Broken

Father Michael

Season 1, Episode 6 of 6

Father Michael confesses to Father Flaherty that he feels unsuitable as a priest, due to his painful flashbacks each time he celebrates the eucharist, and announces he will resign when his mother dies. Father Michael helps Chloe and her two teenage brothers, orphaned after their mother's suicide. Chloe angrily takes a sledge-hammer to the gambling machines to which her mother had been addicted. Father Michael fears she will end up in prison unless she stops her rampages, and therefore incites his parishioners to join in wrecking the machines. Police officer Andrew's truthful testimony in court convinces a jury that Helen's son Vernon had been unlawfully killed. Father Michael's mother dies and he conducts her funeral, where the support of the people he has saved reconciles him to his role as priest.

Previously Aired

Day
Time
Channel
10/11/2018
8 p.m.
10/12/2018
1 a.m.
2/23/2020
11:30 p.m.
7/24/2020
11 p.m.
7/25/2020
3 a.m.
7/22/2021
10 p.m.
7/23/2021
3 a.m.
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