A Stone of the Heart

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“A Stone of the Heart”
The Black Donnellys episode

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 2
Guest stars	Kate Mulgrew as Helen Donnelly Peter Greene as Derek "Doakey" Farrell Ned Eisenberg as Detective Frankie Stein Brian Tarantina as Nickie's Guy Kenny Shapiro as Joey's Lawyer
Written by	Kim Clements & Paul Haggis
Directed by	Paul Haggis
Original airdate	March 5, 2007
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“A Stone of the Heart” is the second episode of the NBC drama series The Black Donnellys. It was directed by Paul Haggis and written by Kim Clements & Paul Haggis.

1 Plot
2 Quotes
3 Trivia
4 External links

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In an interrogation cell, Joey argues with his lawyer and claims that he’s an innocent man. He recounts the night of the Louis's murder… Tommy, in an effort to keep the murder silent, instructs Kevin to stay quiet. He asks Kevin for the gun and throws it down a drain. At the hospital, Tommy tells a semi-conscious Sean that he “didn’t see anything." Afterward, Tommy and Jenny share a passionate kiss. As the doctor reports Sean’s stable medical status, Tommy flashes back to Jimmy’s childhood accident and the news that he may never walk again. That day, Tommy made a deal with God that he’d pay any price if Jimmy walks. Tommy tells Kim, Sean’s girlfriend, that if questioned, she should not remember any of the perpetrators. Meanwhile, Jimmy fights with another inmate in jail.

As Tommy and Kevin dispose of their old clothes, they discover Louis’s body in a dumpster. Furious, Tommy vents his anger at Kevin and wonders where to conceal the body. He receives a call from Jimmy asking for bail but Tommy refuses. Meanwhile, Jenny receives advice from her father that she should stay away from Tommy Donnelly.

Looking for Tommy, Jenny returns to the bar and finds blood on the stairs. At the swamp, Tommy washes the blood off his body and tells his sensitive brother to “shut the hell up." He discovers that Kevin has lied to him and removed some of the ransom stash to pay for Jimmy’s bail. The brothers fight over the money, and Tommy tells him that if he wants to live, he’ll give it back. Kevin pulls a gun on Tommy but eventually backs down. Tommy drops Kevin off back in their neighborhood and Kevin hands him back the gun. Tommy re-opens the street drain, climbs down beneath the street, takes his buried gun and then burns the van.

Meanwhile, Jenny cleans the blood off the stairs to cover Tommy’s crime. Mrs. Donnelly tells Jenny that she trusts her son to do whatever they have to do. Tommy goes to see Sal’s cohort, Nicky, and returns the stash of ransom money. He confesses that his brother, Jimmy, kidnapped Louis and that Jimmy is a junkie. Nicky asks him where Louis is and says he’ll accept the money in good faith but he needs a grand a week until Louis gets back. Tommy tells Nicky that the money makes them even and leaves satisfied. Kevin and Tommy leave the bar and run into Joey “Ice Cream” who tells his lawyer, in a voiceover, that the Donnelly brothers never “take a step” without him.

We flashback to young Tommy receiving the news that his sick brother will walk. In the present, Tommy goes to see Jenny and the pair make love for the first time. After, she tells him she can’t be with him. Walking home, Tommy is stopped by Huey’s brother who asks him to get in the car. He asks Tommy what his brother was doing at the hospital before his death. As he questions Tommy he taps his axe, telling Tommy that he’s lucky he still has a brother. As Tommy steps out of the car, he threatens, “If you hear anything, let me know.”

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v • d • e The Black Donnellys
Donnelly Brothers	Kevin Donnelly \| Tommy Donnelly \| Jimmy Donnelly \| Sean Donnelly
Other Characters	Jenny Reilly \| Joey Ice Cream \| Nicky Cottero
Further Resources	Episode list \| Hell's Kitchen