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Quirke: Episode 1: Christine Falls

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Christine Falls

Episode 1

Episode 1: Christine Falls

BBC One - Quirke, Christine Falls

A young woman's death leads Quirke to uncover a secret in Dublin's high Catholic society.

Crime drama set in the 1950s. A young woman's death leads Quirke to uncover a secret of Dublin's high Catholic society, among them members of his own family.

Dublin, in the late autumn of 1956. City pathologist Quirke - we never get to know his Christian name - stumbles late one night from a party in the nurses' quarters with a view to sleeping off his hangover in his subterranean pathology lab. To his surprise his quiet refuge has been invaded by his adoptive brother, obstetric consultant Malachy Griffin, who is at Quirke's desk completing some paperwork for a recently deceased patient named Christine Falls. 

When Quirke returns next morning to find Christine's body gone, he remembers his brother's odd behaviour, and, consumed by curiosity over what Mal was doing, recalls the body and performs a full post mortem.

As he investigates, all the time stirring up a hornets' nest of trouble for himself, Quirke uncovers the truth about a family secret that has remained buried for nearly twenty years, and begins to understand that there are some truths that may be better left untold.

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Noir crime series set in 1950s Dublin, based on the novels by Benjamin Black

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