Bodkin
WARNING : SPOILERS beforehand for Bodkin .
Summary
All the big events inBodkintake place over the track of several decades and have a major impact on the murder mystery as it unfolds . ThroughoutBodkin’sseven episode , which are all useable to stream exclusively on Netflix , an untapped malicious gossip is revealed involving yoga - teach nuns , illicitly smuggled eels , and cold - full-blood murder . Bodkinwas released on Netflix on May 8 , 2024 , open up to positively charged critique . Bodkinwas filmedentirely in Ireland , mostly in the counties of Cork , Wicklow , and Dublin . The small sportfishing hamlet of Union Hall in West Cork was used as the fictional setting of Bodkin .
Will Forte leadsBodkin’scastas the felicitous - go - favourable Gilbert Power , a lighthearted podcaster . AlthoughBodkinis not based on a lawful news report , the series offers a complex mystery full of unexpected twists and wild plot ontogenesis . WhileBodkin’sendingdoes not solve every mystery and unanswered question , such as whether Seamus is still alert and whether Dove is in love with Gilbert , the not - so - cold case is believe solved by the end of the season . It ’s undecipherable whetherBodkinwill riposte for a second seasonor if it will remain as a modified series .
18Dove Spent Her Childhood In A Convent
1990s
One of the vainglorious hidden particular about Dove ’s upbringing was that she drop her childhood at a convent due to her mother ’s conflict with diacetylmorphine addiction . It is n’t let on much before the sixth and seventh episodes of Bodkin , during which Dove has frightening flashback about her puerility and seem to be abuse by the nun at her old convent . It seems , however , that whenDove returns to the convent at the terminal of the serial , which is separate from the one in Bodkin , the conical buoy there are nice enough to hang onto her puerility belonging , which allow Dove to reunify with her darling stuffed wolf .
17Teddy Kills Malachy With A Brick On The Night Of Samhain
October 31, 1999
The Bodkin execution closed book has been kept a massive mystery in the small Irish coastal Ithiel Town until Gilbert and Dove poke enough holes to uncover the shocking truth . Teddy , the mild - tempered Word of Sergeant Power , is disclose to be the one who killed Malachy , Seamus ’s brother . This all happened in the year 1999 during the annual Samhain fete , which conduct plaza on the same dark as Halloween in the United States . Seamus had enlisted the help of Sergeant Power to get Fiona and Malachy out of Bodkin after discover that the McArdles were derive to town . Teddy and Malachy contend over Fiona andTeddy unintentionally kill Malachy with a brick .
16Sergeant Power Kills Greta & Sinks His Car Into A Bog
On the same nighttime of the Samhain festival in 1999 , Sergeant Power tried to cover up Malachy ’s death by loading his physical structure into the car , relinquishing Teddy from having to face criminal backlash for murder or manslaughter . Although Sergeant Power was attend out for his son , who was considered a adept person that made a terrible misapprehension , Sergeant Power ended up with origin on his hands after by chance killing Greta , a member of the New Age Travelers . As Sergeant Power was driving to chuck out of Malachy ’s body , he struck and toss off Greta , dilute her body into his car as well , and sunk it into a peat bog .
15Fiona Escaped To A Convent But Died Giving Birth To Sean
Late 1999
Fiona and Malachy had both express up to the Power ’s sign to seek the help of Sergeant Power . After Teddy killed Malachy on the nighttime of Samhain , Fiona fled and sought refuge at the convent outdoors of Bodkin , where Mother Bernadette and many other nuns hid her away . Fiona was meaning with Seamus ’s child and ended up dying during childbirthwhile at the convent , close to a few weeks or months after the Nox of Samhain . Interestingly , the nuns did not think to inform Seamus that Fiona has a youngster but instead one of them , Mrs. O’Shea , dramatise him and kick upstairs him as her own .
14Krtek Dies By Suicide
Present Day
Dove ’s character is introduced inBodkinwhile she is play on another , " more serious " musical composition of investigatory journalism for The Guardian . Essentially , her collaboration with a whistleblower named Krtek lead to him become flat by suicide at the start of the series . AlthoughKrtek is n’t postulate in the murder secret in Bodkin , it ’s the shocking event that pushes the hard - nosed , frigid - blooded Dove to take on a simpler , less unsafe task with Gilbert . Ironically , the seemingly harmless podcast that Gilbert had intend to make end up uncovering a much darker murder mystery , which could not have been solved without Dove ’s expertness in the field .
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13Dove Gets Chased & Hit By A Car In Bodkin
A shocking moment from the first episode ofBodkinis when Dove gets chased and hit by a moving car . This chance not long after Dove , Gilbert , and Emmy first come in Bodkin and begin to break that there ’s more to the pocket-sized coastal township than meets the middle . The number one wood get out of the car wearing disgraceful ski mask and dark glasses , obscure their identities as they threaten Dove to quit dig up around in Bodkin . It is later revealed thatthe two undercover Interpol agentswho were investigating Seamus ’s illegal smuggling of eel reach Dove with their car .
12Mrs. O’Shea Sets Sean’s Car On Fire
Bodkinepisode 1 also terminate with the bizarre occurrence of Sean ’s car being set on ardor . At first it seems like the cloak-and-dagger Interpol agents were potential behind it , but it is later break that Mrs. O’Shea shockingly set the auto on fervor herself . This was her way of trying to daunt off Gilbert , Dove , and Emmy , who were stay at her house while they were producing their podcast . By the end ofBodkin , Mrs. O’Shea is revealed to be one of the nuns who have intercourse about Fiona ’s deathduring childbirth and the truth about Sean , which is why she endeavor to get Gilbert and Dove out of townspeople .
11Darragh Dies In An Apparent Suicide
The death of the beloved local farmer Darragh institutionalize shockwaves through Bodkin and promote all type of suspicions about who could have potentially been involved . Dove begins to suspect that Darragh ’s end was ensnare as a self-annihilation and that Seamus has something to do with it , which inspires her and Emmy to start prod through his past to see what they can find . It ’s never explicitly made clear whether Darragh ’s death was truly a suicide or a slaying , but it inspired a deeper focus on Seamus since Darragh and Malachy , Seamus ’s dead brother , were once close . There was also speculation that Darragh was drunk and pass , which caused his destruction .
10Greta & Malachy’s Bodies Are Found In Sergeant Power’s Car
The mystery in Bodkin really start to unravel with the discovery of two decomposed bodies in the back of a sunken auto . For more than two decade , the car was left undetected in a random peat bog in the small townsfolk and no one ever discovered its incredible significance or implications to Fiona , Malachy , and a missing New Age Traveler named Greta . Initially , the two bodies were think to have been Fiona and Malachy , but Seamus confirm that Fiona had fake tooth and did n’t agree the 2nd dead trunk . Upon the find that the car belonged to Sergeant Power , Dove is able to start tack together some of the mystifier together .
9Sergeant Power Is Hospitalized After A Heart Attack
The wolf inside Dove really starts to showwhen she impeach Sergeant Power of being involved in the deaths of Malachy and potentially Fiona . She terrorise him so badly that Sergeant Power keels over and has a eye flak in the bar , which ends up leaving him hospitalized . Clueless and shocked by Dove ’s aggressiveness , Emmy starts to distrust Dove altogether , throwing her coat onto a random Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and yell at the top of her lungs how much she hates her . Dove , while over the top , was on point and ultimately misunderstood , since she scupper Sergeant Power for his long - eat up crimes .
Throughout Netflix ’s dark comedy crime dramatic event Bodkin , the fibre Dove keep seeing a wolf . Why she meet it is all tied back to her puerility .
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