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Fair City Season 37 Episode 81
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00:11Different types of campaigns, just pushing it all forward, you know?
00:15Hi, here we are. Hi.
00:16I'm going in today to finish the Kia.
00:18There's no need.
00:19No, no, no, only one week to go, no time for sitting back.
00:23Mondo is laying out plans for promoting the garage.
00:26Doug has ideas.
00:27Uh, Dolores Tommy. They focus marketing on sales and new technology.
00:32The days of the gas guzzlers are coming to an end.
00:35Yeah, like the people that serves them.
00:37I felt that way when you hairstyles left me behind.
00:41So, I focused on being an owner. You do the same.
00:45How hands-on do you want me?
00:46Oh, as long as you don't annoy Pete.
00:48Oh, what do I want you?
00:50You haven't even gone yet, Dad, and already you're planning your comeback.
00:53Chill.
00:54What do you do?
00:54Put your mind on what you'll do with your free time.
00:57Oh, driving lessons, men's sheds.
01:00I thought the shed was gone.
01:02Well, the one we wanted is.
01:03You know, we're still using the centre, you know, when we can.
01:08Just soldier on, huh?
01:10You should give yourself a proper break.
01:12There's a whole world out there. Travel.
01:15Well, Nora would love that.
01:16She always fancies seeing Leitrim.
01:19Maybe we can talk her into seeing somewhere more exotic.
01:29Did you find out what Carl is being so secret about?
01:32It's still the same.
01:33All whispering in silence when I walk in.
01:36Sounds serious.
01:40Doodling in public, are we showing off of it?
01:43Obviously.
01:45You have to strike when inspiration hits.
01:47Wherever, whenever.
01:49You are borderline pretentious.
01:51Artists are allowed to be.
01:53Oh, so you think you're an artist.
01:54Well, compared to the competition.
01:56I showed you other people's tags.
01:58I'm in a different league.
02:00Okay.
02:01In your case, scratch the borderline.
02:04At least you can make out his lettering.
02:07Most taggers like him just scrawl everywhere.
02:12Mind you, just get you involved now.
02:14We've enough graffiti around the place.
02:16I'll be careful not to get sucked in.
02:18You should ask for a refund for those art courses you did.
02:22Stuck up cardinals, accused Michelangelo of vandalism
02:25and his masterpiece was a work in progress.
02:28The sealing of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
02:31Well, I didn't think it was in Phibsburg.
02:33Just keep it in the copy books and off the buildings, okay?
02:44Has he said anything?
02:46Not yet.
02:47Tommy, however, has plenty to say.
02:49Such as?
02:50That you demolished the building on purpose
02:52so that the site could go on the market.
02:54Very astute.
02:55I didn't think he'd get there that quickly.
02:57If he sees me stressing about it, he backs off.
02:59Well played.
03:01This all better be very worth my while.
03:04Guaranteed.
03:07Are you awake?
03:08The Contacoperas have slashed your tyres.
03:11Oh, Clare and Emma deliver the news.
03:13I'm in the frame.
03:14Oh, you are?
03:15You got your sight by any means necessary.
03:18Pulling strings from your hideaway in Drogheda.
03:22Emma did what you wanted.
03:23She helped me buy that property from right under your nose.
03:26Your bid was ludicrous. Off the scale.
03:30I didn't want it back and forth, so I just cut to the chase.
03:32You cut your own throat, despite me.
03:36I doubt it feel good.
03:37I wouldn't have bid anywhere near to that price.
03:40You could have got it for thousands less.
03:42What?
03:43After such an outlay, I hope you have enough left in the kitty
03:46to cover the cost of four slash tyres.
03:56It's good of Nora to come in and help out.
03:58Yeah.
04:06JJ may have information.
04:09Yeah, we was going on all yesterday and this morning
04:11about the Clinch family.
04:12It's probably just more of the same.
04:14I've asked around.
04:15He's not exaggerating.
04:16They are vile.
04:17Very much so.
04:18Yeah, I know what they're like.
04:21After what Majella had to go through,
04:22she'll be nothing like the woman you remember.
04:24If you find her.
04:26I'm as a survivor.
04:29I was out last night for a few hours talking to sex workers.
04:32There's no need to say it to JJ.
04:34I only get a lecture about how the Clinch brothers
04:36don't appreciate outsiders.
04:38So get the GardaĆ to ask the questions.
04:41Keep away.
04:42Anyway, nothing yet.
04:43So I'll be trying again this evening in another area.
04:46Not on your own.
04:48I'll get a couple of me security people to go with you.
04:50What, roll up with me own goon squad asking 20 questions?
04:53No thanks.
04:54It's reckless.
04:55Be careful.
04:57I asked around myself.
04:59One woman remembered Majella being on the streets,
05:02living in squats.
05:03But it was a long time ago.
05:05She had no more information to give.
05:07Yeah, but she might not tell a priest something that she'd say to me.
05:10And the others too.
05:13Perhaps.
05:14It's our first solid clue.
05:15It'd be great if it led somewhere.
05:17It what?
05:18It will.
05:19Okay.
05:20See it.
05:24JJ's doing lunch at Carol's.
05:26I know she'd love if you were there.
05:28Talking to sex workers.
05:30We don't like where this is going.
05:32Father Archer said it's a genuine lead.
05:35He's trying to stay positive.
05:37Which will do nothing for Carol if it turns out bad.
05:40You think Majella's dead, don't you?
05:42After everything I've learned about the Clinch family.
05:45It's hard not to...
05:47Yeah, well...
05:48Carol needs to feel that she tried everything.
05:59How are you?
06:00Come here.
06:01Was Dolores telling you about the brand new direction for the garage?
06:05What?
06:06Why am I hearing about this now?
06:08It's just a slight shift in emphasis.
06:10More aggressively targeting the EV market.
06:13Who's going to be selling these EVs?
06:14You and Doug?
06:15Poor Peter's feeling left out.
06:17Well, I've put up with Ray muscling in for years,
06:19so I'm not going to take it from my own son.
06:21It's a chain of command here.
06:23I hear things, then you.
06:25I get to hear about any new policies first.
06:28Why?
06:29Because I'm the head of sales.
06:30And I'm head of mechanical operations.
06:33We're both top of the table now, da.
06:35Equals.
06:36Not until next week.
06:38Doug came to me with the idea.
06:40Well, you weren't so full of bright ideas
06:42when it came to Ray's retirement presence.
06:45That was down to me.
06:46So weird, isn't it?
06:48It's on route.
06:49And it's not just your average mantelpiece cloth
06:51that you'd get anywhere.
06:53I sourced this from an artisan craftsman in the US.
06:57So it's less of a cloth, more of a conversational piece.
07:02The well done piece is optional.
07:04Just remember it's from all of us.
07:05Yeah, but I'll be the one who's presenting it.
07:08I'm the horologist, which is an expert on this stock.
07:12Only I can point out its quirks.
07:15Highlight its idiosyncrasies.
07:22Where's Nan?
07:24Any minute now.
07:26Will she definitely be here?
07:27I hope so.
07:28But no guarantees.
07:32Hiya.
07:35Chief, we're waiting outside.
07:36Bring the girl in.
07:37To this madhouse.
07:40Carol can't make it.
07:41She sends her apologies.
07:42I'm sure she does.
07:44Are you fighting?
07:45Oh, you keep putting it all together, don't you?
07:48Maybe if you weren't hanging around, she'd be here.
07:50Stop calling over every day.
07:52What's so urgent?
07:53I need cash.
07:55I want to bring Schieffer for lunch.
07:56I'll show off my collection of signed anime prints.
07:59Is Nan on the station?
08:00I doubt it.
08:01Do you know where she is?
08:02Or what she's so busy at?
08:03Don't know or do know, I won't say.
08:05Stop taking it out on JJ.
08:07How much are you looking for?
08:0850, please.
08:10I can stretch to 20.
08:11What if I won't buy the girl a meal?
08:15Here.
08:22You shouldn't let him away with that behaviour.
08:24He knows there's something going on, he feels excluded.
08:27Well, I did think Karen should tell him everything.
08:30It's the only way.
08:31It's not that straightforward.
08:34Tell him all about the Clinch family.
08:36Her own story.
08:38His great-grandfather.
08:39Which bits does she leave out?
08:43Like, she's on her way to quiz street workers this evening.
08:46She's shielding him from all that.
08:48Yeah.
08:48And how is she going to explain Majella?
08:50How many is she planning on introducing Lorcan to Denise?
08:54So I'll just chew my stuff.
08:58Oh, hiya.
09:00Hi, Sharon.
09:02Are the group happy with the new locations for the shed meetings?
09:04Oh, yeah.
09:05Yeah, there's a stopgap.
09:07The hearth's set in the perfect place, but it was snatched away.
09:09It was derelict and dangerous.
09:12It was lucky no one got hurt when it fell.
09:15Besides, you're over it anyway.
09:17Nah, I wouldn't say that.
09:18But the men's shed survives, even if our new building decided to spontaneously collapse.
09:24Well, the offer to use my place once a month is still there.
09:27One rule.
09:28Ray is not allowed to strip engines in my sitting room.
09:31Noted.
09:33Nora came up with the idea for a rotating location.
09:36So, use the centre, Leo's place, my place, Sharon's.
09:39He never mentioned anything to me.
09:40Well, we had other things to talk about, to do, now that Con is back.
09:45Anyway, I really appreciate you stepping up, Sharon.
09:48I'm very grateful.
09:49Well, if Anto was still around, I know the sheds would have been a big deal for him.
09:53Yeah, they would have been a major addition, huh?
09:56That's kind to you.
10:02Ray was saying, Tommy deserves answers.
10:05Con mightn't be the same to you reckon he is.
10:08Answers to what?
10:09Well, how does the roof repair turn into a demolition?
10:12Tommy needs to be as sure as you are that everything's above board.
10:16For his own peace of mind.
10:17He's putting himself through a lot of grief for nothing. I hate to see it.
10:21They're very good, too.
10:22And I know Tommy appreciates it.
10:24But he won't let this go.
10:26He might.
10:28If you work with me.
10:33I'll try.
10:43I've left a satchel in the office. I'll collect it later. Do not let anyone touch it.
10:46Well, look, if it's that important to you, maybe don't leave it lying around Lorcan.
10:51I'm sorry, okay? It's not you. It's me.
10:54I know. It's you. And him.
11:00Ah.
11:01Oh, a bit of slagging earlier, and I'm the bad guy.
11:06Very tense skin.
11:08I don't spend my time thinking about you.
11:10Or your cheating waster of a daughter.
11:12You leave Ruby out of this.
11:15Or...
11:15You'd want to cop on.
11:18Cop on?
11:19Does that qualify as Garda-Witt?
11:25A year to clap me an irons.
11:28We got the vandals who did your car.
11:32They say who put them up to it?
11:33Nobody.
11:34These Muppets are well known for going on sprees.
11:38Anyone with two brain cells would have nothing to do with them.
11:41Well, I hope I have a few more than that.
11:47An overpriced land grab.
11:49A Man Jack's car.
11:51You lost a friend in Tommy.
11:53You may have made an enemy of me.
11:56An exceptional few days work.
12:08You don't answer me calls.
12:10Texts.
12:11You abandon my gourmet cooking.
12:14Any reason why?
12:16Or we could just sit here in silence.
12:20I need your unconditional support.
12:24Can you give me that?
12:27It's not a trick question, yes or no.
12:30If you want to bring it down to that.
12:32My answer is no.
12:47Why am I not surprised?
12:50Unconditional means standing on the sidelines cheering
12:53when you know someone is making a mistake.
12:56I'm not that person.
12:57What gives you the right to decide?
13:00That I'm wrong?
13:02Cairn.
13:03Just don't stand in my way, alright?
13:06Hang back and let whatever happens happen.
13:09Yeah.
13:12I've always said you're formidable.
13:15If you're expecting an apology,
13:18I live with a disappointment.
13:19Your choice.
13:21I don't believe anything you say anyway.
13:23I'm not Tommy.
13:30Do you want to know?
13:31We have more important things.
13:33I'm coming with you this evening.
13:35You certainly are not.
13:37It's too dangerous.
13:38I keep a discreet distance.
13:41A pimp might take a priest nosing,
13:43but they're not going to put up with that from a woman.
13:46You assume that you need to teach me about this world.
13:50I understand what I'm doing.
13:53I'm trying to get me ma out of it.
13:58Hey.
13:59When did this arrive?
14:01Found it thrown on one of the shelves.
14:03In the letter rack where we put all the post?
14:05Hey, but it was pushed in at the back.
14:07It says there's a customs charge on Ray's present.
14:10Are you sure you can pay those charges online?
14:12Only if we all chip in at 65 quid.
14:14Er, you chose to buy it in the States that you cover the costs.
14:17Plenty of shops in town that'll do clocks.
14:19Not like this one.
14:21What, an invisible one?
14:22Alright.
14:23So can the ideas man come up with any alternative
14:26if I don't get it in time?
14:28It's a bit short now this week.
14:29Well, surely it's not beyond the capabilities
14:31of the head of mechanical operations.
14:41Alright?
14:42How are you?
14:42You know, Victor's like a man on a mission
14:44telling every punt of Malloy's motors is the go-to place.
14:47Yeah, and that Doug Ferguson is the main man.
14:49Thanks, lads.
14:51Sorry, I'm just trying to think of something that's really important.
14:54You have us to avoid you.
14:56No, it's okay. I'll work it out, yeah?
14:58I'll see you later.
14:59Yeah.
15:01So what's the story?
15:03What, this you?
15:04Ray?
15:04Nora?
15:05Dean is outnumbered three to one.
15:07Surely you can talk him round.
15:11Alright, message received. No worries.
15:13Look, I'm already trying to secure a room in the centre
15:15for one evening a month.
15:16I'll just ask them for two.
15:17Wish me luck.
15:18Good luck.
15:19Hey.
15:21So you want my knife on a tag?
15:23Mm-hmm.
15:24The wording is decided.
15:25How it looks is up for grabs.
15:26Drum roll.
15:28And the wording is cop on.
15:31Cop on?
15:32Cop on.
15:34It definitely has a ring too.
15:36Any particular meaning?
15:38Abstract.
15:39I'd like to incorporate cop sat into the design.
15:42Why waste a good pun?
15:44Let's get creative.
15:48Tommy and Colin used to get on really well.
15:51Well, I can't wave a magic wand.
15:53Yeah, but you're not biased.
15:55Tommy might think I am.
16:06Hey, watch.
16:07That's like a clock with smaller writing.
16:09How's that limit if you're ingenuity?
16:11Well, retirees get them all the time.
16:13Not this retiree.
16:15He deserves better.
16:17So, next.
16:19A voucher?
16:19You know the type you can use in loads of different shops.
16:22Sounds like we couldn't be bothered.
16:24Hey.
16:25How are you?
16:28So, Doug here is setting poor El Rey up for some disappointment and heartache?
16:33He's only being like that because Dolores likes my idea for the garage.
16:36We'll get used to it, Dad.
16:38Co-manager.
16:39Not the boss of me anymore.
16:42My dad was talking about travelling earlier.
16:45How about a safari suit and a Panama hat?
16:47And a good set of luggage.
16:51This is about my dad.
16:53Will you stop making this a Ferguson family scrap?
16:55Yeah, I will.
16:56When he climbs down and admits he mucked up.
16:59Well, I admit I brought a bit of imagination to the task.
17:02Not something you'd recognise.
17:04Work together.
17:05You'd prefer that.
17:07Now, here's my dad now.
17:09So, drop it.
17:11I'd say with all the other noise, you haven't had a chance to appreciate having your sister back.
17:16I doubt Carol has either.
17:18Give it time.
17:22It's so confusing.
17:25My sister was gone.
17:28So was my mother.
17:31Or may as well have been.
17:34So I made a new life.
17:36And look forward.
17:38Survival instinct.
17:39But I felt so guilty about turning me back on my dad.
17:44I wasn't around when he died.
17:47I was in Australia.
17:50I kept breaking down, crying.
17:54That is not me.
17:57I loved him.
18:00To me, he was a good man.
18:05When I was in care, I used to dream about him coming to take me home.
18:11And my foster parents were decent, but...
18:15I missed him.
18:16He would never have been allowed contact.
18:19But then, for my own sanity, I had to let him go.
18:24Runaway sister.
18:25Junkie mother.
18:27Alcoholic father.
18:28Just throw them away.
18:30And make the best of what I had.
18:32That was absolutely the right thing to do.
18:34He lied.
18:36About everything.
18:41I thought me dad was a good man.
18:46He was a monster.
18:51I can't talk to Carol about any of this.
18:55There's no room for anything except Majella.
18:59Even when I try to warn her, it might not be good news.
19:04She shuts me out.
19:06She doesn't mean to.
19:07I can see she's trying to do her best.
19:10I see you.
19:14Oh, God.
19:15They have to consult the committee before they'll guarantee a room.
19:19And they want to up the prices of the storage space that we're still using in the hall.
19:23Nothing worth doing is easy.
19:25Here.
19:26If you have time, you might go for a drink.
19:27Say thank you for all the encouragement.
19:30Hayley's booked me to babysit.
19:32In Emma's.
19:33I'd invite you over to sample some very expensive brand, Eva.
19:36I don't think Emma would be too impressed.
19:38You might be right.
19:39She guards that drinks cabinet zealously.
19:42Although I shouldn't be making fun of Emma.
19:44She's been a great support.
19:45Well, you're upsetting her what you're saying about Con.
19:50Go easy.
19:51You know nothing for sure.
19:57How are we?
19:59You tell me.
20:00I get you're disappointed, but don't resent me having some success.
20:04You must employ some very incompetent builders.
20:08Or was it a wrecking crew you sent in?
20:09And I mentioned you were taking trips to Cloud Cuckoo Land.
20:12I doubt she said it like that.
20:14That's what you're doing.
20:16Look, I'll accept everything when you and I sit down with a surveyor.
20:19And get a step-by-step from your workers as to how they proceeded.
20:24I don't do autopsies.
20:26Too busy looking forward.
20:28Try it.
20:40How'd it go?
20:42I was just saying a lot of them were too afraid to talk to me.
20:45Just strung out.
20:47You're aware of all this.
20:48So why bother?
20:50Because I did find out something useful about her ma, like I knew I would.
20:55I spoke to that woman that you talked to.
20:58She said that ma was in a bad way.
21:01I was living in a squat.
21:03That's all she knew?
21:04No. Some social worker talked her into going into a homeless shelter.
21:09Step up.
21:09Yeah, they'd have had to get her medical attention.
21:12And cured her addiction.
21:14This sounds very like false hope.
21:17Could be.
21:18So, our next move is to find that social worker.
21:22Who could be anywhere by now.
21:24Let this go.
21:26Or at least leave it to Father Art and the professionals.
21:30So you get in touch with your contacts, yeah?
21:32See who's covering that area.
21:34You should start taking a step back.
21:36Give yourself a chance to prepare in case the news is bad.
21:44Are you with me?
21:48I am.
21:50Right answer.
22:03There's something I doubt she was ready to hear.
22:08A woman died in a homeless shelter a while back.
22:11An addict.
22:13A jealous age, as far as they could tell.
22:15And roughly fits her description.
22:17Fake ID.
22:19Nobody knew her real name.
22:23I want you to bring it to Carol.
22:26Running from delivering bad news?
22:28Right now she won't listen to anything negative coming from me.
22:31She needs me standing with her, not knocking her back.
22:35But...
22:36She also needs to hear this.
22:45He wasn't a bother.
22:46Oh, thanks Sharon.
22:49You're going to end up as Hayley's go-to.
22:51No complaints here.
22:53I had that word with Tommy.
22:55Oh, thank you.
22:57He'll thank you too in the end.
22:59See ya.
22:59See ya.
23:02So...
23:03I should be able to get the planning permission expedited.
23:06By the book, Conn.
23:07No shortcuts.
23:08There was already a building there.
23:10A building that we demolished.
23:12Is that guilt?
23:13This is no business for a conscience.
23:16The word is profit.
23:18How much?
23:19JJ reckons I paid over the odds.
23:22I just factored the extra into the selling price.
23:25Plus enough to keep your niggling conscience at bay.
23:28And shut down Tommy the bloodhound.
23:36He has to know.
23:38I need to protect him from the details.
23:40Protect him.
23:41Or protect yourself.
23:43It's a flashy retirement, hasn't it?
23:45And the one way thing?
23:47What one way thing?
23:48Well, it's a one way cruise.
23:50There was a woman who passed away in a homeless shelter about three years back.
23:54And it seems likely that it's probably her.
23:57Who?
23:58Michella.
23:59I told her to tell you what they've done.
24:01You've lost me.
24:02I was in our house on Sunday.
24:04I heard them talking.
24:05You've left.
24:06You've had no.
24:11But we don't wait long you stay.
24:11You haven't stopped lying.
24:15You haven't got a lie yet.
24:18You know who, right?
24:18And I've got a lie you're gone.
24:19You haven't.
24:19You haven't got them down my way.
24:19You haven't.
24:19People like me neither.
24:19And don't be so