'Guilt' Season 2's Penultimate Episode Remembers to Bring Insurance

The penultimate episode of Guilt Season 2 picks up with Max and Erin glossing over the previous evening and moving straight to bringing down Roy Lynch. Max talks to Roy about working on Phoenix while Erin tells her mother she’s leaving Edinburgh. Maggie admits she’s been meeting Roy over the New Leith project, a legitimate business. If she can forgive him (Roy is responsible for Maggie being a wheelchair user), then Erin should. Once Erin leaves, Maggie calls Roy, saying Erin has agreed to join them, but only if she has her own lawyer. Roy mentions Max has been sniffing around and is checking on his early release. Maggie says if they use Max, they’ll need to call in the “insurance.” 

Stevie tells Yvonne he’s working for Jackie Thomsen and needs Max McCall’s file. Jackie says to remove Max’s cooperation agreement before handing it over. Yvonne mentions her AA friend, Kenny, works at one of the addresses on Jackie’s list. Jackie assures her it’s McCall she wants. Stevie reports to Roy there’s no record of cooperation in Max’s file, resulting in Max getting a call from Roy saying he requires some subterfuge.

At the office, Kenny shows Max surveillance images from the Rose Street casino with Teddy’s brother Joe, Adrian, and the bag of money. Max insists they stop investigating and tell Teddy they found nothing, just as a man seeking a divorce wanders in. But while Max is out, Teddy arrives and sees the photos. Kenny makes soothing noises, but Teddy threatens him, saying if the voices in his head take over, they’ll never stop. Kenny gives him the casino’s location, and Teddy heads there to see what he can learn.

Roy pays Sandy a visit to threaten him into selling, implying this project will be built over a dead body -- a death which Sandy was involved in. Sandy protests, threatening to reveal the body’s whereabouts to the dead man’s family, only to be told this will simply mean everyone goes to jail.

At Kenny’s place, Yvonne arrives as he’s making dinner for them. He apologizes about the flat, but she says she grew up in a worse place. She asks a few questions about working with Max, which Kenny answers honestly, and then they contemplate the novelty of having sex sober.

Meanwhile, Max and Erin have a heart-to-heart conversation at her place. She explains how, at sixteen, she caught her parents washing blood off Roy’s hands at the kitchen sink on Christmas Eve. She ignored the rumors about her dad until her mother was run off the road while driving Roy's car. Erin threatened to call the police, but Maggie told her Roy was already being tailed, and it would be just the two of them from then on. However, when Erin leaves the room, Max sees a framed photo and recognizes Adrian from the casino images. He hurries out, only to get abducted and awaken in a jail cell with Jackie standing over him. He protests he’s getting information about a Christmas murder 20 years ago. Jackie says she needs a confession or a body in two weeks. 

Max asks what Jackie’s hiding, realizing the woman is trying to conceal her investigation and her vendetta against Roy from her superiors. She repeats her request before leaving to find Yvonne, who says Kenny’s business is clean. Jackie asks her to pull files from Christmas Eve 1998 where Roy Lynch was involved in the disappearance of a retired social worker from the children’s home that burned down. Yvonne discovers Maggie Lynch was also initially identified as seen with the missing man.

Jackie lets Max out the following day, and he arrives at work to find the man in need of the divorce still underfoot, and Teddy saw the casino photos. Max complains he doesn’t have time to deal with it, but Kenny says it’s not a situation he can control. Max hurries to Roy’s offices and explains the contract he’s drawn up for Erin. Roy takes the document and says his lawyers will look it over. He then calls Maggie to tell her Erin signed the agreement, but he thinks something is happening between Max and Erin because she recognized him. However, the “insurance” arrives today, and Maggie says she’ll take care of Sandy. Back home, Max finds Teddy in his flat, and the latter admits he was in Erin’s house. Max warns him she’s Roy Lynch’s daughter. Teddy doesn’t care. Max promises to discover what happened to his brother; he hasn’t forgotten what Teddy did for him. 

Jackie orders Yvonne to break up with Kenny, or she’s off the investigation. Yvonne calls Kenny and tells them they can’t see each other romantically anymore. Broken-hearted, she hangs up. Kenny starts digging and finally discovers Max is working for Roy. He calls Yvonne, who refuses to explain why she asked if he could trust Max. 

Maggie drops in on Sandy at the church, and we get an entire backstory that you would expect about a child abuser whom she suggests Sandy murdered (“a mercy killing") and that the accident that paralyzed her was also done to protect her, convincing the police she was not part of Roy’s business dealings. Except apparently, it’s a lot of waste of time and nonsense; Maggie can walk just fine. (Let’s not get into the problematic nature of this sequence.) She comes over, talks to him in a suggestively threatening way, touches him inappropriately and orders him to sell them the f*cking church. 

As the episode concludes, Erin repeatedly asks where Maggie is, but she’s not nursing a migraine, as Roy claims. She’s got Max in a warehouse going on about his weakness and their insurance. Just then, Max’s brother, Jake, walks into the room.