'This City Is Ours' Focuses on Survival & Succession
There’s a dead man lying on a lounger, and a phone belonging to another dead man in the adjacent swimming pool. Bring on the high drama, violence, and complex characters!
Morning in Spain comes with a rooster’s call and harsh sunlight as Episode 3 of This City Is Ours begins. There’s a dead man lying on a lounger, and a phone belonging to another dead man in the adjacent swimming pool. Bring on the high drama, violence, and complex characters!
We know the murderer of gang leader Ronnie Phelan is his second-in-command, Michael Kavanagh. Michael’s partner, Diana, is complicit, having caught him choosing his murder weapon in the kitchen the night before. He gets up, and she feigns sleep at first, and then tells him she wants to go home to Liverpool now. Michael tries to comfort her, but he wants her to stay with him. What he did was necessary. Ronnie was showing signs that he no longer trusted Michael and intended to pass on the crown to his son Jamie, despite his inexperience and (let’s be honest) stupidity.
At first, it’s just a typical vacation day. Jamie goes downstairs to prepare his baby son’s bottle, joined by his girlfriend Rachel (Laura Aikman). Rachel complains that even though she’s a qualified accountant, Ronnie didn’t want her to work for him. Ronnie’s wife, Elaine, joins them, laughing about Ronnie falling asleep on a lounger, and fills a coffeepot with cold water, planning to wake him.
(But we know she watched the murder take place. Did she identify Michael?)
