
42:44I think so, yes.
42:45You've saved your wretched company.
42:47I might save it.
42:48And sentence them to death.
42:49Oh, don't be absurd, Andrew.
42:52We've been negotiating now for three weeks under threats.
42:55And their demands have gone sharply down as they realise the problems of forced selling.
42:59They're bound to see that I can't get the market value for the shares.
43:01We can see the certificate of sale.
43:03Of course.
43:05Well.
43:09Margaret, I've done everything I can.
43:12Yes.
43:13Not everything.
43:14Everything has been sold.
43:17I thought you loved her.
43:18Andrew.
43:19You love your company.
43:21You love money.
43:22Everything is figures.
43:24You told me that the first night I met you.
43:26All right, all right.
43:28All right.
43:29We're all overwrought.
43:31You're not.
43:32Steady, Andrew.
43:33Come along.
43:34I think you'd better go.
43:35Yes, I'd better head.
43:38The newspaper headline, I love you.
43:41Did you say that?
43:44Or did you send your man to give a press release?
43:49What do you want, Andrew?
43:50Another jump off?
44:03At last, everybody had seen it except them.
44:07On that day, they were all getting rather tired of the subject.
44:11It was the dinner hour.
44:33Come.
44:40Oh, great.
44:53What's happening?
44:56These pieces are missing.
45:02How much?
45:26Half a million.
45:29For the girl.
45:31Why not?
45:33Why not?
45:41What has she seen?
45:43What does she know?
45:48We've been careful.
45:49We've not been careful.
45:53We can't release her.
45:54Of course we can't.
45:55Of course we can't.
45:59We could take the woman to another house.
46:02We're stalling, Frank.
46:04A million and a half is still a lot of money.
46:06If they pay.
46:08And I doubt that they intend to now.
46:20He's lied.
46:21I know he has.
46:23They'll keep offering less.
46:25It's a trap.
46:26I can feel it.
46:33What happens if they don't pay, Frankie?
46:56You've got too close to them.
47:18I will execute the woman if I have to.
47:26We've got to show them that we're serious.
47:32These sky pieces are hopeless.
47:35Hopeless.
47:39What's the point of standing there?
47:40You can't hear anything.
47:44No.
47:46Well, then, come and help me.
47:49No.
47:52No.
47:53Well, then, come and help me.
48:24All right.
48:27I'll do it.
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