One of the henchmen pats Frankie down and confirms that he is unarmed. Burke and his henchmen are waiting for Frankie, who walks nonchalantly, his duffel bag swung over his shoulder. Tom realizes that the government agents intend to not just find and arrest Frankie, but to kill him.įrankie arrives at the warehouse where Burke said they would do the exchange. Frankie runs off.Īfter Eddie's death, Tom meets with the FBI and their British counterparts, who ask him questions about Frankie. This altercation gives Tom enough time to clamber out of the car and break off the key in the trunk lock, preventing Frankie from getting the duffel bag of money. Eddie tries to shoot him and Frankie is forced to shoot Eddie in self-defense.
While Eddie goes to talk to a driver of a stalled vehicle, Frankie slips his cuffed arms over his legs, grabs Tom's gun, and jumps out of the car. En route to the police station, they get stuck in a traffic jam. Tom refuses and, when Eddie arrives, the two of them arrest Frankie. Frankie decides to reveal his true identity and ask Tom to give him the money and let him leave. When Frankie returns, he is confronted by Tom with the money. When he checks it, he discovers a duffel bag containing wads of cash. As he walks around the basement, he accidentally discovers an empty space under the bathroom floorboards. Seeing that the couch pillows had been sliced, Tom realizes that the masked intruders must have been looking for something related to Frankie. While Frankie was away meeting with Burke, Tom had gone down to the basement where Frankie had been staying. Realizing he has no choice, Frankie returns to the O'Meara house, where he hid the money that he got from Megan. Burke is uncowed and demands that Frankie pay him for the missiles, revealing that he has Sean as a hostage. He confronts Burke for ordering the attack and shoots one of his men in the knee. As police sirens approach, the intruders decide to leave the men and make their escape.įrankie leaves and proceeds to a bar that Burke owns. Just then, Frankie arrives and tries to help Tom, but the intruders have guns and force Frankie and Tom to stop resisting. As Tom fights the intruders, Sheila rushes to call 911. After a meal where Tom tells Sheila about his decision, the two of them drive home only to be confronted by masked intruders. Torn between his duty to protect his partner and his moral obligation to tell the truth, Tom decides to retire from the force. Meanwhile, Tom's partner, Eddie Diaz, fatally shoots an unarmed thief in the back as he runs away. Megan later calls Frankie to warn him that MacDuff was killed by British authorities and that they must postpone the deal. Judge Fitzsimmons obtains the money from his usual connections and has Megan Doherty, another IRA operative posing as his family's nanny, deliver it to Frankie. Frankie meets with black market arms dealer and Irish mobster Billy Burke, and they cut a deal to exchange the missiles for payment in six to eight weeks. Before long, Sean acquires an old fishing boat for him and Frankie to smuggle the missiles. Meanwhile, Sean also arrives in New York City and meets up with Frankie. Thinking that "Rory" is an Irish immigrant who needs a place to live while he finds work, the O'Meara family warmly welcome Frankie into their household and he soon becomes a trusted member of the family.
American Judge Peter Fitzsimmons, a longtime supporter of the IRA, provides him with a temporary job as a construction worker and arranges for him to stay with NYPD Sergeant Tom O'Meara, his wife Sheila, and their three daughters on Staten Island.
Frankie's commander Martin MacDuff, seeing a British Army helicopter circling above, decides that the IRA needs Stinger missiles to fight back.įrankie travels to New York City under the assumed identity of "Rory Devaney" to buy the missiles. One gunman is killed and another, Desmond, is mortally wounded Frankie and his close friend Sean Phelan flee. Twenty years later in Belfast, Frankie and three other IRA members engage in a shootout with the British Army and undercover agents from the Special Reconnaissance Unit. In 1972, eight-year-old Frankie McGuire witnesses a masked man shoot his father dead for Irish republican sympathies.