'Guilt' Season 2's Second Episode Says Everyone is Guilty of Something

The second episode of Guilt Season 2 opens with a flashback. At the Phoenix Estate Development, a young man presents a proposal for the New Leith project. He gets turned down because his projected costs are too high, but on his way past the building site, another bright idea occurs to him. He could offer to buy the church nearby from a priest of questionable ethics. His partner isn’t thrilled with the idea. The money (with a tracking device in the bag) gets picked up by our ex-Army fellow, Joe (Paul Tinto), who drives it to a casino. A bearded man – likely the bent minister – arrives, but the cash is gone. Meanwhile, inside, Adrian is conducting a drug deal with the roulette croupier when he notices the bag stuffed with bills on the floor by Joe’s feet. When the intoxicated soldier steps out for a quick smoke, Adrian snatches the loot and hightails it out of there. Joe threatens the croupier at gunpoint and follows Adrian home to Erin’s house, where both men meet their fate.

Picking up where we left off last week, Jackie (Sandy McDade), the lady with the dog on the bench, is an undercover police officer; Max is one of her informants. She’s on a years-long mission to bring down Roy Lynch and has tasked Max with gathering evidence against the gangster. She says money laundering isn’t enough to prove her case, but it’s a start, and Max must record every interaction.

As they return from Joe’s memorial service, his brother, Teddy (Greg McHugh), tells their father about Papillon, a book a friend gave him. It’s about a boy who wanted to escape prison only to find out the prison was in his head. He thinks life was like that for Joe after the Army. His father suggests that what happened is Teddy’s fault and cryptically tells him he must “take care of what needs to be done.”