Summary

Owen and Lomasney are sent to destroy an old barracks containing a garrison of police that the locals do not like. They stay briefly with a family Lomasney knows from the past. Lomasney tells Owen that the old couple claims their son has moved to the United States, and although the father insists that he’s still alive, no one has heard from him in years. They meet the father, who Owen thinks is a little insane. The older man warns them about what they plan to do, that blowing up the garrison is extremely dangerous. Owen and Lomasney eat dinner with the old couple, and as they say the prayer the old man interrupts to say one for his son, Patrick.

That night, Owen and Lomasney go outside to get a view of some kind of commotion, but they are stopped by Kieran in a...