The Stolen Child (2)

Padraig is well and truly out of it,due to the drugs, and Jack roughs him up in order to get news of Conal but Eilish admits that she is now uncertain that Padraig took him as she never got a good look at the abductor and made a supposition. Gerry points Jack towards Malachy Doran, a retired school-teacher who worked with Jack's mother Eithne and is now ringing her up. Malachy was once suspected of being a paedophile but released through lack of evidence. Malachy has indeed got his own agenda for returning to the area, as Gerry finds to his cost. Conal is eventually found alive.