What Eugene doesn’t know on the finish of season two is that the actual Elliot Stanley – an area scuba diver who’d disappeared in 1981 after Eugene’s mom killed him – is probably going his organic father. He and Helen additionally don’t know, after they determined to not learn the file on Eugene’s pre-amnesia life, that he’s a deep cowl undercover agent, which explains his driving/combating and speaking-Russian talents. Moreover, he’s a skilled ballet dancer, however let’s not concentrate on that simply now.
If any of The Vacationer’s second season left you scratching your lengthy and wholesome beard in confusion, we break all of it down right here.
The Actual Elliot Stanley, the Sunk Aircraft, and the Stolen Love Letters
Within the Fifties, Niamh Cassidy’s mom and Frank McDonnell’s father have been in love however couldn’t be collectively due to the longstanding feud between their households. They secretly had a child collectively – Niamh – who was raised to be a McDonnell-hating Cassidy, regardless of being a organic McDonnell herself. In 1981, Frank’s father was on his deathbed in Boston, US, and determined to put naked his secret maybe in an try to lastly cease the bloody feud between the 2 households. He despatched a bundle of affection letters Niamh’s mom had written him, to his son Frank.
The aircraft containing the letters went into the ocean. Awaiting an necessary parcel from his father, Frank employed scuba diver Elliot Stanley to look the wreckage. Stanley, whose widow hinted had been having a number of affairs together with with Niamh and presumably leading to Eugene’s delivery, discovered the submerged aircraft with Niamh however she lower his oxygen tube and stole the parcel. When she learn the letters and realised she was a McDonnell, she buried them and the feud continued for over 40 years.
Eugene and Claire’s Affair, Fergal, Donal and Joe
Historical past repeated itself to some extent with Eugene and Claire’s story, however as a substitute of a love affair between a Cassidy and a McDonnell, theirs was between a Cassidy and the spouse of a McDonnell. Eugene and Claire had an affair that resulted within the delivery of Fergal, who was raised because the son of Donal McDonnell. Donal was a violent man who bodily abused his spouse, and he was ultimately shot lifeless by Niamh Cassidy – who turned out to be his organic aunt. That made Eugene and Donal first cousins, which means that younger Fergal is certainly a blood relative of Donal and Frank McDonnell, only a first cousin as soon as eliminated/nice nephew as a substitute of a son/grandson.
When Donal found that Fergal was biologically Eugene Cassidy’s son, he deliberate to kill Eugene however mistook Eugene’s older brother Joe for him and killed Joe as a substitute.
