0:00:02 > 0:00:03You are this close to extinction.
0:00:03 > 0:00:06I'm the only reason you're allowed to carry on existing,
0:00:06 > 0:00:07so get used to me, Billy.
0:00:07 > 0:00:12- Well, I can't get a visitor's order. - Why?- Because David won't ask for one.
0:00:12 > 0:00:15Probably it's too upsetting for him to see you.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17Do you want a career prosecuting
0:00:17 > 0:00:21or the odd bone tossed your way by a clerk running Shoe Lane on booze and bullshit?
0:00:21 > 0:00:25I've got Nicola at the CPS all set to make you her main man.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28- I can't be only a lawyer, Clive. - But, Martha...- Will you just leave me alone?
0:00:58 > 0:01:01SIREN WAILS
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Look at that, Jake.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Heritage to die for.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Absorb and aspire.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Elizabeth I was here, Jake,
0:01:26 > 0:01:30the third-greatest virgin of all time.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33- Who are the...? - The Madonna and Madonna.
0:01:33 > 0:01:34HE CHUCKLES
0:01:34 > 0:01:37Maybe she stood right here, Jake.
0:01:37 > 0:01:38Hm?
0:01:38 > 0:01:40And her thoughts?
0:01:40 > 0:01:44"Who comes after me? I'm childless.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48"To whom do I bequeath my throne and isle?"
0:01:50 > 0:01:52There comes a time, Jake,
0:01:52 > 0:01:56when a man in my position has to turn his thoughts to legacy.
0:02:00 > 0:02:05Our two greatest inventions are today incorporated in one woman.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10Law and football.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13You all set, miss? Oi!
0:02:13 > 0:02:16- Wahey! - Fancy a mortgage fraud, sir? Good.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Because I've got you one.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21PHONE RINGS
0:02:21 > 0:02:22Legacy.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Le-ga-cy.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27- (Legacy.) - How do you spell it, Jake?
0:02:27 > 0:02:30- I-T...boom! - JAKE CHUCKLES
0:02:34 > 0:02:36- Jesus Christ.- Oh, my God.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38What's up, Beth? Oh, time of the month?
0:02:38 > 0:02:41- Out of her nose, Billy?- Well, it's hard being a woman, John.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45Right, no team colours today, boys. Today we are neutral.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49- But we're West Ham.- And we will be again. But for now...we're Swiss.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51- Swiss?- Neutral.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53We have a visitor this morning. You all right, Beth?
0:02:53 > 0:02:55I tell you what, why don't you take the day off?
0:02:55 > 0:02:58No, what is it? It's a week, isn't it, basically, give or take?
0:02:58 > 0:02:59No, I'm fine. Really.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Oh, I love women!
0:03:01 > 0:03:03- Hello, miss.- Billy, a word?
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Yes, miss.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11BIRDSONG
0:03:13 > 0:03:16- I was thinking of giving up. - So was I.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Got down to two lighters a day.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21But what's a life without vices?
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Mm.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Talking of which, I'm off to Bury St Edmunds, Billy,
0:03:25 > 0:03:27to avenge the newly molested of Suffolk.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31- Then the molesters will soon regret their molesting, miss. - There's the thing.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34- Miss?- I'm back on sex, Billy.
0:03:34 > 0:03:35And you so loved fraud.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38- It's a return, isn't it? - Yes, miss.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42- And whoever it's returned from is doing something bigger and better?- Yes, miss.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45I've been in silk six years. Sloppy seconds are a bit...
0:03:45 > 0:03:48I'm so glad we took you on at Shoe Lane, miss.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50It was touch and go for a while.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54There was a small concern about one of your vices getting out of hand.
0:03:54 > 0:03:58I was able to reassure them. "She'll be fine," I said.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00"I'll make sure of it."
0:04:02 > 0:04:05Beautiful cathedral in Bury,
0:04:05 > 0:04:09should you feel like a little purifying of the soul, miss.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Worth a visit.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17- Big day, miss. - It's only a con, Billy.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Legal and football history. My three raison d'etres.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23Jordan Sinclair elbowed Dean Trent in the face, breaking his jaw.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26- Jordan Sinclair here? - This very morning.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29- Sickening. There's no place for violence on a football pitch. - Thank you, Jake.
0:04:29 > 0:04:34Need any help, Marth? Only my grandfather played in goal for Port Vale. So, it's in the blood.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37- Mm. And, er...who do you support, Clive?- Chelsea.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40LAUGHTER So, er...not really in the blood, then.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42CLOCK CHIMES
0:04:43 > 0:04:47- Alan?- Martha.
0:04:47 > 0:04:48Not in court?
0:04:48 > 0:04:50No, legal conference.
0:04:50 > 0:04:55Most people would look forward to a couple of days at Hogwarts.
0:04:55 > 0:04:56But...
0:04:56 > 0:05:00Most people don't have a son with schizophrenia.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03I'm sorry.
0:05:05 > 0:05:11I've had lots of hugs from clients who've got off over the years,
0:05:11 > 0:05:13but none like the hug your son gave me.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17David wants help.
0:05:17 > 0:05:18Give it to him.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23The trial's listed for a week.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27Five days of famous footballers rubbing shoulders with Shoe Lane
0:05:27 > 0:05:28all over the front pages.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Me against Martha.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35Oh, um...Nicola wanted me to tell you, again,
0:05:35 > 0:05:37just how talented she thinks you are.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40- I didn't, by the way.- Mm-hm.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Ah!
0:05:42 > 0:05:46There you go, sir - one big, fat mortgage fraud.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48It clashes.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50- With?- Prosecuting Jordan Sinclair.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53- Oh. Yeah.- You didn't know?
0:05:53 > 0:05:56- Yeah, yeah. Must have just... - Slipped your mind?- Yeah.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58BILLY CHUCKLES
0:06:03 > 0:06:06I'm withdrawing my offer of help.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Ah, no, I didn't mean it about Chelsea. They're a lovely football club.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12- Who's your second favourite team?- I'm prosecuting you.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15Right.
0:06:15 > 0:06:16- Sinclair?- Yep.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18SHE CHUCKLES Right.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20It's Manchester City, isn't it?
0:06:20 > 0:06:23- Your second team?- I was going to ask you - want to go for a drink later?
0:06:23 > 0:06:25We probably shouldn't if we're against each other.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28- There's that bar in Exmouth Market that's got table football. - SHE SNORTS
0:06:28 > 0:06:31- Imagine if the press got hold of it. - Miss? Your client's here.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33(He's gorgeous.)
0:06:33 > 0:06:36- Oh, and this is Amy, the new pupil.- Hi.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37- Hello.- She's roaming.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40- Not attached to anyone in particular.- So, up to you.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42We're against each other in the same trial.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Who do you want to be with?
0:06:44 > 0:06:48I think that's an unfair question, don't you? How is she supposed to decide?
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Would you like to meet Jordan Sinclair?
0:06:55 > 0:06:57PHONE RINGS
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Harriet! A word.
0:07:10 > 0:07:11Billy?
0:07:11 > 0:07:13There are things you need to understand.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Whenever you talk to someone, you talk to me afterwards,
0:07:18 > 0:07:20because if I'm not in the loop, then we're dead in the water.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22That's a lot of metaphors.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26When you get silk, your caseload goes just like that,
0:07:26 > 0:07:29and all your old junior work goes to feed the huddled masses who missed out.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32I'm getting famine, death and violins, Billy.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36I'm killing myself to keep Clive Reader busy.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40- In the pub.- Where I got him a nice, big mortgage fraud.- So?
0:07:40 > 0:07:44When I come back and find that Clive Reader is already doing a case,
0:07:44 > 0:07:49all my work is wasted, and all because you didn't tell anyone!
0:07:49 > 0:07:52It's the 21st century. Computers do the talking.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56The case is in the system, logged and booked. You can see it on your phone, even in the pub.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58- You undermined me. - You went to the pub.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02Because if you're a serious clerk, that's what you do.
0:08:02 > 0:08:07Do you think I like doing what I do to my liver? I do it for chambers.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10So, all the clerks together, drinking selflessly,
0:08:10 > 0:08:13scribbling in diaries like you're all in Bleak House.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15I made two phone calls to Nicola at the CPS,
0:08:15 > 0:08:18got the brief, logged it on the system,
0:08:18 > 0:08:22and if we don't all start operating like that, then we're all dead.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24Oh...
0:08:24 > 0:08:28You don't have to be in the pub to see it on your phone,
0:08:28 > 0:08:31because, unlike you, it works without a drink.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37You're unique, Jordan,
0:08:37 > 0:08:40the first footballer in this jurisdiction to face criminal proceedings
0:08:40 > 0:08:42for something physical that happened on the pitch.
0:08:42 > 0:08:46You elbowed Dean Trent in the face, and they throw the kitchen sink at you.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49- Why me?- Wrong question.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51We won't be going anywhere near the fairness issue.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Why's that?
0:08:53 > 0:08:59Because English juries have waited a very long time to try a footballer...
0:08:59 > 0:09:00TEXT ALERT ..for the kind of bad behaviour
0:09:00 > 0:09:03that everyone else goes to prison for.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07They look at you and your money...
0:09:07 > 0:09:10TEXTING ..and your attitude,
0:09:10 > 0:09:13and they say, "About bloody time!"
0:09:13 > 0:09:16- TEXTING - So, self-defence.
0:09:16 > 0:09:17Yeah, I knew he was coming.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20- KEYPAD CLICKS - Big lump like that. And I knew he was going to do me.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22- KEYPAD CLICKS - And that's when your elbow...
0:09:22 > 0:09:26- Yeah. Self-protection. - PHONE BEEPS
0:09:26 > 0:09:30"I've done your mum and I'm going to do you." Trent was threatening you earlier.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33- I went to take a throw-in and he was off the bench, warming up. - TEXT ALERT
0:09:33 > 0:09:35And?
0:09:35 > 0:09:39Well, he gave me the ball, which was a bit weird, cos they were 1-0 up and in no hurry...
0:09:39 > 0:09:40KEYPAD CLICKS
0:09:40 > 0:09:42..but as he did, he said that thing about my mum.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45KEYPAD CLICKS And he smiled as he did it?
0:09:45 > 0:09:47There's cameras everywhere. He's not stupid.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49- KEYPAD CLICKS - And when he came on...
0:09:49 > 0:09:51- PHONE BEEPS - You won't know this. No disrespect...- Look,
0:09:51 > 0:09:53why don't you put your phone away and try me?
0:09:58 > 0:10:01There's a difference when an opponent's going to hurt you.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04You can sense 'em looking for the right kind of 50/50 challenge
0:10:04 > 0:10:05so they can break your leg.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08The right kind, meaning a tackle that can be made to look,
0:10:08 > 0:10:12what, clumsy or committed or wholehearted?
0:10:12 > 0:10:15And you can't know the difference unless you've been there and felt it.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18Now, did you do anything to provoke him?
0:10:18 > 0:10:19TEXT ALERT
0:10:19 > 0:10:22I mean, was there a moment when you made him feel, "You know what?
0:10:22 > 0:10:27"I really, really hate this cocky little bastard."
0:10:27 > 0:10:28PHONE BEEPS
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Well...after he came on, I did this trick.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Right, you know that...that drag-back thing that Johan Cruyff did?
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Well, I made a bit of a mess of it, actually,
0:10:36 > 0:10:39but it sort of worked and it made him look stupid.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43Players like Trent think that's taking the mickey.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45There's no call for skill like that in his book.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47He got angry and he started intimidating you?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51I know what you're saying.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53"Tell the jury that you were scared of Trent,
0:10:53 > 0:10:56"and it will help self-defence stand up better in court."
0:10:56 > 0:10:57Dean Trent...
0:10:57 > 0:10:59doesn't scare me.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Hm.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03PHONE RINGS Prison will.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08- PHONE RINGS - I need to take this.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11It must be important.
0:11:11 > 0:11:12DOOR SHUTS
0:11:15 > 0:11:18SHE CLEARS HER THROAT
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Sorry. He's...young.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25Yeah, and it's very hard for him earning 90 grand a week at his age.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28I mean, how much do you earn, Amy?
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Um...well, nothing.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Not yet.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Trent's a psycho.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39- But Madden doesn't let it get out. - His agent?
0:11:39 > 0:11:42No-one wants to hear it, because they're all in his pocket.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46So...so he and Trent share the same agent?
0:11:46 > 0:11:51They did, along with half of football, until he dropped him.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Why?
0:11:53 > 0:11:56Jordan wouldn't plead, and Madden wanted to protect Trent.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Who was that?
0:12:01 > 0:12:02No-one.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05- Yeah, but who was it?- Nobody.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08So, Jordan, who's more important in your life than me right now?
0:12:08 > 0:12:11My mum.
0:12:17 > 0:12:18Caroline?
0:12:19 > 0:12:20Yes?
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Anthony Ashton. Tony.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26- Sorry. Have we met? - Probably, in passing.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28We're against each other.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Oh, darling, I'm sorry.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33I didn't know.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Don't you start young these days?
0:12:40 > 0:12:42David, it's Dad.
0:12:42 > 0:12:47Er...they don't let you out of these places once you're in.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50So, I won't be around for a couple of days.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52But you can ring me and, um...
0:12:52 > 0:12:54OK. Bye.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04It's me again. Um...
0:13:04 > 0:13:06I love you.
0:13:07 > 0:13:08PHONE BEEPS
0:13:08 > 0:13:13So, why are you doing a bog-standard rape out in the sticks?
0:13:13 > 0:13:14I'm sorry?
0:13:14 > 0:13:16I wasn't expecting to be up against a silk.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20A favour to my senior clerk.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23I'm hoping sex leads to money.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26Hm. Much like Stacey Grant.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Really?
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Oh, please.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33A girl from the back office has a few too many, makes eyes at the boss,
0:13:33 > 0:13:37and then cries rape when he doesn't want to get engaged the next morning.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41A toast.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43To first impressions.
0:13:43 > 0:13:47If she looks like she'd drop her knickers for an alcopop,
0:13:47 > 0:13:50he may live to pull another day.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53If she turns up like Miss Jean Brodie at a job interview,
0:13:53 > 0:13:55you're as screwed as she was.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58I couldn't have put it better.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02I've been hearing those jokes for as long as I can remember.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05The reaction is like a litmus test.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09So, what does this one tell you?
0:14:09 > 0:14:12That you've never been up against a silk before.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Come on, we're off.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Oh, I can't. I'm in court.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Right. OK.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21- First time?- Yeah.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23What is it?
0:14:23 > 0:14:28Everything. Um...warrants, lots of shoplifting and no instructions.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30It's going to be fine.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Absolutely, yeah.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Um...what's a warrant?
0:14:34 > 0:14:38An arrest warrant's issued when someone fails to turn up at court.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Right, yeah.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44Now, listen. Just get the basics right. Everything else will follow.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Go and see your client, ask for instructions,
0:14:47 > 0:14:50and if you don't feel ready, get an adjournment.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52OK.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Don't rush, deep breaths...
0:14:54 > 0:14:57- Mm. - ..stand up for yourself.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59You'll be great.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Clive, read this.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13HE CHUCKLES
0:15:13 > 0:15:15- Are you staying? - Just for the kick-off.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19Nicola, listen. I've just got to say thank you for this brief. Honestly. It really means a lot.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23- My grandfather played for Port Vale, so it's in the blood. - Wow. Really? Wow.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Who do you support?
0:15:25 > 0:15:27- Chelsea.- Brilliant. Me too.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29HE CHUCKLES
0:15:29 > 0:15:32I'm just going to, um... My opponent.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34HE CHUCKLES
0:15:36 > 0:15:39- Bit senior to come to court. - Jealous, Marth?
0:15:40 > 0:15:44- What was she saying?- Oh, um...
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Six weeks before this incident,
0:15:55 > 0:15:59you go to a hotel, hire a suite, trash it,
0:15:59 > 0:16:01and the manager who tries to get you removed gets punched.
0:16:01 > 0:16:05- Yeah, that wasn't... - Ah, no, hang on. It gets better.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09Your agent, who is now giving evidence against you,
0:16:09 > 0:16:12takes out an injunction to stop it getting in the papers.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15I mean, why didn't you tell me?
0:16:15 > 0:16:17I cannot work in the dark.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19They said it couldn't be mentioned.
0:16:20 > 0:16:26From now on, you tell me everything and you say it as it is.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29OK?
0:16:29 > 0:16:32That wasn't how it looks. Right.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34I treated some mates from back home,
0:16:34 > 0:16:37only some of them got rowdy and people complained.
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Oh, how unreasonable of them(!)
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Well, it wasn't me. I tried to calm them down.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Then Madden paid off the hotel manager but only to be quiet about me.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47So, my mates got done, and I didn't.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50We fell out, they went to the papers, and Madden got an injunction.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52TEXT ALERT
0:16:53 > 0:16:55How do you feel about home?
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Do you miss it?
0:17:01 > 0:17:05You've come a long way fast.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12When I first came to London, it was in my early days at the Bar.
0:17:13 > 0:17:19I was frightened of everyone - judges, other barristers, clerks.
0:17:21 > 0:17:26So, I put on this kind of angry front to compensate.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30PHONE RINGS
0:17:39 > 0:17:40RINGING STOPS
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Thanks.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Mr Rankin?
0:17:50 > 0:17:52I'm Amy.
0:17:53 > 0:17:54- I'm Amy.- Yes.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Your barrister.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00HE PANTS
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Sort my warrants and my methadone.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Get my script, yeah?
0:18:05 > 0:18:07- Right. Script?- Yeah.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- Script?- Yeah.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Right.
0:18:11 > 0:18:12OK.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18How many warrants are there? And from where?
0:18:18 > 0:18:21Yeah. Methadone, yeah...
0:18:21 > 0:18:25Er...why did you fail to appear at court last time?
0:18:25 > 0:18:28Um...too ill.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30When was the last time?
0:18:30 > 0:18:33The 16th at Camberwell Green?
0:18:33 > 0:18:35Right.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37My methadone. Thanks.
0:18:37 > 0:18:38HE GRUNTS
0:18:38 > 0:18:40DOOR SLAMS
0:18:40 > 0:18:42I need a doctor.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Christopher Rankin. Cell four.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47He's been seen.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49- When? - This morning. Fit to attend court.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Yeah, but he's not well.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53- Has he collapsed?- No, but...
0:18:53 > 0:18:57Self-harm, suicide, vomiting, threats or fainting?
0:18:57 > 0:18:58No.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Then he's well.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Do I look like a social worker?
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Do I?
0:19:07 > 0:19:11- You can't use this. - Similar fact evidence. Shows how he loses his temper.
0:19:11 > 0:19:12It's never similar fact.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14I know.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16What?
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Your client's not talking to you, is he?
0:19:18 > 0:19:19- See you later, Clive.- Yeah.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23- We're doing all right, wouldn't you say?- Sorry?
0:19:23 > 0:19:26Keeping the professional and the personal separate.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32I just felt it.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36Bang on the side of my jaw, and I went down, sparko.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40Broken jaw, fractured cheekbone, lost three teeth.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43- You've seen the pictures. - You were hit by something?
0:19:43 > 0:19:46Jordan Sinclair's elbow.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48He waited for me and he flung it. I didn't even see it coming.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51- Was it thrown deliberately? - Er...don't lead.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Your Honour, I apologise. My learned friend is quite right.
0:19:56 > 0:19:57I'll rephrase the question.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59What were you thinking at the time?
0:20:01 > 0:20:03That it was deliberate.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Did you do anything to, er...provoke the attack?
0:20:08 > 0:20:09Nothing.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13You spoke to him from the touchline before you came on, when you were giving him the ball back.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15It was just banter.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20You've been a footballer at the very top level for over a decade.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Has anything like this ever happened to you before?
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Never. It's cowardly.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28Not what the game should be about. The game's better than that.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34So, a bottle of white wine...
0:20:34 > 0:20:37four cocktails, that you can remember,
0:20:37 > 0:20:39and six or maybe seven shots?
0:20:40 > 0:20:45- Yes.- You made it up, didn't you? Embarrassed and needing to save face.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48You've invented this rape allegation.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50No. I didn't. I didn't!
0:20:50 > 0:20:54Miss Grant, have you ever suggested that you weren't drunk?
0:20:54 > 0:20:57- Never.- Thank you.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59Could it have been more shots?
0:20:59 > 0:21:03Might it have been eight or nine?
0:21:06 > 0:21:08It could have been.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Thank you.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15MARTHA: "I've done your mum and I'm going to do you."
0:21:15 > 0:21:18- Do you recognise those words?- No.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21That's what you said to Jordan Sinclair, isn't it?
0:21:21 > 0:21:25Here's the ball, big smile, vicious insult.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29I wouldn't use a phrase like that. It's offensive.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33When were you coached on what to say in that witness box?
0:21:33 > 0:21:35I've not been coached.
0:21:35 > 0:21:41So, no sitting around discussing the evidence with, say, Ben Madden?
0:21:41 > 0:21:44I've not spoken to Ben about this.
0:21:45 > 0:21:50You turn questions round, don't you, into denials?
0:21:50 > 0:21:52I don't turn them round into denials.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56You threaten people you're playing against.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58I don't do threats.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02How did you feel when he did that Johann Cruyff trick on you?
0:22:02 > 0:22:0650,000 people in the ground. Millions on the telly.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Embarrassed, Mr Trent?
0:22:09 > 0:22:12- Humiliated? - I know what you're after.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16I wasn't wound up by him and I didn't try and use threats to control him.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Like I say, the game's better than that.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Ben likes that phrase, doesn't he?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22He's right.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24So, it WAS his phrase?
0:22:24 > 0:22:26He might have said it first.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30And you repeated it... but you weren't coached?
0:22:30 > 0:22:32No, I wasn't.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34I was elbowed.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37We need to nail Madden.
0:22:37 > 0:22:42Him and Trent are as tight as you like. He's more than just an agent.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45We need an angle. You said he's got journalists in his pocket?
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Yeah, loads.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52Tonight, find me a story about yourself that you can't explain,
0:22:52 > 0:22:54that got in the paper by magic.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58BIRDSONG
0:23:02 > 0:23:05I'm just very quietly tipping you off.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07I'm sorry?
0:23:07 > 0:23:10You've got a big decision to make.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Your shoulder is about to be tapped, as they used to say.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17How do you know?
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Terrible gossips, judges, when it comes to new colleagues.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Oh...
0:23:22 > 0:23:24- PHONE RINGS - Oh.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28David. It's Dad.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Yes, sorry, of course, you know it's Dad cos you're calling me.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Miss Grant was drunk, wasn't she?
0:23:36 > 0:23:38- FLINDERS:- She was. - Very drunk?
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Yes.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Unsteady? Red-eyed? Slurring?
0:23:43 > 0:23:44She was, yes.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48In fact, she'd drunk so much, she'd been sick on her dress.
0:23:48 > 0:23:53To be fair to you, that's the sort of witness we're dealing with, isn't it?
0:23:53 > 0:23:56I think it's important that we get that clear.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02And of all the women in that bar, she was the one you wanted to have sex with?
0:24:02 > 0:24:05The slurring, drunk, weepy one, who smelled of vomit?
0:24:05 > 0:24:08No, no, it wasn't like that. She was drunk, OK...
0:24:08 > 0:24:12And you chose her because of her drunken state, not despite it.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15She wasn't attractive, she was a mess.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17But she was vulnerable,
0:24:17 > 0:24:20and because of that, you hunted her down and you raped her,
0:24:20 > 0:24:22didn't you, Mr Flinders?
0:24:27 > 0:24:31- Um...Your Honour.- Madam.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34You are not wearing a wig, nor am I.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36This is not the crown court. You call me madam.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39Madam, um...
0:24:40 > 0:24:44..a number of pieces of information have come to light
0:24:44 > 0:24:47which, um...which mean I've been unable
0:24:47 > 0:24:50to take full instructions and I...I...
0:24:50 > 0:24:52You've had all day.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57But there have been, um...difficulties.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Let me give you some advice, Miss Lang.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Don't dress up what you say in court
0:25:02 > 0:25:06by making it sound like how you think lawyers are supposed to sound in court.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Try and sound like yourself, or your career won't work.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Plain speech, Miss Lang.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Can I have an adjournment, please?
0:25:15 > 0:25:17No.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21SHE RUSTLES PAPERS
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Um...
0:25:26 > 0:25:30Christopher Rankin, I've been told, is in need of a DIP and a PSR.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34An FDR is a possibility and maybe a DDR too.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37I don't know what they're on about and I'm the barrister.
0:25:38 > 0:25:42Mr Rankin, as a-a-a long-term heavy heroin user,
0:25:42 > 0:25:44finds it hard to take on board.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48Frankly, he finds it hard to take anything on board.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51He neither knows nor cares if it's day or night,
0:25:51 > 0:25:54or whether he's remanded in custody or released on bail.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58There are far too many lawyers in his life, madam, and not enough doctors.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- I'll adjourn this case for a week. - Thank you.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Thank you very much.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07And when you come back,
0:26:07 > 0:26:10as you insist you have insufficient instructions to proceed today,
0:26:10 > 0:26:13you can explain to the court in plain speech,
0:26:13 > 0:26:17why your solicitors should not pay the cost of today's hearing.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26I'm sorry I punched you in the face.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Can we be honest with each other?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32I like you, Jake.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38- I like you.- Yeah, but not the way that I like you.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41You're my friend. Let's not mess that up.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46We could try.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Let's not try to mess it up, OK?
0:26:55 > 0:26:57But one day I'll be...
0:26:58 > 0:26:59It's a family thing.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Billy and me.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Family.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10No, Jake. Billy's going to be here for ever.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Then it's going to be John or Harriet, not you.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Work, family.
0:27:15 > 0:27:16Not family, family.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28- You're winning, aren't you?- Sorry.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31Is it really awkward when celebrities come to chambers, and we send them to prison?
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Don't feel awkward, sir. It's me. It's unconditional.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Out of interest, why do you dislike Dean Trent?
0:27:36 > 0:27:41I'm West Ham, sir. We pass. We love players who can pass.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Dean Trent can't. He stops people passing.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47He's anti-football.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49I can't love him.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51- Night, sir.- Yeah, night.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00And the real reason? He didn't get you the brief.
0:28:00 > 0:28:05So, like the big child he can sometimes be, he's not on your side.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08What's going on?
0:28:08 > 0:28:12Word has it Alan Cowdrey's heading upstairs...the bench, full-time.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Right. Really?
0:28:14 > 0:28:18So, there'll be a vacancy for head of chambers.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22Another drink?
0:28:23 > 0:28:26William Lamb.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28Er...the results, please.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36The PSA is down? That's great! Thank you.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40Thank you. When...when do I have to come in for the next test?
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Great. OK. Thank you. Bye.
0:28:44 > 0:28:48Liverpool Football Club have played over 5,000 matches in their history.
0:28:48 > 0:28:53Only once ever have they come back from three goals down at half-time to win.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55- Istanbul.- Mm. The miracle of.
0:28:55 > 0:28:57So...
0:28:57 > 0:29:00Whatever Rafa Benitez said to them at half-time, that's you now.
0:29:00 > 0:29:02Oh, I'm a dumpy Spaniard?
0:29:02 > 0:29:05- HE LAUGHS - With a shot at ultimate glory.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08Are you all right, Billy?
0:29:08 > 0:29:10Yeah.
0:29:12 > 0:29:14To summarise, then, Mr Madden,
0:29:14 > 0:29:17Jordan Sinclair told you that he'd attacked Dean Trent deliberately,
0:29:17 > 0:29:19that Trent was history now,
0:29:19 > 0:29:23and that you should concentrate all your efforts on his career instead?
0:29:23 > 0:29:26He did, and I was shocked.
0:29:26 > 0:29:29Thank you.
0:29:29 > 0:29:31(Boom.)
0:29:31 > 0:29:34How long have you represented Dean Trent?
0:29:34 > 0:29:38Since he was a kid, more than a decade now.
0:29:38 > 0:29:41- Very successfully.- Very.
0:29:41 > 0:29:45And he has some huge sponsorship deals, doesn't he?
0:29:45 > 0:29:48You probably helped broker them?
0:29:48 > 0:29:51I think I did more than just help.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54And doubtless... they've got morality clauses in them?
0:29:54 > 0:30:00So, if he's found to, say, well, hurl foul abuse at someone
0:30:00 > 0:30:03or be publicly offensive,
0:30:03 > 0:30:06he'd be seen as toxic in the eyes of the people who pay him,
0:30:06 > 0:30:10and those contracts could be null and void?
0:30:10 > 0:30:13He didn't, though, did he?
0:30:13 > 0:30:16That's you, or Jordan, mud-slinging.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18I don't represent thugs.
0:30:18 > 0:30:24Your evidence about Jordan Sinclair inventing Dean Trent's threats
0:30:24 > 0:30:29is completely manufactured and self-serving.
0:30:29 > 0:30:30No.
0:30:30 > 0:30:34Your suggestion's a smear, and you know it.
0:30:34 > 0:30:37Sinclair admitted it to me, and I wasn't having it.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42Dean Trent's been with you a long time, hasn't he?
0:30:42 > 0:30:46He's seen you in action. Is it that he knows where the bodies are buried?
0:30:46 > 0:30:48Hm?
0:30:48 > 0:30:51Best keep him happy, because he knows everything,
0:30:51 > 0:30:55whereas Jordan Sinclair, new kid on the block, knows nothing?
0:30:55 > 0:30:58Look, I've got no bodies. You've got no defence.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01- Right pair, aren't we? - RIPPLE OF LAUGHTER
0:31:01 > 0:31:05If we could let Miss Costello ask the questions, Mr Madden?
0:31:06 > 0:31:09Last year, according to FIFA,
0:31:09 > 0:31:1328% of all transfer fees went to football agents.
0:31:13 > 0:31:17Footballers aren't the only people with agents, Miss Costello.
0:31:17 > 0:31:22If I broke the law, or told lies, and needed your services,
0:31:22 > 0:31:25I could contact Billy Lamb to negotiate your fee.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29Talented people need agents. Fact of life.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32But barristers prefer to call 'em clerks.
0:31:32 > 0:31:37Dean Trent's got one. You've got one. Same thing.
0:31:40 > 0:31:44Your Honour, if I could just take instructions for a moment?
0:31:44 > 0:31:46Please.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51I'm talking to you for effect. Nod.
0:31:53 > 0:31:54Did you find the story?
0:31:54 > 0:31:57Yeah, me out at four in the morning the night before a game,
0:31:57 > 0:31:59drinking and kissing some girl.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01And you couldn't explain it?
0:32:01 > 0:32:03- No, it didn't happen.- Sure?
0:32:03 > 0:32:06- I'm positive.- He's slippery.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08He is.
0:32:08 > 0:32:10- Well, two can play at that game. - Do it.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18Mr Madden, you keep stories out of the papers, don't you?
0:32:18 > 0:32:21You also put them there.
0:32:21 > 0:32:23I influence it.
0:32:23 > 0:32:25I can't control it.
0:32:25 > 0:32:32Have you ever given a journalist a smear story about Jordan Sinclair?
0:32:32 > 0:32:34Not that I can remember.
0:32:36 > 0:32:38Are you sure?
0:32:40 > 0:32:42Mr Madden?
0:32:45 > 0:32:52Maybe...once. Like I say, it's, er...my job to take care of things.
0:32:53 > 0:32:56You're smearing, I'm smearing?
0:32:56 > 0:32:58We're a right pair, aren't we?
0:33:01 > 0:33:04JOHN: 'Interesting, the two of them, Mr Reader and Miss Costello.'
0:33:04 > 0:33:07They're like cat and dog in court.
0:33:07 > 0:33:12- And?- Well, maybe not when they're outside.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14You know,
0:33:14 > 0:33:17- or...?- I just heard.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19You heard because you're a clerk.
0:33:20 > 0:33:24You hear things before people even say 'em.
0:33:24 > 0:33:29Is it awkward, if the cat-and-dog thing doesn't leave court with them?
0:33:29 > 0:33:33You see and then you try and work out what those silent moments might mean,
0:33:33 > 0:33:35whether it's good or bad.
0:33:35 > 0:33:37I think it's manageable.
0:33:37 > 0:33:40I don't think good or bad has to come into it.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42- Don't do it, John.- What?
0:33:42 > 0:33:46Shuffle papers, write business plans and all that bollocks.
0:33:46 > 0:33:49You're a clerk. Duck, dive, prosper.
0:33:49 > 0:33:51Don't waste your gift.
0:33:51 > 0:33:53Back you, not Harriet?
0:33:54 > 0:33:57When I go, I'm leaving Shoe Lane clerked.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59Not administered.
0:34:00 > 0:34:01Yeah?
0:34:07 > 0:34:09DOOR OPENS
0:34:27 > 0:34:31COURT CLERK: Will the foreman please stand?
0:34:31 > 0:34:33Will the defendant please stand?
0:34:34 > 0:34:37Have you reached a verdict upon which you are all agreed?
0:34:37 > 0:34:38- FOREMAN:- We have.
0:34:38 > 0:34:42On count one, that of rape,
0:34:42 > 0:34:47do you find the defendant, Gary Flinders, guilty or not guilty?
0:34:48 > 0:34:51- Guilty.- Thank you.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05I thought you were good with Madden.
0:35:05 > 0:35:07He's tough.
0:35:08 > 0:35:11We didn't hurt him enough.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13But, well, thank you.
0:35:13 > 0:35:15Well, I think you're being hard on yourself.
0:35:15 > 0:35:17I thought I was the one who gave the team talks.
0:35:17 > 0:35:19I'm just saying you stood up for me.
0:35:19 > 0:35:21Thank you.
0:35:22 > 0:35:25Jordan, it's my job.
0:35:25 > 0:35:30Now, when you go in the witness box, there is nothing I can do.
0:35:30 > 0:35:34So, if you want to thank me, help yourself.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36It's hard. You don't understand football.
0:35:38 > 0:35:43I used to go with my dad to Burnden Park, see Bolton...
0:35:45 > 0:35:50..and we used to talk about life through talking about football,
0:35:50 > 0:35:54and then I went to university, moved away, and he got ill...
0:35:56 > 0:36:00..and after going for four seasons every fortnight,
0:36:00 > 0:36:06we never went again, which meant we never spoke again, really.
0:36:07 > 0:36:10See, our common language had gone.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13So, no, I don't. I...I...you know,
0:36:13 > 0:36:18and I don't think I want to know about the business of it.
0:36:19 > 0:36:23But I do understand football and what it means.
0:36:24 > 0:36:26OK?
0:36:30 > 0:36:34Yeah, my dad used to watch me play when I was a kid,
0:36:34 > 0:36:36all the time, every week.
0:36:37 > 0:36:39And then he just left...
0:36:41 > 0:36:43..left us, me and my mum,
0:36:43 > 0:36:45didn't come back.
0:36:46 > 0:36:51And then I got signed, and then I got signed, like, big,
0:36:51 > 0:36:54and the money came, and I got a house and a car.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57Four cars.
0:36:57 > 0:36:58Mad.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03And then he came back or he tried to.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07My mum wouldn't have it. She said he wanted to know the money and not me.
0:37:10 > 0:37:12So, she made me choose.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15So, obviously I had to choose her, cos I owed her.
0:37:18 > 0:37:20I wish that was different.
0:37:28 > 0:37:31You know what? What Trent said...
0:37:32 > 0:37:35- About your mum.- Mm.
0:37:35 > 0:37:37It wasn't just that.
0:37:38 > 0:37:40What?
0:37:43 > 0:37:46Well, he...he said,
0:37:46 > 0:37:48"I've done your mum and I'm going to do you."
0:37:50 > 0:37:52And one more word.
0:37:56 > 0:37:57What was the word?
0:38:05 > 0:38:08About a year ago,
0:38:08 > 0:38:10er...I was...
0:38:10 > 0:38:12out with a friend.
0:38:14 > 0:38:16We left the bar...
0:38:20 > 0:38:23..and out of nowhere, from behind us...
0:38:25 > 0:38:27..there they were,
0:38:27 > 0:38:29screaming abuse.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34About ten of 'em.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36What did you do?
0:38:36 > 0:38:42Well, I can do about 10.4 on the 100 metres.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45And your friend?
0:38:51 > 0:38:52He's...
0:38:53 > 0:38:55..he's not so quick.
0:38:58 > 0:39:00What kind of bar?
0:39:07 > 0:39:10What was the abuse?
0:39:14 > 0:39:16What Trent said...
0:39:18 > 0:39:20..what was the word?
0:39:24 > 0:39:26Faggot.
0:39:29 > 0:39:33It's a very ugly word, but it's the 21st century.
0:39:34 > 0:39:37Is it such a terrible secret?
0:39:38 > 0:39:41It is if you're a footballer.
0:39:43 > 0:39:47Football's 21st century when it comes to money...
0:39:48 > 0:39:51..18th century when it comes to being gay.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57And Trent doesn't even know.
0:39:57 > 0:40:01It's just a normal insult in his world, you know.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05If you've got quick feet, you're a faggot.
0:40:05 > 0:40:08If you read the Guardian, you're a poof.
0:40:08 > 0:40:11If you go to the theatre, you're...you're queer.
0:40:13 > 0:40:17That's how his brain works. That's how football's brain works.
0:40:19 > 0:40:24I mean, if I get "faggot" when he doesn't even know...
0:40:27 > 0:40:29..what do I get when he does?
0:40:31 > 0:40:34Right, Manchester City because of their away kit, you know, the red and black stripes.
0:40:34 > 0:40:37And I was Chelsea a long time before the money came.
0:40:37 > 0:40:39Ah, the romance of football. HE SNORTS
0:40:41 > 0:40:43What's he like? Sinclair?
0:40:43 > 0:40:46Shall we stay away from talking about the case?
0:40:46 > 0:40:48No, I mean as a person.
0:40:48 > 0:40:49Well...
0:40:50 > 0:40:54..he's fond of his phone and his mum.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56You always end up liking them, don't you?
0:40:56 > 0:40:59Spoiled-brat footballers. Nasty armed robbers.
0:40:59 > 0:41:02Martha Costello sees the good side in everyone.
0:41:02 > 0:41:03You can't generalise like that.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05Oh, what? Not all armed robbers are horrible?
0:41:05 > 0:41:10Lots of Premiership footballers are kind, sensitive human beings?
0:41:10 > 0:41:14Not all Chelsea supporters are wilfully blind.
0:41:14 > 0:41:18Manchester City play very attractive football in a very attractive kit...
0:41:18 > 0:41:21and are still everyone's second-favourite team.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29- I'll see you in the morning.- OK.
0:41:35 > 0:41:38I love it, you know, how deep you go,
0:41:38 > 0:41:41how much passion and conviction you put into everything you do...
0:41:41 > 0:41:43when you've got a wig on.
0:41:51 > 0:41:54DOOR OPENS
0:41:54 > 0:41:56DOOR CLOSES
0:41:59 > 0:42:02I want you to listen very carefully...
0:42:03 > 0:42:06..and when I'm finished, I don't want you to say anything.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10You elbowed Dean Trent in the face,
0:42:10 > 0:42:15because you'd had enough of him and everything he stood for.
0:42:15 > 0:42:18There might have been a dangerous tackle coming your way,
0:42:18 > 0:42:21but that's not why you hit out.
0:42:21 > 0:42:23It's bigger than that.
0:42:23 > 0:42:25You hit out at the prejudice,
0:42:25 > 0:42:30ignorance and the silence that football demands from you.
0:42:32 > 0:42:36In law... Now, forget about life and fairness and justice.
0:42:36 > 0:42:39In law, that's an admission of guilt.
0:42:41 > 0:42:42So, if those were your instructions,
0:42:42 > 0:42:45I would have to advise you to plead guilty,
0:42:45 > 0:42:49in which case, being who you are,
0:42:49 > 0:42:51doing what you did...
0:42:52 > 0:42:53..you would go to prison.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00So, what do we do?
0:43:02 > 0:43:04You're the client. I'm the lawyer.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08Now I'm going to ask you,
0:43:08 > 0:43:11what are your instructions?
0:43:16 > 0:43:18He was going to hurt me.
0:43:20 > 0:43:22I feared for my safety,
0:43:22 > 0:43:27and although the results were regrettable...
0:43:28 > 0:43:30..my response was proportionate.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35I was...scared.
0:43:36 > 0:43:39I do listen sometimes, you know.
0:43:40 > 0:43:45- CLIVE:- Putting the extraordinary evolution of your defence to one side,
0:43:45 > 0:43:49and the change from "I ain't scared of him" in interview
0:43:49 > 0:43:52to fully fledged terror in the witness box,
0:43:52 > 0:43:55self-defence based on what?
0:43:57 > 0:44:00Maybe you thought a few lies,
0:44:00 > 0:44:04smearing the victim, blaming the agent, might provide the basis for it?
0:44:04 > 0:44:06Nobody else backs up your story, do they?
0:44:06 > 0:44:11Loads of people heard him threaten me. But nobody will speak out.
0:44:11 > 0:44:15What, so Dean Trent and Ben Madden can silence players,
0:44:15 > 0:44:18the coaching staff and the whole of the media,
0:44:18 > 0:44:20- can they?- Yes, and they do.
0:44:21 > 0:44:25Er...you invented a story...
0:44:25 > 0:44:28about Dean Trent abusing your mother.
0:44:29 > 0:44:32Where would you get something like that from?
0:44:32 > 0:44:35I haven't got it from anywhere. It's true.
0:44:35 > 0:44:38Well, even if it is true, it wouldn't have scared you, would it?
0:44:39 > 0:44:42- It would make you angry.- No.
0:44:42 > 0:44:45Dean Trent was going to hurt me.
0:44:45 > 0:44:48I felt threatened, so I defended myself.
0:44:48 > 0:44:50Nonsense. You were angry.
0:44:50 > 0:44:53Right, come on, then, what...
0:44:53 > 0:44:56what did he say or do
0:44:56 > 0:44:58that scared you?
0:45:01 > 0:45:02What?
0:45:03 > 0:45:06Is this where it all falls apart?
0:45:11 > 0:45:13Jordan? Anything?
0:45:14 > 0:45:17Anything at all?
0:45:18 > 0:45:21I won't let him win.
0:45:23 > 0:45:25HARRIET: Clive.
0:45:25 > 0:45:28I've, um...I've drafted a press release.
0:45:28 > 0:45:30- What for? - Well, there'll be publicity.
0:45:30 > 0:45:33One trip out in silk, and one win. I can trade on that.
0:45:33 > 0:45:35I'm not done yet. I've still got a speech to do.
0:45:35 > 0:45:38It's a draft. It can sit and wait, like Jordan Sinclair.
0:45:38 > 0:45:41Only it'll be released tomorrow, and he won't.
0:45:42 > 0:45:45- Seems a bit premature. - We own the story.
0:45:45 > 0:45:48The story doesn't own us. It's about communication.
0:45:50 > 0:45:52I didn't do enough yesterday.
0:45:54 > 0:45:55No.
0:45:57 > 0:46:01- And they have to believe I was scared?- Yes.
0:46:01 > 0:46:03What if...
0:46:03 > 0:46:06What if there's someone who can explain why I was scared?
0:46:08 > 0:46:11- Why didn't you say? - Well, he's gagged.
0:46:11 > 0:46:13He's signed away his right to speak out.
0:46:13 > 0:46:17Uh-uh-uh. In there, in court, democracy.
0:46:17 > 0:46:21If the judge says they can talk, they can talk.
0:46:21 > 0:46:23Who is it, Jordan?
0:46:25 > 0:46:29- I want to call another witness. - What? Now?
0:46:30 > 0:46:31- Who?- A footballer.
0:46:31 > 0:46:34It's just a character witness, OK?
0:46:34 > 0:46:36Clutching at straws, Martha?
0:46:37 > 0:46:41MARTHA: Your Honour, the defence calls Tom Stephenson.
0:46:41 > 0:46:43LOW CHATTER
0:46:48 > 0:46:50Mr Stephenson,
0:46:50 > 0:46:53on the day this incident took place,
0:46:53 > 0:46:56um...could you tell the court where you were?
0:46:56 > 0:47:01I was in the dugout, next to Dean Trent. We were warming up on the touchline.
0:47:01 > 0:47:03(You said he was a character witness.)
0:47:03 > 0:47:05He is, the character of football.
0:47:05 > 0:47:08- JUDGE BARNABY:- Miss Costello?
0:47:08 > 0:47:10Your Honour.
0:47:10 > 0:47:13And it's agreed that, at some stage,
0:47:13 > 0:47:17Jordan Sinclair came over to take a throw.
0:47:17 > 0:47:19Did you hear anything?
0:47:19 > 0:47:22Trent just started at him. The usual stuff.
0:47:22 > 0:47:26Abuse about his mum. His usual routine.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28Is Dean Trent often abusive?
0:47:28 > 0:47:30Dean Trent is always abusive.
0:47:32 > 0:47:35Now, what was your view of the incident at the heart of this case?
0:47:35 > 0:47:40- He tried to do him, tried to break his leg.- Why?
0:47:40 > 0:47:43He's jealous. Jordan is the future.
0:47:43 > 0:47:45He can pass. He's got good feet.
0:47:45 > 0:47:49Trent's the past. He's all blood and thunder. He can't play.
0:47:49 > 0:47:55Jordan plays like he's Spanish. Trent plays like an Englishman in the 1950s.
0:47:55 > 0:47:57And are you the only one who thinks like this?
0:47:57 > 0:48:00Of course not. They all do.
0:48:00 > 0:48:02They're all scared of him cos he's a bully.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04Even the club's scared.
0:48:04 > 0:48:07If they upset him, Madden will cut 'em out of transfers in the future.
0:48:07 > 0:48:09It's a stitch-up.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11And will you be part of that future?
0:48:11 > 0:48:12No.
0:48:12 > 0:48:14My knee's gone.
0:48:14 > 0:48:16What happened?
0:48:16 > 0:48:18Dean Trent happened.
0:48:19 > 0:48:23We had an argument before training, and then he said he'd do me, and he did.
0:48:24 > 0:48:28But the press won't print it, so the public don't know it.
0:48:28 > 0:48:32But the players talk. We all know.
0:48:41 > 0:48:44Five years in the limelight and then oblivion.
0:48:46 > 0:48:49One more big headline, now you're finished?
0:48:49 > 0:48:52Well, I didn't think I was allowed to talk about it until yesterday,
0:48:52 > 0:48:55because I'd signed this.
0:48:55 > 0:48:57They said I'd never be able to discuss it.
0:48:57 > 0:49:00But in here, it might be OK.
0:49:00 > 0:49:02Might I take a look?
0:49:10 > 0:49:12Very interesting.
0:49:12 > 0:49:15It would appear, Mr Stephenson,
0:49:15 > 0:49:19that, standing there, you can indeed talk about it.
0:49:19 > 0:49:21LOW CHATTER
0:49:21 > 0:49:23So, that's a financial arrangement you've reached?
0:49:23 > 0:49:27A bit of the commercial stuff you... you claim to dislike so much?
0:49:27 > 0:49:29Dean Trent said, "I'll do you, you bastard,"
0:49:29 > 0:49:32and then broke my leg in training.
0:49:32 > 0:49:34Madden made the club keep it quiet,
0:49:34 > 0:49:37so they paid me off, some on the top,
0:49:37 > 0:49:39just so I'd sign a confidentiality clause,
0:49:39 > 0:49:41so nobody would see what Trent's like.
0:49:41 > 0:49:47But, standing here, I can talk about it, and he can't stop me,
0:49:47 > 0:49:49and that's killing him, trust me.
0:49:51 > 0:49:54A press release?
0:49:54 > 0:49:56- Are you for real?- It's a draft.
0:49:56 > 0:49:59- It leaked.- How?
0:49:59 > 0:50:01I've spent 20 years building Clive Reader.
0:50:01 > 0:50:04Five minutes after he gets silk, you make him look stupid.
0:50:04 > 0:50:08- But how did it get out? - I don't care!
0:50:08 > 0:50:10I'm not the idiot who wrote it!
0:50:10 > 0:50:15You don't understand. It's about winning. It's all about winning!
0:50:31 > 0:50:34So, it just magically got out?
0:50:35 > 0:50:38You play the hand you've got, John.
0:50:38 > 0:50:39It's called clerking.
0:50:44 > 0:50:46BACKGROUND CHATTER
0:50:48 > 0:50:52TANNOY: 'Will all parties in Sinclair please go to Court 1?'
0:50:58 > 0:51:03If it's guilty, I promise I'll try and keep you out on bail until sentencing.
0:51:05 > 0:51:07- JUDGE:- The jury in, please.
0:51:15 > 0:51:19- COURT CLERK:- Would the foreman please stand?
0:51:19 > 0:51:21Would the defendant please stand?
0:51:23 > 0:51:28On count one, that of grievous bodily harm with intent,
0:51:28 > 0:51:31have you reached a verdict on which you are all agreed?
0:51:31 > 0:51:33- FOREWOMAN:- We have.
0:51:33 > 0:51:37Do you find the defendant Jordan Sinclair
0:51:37 > 0:51:39guilty
0:51:39 > 0:51:41or not guilty?
0:51:44 > 0:51:46PHONE RINGS
0:51:47 > 0:51:50Oh, yes.
0:51:50 > 0:51:52- Yes. - PHONE BEEPS
0:51:52 > 0:51:54Yes. Yes.
0:51:54 > 0:51:56Top class.
0:51:56 > 0:51:59Top bloody class.
0:52:11 > 0:52:13DOOR OPENS
0:52:16 > 0:52:19MARTHA: So, what now? DOOR CLOSES
0:52:19 > 0:52:22You can play again.
0:52:22 > 0:52:24If I want to.
0:52:25 > 0:52:27Do you?
0:52:28 > 0:52:33Well, if I play, I can't be me, and I've made enough to leave it behind.
0:52:34 > 0:52:37- You'd give it up?- Maybe.
0:52:37 > 0:52:40I've been someone else since I was 15.
0:52:42 > 0:52:44I want to find out...
0:52:45 > 0:52:47..who I am.
0:52:51 > 0:52:54- Thank you.- A pleasure.
0:53:02 > 0:53:06I sounded off like a ranting idiot and I'm going to get costs awarded against me.
0:53:06 > 0:53:09Sounding off sounds good to me.
0:53:11 > 0:53:14- Billy.- You hid from me.
0:53:14 > 0:53:16- I'm sorry. I... - And we never hide, miss.
0:53:16 > 0:53:19I told her to ask for an adjournment.
0:53:19 > 0:53:21It's my fault, Billy, and I'll speak to the solicitor.
0:53:21 > 0:53:24I've spoken to her. It's sorted.
0:53:24 > 0:53:26Your pupil took your advice, miss.
0:53:26 > 0:53:29She was brave enough to tell the judge too,
0:53:29 > 0:53:32and if there's costs to be paid, I'll pay them.
0:53:33 > 0:53:37Now, get your learned pupil mistress a proper drink
0:53:37 > 0:53:41to celebrate a proper result.
0:53:41 > 0:53:44- Are you not joining us? - Places to be, miss.
0:53:44 > 0:53:46Manana.
0:53:46 > 0:53:49- Do you mind if I...? - Yeah, go home.
0:53:50 > 0:53:52Take that for a taxi.
0:53:54 > 0:53:56Thank you.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13No hard feelings?
0:54:13 > 0:54:16- Character witness?- Yeah, well...
0:54:16 > 0:54:18You tricked me.
0:54:18 > 0:54:21Actually, you lied to me.
0:54:21 > 0:54:24I thought we could leave court in court, you and me.
0:54:24 > 0:54:28Exactly. Trial's over. You'll never see Jordan Sinclair again. Nor will I.
0:54:28 > 0:54:32So, now you can tell me what was going on with him. Wigs are off. Talk to me, Martha.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34I can't.
0:54:34 > 0:54:36You know what? I'll see you later.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38I said I can't tell you, Clive.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40Your clients come first every time.
0:54:40 > 0:54:44They always have. But where are they, Martha? Here with you now?
0:54:44 > 0:54:46Or are you on your own?
0:55:08 > 0:55:09FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:55:12 > 0:55:13Hello, sir.
0:55:13 > 0:55:16The best days stay in your head.
0:55:16 > 0:55:18Sharp.
0:55:18 > 0:55:22- They don't fade.- Mm. You've had a few of those, sir.
0:55:22 > 0:55:24I've had my shoulder tapped.
0:55:27 > 0:55:30Congratulations...I think.
0:55:30 > 0:55:32GLASS CLINKS
0:55:32 > 0:55:35If being a judge for the rest of your career is what you want.
0:55:35 > 0:55:38It's time, Billy.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41I need to be there for David... and myself.
0:55:41 > 0:55:45- Do one thing for me, sir. - What's that?
0:55:45 > 0:55:47Be sure...
0:55:47 > 0:55:49before you jump.
0:55:49 > 0:55:51Be very, very sure.
0:55:51 > 0:55:53For your sake.
0:55:54 > 0:55:56I've loved being head of chambers, Billy.
0:55:56 > 0:55:59I love this place. Always will.
0:56:00 > 0:56:03But things change.
0:56:03 > 0:56:05Things...happen.
0:56:07 > 0:56:11We'll miss you...sir.
0:56:15 > 0:56:17You'll always be Shoe Lane, sir.
0:56:18 > 0:56:21Wherever you go, whatever you do.
0:56:23 > 0:56:24Thank you, Billy.
0:56:25 > 0:56:27Good night.
0:56:27 > 0:56:29Good night, sir.
0:56:39 > 0:56:42- SLURRED SPEECH:- I've never seen him round our house at Christmas.
0:56:42 > 0:56:44Who?
0:56:44 > 0:56:46John.
0:56:46 > 0:56:49- What?- It's a time for family.
0:56:51 > 0:56:55Christmas. He should have been there.
0:56:57 > 0:57:00More family than me.
0:57:00 > 0:57:02Who's been talking, Jake?
0:57:03 > 0:57:06Everyone.
0:57:07 > 0:57:09- Except me.- You're drunk, mate.
0:57:09 > 0:57:11- You need to get home.- Yeah.
0:57:11 > 0:57:16I'll leave you here... with your family.
0:57:16 > 0:57:18I'll get you a cab.
0:57:18 > 0:57:20I've got my Oyster.
0:57:26 > 0:57:28It's all right for you, isn't it?
0:57:30 > 0:57:31You'll be here for ever.
0:57:33 > 0:57:35DOOR SHUTS
0:57:38 > 0:57:39It's going to be tough for me, Marth.
0:57:39 > 0:57:41Did you know about this?
0:57:41 > 0:57:45- BILLY:- 'I just don't feel like a man.'
0:57:45 > 0:57:47I'm just sick of us always being against each other.
0:57:47 > 0:57:49How dare you do that to my husband?
0:57:49 > 0:57:51- What are you saying?- You're in.
0:57:51 > 0:57:55There is one thing I'll be asking for in return.
0:57:55 > 0:57:57Facts and figures. Everything you need to know
0:57:57 > 0:57:59to become the next head of chambers.
0:57:59 > 0:58:00We appreciate smart young clerks
0:58:00 > 0:58:03who've got the nose to get out there and sniff out the new work.
0:58:03 > 0:58:06I'll tell you what, I'll even throw in a new suit.
0:58:06 > 0:58:08So...?