0:00:02 > 0:00:03Brave, strong, surrounded by men, saying no to all of them.
0:00:03 > 0:00:05- Whose are these?- Came for you, miss. Grateful client, maybe?
0:00:05 > 0:00:07All right, Mar? I was passing and I thought,
0:00:07 > 0:00:11"What happened to the girl that broke my teenage heart?"
0:00:11 > 0:00:13Who was that? Mr Mysterious?
0:00:14 > 0:00:15Sean McBride.
0:00:15 > 0:00:19You give me what I want and I'll give you what you want.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21I'd like to make an official complaint against Billy.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24I will not take lectures in chambers politics
0:00:24 > 0:00:26from a man who took backhanders from Micky Joy,
0:00:26 > 0:00:28the most corrupt solicitor of all time.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Look, come on, Clive. Nobody's listening.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33- You don't think I'd be honest with you?- I wouldn't believe you.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36- What's he look like, then, flower man?- Tall, dark...Northern.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Ready?
0:01:20 > 0:01:21OK.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Sorry, can you...stop?
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Please. Hello? Stop it.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45Can you stop, please?
0:01:46 > 0:01:48GATE CLICKS AND BUZZES
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Sorry.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54I'm sorry. I'm so...
0:02:03 > 0:02:05KEYS JINGLE
0:02:06 > 0:02:08BOLT CLICKS
0:02:09 > 0:02:11KEYS JINGLE
0:02:13 > 0:02:15CLEARS THROAT
0:02:19 > 0:02:20HE SIGHS
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Hello, Sean.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30HE TUTS
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Are you OK?
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Don't drink it.
0:02:50 > 0:02:51Mr Lamb?
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Please come with me, sir.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Bastard looked at his watch. At his watch!
0:03:06 > 0:03:10It's a flat rate for police station attendance,
0:03:10 > 0:03:13so it doesn't matter how long you're there, money's still the same.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16So even though you're a really big murder,
0:03:16 > 0:03:18there is no incentive for him to stay.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22- He said to go no comment.- No comment halves interview time.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Now, did you go no comment?
0:03:24 > 0:03:26No.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Bananas are a working-class fruit.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33Did you know that?
0:04:37 > 0:04:40HE SIGHS
0:04:40 > 0:04:41What is all this, Micky?
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Empire food, by the boatload, for the masses.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47Let 'em eat bananas.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51I don't know about you,
0:04:51 > 0:04:55but out on my cliff edge, I feel alive for the very first time.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00- How do you know about me? - I've been taking an interest.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02You read Dickens?
0:05:03 > 0:05:06No? Then get a bloody move on.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10It amazes me, the complacency of our species.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12"We're here for ever," people seem to think.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15"I'll just have another quiet pint and a doze."
0:05:17 > 0:05:19What are you doing?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21What are you all doing?!
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Technically, I'm on bail. It's just I can never leave.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31So anything I want, I get.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35Apart from vitamin D. But then me and sunshine never did get along.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38I've even got Blu Tack for sticking up the Virgin Mary.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40You're a grass.
0:05:43 > 0:05:44A supergrass.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Mm.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51All those years defending all those big criminals and now you're grassing 'em up.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53It's an interesting career change.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57You want an Unclaimed Baby?
0:05:58 > 0:06:04That's what they were called before the Great War, then Peace Babies for a bit,
0:06:04 > 0:06:06then, finally, Jelly Babies.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Why am I here, Micky?
0:06:17 > 0:06:18What, Sean?
0:06:19 > 0:06:20I lied.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23- What about? - A gun.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26People lie for all sorts of reasons.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Doesn't necessarily mean that they're guilty.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31I panicked.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35I haven't panicked about anything in my entire life, not even in Afghan.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40Not even when I fell head over heels in love with Martha Costello.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45We have this kind of rule at the Criminal Bar.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Never represent a friend.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52And here's me thinking we're more than just friends.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Yeah, and that was all, what, over 20 years ago?
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Feels like yesterday.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00That kiss. You know the one.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03HE CHUCKLES
0:07:03 > 0:07:04So bloody amazing.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08We stepped off the curb and the night bus missed us by about six inches.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11I could have died then and there.
0:07:13 > 0:07:14We both could have died.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19You whispered in my ear, "I've died and gone to heaven."
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Now, you were a piece of work, Sean McBride.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25BOTH CHUCKLE
0:07:31 > 0:07:34I share a cell with a man who stares at me all day.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Never blinks. Doesn't speak, not a word. Just staring and staring.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Then when he goes to sleep, he shouts.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43He... He shouts all night, Martha.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Are all barristers as good as each other,
0:07:45 > 0:07:48- or are there some you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy...- Sean...
0:07:48 > 0:07:49..and what if I get one of them?
0:07:49 > 0:07:52What if they get their first murder and they're hopeless?
0:07:52 > 0:07:53Could that happen to me?
0:07:53 > 0:07:56I didn't do this, but it looks like I did.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59You know the thing about prison? Nobody thinks you're innocent.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01And everybody thinks I killed Jimmy Monk,
0:08:01 > 0:08:03and the Monk family are like the biggest crime family ever
0:08:03 > 0:08:06so every second I'm in there I'm fighting to stay alive.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09But if I get 20 years, I can't survive.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12If I get a life sentence, I'm dead.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14- Sean, I... - I can't even drink a cup of tea
0:08:14 > 0:08:16because it might be poisoned.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21I need you, Martha.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Con, miss?
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Sort of.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33You?
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Do you believe in heaven and hell?
0:08:37 > 0:08:41I believe in a big-bang beginning to the universe.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Before the big bang?
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Well, if it WAS God,
0:08:47 > 0:08:49then my cross-examination will start with,
0:08:49 > 0:08:51"Why wait four billion years
0:08:51 > 0:08:54"after creating something so, well, infinitely big,
0:08:54 > 0:08:59"to tell a small tribe in the Middle East not to covet each other's oxen?"
0:08:59 > 0:09:00Ha-ha!
0:09:00 > 0:09:04I'm afraid she won't be available, um...for the next three or four months.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07- He's grown into his shoes. - Hmm.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Oi! Get over here!
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Sorry, can I call you back, please, sir? Cheers. Bye.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16Never walk past Martha Costello, no matter how big you get.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19- Hmm. - Never, ever walk past this lady.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20Got that?
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Hello, miss.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24- Jake.- That's better.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Now, on your way.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33PHONE RINGS
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Normally it would be Billy I'd give this to, but... SHE SIGHS
0:09:37 > 0:09:39It's my application to join chambers.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Thank you.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49You think I should wait until the business with Billy is over?
0:09:49 > 0:09:51No, I didn't say that.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55I mean, if I lose, I'm the people who made up allegations of sexual harassment,
0:09:55 > 0:09:56and chambers won't want me,
0:09:56 > 0:10:00and if I win, I'm the people who did for Billy Lamb
0:10:00 > 0:10:02and chambers won't want me.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05I might as well apply now, for all the chance I've got.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08The pupil with the guts to stand up to the man twice her age,
0:10:08 > 0:10:10even if it jeopardises her chances
0:10:10 > 0:10:13of having the career she sacrificed everything for.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Principle and justice over self-interest.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19I'd want someone like that in chambers.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38- He, er... He asked me to represent him.- And you said no?
0:10:44 > 0:10:48- Clive. - I'm late for court.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52You have history with him. It's a conflict of interest.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57DOOR SHUTS
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Who's going to be the judge in my sexual harassment hearing?
0:11:03 > 0:11:07Alan Cowdrey's Head of Chambers until we elect a new one, but he's a fair man...
0:11:07 > 0:11:10- Who's known Billy for 20 years. - Don't crack now, Amy.
0:11:10 > 0:11:15You stand up to him. You've got lots of people on your side.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17And a witness.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22You've been following Martha Costello around for the last week, haven't you?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24Come with me. I'll show you the other side.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38- Billy? - Harriet?
0:11:38 > 0:11:42- I've been thinking, maybe you should take some time off before your hearing.- Why?
0:11:42 > 0:11:44- Well, you seem a bit... - What?
0:11:44 > 0:11:47I'm just trying to help.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50- Are you? - We'd be fine without you.
0:11:50 > 0:11:51Wouldn't we, John?
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Shall we ask someone what the law is?
0:11:57 > 0:11:58Miss?
0:11:58 > 0:12:00A quick question.
0:12:00 > 0:12:05Is an accused man guilty until proven innocent, or is it the other way round?
0:12:05 > 0:12:06No, that's not what I'm talking about.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10Is the burden of proof on me to prove that Miss Saigon is making a false allegation?
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Maybe you can help the lady from Amnesty International
0:12:13 > 0:12:16with a few basic human-rights principles?
0:12:16 > 0:12:21You've always bullied your way out of things, haven't you? Bully women.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24If they complain, bully them some more.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Well, the things I've seen, the bullies I've known,
0:12:28 > 0:12:31you don't even come close to intimidating me.
0:12:38 > 0:12:39You have to tell people.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41No.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43No testosterone, no sex drive.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47So what kind of harassment is it when the harasser hasn't got any?
0:12:47 > 0:12:48I can't, miss.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Why not?
0:12:51 > 0:12:53You told me.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58You know, for someone without the male hormone, you're behaving very like a man.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01I wasn't harassing her.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Forget about what I've got and no testosterone.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06It wasn't sexual.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08You were just being a senior clerk.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11Yeah, and you're the only one round here who seems to understand that.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14- And what does that mean?- You have to represent me.- Ah, no. No, no.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17- Well, no-one else can.- Look, I... I know too much. I can't.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20You have to, because you understand me like no-one else,
0:13:20 > 0:13:23and because if I lose and they kick me out...
0:13:24 > 0:13:25..I'm dead.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40- How is she? - Terrified.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Four years on a fight, three if he pleads. He's pleading, right?
0:13:55 > 0:13:56Hello, Clive.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59- So?- We're listed for trial and that's what we're doing.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00Why don't you do your job?
0:14:00 > 0:14:05- My instructions are...- He sexually abused a 12-year-old girl. The evidence is as strong as it gets.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08So go downstairs, be a proper barrister and tell him he's pleading guilty.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12- We've just been downstairs...- Sorry, um...I've forgotten your name.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15- Nick Pellegrini.- Did you know it was me that was prosecuting when you spoke to him?
0:14:15 > 0:14:18- No.- So go and tell your self-pitying paedo
0:14:18 > 0:14:21that if he maintains a not-guilty plea and this goes to trial, I'll kill him,
0:14:21 > 0:14:25and when I say I'll kill him, I mean I'll kill him.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30He will never recover from what I do to him in cross-examination.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38- Pleading? - Yes.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42But he wants you to leave out the level-four laptop stuff.
0:14:42 > 0:14:43Of course.
0:14:47 > 0:14:48Of course he does.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52People get credit for pleading guilty.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56Paedophiles, people who sexually abuse children,
0:14:56 > 0:15:00and don't plead guilty until three minutes before a jury is due to be sworn in,
0:15:00 > 0:15:02don't deserve credit,
0:15:02 > 0:15:05particularly if, over a number of years, they have downloaded
0:15:05 > 0:15:08some of the most repellent pornography I have ever seen in any case.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10"Level four" barely covers it.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17I expressly said he was pleading guilty
0:15:17 > 0:15:19on the basis that you left out the level-four downloads.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22You told me what he wanted. I chose to ignore it.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24Well, that's not how it works, as you bloody well know.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26We had a conversation, counsel to counsel...
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Do you want to go back in and tell the judge?
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Maybe we can have a trial just on the disgusting pornography.
0:15:30 > 0:15:36- He has a right...- You do what he did to young children, you surrender every right to everything.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38I think there are grounds for appeal.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40I agree.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Oh, right.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44I'm not sure four years is enough.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56Plenty of people come to the Criminal Bar and choose to defend
0:15:56 > 0:15:59so that they can fight for the downtrodden and the damaged.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02You want damaged? There's damaged.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Thank you.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07Who's on the side of the angels today?
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Nick Pellegrini?
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Martha Costello?
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Thank you.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25Some barristers get smoothed out by overexposure to bad things.
0:16:25 > 0:16:30I mean, they see so much of it, they forget how bad it is and how to feel.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Not me.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35- SHE SIGHS - Two things.
0:16:35 > 0:16:36Yes?
0:16:36 > 0:16:40There are a series of these prosecutions, 19 in all, every one as bad as this.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Right, good.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45And the second thing?
0:16:45 > 0:16:47Are you free this evening?
0:16:49 > 0:16:50I'll call you.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05DOOR OPENS
0:17:05 > 0:17:0719 white-ribbon briefs for Clive Reader.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09You trying to wind me up?
0:17:09 > 0:17:11- It's good work. - It's prosecuting.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13And Clive's very good at it.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16300 years of clerking, sirs have always been sirs.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Misses have always been misses.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22You come along, and "sir" turns into a first name all of a sudden.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26What do we put that down to? I'll tell you, shall I?
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Massive disrespect for history.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33If there's one thing I learned from my time working for Amnesty,
0:17:33 > 0:17:35it's a massive disrespect for history
0:17:35 > 0:17:40and an equally massive disrespect for people with too much respect for history.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Let's have a drink, shall we?
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Soon. Just you and me.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49OK.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Clive.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Clive asked me to look at something for him.
0:18:01 > 0:18:06Did he, now? What did he get yesterday?
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Four years.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11- About right? - Drug mules get 12 or 13.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16- Who was the CPS solicitor? - Nicola.
0:18:19 > 0:18:20Why are you smiling?
0:18:20 > 0:18:22They were very flirtatious, Nicola and Clive.
0:18:22 > 0:18:27Mm, well, he's like that with everyone. If in doubt, flirt.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29Yeah, yeah, but...
0:18:30 > 0:18:31What?
0:18:33 > 0:18:36Are you good at reading sexual signals, Amy?
0:18:47 > 0:18:48Look.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Billy isn't himself at the moment.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58Now, I know him really well, and he wouldn't do a thing like that, believe me.
0:18:58 > 0:18:59But he did.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02- Amy...- What am I supposed to do, Martha?
0:19:02 > 0:19:04It's the truth.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06I thought I could rely on you.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Oh, er...thank you for yesterday.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16I learned a lot.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23So.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29Did he do it?
0:19:29 > 0:19:30(NORTHERN ACCENT) Our Sean?
0:19:30 > 0:19:34He owns three clubs in Manchester. They're a success.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36So he wants to repeat that success in London.
0:19:36 > 0:19:41He makes an announcement saying that he's opening a new club in King's Cross
0:19:41 > 0:19:45and calling it The Electric, which is the name of his biggest Manchester club.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48So it seems a bit like world domination?
0:19:48 > 0:19:52Two days later, Jimmy Monk visits him in Manchester
0:19:52 > 0:19:54and tells him to keep out of the London club scene.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Jimmy tells him that the Monk family want payment
0:19:57 > 0:20:01for allowing him even to exist in the Manchester scene, let alone London.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04- Protection money? - By any other name.
0:20:04 > 0:20:09The Monk family don't want some Northern upstart treading on their toes
0:20:09 > 0:20:12so Jimmy and his goons slap Sean about a bit, because they're like that.
0:20:12 > 0:20:16And Sean's left feeling angry and humiliated?
0:20:16 > 0:20:20Three months later, he's arrested for the murder of Jimmy Monk
0:20:20 > 0:20:22in a Heathrow hotel room.
0:20:22 > 0:20:27His prints are in the room and he's on the CCTV entering the hotel.
0:20:27 > 0:20:28The timing fits.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31- Weapon? - No gun found.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Well, that's the evidence, but you still haven't answered my question.
0:20:35 > 0:20:40Did Sean McBride put a gun to Jimmy Monk's head and pull the trigger? Yes or no?
0:20:40 > 0:20:41No.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44What was he doing when he came to see you that time?
0:20:44 > 0:20:47- What do you mean?- Well, it would have been after Jimmy roughed him up
0:20:47 > 0:20:49but before the date of the murder.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Why don't you just spit it out, Clive?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53- How long had he not seen you for?- I don't know.
0:20:53 > 0:20:54Are we talking five years? Ten years?
0:20:54 > 0:20:58Then all of a sudden he's down in London schmoozing the only lawyer he knows?
0:20:58 > 0:21:00We're old friends.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03Hmm. Bit more than that, by the sounds of it.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05By the sounds of... Sorry, what do you mean, by the sounds of it?
0:21:05 > 0:21:08You'd have said no to an old friend, but you said yes to him,
0:21:08 > 0:21:11cos you had a bit of whatever round the back of the Hacienda last century.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14You... You're practically a witness and you're representing him.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21You're jealous.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23HE EXHALES
0:21:33 > 0:21:35- I need someone to represent me. - No.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37- It's just...- It's Billy.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38Yeah, but...
0:21:38 > 0:21:41- You wouldn't ask Martha, would you? - I would have, but I can't.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43- Why not? - Because she's representing Billy.
0:21:46 > 0:21:51Er...miss? It's the CCTV from the hotel, the McBride case.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54- Wow, that was quick.- Well, we've got both briefs in chambers.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57What? Who?
0:21:57 > 0:22:00- Miss Warwick. - CW's prosecuting Sean?
0:22:02 > 0:22:05HE MOUTHS
0:22:10 > 0:22:13- What do you think? - I think I'm better-looking.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15BOTH CHUCKLE
0:22:16 > 0:22:20- It's definitely him. - Well, we're not saying it's not.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Well, the fingerprints in the room kind of make your mind up for you on that one.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27Yeah, but why would he talk to her if he's about to murder somebody?
0:22:27 > 0:22:29- I mean, why would he do that? - You could read it as cold-blooded.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31He's not cold-blooded.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33DOOR OPENS
0:22:33 > 0:22:37Sean McBride. Solicitor's had a bail app listed.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39- When? - He forgot to tell us.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42- When, John? - Two o'clock.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44- I'm across the road at two. - Yes, miss. Sorry, miss.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47- Well, I'm free. I'll do it. - It's half 12 now, sir.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51It's fine. Miss Costello's got me up to speed.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56Thank you.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00- I'm just popping down to Woolwich. - Why?
0:23:00 > 0:23:02McBride bail-out.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05- Defending, Clive? - Helping chambers out.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07SHE SIGHS
0:23:09 > 0:23:10McBride.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13- You want to be careful, sir. - Why's that? We...
0:23:13 > 0:23:16I wouldn't be in a room with a psycho like McBride.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21By the way, are you for real?
0:23:21 > 0:23:22Sorry?
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Bailing a gangland murder?
0:23:25 > 0:23:28- Gangland?- Well, what would you like me to call it?
0:23:28 > 0:23:31Psycho nightclub owner with strong interest in guns and killing people
0:23:31 > 0:23:34murders youngest brother in biggest criminal outfit in North London? Is that better?
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Killing PEOPLE?
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Two tours in Afghanistan.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48- Where's Martha? - Busy.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50She can't just drop everything for a bail-out.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52- What's she doing? - Let's talk about you.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54- Now, were you at the hotel? - Can we get rid of him?
0:23:54 > 0:23:56- What? - I don't trust him.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59- He's fine. - He's not fine. He's overdoing it.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03- He's just coming down.- He's not coming down from anything. He's here to listen to what I say to you.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05- Aren't you? Aren't you?! - Hey! Hey!
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Hey, look! Look! He's the real thing!
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Take your shirt off.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14- Where's the wire, Sean? - I don't trust him.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16HE SIGHS
0:24:20 > 0:24:24Hello? I need time alone with my client.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29- I was at the hotel. Turned over the first protection money payment. - How much?- Three grand.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Right, so you flew to Heathrow to hand over £3,000.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34I... I didn't fly. I drove.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38Right, I waited in the hotel at the agreed time. Jimmy didn't show up, so I left. It's simple.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Can you get me bail?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43People on a murder charge don't get bail.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Martha said it was worth a shot.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50- Yeah, well, she's a big hit with the clients.- What does that mean?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Well, Martha's one of the world's great optimists.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Clients like to be told they're going to win.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58It would be a miracle if I got you bail under these circumstances.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07TANNOY: All parties for the Lakin case...
0:25:12 > 0:25:14So, here's the equation.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17If I'm gonna represent you against Billy, it has to be worth it.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20- Sorry? I don't understand. - Are you any good? Can you cut it at the Criminal Bar?
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Right.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25So, are you gonna tell me what you're here for?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Erm...yes, yeah.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31A... A pit bull tied up outside a shop on Kentish Town High Street,
0:25:31 > 0:25:32and a Spinone goes past.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35- Spinone?- Italian hunting dog. She's called Lottie.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39She's got like a...a beard and huge feet and just...
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Anyway, er...the pit bull, he goes mad, he breaks free,
0:25:42 > 0:25:44and he clamps his jaw onto Lottie's back end.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Now, all of this is incredibly shocking. There's blood everywhere.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Lottie doesn't utter a sound.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52She just stands there, bleeding and...and hopeless,
0:25:52 > 0:25:54waiting to die and...
0:25:54 > 0:25:56- Miss Lang? - Hang on.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59- What next? Who are you representing? - Er...sorry. I have to go.
0:25:59 > 0:26:00Mr Reader?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02I'll come in and see you!
0:26:07 > 0:26:09The defendant lied.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11- About? - His gun.
0:26:11 > 0:26:16He said he didn't own one. We have evidence that he did.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21Mr Reader?
0:26:25 > 0:26:27No gun was found.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29There is no murder weapon.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33Detective Chief Inspector Fitzpatrick chooses to call the defendant,
0:26:33 > 0:26:36and I quote, "a psycho".
0:26:36 > 0:26:40I'm going to give him the contact details of one or two mental-health charities,
0:26:40 > 0:26:44who would like to have a word with him about this kind of casual stigmatising.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48This is a man who served his country in Afghanistan with distinction,
0:26:48 > 0:26:51and vehemently denies this allegation.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53He wouldn't want to skip bail
0:26:53 > 0:26:56because he's desperate to stand trial so that he can clear his name.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58And just in case you were thinking of deciding
0:26:58 > 0:27:03that the defendant needed to be remanded in custody for his own safety,
0:27:03 > 0:27:07you and I both know, although the world likes to pretend that it isn't true,
0:27:07 > 0:27:10that prison is the least safe place he could be.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17I'm going to retire to consider my decision.
0:27:17 > 0:27:18All rise.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26- What the hell do you call that? - What?
0:27:26 > 0:27:29- The "psycho" business. - He said it. Ask him.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33He's entitled to think that he can say things in private that remain private.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35- It was a casual remark. - Betraying the real man underneath.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37What gave you the right to say that?
0:27:37 > 0:27:40You've known him for two minutes and you've seen into his soul?
0:27:40 > 0:27:43- You're really angry with me?- Yes, of course I'm really angry with you!
0:27:43 > 0:27:47- Yeah, but deeper than that, you're frightened.- Frightened? - Bail in a murder?
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Imagine how embarrassed you'd be. You'd need a big drink.
0:27:51 > 0:27:52HE GASPS
0:28:00 > 0:28:02How many?
0:28:02 > 0:28:04What?
0:28:05 > 0:28:07- You were a sniper?- Yeah.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10How many Taliban?
0:28:10 > 0:28:12- Nine hits. - Maybe don't use that word in court.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14USHER: All rise.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Whatever happens, thanks. That was done properly.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27I have considered the arguments of Mr Reader.
0:28:27 > 0:28:32In my judgment, the defendant should remain in custody.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Bail is refused.
0:28:38 > 0:28:43What would Shoe Lane look like, a week after Billy Lamb leaves this life?
0:28:43 > 0:28:45Like a clerks' room full of clerks.
0:28:47 > 0:28:49I'm after something more than legacy.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52- What's that? - Atonement.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55Also known as grassing people up.
0:28:55 > 0:28:56Atonement means a lot more
0:28:56 > 0:29:00than the codes of honour that bad people make for themselves.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03Grassing up bad people is good.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06Not grassing up bad people is lawyering.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08Huh!
0:29:09 > 0:29:12There are no grasses in hell, Billy.
0:29:13 > 0:29:14So what do you want from me, then?
0:29:18 > 0:29:19Martha Costello.
0:29:21 > 0:29:22Why?
0:29:24 > 0:29:26- She thinks I'm the devil.- So?
0:29:26 > 0:29:28I want to show her who I really am.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31Why?
0:29:33 > 0:29:35I love that girl. You know that.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37I know you do.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39And you want to look after her.
0:29:41 > 0:29:43Trust me.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46I've got all her best interests right next to my heart.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52My client was sitting in the window of a cafe,
0:29:52 > 0:29:55working on his laptop, when he saw what was happening.
0:29:55 > 0:29:56He knew what he had to do.
0:29:56 > 0:29:59He ran into the kitchen, he grabbed what he needed,
0:29:59 > 0:30:04he sprinted across the road and he stuck a kitchen knife into the pit bull's side.
0:30:04 > 0:30:07He told me it was the hardest thing he's ever done.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11Now Lottie was free, but she collapsed in the road.
0:30:11 > 0:30:15Two police cars and four police officers arrived, and what did they do?
0:30:15 > 0:30:20They refused to take Lottie to the vet, basically because they didn't want her blood in their car.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22At which point my client got upset.
0:30:22 > 0:30:26He forgot that he still had the knife, and that he was covered in the blood of two dogs,
0:30:26 > 0:30:31and he shouted at them, that they would be responsible for her death if she died.
0:30:31 > 0:30:34They arrested him under the Public Order Act.
0:30:36 > 0:30:39My client wants me to say that he's not sorry for what he's done,
0:30:39 > 0:30:40he'd do the same again tomorrow,
0:30:40 > 0:30:44and that he used to respect and trust the police force, but he doesn't any more.
0:30:44 > 0:30:48He wonders why back-seat upholstery is considered more important
0:30:48 > 0:30:50than the life of an Italian Spinone.
0:30:51 > 0:30:53Thank you, Miss Lang.
0:30:57 > 0:30:58Stand up, please.
0:30:59 > 0:31:03I'm going to deal with this by way of a conditional discharge.
0:31:03 > 0:31:06Stay away from big knives and it'll be the last you hear of this.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08Thank you.
0:31:10 > 0:31:11How is Lottie?
0:31:12 > 0:31:16Er...she's alive and well and walking around happily on three legs.
0:31:22 > 0:31:23SHE EXHALES
0:31:26 > 0:31:28Clive, the election.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30Head of Chambers.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33It's a three-way tie, my polling tells me. 15 votes each.
0:31:33 > 0:31:37AMY AND JOHN SPEAK OUTSIDE
0:31:38 > 0:31:41- When are we deciding on Amy? - Next week.
0:31:41 > 0:31:44- Before the election?- And before Billy's harassment hearing.
0:31:45 > 0:31:48- So she'll have a vote? - Yeah.
0:31:50 > 0:31:52I thought you were brilliant in court today.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55Listen, I've been thinking,
0:31:55 > 0:31:59it's only fair that, if Billy has a silk representing him, so do you.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12DOOR OPENS
0:32:13 > 0:32:16- You didn't tell me about the gun.- How was he?
0:32:16 > 0:32:20- He likes me better than his blonde brief.- Hmm, very funny. - He's good at killing people, though.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22Nine dead men, Mar.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25- That's different. - Well, yes and no.
0:32:25 > 0:32:29Shooting someone isn't easy, but the more you do it, the easier it becomes.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32Like it or not, call it what you want, he's a professional killer.
0:32:32 > 0:32:34Hmm. I've got work to do.
0:32:40 > 0:32:43- CLIVE SCOFFS - Jumpy as hell.
0:32:49 > 0:32:51- It's an insult!- Look, as you so rightly pointed out,
0:32:51 > 0:32:53you are innocent until proven guilty.
0:32:53 > 0:32:56You're entitled to carry on your life as normal until the hearing and so is Amy.
0:32:56 > 0:32:58Part of that life is chambers deciding
0:32:58 > 0:33:01whether or not she should become a member for ever.
0:33:01 > 0:33:03Agreed?
0:33:03 > 0:33:05Good.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08You're trying to take Clive Reader away from me.
0:33:08 > 0:33:12You won't do it, and sleeping with him won't get him either!
0:33:12 > 0:33:13- What did you say?- You heard!
0:33:13 > 0:33:16I've seen you fiddling with your hair when you talk to him,
0:33:16 > 0:33:18giving it the old Diana doe eyes.
0:33:18 > 0:33:21And what about qualities like being hard-working and intelligent?
0:33:21 > 0:33:23Can women have those, Billy?
0:33:23 > 0:33:26And what about you? Let's do your so-called good parts. What are they?
0:33:26 > 0:33:29Sentiment. Loyalty.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31The two most overrated human qualities,
0:33:31 > 0:33:34and the big thing about both, always male!
0:33:34 > 0:33:36I'm not...
0:33:36 > 0:33:37a man!
0:33:50 > 0:33:52I'm a senior clerk.
0:33:57 > 0:33:58SHE SIGHS
0:34:02 > 0:34:05SHAKY SIGH
0:34:06 > 0:34:09Yeah, it's Lamb.
0:34:09 > 0:34:12William Lamb, I'm ringing for my test results.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16- Yeah. - FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
0:34:18 > 0:34:21- CLEARS THROAT - Sorry.
0:34:21 > 0:34:23No, no.
0:34:23 > 0:34:25Do you like boxing, sir?
0:34:27 > 0:34:30CROWD CALLING OUT
0:34:45 > 0:34:46That's Jake.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48CROWD CALLING OUT
0:34:48 > 0:34:50What's he doing?
0:34:50 > 0:34:53He can't... Can he?
0:34:53 > 0:34:54Yes, he can.
0:34:56 > 0:34:58HE LAUGHS
0:35:10 > 0:35:12Come on, my son!
0:35:16 > 0:35:17Go on!
0:35:19 > 0:35:22BELL RINGS
0:35:27 > 0:35:29Sean McBride wonders whether you will work alongside Miss Costello.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32Seems he liked your bail application.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35I told the solicitor, two silks, it just wouldn't happen.
0:35:35 > 0:35:36No.
0:35:36 > 0:35:40Be like Federer and Nadal playing doubles. Just wouldn't happen.
0:35:40 > 0:35:41- No.- No.
0:35:41 > 0:35:44Not even if one of the silk needs protecting from her dangerous client,
0:35:44 > 0:35:47and our senior clerk is happy for it to happen,
0:35:47 > 0:35:50so happy that he might forgive the other silk
0:35:50 > 0:35:53for arguing that he's a sexual predator.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58Which one of us is Federer?
0:35:58 > 0:36:03Well, guile and grace, no sweat, no grunts? I'd say you were Roger, sir.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05HE CHUCKLES
0:36:09 > 0:36:11- BELL RINGS - Ready, guys?
0:36:11 > 0:36:13- Come on, Jake! - Go on, Jake!
0:36:18 > 0:36:19That's it, into him!
0:36:21 > 0:36:22Go on!
0:36:22 > 0:36:25Ooh, yes! Ooh!
0:36:25 > 0:36:26- Yes! - CHEERING
0:36:26 > 0:36:28Go on! Go on, son!
0:36:29 > 0:36:31Yes, Jake! Good boy!
0:36:32 > 0:36:34- PHONE RINGS - Come on! He's done it.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36- Hello? - He's done it! Well done!
0:36:38 > 0:36:39Yes!
0:36:39 > 0:36:41Whoo-hoo!
0:36:41 > 0:36:43Fantastic.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45Yes, my son.
0:36:45 > 0:36:47(LAUGHING) Go on!
0:36:54 > 0:36:56Yes!
0:36:56 > 0:36:59Go on, my son.
0:37:00 > 0:37:02'Yeah, erm...Billy Lamb.'
0:37:02 > 0:37:03Yeah.
0:37:05 > 0:37:08Yeah, sure. 2nd June, 1969.
0:37:12 > 0:37:13Right.
0:37:15 > 0:37:17Right.
0:37:17 > 0:37:18Thank you.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21Sure.
0:37:21 > 0:37:23No, I'll be fine. Er...yes.
0:37:23 > 0:37:24I'm with someone.
0:37:33 > 0:37:34Bloody hell.
0:37:44 > 0:37:46Why would you do that?
0:37:46 > 0:37:49You and she up against each other for Head of Chambers
0:37:49 > 0:37:51and you're being her junior.
0:37:51 > 0:37:54- I'm not her junior. - Course you are.
0:37:56 > 0:37:58Do you know what I think?
0:37:58 > 0:38:01I think you've been half in love with since you met.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03You're wrong.
0:38:04 > 0:38:06It's my job to know everything about you.
0:38:06 > 0:38:10- Everything? - Everything.
0:38:11 > 0:38:16The closer I get, the more I know, the better I can look after you.
0:38:20 > 0:38:21How much closer?
0:38:23 > 0:38:26PHONE VIBRATES HE LAUGHS
0:38:26 > 0:38:28You're working.
0:38:28 > 0:38:30- What? - You just looked at your phone.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32Me, your phone...
0:38:32 > 0:38:36it's all in a day's work.
0:38:36 > 0:38:37I don't think so.
0:38:37 > 0:38:40PHONE RINGS
0:38:42 > 0:38:45PHONES RING AND VIBRATE
0:38:49 > 0:38:51Hello?
0:38:51 > 0:38:52John?
0:38:57 > 0:38:59What is it?
0:38:59 > 0:39:01Er...
0:39:01 > 0:39:03there's, um...
0:39:06 > 0:39:08..a clash
0:39:08 > 0:39:09in the diary.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13Is that why you got me back from the pub?
0:39:14 > 0:39:16The pub?
0:39:16 > 0:39:18You're turning into a real clerk.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22Was he your first?
0:39:22 > 0:39:24- What? - Toxic cocktail.
0:39:24 > 0:39:27First love revisited.
0:39:27 > 0:39:28What are you saying?
0:39:28 > 0:39:31If you get him off, will you be getting off with him?
0:39:33 > 0:39:37The word from all the coppers is that he did it.
0:39:37 > 0:39:42Not the case, not the evidence, the actual word.
0:39:42 > 0:39:44Just so you know.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52HE EXHALES
0:39:54 > 0:39:55Afghanistan.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03Eight shots. 300 metres. 350, maybe.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05That range, you have to aim a tiny bit high,
0:40:05 > 0:40:08because the trajectory of the bullet has a small downward curve in it
0:40:08 > 0:40:10so the focus is all on the execution of a shot.
0:40:10 > 0:40:12It's not about another human being.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15There were nine, weren't there?
0:40:17 > 0:40:19The ninth was a firefight.
0:40:19 > 0:40:23Usual mayhem. I found myself in a drainage ditch and there he was.
0:40:23 > 0:40:2515 feet away. Him or me.
0:40:27 > 0:40:28What was it like?
0:40:29 > 0:40:31His weapon jammed, so he ran at me.
0:40:32 > 0:40:34He nearly got to me, but...
0:40:37 > 0:40:39Not like sniping?
0:40:40 > 0:40:42Blew his face off.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44At that range, you know...
0:40:46 > 0:40:48I try not to think about it.
0:40:51 > 0:40:52I'll see you upstairs.
0:40:54 > 0:40:55Martha?
0:40:56 > 0:40:58I didn't do this.
0:41:06 > 0:41:08A planned killing in cold blood.
0:41:08 > 0:41:13A single gunshot through the back of the head, just behind the left ear.
0:41:14 > 0:41:19We say this man was forced to kneel down on the carpet
0:41:19 > 0:41:23and was shot from behind by a trained killer
0:41:23 > 0:41:27who knows about the science of killing people.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31That killer, the evidence will show...
0:41:33 > 0:41:35..is Sean McBride.
0:41:38 > 0:41:42Well, Jimmy Monk came into the club with these three big fellas.
0:41:42 > 0:41:45Erm...Sean, he was out the back, but then he came through.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47What happened?
0:41:47 > 0:41:50Jimmy said he liked the club, but he should stay away from London.
0:41:50 > 0:41:54- Did Sean respond? - He laughed.
0:41:54 > 0:41:56One of them got a hold of Sean round the neck,
0:41:56 > 0:41:59and the other two gave him some slaps.
0:41:59 > 0:42:01Slaps?
0:42:01 > 0:42:03Actual slaps with the palm of the hand.
0:42:03 > 0:42:06I... I think they just wanted to make him feel stupid.
0:42:08 > 0:42:10What was Jimmy Monk doing?
0:42:10 > 0:42:12He was smiling,
0:42:12 > 0:42:16and he said he wanted money in return for allowing the Manchester clubs to carry on.
0:42:16 > 0:42:21Was there any further contact between Sean and Jimmy?
0:42:21 > 0:42:22Yes.
0:42:22 > 0:42:25Er...Sean gave him a call.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28Did you hear what Sean said?
0:42:28 > 0:42:30He was arranging to meet Jimmy.
0:42:30 > 0:42:32- Where? - A Heathrow hotel.
0:42:32 > 0:42:34Just Jimmy?
0:42:34 > 0:42:38He was very insistent that it be just Jimmy.
0:42:38 > 0:42:42They agreed the date and the location for the meeting and ended the call.
0:42:44 > 0:42:47- HE SIGHS - How did he seem after the call?
0:42:49 > 0:42:52Er...he was pumped up. You know, excited.
0:42:52 > 0:42:55Did he say anything to you?
0:42:55 > 0:42:58He said it would be like going out on patrol.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00What did he mean?
0:43:00 > 0:43:02Afghanistan.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06Did Sean McBride own a gun?
0:43:09 > 0:43:12- Yes. - Can you describe it?
0:43:12 > 0:43:13Er...a pistol.
0:43:13 > 0:43:16With a...like a red stripe on the handle.
0:43:16 > 0:43:19- Where did he keep it? - A drawer in the office.
0:43:19 > 0:43:20Where is the gun now?
0:43:20 > 0:43:23- I don't know. - Did you look for it?
0:43:23 > 0:43:25- Yes. - When?
0:43:25 > 0:43:28When he was down in London for the Jimmy Monk meeting.
0:43:28 > 0:43:31You checked on the gun?
0:43:31 > 0:43:33It was gone.
0:43:40 > 0:43:45What did you do when Jimmy and his heavies were slapping your best friend around?
0:43:45 > 0:43:47Nothing.
0:43:47 > 0:43:50- Why not? - I couldn't.
0:43:50 > 0:43:53- Were you restrained?- No.
0:43:53 > 0:43:56- Were you scared?- Yes.
0:43:56 > 0:44:00- And what were you scared of? - Jimmy and his heavies.
0:44:00 > 0:44:02- Why? - They're hard men.
0:44:02 > 0:44:07Did you offer to go with Sean to the meeting at Heathrow?
0:44:07 > 0:44:08No.
0:44:08 > 0:44:09- Why not?- Same reason.
0:44:09 > 0:44:11Fear?
0:44:13 > 0:44:15Sorry, could you speak up?
0:44:15 > 0:44:17- HE SIGHS - Yes.
0:44:17 > 0:44:22Sean went to Heathrow to make a protection money payment to Jimmy Monk?
0:44:22 > 0:44:24I don't know.
0:44:24 > 0:44:28And Sean being nervous the night before, well, that's hardly surprising, is it?
0:44:28 > 0:44:30I mean, you'd have felt the same,
0:44:30 > 0:44:35if you had to make that payment to a man like Jimmy Monk?
0:44:35 > 0:44:36Possibly.
0:44:36 > 0:44:37Sorry? Possibly?
0:44:37 > 0:44:41Well, yes, I would have been. But then Sean had a gun.
0:44:41 > 0:44:44Sorry, did you see Sean take it with him?
0:44:44 > 0:44:45No.
0:44:45 > 0:44:47Did you see him remove it from the drawer?
0:44:47 > 0:44:48No.
0:44:48 > 0:44:51Did he talk to you about taking it with him?
0:44:51 > 0:44:52No.
0:44:52 > 0:44:56Then you can't say that he had a gun, can you, Mr Brannigan?
0:44:57 > 0:44:59Why are you smiling?
0:44:59 > 0:45:03Well, er...call me old-fashioned, but it's common sense.
0:45:03 > 0:45:07Nobody else had access to that drawer and knew what was in it.
0:45:07 > 0:45:09Apart from you.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12I don't know what you mean.
0:45:12 > 0:45:15Sorry, when...when did you decide to become a witness for the prosecution?
0:45:17 > 0:45:21- What are... What are you saying? - Who runs The Electric now?
0:45:22 > 0:45:23I do.
0:45:24 > 0:45:25Thank you.
0:45:27 > 0:45:29FILE THUMPS
0:45:36 > 0:45:38So Jake is boxing?
0:45:38 > 0:45:39Yeah.
0:45:41 > 0:45:44- Not the same without him. - Nah.
0:45:44 > 0:45:46- HE LAUGHS - Do you remember when he...?
0:45:46 > 0:45:48Don't, John.
0:45:48 > 0:45:50Please.
0:45:53 > 0:45:56- I've done something big. - Oh, yeah? What's that?
0:45:56 > 0:45:59- Given up hockey. - Ah, about time. Girls' game.
0:45:59 > 0:46:01- Ha-ha. - Why?
0:46:01 > 0:46:03Before the game last week,
0:46:03 > 0:46:05we were running through a short corner routine.
0:46:05 > 0:46:07- Mm-hmm? - Bent down to tie my shoelace up,
0:46:07 > 0:46:10and one of my team-mates hit the ball.
0:46:10 > 0:46:12Missed my head by an inch. Thwuh!
0:46:12 > 0:46:14HE SIGHS
0:46:14 > 0:46:18- I think if it had... - You wouldn't be here today.
0:46:18 > 0:46:19Nah.
0:46:19 > 0:46:21Doesn't bear thinking about.
0:46:23 > 0:46:24Except it does.
0:46:24 > 0:46:27- What? - Makes you think.
0:46:28 > 0:46:29That...life is short.
0:46:32 > 0:46:33And precious.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36JOHN WRITING
0:46:36 > 0:46:37Mm-hm.
0:46:44 > 0:46:47I didn't know why he was angry.
0:46:47 > 0:46:49He wouldn't say.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51Just kept pacing around and punching things.
0:46:51 > 0:46:54What was he punching?
0:46:54 > 0:46:56A cupboard. A wall.
0:46:56 > 0:46:57Me.
0:46:59 > 0:47:00He hit you?
0:47:04 > 0:47:07- Where? - My stomach.
0:47:07 > 0:47:09No, I meant where were you?
0:47:10 > 0:47:11My flat.
0:47:11 > 0:47:16Had he told you why he was angry before he hit you?
0:47:16 > 0:47:18No.
0:47:18 > 0:47:21Did he tell you afterwards?
0:47:21 > 0:47:24He said it was that bastard Monk, who'd threatened him at the club.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28Thank you so much, Miss Philpott.
0:47:34 > 0:47:35You were his girlfriend?
0:47:37 > 0:47:39- Yes. - But not now?
0:47:39 > 0:47:40No.
0:47:40 > 0:47:42Who finished the relationship?
0:47:45 > 0:47:47- He did. - When?
0:47:47 > 0:47:50The week before he came round and hit me.
0:47:50 > 0:47:53What were your feelings for Sean before he finished the relationship?
0:47:54 > 0:47:55He was my boyfriend.
0:47:55 > 0:48:00Sorry, does that cover your feelings for Sean McBride?
0:48:00 > 0:48:01What?
0:48:01 > 0:48:04Does what you've just told this court
0:48:04 > 0:48:09adequately describe your feelings for this man?
0:48:12 > 0:48:14MARTHA CLEARS HER THROAT
0:48:14 > 0:48:17"I love you with all my body and soul,
0:48:17 > 0:48:20"especially my body,
0:48:20 > 0:48:22"but my soul, too.
0:48:22 > 0:48:25"I want to be with you for ever.
0:48:25 > 0:48:30"Will you do that secret thing you do to me tonight?" Who said that?
0:48:31 > 0:48:33- SHE CLEARS THROAT - Me.
0:48:34 > 0:48:39This is a text message you sent Sean the day before he split up with you.
0:48:39 > 0:48:42Now, is that a better description of your emotions
0:48:42 > 0:48:45than the one you've just given this court?
0:48:46 > 0:48:47Yes.
0:48:47 > 0:48:50So, you were crazy about him. You were madly in love with him.
0:48:50 > 0:48:54You couldn't get enough of Sean McBride.
0:48:54 > 0:48:57You were devastated when he finished with you and you were angry...
0:48:57 > 0:48:59- No. - ..and this is your revenge.
0:48:59 > 0:49:02This is you lying about the man who broke your heart.
0:49:02 > 0:49:04I'm telling the truth. He hit me.
0:49:04 > 0:49:08- He wouldn't do that. - How the hell would you know?
0:49:08 > 0:49:12Miss Costello is doing her job, Miss Philpott. Just answer her questions.
0:49:12 > 0:49:14That wasn't a question,
0:49:14 > 0:49:17- "He wouldn't do that." - Milady.
0:49:17 > 0:49:18The witness is absolutely right.
0:49:18 > 0:49:22My learned friend is giving evidence.
0:49:26 > 0:49:27Did you tell the police?
0:49:28 > 0:49:29No.
0:49:29 > 0:49:34Did you tell your flatmate when she came home an hour later?
0:49:34 > 0:49:36No.
0:49:36 > 0:49:40You waited until Sean was arrested for this murder
0:49:40 > 0:49:43and then you gave your statement to the police.
0:49:47 > 0:49:48What secret thing?
0:49:50 > 0:49:51I'm not saying.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53- Is it something sexual? - Not really.
0:49:53 > 0:49:54What, then?
0:49:56 > 0:49:59He used to whisper in my ear.
0:50:00 > 0:50:02What did he whisper?
0:50:02 > 0:50:04SHE SNORTS
0:50:04 > 0:50:06After a kiss.
0:50:06 > 0:50:08"I've died and gone to heaven."
0:50:11 > 0:50:13Miss Costello?
0:50:24 > 0:50:28If I were a more cynical, hard-nosed-bitch type of barrister,
0:50:28 > 0:50:32I would say that my learned opponent still has the hots for the killer in the dock.
0:50:32 > 0:50:35But then I tell myself, "That can't be right,"
0:50:35 > 0:50:38and her esteemed junior would make sure that it wasn't right.
0:50:38 > 0:50:42- I'm not her junior. - Of course you're not, darling.
0:50:42 > 0:50:45We need to get back for the vote.
0:50:45 > 0:50:46On?
0:50:46 > 0:50:48Whether to make Amy Lang a member of chambers.
0:50:51 > 0:50:54LOW CHATTER
0:51:01 > 0:51:04LOW CHATTER
0:51:14 > 0:51:15- JOHN:- OK.
0:51:16 > 0:51:20We have a decision. Head of Chambers has to make the call.
0:51:20 > 0:51:24He's not here, obviously, so, um... who's going to inform Miss Lang?
0:51:45 > 0:51:47HE SIGHS
0:51:50 > 0:51:51You're in.
0:52:03 > 0:52:05SHE LAUGHS
0:52:09 > 0:52:1146th voter.
0:52:15 > 0:52:17Ha-ha!
0:52:17 > 0:52:20Oh! Yes!
0:52:23 > 0:52:26There were people in the room across the corridor, 1045.
0:52:26 > 0:52:28Are you sure?
0:52:28 > 0:52:29Yeah.
0:52:29 > 0:52:32OK.
0:52:32 > 0:52:33Good.
0:52:33 > 0:52:35KNOCK AT DOOR
0:52:36 > 0:52:37You're on.
0:52:39 > 0:52:43Were you the duty manager at the hotel on the night of the murder?
0:52:43 > 0:52:44Yes.
0:52:44 > 0:52:46- Did you notice an arrival? - The defendant.
0:52:46 > 0:52:49- Had he made a booking? - Yes.
0:52:49 > 0:52:51Room 1044.
0:52:51 > 0:52:52In what name?
0:52:52 > 0:52:54Costello.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00- First name? - Just an initial.
0:53:00 > 0:53:01E.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05As in Elvis Costello?
0:53:06 > 0:53:09A singer, Your Ladyship.
0:53:09 > 0:53:13It's been A Good Year For The Roses, wouldn't you say, Mr Reader?
0:53:13 > 0:53:15But not so good for Shipbuilding.
0:53:15 > 0:53:19The rooms, er...next to and opposite 1044, were they also booked?
0:53:19 > 0:53:20Yes.
0:53:20 > 0:53:24And on the day of the murder, did the guests for those rooms turn up?
0:53:24 > 0:53:26Nobody turned up.
0:53:26 > 0:53:28What were the names used?
0:53:30 > 0:53:32Nick Westlake,
0:53:32 > 0:53:34Martin Land,
0:53:34 > 0:53:37Steve Keane and Robin Page.
0:53:39 > 0:53:40JUDGE: Lunch?
0:54:03 > 0:54:05Martha?
0:54:05 > 0:54:07Nick Westlake, Martin Land,
0:54:07 > 0:54:10Steve Keane, Robin Page.
0:54:12 > 0:54:13All boys in our class at school.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15- Yours and Sean's? - Yes.
0:54:15 > 0:54:19Jesus Christ. Well, so that's it.
0:54:19 > 0:54:22He keeps the rooms around 1044 empty so nobody hears or sees anything.
0:54:22 > 0:54:23Get a bloody cigarette out for me.
0:54:24 > 0:54:27Look, they don't know.
0:54:28 > 0:54:31CW doesn't get it. The police don't know.
0:54:31 > 0:54:34- And it is not our job as defence counsels.- Martha.
0:54:37 > 0:54:39You take the witness.
0:54:39 > 0:54:41I don't think you can carry on with this.
0:54:42 > 0:54:44I've looked into his eyes.
0:54:45 > 0:54:48I know the answer when I look into a client's eyes.
0:54:49 > 0:54:50I get it right.
0:55:13 > 0:55:16When you say that the rooms were not occupied,
0:55:16 > 0:55:20- you mean that the people who booked them didn't show up?- That's right.
0:55:20 > 0:55:23- But you didn't go up there yourself, to the tenth floor?- No.
0:55:23 > 0:55:28So you can't actually say that there was nobody in those rooms?
0:55:28 > 0:55:30Nobody booked in.
0:55:30 > 0:55:33Yes, but you didn't see for yourself that those rooms were empty?
0:55:35 > 0:55:36Strictly speaking, no.
0:55:36 > 0:55:41If I suggested to you that room 1045, the room opposite room 1044,
0:55:41 > 0:55:43was actually occupied at the same time
0:55:43 > 0:55:46as when the defendant was waiting in room 1044,
0:55:46 > 0:55:49you can't tell me that that isn't true?
0:55:51 > 0:55:53There are rumours the hotel is haunted.
0:55:53 > 0:55:56RIPPLE OF LAUGHTER
0:55:56 > 0:55:57JUDGE: Tomorrow at ten?
0:56:11 > 0:56:12MUSIC PLAYS
0:56:17 > 0:56:20MUSIC: "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division
0:56:24 > 0:56:26# Love
0:56:26 > 0:56:29# Love will tear us apart
0:56:29 > 0:56:30# Again
0:56:30 > 0:56:32# Love
0:56:32 > 0:56:35# Love will tear us apart
0:56:35 > 0:56:36# Again... #
0:56:47 > 0:56:50- HE SIGHS - Where's Martha?
0:56:50 > 0:56:52I don't know, Sean.
0:56:54 > 0:56:57Maybe she's thinking about what a liar you turned out to be.
0:56:57 > 0:57:00- I'm not a liar. - You lied about the gun.
0:57:00 > 0:57:02I think you're lying about everything.
0:57:04 > 0:57:07Who was it? Who apart from you made fake hotel reservations
0:57:07 > 0:57:10in the name of your classmates?
0:57:11 > 0:57:14I've prosecuted lots of men like you.
0:57:15 > 0:57:18You're a manipulator and a fraud, and Martha...
0:57:18 > 0:57:19HE GRUNTS
0:57:19 > 0:57:21- ..she's vulnerable. - Yeah, I get it.
0:57:21 > 0:57:23Get what?
0:57:23 > 0:57:26You're in love with her, aren't you? Hmm?
0:57:28 > 0:57:30Am I right?
0:57:30 > 0:57:31Am I?
0:57:33 > 0:57:36You're going down.
0:57:43 > 0:57:46GRUNTING AND GROANING
0:57:50 > 0:57:52Stop it!
0:57:52 > 0:57:54ALARM BEEPING Help!
0:57:54 > 0:57:56- Aaah! - Get back!
0:57:58 > 0:58:00Shit!
0:58:00 > 0:58:02Don't touch him!
0:58:06 > 0:58:09Look at me. Did you do this?
0:58:09 > 0:58:11He put his hand on my knee.
0:58:11 > 0:58:12The cancer is moving.
0:58:12 > 0:58:14- That's...- Let me finish!
0:58:14 > 0:58:18If I were to catch you coaching a witness, I'd finish you.
0:58:18 > 0:58:20Is that your killer point?
0:58:20 > 0:58:23- What are you afraid of? - SHE SNIGGERS
0:58:23 > 0:58:25Trust me.
0:58:25 > 0:58:28Square peg, round hole!