Episode 2
Following last week’s encouraging performance in their first game, Philly and Rory are feeling more confident. They think in a game of sevens (football) the lads can compete but then the governor drops a bombshell. The prison officers want the game to be 15-a-side.
In addition to this, two of the ten lads are being transferred to an open prison. It is not going well. Philly and Rory feel the lads are not taking responsibility for their actions which led them to being incarcerated in prison in the first place. Philly decides to bring a victim of crime into Mountjoy to meet the team and to give them some uncomfortable home truths. With the team struggling to find any more players in prison Rory has an idea on how to recruit more players, but he needs the governor to give the team temporary release for an afternoon. Philly and Rory have organised a challenge game against a team of ex-prisoners and staff from the Solas care after-prison group. Could these ex-prisoners be the perfect role models and teammates for Mountjoy’s Mean Machines?
