Bodkin Ending Explained: Who Murdered Malachy and Where is Fiona? Who is Responsible for the Disappearances?
Created by British writer Jez Scharf, Bodkin is a Netflix comedy-drama and thriller that follows a group of podcasters, led by Gilbert Power (Will Forte). They travel to a remote town in Ireland to investigate a 25-year-old cold case. On the Irish Day of the Dead, during the Samhain celebration, three unrelated people disappeared without a trace. As they investigate, they discover the dark secrets hidden in what seems like a quiet place. What happened to the protagonists of the series directed by Scharf, Bronwen Hughes, Johnny Allan, Paddy Breathnach, and Nash Edgerton? Who is the real culprit? Next, I reveal to you the identity of the person responsible for the disappearances and other mysteries.
The Power team is made up of Emmy (Robyn Cara), an investigator eager to work with Gilbert and struggling to find her own voice, and Dove (Siobhán Cullen), a talented and daring investigative journalist who is forced to leave her job. in London to join the true crime podcasters after a witness in their latest case committed suicide because his name was leaked. While the authorities analyze the situation and Dove’s responsibility, she reluctantly joins her new companions. The different ways of interviewing the protagonists of Bodkin cause friction and, every time they get closer to the truth, their personal problems complicate their work. Gilbert invested all his money in his podcast and is in debt, which causes problems with his wife. Dove’s boss can no longer protect her, and an investigation is opened against the journalist.
Bodkin Series: Summary Recap
American podcaster Gilbert (Will Forte, The Last Man on Earth) is looking for a new story. He flies to Ireland, to the town of Bodkin, to tell a story from 25 years earlier: during the Samhain festival, 3 people disappeared without a trace. One was found, but nothing more was heard of the other two. Accompanied by the young and enthusiastic researcher Emmy (Robyn Cara, Red Rose), Gilbert comes across the journalist from the prestigious The Guardian: Dove (Siobhan Cullen, The Dry), reluctantly sent there to deal with the case. Dove’s unconventional and aggressive methods immediately come into conflict with Gilbert’s policy, which is to make friends with everyone to be told a story. But by making friends, and coming into contact with the inhabitants of Bodkin, we realize that no one wants to resurrect that old story. So much so that our new detectives end up finding themselves in serious trouble…
Bodkin is a truly exciting series. The evocative atmosphere of Irish landscapes and old stories that intertwine with the contemporary world immediately draws us into history. Gilbert, Emmy, and Dove are three very different characters, somehow complementary. Despite her (apparent) inability to take people to heart, Dove reveals herself to be a woman full of passion for her work, ready to risk everything to get to the bottom of things. But this very way of acting has put her in serious trouble in London, so much so that very worrying news reaches her through her boss. Gilbert has a great burden on his conscience, having destroyed his private life for having chosen to tell a very personal story through a successful podcast, which made him famous throughout the world but also cost him very dearly.
Bodkin Ending Explained: Who Murdered Malachy and Where is Fiona?
Dove’s instinct tells her that this town hides a terrible secret. After following Sean O’Shea (Chris Walley), the irresponsible taxi driver they hire, the journalist realizes that Gilbert’s investigation is not as boring as she thought. Although Power insists that his goal is not to solve the case, just to tell the story, Dove leads him to become more involved in the case and Emmy takes the initiative by stealing Sergeant Power’s files. Thanks to these documents they discover the identity of the third missing person: Edward ‘Teddy’ Power, the police officer’s son. During Darragh’s wake, the protagonists of Bodkin continue their investigation and obtain more information from different sources. Little by little they begin to put the puzzle together. Seamus Gallagher is called Jack MacFadden, The Raccoon, a famous smuggler from Northern Ireland who has a long-standing rivalry with the McArdle family. In addition to being a friend/brother of Malachy, one of the missing people, he was the boyfriend of the young teacher Fiona, the other missing person.
To find out what happened to Fiona and Malachy, the team interrogates an elderly nun from the Inish Mac Thiere convent. Next on the list is Teddy Power, who disappeared for three days and has never been the same since, but before he can share relevant information, his father appears and threatens to arrest them if they disturb his family again vulnerable son. One of Dove’s main suspects is Seamus, so they follow him home and discover that he runs an eel smuggling business together with Sean O’Shea, who finds potential buyers willing to pay a lot of money for the merchandise. However, these are Interpol agents who are after Seamus. They were the ones who threatened Dove at the beginning of the series and who demanded that they stay out of his case.
Finally, Dove, Gilbert, and Emmy discover a car at the bottom of a swamp. After towing it, they find two bodies in the trunk. It is clear to everyone that it is about Fiona and Malachy. Seamus offers to pay off Gilbert’s gambling debt if he helps him see the dead bodies. By doing so, he confirms that one belongs to his brother, but the other is not Fiona’s. So what is it about?
Who Murdered Malachy and Where is Fiona?
Desperate for answers, Seamus returns to Northern Ireland and confronts one of the McArdle family members, as Sergeant Power fingered them for Malachy and Fiona’s deaths. The rival family doesn’t know anything about it, but they are excited to discover that their enemy is still alive. Thanks to Dove being out of control after learning that he has a warrant for his arrest, Seamus learns that the car belonged to Power. Of course, the Sergeant denies any responsibility, but seeing that he is cornered, he decides to share the truth with Dove in exchange for her protecting Teddy. The policeman confesses that he was trying to get Malachy and Fiona out of town that night because Seamus received a threatening call from the McArdles. Failing to locate Fiona, he returned to her house, where he found Teddy holding a brick next to Malchy’s blood-covered body.
To protect his son from Seamus, he placed the body in his trunk and headed to hide it. On the way she ran over a tourist named Greta, so she hid her too. And Fiona? She escaped to the convent of Inish Mac Thiere, where she gave birth to Seamus’s son. Little Sean ended up in the care of Mrs. O’Shea, who abandoned the nuns to raise the baby. Today, the festival of Samhain opens old wounds and hides threats. At the end of “Bodkin,” Dove, Gilbert and Emmy take new directions.
