
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by a town council to become police chief of Paradise, MA, a small fishing town on Boston's North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from digging too deep into the town's secrets. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may be tied to a local domestic disturbance case, with connections to money laundering and murder involving some of the town's most affluent names as possible suspects.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy atmospheric small-town investigations centered on a damaged but perceptive lawman and layered civic corruption.
- Tone
- melancholic, tense, cerebral
- Payoff
- revelation, vindication
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- corruption, moral compromise, isolation, institutional power, redemption
- Setting
- contemporary, coastal New England town and affluent seaside community