'Lost Sheep'Episode 3.7Written by Robert Jones
Series created by Kieran Prendiville
Scene 1 int: day
On the road
The bus is driving to Ballykay. There are many sheep on the road.
Driver: Ballykay coming up.Nainsi picks up her bag.
Scene 2 int: day
Hendley's
Leo's walking Finn. He goes to Hendley's. Kathleen is outside.
Leo: What's the biggest box of chocolates you've got?Kathleen: For your wife, is it?Leo: That's right.Kathleen: Then you want some flowers with them?The bus arrives. Nainsi gets out. When Kathleen sees her, she drops a few oranges from the box.
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Scene 3 int: day
On the road.
Fr Mac is driving in his car. He's trying to change a cassette. He runs into a sheep.
Scene 4: int: day
Siobhan's house.
Siobhan goes into the bathroom. She picks up a pregnancy test. She slightly smiles.
The phone rings.
Siobhan: Yes? A sheep? Well, to tell you the truth Eamon, if it's a sheep...Scene 5 int: day
On the road.
Eamon and Fr Mac are with Fr Mac's car. The sheep has gone.
Eamon: Well?Fr Mac: Well, it must have got up and walked away.Eamon: This is the Lazarus the Sheep, it it? You should have stayed with it.Fr Mac: Well. At least I came and told you. Which is more than most people would have done.Siobhan arrives.
Siobhan: Eamon, about this sheep...Eamon: The sheep's no longer with us.Fr Mac: I didn't do it deliberately, you know.Eamon: That wouldn’t be the first time.Siobhan: So no sheep?Fr Mac: No!Siobhan: Fine. Good.Scene 6 int: day
Peter's house.
Peter's having lunch. His house is swarmed with Brian's stuff. Nainsi knocks at the door.
Nainsi: Father, my name is Nainsi Maguire. I came here to talk to you about my sister. She used to... I'm sorry, you're eating.Peter: Oh, I won't if I can't find anywhere in my kitchen to sit down.Nainsi: Oh, I...Peter: Temporary house share, with her father. Niamh walks by with Kieran in the pram.
Peter: Niamh? Excuse me, 10 seconds.Peter walks towards Niamh.
Niamh: It's all right, Father, I've eaten.Peter: So, we're going to have to talk about you're father's things.Niamh's cell phone rings.
Niamh: Egan & Quigley, Niamh speaking. How may I help you? Mr Duffy, yes. Yes, the roof. He's out of town right now. I know he promised to fix it. Look, I'm at Liam's place at the moment... Oh, I'm sorry Mr Duffy, you're breaking up.She puts away the phone.
Niamh: Don't say anything.Peter: Look, Niamh, your dad's things. I'm swallowing.Niamh: Stick them in the shed.Peter: The shed's too damp.Niamh: Stick them in the lock then. He's not here, is he? He can't complain.Peter: Where is he exactly?Niamh's phone rings again.
Niamh: Egan & Quigley, Niamh speaking. How may I help you?Scene 7 int: day
Peter's house.
Peter and Nainsi are sticking Brian's stuff in the lock.
Peter: So you never met your sister?Nainsi: No, there's three of us, all girls. Aileen's the eldest and I'm the youngest. There's 20 years between us.Peter: So, if she was Fr Geraugty's housekeeper, she had spent a lot of time in this house. And your mother died recently?Nainsi: Three months.Peter: I'm sorry.Nainsi: At the funeral, it struck me. Aileen not being there and no one knowing where she was.Peter: So you've set out to find her.Nainsi: I though I might as well start here, you know. Maybe somebody might know something.Peter: There should be somewhere to sit down now, if you’d like some tea?Nainsi: Now you carry on, Father and I'll make the tea.Scene 8 int: day
Fitzgeralds.
Brendan and Padraig are at their usual places. Assumpta and Leo are behind the bar.
Leo: Pints at lunchtime?
Brendan: And whatever you're having.Assumpta: Did we forget your birthday?Brendan: No, this is the first day of the rest of my life.Assumpta: Right, but this is a platitude-free zone.Brendan: It's true. I'm moving on, I'm moving up.He shows Assumpta an ad.
Assumpta: Dublin's up?Brendan: Headteacher is up.Padraig: I'll be touched, black clothes.Assumpta: Batmobile.Brendan: Mock, go on, mock!Assumpta: Are you getting these high flyers their drinks?Leo: I'm just enjoying that 'whatever you're having'.
No one has ever said that to me before.
Assumpta: You're easily pleased.Leo: Ah, did you ever dream when you were a kid that you would be locked into the sweetshop after it closed?
Assumpta: It's not your name above that door, it's mine.Siobhan walks in.
Assumpta: Ah, Siobhan. Look, if you have anything to say to Brendan, you better get it done quick. He won't have time for the likes of us in the future.Siobhan: Well, there was something that...Padraig: He's going to flank his leadership qualities up ahead.Scene 9 int: day
Peter's house.
Father Mac walks in.
Fr Mac: Father Clifford?He sees Nainsi in the kitchen.
Fr Mac: Sorry. Aileen, is it you?Nainsi: I'm Nainsi. Aileen's sister.Peter sees Fr Mac almost collapsing.
Peter: Father, are you all right?Fr Mac: Yes, I'm fine. It's just, I'm a bit shaky. You see, I drove into a sheep on the top road and the all of a sudden I see this beautiful young woman making tea. Just as if it's still 1974.Peter: You knew Nainsi's sister?Fr Mac: Well, yes of course I do. Yes!Nainsi: Could you tell me what you remember?Peter: Look, you two sit down and I'll make the tea.Fr Mac: If you could manage a bit something stronger, so much the better.Scene 10 int: day
Fitzgerald's kitchen
Siobhan and Assumpta are in the kitchen. Assumpta's pouring tea.
Assumpta: Don't you think it might be the start of...Siobhan: Assumpta, I'm pregnant. I'm not menopausing. I've done a test.Assumpta: Sorry. You told the father?Siobhan: No.Assumpta: But you're going to tell him?Siobhan: I don't know.Assumpta: Ah, why should he sort wild off and get away scot-free?Siobhan: Well, I sort of my wild off and not just him!Assumpta: You're right, you're right. It takes two.Siobhan: What am I going to do?Assumpta: Well, you know the options.Siobhan: You mean a termination?Assumpta: No, that's just one of them. You could have sit down with the father and talk everything through.Siobhan: Have you ever...?Assumpta: Me? No. No, no, I haven't. No a friend of mine at college has been. I helped her through it.Siobhan: And did she think she did the right thing?Assumpta: Ah, she was eighteen, the father was a second years. She just started college.Siobhan: And did she think she did the right thing?Assumpta: She once said there doesn't go by a day that she doesn't regret it. But yes, she thinks she probably too did the right thing.Siobhan: See, I'm not eighteen.Assumpta: No.So, who's the father?
Siobhan: I'm not telling you.Leo walks in.
Leo: It's getting busy up here, Assumpta.
Assumpta: So get busy yourself.Leo: I was hoping to make a bit of progress on the article.
Assumpta: Commerce first, art later.Leo: Last time I buy flowers off of Kathleen Hendley.
Leo returns to the pub.
Siobhan: So, how's married life so far, Assumpta?Assumpta: These are big subjects, Siobhan. Let's just take them one at the time.Scene 11 int: day
Peters house.
Fr Mac and Nainsi are talking about Aileen.
Fr Mac: It was a long time ago, Nainsi. She was very well liked around these parts, I can tell you that. That's why it came as such a shock when she left without saying goodbye.Peter comes in with the drinks.
Peter: First things first.He pours the drinks.
Peter: Nainsi?Nainsi: No, thank you, Father. I don't drink.Fr Mac: Sensible girl. Neither did your sister.Kathleen knocks at the door.
Peter: Excuse me.Nainsi: I have a picture her over with someone. Maybe you know him.Kathleen: Father Clifford.Peter: Kathleen. Are you coming in?Kathleen: Did I see a young woman coming up this way, Father?Peter: You might have done, yes.Kathleen: And is she here, talking to Father MacAnally?Peter: Do you want to see him?Kathleen: I’ll see him later.Kathleen leaves.
Nainsi: If I can find him, he might be able to tell me where she went.Peter sees the photo.
Peter: Is that Padraig? He was a bit of a hippie in those days, wasn't he?Scene 12 int: day
Fitzgerald's
Niamh walks in with Kieran in the pram.
Niamh: Has anyone seen Liam and Donal?Leo: No.Peter and Nainsi walk in through the other door. Niamh heads for them.
Niamh: Father, you haven't seen Liam and Donal, have you?Peter: Let's see, erm. Aren't they with your father?Peter: Sorry, I'm being rude. Niamh, this is Nainsi. Nainsi, Niamh.Niamh: How are you?Cross-fade to Padraig and Brendan at the bar.
Padraig: Did I ever tell you about my night of passion in the hay?Brendan: About a hundred times.Padraig: I was engaged to Kirsty MaFalley.Brendan: But you were crazy about somebody else.Padraig: Aileen Maguire. I was in love. We went up to Dublin to see a band playing. We were at the bank.Brendan: And down came the rain.Padraig: Cats and dogs. We ran across the fields and stocked down an old barn. We had a night of unbridled passion. The rain was tremendous. You see that girl? She the spit image of her.Brendan: She's looking straight at you.Padraig: She is.Nainsi and Peter walk to Padraig and Brendan.
Peter: Padraig, this is Nainsi.Nainsi: Hay. I think you knew my sister.Scene 13 int: day
On the bridge
Padraig and Nainsi are standing on the bridge.
Padraig: This is where I first met her. She was standing right here looking down the river. I said something frivolous like 'don't do it.'Nainsi: Was she depressed?Padraig: This was her favourite spot.Nainsi: You thought you were going to have her?Padraig: I told myself I was. I have my arms around her on your photograph and we spent time together. But looking back, I don't really know I ever got close to her.Nainsi: She never told you she was going?Padraig: Well, I was engaged to someone else at the time, so I wasn't really behaving like a gentleman myself. But it still hurt when she left.Nainsi: She never got back in touch?Padraig: I went up to Dublin to see your mother once. Nainsi: Really?Padraig: She didn't know where Aileen was, that's what she said anyway.Nainsi: And did you marry her? The woman you were engaged to?Padraig: I married someone else, but she left. I have a son, Kevin.Nainsi: Sorry about your wife.Padraig: It's all right.Nainsi: And about Aileen.Padraig: Well, she never said this to me, but I often wondered if she had another fella, maybe in Dublin.Nainsi: I don't know.Padraig: Well, water under the bridge now, hum?Scene 14 int: day
In front of Fitzgerald's
Liam and Donal sit on the bench in front of Fitzgerald's.
Donal: It's like he might come up a hench any minute and grab a hold of you.Liam: Yeah, it's not like Quigley to up and go.Donal: You don't think he has topped himself?Liam: Quigley? Not in a million years.Donal: You're right. Not if his life depended on it.A truck arrives.
Man: Can you tell me where I can find Brian Quigley?Donal: A lot of people would like to know that.Liam: Yeah, whatever you have there he probably won't want it.Man: Security fences for the new factory.Donal: The factory is on hold.Man: He’s paid for it.Fr Mac sounds his horn, he wants to pass in his car.
Fr Mac: This is a public road, lads. Not a saloon bar.Donal: What happened to your car, Father?Fr Mac: One or another sheep hit it. There's going to be a serious accident up there one of these days.Fr Mac drives along.
Liam: Fences you have there, is it?Man: Yes, that's right.Scene 15 int: day
Michael's place.
Michael is washing his hands. Siobhan walks in.
Michael: Siobhan, what can I do for you?Siobhan: I'm pregnant, Michael.Michael: Are you sure?Siobhan: You know, whenever anybody tells me they're pregnant, the conversation usually goes something like this. Them: I'm pregnant. Me: Congratulations. But I don't seem to be getting that response.Michael: I'm sorry, Siobhan. It took me at the hawk, that's all.Siobhan: Am I that much of an ogre, doctor, that no one sees me as a mother to this child?Michael: Siobhan, of course you're not an ogre. Considerations, that's all. Especially your age, the older you are, the greater the risks. For the child too.Siobhan: I know that.Michael: Of course. Animals you couldn't work with. Sheep and lambs obviously could risk a miscarriage.Siobhan: So I'll employ a locum for a while.Michael: So you're ready to take this on?Siobhan: I have no idea, Michael.Michael: You are aware this would come as a shock to some people around here.Siobhan: Doctor, round teabags would come as a shock to some people around here.Cut to Padraig and Nainsi in the waiting room.
Padraig: Waiting for a doctor always makes me feel nervous.Siobhan comes out the consulting room.
Michael: Take care, Siobhan.Padraig: Ah, Siobhan?Michael: Who's next?Nainsi and Padraig go into the consulting room.