KIN – Season 1 Episode 4 – SPOILERS

Nikki and Viking

Blood has mostly been absent from KIN, but the killing in this episode signals the beginning of more graphic violence. Francis Flynn (Thommas Kane-Byrne), nicknamed “Fudge”, is the victim this time. While his pal Kem (Ryan Lincoln) is making a delivery, a junkie (Louise McCann) gets him to roll down the car window and after being rudely reluctant to sell her anything, he takes two in the head from one of Cunningham’s people, splattering her in blood. The Kinsellas and their henchmen seem to have a disdain for their customers, which is strange because they also use the stuff they sell. Just before he is shot, Fudge gets a call from Viking telling him to bring some blow.

Beady (Ger Carey) owes Frank a favour, and so pretends to set him up with a wholesaler in Belgium.

After exonerating Kem from any involvement in Fudge’s death, the Kinsellas (accent on the first syllable) meet to discuss their plight, which is that no wholesaler will sell to them now. Amanda (Clare Dunne) boldly suggests they rob Cunningham’s stash. Everyone at the meeting agrees with Amanda that the heist is necessary. Viking, whose Lady Macbeth-like girlfriend Nikki (Yasmin Seky) wants her man to have a role in the Kinsella organization more befitting Frank’s son, is the plan’s most enthusiastic supporter.

Amanda puts her remaining son safely in boarding school under her maiden name, and deals with two cops (played by David Herlihy and Esosa Ighodaro) at the dealership who want to know whose name the car used in Viking’s drive-by shooting was under. Amanda will later discover that the car was checked out by Viking.

Nikki (Yasmin Seky)

Amanda, who seems to be taking charge of things, calmly erases Viking’s name from the computer while speaking to the police, but merely deleting the name will not make the information unrecoverable. After that, she goes to the house of Jenny Lawlor (Denise McCormack), wife of the guy who provided the vehicle in the Moore shooting, and offers her thirty thousand dollars, ostensibly in compensation for the death of her husband but really for the incriminating paperwork that her recently deceased husband had taken home with him.

A junkie (Louise McCann) gets Fudge to lower his window long enough to get shot. — McCann is also Vampire Eve in Conor McMahon’s horror-comedy LET THE WRONG ONE IN

Meanwhile, Michael (Charlie Cox) has an MRI to find out if he indeed has epilepsy or perhaps something worse. Then he gets a call from his daughter Anna (Hannah Adeogun) who has just discovered that the source of her popularity was her father’s last name. She asks him why he killed her mother, and he explains that he was high at the time and didn’t know what he was doing. Anna hangs up and cries a lot and it is uncertain if she accepts his explanation.

Birdy (Maria Doyle Kennedy), takes the time to reassure Michael that the Kinsellas need him just as much as Anna does, and points out Michael might have fathered Jamie (Amanda’s deceased son). Birdy’s idea is to keep Michael involved with the family, and probably to prevent him from turning state’s evidence, because that would be the logical way for him to get to see his daughter again.