Anxious People

Jack is a young cop driven by the desire to save people. This desire first arose when he was a young boy and witnessed the death of a man who jumped off a bridge, and it’s perpetuated by his inability to save his heroin-addicted sister. He respects his father Jim, who is also a cop, but his approach to life and work is vastly different from his father’s. He is lonely and desires genuine connection, but he’s too wrapped up in his work to pursue friendship or romantic relationships. Though offered a promotion, jack rejects because it would mean moving away and leaving his father alone. Since his mother died and his sister is living far away and addicted to heroin, he can’t bring himself to abandon his father.

Jack’s desire to save and help reaches a turning point when he learns that his father helped the bank robber escape. Though Jack struggles with this turn of events, he also sees helping the female bank robber as a way of helping his sister, and Jack even uses this lesson to motivate him to go find his sister and once again try helping her stay clean. Once defined by rules and guilt, Jack becomes a person who sees life in more than just good versus bad terminology.