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Jack Taylor is an Irish television series airing since 2010 based on the novels by author Ken Bruen starring Iain Glen as the titular character. Set in Galway on the west coast of Ireland, Jack Taylor is a Garda turned private eye after he is sacked for assaulting a cabinet minister who was speeding. He is joined in his unorthodox investigations by Cody Farraher (Killian Scott), who takes it upon himself to become Jack's apprentice, and Garda Kate Noonan (Nora-Jane Noone), his former colleague who is very often reluctant to aid. Rounding out the cast are Mrs. Taylor, who has a difficult relationship with her son, and Father Malachy, likewise with his parishioner.
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Still Wearing the Old Colors
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Still Wearing the Old Colors: Jack wears a Garda issue overcoat as a Private Detective. A minor Running Gag is that he was supposed to turn it in when he was forced to leave the force and has yet to do so.
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Nuns Are Spooky
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Nuns Are Spooky: Rita Monroe. So terrifying, that the girls all called her "Lucifer."
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Jack's mother and their priest, Father Malachy, are very close friends, so much that Jack even addresses them as "Brad and Angelina" at one point. More often than not, Father Malachy takes Jack's mother's side of an argument, and Jack's mother herself relied on Father Malachy's emotional support after her years at a Magdalene laundry.
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Evil Teacher
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Evil Teacher: Professor Eugene Gorman is a drama Professor moonlighting as a Serial Killer.
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Russian Roulette
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Russian Roulette: Billy Cassell uses this against Jack to intimidate him into giving up Geraldine's diary. Good thing Jack relents, because the last spin fired a round. But then Jack steals it back.
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Tagalong Kid
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Tagalong Kid: Initially, Cody to Jack.
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Disproportionate Retribution: In the very first episode, "The Guards," we see what leads Jack to get fired: he assaulted a cabinet minister whom he caught speeding. In one of Geraldine's diary entries in "The Magdalen Martyrs," she, Mary Catherine, and another friend are caught after curfew under their covers... eating chocolate. Lucifer punishes Geraldine and Mary Catherine by having the two recite Hail Marys while they watch the third friend stand outside in the rain. The third girl dies from hypothermia and Lucifer covers up her death as a runway.
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Psycho Lesbian
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Psycho Lesbian: Jack accuses Rita Monroe of wielding psychological and physical torment on the girls at the Magdalene laundry to quell her own lust.
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Cigarette Burns
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Cigarette Burns: Before Mary Catherine left St. Monica's laundry, Lucifer, the nun told her that she hadn't thought of getting a farewell present for Mary Catherine, but would think of something. Said present turned out to be a cigarette burn on her neck.
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The girls at St. Monica's Magdalene laundry called a particularly sadistic nun "Lucifer."
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Pedophile Priest
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The priest from "Priest," who as it turns out was a Pedophile Priest.
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Forbidden Friendship
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Forbidden Friendship: Kate Noonan's friendship with Jack is mostly kept under wraps because she doesn't want to compromise her promising career as a Garda. Indeed, at one point she was put on probation for helping him.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: Geraldine, the mother of the client from "The Magdalen Martyrs," after years of psychological trauma at a Magdalene laundry. Rita Monroe kills herself via carbon monoxide poisoning, after Jack exposes her as Lucifer, two of her nephews have been murdered, and a third is about to suffer the same fate.
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Babies Ever After
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Babies Ever After: Averted in "The Magdalen Martyrs." Despite finally leaving the torment at St. Monica's, Mary Catherine Taylor, née Kerrigan, may have found a husband and had a child, but her relationship with the latter deteriorated to the point that they can hardly look each other in the eye. Meanwhile, Geraldine McCarthy, née Cassell, also married and had two children, but her marriage fell apart and she was prone to self-mutilation, depression, and ultimately took her own life. Lucifer even gives a devastating Hannibal Lecture about this.
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Serial Killer
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Serial Killer: Trevor Lanpert has drowned several teenage girls in his bathtub, with recordings made of ten or more girls.
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Celebrity Paradox
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Celebrity Paradox: In "The Magdalen Martyrs," Jack asks Cody what he knew of the Magdalene laundries, and Cody replies that he's only seen the movie. Nora Jane Noone, who plays Kate Noonan, was one of the main characters in The Magdalene Sisters.
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The Alcoholic
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The Alcoholic: Jack Taylor. Throughout the series he drifts in and out of sobriety.
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Big Bad Friend
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Big Bad Friend: Sutton, Jack's boating friend, in "The Guards", is a blackmailer and eventual killer. In his own twisted way, he does seem to care about Jack, and feels legitimately betrayed by Jack when Jack confronts him over his involvement with Lanpert.
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
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In the very first episode, "The Guards," we see what leads Jack to get fired: he assaulted a cabinet minister whom he caught speeding.
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Villain with Good Publicity
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Villain with Good Publicity: "The Guards": Trevor Lanpert, an outwardly respectable businessman, is a serial killer who drowns teenage girls and films their demises. Jack's friend Sutton is a seemingly respectable artist, but commits blackmail and eventual murder. In "The Dramatist", Professor Eugene Gorman is a respected professor by day, serial killer of women by night.
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Kid Sidekick
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Kid Sidekick: Cody is treated like a child while assisting Jack in his cases. Lampshaded at one point when he's out of earshot.
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The Apprentice
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The Apprentice: Cody, fascinated by Jack's forays into private investigating, appoints himself as Jack's partner.
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Sinister Minister
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Sinister Minister: Lucifer, the nun who ran the St. Monica's Magdalen laundry. The priest from "Priest," who as it turns out was a Pedophile Priest.
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Revenge
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Revenge: Billy Cassell's motive as retribution for his mother and her time at St. Monica's.
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Soft-Spoken Sadist
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Soft-Spoken Sadist: Lucifer from "The Magdalen Martyrs" never needed to raise her voice to instill fear and loathing among her charges. Professor Gorman, from "The Dramatist", maintains an even tone of voice on a regular basis, even when committing acts of torture and murder.
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My Local
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My Local: The Crane Bar, which is also a Real Life location in Galway. It also serves as Jack's headquarters.
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Town with a Dark Secret
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Town with a Dark Secret: One episode features a Traveller community which is secretive and distrustful of Jack butting in.
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Snuff Film
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Snuff Film: In "The Guards", Respected businessman Trevor Lanpert drowns teenage girls and films them in his spare time. The fact that his victims are framed as suicides arouse the suspicions of the titular Jack Taylor, who is appalled to eventually discover the snuff films.
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Perma-Stubble
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Perma-Stubble: Jack has a consistent five o'clock shadow. Lampshaded by his mother, who asks why he never shaves.
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Protagonist Title: The series is named after the protagonist, Jack Taylor.
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Hannibal Lecture
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Hannibal Lecture: In "The Magdalen Martyrs," Lucifer gives a devastating one to Mary Catherine before her departure into the real world and a life of marriage.
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Nun Too Holy
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Nun Too Holy: In "The Magdalen Martyrs," one of Geraldine's diary entries is about Mary Catherine's departure from the laundry, and as they are saying their goodbyes, Lucifer walks in and spots a packet of cigarettes in Mary Catherine's luggage. She tells them that if they had been caught with tobacco before, they would have been punished, and then lights a couple up for herself and Mary Catherine.
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Friend on the Force
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Friend on the Force: Kate is a police ally to Jack. It's implied that she wants to be more than friends.
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Dark Secret
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Dark Secret: In "The Magdalen Martyrs," we find out that Jack's mother was in one of the Magdalene laundries run by the Catholic Church and suffered a lot of abuse and crippling guilt from turning away one of her friends when she needed help.
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