Part 1 of 6 of the 1985 thriller. Geoffrey Carr is a successful computer businessman married to Frances, a widow half his age with a teenage daughter, Clare. But despite surface appearances it is anything but harmonious, with Frances openly telling him she regrets marrying him. To try and appease her, he buys her the Irish mansion she grew up in and where she met her previous husband. But little do they realize how their lives are going to change forever when a group of IRA dissidents decide that to make a name for themselves they need to raise money for the IRA and see the Carrs as a perfect opportunity to do so...
Starring Peter Barkworth, Harriet Walter, Derek Thompson, Aingeal Grehan, Hugh Fraser, Nicholas Jones, Adrian Dunbar and a young Susanna Reid (yes, THAT one!), this thriller was originally broadcast on Channel 4 on January 10th 1985 and was an original idea by lead star Peter Barkworth. This I was lucky to save from Mick's Nostalgia Channel when it was on Youtube a couple of years ago, so you have him to thank for this. Apologies for the screen shape, but this is how it came out. As the original episodes were joined as two 3 part videos, I had to put them on video to be able to put them seperately onto DVD to upload on here. This remains a compelling thriller throughout, even if you wonder how it will maintain interest for 6 episodes, and despite the fact that the lead characters are not entirely likeable. Indeed, Harriet Walter's character is particularly disturbing, but you only realize how much so as the episodes progress. Please note this contains some swearing and violence.
Starring Peter Barkworth, Harriet Walter, Derek Thompson, Aingeal Grehan, Hugh Fraser, Nicholas Jones, Adrian Dunbar and a young Susanna Reid (yes, THAT one!), this thriller was originally broadcast on Channel 4 on January 10th 1985 and was an original idea by lead star Peter Barkworth. This I was lucky to save from Mick's Nostalgia Channel when it was on Youtube a couple of years ago, so you have him to thank for this. Apologies for the screen shape, but this is how it came out. As the original episodes were joined as two 3 part videos, I had to put them on video to be able to put them seperately onto DVD to upload on here. This remains a compelling thriller throughout, even if you wonder how it will maintain interest for 6 episodes, and despite the fact that the lead characters are not entirely likeable. Indeed, Harriet Walter's character is particularly disturbing, but you only realize how much so as the episodes progress. Please note this contains some swearing and violence.
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00:30I
01:00I
01:30I
02:00This will have
02:30a
03:00I
03:27You know what to do
03:30I
04:00I
04:30I
05:00I
05:30What did you do in school today?
05:42Free choice essay.
05:43What did you write about?
05:44Marriage.
05:45It's a fairly large subject.
05:46My father died when I was eight in a riding accident.
05:54I loved him very much.
05:55Recently, mother has married again.
05:57All right.
05:58His name is Geoffrey.
05:59He is very rich.
06:00What did you write about?
06:02He is very rich.
06:03What did you write about?
06:05He is very rich.
06:10He is very rich.
06:17What did you write about?
06:27Did you put this here so I'd see it?
06:39My family used to own it.
06:42He came from there.
06:43What, Charlie?
06:44Oh, perhaps you'd like to go back.
06:51Can we go?
06:55Hmm?
06:57To the auction.
07:02To Ireland?
07:05Now, it's an industry bonfire, top table next to the minister.
07:08And don't forget, his wife likes porcelain.
07:11Oh, sorry, no, wrong ministry.
07:14She's, uh, saves the children.
07:17So perhaps you should sponsor a child.
07:19They like to think computer manufacturers have normal human instincts.
07:23What's wrong?
07:26Do we have to go tonight?
07:30We not only have to go, we should have gone.
07:33Come on, finish your drink.
07:40Can't bear to leave a drink unfinished, can you?
07:44Yes, that's true.
07:45I always hear my mother's voice.
07:47Come on, drink up.
07:48You never know when you might need it.
07:58Good girl.
08:29Okay, got it.
08:33Ian!
08:39Okay, fine.
08:40See you later.
08:42Wait a minute!
08:48You said to drop in any time.
08:52You didn't mention that.
09:03Thanks a lot.
09:10Look, I've been looking for an excuse to see you.
09:14Ever since you gave that talk in Derry.
09:16Which one?
09:18You said we shouldn't be bombing our own people.
09:22We should hit the politicians.
09:24The rich.
09:26You said you wanted to be involved.
09:28I said there should be better planning.
09:31Which you could do.
09:35I'm a teacher.
09:38So it was all talk, was it?
09:41Why did you come here?
09:44I've just told you.
09:46You're not a soldier.
09:48No.
09:51Don't want to know.
09:55Belfast.
09:57You took a chance.
09:58Why didn't you go to Donegal?
10:01Because I wanted to see you.
10:06Because another week that would have pulled me back.
10:10Another job.
10:15You're running from them.
10:17As well.
10:19Frank.
10:21I want you out.
10:23First thing in the morning, I want you out.
10:44Claire.
11:14She was asleep.
11:38I won't bear you to touch me.
12:00Henry, you know Geoffrey by now.
12:14What is all this?
12:16Eat your basket.
12:17Go on.
12:18Go on.
12:19He's a friend.
12:21Oh, that's good to know.
12:26Coffee?
12:29No, thank you.
12:30What is all this?
12:41I can't stand you!
12:52What a dreadful thing to say.
13:00I can't stand the way you brush your teeth.
13:03It's more than that.
13:06Teeth don't sound crucial.
13:08Please don't joke.
13:11Don't touch me!
13:36When the restaurant failed,
13:38I couldn't face going back to cooking executive lunches.
13:43Some people can live on nothing, I can't.
13:47You've no idea how much I was in debt.
13:49On the contrary, I paid the bills.
13:52Anyway, you made very good executive lunches.
13:57I'll never forget asking you to dinner.
14:00But your lunch, Mr Carr.
14:02Can't imagine you at dinner, Mr Carr.
14:07Damn!
14:09What?
14:20I told you I didn't love you.
14:29You wanted...
14:33money.
14:36And I wanted a wife.
14:39A social asset.
14:42Anyway, what's wrong with that?
14:50It's an appalling mistake.
14:53What?
14:57It's an appalling mistake.
15:11I liked you. I did like you.
15:15Sometimes I liked you rather a lot.
15:19I thought it would work.
15:23I tried, but everything's business.
15:25We even had our honeymoon at a computer convention.
15:28I was with you most of the time?
15:30In Cincinnati.
15:35I wasn't looking at Cincinnati.
15:40Why haven't you said anything before?
15:44I've tried.
15:45When?
15:53It's not just business.
15:57It's Claire, her father.
16:02Michael died at Kilnermeth.
16:07When I saw the houses for sale, all that came back.
16:10I can't explain.
16:16I'll be away for a while.
16:18Where?
16:20New Orleans.
16:23Why go there if it upsets you?
16:25What will that solve?
16:28No, sit down, Frances.
16:33Sit down.
16:44All right, I'm not going to touch you.
16:55We've been married three months.
16:59Three months.
17:03It's not been that easy for me either.
17:06I mean, you, your daughter, your dog.
17:10Marriage is a bit of a shock to the system for the first time at 50.
17:21I'm sorry, I've got a nine o'clock appointment.
17:29So look, I'll cancel tomorrow evening.
17:30Well, I'll cancel the second part,
17:32and then we can have a late dinner alone
17:33and really talk this out.
17:36All right?
17:40Good girl.
17:42Good girl.
17:52I'll sleep in the spare room.
17:54Oh, don't be silly.
17:55You haven't been listening to a word I've been saying.
17:57I mean, you certainly haven't been listening.
18:00Come on, Frances.
18:02Look, shut up!
18:16You out of a job too?
18:21Where are you going?
18:22South.
18:23How?
18:26You can't go out on the streets like that.
18:29You want me out?
18:31You need a car.
18:33Phone someone.
18:35And end up in Derry doing a shit job on my way to the maze?
18:39I'll take a chance.
18:41Thanks for the bed.
18:45And breakfast.
18:52Do you know a safe way over?
18:55Aye, near Monaghan.
18:57An old smuggler's route.
19:00I'll take you.
19:06Come, come.
19:10Frances.
19:12Go and see if the book's in the car.
19:14It's not in the car.
19:15Go and see if it is.
19:29I'll come with you.
19:31To school?
19:32No, no, no.
19:34No, to Ireland.
19:37You can't.
19:38No, I know I can't, but I'll cancel a couple of trips.
19:41And Clare can go to your aunt's and they'll have a bloody dog with her.
20:11Clare, can you come down here?
20:27Where's your lover?
20:29Saying goodbye to his computer?
20:32Oh, you think you're so bloody clever, don't you?
20:47OK.
21:08Go and give me a kiss, darling.
21:11It's lovely time in Ireland, darling.
21:25No sign of it.
21:28God, I don't know.
21:31How are you?
21:32I haven't cooked without it.
21:47There are two telephones this week.
21:49Yes, sir.
21:50Oh, good, because I shall want one to be a computer link to London.
21:53Perhaps you could ask the manager to see me where it is convenient.
21:55Certainly, sir.
21:57Because I have duplicates of all the disks, of course.
21:59So I can hire a micro three and simply plug into London.
22:02That's the beauty of computers.
22:04Yes.
22:08You haven't given me a form.
22:10I'm Mr. Carr's secretary.
22:11Oh, I'm sorry, madam.
22:13I thought Mrs. Carr was coming.
22:15So did I.
22:18How long are you going to keep this up?
22:20As long as you are.
22:22A few hours in the morning, that's all.
22:24We'll have the whole afternoon and evening.
22:25We are on our second honeymoon.
22:27We've had our honeymoon.
22:28We've had this one here.
22:29I'm sorry.
22:42Your missing case is behind the tree in the front garden.
22:47These two are mine.
22:48Very good, madam.
22:50Wait this way, please.
22:51He shan't keep you long, is he?
23:11What would you do with the money?
23:14Supply arms.
23:18I have a contact who does a freight run from France to Rosslar.
23:22She wants my career to date.
23:24I know it.
23:26You checked me out.
23:28Haven't you?
23:42Porn.
23:44Well, I think it's pornography.
23:46You sit in the rich, aren't you?
23:48They can tell you who's poor, who's rich, where they live, when they're in Ireland.
24:04I knew you were smart, kid.
24:07There are more millionaires in Wicklow than there are pants in Guinness.
24:38Watch.
24:40Hello, watch.
24:42Come here, come here.
24:44Come on, watch.
24:46Don't you worry.
24:48There you go.
24:50It's fancy's.
24:52You're a smelly old thing now, aren't you?
24:56Where's my sister?
24:58Where's Margaret?
25:01Hello, Margaret.
25:07It's good to see you.
25:13Hello.
25:15Can I join you?
25:17Yes, of course.
25:20It's good to see you.
25:26Hello.
25:29Can I just smell them?
25:31You can eat them if you like.
25:36If only I was living here again.
25:38You were last week.
25:43It was a nice wedding.
25:45Sorry you weren't invited.
25:47No one was, such a rush.
25:51I wouldn't have come.
25:58Where is he?
26:01Oh, we've separated.
26:06Jesus, Frances, I can't do with you.
26:10Well, I married Michael for love, so this time I thought I'd try money.
26:13It sounds as though you made an even greater mess of it.
26:15It was not a mess.
26:17And as for the present situation, I don't stay with people I can't stand.
26:24Mmm, this is lovely.
26:27This is home.
26:29It's scone.
26:32You should try making one.
26:43In five minutes you can drive me up the wall.
26:57I keep this out for the agents.
26:59Well, that's what you came for, isn't it?
28:00I'm sorry.
28:01I'm sorry.
28:02I'm sorry.
28:04I'm sorry.
28:18I'm sorry.
28:47What is it, Frances?
29:01That wasn't you.
29:02What?
29:03The horse.
29:04Oh, don't be ridiculous.
29:06I had a horse.
29:07Of course you had a horse.
29:09There is a horse.
29:10Bloody maniac cut right across my taxi.
29:13Hello?
29:25Hello, Frances.
29:27Andrew Padgett, my husband.
29:31Well, would you credit that?
29:34Beaten again to the first prize.
29:40Because you never ask.
29:42You're always too busy.
29:45Andrew and I were childhood sweethearts.
29:54There are so many ghosts in that house.
29:57I took it for granted.
29:58The horse must be one of them.
30:00When did you live there?
30:02I never lived there.
30:03You don't listen to me.
30:05Well, you never tell us a straight story.
30:07There are no straight stories in Ireland.
30:11Jesus, you're as scatty as ever.
30:13It's the sight of you that destroys my memory.
30:15Kiss for the bride.
30:18For a minute.
30:22I'm driving.
30:23For a minute.
30:29I'm right, Joe.
30:30It must be Carrie.
30:31I'll tell you what.
30:32You're terribly wrong.
30:39Michael and I used to keep our stables near Kilnamyth.
30:43It was owned by a judge.
30:45He wrote.
30:46He was a great character.
30:49Used to go there for parties.
30:52Practically lived there.
30:55Like we did as children.
30:58My parents moved to London.
31:08It was a great dream we had that one day,
31:10we'd buy it back.
31:27Used to ride with him.
31:30There was a fancy dress party at Kilnamyth.
31:33Michael came dressed as Charles, the fifth Earl.
31:36The portrait you hate.
31:38No, I don't hate it.
31:39It's just out of place.
31:51It must have been Tokyo.
31:58It was just a moon enough to see.
32:02We were drunk.
32:06The three of us went riding, riding, riding over the bridge,
32:09towards the cops.
32:13It was a high hedge.
32:17Had to go over it.
32:22He was thrown and broke his neck.
32:36Are you bringing that bloody drink?
32:58Thank you for coming for me.
33:04I thought you couldn't bear to touch me.
33:08Sometimes I can.
33:09Sometimes I can't.
33:13I'm just not used to...
33:19I've no...
33:23I can't talk about what I feel.
33:32What do you feel?
33:41Come here.
33:44Open your eyes.
34:03Do you want it?
34:05What?
34:08Kilnamyth.
34:12Ah!
34:38Have you finished, Tara?
34:41That man would find you a worm in a mansion.
34:46It's a fierce report.
34:48Of course, I shall have to weigh it against the investments it would replace.
34:52Darling, I know. It's a crazy idler.
34:54No, not entirely.
34:56If that line can be sold.
34:59I'm really going to buy it.
35:00Don't get excited.
35:02Don't let people see you want it.
35:08Who are we bidding?
35:11O'Leary.
35:12Not me, sir.
35:14People lose cash these days.
35:16He has the adjoining land.
35:19At £180,000.
35:22We're at £180,000.
35:25Let me remind you, ladies and gentlemen, that what we're selling here is a piece of history
35:29with one of the finest landscaped parks in County Wicklow.
35:33And if you're not interested in that, perchance,
35:35thrown in is 80%, 155 acres of the best agricultural land in the county.
35:42£200,000, Mr. Wainwright, I'll ask you.
35:47£200,000?
35:51£200,000, thank you, Mr. Costler.
35:55£220,000, Mr. McCarthy.
35:59£240,000, Mr. Costler.
36:03It's for you to think about, Mr. McCarthy.
36:06£250,000 I'll take.
36:08£250,000.
36:11£260,000.
36:14£260,000.
36:17Gentlemen, if this was three years ago, it would be making double that price at least.
36:22And it has the potential to become one of the best estates in County Wicklow.
36:27But at £260,000, I'm going to sell.
36:33Thank you, sir.
36:35£270,000.
36:38You bidder. Gentleman in the corner.
36:41£270,000.
36:45£275,000.
36:48£280,000.
36:51£280,000.
36:55£285,000, thank you.
36:59£285,000.
37:03£290,000.
37:05Have you £295,000, Mr. Costler?
37:09£290,000.
37:13£290,000, and if I get no further bids,
37:17I'm going to sell Kilnermeth House at £290,000.
37:23I will call it three times.
37:26For the first time of asking, £290,000.
37:32For the second time of asking, £290,000.
37:38£290,000 sold.
37:56Thank you very much.
38:02Would you look at the old devil.
38:04He got a different solicitor from Dublin.
38:07I know the face now.
38:09I really thought you had it there for a moment.
38:11I was praying for you.
38:14Oh, come on now.
38:20I think it might be worth it to me.
38:26Oh, darling, I didn't realise you'd be this upset.
38:28You didn't?
38:32Why didn't you tell me?
38:33Oh, did you really?
38:34No, no, no, no, no, no.
38:35You said it was a crazy idea.
38:37That was just...
38:40You must have realised.
38:46Oh, you shouldn't have said you'd buy it.
38:48I had no idea you could just like that.
38:52Well, I told you, I have to look at these things as an investment.
39:00Well, so near yet so far.
39:03My sister Margaret, Geoffrey.
39:06Hello.
39:07Hello.
39:08Brother-in-law.
39:10Margaret has invited us for tea.
39:15Well, I really must phone London first.
39:18That'll take an hour.
39:19We'll meet you back here.
39:23Well, nice to meet you.
39:44How much did this O'Leary take you for?
40:02300,000, Richard.
40:03And I got the house and he got the farmland.
40:05He wanted it for nothing.
40:06Still awake.
40:07I'm sweating.
40:08A farmer, an Irishman.
40:10Does he need a merchant banker?
40:16I don't know what's been happening to me.
40:20Well, it is unusual.
40:23What?
40:24To be in love with one's own wife.
40:26Oh, rubbish.
40:29But now I'm back, I can't believe what I've done.
40:31I must be going mad.
40:33It'll wear off.
40:35Will it?
40:37Well, this sort of thing must have happened to you before.
40:40Yes, I suppose so, yes, when I was 16.
40:44Since then I've been too busy.
40:46I'm too busy now.
40:47Is Frances back?
40:48No, she's still over there.
40:50In control, that's what I'm getting at.
40:53Control.
40:54If a man reaches my age and loses control of his feelings to that extent,
40:58I'm not talking about a night out, Richard.
41:00I'm talking about suddenly finding myself an Irish landowner.
41:04You can afford it.
41:06This just brings eagles holding up to 29%.
41:09You're still by far the majority shareholder.
41:11Oh.
41:23Ketsushoma.
41:25Why is Geoffrey inviting the Japanese here, John?
41:28Don't ask me, Richard.
41:29I am only his public relations adviser.
41:33Well, I suppose you pray and a sign appears.
41:37Come on, my Parida.
41:42Well, I would say left.
41:44Or right.
41:46My God.
41:48I thought this was the Republic.
41:50So did the Irish.
41:52Nah, too much.
41:54I'll go with this dress.
41:56Give me the boat.
41:58See you, John.
42:04You can keep the boat.
42:06I can take it.
42:10The other one.
42:14You can take the boat.
42:16I will take the boat.
42:18Don't worry.
42:19Can you give me the boat?
42:24Sit, Mummy.
42:25No, Ma.
42:26No, I'll do it.
42:29Come on.
42:30Come on.
42:49I haven't been allowed to see this yet.
44:01Well...
44:04He doesn't look better here.
44:25Alan. Alan.
44:28Tom O'Leary, Alan Tyndall, my financial director.
44:31How are you?
44:32And whatever you do,
44:35don't buy a house from him.
44:37Tom, I'm going to take you away. Come meet Kenny.
44:46Norma.
44:49I want laboratories.
44:51A computer research centre.
44:54Here.
44:55Here?
44:56We'll walk over tomorrow. I'll show you the site.
44:59How will it be financed?
45:00You can't have another rights issue, Geoffrey.
45:05There's the money.
45:27Hey!
45:42He's gone bloody bananas.
45:45Research could suck up millions.
45:47Refuses to realise that he's no longer a scientist.
45:50Nor ever was.
45:52It's the oldest hazard in the business.
45:54You create an image for someone, and then he comes to believe in it.
46:25Who was it who said that the Emperor
46:28could not hear the vandals knocking at the gates of Rome
46:32for the feasting therein?
46:55Oh, and could you remind me to go to the chemist after I've seen you off?
46:59To get Claire's asthma stuff.
47:01Right.
47:09I don't know.
47:11What?
47:13Anything.
47:15I don't know.
47:16I don't know.
47:17I don't know.
47:18I don't know.
47:19I don't know.
47:20I don't know.
47:21I don't know.
47:22I don't know.
47:23Getting awfully scatty about the pill.
47:30Oh well, doesn't matter.
47:33Doesn't it?
47:35Does it?
47:53Whoa!
48:23Whoa!
48:24Whoa!
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49:21What?
49:28Don't be so boring!
49:51Jesus!
49:52Ah!
49:53Ah!
49:54Help!
49:55Help!
49:56Help!
49:57Ah!
49:58Help!
49:59Ah!
50:00Ah!
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50:07Hold it!
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50:09Jesus!
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50:11Oh no!
50:12Open that bloody door!
50:13Ah!
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50:15Ah!
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50:17Ah!
50:18Ah!
50:19Ah!
50:20Go away, please! Help me, God!
50:22Get in!
50:23No, no!
50:24Come on, get in!
50:25Get in the car! Get in!
50:29Pick that speed up!
50:30No! No!
50:38Here she is!
50:39No! No! No!
50:41No! No! No!
50:50Shoot!
51:12Shoot!
51:20Come on!
51:50No!
52:20No!
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