Director: Terry McDonough
Two detectives on opposite sides of the Atlantic chase the same nightmare in Damaged, a Chicago-to-Scotland thriller pairing Samuel L. Jackson with Vincent Cassel.
What is Damaged about?
Five years ago, Chicago detective Dan Lawson worked a string of brutal killings that went cold before he could close them. When a nearly identical pattern surfaces an ocean away in Scotland, Lawson is pulled off his own turf and sent to team up with local detective Glen Boyd, who's now facing a case that mirrors Lawson's unfinished one crime for crime. The two men clash immediately, different systems, different instincts, and very different ideas about how far to push a suspect. But as the body count climbs and the killer's methods start pointing toward a connection neither department wants to admit, Lawson and Boyd have to trust each other fast or watch the case slip away again. Racing against a suspect who seems to know exactly how each investigation works, the pair follow a trail through Glasgow's underbelly that forces Lawson to confront everything he thought he understood about the case that got away from him half a decade earlier.
Cast & crew
Samuel L. Jackson plays Lawson opposite Vincent Cassel as Boyd, with Kate Dickie, John Hannah, and Laura Haddock rounding out a cast split between Chicago and Scottish police circles.
Context & significance
Damaged leans on the transatlantic buddy-cop framework, using the culture clash between American and Scottish policing to sharpen the tension around a serial-killer case that spans two countries and five years. Much of the second half plays out across Glasgow's grittier corners, giving the Scottish setting real weight rather than treating it as a backdrop.
Where & how to watch
Damaged streams on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and subtitles, part of a catalog built for Persian-speaking audiences abroad. A free account is enough to start watching, and the film's page is fully readable without signing in.