Dublin Murders Finale Recap

At the beginning of the episode, we see the first meeting between Rob Reilly (Killian Scott) and Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene). Together, they investigator the death of a 22-year-old woman. They speak in the car and get to one each other a little bit. Cassie tells Rob that she doesn’t have parents before she tells him about the car crash that took their lives. After the intro, Damien Donnelly (Jonny Holden) prepares for the upcoming interview. His attorney tells him that he should cooperate fully. Rob tells O’Kelly (Conleth Hill) that he wants Quigley (Eugene O’Hare) there for the interview because he will keep Damien calm. After that, Rob confesses that he focused too much on the 85 crime and that nearly caused him to miss Damien.

Before the interview begins, Rob learns that Cassie is investigating a shooting. Simone Cameron (Alexandra Moen) rushes to the Devlin house and finds out that the police have someone in custody. Rosalind (Leah McNamara) speaks with her while Margaret (Kathy Monahan) tells Jonathan (Peter McDonald) that Simone is there to steal him away. The interview with Damien begins. Damien admits that he hit Katy on the head twice but she was not his girlfriend. He explains that he is not a pervert. He confesses that he didn’t like Katy because she was cruel. He says that he hit her in the head with the rock he used to keep the garage door open.

He intended to take her to the laundry room but soon found out that she wasn’t dead at all. Katy told him that she wanted to go home to her dad. After that, Damien suffocated her with a plastic bag. Damien admits that he cleaned her clothes because she wet herself. Before too long, a screaming match between Rob and Damien breaks out. Damien remains adamant that he is not a pedophile. He says that he killed Katy because she found it funny and laughed. Rob becomes convinced that someone else was involved but Damien tries to deny it. Damien breaks down when he learns that he is not going home. After that, Rob receives a call telling him that he needs to come to Damien’s house.

Frank Mackey (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) visits Cassie. He learns that she is going to tell the truth about the shooting because they were in the wrong. She believes that Frank needs to be stopped. He threatens her but she doesn’t let that stop her. Sam O’Neill (Moe Dunford) tells Rob to check the box on the desk in Damien’s bedroom. He finds pictures of Damien and Rosalind. He also finds a note reading, “Now prove you love me”. Simone goes after Rosalind. She tackles her before Rosalind is arrested by authorities. Jessica (Amy Macken) grabs her father’s hand while the police car containing Rosalind pulls away. At the station, Rosalind confirms that she intends to confess to everything but she will only speak with Cassie.

Rob welcomes her at the station a few moments later. O’Kelly interrupts before Rob has the chance to tell Cassie what he wanted to. O’Neill gives Cassie words of encouragement before the interview begins. Rosalind confesses that she made Damien believe that Jonathan raped her and Katy laughed about it. Rosalind convinced Katy to take a note to Damien and this is when they put the plan into action. Rosalind begins talking about the relationship between Cassie and Rob. Then, she reveals that she knows the truth about Rob being Adam. Phelan (Ian Kenny) doesn’t understand how Rob could be one of those kids.

They realize that things are going to get bad. O’Kelly scolds Rob in his office. He says that they’re going to have to evaluate all of the cases Rob worked. Rob confesses that he wanted to find out what happened to him, Jamie, and Peter. Despite going against protocol, Rob is allowed to speak with Rosalind in her cell. She tells him that he wasn’t lucky enough to disappear. He wasn’t golden or chosen and that is why he was left behind. Rosalind tells the officer that she is ready after that and she is led out in handcuffs. Cassie sits in the evidence room and Rob joins her a short time later.

Cassie asks Rob what Rosalind said to him. This takes us back to the opening episode when Rob is talking about the lucky ones being taken and such. He believes that it is true this time but Cassie does not. Cassie makes it clear that they both screwed up. She suggests that they were feeding off of each other. She tells Rob about killing Daniel March and Rosalind will likely get away with murder. Both of those things are because of them. Rob says that he just wanted to bring them home. They were bad or good. They were just Peter and Jamie. Cassie tells Rob that she had to go see O’Kelly and they agree that they won’t see each other again.

Cassie leaves a short time later. When she does, Rob finally says what he wanted to tell her. He says that he loves her. He says that she is the only person in this world who he loves. After that, Cassie decides to go to Liverpool. During this time, Rob is harassed by journalists. Frank meets with O’Kelly and tells him that he owes him a drink. After all, O’Kelly’s problem was much bigger than his. Frank says that nobody is going to believe anything Cassie says now. Rob meets with Jonathan. Jonathan confesses that he held Sandra Sculley down. Cathal was shouting at him and it didn’t feel real but he did what he was told. Rob says that he remembers that but cannot remember anything else.

Jonathan explains that he and his friends waited in the woods that night so they could catch up with Rob and his friends. After making a threat, Cathal and his buddies left. Then, they saw holding onto the tree and screaming. Jonathan recalls a noise that sounded like laughing but it wasn’t. When the cops were spotted in the distance, Cathal made his friends leave them behind. Jonathan promises that they never touched a hair on Adam’s or his friends’ heads. Rob believes him. Rob encourages Jonathan to make a statement about the statement and learns that Jonathan already has. Jonathan goes on to say that Shane used to say they raised a darkness doing that to Sandra and he believes it.

Cassie goes to a woman’s clinic. Next, O’Kelly steps out of the courtroom and tells Rob that he did the best he could for him. Rob steps inside and speaks with the commission. Cassie takes the remains of Jane Doe and tosses them into the water. After that, she runs into O’Neill at the airport. He agrees to take her home. O’Neill prepares to leave her home but she asks him to stay and he does. Cassie convinces him to hold her hand. Next, we watch as workers rip down trees at the crime scene. Rob arrives and begins looking around. He runs into Frank there. Rob confesses that they’re sending him somewhere quiet to count the sleep. Frank says that they haven’t found any bodies. However, he did find a weird stone. He says it shows the Erl-King, the baby stealer.

Rob doesn’t want it. Frank tells Rob that he deserves a rising road before Rob leaves. Frank remains behind with the weird stone. Frank spots a wolf in the woods and it runs away as the episode ends.

 

Dublin Murders Review

Well, there is one good thing I can say about the finale of Dublin Murders. It is finally over. I didn’t mind the show early on. It was decent but things started falling apart when Cassie and Rob went separate ways. It was too much to comprehend at once and a lot of it didn’t matter a bit in the end anyway. While the finale wasn’t 100% predictable, it didn’t feel satisfying either. The Damien and Rosalind connection was okay but nothing spectacular. I wish they would have focused solely on the murder of Katy and the 85 disappearances. That didn’t happen and I think it hurt the show.

I haven’t read the books. If they’re written in the same fashion, I wouldn’t bother. The show could have been so much better. The cast was good, the acting was topnotch, but the story didn’t live up to the hype. The finale was mediocre. While it wrapped up the murder of Katy, we still didn’t get closure in the disappearances. It scores a 6.5 out of 10. Previous recaps of Dublin Murders are available on Reel Mockery!