Jesse Stone: Night Passage

Jesse Stone Night Passage is a 2006 American television mystery film directed by Robert Harmon and starring Tom Selleck, Saul Rubinek and Viola Davis. Based on the 1997 novel Night Passage by Robert B. Parkerthe first novel in the Jesse Stone seriesthe film is about a former Los Angeles homicide detective who is hired as the police chief of a small New England town and finds himself immersed in a series of mysteries. Filmed on location in Nova Scotia, the story is set in the fictitious town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Jesse Stone Night Passage is the second in a series of nine television films based on Parkers Jesse Stone novels. The film first aired on the CBS television network January 15, 2006.

Meanwhile, Hastings Hasty Hathaway Saul Rubinek, a wealthy banker and corrupt board of selectmen chair in Paradise, orchestrates the 50,000 payoff and termination of the previous police chief, Lou Carson Mike Starr, who has known about Hathaways money laundering operation. Carson accepts the payoff, planning to take his fishing pole and retire out west. Hathaway offered Jesse the position thinking that he was a drunk and a loser, who could easily be manipulated.Jesse arrives in Paradise and checks into the Paradise Motel. Following a night of drinking and another frustrating phone call with his exwife, Jesse shows up to his formal job interview intoxicated, but is still offered the job. Jesse is suspicious of why he is hired and why his predecessor retired. As the new police chief, Jesse takes over the Paradise Police Department, which consists of dispatcher Molly Crane Viola Davis and officers Luther Suitcase Simpson N Kohl Sudduth and Anthony DAngelo Vito Rezza. While responding to a domestic dispute, Jesse meets Joe Genest Stephen Baldwin, a thug who assists Boston gangsters in a money laundering operation and also provides muscle for Hathaway. Mrs. Genest Liisa RepoMartell has a restraining order against her husband, Joe. During the confrontation, Stone kicks Genest in the groin. ........

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