Jigsaw has produced seven films for television in the BlackJack series in the last five years.
BlackJack is distributed by BBC Worldwide TV.
BlackJack – Sweet Science
Writer: Kristen Dunphy
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Justice means more than punishing those who commit crimes - it means never giving up the search for the truth. In his pursuit of long unsolved cases and answers for those left behind - Justice is Detective Jack Kempson's creed.
In 1992 a loving father was gunned down in front of his kids at their Saturday morning football game. The murder led to a series of underworld murders in what police assumed was a pay back killing.
12 years later, is it that the victim’s young sons witnessed his brutal death that they turn to crime themselves or was it that the police did nothing to solve his murder.
Jack is faced with a dilemma when he suspects the boys are involved in a string of daring robberies. He races to close the unsolved killing before the boys seek their own retribution.
BlackJack – In the
Money
Writer: Katherine Thomson
Director: Ian Watson
Justice means more than punishing those who commit crimes - it means never giving up on the search for the truth. In his pursuit of long unsolved cases and answers for those left behind, Justice is Detective Jack Kempson's creed.
A loving mother brutally murdered many years ago… now a long held family secret is revealed to Jack and in pursuing the truth, he uncovers a disturbing new murder plot. Is the real killer still roaming free?
Set against the seedy background of the Greyhound racing industry, BlackJack – In the Money probes the secrets of a family torn apart many years ago. In doing so, Jack’s daughter encourages him to reconnect with his own troubled family.
BlackJack – Ace Point
Game
Writer: Tim Pye
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Justice means more than punishing those who commit crimes - it means never giving up on the search for the truth. In his pursuit of long unsolved cases and answers for those left behind, Justice is Detective Jack Kempson's creed.
Kempson is ever dependent on Sam and Christine to drag his sorry-luddite-arse into the age of technology, while Sam is facing the choice of moving up in the force and leaving Jack in the dark ages.
Jack discovers a link between a series of unsolved rape cases. The case becomes more personal for Jack when it is revealed that one of the victims is the daughter of a former officer.
Jack must find the real rapist before the victims exact their revenge on the wrong man….and decide if the truth should prevail over the interests of innocent victims of a monster.
BlackJack – Dead Memory
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Tim Pye
A young woman goes missing in when her car breaks down late at night. Her body is found in a national park. The discovery sparks Sam Lawson to look at the reason she joined the police force in the first place – the disappearance of her friend Hannah some years ago. She was never found.
Jack Kempson picks up the pursuit of both cases and finds there are similarities between Hannah’s disappearance and the new murder. More worrying is that there may have been other girls who have fallen victim to the same killer.
Driven by the desperation of Hannah’s father, Kempson ploughs on - treading on many toes including Sam’s. Through an exploration of the relationship between fathers and daughters, we learn about the tenuous grasp we all have on happiness.
BlackJack – Ghosts
Director: Kate Woods
Writer: Shaun Micallef
20 years ago a young mother was killed during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. It comes to Jack’s attention that dodgy police work at the time may have resulted in the wrong man doing time. Kempson runs the gauntlet of officialdom to convince the department there’s value in “unsolving” a murder, only to become a pawn in a sting operation involving drugs, stolen money and crooked cops.
BlackJack – At the
Gates
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Katherine Thomson
Jack is drawn into the disturbing world of religious fanatics when the mother of a baby killed 10 years ago in a house firem comes to him for help. In looking for the truth Jack will have to fight the system and his own conscience only to uncover a tangled web of lies and deception. Jack must decide if the truth should prevail over the interests of the innocent.