Réalisation:
Jeffrey WalkerScénario:
Andrew KnightPhotographie:
Martin McGrathMusique:
Harry James AngusActeurs·trices:
Guy Pearce, Marta Dusseldorp, Aaron Pedersen, Vadim Glowna, Colin Friels, Steve Bisley, Emma Booth, Rhys Muldoon, Heather Mitchell, Roy Billing (plus)Résumés(1)
A phone message from an ex-client – Danny McKillop (Simon Russell) – doesn't ring any bells for Jack and sends him searching through old case files and dredging up memories of the bleakest kind. Jack wasn't at the top of his game when he represented Danny ten years earlier – king hit by scotch on the rocks and the murder of his wife Isabel (Emma Booth) – Jack is amazed he managed to drag himself out of bed in the mornings let alone make it to court. Bottom line – Danny did five years for manslaughter and he might have been set up. So when Danny turns up dead, Jack feels like he has failed his ex-client twice over. Keen to set the ledger straight, Jack starts investigating Danny's death. With his ad-hoc, unorthodox, crumpled style he begins to peel back the layers that connects Danny's death to dodgy cops, drug dealers, a slimy priest and a blackmailing pornographer. The cold case turns warm when Jack meets Linda Hillier (Marta Dusseldorp), a smart, sexy investigative journalist who has a weakness for burnt-out, dishevelled, rumpled men.
Not surprisingly, representing dead clients isn't that lucrative. Jack supplements his income working for Harry Strang (Roy Billing), an old-school racing identity who has made an art out of pulling the wool over the eyes of unsuspecting bookies. Between Harry's stings, being implicated in a grotesque double murder, and mastering mortice and tenon joints under the disapproving gaze of German craftsman Charlie Taub (Vadim Glowna), Jack has more than enough to distract himself. Together Jack and Linda uncover tantalising links between Danny's hit-and-run victim and a $600 million property deal. Linda is keen to go to print with their story about shifty deals between high profile politicians and their developer mates when all hell breaks loose. The usually quiet streets of Fitzroy descend into Beirut as Jack and Linda make a desperate run for the countryside. Hidden in a rambling holiday shack is the explosive evidence that could bring down the state government. However they're not the only ones who know where it is, and retrieving it is going to prove deadly for someone. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Guy Pearce
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Memento (2000)
Le Discours d'un roi (2010)
Marta Dusseldorp
Australie
Meilleurs films :
Paradise Road (1997)
Les Voies du destin (2013)
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (téléfilm)
Aaron Pedersen
Australie
Meilleurs films :
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (téléfilm)
Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014) (téléfilm)
Mystery Road - Le film (2013)
Vadim Glowna
Empire allemand
Meilleurs films :
L'Année du soleil calme (1984)
L'Insaisissable (2000)
Croix de fer (1977)
Colin Friels
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
Dark City (1998)
Angel Baby (1995)
Dingo, chien du désert (1991)
Steve Bisley
Australie
Meilleurs films :
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (téléfilm)
Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1988) (série)
Summer City (1977)
Emma Booth
Australie
Meilleurs films :
Tracks (2013)
Mes garçons sont de retour (2009)
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (téléfilm)
Rhys Muldoon
Australie
Meilleurs films :
Childhood's End (2015) (série)
Les Saphirs (2012)
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (téléfilm)
Heather Mitchell
Meilleurs films :
Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away (2011) (téléfilm)
USS Charleston, dernière chance pour l'humanité (2000) (téléfilm)
Gatsby le Magnifique (2013)
Roy Billing
Nouvelle-Zélande
Meilleurs films :
Le Chemin de la liberté (2002)
Underbelly Files: Infiltration (2011) (téléfilm)
Unfinished Sky (2007)
Thom Green
Meilleurs films :
Commandos de l'ombre (2010)
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (téléfilm)
Of an Age (2022)
Andy McPhee
Australie
Meilleurs films :
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
La Planète des Singes : Le nouveau royaume (2024)
Hello Herman (2012)
Fletcher Humphrys
Australie
Meilleurs films :
The Heartbreak Kid (1993)
Haute couture (2015)
John Doe: Vigilante (2014)
Marshall Napier
Nouvelle-Zélande
Meilleurs films :
Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here (2011) (téléfilm)
Une vie entre deux océans (2016)
In a Savage Land (1999)
Shane Jacobson
Australie
Meilleurs films :
Haute couture (2015)
Kenny (2006)
Charlie & Boots (2009)
Damien Garvey
Meilleurs films :
Love and Monsters (2020)
Answered by Fire (2006) (téléfilm)
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (téléfilm)
Anthony Hayes
Australie
Meilleurs films :
Une vie entre deux océans (2016)
Le Chemin de la liberté (2002)
Commandos de l'ombre (2010)
Terry Norris
Australie
Meilleurs films :
Haute couture (2015)
Romulus, My Father (2007)
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (téléfilm)
Nicholas Bell
Grande-Bretagne
Damien Richardson
Meilleurs films :
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (téléfilm)
Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014) (téléfilm)
Jack Irish: Black Tide (2012) (téléfilm)