The Take: Meet the Characters

The Take: Freddie Jackson

Freddie Jackson is released from prison after serving four years on a bank robbery charge. It's 1984, and there's a lot about the modern age he doesn't understand, from Culture Club to the aerobics fad – but it doesn't matter.

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The Take: Jimmy Jackson

Jimmy Jackson is Freddie's cousin. He's meek and soft-spoken – he's the kind of guy who thinks the best way to run a robbery is to chat softly and quietly with a hostage instead of pistol whipping him.

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The Take: Maggie Summers

Maggie is determined not to end up like her drug-addled and lovesick sister Jackie.

She's in love with Jimmy, and is hoping to someday have a nice life and a house of her own to run.

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The Take: Jackie Jackson

Freddie's wife Jackie is a tortured soul.

Deeply in love with her man, but torn to pieces by his reckless lifestyle and chronic infidelity, Jackie's mantra – "This time things'll be different" – is the delusional catchphrase of women throughout time who are wedded to the criminal lifestyle.

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