Jack Irish: Bad Debts Page #2

Synopsis: A former criminal lawyer is getting his life back together and now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. When an ex-client wants his help, he lets it pass away. But then this guy turns up dead which forces him back into the ominous past he thought he left for good.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Jeffrey Walker
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Year:
2012
90 min
338 Views


Ah.

Don't tell me you're finally

coming back to criminal law.

Hardly.

Bit of conveyancing's

about it these days.

No, just looking for an old file.

Great. Come in.

It's good to see ya.

You too, mate.

His name's Danny McKillop.

McKillop? How old?

About as old as your suit.

F*** off! It's brand new.

You know, Helen has shot through.

Head over heels

with some painter in Eltham.

What, a house painter?

No, artiste painter.

Someone no one's ever heard of.

Bruce Seal.

Bruce Seal? Sh*t.

Drinkie?

So what do you know

about Helen's painter bloke?

Oh, he speaks five languages,

apparently.

He's won the Archibald three times

and his nickname's

the Throbbing Stallion.

Great.

Here we go. Daniel Patrick McKillop.

Convicted of culpable driving,

18th of June, 2001.

Knocked down and killed

Anne Elspeth Jeppeson

in Ardenne Street, Richmond.

Ah, the public housing woman.

The activist.

Your client was as high as a kite.

Cheers.

How do you remember this?

You weren't even on it

It wasn't a good time for you.

I made it to court, though,

didn't I?

Oh, photo finish.

You did go off the rails there

a bit just before you quit.

Anyway,

it was an open-and-shut case.

Your client eventually

pleaded guilty, got ten years.

He was a junkie.

Had a whole stack of priors.

So why's he calling me from

a hotel car park on a Saturday night?

And why is he now not

returning any of my calls?

Can I hang onto this?

Sure.

This has nothing to do with her.

Helen left for her own reasons.

She doesn't even know about Lorna.

Gotta love em when they're around,

don't you mate?

Hard after fifteen years.

Yeah, I wouldn't know.

Ah-ha. That's how long ago it was.

I mean, who has a VHS anymore?

Oh, I know people.

(Football commentary on TV)

Where the hell were you

last Saturday when we needed you?

The Saints went down by three goals.

I was in Sydney, on business.

What sort of bloody work takes

you to Sydney on a Saturday arvo?

He doesn't work no more.

Not real work.

He's a standover boy.

A bloody debt collector now!

Didn't miss much.

They played like girls.

They don't make 'em

like your old man anymore.

Toughest man ever to wear

an athletic support.

Listen, I need to stick this on,

if I can.

Well, they're watching the game.

It's a replay. From 1996.

Hey! It's Fitzroy's

last game at the G.

Yeah. We got smashed by 25 goals.

It was horrible.

Never about that, Jack,

as well you know.

It's three-quarter time.

He can put it on now.

But make it quick, will ya?

Reminds me of round fourteen, 1971.

Remember that game against the Roos?

NEWSREADER:
Danny McKillop's car

was seen swerving out of control

in Ardenne Street,

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