Rake (TV Series)

R vs Fenton (2012)

Richard Roxburgh: Cleaver Greene

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• Fuzz Greene : Legal stunts. Herewith, forthwith, pertaining to but not inclusive of. This is how people control us, isn't it? make it all so mysterious, the rest of us don't understand.

  Cleaver Greene : Yes. It's why law and religion were in Latin for centuries, but then they realized they could make English just as incomprehensible as a dead language.

  Fuzz Greene : So, if I understand you correctly, you make a living strangling words so a jury doesn't know which way is up.

  Cleaver Greene : Yeah. We also get to wear wigs.

• Cleaver Greene : [addressing 'John Smith' in the witness box]  And so how long after observing my client in conversation with the head of MI5 and Azeo, etc. did you twig to the possibility that this former English teacher was not, in fact, a crack member of the Johns?

  Justice Beesdon : We can do without the sarcasm, Mr. Greene. These people are our gatekeepers against a very dangerous world, and it behooves you to remember that and to respect them.

  Cleaver Greene : Duly behooved, your honour.

• Cleaver Greene : Let's cut to the chase, Lawrence. What the hell possessed you to bust into this forum?

  Lawrence Fenton : What these so-called important people are doing with words. The way they use language to actually hide what they mean. It's a form of corruption. The writer, Don Watson, calls them 'weasel words', where corporations and governments complicate what they say so much that there is no longer any accountability or integrity. And once we stop believing in what is being said, once language loses its power to connect us, civilization is finished.