Reporting the outcome to his benefactors – and fellow IRA sympathisers – the O’Connell family, Devlin has to admit they’re now in a tight spot. Pauley’s private lap dance for Devlin went down like a lead balloon With the whiskey maker’s tagline of ‘Let each man be paid in full’ in mind, Devlin symbolically rolls the bottle to Pauley’s side and makes good his escape. Devlin drops his enemy with a shot from a silenced pistol.Īs he collapses dead to the floor, Pauley clatters into a bottle of Devlin’s favourite tipple, Full’s Irish Dew, of which the mercurial poet has just been imbibing. When Devlin confronts his foe at the rendezvous at Pauley’s hotel, Pauley reaches for a gun – but he’s too slow. Devlin has until that night to ‘yay’ or ‘nay’ the deal.ĭisgusted by this treachery, Devlin has Pauley tailed and discovers the crooked gunrunner plans to take the money and run by boarding a flight to Lisbon immediately after their planned weapons exchange that evening. Pauley can only supply by the 30th – unless he gets an extra $50,000. Devlin needs the guns to be ready by the 15th of the month in order for them to be shipped to Northern Ireland in time for operations. The two strike a deal for 500 M11 machine guns at a cost of $150,000 – but there’s a catch. While professing to be an advocate for families torn apart by the troubles in Northern Ireland, the whelp actually raises illicit funds to put guns in the hands of the Irish Republican Army.ĭuring a banjo-infused signing of his latest book, Devlin meets sinister gun supplier Vincent Pauley – the latter revealing his identity by handing over a book to be signed that has ‘ Ourselves Alone‘ – the anglicised version of ‘ Sinn Fein‘, the battle-cry of Irish rebels – written on an inside page.įollowing the signing, Pauley makes a house call on Devlin to showcase his wares. Notable locations: O’Connell residence ( Doheny Mansion, 10 Chester Place, LA) Port of Los Angeles Vincent Thomas Bridge Episode synopsis: Columbo The ConspiratorsĬheeky Oirish poet Joe Devlin may appear to be a jovial leprechaun of a fella, but beneath the grinning exterior is a heart of steel. Written by: Howard Berk ( based on an idea by Pat Robison)
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Starring Clive Revill as mercurial Irish poet Joe Devlin, set against a controversial backdrop of gunrunning for the Irish Republican Army and featuring more consumed whiskey than any other TV episode ever, all the elements are there for an explosive finale.īut is The Conspirators a celebration-sized ale of a send-off? Or were the studio and network execs right when they insisted the series would go ‘this far, and no farther?’ Let’s take a closer look… Dramatis personae
Truly marked the end of an epoch as the very final Columbo episode of the classic era, The Conspirators, hit the airwaves.
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