Belfast Girls: A Police-Story

A shocking crime-story is set in a troubled area of the United Kingdom where two wily detectives attempt to forge special folk-dowries.

An homage to the good servicemen/women of the celebrated PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) in otherwise historically 'troubled' where journalism in papers, Belfast Telegraph (Northern Ireland newspaper), remind Catholics-Protestants divided by socioeconomics/culture of the labors of important social figures like Ireland's own Eamon de Valera a, perhaps source of inspiration for modern inter-religious diary-works like Believing in Belfast and Belfast Girls and American cinema like The Devil's Own (Alan J. Pakula), which may become 'Montessori-schooling standards' in this Quarantine-era imagination. Enjoy (and God bless!), 

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Northern Ireland had seen much historic drama since the days of the Easter Rising of the early 20th Century. After mainland Ireland won independence as a sovereign Catholic republic from the British Empire, Northern Ireland was partitioned off and kept as a United Kingdom 'territory' because of the demographic British-Protestant majority population settled there as descendants of generations of colonial settlers, making the Irish-Catholic population a minority and under British rule. The Irish-Catholic minority continued to live in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and endured some dissatisfying socioeconomic disparities and unemployment arising from mismanaged/misspelled affirmative-action Parliament policies, leading to new forms of guerrilla resistance in Northern Ireland and creating new factions of the IRA (Irish Republican Army), culminating in the violence of the 'Troubles' in the late 20th Century between Irish-Catholic minority rebels and British police-military. This divides the two dominant denominations today in the global Christian community, Catholicism and Protestantism, in this 20th-anniversary year of 9/11, when anti-globalization terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York (USA) by crashing two hijacked passenger airplanes into the skyscraper(s). The images of the 1916 Easter Rising in the United Kingdom still haunt the Irish-Catholic (and British-Protestant!) folks of Belfast (Northern Ireland), were socioeconomic disparities create a 'backdrop' for daily life of history-and-myth storytelling.

Recently, a visit to Northern Ireland by Prince William and Princess Kate served to symbolize a newfound global sense of inter-religious peace and commerce-bridge building imagination between Dublin-Belfast (Ireland and Northern Ireland), to create more coexistence harmonies between Catholics and Protestants in the Western world in this 20th-anniversary year of 9/11. This diplomatic visit reminded the folks of Belfast that 'normal life' could/would/should be wrought amidst these life-policy politics disagreements currently addressed by political bodies like Sinn Fein and British Parliament!

The pubs and nightclubs in today's Belfast cater to a lively young Catholic and Protestant crowd, but there still lingers sectarian sentiments and even wall-graffiti serving to remind residents/travelers that this inter-religious schism still marks an environmental 'backdrop' for everyday life in Northern Ireland. That's why Guinness beer in these Belfast pubs symbolize the 'hope' that commerce can erase the Western/UK scars of shared-space failures and crime/violence.

Belfast is otherwise an idyllic and lovely-looking UK city and is the home to many Catholic and Protestant students learning about modern media-and-capitalism solutions/attitudes to inter-religious life where Irishmen are still a minority group seeking representation by Sinn Fein and Parliament. Everyday life continues in Belfast amidst these real political conversations at every dinner-table in Northern Ireland homes, schools, churches, and pubs/restaurants!

The Coronavirus quarantine tribulation added more headlines to the Belfast newspapers reporting on Catholic-Protestant residents/citizens getting through these times when economics meets the real demands of life and welfare. There were headlines about medical care and access to resources and hospital funding, stories certainly addressed and questioned by Sinn Fein as well as Parliament.

An iconic artist therefore rendered a neo-classical sketch-portrait of this iconic and symbolic Western civilization inter-religious UK city of Belfast (Northern Ireland), suggesting there's forms of brushed 'folk imagination' of what comprises normal/sane everyday life in this troubled city of religiously/culturally proud and expressive peoples.

BELFAST POLICE: We patrol the city and make sure pub-and-nightclub life in Belfast is vivacious and sane for traffic.

TOURIST: You get a sense that this city has palpable lights and tones despite the sectarian sentiments lingering since 1916.

Suddenly, a terrible crime-story surfaces in the Belfast Telegraph. Two nightclub-visiting attractive young women, one Catholic (Elena O'Malley) and one Protestant (Stacy Duffett) are found murdered in the street-alley, their throats slit-open by a small knife. No one is considered a suspect yet, and the police crowd the street amidst the lights of news-vans. Since the victims were both Catholic and Protestant, there's no suspicion of inter-religious foul-play (e.g., IRA terrorism or British-police frustration-induced retaliation brutality) in Northern Ireland. However, two police-detectives, Algerian-Americans living in Belfast since college-days, cousins in fact, are assigned to this horrifying case in 2021.

AMLAN SATAN: We'll stay close to the Belfast police-station for this murder-investigation.

AJAY SATAN: I agree cousin; this is a crime-story that needs to be solved before 9/11.

Amlan Satan has been a police investigator for Belfast for two years now and is considered a handsome sleuth for Northern Ireland crime-solving. He's behind the apprehension of a team of home-invaders who're stealing jewelry from Catholic-Protestant homes in 2019, seeing that they're put behind bars for a long time after a lengthy and costly trial. Detective Amlan is considered a smalltime hero in Belfast!

Ajay Satan was working in New York and then London and then Dublin before finally transferring to Belfast to work alongside his cousin Amlan Satan as Belfast police-detectives. Ajay just transferred and this murder of the young women, Catholic and Protestant, is his first shared-case with his Algerian-American cousin Amlan. Ajay is very popular among the kids of Belfast.

AMLAN: Since there's no leads, let's determine if there's really no inter-religious motives.

AJAY: Right; we'll interview folk chatter about the nightclub from which the two women exited and were murdered!

On the night of the murder, the visiting English musician from Liverpool, Ron Moss, was giving a concert. Ron hates being confused with an American TV-star of the same name and always opens his concerts with the proud Brit-remark, "I'm no American!" Amlan and Ajay find it peculiar that this English visiting musician from Liverpool, Ron Moss, who gave a performance at the nightclub where Elena and Stacy were partying and exited together before being murdered together in an alley, likes making these proud nation-culture identity remarks before his music concerts at nightclubs. They decide he may be an unlikely but unusually suspicious suspect in this double-murder case in Belfast!

Meanwhile, a Telegraph headline emerges about Brexit political talks about controversies surrounding Belfast policemen photographed for world-media armed with assault-rifles, but the cops insisted they're fearful of emerging terrorism in this 20th-anniversary year of 9/11. So, one can see, that lingering inter-religious paranoia lights this suddenly emerged murder-story in Belfast which the Satan police-detectives/cousins are investigating for the good people of Northern Ireland.

A special circus-show is visiting Belfast that August and featured an iconic American thespian in a performance about taming wild lions of darkness. The circus-show is visited by the very-same Brit-musician Ron Moss who is cheering for the American star and is rumored to be temporarily dating her. However, after the circus-show, another strange story emerges in Belfast.

AMLAN: These two women were murdered in the same-fashion --- throats-slit!

AJAY: Ironic that the Jack-the-Ripper film (From Hell) is rescreening in Belfast in September.

AMLAN: I say we attend and see if this Brit-musician Ron Moss is there, like he was at the circus-show.

AJAY: Perfect.

Amlan decides to costume himself as the 'Scarecrow' for the screening of the Jack-the-Ripper film and pretends to be a theater-company advocate and cheers on as the Brit-musician Ron Moss, now the prime-suspect of these murders in Belfast. Amlan and Ajay noted that the murders of the two new young women, one Catholic (Katherine O'Hara) and one Protestant (Laura Windsor), coincided with the attendance of the nation-identity boasting visiting Brit-musician Ron Moss and are convinced he's some kind of religion-messaged serial-killer behind these Belfast killings of 2021 of young women. Amlan ('Scarecrow') flashes Ron a peace-sign gesture and jokes by asking him, "Looking for a date tonight, Moss?"

That night, after the screening of From Hell, two women in attendance, one Catholic (Kate McHelone) and one Protestant (Brittany Chance) are seen walking out of the Belfast movie-theater with Ron Moss! Amlan/Ajay follow them stealthily into an alley and see Ron pull out a pocket-knife and grab Kate and order Brittany to sit down on the ground. Detectives Amlan/Ajay run up to Ron as he starts to cut Kate's throat and have no choice but to shoot him twice in the legs and arrest him and save Kate/Brittany!

The detectives raid Ron Moss' temporary hotel suite and find a collection of underground-purchased IRA guns which it seems Ron wanted to take back to Liverpool as trophies for these serial-murders in troubled Belfast (Northern Ireland).

Amlan and Ajay Satan decide to interview the arrested serial-killer Ron Moss in a recorded interrogation that reveals much about the nature of human crime on Earth and the darkness of crime created in modern Northern Ireland, already 'sullied' by inter-religious woes!

AMLAN/AJAY: You're a rea 'John Doe' in Belfast, Ron.
RON: I'm a prophet of humanity, good detectives!
AMLAN/AJAY: Prophet of what?
RON: Belfast is scarred by religion...and now by murder!
AMLAN/AJAY: What's that mean, Ron?
RON: It means this is the Great Tribulation, good detectives.

AMLAN/AJAY: Are you messaging about unsolved sin, Ron?

RON: Yes.

AMLAN/AJAY: So, you're an advocate of frailty itself?

RON: Yes.

AMLAN/AJAY: Why're you immune from such frailties, Moss?

RON: I'm shielded by an invincible magic, good detectives!

AMLAN/AJAY: What's that?
RON: The magic of suspicion.
AMLAN/AJAY: You're advocating hellfire...yet you resent your own labors.

RON: I hate this world.

AMLAN/AJAY: You hate the 'idea' of living in this world, Ron Moss.

RON: Northern Ireland will never be paradise.

AMLAN/AJAY: Who says?

RON: I say it.
AMLAN/AJAY: You'll be alone.
RON: Maybe!

AMLAN/AJAY: Why beautiful women, Ron?
RON: Eve is destroyed by the nature of manmade dogma, good detectives.

AMLAN/AJAY: We'll see to 'Eve' and her securities, Ron.

RON: Maybe.

After the recorded saga-like recorded interrogation/interview Belfast cousin-detectives Amlan and Ajay Satan decide they need to make a nice old trip to the good old Belfast library to read a special book about the optimism arising in Northern Ireland despite these 'manmade' woes surrounding religion, dogma, and life itself. It gives them a dose of psychiatric medicine in these truly troubled times of hellmouths.

AMLAN: Let's attend the Belfast St. Patrick's Day parade with some good ale/spirits, cousin.

AJAY: I want to forget about the 'daylight' of Ron Moss.

Will Northern Ireland ever feel like a true paradise on Earth? Can ideas about everyday life and commerce/entertainment forge bridges to real peace and sanity? How will we 'measure' places in Western civilization in this 20th-anniversary year of 9/11, when commerce-consciousness is put to the test of the frailty of fortune-diagonals?

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)