Shortly after this cold open we cut to the early aughts when a nameless interviewer (Seamus O'Hara) sits across from Dolours (Maxine Peake). The man is working to compile an oral history of the Troubles for Boston College's Belfast Project. Dolours, a former Provisional Irish Republican Army militant, is visibly nervous. She's a movie star's wife at this point in her story, well past her days of setting bombs in the name of struggle.
She also knows what happens to old soldiers with loose lips.
