Colin and Phil to Belfast to deliver money to the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on behalf of Harris. He explains that three of the IRA's top men were killed on the same night, after the money was delivered. Shand realises the IRA have come to the conclusion that he sold them out to the security forces and pocketed the missing cash for himself, and are targeting his organisation in revenge. Vowing to destroy the terrorist organisation in London, Shand loses his temper and kills Jeff in a frenzy. After confronting Harris, Shand sets up a meeting with the IRA's London leadership at a stock car racetrack. He ostensibly offers them £60,000 in return for a ceasefire but double crosses them and has them and Harris shot as they are counting the cash. Believing his enemies are dead and the problem solved, Shand travels to the Savoy Hotel to triumphantly inform Charlie and his assistant Tony, only to find the Americans preparing to leave, having been spooked by the carnage. In response to their derisory comments about the UK, Shand berates them for their arrogance and dismisses them as cowards. Leaving the hotel, Shand steps into his chauffeur-driven car only to find it has been commandeered by IRA assassins. He sees Victoria being also kidnapped in another car. As the car speeds to an unknown destination, Shand contemplates the inevitability of his fate. Cast Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand Helen Mirren as Victoria Dave King as Parky Bryan Marshall as Councillor Harris Derek Thompson as Jeff Eddie Constantine as Charlie Paul Freeman as Colin P. H. Moriarty as Razors Stephen Davies as Tony Brian Hall as Alan Alan Ford as Jack Paul Barber as Errol Pauline Melville as Dora Patti Love as Carol Nigel Humphreys as Dave Karl Howman as David Gillian Taylforth as Sherry George Coulouris as Gus Trevor Laird as Jim Roy Alon as Captain Death Tony Rohr as O'Flaherty Pierce Brosnan and Daragh O'Malley as IRA men Leo Dolan as Phil Dexter Fletcher as Kid Kevin McNally as Irish youth Production The film was directed by John Mackenzie and produced for £930,000 by Barry Hanson from a script by Barrie Keeffe, with a soundtrack by the composer Francis Monkman; it was screened at the Cannes, Edinburgh and London Film Festivals in 1980. Under the title The Paddy Factor, the original story had been written by Keeffe for