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00:02In large drifting letters, these sacred vows, created by John Butler. Audio described by Kevin Sherwin for RTE.
00:13Cormac, who's white and slim with bleach blonde short hair and a black eye, is sitting bare-chested on the
00:18side of his bed, stretching.
00:20Dressed in blue t-shirt and shorts now, with a beach bag over one shoulder, he grabs an apple from
00:25a fruit bowl and heads out of the Tenerife Villa.
00:27He approaches Glen, who's sitting outside.
00:30Beer for breakfast?
00:31Yes, ma'am. It's my holidays.
00:34I'll try again. Good morning, Glen.
00:35Morning, Rory.
00:37Can I sit?
00:39He sits and picks up a speaker.
00:41Do you mind if I am?
00:44Glen looks a little irked as Cormac lowers the volume.
00:50Am I being paranoid, or were you annoyed when you left the pool last night?
00:54No, it's Grant.
00:55I know, it's Grant, but I'm just asking why you ran off like that.
01:00Um, I don't like hypocrites.
01:02And who is the hypocrite?
01:03All of you, basically.
01:06Fucking chatting away to the priest like he's not the devil incarnate.
01:10Makes me sick, man.
01:11Is that being a tiny bit general?
01:13Have you read the papers in the last few years?
01:15It's a fucking pedo colony, man.
01:18Like, no offence, I know you're still into it.
01:20It's just a hard pass for me.
01:21Well, you might be interested to hear that once you were gone, the priest came back, dive-bombed into the
01:26pool, and just generally lost his shit.
01:29Really?
01:30Really.
01:31Also, he told me to go fuck myself.
01:32It's actually a pretty good show.
01:34Well, it doesn't mean he's not a pedo, though.
01:36Where are you off to?
01:37Gym.
01:37It's your holiday.
01:38I like going to the gym.
01:39Oh, you're so virtuous.
01:40You know you're going to die, right?
01:42Bro, you never go to the gym.
01:43Are you sure you're even gay?
01:44That has more to do with enjoying sex with men.
01:48Cormac smiles to himself as he puts headphones on, and letters appear spelling out his name.
01:55A short time later, he's striding past a large pool at the gym.
02:01He goes to a locker, then is walking briskly on a treadmill.
02:06He picks up some dumbbells and continues his workout.
02:12He runs on a treadmill and uses a couple of weight machines.
02:22He takes a swim and later is back at his locker.
02:27Gerry, who's at a nearby locker, glances briefly at him as he walks away.
02:33Cormac turns to look after him, then moments later enters a sauna with a towel around his waist.
02:42Cormac sits opposite two women.
02:44Gerry comes in and sits between the women.
02:52Cormac's head is turned with his eyes closed.
02:54You wouldn't think we'd want this heat on our bodies while the weather outside.
02:58It's great for the joints.
03:00The aches and the pains.
03:03You're doing all right.
03:07Did you play this morning?
03:09Yeah.
03:10Yeah, we did OK.
03:12You do get into such trouble in those bunkers, don't you?
03:15Ah, listen.
03:17Never out of trouble.
03:21OK.
03:22That's me.
03:23See you later.
03:24Yeah, see you.
03:25Gerry looks across towards Cormac, who's turned to one side.
03:32Cormac gets off his bench and Gerry glances towards him as he leaves the sauna.
03:39A short time later, Cormac walks towards a shower cubicle, slings his towel over the door and steps inside.
03:47He shuts the door, then opens it again slightly and peers towards Gerry, who's showering in a cubicle opposite, his
03:53door slightly ajar.
03:56Gerry turns and locks eyes with Cormac, who looks away, continuing to wash himself.
04:04Gerry pushes his cubicle door open a little more.
04:10Cormac does the same.
04:15Gerry slowly turns and makes eye contact with Cormac again.
04:22Cormac looks down towards Gerry's crotch.
04:27Gerry looks down too, then meets Cormac's eye with a lustful intensity.
04:35Cormac is looking off to one side, a hand on his forehead, while his other hand seems to be lowered
04:40around his own crotch.
04:47Gerry's staring intensely towards Cormac, who catches his eye briefly.
04:55Gerry's starting to quiver a little as he looks down towards his groin, then back up at Cormac.
05:17Gerry turns away, grabs his towel and shuts the cubicle door.
05:25Gerry comes out of the cubicle and walks away, without another glance in Cormac's direction.
05:34Cormac comes out of the shower area, into the changing room, looking around.
05:40A door closes across the room.
05:45How was the gym?
05:46Uneventful.
05:47He's with Ava at the beach now.
05:50Shit, we just missed Eric and Eve. They were here like five minutes ago.
05:54Barely seen them this weekend. It's their wedding.
05:56Have you met Eve's parents before?
05:58Never.
05:58Gerry is your classic alpha golf jock dad.
06:02And Sandra's kind of iconic. The welcome dinner will be gas, I think.
06:07When does Felix get here?
06:09Day after mañana, which is Spanish for tomorrow.
06:11I'm not...
06:12Yeah, he's cycling from the north of the island.
06:15Cormac takes his T-shirt off and lays back on a towel.
06:18Hey, I have something I need to talk to you about.
06:24I have a doctor's appointment today.
06:27You do? Like, here?
06:30Ava, what's wrong? Whatever it is, we can fix it.
06:32She looks around and leans closer.
06:34I have this thing.
06:37Like, this embarrassing, awful thing.
06:41Ava, what is it, my lord?
06:43You okay?
06:45I think I have something bad.
06:47Like, like down there.
06:50Like, like the sex thing.
06:54Fuck, Cormac is serious.
06:55It almost certainly isn't.
06:57Like, HPV, herpes.
06:59How long have you had her?
07:00Like, a week.
07:01I was hoping it would just disappear in time.
07:03I thought you're just symptomatic because you're stressed.
07:07Will you come with me?
07:08Of course.
07:09I mean, can I be your husband?
07:10It could actually be fucking gas, crack.
07:13Fuck off.
07:14Listen, I get tested every three months for prep.
07:17And I have been riddled over the years.
07:21Really?
07:21Yeah, it'll be grand.
07:24Believe me.
07:26She nods and he lays back down, his hands behind his head.
07:34Later, he and Ava are holding hands as they float on the sea on rubber rings.
07:43A dark-haired guy holding a racket is nearby and splashes Ava with water.
07:49I've gotten wet.
07:50I'm sorry about that.
07:52Is that your move?
07:54Splash a woman and then apologize.
07:56Kind of, yeah.
07:58Stuart.
08:00Professional kite surfer.
08:02That there's my home on wheels up yonder.
08:04I love those!
08:06I was obsessed with fan life during COVID.
08:08Yeah, it's just super high-spec.
08:09Amazing Wi-Fi surround sound.
08:12Want to see inside?
08:13That is precisely what someone who wanted to abduct me would say.
08:17I'm just very house proud.
08:18I have a tea, Cody.
08:19Want to take a peek?
08:20Can my friend go?
08:21Your friend doesn't want to go.
08:23I've seen tea, Cody's app, my nan's.
08:25I'll bring her back in 20 minutes.
08:26Okay?
08:27Okay.
08:28Okay.
08:30As she wades away, following Stuart, she looks back over her shoulder at Cormac.
08:37He brings the rings back onto the sand and sits on his towel, looking through a hook-up
08:41app on his phone.
08:44He browses the grid of men on the app, then peers around the beach.
08:51He looks towards Karen, who's sitting nearby with her friend, and she gives him the finger.
08:57He shakes his head, looks back down at his phone, and lies back on his towel.
09:05Later, he's asleep, lying on his front.
09:09Ava puts a tiny bag on his back, waking him up.
09:12Direct from Morocco.
09:15He can get us whatever we want for the wedding.
09:17He takes a closer look.
09:20Hello.
09:21So he's a drug dealer, this man you're in love with?
09:24Phoenix would have a knicker fit if I got into a van with a stranger.
09:26He takes a puff from a pipe.
09:30That's going to get me so high.
09:33He rests his head on his beach bag.
09:39Later, Ava steps towards the seashore as gentle waves roll onto the sand.
09:47She walks into the water, then steps back away, gazing along the beach.
09:55As Cormac joins her, she spots Father Vincent in the distance, lying on his side on the sand, turned away.
10:02Whoa.
10:03Is that the priest?
10:05Is he okay?
10:06I wonder if he's wearing any factor.
10:08You see that and you think, factor?
10:09You're obsessed.
10:12We should go over.
10:13Well, I don't want him.
10:15What if he's dead?
10:16Why would you say that?
10:17Because he looks dead, and if he is dead, then there's nothing much we can do for him.
10:22We're going over.
10:25She heads off across the sand, and he reluctantly follows.
10:33Ava reaches Father Vincent, turns back to Cormac, and takes a couple of steps closer to the unconscious priest.
10:40She shakes his shoulder a little.
10:42Father?
10:44Father, are you okay?
10:45Cormac, give me water.
10:47As Vincent comes to, Cormac passes her a bottle.
10:50Hi.
10:51I saw you from all the way over there, and I was worried that you weren't wearing you, so I'm
10:54coming out.
10:55No.
10:55I'm not.
10:56Well, let's get that sorted right away, okay?
10:59Cormac flashes a small smile at Vincent as Ava wipes sand off the side of his face, then notices he's
11:05becoming emotional.
11:06Hey.
11:08Oh, it's okay.
11:10Let's just take it from here, okay?
11:13Just this moment in time, okay?
11:14Just one step at a time.
11:16Vincent drinks from the water bottle.
11:21How did I, uh, how did last night end?
11:25Nothing, nothing happened.
11:27You had fun, and so did we.
11:31I...
11:34I don't normally...
11:36I don't normally drink, you see.
11:41Okay, well, let's make tracks.
11:43Let's get him up.
11:44Yeah.
11:45Yeah.
11:47Don't worry, come on.
11:48We're going the same way.
11:49We gotcha.
11:52One, two, three, and up, up, up.
11:56He looks woozy as they pull him to his feet.
12:02They both help him as he staggers across the sand.
12:08They all walk together along a stone path.
12:15They stop across the road from a doctor's surgery.
12:19Would you, uh, would you mind not telling anyone?
12:23Oh, of course not.
12:25Ava gives him a reassuring hug.
12:31They watch after him as he shuffles away,
12:33then they head towards the doctor's surgery.
12:38Okay, so, my darling wife here would like you to know
12:42she's not a slut, but she has this thing on her vagina.
12:45And she doesn't know how it got so horrible down there.
12:49Also, she's worried about dying
12:51because she read an article online
12:53about a lady dying from undiagnosed throat.
12:57He presses stop on a translation app
12:59and passes his phone to the dark-haired, bearded young doctor.
13:25He passes the phone back and walks away
13:28with Ava following.
13:31Hola, doctor.
13:34Cormac finds the doctor's profile on an app
13:36as the examination takes place in the next room.
13:41Cormac mouths wow as he looks down at his phone
13:44and Ava returns with the doctor.
13:49The doctor gestures towards the phone
13:51and Cormac passes it across the desk to him.
13:53The doctor sees his own photo on it.
13:56He turns the phone around, showing Cormac.
14:02Cormac takes the phone back
14:04and reopens the translation app, looking sheepish.
14:09The doctor takes the phone.
14:28He hands the phone back.
14:31It's herpes.
14:32I will give you a four-day prescription for acyclovir.
14:36It will clear then and you can resume sexual contact.
14:39It is important not to use derogatory language like slut
14:43and no one is dying.
14:45You see?
14:48Thank you, doctor.
14:50I hope you and your wife have a nice day.
14:54We just cross heels.
14:56At the villa.
14:58Rory, what's this?
14:59Mushroom oil.
15:0020 or 5 a day.
15:02Cormac comes down the stairs.
15:05You're such a fun guy.
15:14Cormac opens the door to Karen and curly-haired Elodie.
15:18Hi, you're all late for dinner.
15:19Hi, Cormac.
15:21I saw you at the beach.
15:23Yeah, well, mum sent me over
15:24because dinner starts at 8 and it's legit 9pm.
15:28OK, everybody, come on.
15:29We're late for dinner.
15:30Hey.
15:30Oh.
15:31Hey, hey, hey.
15:33You're Deezdale's sister, right?
15:35Karen.
15:36Karen.
15:37Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
15:39You're Karen.
15:41I'm Aaron.
15:42We were I.
15:43I'm telling you, man.
15:44It's a sign.
15:47Rory's giving one of the girls a jockey back
15:49as the group crosses the golf course.
15:57They're all chatting casually
15:58as they stroll across the neat grass.
16:04I'm managing this for a quiet dinner, you know.
16:06It's just a nice gesture.
16:08It is.
16:09Go on in and get yourself a drink.
16:11Oh, look who he is.
16:13Rory, Rory.
16:14Hallelujah.
16:15You look gorgeous.
16:16You look gorgeous.
16:16And who's this?
16:17Glenn.
16:19Short for Glenn Reefay.
16:21I am Ireland's boyfriend.
16:24This is to me.
16:25Hi, I'm Claire Cassidy.
16:27Oh, Claire.
16:28Claire the artist.
16:29Oh, yeah, the one in Italy.
16:30Hi.
16:30Oh, God.
16:31I heard a rumour you were coming.
16:32I am so glad you could make it.
16:33A late edition of the wedding,
16:34but very happy to be here.
16:36I loved your piece at the RHA annual show.
16:39Oh, nice.
16:39You're raging at all the red dots.
16:41Listen, let's make some time to talk later this evening.
16:44Yeah, I'd love that, yeah.
16:45That'd be great.
16:46For you, Chaps.
16:47Amazing.
16:54On a staircase, Cormac is looking towards Gerry
16:56as he waits to introduce himself.
17:03Suited, Gerry looks rattled
17:04as he stands at the bottom of the stairs.
17:11As Sandra speaks to Gerry,
17:12he adjusts his shirt colour.
17:16Does she feel a bit sick?
17:18Like a bit gassy.
17:19I might split.
17:20You can't split it.
17:21It's very good.
17:21Keep it to be honest.
17:22You do look pale.
17:24Just so funny.
17:25Lincoln did all the deserve it.
17:26We deserve to be happy.
17:28Cormac steps closer to the parents.
17:30Oh, my goodness.
17:31Oh, my goodness.
17:32Oh, my goodness.
17:33You're very welcome.
17:34Emma.
17:35Oh, where's your English boyfriend?
17:36Nigel, isn't it?
17:37Felix.
17:38He arrives the day after tomorrow.
17:39Oh.
17:40Hi.
17:41I'm Cormac.
17:42Sorry.
17:42Late addition to the wedding party.
17:43Oh, you are very, very welcome.
17:46Last name?
17:47My last name.
17:48Kennedy.
17:49Kennedy.
17:50Thanks so much for having me.
17:52And before you ask, you should see the other guy.
17:57And how does our daughter know you, Cormac?
18:00Just old friends from college.
18:03Second tier vibes.
18:05But it's so nice to meet you both now for the first time this evening.
18:09Go on in and get a drink.
18:10I have a hug.
18:12Everything okay?
18:14Everything good.
18:15Do you have a problem with that, young man?
18:16Why don't you ask?
18:17Because you were so rude.
18:18Gay people exist, Gerry.
18:21Spare me.
18:23Everyone?
18:24Has everyone met?
18:25Everyone?
18:26This is Bergl and Caroline, our old friends.
18:30Old.
18:31Old.
18:31Big beer as hell.
18:33Bergl and Caroline.
18:33Young wife.
18:34They have a house on the 10th green.
18:3710th green.
18:38Beside the 10th green.
18:40He's very into positions, as Bergl, isn't he?
18:42Yeah.
18:43So what do you do?
18:44Me?
18:45I was a teacher.
18:47I'm a teacher.
18:48I'm just taking some leave.
18:50A teacher.
18:51What a noble profession.
18:52You and nurses are the modern day saints in my eyes.
18:56Yes.
18:56But there's such nobility in what you do.
18:58I mean, you're not just down and Google earning a bajillion euro.
19:02You're dealing with kids.
19:04Yeah, I mean, no one's offering me a bajillion euros to do anything.
19:08Do you not like children?
19:09Oh, I love children.
19:12I have two of my own.
19:13Mine as well.
19:15Yours as well.
19:17I love them too.
19:18And it gives me such joy to watch them learn, so it doesn't feel like I'm sacrificing anything.
19:22Primary or secondary?
19:23Secondary.
19:24What subjects?
19:25English and civics.
19:27Oh, Jesus.
19:27Maybe you can help my daughter choose a reading for the wedding.
19:31She has so far resisted, insists on picking her own.
19:35Scaffolding.
19:36I asked her.
19:36Sorry, scaffold.
19:37Scaffolding what?
19:38Scaffolding.
19:39It's Seamus Heaney's scaffolding.
19:40Oh.
19:41It's an absolute banger.
19:42My favorite poem of all time, so that's...
19:45Name another poem.
19:47What?
19:48Name one other poem by anyone.
19:52Ever.
19:53Scaffolding slaps ass and you know it.
19:55Come here to me.
19:56What happened to your eye, lovey?
19:57You don't strike me as a fighter.
19:59I always said to him, you have to wear your helmet on your bicycle.
20:05Or wear your helmet on your bicycle.
20:06And what do you listen to?
20:07He would not listen.
20:09Like an accident, the roads are just lethal.
20:13You're forever hearing of people getting mashed under 18 miles.
20:16Trucks and the keys just dying all over the place every day, every second.
20:21Yes.
20:21Well, here I am.
20:24Oh, well.
20:26Here's to that.
20:28Here's to that.
20:30I think you two are a gorgeous couple.
20:34You're about just full of jizz.
20:37Sorry, no.
20:39We're just friends.
20:41Ava's boyfriend arrives the day after tomorrow.
20:44Oh.
20:46Also, I am crazy gay, so there's that.
20:50Oh, yeah.
20:51We knew that.
20:54Okay.
20:56Is your gaydar super-tuned?
20:58What the hell is gaydar?
20:59It's just to be able to tell if people are gay or not.
21:01Oh, I'm very good at that, aren't I, love?
21:04Though, nowadays, many of them don't even try to hide it.
21:07But I knew you were one, straight off.
21:10Congrats to you again.
21:12Did you always know?
21:14Hmm?
21:15Oh, good God for me.
21:16Fantastic person.
21:17I don't mean to.
21:18He's ever in my line of work, and I'm curious, I'm the last one.
21:22I don't know.
21:23And have you ever, um...
21:28Done it with a girl?
21:29Very good.
21:30Well, no.
21:31Fergal, that's enough.
21:32I'm just wondering how somebody can be 100% sure they don't like something if they haven't tried it.
21:36Kind of a two-way street, that one, Fergal.
21:38Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh.
21:40Well, I hope you wear a helmet on your bicycle now.
21:44Oh.
21:46Yeah.
21:46Yes, the bicycle accident, of course.
21:49Yeah.
21:49Yes.
21:50Very important.
21:52Aaron looks puzzled.
21:54And now, I am thinking that my husband and I shall swap tables so everyone gets to know each other.
22:03Oh, no, no.
22:04Sorry?
22:05Sorry?
22:06Just to stay because we're only getting to know each other.
22:10Oh, my God.
22:10You, my friend, are going to love Jerry.
22:13Jerry, Jerry.
22:14She gets up from the table.
22:17See you later, Sandra.
22:18Jerry is an absolute howl.
22:22Dying for you over there.
22:23They want the big pan.
22:25I know I'm grand tears.
22:26Thanks.
22:27Jerry makes his way over to the table.
22:29Fucking hell.
22:30Like, the two of us together.
22:32I didn't say a word.
22:33I didn't say a word.
22:34How's it going?
22:36You can't join us, Jerry.
22:37Sit down.
22:38Yeah.
22:38All right.
22:39Yeah, sure.
22:39So, what are we talking about, huh?
22:42Road safety.
22:42The roads.
22:44Oh, good God.
22:45Ten points to me license here.
22:47Fucking speed drop.
22:49I take a lot of drink or four.
22:55He's a fucking gas man.
22:57Cormac knocks back his drink.
23:18Cormac approaches Jerry.
23:20Mr. Brennan, thank you for dinner.
23:23So, I am very sorry about earlier.
23:26It was totally inappropriate of me.
23:28And I apologize.
23:29I should not have done that.
23:31There's no need to apologize.
23:33There's two of us in it, Jerry.
23:34And yes, but you have to understand, that's not something I do.
23:39Ever.
23:40I mean, I wouldn't say ever.
23:44Listen.
23:46You know my position.
23:48I do.
23:48I won't say a word.
23:50I have no interest in doing that.
23:53Okay.
23:54Also, just for the record, I have zero interest in getting into self-destructive relationships
24:00with married fathers on the DL.
24:03Been there, done that.
24:05I'm going to absolutely fuck that.
24:07Okay.
24:09Sorry.
24:10Listen, let's get you a cab ordered.
24:12I have an account, right?
24:13A local guy.
24:17Oh, God.
24:19Whoa.
24:20Are you okay?
24:23Do you want to take a walk?
24:26Do I want to take a walk?
24:28Hey, I'm a good listener.
24:28And you now have one other person that you can talk to about whatever you want.
24:33It's got to be worth something.
24:38And people walk sometimes.
24:42Okay, fine.
24:44We'll take a walk.
24:47Cormac turns and heads away, and later they're walking across the golf course side by side.
24:52Do you play golf?
24:54I don't.
24:54Is this course good?
24:56It is, yeah.
24:57Hmm?
24:57You don't want to be caught in the bunkers, though.
25:00Nothing but trouble in there.
25:04Listen, I'm glad we're getting to talk, actually.
25:09Everyone back there knows my fucking business.
25:11I practically live in a clubhouse.
25:14I'm a captain.
25:17But obviously did not expect you to be a guest at the wedding.
25:21I thought you were like Marlon Randall.
25:24That gym has a membership of 1,200 from all over the world.
25:2870 Norwegian lads rocked up to play golf only today.
25:32Like, mad.
25:35And, uh, just my luck to get you, really.
25:40Guest at my daughter's fucking wedding.
25:44No offence, like.
25:46Hmm.
25:47Anyway.
25:49I'm in a need, so on we go.
25:51It must be lonely dragging that other secret life around with you.
25:54I'm not dragging anything around.
25:56There is no secret other life.
25:58What about what happened in the sheriff?
26:00We agreed nothing happened.
26:01Nothing did happen, and yet nothing still managed to meet a need.
26:05I'm trying to be a good man here.
26:07A good husband.
26:08How's that going for you?
26:09Actually, very good.
26:12Yeah.
26:13I haven't acted out.
26:15Haven't cheated.
26:16Not once.
26:17In 30-something years.
26:19Yeah, apart from today.
26:20No contact means no cheating.
26:22So nice, Lupo.
26:24Oh, my God.
26:25You are just like Karen.
26:28Fucking certainty of youth.
26:30Okay, I'm sorry.
26:32Good night.
26:33He offers his hand, and Jerry shakes it sternly.
26:38Jerry watches after him as he walks away.
26:41Hey, did the, uh, did the Swedes end up buying the, uh, giant paintings of the three nudie women?
26:49The big mad triptych in the living room?
26:51They sure did.
26:53You know they paid the guts of 20 grand for them?
26:55What?
26:56Yeah.
27:00Can I see them, Luke?
27:06Sure.
27:08With a slight smile, Cormac turns and paces away.
27:13At the villa, Cormac's looking through bottles of wine as Jerry gazes at the nude paintings.
27:19Oh, lads.
27:20If I wanted a view like that, I'd go out to the nude beach by the airport.
27:25Not sure I'd want it hanging on my actual wall.
27:30Cormac approaches and hands him a bottle of red.
27:33Where'd you get this?
27:34Some of the guys did a blues run to the local hypermarket.
27:38Zero possibility this is from a hypermarket.
27:41That's a 300 euro bottle.
27:43Okay.
27:44Great.
27:47Cormac.
27:48I don't think so.
27:57I don't think so.
28:14Oh, God.
28:15I don't think so.
28:16Cormac uncorks the wine.
28:17Big though, isn't it?
28:18Yeah, I know.
28:19I think they felt sorry for me.
28:23Why so?
28:25I'll tell you another time.
28:26Cormac pours two glasses.
28:29Okay.
28:29So, I don't think I should be in here.
28:32But I thought it was grand if you didn't do anything.
28:35So don't do anything.
28:39Here.
28:41Jerry walks closer, takes a glass from Cormac's outstretched hand and sits on the bed beside him.
28:48Now, don't burden yourself.
28:51You're giving away your daughter this week.
28:53How are the news?
28:54Shredded.
28:56Not to mention my wallet.
28:59So there is something I'd like to get your take on.
29:04Karen.
29:06She found Grindr on my phone the night before we came over.
29:13But I thought you'd never been unfaithful.
29:16Why, I only ever chat.
29:17I look at the photographs.
29:20I'm in the shop.
29:21Okay.
29:22Yeah.
29:23So, Karen has given me until after the wedding to say something to Sandra or she will.
29:30She's fucking 14 for the love of God.
29:33Wait, so what's the plan?
29:35Well, so far I've come up with, give her money to keep the secret.
29:40My God, bribery.
29:41Kids love money.
29:43Well, that will lose you to her as a father and a role model forever.
29:46Well, I'd love to hear a better idea if you've got one.
29:52Do you want to be married?
29:54I don't understand the question.
29:55I don't understand the question.
29:55Well, you don't understand the alternative.
29:57Of course I want to be married.
29:59To your wife.
30:00You love your wife?
30:01I do.
30:02Okay, then.
30:04Okay, then.
30:04And she doesn't know about this other side?
30:10There is no other side.
30:13Jerry.
30:15Okay.
30:17No, she doesn't.
30:18I mean, maybe she suspects, but...
30:22I mean, there's not much going on in the bedroom.
30:25But that's normal enough, right?
30:27Isn't it?
30:27I'm the wrong person to be asking.
30:30Yeah.
30:32I'm stuck.
30:35And I feel a duty of care towards her.
30:39Sandra does not strike me as a vulnerable person.
30:43Well, maybe it helps you to think of her that way.
30:46How does that help me?
30:48We all want to feel wanted.
30:50It's good for our self-esteem.
30:52Tell her there's more to you.
30:54Like, let her in.
30:57You might be surprised by her reaction.
31:00And you don't know what you don't know about her.
31:04Cormac sips his drink.
31:06I should go.
31:07If that's...
31:09If that's what you want.
31:12They hold each other's gaze.
31:14Do you know what you want?
31:17Jerry looks intensely into his eyes,
31:19then lunges forward and kisses him.
31:33They kiss again, more passionately this time,
31:36and fall back onto the bed.
31:43Jerry pushes Cormac's shirt open
31:45and Cormac sits up to take it off.
31:57Cormac lowers his hand
31:59and undoes Jerry's fly.
32:08Cormac sits up to take it off.
32:08He starts to masturbate Jerry,
32:10who's lying on his back.
32:26Cormac lies back on the bed,
32:27then grabs a towel to clean Jerry up.
32:36Sorry.
32:37That was a bit sudden.
32:40It's a sprint, not a marathon.
32:43Twice in a day.
32:44That hasn't happened to me
32:45since the Brian Cowan years.
32:47I have no idea who that is.
32:51Do you smoke weed?
32:53Do I...
32:54What?
32:55No.
32:58You do this all the time?
33:01Smoke weed?
33:04Seduce straight old married men.
33:08Is anyone in this room straight?
33:11Is that your kink, though?
33:14Mm-hmm.
33:16Daddies are so fucking hot.
33:19And before you ask,
33:21not all fathers are daddies.
33:24He puffs on a vape,
33:26then turns to look Jerry in the eye.
33:31Were you serious about what you said before?
33:34That you'd never been with a man?
33:39Jerry turns away
33:41and gazes up towards the ceiling.
33:47And if you have just broken the golden rule,
33:49how does it feel?
33:54I feel awful.
33:57I know what that's like.
34:02Jerry turns his head,
34:03meeting Cormac's gaze.
34:09Cormac turns to face the ceiling
34:11and Jerry touches a large bruise on Cormac's side.
34:16That's not a bike crash.
34:23I was attacked.
34:25Oh, God.
34:27Was it a gay thing?
34:30I don't know what that means.
34:32Were you coming out of a gay bar in town or something?
34:37Would that have made sense to you?
34:40No.
34:43Well, I wasn't.
34:46I just mean,
34:48was it a gay bashing?
34:51It's hard to say, isn't it?
34:54I'm gay and I was bashed,
34:56so draw your own conclusions.
34:58I'm not trying to pick a fight.
34:59It seems like you're asking me if I deserved it.
35:03I'm just interested in the details.
35:06Who these lads were.
35:09Why they would do something like this.
35:12The world is mad, Jerry.
35:16People are angry.
35:18Atoms collide.
35:19Married men fall into bed with younger gays.
35:21What can I tell you?
35:25So it was totally random?
35:28It wasn't random, no.
35:30Okay.
35:32Cormac turns away.
35:34Well, if it wasn't random, then...
35:38What was it?
35:39It doesn't matter.
35:39It's ancient history.
35:45Jerry moves closer to him.
35:48It must have been recent enough with those bruises.
35:53Don't worry about it.
35:56Jerry's nuzzling Cormac's shoulder from behind.
36:02Cormac looks taken aback to find Jerry's hand moving to his crotch.
36:08Jerry's lying on top of Cormac now, looking into his eyes.
36:15His head moves lower, down the length of Cormac's body towards his groin.
36:23Cormac rides in ecstasy as Jerry rubs his chest with a hand.
36:35Cormac exhales, then covers his eyes with a pillow.
36:49Jerry comes back to lie beside Cormac, who puts his arm around him.
37:02They both lay side by side, gazing towards the ceiling.
37:09Their eyes drift closed.
37:13Later, Jerry's awake.
37:20Jerry hurries out of the bedroom.
37:26Cormac wakes up.
37:34Cormac looks out from the upper terrace at Jerry scurrying away from the villa across the golf course.
37:46Cormac looks down at Glenn, who's asleep on a deck chair by the pool,
37:49then across to father Vincent, who's watching after Jerry.
37:55Vincent turns and locks eyes with Cormac.
38:02Vincent stares up at Cormac, who backs away from the terrace and goes back to bed.
38:09Ava and Rory look into Cormac's room.
38:12Told you.
38:13Sleeping beauty.
38:15How do you get this fucking massive room, anyway?
38:18I can play golf.
38:23Cormac's eyes flick open.
38:26Fuck.
38:29The next morning, Cormac's dreaming about himself swimming.
38:38He wakes up and looks towards a net curtain blowing by a window.
38:45He comes halfway down the stairs.
38:47Nobody in this town would break into a church.
38:52Local people wouldn't do that.
38:54And a priest would.
38:56I'm saying, father, that the coincidence is great.
39:01On the day after you paid me 1,700 euros in cash,
39:05that same amount of money stolen from the drawer in the sacristy.
39:10And then I come to you and you look like a man in crisis.
39:16A man who was stooped to a new law.
39:19What should I think?
39:21You should think a little happy coincidence
39:22and not accuse a fellow priest of robbery.
39:25It gives me no pleasure.
39:26Yes, me neither.
39:30I haven't yet reported the robbery to the police.
39:35Well, maybe you should.
39:36You want that?
39:38I want you to have a piece of mine.
39:42Don't mind me.
39:44Cormac goes to the kitchen.
39:48I let myself out.
39:52Dishevelled-looking, Father Vincent watches Sandoval leave.
39:56Everything OK?
39:57Yes, yes, everything's fine.
39:59Nothing to worry about.
40:00You're sure?
40:02I'm a little preoccupied today, if you don't mind.
40:05I don't mind, no.
40:07But we have to remember what's important here.
40:12It's a big week for the Burns, Father.
40:17Important to keep a secret every now and then, wouldn't you say?
40:22Avoiding his gaze, Vincent stands up and walks away.
40:27A man's running along a racetrack.
40:33Cormac is sitting alone in the sauna.
40:40He leaves and goes to the shower cubicles.
40:45He puts his towel over one door and walks inside.
40:52Later, in the changing room, he spots Gerry.
40:55Morning, Gerry.
40:56Hello.
40:57Did you have fun last night?
41:01Please keep your voice down, everyone in this place knows me.
41:03I just asked if you had a good night last night.
41:04You asked in a way.
41:07You can't ask me that in here, in that way.
41:10Wait.
41:11OK.
41:12I told you about my situation.
41:13You told me about your situation, and then in ten minutes later, you had my dick in your mind.
41:16God, keep your voice down.
41:20I don't know you.
41:21You don't know me.
41:24There's no us.
41:25That's it.
41:28Me.
41:30That's it.
41:31Cormac shrugs and Gerry turns away from him.
41:37Cormac watches as Gerry walks out.
41:44Now, Cormac's briskly walking past the golf course.
41:54Lying on grass now, his eyes are closed as he pictures himself swimming.
42:02Ava appears, looking down at him.
42:05Up you.
42:07Give the lunch.
42:09Sandra Byrne wants us out of her house for a bite to eat and a chat.
42:13You mean Claire Margot?
42:15Chosen for you?
42:16I don't think I'll make that.
42:18She specifically asked for us.
42:20We're her favourites.
42:21Why don't you go?
42:23I'm feeling like a lazy day here.
42:26No, sorry.
42:27There's no way I'm going on my own.
42:28I'm ready to go with the girls as straight-up brood, so up your fuck and get.
42:32She walks away, leaving him staring into space.
42:38Later, they're at Sandra's.
42:40Dad's playing golf, by the way.
42:41It's just Mum and me and Alady.
42:43Come on, lunch outside.
42:47Karen brings them all out to the back.
42:52Smiling Sandra approaches, carrying a bowl.
42:55Now, my favourite little coterie of people.
42:59We may see Jerry passing.
43:01One of his balls might even land in your salad.
43:05She sits.
43:08I think I'm an artist because of my social class.
43:11Like, I think you have to be an outsider in some way, and I think growing up working class,
43:15I always felt on the margins.
43:16You're from Glasnevin.
43:17Your dad's an engineer.
43:19The middle.
43:20Yeah, the most reviled place to be.
43:23You know, middle-aged, middle class, middle of the road.
43:26But people think that people in the middle stand for nothing.
43:28But if you take the middle away, what are you left with?
43:35A world of extremes.
43:39Someone should make art about that.
43:42A monument to the Irish middle class plunked on a roundabout near a golf course in Spain?
43:50Exactly.
43:54Yeah, well, I mean, what Niamh doesn't want to acknowledge is that I have an eye, you know?
43:59She's up to her neck in wedding planners and coloured charts and won't let me do a tag of me.
44:04I suppose I should be grateful.
44:05She let you pick the priest.
44:07She did, yeah.
44:08Poor Father Vincent, you know?
44:09He was a no-show last night.
44:11Poor Father Vincent is a mad yoke.
44:12He was dive-bombing in the pool the first night, and he's really been on it with the booze.
44:18Elodie, do you like it here?
44:19It's wonderful.
44:19And it doesn't rain.
44:21Elodie hates the rain.
44:23Why does it not rain in France?
44:24Well, it does, of course, but she's just spent the last three weeks in Ireland.
44:28She's still recovering from that particular trauma.
44:31What was it like growing up gay in Ireland?
44:34Karen, no, you can't just ask that.
44:37It's always hard to be different, but it's not as hard for me as it was for the previous generation.
44:42Anyone who grew up gay in the 80s has a way worse than us.
44:46I have gay friends, trans and non-binary friends in my class, and, like, nobody cares.
44:52I wouldn't say nobody cares, but yes, I'm very glad to hear.
44:56Nobody cares.
44:58No one our age cares.
44:59Like, who cares?
45:00Well, I think, well, for us, being trans or gay, when we were in school, that was inconceivable to us
45:06growing up.
45:07Elodie turns and waves at Gerry on the golf course, and he waves back.
45:13Cormac turns to look at him, and Gerry jams a club into his golf bag.
45:18How'd you be your black guy?
45:20Karen, Karen does that.
45:21He was in a bike accident.
45:23He was in a bike accident.
45:24OK.
45:25No, actually, he wasn't.
45:29I am a teacher, or was a teacher.
45:31I'm on leave now, but I was beaten up by some of the students that I teach.
45:36Kids around your age.
45:37I was beaten up by them because I'm gay.
45:40Four of them catfished me on social media with a picture of another man.
45:44They met me in Dublin City Centre, and they attacked me.
45:46They wore masks, but I recognised two of them.
45:49One because of his smell, and the other because he had this pair of trainers.
45:53He used to always brag about being limited edition, and the other two came forward, confessed the following day.
45:58I'd been having problems with all four of them in the weeks before, just disciplinary attendance problems.
46:04But it's a tough school.
46:07May I use your bathroom?
46:09Of course.
46:12Yeah, just there, to the left.
46:15First door to the left.
46:17Can't miss it.
46:19Cormac steps inside and peers back out towards the others, looking pensive.
46:28He hurries up the stairs.
46:35He looks around at the upper level and pushes a bedroom door open.
46:43He steps through into Gerry and Sandra's room.
46:49Sitting on the bed, he looks under a pillow and finds Gerry's striped pyjama top.
46:57He takes it out, looks around, presses it against his face and sniffs.
47:07Sandra's oblivious as she eats lunch at the table outside.
47:13Cormac lies back and presses the pyjamas against his face again.
47:19He rejoins the others.
47:22That it's like, so I think the fact that you like the fish croquets is like, kind of, like sometimes,
47:29it's not, like you're fine.
47:30Found it okay?
47:33Absolutely.
47:37Jesus, it's like the song.
47:39It's exactly like the song.
47:44Later, shots are poured at a bar for Cormac and the others.
47:50The shots are lit on fire and Cormac passes them around.
47:58Later, he and the larger group chat as they walk across the golf course.
48:08Around the pool now, they drink and laugh,
48:10and some of the girls do a choreographed dance routine as the others watch,
48:14Glenn punching the air.
48:19Cormac!
48:21Cormac stirs in bed.
48:23Cormac.
48:28Cormac.
48:30He wakes up and steps to the edge of the terrace, looking down at Jerry outside.
48:37Everyone's asleep.
48:40You fucking ruined me.
48:42What are you talking about?
48:44I can't get back.
48:46Again.
48:47Have you lost your keys or something?
48:49Oh, I can't go back.
48:52Back to my life.
48:55You blame me for that?
48:57You told me to never speak to you again.
48:59You said, do I know what I want?
49:02And I know what I want.
49:06Come up then.
49:08No.
49:09No.
49:11Jerry gestures to the villa.
49:15Two minutes.
49:16Just two minutes.
49:24Moments later, they're being watched from inside the villa as they cross the golf course.
49:30It's just that going home is such a ride, such a ride.
49:36Going home is such a ride.
49:40Going home is such a ride.
49:43Now they're having passionate sex in a sand bunker.
49:48No more trouble in these bunkers.
50:00You're so bad.
50:02I love it.
50:03Yeah, I fucking do.
50:10Credits appear.
50:17Now I need the window open, so if you happen to get chilly, there's this coverlet my cousin hand crocheted,
50:30hand crocheted.
50:32Do you mind if the edges are frayed?
50:37Would you like to unfasten my brain?
50:44Shall I make you in the morning a cup of homemade coffee?
50:51I will sweeten it with honey and with cream?
50:59When you sleep, do you have dreams?
51:06You can read the early paper, and I can watch you while you shave.
51:12Oh God, the mirror's cracking.
51:15Those are cottonça- Kentucky rocks.
51:15I do not feel like running out long.
51:15There's the five 차- fille ono.
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