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- Having finished with Caroline Jools turns up to tell Hannah that he wants to be her champion, even though she is dating Sam, in whose antique shop she now works. However when Faith and Paul go out to dinner with Hannah and Sam, not only does Sam want Paul to create fake antiques for him but belittles Jools and gloats about selling him an expensive ring he could ill afford. Suddenly Hannah discovers which of the two guys is her real champion and tells Sam what she thinks of him whilst resigning.
- Faith is surprisingly calm after seeing Paul kiss Hannah though she does suggest he pretends he is her boyfriend to persuade Hannah to move out. Come Saturday morning Faith gets an inconclusive result of a cervical smear test and is very worried but with Paul drunk, Hannah off with new boyfriend Sam and Caroline and Jools using the flat as a love nest, she gets little sympathy. Fortunately, Monday brings the all-clear and a little more understanding from those around her.
- Soccer Aid 2010 was played on 6 June 2010 and featured celebrities such as Michael Sheen, Gordon Ramsay, Brian Lara, Mike Myers, Woody Harrelson and Simon Baker.
- Rose and Tom defend the Green brothers who are on trial for a gangland murder. Alan Green decides to turn against his brother Frank much to Rose's surprise. Johnny Boy's infatuation with Morag begins to effect his judgement
- McLeish discovers Billy's betrayal, of Wendy's relationship with Judge Martin Bould, which saw the drug trial collapse and his out for blood. Things get worse when Marlowe threatens to go to the press if Billy doesn't resign immediately.
- Just three days after giving birth, Rose returns to court to defend a mother from losing her children to her rich partner. Alex has to use all his skills to save his friend Billy's career following his fight with Leo Wilson.
- Wendy waits to see if she will get "Silk" and become a Q.C. but matters get personal when she defends a racist. Tom gets close to Alex ex-girlfriend Helen while clerk Johnny Boy breaks an unwritten rule and takes out pupil Morag.
- Rose's attempt to remove Peter McLeish has failed. However his past catches up with him and he could still lose everything. Turning to Rose he gambles everything by going in the witness box. Helen has to chose between Alex and Tom.
- Rose is furious that McLeish organised a cut throat defence and begins to gain support to remove him. Hussein and Morag are fighting for one vacancy but as Rose' pupil she is getting no work. Alex love life begins to catch up with him.
- For the 2013 Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards, Bradley Walsh hosts a talk show with guests, reviews, previews, clips, new book promotions, and a quiz.
- Michael Marlowe offers Billy a way out of his assault charge if he agrees to join his chambers. Alex cheats on his girlfriend Helen with barrister Stevie Goode. Wendy turns down Judge Martin Bould offer to fast track her to Q.C.
- Defending Frank Green for murder, Rose asks Billy to be her junior but he discovers something to undermine her case. McLeish attempts to keep a lid on Alex and Stevie's romance. Hussein Ali's arrival leaves Morag's future uncertain.
- Rose and Wendy to different strategies when they defend a pair of Colombian drug mules, in front of Judge Martin. Marlowe puts pressure on Billy to confirm that Wendy and the Judge are intimate forcing a mistrial which could destroy both.
- Billy Guthrie's career is in jeopardy after punching fellow barrister Leo Wilson after racist comment he made about Head of Chambers Wendy de Souza. Trainee barrister Morag Black is thrown in the deep end with major criminal.
- The ten greatest spy movies as analyzed and voted for by the real life spies themselves.
- As the gap between Ian's perception and reality grows so does his dangerous manipulation of Ollie - whose behaviour becomes increasingly dangerous and erratic. With emotions running high, tragedy looms and the triathlon ends in a thrilling head to head battle with devastating consequences.
- Revisiting the bakers from series 2 to catch up on what these contestants have been doing after the show ended.
- The extraordinary story of Edward VIII's first love affair, involving a murder trial, a secret cache of vanished letters, and a cover-up to save the reputation of the future King.
- Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood cook more of the challenges that they previously assigned to contestants during the competition, including Iles Flottantes, double-crusted fruit pie, British egg custard tarts, and more.
- Paul and Mary show how to make queen of puddings, jam doughnuts, tempered chocolate teacakes, fraisier cakes and fondant fancies.
- As the August bank holiday weekend away continues for our couples, the oppressive heat only serves to heighten the growing tension and creeping sense of unease which dominates. The rivalry between Ian and Ollie intensifies in the second leg of their 'Triathlon' and the peace is further shattered by the arrival of Daisy's colleague Milo whom Ian views with intense jealousy.
- Bake-Off judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, in enjoying the festivities surrounding Easter, demonstrate how to make some bakery items associated with the holiday. Bread fanatic Paul shows how to make the perfect hot cross buns, and a traditional Cypriot loaf called tsoureki, and strays away from the bread for a chocolate custard tart, a Hollywood family favorite. Mary chooses a spicy Easter biscuit, Easter-decorated pavlova with lemon curd, and simnel cake, a fruit cake layered with marzipan, the cake's decorations tied to eleven of the twelve disciples. Mary and Paul provide tips to overcome any perceived difficulties to be able to make these bakery items to perfection. In addition, the history of the decorated Easter egg is presented, including that of the more modern chocolate variety.
- Lloyd and Eadie find themselves in the bombed remains of their relationship now that Eadie's pregnancy has finally been revealed. But Lloyd can sense Eadie's still hiding something from him.
- As an unprecedented heatwave grips the city, Eadie stares down the possibility that the cost of her gamble will be the Latu's future, the loss of her marriage and now the chance that her babies' health is at risk.
- A masterclass by Paul and Mary where they demonstrated how to make the technical challenges they set - treacle tarts, rum babas, creme caramels, the hand-raised pie, and the eight-strand plaited loaf.
- Interview series featuring notable talent from within the entertainment industry and features in-depth discussions which focus on the creative process.
- In Vitro subtly explores how infertility can erode a marriage and what can happen when cold science replaces passion and a sense of mutual purpose.
- As Ivy stares down an uncertain future, her mood hits the skids and Lloyd looks to Shay to step up into his godfatherly role and help her find her feet.
- Eadie and the Latus have crossed a dangerous line and keeping them out of the hands of Border Authorities is going to cost more than they imagined.
- Conclusion: Crowley sends Dernay to the World Forum on Climate Change in Calgary to look for Masud. Mack leads the Open Business Coalition and their friendly countries in moves to scupper Kyoto II. Dernay contacts Masud and tries to go to McConnell but he dismisses her. Crowley gets support within the Open Business Coalition from McConnell and the insurance companies and they win over the United States Treasury Secretary Brent Schlaes.
- 2010– 58mTV-PG7.2 (23)TV EpisodeBake Off judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, in reminiscing about their favorite aspects of Christmas, inevitably talk about food, they who demonstrate how to make six Christmas classics to perfection. Mary shows how to make Christmas pudding, Christmas cake, this specific recipe which she has been using as long as Paul has been alive, and Bûche de Noël which she assures is much less complicated than it looks. Paul tackles mince pies, his Frenchified version of panettone, and savory Chelsea buns which utilize leftovers from Christmas dinner, the buns which Paul serves for a Boxing Day brunch. In addition, the tradition of mincemeat at Christmas is discussed, and a presentation of the oldest Christmas pudding and its connection to the British Navy is made.
- Eadie's drive to help Rachel find her family lost in the storm gives her a front row view of what people are experiencing further out in the hot zones.
- Eadie's deception runs deeper as the pregnancy progresses and she needs to make good on her offer to take Shay's National Service days at one of the city's emergency Resettlement Centres.
- 1987–201740m7.7 (25)TV EpisodeDawn French and Jennifer Saunders reprise some of their favourite characters for a yuletide airing, while Charles Dickens and the Oscar-winning film The Piano feel the lash of their satirical humour.
- Oil surveyor Masud Khamil narrowly escapes an attack on his camp in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and flees with some valuable data. Tom McConnell replaces his father-in-law Sir Mark Foxbay as Chairman of Arrow Oil. At the celebration party, Inuit activist Mika Namuvai enters uninvited and serves Tom a writ from her people. The writ decries global warming and its causes, such as Arrow's production facility on the Athabasca tar sands. The shock of Mika's subsequent ejection causes Tom's daughter to have an asthma attack, but she is saved by Holly Dernay, head of renewable energy at Arrow.
- Two couples embark on a bank holiday weekend in the Suffolk countryside. The stifling weather intensifies the ominous atmosphere as sexual tensions and male rivalry quickly overshadow events whilst accumulated secrets and jealousies creep to the surface.
- Eadie's desperation to conceive leads to a dangerous bargain with Shay. Her offer to take his National Service days at one of the city's Resettlement Centres will seem a small price to pay for the chance to have a child.
- Paul and Mary make Christmas classics, including stolen, a gingerbread house and streusel.
- Following selection of the 2013 Great British Bake Off champion, judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood cook several of the challenges that they previously assigned to contestants during the competition, including English muffins, bread sticks, angel food cake, and more.
- This week, the class of 2012 bake off.
- Paul and Mary show which signature bakes they would have chosen if they were in the bakers' shoes (including sponge puddings, flat breads and sweet buns).
- Hollywood First Look is the premier entertainment news source in Asian-American homes in the United States and Canada. Viewers get a first look at upcoming films, TV shows, and exclusive interviews with Hollywood's top celebrities.
- Horizon meets the two men who uncovered Stuxnet, the pioneers of ultra-paranoid computing, a white-hat hacker who showed out how to hack into stand alone cash machines, and explains how companies test resilience.
- In the near future, gifted neuropsychologist Eadie Boulay is desperate to conceive a child. Faced with next level climate change, the question of bringing a child into the world is a whole lot more complicated than it used to be.
- In 1937 the sisters and their families meet up at the house Vanessa shares with Duncan before Duncan's lover George departs for America and Vanessa is unable to stop her idealistic son Julian from going to Spain to drive ambulances for the International Brigade. Before he goes he bids Vanessa tell Angelica - now seeing the recently widowed, bi-sexual David Garnett - that Duncan is her father but Vanessa holds back until she learns of Julian's death. As the Second World War breaks out Virginia, despite the mental instability which will lead to her suicide, helps Vanessa and Angelica reconcile and, after a show of strength at her sister's funeral, Vanessa returns to encourage Duncan, aided also by Angelica, to paint his latest piece.
- Virginia marries publisher Leonard Woolf but finds him mother-dominated and a reluctant sexual partner. She channels her energies instead into writing a book but this becomes an obsession, impinging upon her health and she attempts suicide. With her own marriage floundering Vanessa takes her children to live in the Sussex countryside as the Great War breaks out. Duncan accompanies them with his bi-sexual lover David 'Bunny' Garnett who have avoided the draft. Vanessa is obviously aware of Duncan's sexual leanings but is in love with him and together they produce a child, Angelica, born as the war ends.
- Penry-Jones, has done very well as an Actor, his mother Angela Thorne was born in Karachi when it was part of the English Empire. Rupert is curious about his Indian blood. He finds a lot about his roots in India.
- In 1905 sisters Vanessa and Virginia Stephen, having attended their father's funeral, are introduced by their brother Thoby to his friends, including art critic Clive Bell, economist Maynard Keynes, writer Lytton Strachey and the young artist Duncan Grant, who praises Vanessa's paintings. The sisters, however, hoping to carve out their own careers, dismiss all of them as likely husbands. Clive nonetheless pursues Vanessa, proposing marriage, which she puts off until Thoby dies, a fact which Virginia sees as a betrayal, though Vanessa discovers that Clive wants theirs to be an open marriage. Duncan, meanwhile, maintains sexual relationships with both Lytton and Maynard.
- Burgess and Maclean are becoming liabilities for Soviet intelligence, and Philby has his hands full protecting the two of them before they can be pulled out and relocated to Moscow, while CIA man Angleton is becoming increasingly suspicious of Philby himself.
- Chronicling the story of the most infamous double agents in British history. Anthony Blunt is sent to Germany to retrieve sensitive documents.
- In this sequel to "Second Thoughts", Faith Greyshott is newly single and looking forward to enjoying it. However, her daughter Hannah ruins her plans by suddenly returning from traveling the world and moves back in with her.
- Burgess, Blunt, Philby and Maclean, still ardent communists and working for the KGB, must follow instructions and cover their political leanings. They now have to convince the powers that be that they have outgrown their juvenile leanings towards socialism and become members of the British establishment to become moles on the inside. Philby is sent to Spain to report on the civil war, made to deny any German involvement, and Blunt gains the confidence of the British royal family.
- Blunt, Burgess, Philby and Maclean meet at Cambridge university and bond through their common leaning towards communism, which they see as the only alternative to fascism.
- Martha visits old flame Sean McBride in prison. He is charged with shooting dead gangster Jimmy Monk after Monk's family demanded protection money to allow him to open a night club in their territory. Despite an obvious bias she represents him with Caroline prosecuting though she comes close to exposing her position and needs Reader to support her. Billy visits corrupt solicitor Micky joy in custody after which Martha takes him to one side. Harriet is happy to back Amy in her sexual harassment case against him but Martha urges him to admit that his prostate cancer negates any sex drive. He does not want to reveal the fact however.
- Soccer Aid is a Charity Football event which takes place every two years at Old Trafford. Two teams of celebrities and ex-legends, England and 'Rest of the World', take each other on under two professional Football mangers. Soccer Aid is a very popular mix of Football and comedy.
- Alan Titchmarsh presents a mix of celebrity interviews, music, topical discussions and gardening features.
- Two sailors, one a young officer with a family pedigree and a common seaman who is a childhood friend are accused of setting fire to their ship's barracks.
- Martha is approached by solicitor Dani Kakwani, whose nephew Rashid is wanted for extradition by the US authorities for his supposed role in a bomb outrage at an Arizona university. The American embassy is keen to offer a deal in order to hurry the process but Martha believes their information is wrong and that he was not where they claim. However Rashid has lied to her as he is clearly covering for somebody else, as are MI5 and the judge asks Reader to investigate. Finally Martha locates the missing person to help her cause. Meanwhile Caroline, standing for head of chambers to ensure better working conditions, comes unstuck in a grooming case due to Amy's incompetence. However Amy has problems of her own as she tells Martha that Billy sexually harassed her.
- Madame Cheung warns Harry that time is running out and that if he does not retrieve the bracelet and return it to her then he will be a dead man. Blake and Eve stage an audacious escape from prison.
- Martha is engaged by euthanasia campaigner and solicitor Aisha Wiseman to defend Sarah Stephens, accused of helping her tetraplegic daughter Jo to die. Reader is prosecuting and brings in Sarah's ex-husband Patrick and their fifteen year old son to show that Jo did not want to die as Sarah stated. Whilst two expert witnesses appear to endorse this and Sarah's defensive attitude towards her family make her a less than cooperative client Martha realizes that she may be covering up for somebody else. Meanwhile Jake is poached by a rival firm and Billy tells Martha that, as Alan has now stepped down as chambers head, he is backing her as the successor. He also admits to her that he has cancer.
- Suri teams up with Harry to find Dan Morrison, but just as they start to get some answers tragedy strikes. Rich heads into danger as he does some digging of his own - into the bracelets.
- Casanova flees Venice, taking with him Giac, his young illegitimate son by a previous liaison, and Rocco, his servant. He heads for Paris, as he knows that Venetian ambassadors abroad are able to grant pardons.
- A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
- Jodie makes a plan with Daniel to source him a passport and flee the country for a fresh start, but when she returns from visiting the forgers, Daniel has gone.
- Martha defends footballer Jordan Sinclair, who has attacked fellow player Dean Trent on the pitch in front of thousands - with Clive Reader prosecuting. Just before going into court Martha learns that Sinclair has recently fallen foul of smug manager Ben Madden, who appears to have coached Trent into deliberately needling him. Martha also discovers that Sinclair is gay, giving Trent another excuse to torment him and she brings in a witness to prove Madden and Trent's general bullying. New office manager Harriet Hammond continues to cross swords with the cancer-stricken Billy whilst chambers pupil Amy Lang has a tough time with her first case and Caroline uses subtle tactics to get the better of the opposition when she prosecutes in a rape trial. Alan makes contact with David in the secure unit.
- Harry teams up with a thief to break into the evidence storage facility where the gun that could put him away for murder is kept so he can wipe his prints off it but soon finds himself facing a stark choice.
- The young Casanova's adventures take him to London where he glimpses Henriette and tricks his way into court circles and to Naples where he meets an old friend. Still living on his wits, Casanova makes and loses fortunes and also enjoys other conquests. Back in the present, Edith realises that Casanova is now very sick and nearing his end. Edith tells Casanova that Henriette, who had died six months previously, is coming to visit as Casanova slowly dies smiling.
- Blake's adoptive father is in London and Harry has a golden opportunity to connect Blake to the drug trade and the Wu Chi Triads and returns to the gambling tables to raise the money he needs to stage a sting.
- Harry takes extreme measures to win back Rich's flat, while Blake sees a chance to take advantage of the detective's predicament and to get his hands on the bracelets.
- Jodie uses a private lesson gives Daniel to quiz him about his past. Jodie's family urge her to accept that her son is dead. An incident at school gets them looking deeper into Jodie's background.
- Harry returns to London and sets out to prove his innocence, but on the run from the police he is faced with the stark choice of heading into the criminal underworld and joining those he once hunted.
- Blake puts his grand plan into action forcing Harry to summon all of his courage to take on his nemesis without the aid of the bracelets in the last-ever episode of the thriller.
- Fi has to come to terms with losing the house and tries to find out more about Bram's whereabouts. She turns to her new partner, Toby, for support, but he has secrets of his own.
- With the confusion around Daniel's identity increasing every second, secrets start to unearth, and it seems someone close will stop at nothing to protect themselves and stop Jodie's hunt for the truth from taking them down.
- Martha defends Michael Ward,a security van driver accused of neglect and manslaughter when claustrophobic prisoner Richard Doyle has a panic attack and dies in transit. Reader is frustrated when Fatima refuses to plead self defence and when Cowdrey and Martha overrule him in appointing young ex-copper Daniel Lomas as his pupil over the pretty girl he preferred. However Daniel proves a great help to Martha in discrediting the prosecution's star witness and winning her case.
- Casanova is an infamous name for scandal, treason and sex, and the first episode chronicles the first half of his life. Told to us by an old, downtrodden Casanova as he recounts his life to a young and curious maid, the story starts with his lonely childhood, follows through some of his love-struck adventures and describes the love of his life, Henrietta. As quickly as Casanova rose, he fell, because the man never truly wanted fame or money, all he ever wanted was to love.
- Martha defends a young thug who smashed up a corner shop and attacked its owner whom he claims insulted his girlfriend. Reader has sex in a toilet with George before prosecuting three Oxford students, members of an elite drinking club, charged with trashing a pub and assaulting a young waitress as part of an initiation rite. However, he is out of his depth against the boys' three smug barristers and a parochial judge, and he needs advice from an old colleague and Martha, aware that hers is a hopeless case, to get his desired result.
- Caroline Warwick invites Reader to assist her in prosecuting Jody Farr,accused of killing Martha's client Brendan Kay,in exchange for reducing the murder charge against Fatima to manslaughter. When he accepts George dumps him and hands Fatima's case to Martha,who,helped by Daniel,does Fatima proud,discrediting her angry,sexist brother. However it is Joy who provides the vital evidence that wins the case,the deal being that Martha defend Farr in return. Martha is less successful in appealing to the law lords to spare Jackson Henderson,on death row in Jamaica,from hanging whilst Billy Lamb discovers he has prostate cancer.
- Whilst Clive Reader celebrates his taking silk but Martha hits the bottle, angry that inspector Wright has lied in court to convict her client Johnny Foster. Later David, the teen-aged son of chambers head Alan Cowdrey, is arrested for causing the death of a policeman , one of six who kettled him during a demonstration. Martha believes David has been bullied into pleading guilty by Wright and wants Alan involved in his son's case but David is not keen to see his father. Reader and Caroline Warwick agree to help Martha, who sees on CCTV that an anonymous man spoke to David in custody but there is no record of this meeting. In court she faces Wright, this time determined to beat him but evidence comes to light which weakens Martha's crusade.
- Believing in Sean McBride's guilt Clive Reader withdraws from the case whilst in court Martha's passionate, if biased, speeches lead to accusations of 'performing'. Increasingly the evidence suggests that Sean was indeed the owner of the gun which killed Monk though, as the trial continues, Billy brings in Micky Joy to high-light police corruption and present Sean as a victim of a dishonest inspector. After the jury delivers its verdict Billy is exonerated of the sexual harassment charge as, much to his annoyance, his terminal illness is revealed and the chambers members vote on who should be their new head. Having withdrawn her application Martha is not present to join in the celebrations.
- Fi finally discovers the truth behind the house sale and confronts those responsible. Meanwhile, Bram, on the run, must come to terms with his own actions.
- A woman on the edge seeks her missing son. Jodie believes a teenager she has seen is her son who has been missing for nine years, and she begins a plan to get him back.
- Harry Clayton heads to Hong Kong where Eve has been framed for murder, there he clashes with a new nemesis - hit-man Samuel Blake who is on a lifelong mission to make the bracelets his.
- Fi is left reeling by Bram's apparent involvement in the house sale. Meanwhile, in the past, Bram frantically covers up his part in the accident.
- As Billy Lamb undergoes his operation Martha reluctantly begins the defence of hectoring,arrogant Jody Farr as a favour to the reptilian Micky Joy. She plans to adopt the line that Farr was framed by the police but is enraged to learn that Joy is using Billy as Farr's alibi. Ultimately she gets Lamb to admit that Joy is bribing him and he admits this in court,exposing Joy as a corrupt informant. He also helps Reader out over trouble he incurred at Brighton with a glib opposing counsel before joining the rest of the chambers to welcome Caroline Warwick.
- Martha defends young Army Captain Ryan at a military court. Under pressure during a Taliban offensive in Afghanistan he is accused of disobeying orders, leading to the death of Private Rivers in an under-manned exchange. Ryan's silence does not help his case but Martha discovers, from his best friend Captain Cassidy, that Rivers was less of a victim than presumed, having a fatalistic attitude after a traumatic experience. Reader, meanwhile, goes all out to impress George Duggan in defending Fatima Ali who is accused of killing her brother.
- Martha's preference is to act for the defendant but Billy persuades her it will help her silk application to act as a prosecutor,against Tony Paddick,a young teacher accused of the attempted murder of a pupil who persecuted him. Martha argues with the C.P.S. solicitor that the charge should be Grievous Bodily Harm and finds her humanity and ambition at odds with each other in her new role.After taking advice from the Law Lady interviewing her for her silk,Martha concocts a way of helping Paddick receive a lesser sentence,chiding his defending barrister for letting her do his job. Kate hacks into Billy's computer to find money unaccounted for but fails to get Martha on side against him. Nick wins his second solo case but Niamh,feeling under-used,agrees to see Gary Ross on behalf of Martha.
- Martha is at last a QC,making her senior to Reader. Their first case together is defending taciturn thug Brendan Kay,muscle for the infamous criminal Farr family, accused of blinding a car wash employee who fell afoul of boss, Jody Farr. Martha believes Farr's influential solicitor, sharp Micky Joy, and Farr are conspiring to stitch up the innocent Kay for a crime Farr committed. Battling against both formidable prosecutor Caroline Warwick and head of chambers Alan Cowdrey for Farr, Martha finds that Reader proves to be an ultimate help to her. He also has a solo case, defending killer Fatima Ali,referred by female solicitor George Duggan,who resists his efforts to pursue her romantically.
- Aware that he has enemies in the firm Billy sets up Reader. He gets a friend in another chambers to offer Reader a better job and then threatens to expose him for being disloyal and 'jumping ship' unless he spies on Billy's opponents and reports their movements. Martha tells Reader that he is the father of her child and ,on learning that she will not have an abortion,he offers to support her. He is also extremely helpful to her in a misconduct hearing where an Asian policewoman is accused of racism against a black colleague by providing a tape with which Martha is able to persuade one of the judging panel that his own racism will be made known in the press unless the woman,whose remarks were joking and did not offend her colleague,is allowed to keep her job. She is however unsuccessful in securing bail for rent boy Mark, who is accused of murdering a judge.
- Martha prepares to act for Mark, who admits that he and girlfriend Emma Slater broke into the judge's house to rob him but claims he killed him in self defence. Head of chambers Alan Cowdrey returns and wants the case but Martha hangs onto it with Kate as her assistant. Much of her case involves attacking the victim's widow, who is dignified and sympathetic, making Martha seem cruel. However when Martha is rushed to hospital - where she miscarries - Nick comes up with evidence which shows that Emma killed the judge to stop him killing Mark and she is found guilty of manslaughter, not murder. Billy learns that Kate and John want to set up a rival chambers with Clive Reader, whom they hope will get his silk. In the event it is Martha who gets the distinction, which she uses to keep the firm together.
- Martha defends homeless teen-aged rent boy Mark Draper,charged with indecency in a public lavatory with two others,one of whom is Reader's client. Niamh and Nick separately represent a warring couple charged with owning dangerous dogs. Bumbling Nick wins his case by a fluke whilst the more competent Niamh loses. Reader nonetheless ensures she gets the next brief but Nick has to represent the third defendant in the indecency charge when his barrister falls ill. Thanks to information from Mark's solicitor Reader's client is exposed as a party to entrapment by the police,exonerating the other two though Mark still returns to his pimp. Kate and John try to rally the other barristers to oust Billy for showing favoritism.
- Martha's day begins badly when she discovers that she is pregnant and gets worse when she finds that scheming Billy has her down to defend Alan Bradley,accused of raping ex-girlfriend Annie with Reader - who has just bedded Niamh,his junior - prosecuting. In court Reader plays to the gallery,Annie appears fragile and Bradley accuses Martha of being too soft on her. After she has warned Niamh about Reader's bed-hopping the junior gives her some information which tips the case in her favour though she still wonders who was telling the truth. Niamh gets bail for Gary Ross,whom Martha recently got off a robbery case but Martha doubts his innocence when part of the loot,a medal,appears in her locker. Kate and John,two other lawyers,feel that Billy's fondness for the drink makes him unsuitable for the job.