Ray Donovan Recap: Irish Lullaby (S7 E5)

Mickey and Bunchy were the ones involved in criminal activities in “An Irish Lullaby” (Season 7 Episode 5). They made it look like Ray was going to shoot someone in the coming attractions, didn’t they? But Ray just went to Coney Island with Terry to retrieve his car. He hit a deer on the way back and had to shoot it to end its suffering. After learning of his wife’s infidelity, Smitty went all Ray Donovan on Adam Rain.

Pop, come on, I did not sign up for this ~ Daryll Donovan

We wonder what Daryll thought he signed up for when he went off with Mickey and Aunt Sandy. What would ever make him think there would be no violence? Duh! The last time he got involved in one of Mickey’s capers, he ended up killing FBI agent Frank Barnes. This time, Daryll found himself witnessing Mickey torture an old guy named Doyle with the able assistance of Aunt Sandy. Doyle didn’t want to share any information with Mickey voluntarily but his geriatric persecutors stuck a hose down his throat and turned the water on. Doyle gave up O’Malley as the person who set Mickey up but O’Malley has dementia now and is in a Paterson nursing home. Mickey was not worried that Sandy called him by his name in front of Doyle. Daryll was but he needn’t have been. Sandy killed Doyle.

We needed a fall guy. That was you ~ Larry O’Malley

Off the Terrible Trio went to O’Malley’s nursing home. As Daryll wheeled O’Malley out, he told the desk nurse that he was taking the old boy to aquatic aerobics to meet his son. They drove him to some remote spot where Sandy used to grow hydroponic pot, jogging his memory by singing Mary Hopkin’s 1968 hit song “Those Were The Days.” Their plan was to deliver some electric shocks to jumpstart O’Malley’s brain. O’Malley didn’t want to go along with their plan and there was nothing wrong with his physical strength. In fact, the three of them were no match for the big bull. Ultimately, Sandy managed to knock him out with a rock. After a few shocks here and there, O’Malley finally gave up Jim Sullivan. Then he admitted the reason Sullivan “let him skate.” He made tapes of everything Sullivan said. Then O’Malley gave up the ghost.

Some might say, um, you picked the wrong horse ~ Jim Sullivan

Ray’s day began at the Sullivan household. Molly Sullivan woke up to find Ray staring at her. She smiled and said “good morning’ and was rewarded with a blank stare. She offered him coffee but Ray had to go. He ran into her father, Jim Sullivan, on the way out. Sullivan gave him the business about how it looked like Ray made a mistake when he went out to Hollywood to work for Ezra Goldman. Sullivan is such a big shot now, he made the Forbes list. He wanted to pay Ray for giving back the picture of Kevin Sullivan but Ray declined.

Jim Sullivan, it turns out, is dying. He went to a board meeting to fill his children in on how he is splitting up Sullivan Industries. Kevin will be CEO and COO as of the first of the new year. Molly will have full control of the foundation, a paid position on the board and 15% of the company. His oldest son, Declan, will get a yearly stipend of $1.2 million for life. That did not sit too well with Declan, who clearly has anger issues. He said he’d break his father’s neck if he wasn’t already about to die. “That’s the spirit,” Jim Sullivan replied.

Ray went to see Dr. Amiot and told him about Molly Sullivan. Ray said that he thinks Molly is too good for him. Amiot didn’t try to explore that too much. We don’t suppose he would have said, “yeah, you are a bit of weirdo, Ray,” although Molly might have after the way he acted earlier. Amiot wanted to talk about making plans for Ray to see another therapist when it becomes necessary. He has Parkinson’s and it’s not getting any better.

You’re gonna fire me ’cause I was trying to do the right thing. ~ Bunchy Donovan

Bunchy got a call from Valentina Santiago, the mother of the boy he shot. (How ever did she get his cell phone number?) She told him Value Drugs was suing her and Bunchy’s name was all over the papers she was just served with. Bunchy said he threw out the paper they wanted him to sign away. (We thought that was the vigilante group’s brochure that he threw in the trash last week.) She also said she needed money for a top flight surgeon who was her son’s only hope to ever walk again. At work, Michael the manager asked Bunchy for the affidavit and Bunchy told him he could not sign it because it wasn’t true. “Clear out your locker,” Michael replied. Bunchy grabbed some political masks (Hillary, Nixon and Trump) and held up three Value Drug stores. He netted $17,000 in cash. Bunchy and Valentina took it to Dr. Goldstein but he said it was simply not possible for him to do the operation. Even if he could give them an “all-cash discount,” the cost of the hospital stay would be far above Valentina’s means.

I didn’t work late the other night … I slept with Adam Rain ~ Bridget Donovan

Bridget waltzed into Ray’s office and confessed to Smitty that she broke the 6th Commandment. She got mad when Smitty started crying (she wanted him to verbally abuse her) and walked out in disgust. Later, Adam Rain called looking for help with some Jonathan Walker Hanson’s fans, who locked themselves in the bathroom and refused to leave until they got hispes. Smitty said they’d handle it and grabbed a bat on his way out. He smashed Adam Rain’s car windshield and did a number on him with the bat. Bridget had to bail Smitty out of jail. He was still very angry. From his point of view, she repaid his gentle ways with infidelity. He told her not to touch him and said “You want me to be like that? I can be like that.” So, it looks like “no more Mr. Nice Guy” after this.

Am I out of beer? ~ Terry Donovan

When Ray couldn’t get a hold of Terry by phone, he went over to his place and found him in bed, with no medication and nothing in the fridge but three beers. Ray got Terry’s prescriptions filled and took him to Coney Island to get his car. Terry told Ray about the shaman and Ray told Terry a little about Dr. Amiot, they took a roller coast ride together and reminisced about their past. When they returned, Terry brought up the song their mother used to sing to put them to sleep, “Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral (That’s an Irish Lullaby)”, and sang himself to sleep.

The episode ended with a montage showing an unhappy Daryll still with Sandy and Mickey and an unhappy Bridget all alone in bed, Jim Sullivan was in his limousine watching a news report about the kidnapping and murder of retired Boston police officer Larry O’Malley. Finally, we saw Ray meet up with Molly Sullivan at a cocktail lounge. They shared an awkward kiss and sat down at a table. Whatever Molly was saying to Ray was drowned out by Bing Crosby crooning the Irish lullaby.

Supporting Cast of “Irish Lullaby”