Guilt

MAX: I think you looked after the Lynches' money.

But you'd only do it if they had something on you.

SKYE: I'm trying to get 20 grand out of a crook to pay back a gangster.

MAGGIE: This isn't escape.

All this means is that you two will be together at the end.

Now think about your future.

Be brave.

Those loans are underpinned with thin air.

Pull the deal tonight or I'll go public.

(thunder claps) (whimpering) (click) MAGGIE: This city is a prize.

It is a prize to be won and a prize to be defended.

Winning it was easy.

The hard part is the defense.

But Roy and I always welcomed the defense.

Because the defense is what made us strong.

It is what made us ready.

So, if my enemies are coming for me... ...then I welcome them.

If they're coming for me, then let them come.

("You're Supposed to Be My Friend" by 1990s playing) Hey!

Whoo-hoo!

Okay!

You're supposed to be my friend We're supposed to get along Hey, you're supposed to be my friend That's right!

Right?

(vocalizing) (guitar feedback buzzing) (places mug, song stops) Well, isn't this nice?

Your brother was just telling me about your dad, and his accident.

Him living up there all on his own.

Lucky you.

And he told me about his band, the big break he never got.

Really, Jake?

That's where we are?

Back at the beginning?

Beginnings are where you find the endings.

Is that right?

You want to know how this finishes for you, son, you'll want to think about what you did at the start.

This finishes well for me, hm?

For example, I will no longer be cohabiting with yourself.

You were back late.

You were up early.

What's the plan?

The plan is on track.

Which is all you need to know.

Where are you going, Max?

To finish it.

(door opens and shuts) Ready?

(quietly): Nearly.

KENNY (on voicemail greeting): Leith Legals, getting you out of bother just as quick as we can!

(knocking) (exhales) Well, you needed that, love.

You slept like the dead.

Who the (muted) are you?

What is it with you lot and the language?

(exhales): Where are the others?

Skye!

Your pal's awake!

I've done you a Lorne sausage roll.

I'm a vegetarian.

You're on holiday.

Does this look like a holiday?

She's a vegetarian and here's me after doing a roll.

Give us a minute, Mum.

I need the rest of my stuff.

DANNY: You can't go back to the hotel.

I told you last night, I appreciate you getting me out of there, but I'd be going in the morning.

You need to stay here while we work out what to do.

ALIZA: If you knew what to do, you'd know by now.

I didn't get in that laundry cart because you told me about the men.

I got in because you showed me photos of paperwork that I can no longer access.

Get it, or tell me where it is.

That's our leverage.

Leverage?

Who taught you that word, honey?

I just...

Sort of picked it up along the way.

(exhales) Move!

Absolutely not.

SKYE: You're not in Edinburgh anymore.

You're in Leith-- different rules apply.

(chuckles) (shoes drop, Aliza sighs) I grew up in a project in Baltimore.

And ended up running a bank worth more money than you can imagine.

One of the ways I did that was always working out who was in charge.

If you're involved in something that helps me take down Jim Sturrock, then great.

But you need to take me to who's in charge, because it sure as hell isn't you two.

MAX: This is a mutually beneficial situation.

You want to take down Maggie Lynch.

I can provide the evidence that will allow you to do so.

Such as?

Conspiracy to murder.

Give me what you've got, I'll review it, and we'll let you know.

If you give me what you've got on Jim Sturrock.

Specifically phone data showing all contact between himself and Roy Lynch.

I told you, if you want Maggie Lynch, you'll have to get a little dirty.

Sturrock isn't our concern.

There's no such thing as a little dirty, Stevie.

I'd be illegally sharing evidence.

I'm giving you Maggie Lynch.

And you get away with whatever it is you've done.

It's not just me who'll get away with it.

Where's Kenny?

What do you mean?

He didn't come home last night.

Well, as you know, Kenny is an alcoholic, so I'd imagine bedtimes are never, um, straightforward.

I'd know if it was that.

I'll tell him you're looking for him.

You'll leave him alone.

Then take the deal.

You're talking to a police officer.

I'm talking to a police officer who wants a way out.

And I'm giving you it.

No-- this isn't a way out, it's a way into something else.

But let me tell you both, if something's happened to Kenny, that's when it'll get dirty.

(door opens and closes) It's about time.

Sounded important.

I never thought a daughter of mine would end up in Dundee.

Well, it's not Edinburgh, which is all that matters.

Could be worse-- could be Glasgow.

You're looking well.

A lot more mobile than I remember you.

You're looking well, too, love.

But then all the money you nicked from me will be keeping you healthy.

It sounded important.

I'm going away, and I thought I should see my daughter before I go, in case I don't see her once I've gone.

What do you want, Mum?

I want to know you're okay.

I want to know something, anything, about your life.

I want to take those things with me.

I wanted a life that wasn't poisoned by being a Lynch.

And all the lies that came with it.

And I've found one.

You can take that.

For what it's worth, I'm sorry about Roy.

And Sandy, and... Everything that happened.

You have a look, Mum, when you talk about that stuff that I've not seen before.

And I'm sorry about how you found out, that... ...wasn't right.

Max McCall should have minded his own business.

So it was Max's fault, was it?

He shouldn't have told you.

And he'll face the consequences for doing so.

And how might you do that?

It's a lovely view, right enough, coming over the bridge.

And you always want Fife in your rear view mirror.

Is Max back?

What does it matter?

Is he back?

No.

There's that look again.

I wanted to see you.

Well, now you've seen me.

And I've seen you.

(door opens) Welcome to the resistance.

You're in charge?

(snickers): Clearly.

I want those documents.

Why?

To stop the deal.

And there's the problem.

You wanna shaft Jim Sturrock and stop the deal, but I need the deal to go through, so Jim Sturrock can pay me.

After that, I'll support any shafting of Jim Sturrock with considerable gusto.

(cell phone ringing) I want the documents.

And I need to get my stuff.

(door shuts) No pills.

You know more about that world than me, which means you need to tell me how the sale going through can help us both.

Now, to work that out, you need clarity.

Now, this house doesn't offer much, but, by God, it offers clarity.

(laughs): So now you're going to kidnap me?

MAX: Well, we don't have to.

We have something you want badly enough to stay here for.

I just need you to sit there until you can tell me how we both win.

How is that not a kidnapping?

Because it's for your own good.

It feels like a kidnapping.

That's not helpful.

I'm not doing a kidnapping.

If you lot don't want to do a kidnapping, the first step would be to stop calling it a (muted) kidnapping.

It's Uncle Kenny.

Take a break, Mum.

I'll let you know if anything changes.

Do you think they took him from here?

Don't know.

What I do know is that when I called Kenny from the airport, before he was sadly sidetracked by his sperm, I was gonna get him to dig out some paperwork that would have given us a level of protection.

(drawer closes) Now I have to work out where, in the chaotic mind of Kenny Burns, that paperwork might be stored.

You don't care, do you?

(quietly): Sorry?

Kenny's in a coma and you don't care.

That's not true.

I think Kenny being in a coma is a bad thing.

I wish Kenny wasn't in a coma, but Kenny is in a coma, so I need to react accordingly.

We should visit him.

Jake, this is what's known as a busy day.

He'd appreciate a visit.

Do you know how comas work?

You know, there's no one in this world, Max, who's been around you who hasn't been left ruined.

Not true.

Well, give me an exception.

I remembered the owls.

(monitor beeps) Thanks for calling.

He's stable.

They reckon he'll be, you know, back.

I'll take Mum home for a bit-- she's no good in hospitals.

What happened?

How long have the Lynches done whatever they wanted?

You lot are the biggest gang in town, and you've done nothing.

I don't think Kenny's lying in there because something he's done.

I think he's there because of the man he is.

Because he believes in things that others don't.

Kenny won't tell you lot what happened.

But I'll find out.

And the difference between us is that I'll do something about it.

No.

You won't.

You've got too much to lose, and Kenny won't forgive me if I let you lose it.

If I don't do anything, then who will?

Hm.

Uh, it's good to see you.

How long have you been back?

Oh, a few days.

Right.

It's not, um, uh, I mean, it's not a holiday.

(laughs): I should hope not.

Leith in November?

(chuckles) Thank you.

For... what you did.

What you told me.

It was the right thing to do.

Don't know about that, but... (chuckles) Thank you.

Did it give you some peace?

I wouldn't go that far.

(car approaching, stops) (engine stops, doors open and close) I wanted to see you.

And your life.

I wanted to see what capacity you might have for something more.

And how am I looking?

Hunted.

(chuckles): That's about right.

I say things to you, Erin, that I wouldn't say to anybody else.

Things like, "It was the right thing to do."

And I'm, I'm not entirely sure why that is.

And I'm not entirely sure it's a bad thing.

(chuckles) That's about as good as it gets, isn't it, Max?

From you.

I had an idea, Erin, of who I am.

Where I came from, who I came from.

And, uh, it turns out that... (clears throat): ...some of that was wrong.

And maybe all of it's wrong, but that is not a road that I can go down right now.

Soon, maybe, but not now.

Now is where things happen, Max.

Where, where can I find you, when I'm ready?

Dundee.

Dundee?

It offers more than you think.

I imagine this would be a, a small city to share with your mother.

Mm, well, she's leaving, apparently.

You've seen her?

This morning.

She told me you were back.

Not that she meant to.

Why are you here, Erin?

You think I'm here for her?

I'm here to tell you what your life could be.

If you thought for one moment about the other people in it.

I didn't think you'd be here.

I only came to leave this.

Erin... Erin, your mother doesn't make mistakes.

(door opens) Maggie Lynch!

MAX: This wasn't you!

(door opens) (door closes) (door opens) (chuckles) Jake!

Jake!

(both panting) (talking in distance) (monitor beeping) (gasps) (exhales softly) Well, that's another successful relationship you've got there.

That wasn't her fault.

You're right.

Smart, pretty, Mum wants to kill you?

(cell phone ringing) She's perfect.

Yes!

We can both win.

I'm on my way.

Epiphany.

(chuckles) That's what it was.

No more, no less.

(chuckles) They said total rest, Kenny.

I don't think total rest includes epiphanies.

I've been out for 19 hours.

I'm well rested.

(exhales deeply) It was a hell of a shift in the darkness.

But I can genuinely say I enjoyed it.

Because I came out of it with this.

You.

Me.

Leith Legals.

We'd be unstoppable.

You can tell me all the places I've been going wrong with the old investigatory.

We can work together, play together.

And look...

I know the coupon's taken a right old pasting, but...

I am delighted to confirm the crotch got an easy ride.

(exhales) I'm not out yet, Kenny.

And I need to do something first.

Not if it's to do with this, you don't.

Who did she get to do it?

You see, that's the kind of question you won't have to ask anymore.

You can pick your battles at Leith Legals.

And we don't pick battles that are beyond us.

Pretty militant about that.

(coughs softly) Then I'll go straight to her.

Yvonne, please, don't go down that road.

Because there's no way you get Maggie Lynch without sacrificing who you are.

If you get into the gutter with her, you won't get out.

You're a good man, Kenny.

But sometimes, you're too good a man.

(sighs) How did you get the American?

Oh, that's not relevant.

What is relevant is that I have her and she won't derail the sale, and, in return, you pay two million into that account before the announcement, smile for the cameras, and no one will know that Leith's golden boy is a crook that's run the nation's bank into the ground.

Must have been hard for you.

Looking at me, coming from where you came from, and doing so much more.

You can't blame Leith.

You just didn't make it.

(chuckling) Let's see where we are at the end of the day, eh?

(chuckling) (breath trembling) (door closes) A relapse.

That's what it was.

If I can tell myself it was a relapse, then I can still recognize the progress.

And there's been progress.

There's no doubt there's been progress, is there?

I'm not sure I'm the best judge of your progress, Teddy.

I want cleansed.

I want rid of it all.

And there's one way that could go.

But it feels awful easy.

And I'm the only one that would suffer.

And I should suffer.

I'm ready to suffer.

But I kind of want to spread it about now.

To the people who made me who I am.

And made me do all the things I did.

Things like this.

I can give you that, Teddy.

I can tell you how to cleanse yourself and hurt them in the process.

And if you do what I ask, I can give you what you might just need the most.

What's that?

Forgiveness.

You don't have her-- Max McCall has her.

And they can get my deal over the line.

Now, you listen to me, Jimmy...

It's Jim-- been Jim a long time.

Oh, is that right?

Sir Jim, actually, but what's a knighthood between old friends, huh?

You know your problem, son, is that you don't know how Leith works.

You never did.

Because you're not from Leith.

Oh, really?

I grew up just round the corner from the Boundary Bar.

(chuckles): Round the corner in Albert Street.

You weren't in Leith, you were one street out.

You're from Edinburgh, and you (muted) know it!

I'm not going with Max, Maggie.

I'm Jim Sturrock.

I'll not be blackmailed by a bent lawyer from the Lochend Road.

I had him followed, and I'm giving him to you.

He and the American are your problem, not mine.

Correct decision.

Well...

I know how Leith works.

(phone button clicks) How can I help?

I worked for Maggie Lynch.

Sorry.

How sorry?

TEDDY (on recording): You said if I killed them both, I'd get 100 grand and get to go.

That was the deal.

Nothing more.

MAGGIE (on recording): Friday.

Two days' time.

That's when you get your money.

That's when it ends.

That's just the start.

What are you getting out of this?

Redemption.

(chuckles) And what does redemption look like to a man like you?

I'll know it when I see it.

(footsteps approaching) May I use your toilet?

Oh, it's an open bloody house.

You crack on, son.

(Sheila groans) Got it?

I think so.

Oh, Jesus.

I need to sleep.

I'm gonna need a drink for this.

Good lad.

What happened to the kids?

They've gone.

Pair of imbeciles.

I think she's the smartest one out of all of you.

Can I have a minute?

One.

A bit early for a whiskey, but you look like you need it.

Right.

Jake... (exhales) Let's go.

He's not coming with you.

This money you and Maggie Lynch are fighting over, your brother and I are gonna have it.

It's all set in motion.

It can't be stopped.

And if you try, word might come out about your parole violation and dirty money going through a wee record shop in Leith.

Hmm?

The fact of the matter is...

If I've got him, I've got you.

(Jake sips and swallows) SHEILA: And if you want to know how this finishes... ...just think about what you did at the start.

I came here for two reasons.

I knew I would be safe and I knew you'd screw me over.

Which is fine, because I knew how you'd do it.

By targeting my weak link.

My Achilles' heel.

My brother.

I told him you'd come for him.

And as long as you're doing that...

...I could do whatever I needed to do.

Nothing is in motion.

Despite your wee chat last night, you don't have Jake.

I do.

And now he and I are gonna finish this.

I know what you're doing, and I can stop it.

That's why young Steven here's gonna keep you company.

Till it's done.

Well, that's you (muted).

We'll see.

(knock at door) Oh, that'll be the taxi.

Well, that's us.

Um, I can't... ...quite go to six grand, but, uh...

Here's a wee bit of petrol money.

(door opens) (door closes) (knock at door) (knock at door, door opens) (knock at door, door opens) (door smashes) (chuckling): About time.

You've missed them, but I know where they are.

I just spoke to Maggie this morning.

(voice trembling): A clean slate, in exchange for Max.

That's what she said.

Along with all her "let them come" (muted).

(sighs) I just tried to tell her that we're here.

I'm on her side.

Gun sighted.

(gun fires, Stevie grunts) (door closes) Right, then.

I guess this is happening.

How did you get in here?

Margaret Lynch... (chuckles) Here we go.

I'm arresting you... Of course you are, love.

...for conspiracy to murder Max and Jake McCall.

There will be drug charges on top, but I'll come back to that.

What, him?

Teddy?

That's your grass?

(chuckles) A psychopath who's been in and out of Saughton half his life?

He's the first.

That's all we need.

Half of Saughton can get years off their sentences if they tell us what they have on you.

And they'll do it, now we've got the first.

And now we have the recording that Teddy made.

Of you telling him to kill Max and Jake.

You sounded very alert for someone who's used a defense of dementia in the past.

Might mean the reviewing of historical charges.

I need to make some calls.

Oh, I've made them.

That layer in this city you told me about, where the decisions are made.

I called some of them.

Told them I was coming to arrest you and the evidence I have.

And if any of them put up a fight, I asked why their numbers were on the data from Roy Lynch's phone, and how that might be something I would revisit.

And suddenly, no one had any objections.

Because that's the thing about that layer.

They respect strength.

Which is why they respected you.

And why they don't anymore.

Who the hell do you think you're talking to?

We got in here 'cause you've got no one outside.

You're down to what, two hired guns?

Who'll hear about this and run for the hills.

And why wouldn't they?

You've been trading off the past.

Off memories.

Of what the Lynches were, and what they could do.

But that's all gone.

And now you're coming with us.

(roaring): This is my (muted) city!

It was.

(handcuffs clicking) JIM: Did you do what she told you to do?

You've had a good year, eh, Dad?

Touring the pubs, saying how your boy works for the Lynches, seeing how many pints that runs tae.

It's been good to be able to talk about you without being embarrassed.

Well, here's one for you.

Now you can say that your boy's the one that sent Maggie Lynch down.

You're lying.

No.

She'll come for us both.

She's not bothered coming for you yet.

And now, she won't be coming for anyone.

(music playing in background) You're a disgrace to my name.

Well, that's lucky.

Witness Protection.

My name stays here, and I go.

Confirmation of transfer.

I trust you'll be declaring it to the relevant tax authorities.

(chuckles) Congratulations.

Looks like you're selling Scotland's crown jewel to a bunch of charlatans.

Not yet, he's not.

The merger goes through, you fire Richard.

(chuckles) I can give you as many reasons as you need for that.

Then I take his job at terms I will set.

Anything else?

I want to tell Richard that he's fired.

(chuckles) Well, rather you than me.

Shall we?

(camera shutters clicking) (people applauding) Good luck.

I think you'll need it more than me.

STURROCK: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you so much for joining us on a very exciting day.

(Sturrock speaking on television) JAKE: How are you?

(sighs): You see it all, Jake.

(chuckles) (chuckles) Yeah.

STURROCK: I am delighted to announce that...

I see the bank sale's going ahead.

...and I can now confirm the sale of this auspicious... (TV turns off) Max has a plan.

I'm sure he does.

Do you?

(chuckles): I woke up with one.

Unfortunately, I was off my (muted) on painkillers at the time.

But when they faded, I realized that life wasn't as simple as that.

Because Max came back.

And ruined me all over again.

I always pitied you for what Max did to you.

Even while he did worse to me.

That's what he does.

He infects you with the way he sees the world.

And you forget about unity, you forget about trust, about what they make possible.

Why are you here, Jake?

To say sorry.

Because we were in the same hole.

And we should have helped each other get out of it.

Well, I think that realization's come a wee bit late.

(gasps) No, Kenny.

It's come bang on time.

You know, Jake, I really thought "sit in this taxi and don't let it leave" was a job that you'd be capable of.

Meet you where?

(people talking and laughing in background) Congratulations.

I spoke to Richard.

He agreed your position should be reviewed.

Great.

You're sacked.

He's hidden the debt, better this time, and we're issuing an injunction against any public disclosure of those documents.

Deals get sunk by rumor.

Sorry?

You told me that once.

And you were right.

(cell phones chiming) What's happening?

Look at your phone.

(phones chiming and buzzing, people murmuring) The documents are out there.

The debt, the con that you and Richard pulled, the fact this has to be the worst corporate purchase in history.

The share price is sinking like a stone.

Right about now, it'll be falling past my cash out point.

(people murmuring in background) You shorted the stock.

It's a big deal.

Someone's got to get rich, right?

You stupid bitch.

You think you can go back to New York after this?

No, I have no plans to.

Besides, I kind of like Edinburgh.

This is a bit dramatic, is it not?

You know, Max, the ending people think you should have is not good.

It's not up to them.

I know.

It's up to me.

(laughs): That's a bit of a stretch.

Most people don't know you like I do.

They don't love you like I do.

It's about as tough a love as you can get, but it's still there, clinging on.

Well... (exhales) That's a mutual situation, obviously.

Reciprocated, if you like.

Dad told me that if I forgave you, if I understood you, then I'd find peace.

And maybe I will.

So I forgive you, Max.

And I want you to know that this comes from love.

What are you doing, Jake?

The reason that you knew what Sheila was gonna do is because that's what you would have done.

That's how you think, that's who you are.

And I don't think you should be like that anymore, Max.

And I'm gonna help you change.

(laughs) And how might you do that?

I watched you at Kenny's office.

Saw the wheels turning.

Kenny in a coma.

Leith Legals sitting unmanned.

And you in need of a bank account to pass two million quid through.

That's no way to see the world, Max.

I set up that bank account-- I'm authorized to use it.

Don't worry.

The money passed through, just like you planned.

Kenny and the youngsters got the cuts that you wouldn't have given them.

And the rest is making its way to me.

What the (muted) have you done?

I've tried life without money and a wee bit of soul, and it didn't suit me as well as I thought it would.

You had money but no soul, and, well, look where it got you, so... (softly): Jake.

Let's reverse it.

Whatever you think you're doing, you need to stop.

What I hope is that me taking the money sends you somewhere else.

Somewhere better.

Jake, Jake.

That money is all I've got, hmm?

You're all I've got.

That's not true, Max.

You just need to look a little harder.

Jake?

(shouting): Jake!

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