Jack Taylor: The Pikemen/The Magdalen Martyrs

Jack Taylor: The Pikemen/The Magdalen Martyrs
Director
STUART ORME
Country
Ireland (Eire)
Year
2013
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
MARTEINN THORISSON
Novels by KEN BRUEN
Cast
IAIN GLEN, lead actor
Production
MAGMA PRODUCTIONS
http://jacktaylorfilms.com/

Storyline

Jack is an Irish ex-cop, on the wrong side of forty who has become a finder with a sharp tongue and a soft heart. He takes on the cases The Guards won´t touch, no matter how hopeless. He´s pig stubborn. He defends the lost and the broken. He´s good because he looks where no one else looks, talks to the people no one else talks to. Moreover, he knows every back street in his hometown, Galway, knows the seed and breed of everyone in it. But small towns have big memories, and like Jack they are quick to anger and slow to forgive. This series of feature length crime dramas follows Jack´s odyssey through the mean streets of Galway. Three episodes have been produced to date.

THE PIKEMEN

Jack is returning to his beloved Galway clean and sober after having been away for a year. It is not long before Jack is dragged back under when he uncovers a group of vigilantes calling themselves The Pikemen, after old Irish Freedom Fighters. Jack is pushed to the brink like never before. He soon realizes that the only way to see justice done is to do the very thing he has been trying to avoid: to become like the Pikemen…

THE MAGDALEN MARTYRS

Jack is hired by the daughter of a former inmate of the infamous Magdalen Laundries, a home for wayward girls, to find the identity of a former nun, known only as Lucifer. The seemingly simple case grows complicated when two young boys are murdered. Jack sets out on the old nun´s trail, uncovering religious hypocrisy and abuse…