"There will be a total cessation of military operations."
You'll not be taking our fucking guns.
No deal 'til the Brits have gone.
Some of us are actually strategizing.
So it's back to operations, is it?
The remains have been identified as a woman.
It's an open murder case now.
How likely are you to find out who killed her?
Someone has to talk.
[Mackers] What can you tell me about the Joe Lynskey business?
I was a driver.
I drove across the border.
[Mackers] You're talking about the Disappeared?
[Dolours] Yes.
Are we gonna be talking about Jean McConville?
[Dolours] The orders were always simple.
You know, I'd get a call, and I'd be told I had a job.
Sometimes I knew them,
sometimes I didn't.
I'd never heard of Jean McConville.
I wasn't there when she was taken.
[Jean] Stay back! Stay back!
[Dolours] She was arrested at Divis flats
and charged with informing to the British.
That's when I was brought in.
[Pat] She's to be taken down south.
Get her over the border, into Dundalk,
and the boys'll handle it from there.
Is she one of the Cumann women, then?
No, a civilian, an informant.
- Why's it being done like this? - What do you mean, why?
Why not put her body in the street?
- Put the fear of God in people. - I dunno, Dolours. I didn't ask.
Surely that's more effective, that informers are seen as dead.
Look, I don't disagree with you, but--
- I wanna talk to Gerry. - Well, you can't speak to Gerry.
This isn't the way to do it, Pat.
Well, it's the way it's being done, Dolours.
So it's the way it's being done.
So, where are you taking me?
Legion of Mary.
They'll be taking care of me?
Mm-hm.
So, will my... my children be brought to me?
Your children?
Is there someone with them?
Aye.
Will my children be brought to me?
Yeah.
Have you a handkerchief? My nose is running.
- Have you a handkerchief? - [Mackers] Hold on, hold on.
Wait, who else was in the car with you?
It was just another volunteer.
You can keep it.
These men will be taking you the rest of the way.
She didn't even run.
They never run.
So, you drive Jean over the border.
- Who do you leave her with? - A gun crew.
Four men in a car.
Can you tell us the names
of the men who were there that night?
Turn that thing off, would you?
[journalist on TV] "Cold-blooded murder."
Those were the words used by police to describe
last night's shooting at Massereene army barracks.
The attacks, both vicious and sloppy,
claimed the lives of not only two British soldiers,
but also a pizza delivery man
who was caught in the crossfire.
The IRA splinter group...
Girls, breakfast.
- Give it back, you. - Can you please just chill?
Ma, she keeps stealing my black bra
and getting deodorant on it.
That bra's too small for you anyway.
That's what I said.
You got all the good tits in this family.
You can't compare our bodies like that. That's shaming.
I don't think I said anything controversial, did I?
[sirens wailing]
Get you upstairs, girls. Now.
[daughter #2] Why? What's wrong?
I'm gonna be arrested.
[daughter] What?
What's going on?
[rapid footsteps]
[police officer] Come on!
Open up. It's the police.
[banging on the door]
What the fuck did you do?
Nothing.
- I bought them the phones. - The phones for the job?
- For the gunmen, aye. - You fucking eejit.
At least I'm out there, trying to fix things.
By shooting the fucking Domino's guy?
Sometimes in war there's collateral damage.
Except we're not even at war, are we?
The war doesn't stop just 'cause Gerry Adams says it does.
Marian, my love.
It's over.
We lost.
Anyway, if you want to get to Gerry,
there are better ways, you know?
The fuck are you talking about?
I've been doing this little project
with Brendan Hughes.
I'm not really supposed to talk about it.
Okay.
[speaking Irish]
The truth of what happened.
Don't be insane.
Honestly, Mar, it is the most free
that I have felt in years.
We're gonna take down Gerry Adams, Mar.
The whole fucking lot.
Dolours Price.
You are gonna get yourself arrested.
- Or shot. - Nobody knows.
That's the brilliant bit.
Nothing comes out until after you're dead.
- Good morning, Brendan. - 'Bout ye, Mrs. McKissick.
Should I get a tattoo of a cross or a cobra?
You know, I was thinking of getting a cross, you know?
With, like a... like, a wee dead body on it an' all.
I got the Virgin on my back.
She's got the ex-wife's face on her
but I still get a lot of compliments.
- You got any tattoos, Dark? - Uh...
No.
But I was tempted once or twice when I was in the navy.
You were in the navy?
Aye, well, the merchant navy, not the... not the navy navy.
Get to fuck.
Well, I was 18. Didn't know no better.
Did you have the wee brass buttons an' all?
Had the buttons.
Uh... had the boots.
Had a beret I wore at a... a jaunty wee angle like that.
Those are some of my fondest memories, actually.
Here, grab us a coffee, will you, Jim?
I'm shattered today.
Do you want me to fucking drink it for you as well?
Yes, sir.
Dark!
[beeping]
[knock at door]
Do you know what it took to put Gerry Adams in power?
It's like getting a hundred people
to push out this big boat, right?
The boat's stuck in the sand.
And you get 'em to push it out.
And it's sailing off, leaving the people behind.
That's the way I feel.
The boat's away, sailing off on the high seas
with all the... the luxuries that it brings.
And the people who launched the boat,
they're left behind,
sitting in the fucking muck
and the dirt
and the shite and the sand.
[♪ bagpipes playing]
It's not a bad turnout.
Aye.
Well, he was loved.
[mourner shouting in Irish]
What?
No!
The fucking cheek!
Okay, Dolours, keep your voice down.
Let's not be causing a scene now.
This is a hijacking.
Dolours, keep your voice down.
Brendan Hughes wanted that man dead.
Okay, let's go for a walk, now.
Go, go, go, go, go...
It's fucking treason.
I know.
You know, it's sick.
The way he spits in your face
and then tries to hand you the handkerchief.
I know.
So, um...
Brendan's tape comes out tonight, then?
Not tonight, Dolours. It's a whole process.
Nothing is going to be public for a long, long time.
What matters is that the truth will come out.
Eventually.
Yes?
You know me. I'm just impatient.
[phone rings]
- [click] - You've reached the desk
of Allison Morris at The Irish News.
Please leave your message after the tone.
[beep]
Hello, Miss Morris. It's Dolours Price.
You don't know me. We've never met.
I don't know if you are aware of me, but I...
I was a member... well, I was a fairly prominent member
of the Irish Republican Army.
I guess you would know me well.
I bombed London.
In any case, I, uh...
I would like very much for the two of us to speak.
It's about Jean McConville.
[knocking continues]
[Allison] Hello?
- [Dolours groans] - [Allison] Miss Price?
Hi. Allison Morris, Irish News.
I'm not sure if it's still a good time.
For the interview.
You left me a message. Quite a few, actually.
Right. Yes, I...
But if this isn't a good time...
No, this is perfect. Come on in.
Here we go.
Tell me what you know about Jean McConville.
She was an informer.
Before she was taken, she'd been spotted
at Hasting Street barracks.
She was reputed to be behind a blanket.
Suspects would walk past
and Jean would say "yes" or "no" if they were IRA.
[army officer] Next.
[Dolours] It was those slippers, you see,
that led to her arrest.
[door slams]
Give us the name of your handler.
- Me what? - The fucking Brit, Jean.
- The one you been touting to. - Look, I told you--
Did he give you money? Is that why you did it?
We know you've all them mouths to feed.
I am not...
a tout.
[Dolours] I was told she confessed.
That's when I was brought in.
I was given orders by my commanding officer,
a man called Pat,
to take her down south and leave her with a gun crew.
And the men you left her with,
the ones who pulled the trigger, what were their names?
Oh, I don't know their names. I... I never knew those men.
So, you finished the job and reported to who? Uh...
- Pat? - No.
Not Pat.
Pat was no one.
The man running the unit,
the one giving the orders.
That would've been Gerry Adams.
Can anyone else corroborate this?
This man Pat, or...
No. Pat's dead.
Anyone else, then?
Brendan Hughes.
I don't understand.
Have you ever heard of something called the Belfast Project?
[phone rings]
- Hello? - Hey, Danny. 'Bout ye?
No, she can't right now.
Uh, she's doing an interview.
Some lady from The Irish News.
Can I ask one last question? Do you mind?
No, I don't mind.
These slippers that led to Miss McConville's arrest,
the ones peeking out under the blanket,
how did they know for sure they were Jean's?
Was there anything special about them?
Well, they were red.
Just red?
Red I was told.
Forgive me.
Couldn't any number of women in Belfast
own a pair of red slippers?
I mean, my slippers are red, truth be told.
Well, I wasn't there, so, you know...
You know, Miss Price,
in other parts of the world,
Peru or Chile, for example,
the disappearing of people is treated as a war crime.
Do you think it's a war crime?
I do.
Are you fucking mental?
Calm down, you.
If you wanted to go public, you should've done it in '98.
At least then you'd have got immunity.
- I don't care about immunity. - Well, I fucking do!
[Dolours] People need to know what really happened.
- History's being rewritten. - Dolours...
That snake in his fucking Armani.
This isn't even about Gerry Adams. Fuck's sake!
This is about you, this sick need for attention.
Listen to me.
You need to get fucking sober.
Just get back to St. Patrick's, and...
and get over it.
You know what?
I have more clarity now
than I've had in years.
Fuck.
- in The Irish News... - What do you think?
...a secret archive of tapes known as the Belfast Project,
a series of confessions by former IRA paramilitaries.
The tapes are believed to contain information
about the abduction and murder of Jean McConville.
One participant,
former IRA bomber Dolours Price,
is believed to have implicated none other than Gerry Adams
in the murder of the mother of ten.
Gerry Adams has adamantly denied any involvement or role
in the abduction and murder of Jean McConville.
Where is my mother?
She was completely innocent.
The tapes are at Boston College.
In a place called the Treasure Room.
They've spoken to the IRA, UVF...
And how many of ours talked?
Around 20.
Dolours, Brendan, Ivor...
My fan club.
We're crafting a response.
These people are enemies of Sinn Féin.
And what was said? Do we know?
No, we don't. But, uh...
It's 20 hours' worth of tape.
What, each?
We know Dolours Price has called you out directly
for the Disappeared.
She has you issuing orders.
Well, that woman's away with the fairies.
Nobody cares what she says.
Could Brendan have corroborated what she said?
Like, was he around?
How much did he know?
Well, what's it say?
Her husband's a movie star.
So, I guess she goes to premieres
and puts on stupid dresses
and has been very happy, Seamus, all these years.
Oh, and she bombs things.
There's a big surprise.
Maybe you should put it away.
Hello? This is DCI Riley.
Hello. My name's Helen McConville.
I would like to press charges, formally,
against the people who took my mother.
[Marian] What the fuck did you do?
[Dolours] Something had to change.
[Marian] Well, congratulations. You got another 15 minutes.
Dotes, what did you actually say
- on these tapes? - Nothing.
You do believe me, don't you, Marian?
I believe you.
Her kids were on the telly.
Whose?
Jean's.
The widow's.
They're saying that she didn't do it.
- That she was innocent. - She was a tout, Dotes.
She talked, she got clipped.
Sin sin.
Still...
Their faces do come to me from time to time.
Dolours...
- Don't. - Hers.
And Joe's.
It'll be when I'm driving.
It's worse at night.
Yeah.
Aye.
You know, I'll...
I'll be lying in bed, asking all the big questions.
Could I have done things differently?
I mean...
was it all for nothing?
It's like falling in love, isn't it?
You know, at first it's so thrilling
and then... and then it changes.
In the end, you've done and said so many terrible things...
that there's no way...
to fix it.
You know?
You need... to move on.
You need to move on.
I need to move on?
You're too sensitive.
You hold onto stuff too much.
You wanna look in the fucking mirror.
What?
I'm the fucking one living in the past?
- You Fenian cunt! - Oh!
Fucking pot-kettle.
[snorting with laughter]
Fuck.
- We're both like Da. - We are.
- Mm. - Aye.
Lippy bitch.
[laughter]
[banging]
Hello?
Danny?
Hi, Dolours.
I have another one for you.
[alarm beeping]
[Danny] Mum?
Mum?
It's gone 11.
We're late.
[alarm still going off]
Mum!
[knocking on door]
Mum?
No.
[DUP member]...years of dereliction and neglect
which have been ignored by direct rule ministers
as well as the housing executive.
Which I'm sure you're all aware, I am aware,
this needs to be addressed as a matter of the utmost urgency.
Now, we appreciate Sinn Féin's willingness
to act swiftly upon this,
but we are concerned
about the Irish language Act,
corporation tax legislation...
[phone rings]
- Hello? - Gerry Adams, please.
This is Gerry Adams.
Mr. Adams, this is a courtesy call from the PSNI
informing you that you're going to be arrested.
If you'd please report to the Antrim police barracks--
Are we all right?
[phone rings again]
I'm here for questioning.
Mr. Adams, this should have been explained to you.
You need to go outside so that we can arrest you.
Lad, you've only got one shot at this.
Don't waste it.
Mr. Adams, pleased to meet you,
- I'm Detective Hanlon. - And I'm Detective Stevens.
Ah, a Taig and a Prod.
Well, you know, times change.
Well, how can I be of service, Detectives?
Did you know Joe Lynskey?
He was the first to disappear.
Oh, aye, I knew Joe, yeah. I knew his mother.
How about this fella?
Kevin McKee.
I knew his family.
I can't say I knew him person to person.
Do you remember what happened to him?
Well, there were rumors about, you know, there always are.
Did you not know he disappeared?
Hannah, do you not live in the real world?
People go off, people disappear,
people bring back reports
of having seen such and such a person.
Besides, I learned a long time ago,
if you don't ask, you can't tell.
[Brendan] Aye, I knew Kevin McKee.
He was a good kid, good craic.
And, uh...
Aye, Kevin McKee was, uh--
Do you recognize the voice on that tape?
As far as I can tell,
it appears to be someone called C.
That's Brendan Hughes.
Kevin McKee was taken away by a secret IRA unit.
[Mackers] How did that function?
That squad, that unit.
[Brendan] Well, they were the headhunters.
Anyone that needed to be taken away, it was Gerry's squad--
I reject that.
- You and Brendan were friends. - We were friendly.
But Brendan had his issues.
He hated the...
He hated the peace process. He thought I sold him out.
Did you?
If not for the peace process,
Brendan Hughes would still be out there
targeting police officers.
And you take the word of someone like that?
If he was honest about killing cops,
would he not be honest about you?
[newsreader] Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams
is currently in police custody after being arrested...
About fucking time.
We've some champagne in the fridge. Will we open it?
Not yet.
...discovered buried on a beach in County Down.
[Hanlon] Jean McConville.
- You two never met. - I... I met with her daughter.
Yes. You told her that you were in prison when it happened.
That's right. I was in Long Kesh.
- But you weren't, Gerry. - We looked it up.
You were released two months prior.
Why'd you lie to the family?
I didn't lie. I... I misremembered.
[Hanlon] What makes Jean McConville so special?
Why did she have to disappear?
Dolours Price said
that her body should have been left in the street.
I think that attitude is grotesque.
- Why? - It's a lone woman.
Ten children. It begs compassion.
You don't think touts should be shot?
I don't think anybody should be shot.
So, you deny having any part in her murder.
Categorically.
[Mackers] So, what happened next,
after you drove Jean over the border?
We reported back to Pat.
And Pat reported it to Gerry.
[Mackers] So, there is absolutely no doubt
that Gerry Adams knew about all of these operations,
gave orders, knew what was happening,
was briefed afterwards?
Absolutely no doubt.
I have no doubt that he knew on every occasion.
You were embarrassed.
You knew she had 10 children. You were running
the world's most sophisticated guerrilla army.
How would that have looked, killing a woman like that?
I believe he used the word "grotesque".
No, no, that is not what I meant.
You needed her to go away.
And if this is a war, then that's a war crime.
None of this is true.
Dolours Price was clearly unwell.
Then why do her and Brendan Hughes
have the exact same story?
[Brendan] There's only one man who gave the order
for that woman to be executed.
And that fucking man is now the head of Sinn Féin.
[tape recorder clicks off]
Dolours and Brendan are entitled to their opinions.
- Not opinions, Gerry. - Well, what would you call it?
Hm?
I mean, you have an oral history project
which has no scholarly credentials,
which has no fact-checking, which is run by some, uh--
- Anthony McIntyre. - Bear with me.
And you've a dead woman, an addict.
You know she was sober--
Did I give you a chance to speak?
I gave you a chance to speak.
I'd ask for the same courtesy.
You've a dead woman,
an unstable woman,
saying she got orders from some other fella,
again, not me, another fella, also dead,
who she says spoke to me.
By her own admission, she has not exchanged one word with me
about Jean McConville, not a whisper.
So, when I say that woman is entitled to her opinion,
I mean 'cause that's what you've got: opinion.
Not evidence,
gossip.
I could not have given that order,
Detective.
Because I have never been a member of the IRA.
[pouring rain]
[phone rings]
Hello?
Yeah, she's here. She's with me.
No, we haven't.
Okay.
Okay, thanks for letting us know.
I'll be sure to tell her.
Released without charges.
[hum of conversation]
Alright?
I'm glad they let you come.
I told them I needed to see her body in order to grieve.
She was a brave woman.
She was a wee tout.
Sure.
I'm joking.
She, uh...
She say anything about me, then?
She was mad about you.
You know that.
Mackers...
Is someone gonna come knocking at my door?
She would never say anything to put you in harm's way.
When we got to that part of the story...
she asked me to turn off the tape.
So, you drive Jean over the border,
leave her with a gun crew.
Then what?
Turn that thing off, would you?
This is where it gets dangerous for me.
We were called back.
[phone rings]
Hello?
Hello, Dolours. It's Pat.
Hiya, Pat.
What's wrong?
- They don't wanna do it. - Who?
The boys down south?
Yeah.
Where are the rest of them?
- I only brought the one pistol. - So, how the fuck...
I'm sor... I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking.
Well, which of us is supposed to fucking do it, Pat?
I'll do it.
Fuck.
It isn't fair for him to do it on his own.
It shouldn't be on his conscience.
So, what do you wanna do?
We'll do it together.
We'll pass the gun around.
And Helen.
And Susie.
Jimmy.
And Billy.
And Michael.
And Agnes.
Helen.
And Jimmy.
And Billy.
And Helen.
And Jimmy.
[gunshot]
[sobbing]
Let me be very clear.
I'm innocent of any involvement in any conspiracy
to abduct, kill or bury Mrs. McConville.
[Reporter] Mr. Adams. Mr. Adams--
This is a sustained, malicious, and untruthful campaign
run by self-proclaimed but pseudo Republicans.
Mr. Adams,
Mrs. McConville was one of thousands of IRA victims.
Do you not feel that you have any blood on your hands?
Not at all.
I am perfectly at peace.
Absolutely.
You know, when it comes to some of the things
that we did in those days,
for some of us
it's easier to say nothing.
To keep our memories locked away.
You can call me a difficult woman.
But I couldn't live with the silence.