James's driving skills are put to the test as the gang set off in a van full of hooch and high hopes to an adult-free house in Donegal. The Quinns visit a local psychic in the hope of making contact with Mary and Sarah's late mother.
Tropes
- Bilingual Dialogue: Sister Michael talks to some of her relatives in English, and they respond in Irish.
- Cool Car: Sister Michael pulls up in a DeLorean and wearing flip-up sunglasses.
- Double Standard: Michelle talks about finding Donegal lads to hook up with in quite objectified terms, which Erin seems enthused by. Michelle also reassures Clare they can find her a lesbian farmer. When James enquires about possibly finding a girl for him, his friends all treat him with total disgust.Michelle: Young, hot farmers. Donegal is coming down with them. Big strapping lads ripped to fuck from all the turf collecting.
Clare: Oh, don't worry about me.
Michelle: There's actually quite a few lesbians as well, Clare.
Clare: Lesbian farmers? Really?
Michelle: Lesbian farming is actually huge in the Republic. We'll get you sorted, don't worry.
James: What about me? Could we pick me up a girl?
Erin: "Can we pick you up a girl?" Like she's a thing?
Orla: Yeah, that is so out of order, James. - Dramatic Thunder: Starting when Claire finds that the phone isn't connected.
- Identical Grandson: When they see a man who resembles the one in an old photo, they take it to be his returned ghost. It's his grandson.Erin: We didn't steal any of your stuff, Robert.
Declan: My name is Declan!
Erin: Aye, but you're the double of Robert!
Declan: That's because he's my grandfather.
Erin: ...that actually does make a lot of sense. - Incest Standards Are Relative: Played for Laughs. Michelle walks in on her cousin James and her best friend Erin kissing and calls it "incest". Culturally it totally isn't, but what she's getting at is that it feels incestuous to her — all three of them are part of the same close-knit friend group, James is her blood cousin, and Erin is like a sister to her.Michelle: This is incest!
James: No, it's not.
Michelle: Yes, it is, James.
James: We're not related.
Michelle: Oh, and that makes it okay, I suppose?
James: Well, it makes it not incest. - Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Joe is looking for his good electric razor, something his late wife saw last. The family goes to a very fake seeming psychic where he inquires after the razor. The psychic gives a phony-seeming message about something being underwater, and a red box. When Joe looks under the sink in the final scene and finds the razor in a red box. He takes a moment to tell his wife his heartfelt thanks.
- Moment Killer: Michelle doesn't just kill the moment of James and Erin's kiss, she takes it out back, gives it both barrels and sets fire to the corpse. After walking in on the two, she calls them "sick bastards", claims that the pairing is incest, accuses the former of suffering a concussion and the latter of Demonic Possession, and point blank tells them they can't get together without destroying the group. Erin admits she might be right about the last point.
- Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: The girls have to drag an unconscious James to an empty house after he's hit by their van, only to discover that the phone doesn't work and they can't call an ambulance. Believing that he's doomed, they start mourning him and completely ignore the now awake James asking for water, up until Michelle furiously tells him to "Shut the fuck up!"
- Not-So-Phony Psychic: Carlos Santini (AKA Kevin) unwittingly summons someone Sarah recognises, then gets a vision of "...something under water. A box. A red box." Joe later finds his long-lost razor in a red biscuit tin under the sink.
- Speak Ill of the DeadSister Michael: My aunt just died.
Clare: Oh, no.
James: We're so sorry, Sister.
Sister Michael: Don't be, girls. She had been ill for a very long time, and also she was an absolute arsehole. - Thicker Than Water: Part of Michelle's objections to a possible romance between James and Erin; if the romance didn't work out, despite Erin being her best friend, Michelle would have to side with James, as they are family.Michelle: If you get together, you'll break up, and then where does that leave me, Erin? You might be my best friend but he's my cousin, and dickhead or not, I'll have to stick with him. Don't put me in that position.
- When It Rains, It Pours: Heavy rain starts, preventing Orla from running to fetch help.
