QUIRKE
Episode 2: Silver Swan
SYNOPSIS
It is early 1957 and the Griffin family has been blown apart since the revelation in Boston. Quirke is drinking heavily; Mal and Sarah’s marriage is on the rocks; Sarah is regretting the missed chances of twenty years before when she let her sister Delia steal Quirke from under her nose; Quirke and his adoptive father the formidable Judge Garret Griffin are estranged; and Phoebe has decided to assert her freedom from all of them by moving out of the family home. Nothing anyone can say can dissuade her, and Quirke, recognising the part he played in her decision, defends her choice and resolves to look out for her as best he can. But Phoebe – young, naïve and vulnerable – pushes Quirke and the family away, defiantly taking up with a dangerous young man by the name of Leslie White. It’s a name that becomes familiar to Quirke as he investigates two apparent suicides. All is not as it seems in the deaths of the two women, but will Quirke and the redoubtable Inspector Hackett be able put the pieces together quickly enough to keep Phoebe from danger? Will Quirke and Sarah’s feelings for each other get in the way of his promise to look after Phoebe? And will he be able to rise above his past or be pulled down by a rip tide of whiskey and guilt?
BILLING
Quirke investigates an apparent death by overdose and when another woman dies in similar circumstances, Quirke fears that Phoebe may also be drawn into Dublin’s drug culture.