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Fair City - Season 37 - Episode 30: Thu 02 April
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00:13Hi.
00:14Hey.
00:16I'm James.
00:21How are you feeling after yesterday?
00:25Ready to nail Mondo.
00:27It's me, the pathologist, and Holly.
00:29It's me today.
00:31This is our day.
00:33I saw Holly coming in.
00:35She gave me an odd look.
00:37Probably nervous.
00:43Ignore her.
00:46I want to thank you for your kindness to you today.
00:53Let's go in.
01:00Are you okay?
01:04They're going to tear Mondo apart today, aren't they?
01:08You know, we are so lucky.
01:10How's that?
01:12We don't see each other for months on end,
01:14and then we just connect again.
01:16There's something comforting about getting on with your ex-husband.
01:19Oh, Kimmy, that old slippers line.
01:22Ah, more like warm fleecy blanket.
01:26Not the sexiest thing anyone has ever said to me.
01:28Well, you're by far the sexiest of my ex-husbands.
01:33I'm not exactly a high bar, but I'll take the win.
01:37Seriously, we get each other.
01:39Yeah.
01:41Yeah, we do.
01:43I hope you're going to be sticking around for a bit.
01:46Is that an invitation?
01:49I'll let you rule that out.
01:50Oh, cryptic answer.
01:53Not really, no.
02:00Hey.
02:03You know he ran down to see her a few weeks ago.
02:06Are they getting back together?
02:07I don't know, but he is a fool,
02:09because no matter how many times he's been burnt,
02:11he will just jump right back into that fire.
02:16Holly, can you tell the court
02:18why you didn't come forward earlier with your statement?
02:22I was afraid of losing my job.
02:24I have a son to support.
02:26So you battled with your conscience.
02:29I knew I had to do the right thing in the end.
02:32I did it for my son.
02:33In your statement you said that
02:35Mr O'Connell was angry with Mr Collins.
02:39Yes, he was furious.
02:42I mean, absolutely fuming with Anto.
02:44Blaming him for the fire
02:45and saying he wanted to get him.
02:48What did you think he meant by get him?
02:52That he wanted to go after him and make him pay.
02:55He was very wound up.
02:56I've never seen him so angry before.
02:59I wasn't surprised by what happened.
03:02You weren't surprised when Mr O'Connell,
03:05fueled by this intense anger,
03:08punched Mr Collins so hard that Mr Collins died.
03:12Objection.
03:13Pure speculation and leading the witness.
03:17Agreed.
03:18Mrs Natalie.
03:21What did Mr O'Connell do
03:23when he discovered you'd made your statement?
03:26He verbally attacked me in public.
03:28I was frightened.
03:30It was like seeing a different side to him.
03:32He was crazed.
03:33After Mr O'Connell calmed down,
03:37how did the situation resolve itself?
03:40He offered me a promotion and 5,000 euros.
03:43Did you accept?
03:44No.
03:46No further questions.
03:52So this crazed man, Raymond O'Connell,
03:56you continued working for him.
03:58Even after he verbally attacked you in public
04:02and you were frightened of him.
04:05Yes.
04:07Were you not in fear of your life
04:08that he might attack you at any moment?
04:11I needed my job.
04:13You can't have been that frightened of him.
04:15Yes, I was.
04:17Were you never alone in the office with him?
04:20Were you not terrified then?
04:21There was always someone coming or going.
04:23It's a shared space.
04:24It's a shared office space.
04:27With people coming and going.
04:30Yet not one other person
04:33heard Raymond O'Connell ranting
04:35that he wanted to get Mr Collins.
04:39I can't answer for other people.
04:42So you and Hayley Collins
04:46both live in the same house.
04:49Hayley Collins is married to the father of your child
04:52and you all lived there with his mother?
04:56Yes.
04:57And are you happy with that arrangement?
04:59I mean for your son?
05:02Good family support?
05:04Yes.
05:05And having to move somewhere else would
05:08cause a lot of disruption in his life.
05:10Objection. Relevance.
05:12Did Hayley Collins pressure you
05:14to make a statement to the guards?
05:17No.
05:18Remember you are under oath.
05:20I'm well aware of that.
05:22I suggest Raymond O'Connell was indeed annoyed.
05:27Annoyed because you were pressured
05:29to blatantly lie to the guards
05:31and make a false statement months
05:34after Mr Collins died.
05:36No. You're wrong.
05:38I did not lie.
05:40My statement isn't false
05:42and you think I want to be up here.
05:44Yes, I work for Mondo
05:46and we always got along
05:46but I saw the way he was before Anto died.
05:50I tried to ignore it
05:51but in the end I had no other choice
05:53but to make a statement to the guards.
05:56If you say so.
05:57No further questions.
06:01You can step down.
06:04The court will take a 15 minute recess.
06:09Were you watching the jury?
06:11Not right.
06:13Impressive.
06:14Now we're good.
06:16What you asked me to do up there
06:17is despicable.
06:19You disgust me.
06:20You and Jameson.
06:21You tried to blackmail us.
06:23I was trying to protect myself.
06:26We're coming from the same cloth.
06:28I am nothing like you.
06:32I hope Mondo gets off.
06:33Despite what I've done.
06:39How long are you going to be in Dublin?
06:41Depends.
06:42On?
06:43How long he's away in business?
06:47You can stop with a pretense.
06:49Sorry?
06:51I heard you on the phone earlier
06:53ordering him to get rid of his golf clubs.
06:55Sounded kind of funny.
06:57Eavesdropping.
06:59Why didn't you tell me
07:00when I met you a couple of weeks ago?
07:02Aww.
07:03Another failed marriage.
07:05You of all people know how that makes you feel.
07:10I'm just surprised she's lasted so long together.
07:13Well, Claude's a very generous person.
07:16Yeah, but don't fleece him.
07:18I mean, yeah, it'd be boring, but he's decent.
07:22Do you ever wonder if the reason we never managed to have successful relationships
07:28is because we were never meant to break up in the first place?
07:31Huh.
07:32That's debatable.
07:34No, I think he used Helen as an excuse.
07:36But really, you were terrified of commitment.
07:42Commitment brought me nothing but heartache.
07:44Because you always expected things to go wrong.
07:47Are you in therapy or something?
07:49Oh, just older and wiser.
07:52Old, rich and single.
07:54Like yourself?
07:55Nah. I'm just old and single.
07:58Money isn't everything.
08:00Mm.
08:02Earlier on the day of the 31st of October last year,
08:06did you have an encounter with Mr O'Connell?
08:10Yes, it was horrible.
08:12He'd already been bursting into our house,
08:15attacking Da.
08:17Da tried to explain to him that he'd gotten it wrong.
08:21No one else was blaming Da for the fire.
08:25Everyone begged him to stop,
08:27but Mondo just kept going on and on about it.
08:32Then he cornered me in McCoy's.
08:35He was shouting at me.
08:38Threatening me.
08:41He even said he'd have my baby taken away.
08:44Was that the reason your father went to the station bar that night?
08:48Yeah.
08:49Yeah, Da only wanted to get him to leave me alone.
08:52He was defending me.
08:54How did Mr O'Connell respond?
08:58He went ballistic.
09:00Then he hit Dad.
09:03So hard.
09:05Right in the face,
09:06the punch knocked him off his feet.
09:11I heard the thump of his head as it hit the floor.
09:16It was like his head was smashed open.
09:19There was so much blood.
09:23Ma was screaming.
09:25I was hysterical.
09:29And then I watched the life pour out of my dad.
09:35He was my rock.
09:38He got me through after the accident.
09:43That morning he'd washed and dressed my son.
09:48All those years when his granddad had gone.
09:50I found him.
10:00What are you still?
10:02Just check it out.
10:04I might even get tickets for tomorrow night if you don't you.
10:09Nicola would you stop.
10:10Go on and I'll see you later on and enjoy your shopping.
10:15See you then.
10:16Bye.
10:18Hiya.
10:18Hey.
10:19Could you have that for me tomorrow?
10:21Yeah, sure.
10:22Thanks.
10:24OK, can I just say something?
10:27It's obvious what Nicola's doing.
10:29You're an absolute fool to fall for it.
10:33Don't hold back.
10:34Even Hughie agrees, don't you?
10:36I'm not getting involved.
10:40She's using it all.
10:42Actually, Nicola's the only one of my exes who didn't use me.
10:46And maybe that's the reason why we get on so well,
10:48because you didn't lie to my face.
10:51I like the rest of you.
11:01Says the biggest user and liar of all time.
11:10In your statement to the guards, days after this tragic accident...
11:15It wasn't an accident.
11:17You made a sworn statement stating that Mr Collins
11:20could not have started the fire in the Rafferty development.
11:24You stated he was out of the country?
11:26Yes.
11:27Where was he?
11:28He was with my brothers in the UK.
11:30And you're certain about that?
11:32Yes.
11:32Objection. Relevance, Judge.
11:34We've already stated that the victim, Mr Collins, is not on trial.
11:38It is relevant, Judge.
11:41Get to the point, then.
11:44Have you ever heard of the O'Hagan Institute?
11:48Doesn't ring a bell?
11:50It's a rehab centre.
11:52A place where people go to recover from addiction.
11:55Well, you'd know all about that, wouldn't you?
11:59Well, let me jog your memory.
12:01Mr Collins was booked into the O'Hagan Institute on the 20th of September, 2024.
12:08Eight days after the fire.
12:10And you made the booking.
12:12Does that ring a bell?
12:16Does that ring a bell?
12:41But he didn't come back, did he?
12:44Because he never left the country in the first place.
12:48Mr Collins took a flight from Dublin airport on the very same day that he was booked into the O
12:54'Hagan Institute.
12:55There is no record of him leaving the country by ferry or by plane before that.
13:01This proves he was in the country on the date of the fire.
13:04Objection.
13:05This is totally irrelevant.
13:07Relevance, Judge, is that Hayley Collins lied to the guards and is therefore an unreliable witness.
13:15It has been established that Mr Collins is not, I repeat, not on trial here.
13:22And you've been instructed that this trial is not about the fire.
13:26My point being that Hayley Collins deliberately lied to the guards to cast aspersions on my client.
13:33My dad did not start that fire.
13:36Miss Collins, please.
13:37Mondo was obsessed.
13:39He was hounding my dad for days.
13:41He was swearing he was going to get him.
13:43I begged him to leave my dad alone, but he wouldn't stop until he murdered him.
13:47I understand your anger.
13:49But you lied in your statement.
13:51You're the liar, you drunken slut.
13:53Judge, my witness has had a deeply emotional day and has not recovered from the death of her father.
14:00No more questions.
14:02Step down, Miss Collins, before I have you arrested for contempt of court.
14:09The court will break for 15 minutes.
14:23Where is she?
14:24I don't know.
14:27Declan.
14:30Could Hayley get into trouble?
14:32The judge would have dealt with it there and then.
14:34He let it go.
14:35But what if the guards go after her for poetry?
14:38She didn't lie.
14:39She believed Anto was in the UK. We all did.
14:42I know that.
14:43We could always ask your sons to testify that Anto was with them in London.
14:47That would clear it up.
14:48No need for that.
14:52I know.
14:54I lost it in there.
14:57Hayley, you cannot have outbursts like that in court.
15:01Best if you go home for the rest of the day.
15:04I'm going nowhere.
15:06Now do your job and get Mondo convicted.
15:11The defence are up now. I need to go back in.
15:15Maybe Lee and Dara should come back.
15:18Admit what they did to Will Casey.
15:21Are you out of your mind?
15:23At least Mondo's facing up to his crime.
15:26Whatever the outcome.
15:27Mondo faced up to nothing.
15:29He killed Anto in a pub full of witnesses.
15:31And was arrested.
15:33And another thing I found out about that Claudia one.
15:36She represented Will in the abuse case that Cristiano took against him.
15:40Seriously?
15:41Now you open that can of worms.
15:43And none of us are getting any peace.
15:50Here and Alex are our character witnesses.
15:52Where is Alex?
15:53Going out for some air.
15:56Mr. Slattery, have you any more witnesses?
15:59No, Judge. The state rests.
16:02Mr. Donald, call your first witness.
16:05The defence calls Keira Cassidy.
16:17I do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that the evidence that I shall give shall be the truth,
16:23the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
16:28Keira, can you tell us a little about your relationship with Raymond O'Connell?
16:33Yeah.
16:33I've known Mondo since we were teenagers.
16:36We have a daughter, Juliet.
16:38And she couldn't have a more loving or caring father.
16:43They have an incredibly strong relationship.
16:47And have you ever known Mr. O'Connell to be violent?
16:50Never.
16:51And I've never seen him throw a punch at anybody either.
16:54So can you take us through the night of Juliet's lunch?
16:58Yeah.
16:59Like it had all been going so well.
17:01Mondo had been helping her all day and he was really excited for her.
17:05Yeah.
17:06And what happened when Mr. Collins entered the bar?
17:11Well, the atmosphere completely changed.
17:15Like, Anto just kept going for Mondo.
17:17Like, coming at him.
17:19Mondo had repeatedly asked him to leave but he just wouldn't go.
17:22He kept coming back, like, pushing Mondo and shouting at him.
17:26Like, Mondo was angry because he knew how much the lunch meant to Juliet.
17:33And all he wanted was for Anto to leave and just to let Juliet have her night.
17:39The last thing on his mind was him, Anto.
17:44And if Anto had just left, none of this would have happened.
17:50It's not Mondo's fault.
17:59Well, that's yours.
18:00Aw, thanks, Dean.
18:02It's 2.50.
18:04Hey, Nicola.
18:05I don't know what that is but I can't eat it.
18:08Why not?
18:10An imbalance of ingredients, let's just say.
18:13An imbalance?
18:15I know you're just a man in a cul-de-sac but they're still standing.
18:19Nicola, I literally just had one and it was delicious.
18:23I don't want to change it for anything else, just give me a refund.
18:26No, no, no, no.
18:27You stared at the menu long enough, you knew well what you were ordering.
18:30Oh, really?
18:31Well, you won't like my review.
18:36She'll be going back to Cox Hill.
18:38Too late.
18:39She has got her hooks well into Paul.
18:43He deserves it.
18:46Alex, do you share accommodation with Mondo O'Connell?
18:51Yeah, I rent a room in the house.
18:54Would you describe Mr O'Connell as a good friend?
18:57Yeah, he's always been really good to me.
19:00In the days leading up to this tragic event, how would you describe Mr O'Connell's mood?
19:06Particularly in relation to Mr Collins.
19:09How do you mean?
19:10I mean, did you ever hear him say anything about Mr Collins?
19:15Talk about him or refer to him in any way?
19:18Yeah, he was upset with him.
19:20Why was he upset with Mr Collins?
19:23About the fire.
19:25You were trapped in that fire?
19:27Yeah.
19:28Did you blame Mr Collins?
19:30Were you angry with him?
19:31Did you seek revenge?
19:34No.
19:35Have you ever known Mr O'Connell to hold a grudge
19:38or become obsessed, fixated with someone or something in the past?
19:44Sorry, I don't understand the question.
19:47For example, when he suspected his girlfriend of cheating.
19:51Did he become obsessed with proving himself right?
19:54Or display any other obsession?
19:56Maybe.
19:57I mean, yeah.
20:00How did this obsession manifest itself?
20:03I suppose he was jealous.
20:04Did you witness him placing hidden cameras around the house?
20:09Yes or no?
20:12Yes.
20:13Did he keep track of her movements?
20:17Yes.
20:19Was Mr O'Connell questioned by the guards for stalking his girlfriend?
20:27Can you answer the question, please?
20:30Yes, he was.
20:33Were you concerned about his obsessive state of mind?
20:38Yeah.
20:40Did you ever attempt to talk reason to him?
20:43I tried.
20:45Did he heed your advice?
20:48No.
20:50Was the only thing that stopped Mr O'Connell's vengeful and obsessive behaviour on that occasion
20:56that he accidentally dropped his bank card while on one of his stalking missions?
21:01Objection.
21:03Overruled.
21:04You may answer the question.
21:10Yes.
21:11And as a result of his stalking,
21:14was Mr O'Connell cautioned in a guard station as a suspect in the murder of Laura Halpin?
21:20He was cautioned, but that was a total mistake.
21:23Indeed.
21:25No charges were ever brought.
21:27But until he was cautioned,
21:29were you concerned about his behaviour?
21:33Yes or no?
21:38Yes.
21:40No further questions.
21:51There you go.
21:53Thank you very much. Cheers.
21:55I've been thinking.
21:58You can still reduce the order from Dean,
22:01and still make twice as many pizzas.
22:04Yeah, but I can't make the bases any thinner.
22:06Plus, demand is growing.
22:08So you buy it ready-made from the wholesalers,
22:11and you mix it with Dean's dough.
22:13You mean mix it together?
22:15No, you keep them separate.
22:17Half the time nobody will even notice the difference.
22:21So reduce the cost and increase the profit.
22:24Double win!
22:26Genius.
22:27I knew you'd like it.
22:30Yeah, well, you know me so well, don't you?
22:32Oh, scheming and saving money always turns you on.
22:41Where'd that come from?
22:45It's just not going on.
22:47Have a nice day.
22:49We still are.
22:51Whatever that was, it didn't happen.
22:55Yeah.
22:56Absolutely not, no.
22:58Already forgotten.
23:04Alex.
23:05Wait.
23:07Mondo, I didn't know what to say, right?
23:09He just kept firing questions at me.
23:11Well, you had to tell the truth.
23:12But he was making out like you were some kind of nutcase.
23:15Alex.
23:16I did all those things.
23:18But it's true.
23:20He couldn't lie on the road.
23:22I'm really sorry.
23:27You go after him, see if he's okay.
23:29Are you not coming?
23:30I need to talk to Claire.
23:38That was rough.
23:40Alex was supposed to be a character witness.
23:42How the hell did Slattery dig that up?
23:43We all have our sources.
23:46I'm finished.
23:48It's unfortunate, but we're not done yet.
23:50Yeah.
23:51All right.
23:52Thanks.
23:59Stalking, huh?
24:02You really are something else.
24:05Have fun in prison.
24:07Murderer.
24:17You just dropped a piece of dough over there to Venus.
24:20Half the usual order.
24:21One minute you're doubling it, next thing it's half.
24:24That's business for you.
24:25He had every reason to want Anthony Collins dead.
24:27You don't think he was self-defense?
24:30No.
24:30He was head for revenge.
24:32Anto used to talk about you.
24:35He said you were made of strong stuff.
24:37You are.
24:39You meant to make him answer for his crime.
24:41You wanted him to pay for what he'd done to you.
24:43Yes, I wanted him to pay.
24:46How long?
24:55That couldn't be
24:59If we haven't had one day,
25:00take care for us.
25:00I suppose go for today.
25:00That's great.
25:00Let mee a hug.
25:00You
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