
Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children. He loses heart and quits the movement and goes to London trying to leave the U.K. and start a new life. The IRA wants him back (he knows too much) and the local crime boss, Meehan, will only help him if he performs one last hit, on a rival crime boss. When Fallon does perform the hit, he is seen by a catholic priest. He refuses to kill an innocent again and must find a way to escape the police without killing the priest who can identify him.
Alan TalbotBarman
Ken SharrockGaskin, Special Branch
Bob HoskinsFather Michael Da Costa
Mickey RourkeMartin Fallon
Alan BatesJack MeehanFranc Roddam was going to direct, but left due to creative differences.
Billy Meehan:
I do what I fucking want, when I fucking want! I'm Jack Meehan's brother!
Continuity: At the beginning credit Liam Neeson is credited as Docherty. In most of the film everybody calls him Mulachy.
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