All language subtitles for Judge John Deed S03E04 Economic Imperative

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- How's that?
- Yep. Thank you.

What time do you leave?

Oh, look, it's hopscotch.

Let's have a go.

What are you supposed to
do? Not tread on the lines?

You!

Are you going to
have an operation?

No. Today they're just going to
measure where to put the pellet.

- Will it hurt when they do it?
- No. The brain doesn't feel anything.

Why doesn't it?

Because nerve endings feel pain
and the brain doesn't have any.

Hey, Di. Hello, Michael.

Go through to the office?

- Is something wrong?
- Come to the office.

What's wrong? Has
something happened to me?

Well, it's not
you. It's not really.

Armac, my treatment's
supposed to start.

- What's happening?
- I'm sorry. It's all to do with money.

- The Trust can't afford to treat you.
- What?

Can they do that this late on?

This treatment's part
of a research trial.

They don't have to pay for it.
I'm sorry, Di. I did argue your case.

- Mrs Wrekin.
- Marge.

- What does he say, Marge? What?
- Shh.

Marge, is he there?

- Will you be quiet, Jackson?
- I will not.

Will you both address the
court and not each other?

Mrs Wrekin.

Would you mind telling the court
exactly what it is you have there?

It's my son, Dominic.

- The angel.
- In a cremation urn?

He's communicating his wishes.

It's your wishes the
court has to consider.

The lower court imposed
an order on your husband

to stay downstairs and not
come up to your part of the house.

He has broken this order
on several occasions.

Well, the blessed
Dominic told him he could.

He did so.

And did he also say that it was all
right for your husband to assault you

- on those occasions?
- He did not!

- He did forgive him, though.
- He's the angel himself.

Well, Mr Wrekin, you've broken
this order on more than one occasion.

- Didn't the blessed Dominic say so?
- He did right enough.

Unfortunately, he doesn't
have right of audience here.

He speaks through me.

Well, then,

would you like to ask him what he
thinks about my lifting the order entirely?

Oh.

- He's not very keen on that.
- He's not?

Well, he's gonna have to live with it
because that's what I'm going to do.

I think you deserve each other

and shouldn't waste any
more of the court's time.

All rise.

You have the nurse, Diana Hulsey,
back with the mobile phone case.

Oh, good. About time.

- One-Way are settling.
- Oh.

- Do we know for how much?
- No, not yet. I'll get your tea.

All rise.

I'm pleased to inform the court

the claimant and defendants
have reached a settlement.

I'm glad.

Whatever the reasons, such
actions are often stressful.

And expensive. Mrs Mills.

The instructing solicitor hasn't yet
confirmed the claimant's acceptance.

Well, is there reason to believe that
Ms Hulsey has changed her mind?

It is unusual for her not
to be in touch or be here.

Perhaps she died.

- Might a delay be helpful?
- I'm sure she hasn't died.

My Lord, might I have a moment?

Is it too late to
change my mind?

- Why? Has something happened?
- Yes.

How did you know the Hospital
Trust are blocking Diana's treatment?

- I questioned the staff.
- Is it an official investigation?

Hardly. I'm still on sick leave.

But being a police
sergeant, they'll talk.

Will you tell the judge?

If I do, he might not
continue the hearing.

- I want to go through with this.
- Despite what the stress will do?

I want to do it for him, Jo.

Charlie say what she wanted?

Sometimes girls just
like to talk to their dad.

- Hello.
- Charlie, hi.

- Get off!
- What?

It's all right. I'm
talking to the dog.

- How's work?
- There's a lot of it.

Yeah. Final years are like
that. Am I going to see you?

I don't know. I'm on
the roof doing a sit-in.

Are finals so hard?

The college wants to
put up a phone mast.

- Can you help?
- Oh, my sit-in days are over.

- I'd like to pick your brain.
- All right. We could have dinner.

- When do you get off the roof?
- Okay, take it away, King.

Up until a short while ago,

the defendants were under the impression
the claimant had accepted their offer.

She's now changed her mind.
In case she changes it yet again,

thus saving time, money and
unnecessary distress to my client,

the defendant's offer
will remain on the table.

Thank you, Mrs Channing.

Are we ready to select a jury?

My Lord, as I indicated before,

I hardly think this
is a case for a jury.

This class of action is never
tried by a jury nowadays.

It's too complicated.

You underestimate
juries, Mrs Channing.

In the past, juries always decided
this class of action, as you put it.

If ever there was a case
that should go before a jury,

it's whether Diana Hulsey's mobile
phone caused her brain tumour.

In any event, under Section 69,

Subsection 3, of the
Supreme Court Act, 1981,

the jury trial is something
I decide should happen.

An emotionally reactive jury
greatly disadvantages my client.

Judges have emotions,
too, Mrs Channing.

We're just more skilled at hiding
them. Let us proceed to jury selection.

I'd like you to
consider, if you will,

what single item in modern living
has come to represent freedom,

opportunity and,
above all, convenience.

I think you'll agree
it's the mobile phone.

For Diana Hulsey, a busy,
post-operative cancer counsellor,

with her own life and that
of her young son to organise,

her mobile phone was essential.

To her, it was both the symbol
and the instrument of freedom.

But it was to become a
dangerous, obsessive shackle.

This little instrument

would not only burn into the
brain of this young mother,

causing a massive,
inoperable tumour,

it would do so with the
fore-knowledge of the manufacturers.

And why does my learned
friend think he deserves it?

- 'Cause it's time for tea.
- Hi.

- I'm gonna be a barrister, Mum.
- Oh, good.

He put the case for a
cream tea very succinctly.

This way, my learned friend.

Rachel.

I'm impressed with the
performance of my rivals.

Oh, you mean Mrs
Mills and Mrs Channing.

Don't your personal
relationships cause problems?

There's a rule about who a
judge can have in front of him.

Ex-wives, ex-lovers, no problem.

Sons and daughters, a bit dodgy.

With current wives and current
lovers, that's a definite no-no.

There's a risk that pillow talk
might give an unfair advantage.

You would never allow that.

No. I suppose not.

I told you when this started,
I wouldn't wait by the phone.

Yes.

- I have been rather busy.
- Is that an excuse not to call?

No. I have no excuse
for my discourtesy.

I thought I'd see when
the sign got turned off.

I didn't think it
would happen so fast.

- You can call me.
- But will you answer?

Perhaps I should
have stayed in therapy.

- Come on. Let's get some tea.
- You were never in therapy, John.

You're too intellectually
proud to accept you need help.

They're staying
up there all night.

We're trying to keep someone
up there the whole time.

Is that all you've got? How
many students are involved?

Not enough. This
isn't the '60s, Dad.

- And what's the college say?
- Masts don't cause health problems.

Do they know that?

The government line. The Stewart
Report. "Mobile Phones and Health."

Ms Hulsey,

can you tell the court why you've
been attending hospital recently?

To check the progress of an
astrocytoma of the left parietal lobe.

- Which is what, exactly?
- It's a malignant brain tumour.

Is this operable?

No. If they operate, it would
destroy too much brain tissue.

Is there alternative treatment?

There's an implant the
doctors were going to try.

It meant putting radioactive
cobalt pellets near the tumour.

- It was abandoned.
- Do you know why?

Armac... Dr Colbin,
my consultant,

said that the Hospital
Trust couldn't afford it.

They can refuse treatment

because it is experimental and
there's no guarantee it will succeed.

Then why was the
treatment ever mooted?

Dr Colbin said it
was my only option.

No...

I'm confused. Did they
start the treatment?

I did the test and they
accepted me on the programme.

I signed the papers
accepting the risk.

I was then told that
it wouldn't go ahead.

Were the doctors being
callous, raising false hopes?

No. They were very nice. It was
the Hospital Trust that said no.

They'd been approached
by the defendant's lawyers.

My Lord, I must protest.

We've patiently sat through
less than relevant information

about a second misfortune
to have befallen the claimant.

Now we hear the most scandalous
of prejudicial statements engineered

by my learned friend.

I am concerned that the jury heard
this. Would you go out, please?

Mrs Mills, is there evidence
to support this claim?

Enquiries on behalf of the claimant
show an approach was made

by the defendant's lawyers.

Are you calling any
witnesses to support this?

Yes. I'm calling Ms
Hulsey's consultant

who was told by the
Hospital Trust not to treat her.

Then I will permit
the line of questioning.

I fail to see the relevance of the
furrow my learned friend is ploughing.

That we shall have to wait
to discover, Mrs Channing.

Let's have the jury back.

Ms Hulsey, to what end

did the defendant's lawyers
approach the Hospital Trust?

To withdraw treatment so
as to put pressure on me.

No, My Lord. This
is not acceptable.

No. It's unpleasant, Mrs Channing.
You can challenge it in cross-examination.

How did you interpret
that pressure?

They wanted me to
accept the offer and settle.

I fail to see how.

As we're here.

I would save it for
cross-examination, Mrs Channing.

However, counsel for the defendant
does have a point, Mrs Mills.

You should move on.

Ms Hulsey, when was your
condition first diagnosed?

It was...

Ms Hulsey?

Diana?

Would you like a
short adjournment?

Can you continue?

Perhaps you'd be more
comfortable sitting down.

No. I'm fine, thank you.

When did you first become ill?

It was about two years ago.

Michael had just had
his sixth birthday party.

His school friend
had slept over.

I got a headache
which didn't go away.

I took some paracetamol.
It shifted for a while.

But it kept coming back, always
on the left side of my head.

Did you do anything
about the headaches?

Well, I took more painkillers.

I tried to not think about it.

But then I noticed
that my left ear got hot

whenever I used my
mobile phone a lot.

And then I'd get this burning
sensation when I used it.

Like a dull earache.

- Not painful but uncomfortable.
- What sort of phone were you using?

ZP-9.

- Is this your phone, Ms Hulsey?
- Yes. That's my phone.

- Do you know who makes these phones?
- Yes. One-Way.

Of all the phones on the
market, why choose this one?

Because I liked the
look of it. It's small.

It offered a
package of free calls.

Well, the ZP-9 was
a cheap upgrade.

When did you get this
cheap upgrade and package?

Three Christmases ago.

Michael and I were doing
last-minute shopping on Christmas Eve.

How often do you use the phone?

Not often. About
10, 12 times a day.

According to your
phone records...

They're marked 4A in
your bundle, My Lord.

It was sometimes 30 calls a
day at 1 minute 15 seconds.

Your average call rate
was 23 minutes a day.

Did you receive many calls?

Well, the hospital called
me when I was with patients.

Patients called me.
Parents of Michael's friends.

Did you read the ZP-9's
instruction manual?

I think so.

Did you read a warning
against using this phone

over a certain number
of minutes each day?

No. Is there one?

It gives no such warning.

'Tis open.

- Oh, I'm sorry. I'm interrupting.
- Just going over tomorrow's argument.

Look, I shouldn't
have come. I'm...

- Would you like some wine?
- No.

- It doesn't mix with my medication.
- Or some tea?

I'll clear a space.

- I only moved in on Monday.
- Gosh.

There's such a lot to do when
you move. You must be exhausted.

Oh, I should've moved years ago.

You hang on, telling yourself it's
for the children. For their security.

It was my husband's house.
His family owned it for ages.

My life was so caught up with
them, then with work after he died.

- I needed a big change.
- Look, I shouldn't have come.

- Did you change your mind again?
- No. Nothing like that.

I'll make some tea.

Where are your children?

Tom's at university.
Mark's out with his girlfriend.

What about Michael?

He's at a school friend's
playing computer games.

It always ends badly
because Michael always wins.

He's clever. He's fun, too.

Diana?

- Is it the illness?
- No.

I've lived with illness as a nurse
and then a post-cancer counsellor.

You just never think
it's gonna happen to you.

It's not that.

It's that in a year, maybe less,

I won't be around and Michael
will, and I can't bear the thought of it.

- Are the doctors that sure?
- That's what they all say.

Well, it's only an opinion.

Like the one I gave to your solicitor
and the Legal Services Commission.

I weighed the available evidence
and I said that there was a 50% chance

that we would win. There's
a chance we'll lose, Diana,

just as there's the
chance that you won't die.

Doctors make pronouncements,
but anything can happen.

When your children
were growing up,

did you ever think that
you might lose them?

- That you might never see them again?
- All the time.

They were only young
when my husband fell ill.

All my fears and anxieties
got projected onto the boys.

At times I couldn't bear
to let them out of my sight.

That's what I feel
about Michael.

Knowing that I won't be around,
I don't know how he'll cope

- or who he'll turn to.
- Don't.

Look, I have to say this
or I'm gonna go mad.

I've been so selfish about
Michael. I wanted him so much.

I got pregnant after a one-night
stand with a doctor at a party.

I didn't even know his name. I
didn't want to after I got pregnant.

I don't have any family.
Well, only my brother.

Or any friends, really.

I just poured everything into
Michael and now I'm leaving him alone.

You mustn't give up.

Will you take him, Jo?

What do you mean?
Look after him?

I know it's a lot to ask, but I
don't know what else to do.

You don't know me.
Well, not enough.

I know you're a very caring person.
The way you helped my brother...

And Michael really likes you.

He says you're the most
interesting person he knows.

You don't talk to
him like a baby.

- Children say all sorts of things.
- Yes, but he means it.

He'll never cease to amaze
you, Jo. I promise you, he won't.

He's so intelligent and
he's brilliantly behaved.

He won't be any trouble. He won't.
He just likes to read all the time.

But you don't know me at all.
You don't know if I'm a good mother

or reliable or coping.

Do you know what it's like to
have to give your baby away?

To entrust the most precious thing
in all the world to somebody else?

I can't bear it.

Just the thought that I won't
be there to help him grow up.

To care for him when he's hurt.

To tell him that everything's gonna
be all right when he's frightened.

I don't want to leave him, Jo.

I never thought I'd
have to. Not really.

Somehow this all
seems like a bad dream,

that I'm gonna wake up and
everything's gonna be all right.

Well, it's not.

And I just want to find the
right person for Michael.

This is Mark. Stay
cool. Leave a number.

This is John Deed. Leave
me a message, please.

What can you do, anyway?

Good evening, Mr
Haughton, Mrs Channing.

- We'll go straight through, Jules.
- Your guests are waiting.

It's early days yet, Neil.
Don't let Tim Listfield rattle you.

You must know by now,
George, I don't rattle.

Ah, I'll have a
spritzer, Pepe. George?

- A very large, very dry martini.
- Has it been one of those days?

The sort I hoped
would never arrive, Max.

Did you see what our shares
did? They dipped 11 points.

- All the major shares dipped.
- I'm only concerned about ours.

Do you know what this
means for our capitalisation?

We borrowed heavily to buy your
over-priced, third-generation licences.

Well, as I remember, Tim,
you begged the DTI for them.

- We didn't expect to pay 4 billion.
- You operate in a free market.

- What we want now, Neil, are solutions.
- Well, Sir Ian Rochester is joining us.

- Hopefully, he'll have some.
- Nothing's helped so far.

I don't wish to indulge
in recriminations,

but blocking Ms
Hulsey's treatment hurt us.

Not my doing, George.

Oh, as CEO I assumed it was.

What we need is a strategy
to take Deed out of play.

That's not the way
democratic government works.

- We have a thing called separation of...
- I don't need a sermon, Neil!

Without systematic wealth creation,
democracy doesn't amount to smoke.

Three hundred million has
been wiped off our shares.

Sixty-five million
off me personally.

And all because you
can't handle a judge.

Oh, we are going to handle him.

- Then let's see the results!
- Why don't we all calm down?

Thank you.

Thank you, Pepe.

Ah, Ian, good timing.

- A drink?
- Um, a Tia, Pepe.

- You know George.
- Yes.

Max Solveigh, marketing
director of One-Way.

Tim Listfield, his CEO.

- Hello.
- The man with the solutions?

- Is this the perennial problem?
- I hope not, Ian.

We've found the
means to check Deed.

- At the end of the hearing.
- When finally we're broke.

What is your end game, Ian?

Because of his relationship
with the claimant's counsel,

Deed should have recused
himself from the case.

Their affair barely pours since
it started during our marriage.

Deed denied any
relationship with Mrs Mills

during her
disciplinary tribunal.

Yes. He's a High Court judge.
We were obliged to believe him.

Whether he was sleeping
with her isn't important.

His relationship with
this woman was extant

through his appearing for
her as a defence witness.

But is this enough to
get him overturned?

Such subtle points exercise
the minds of appeal court judges.

In the meantime, our
shares are hammered.

And my company
slips down the tubes.

Do you know how I got to be
worth two billion personally?

I bought some phones.

I added value to them and
sold them for twice as much.

I didn't buy toys for my children
with the profits or dresses for my wife.

I bought more phones.

And then I started to
manufacture phones.

And then I bought rival
companies. And all the while,

hanging on to what I'd got.

You think I'm gonna let some little
nurse nobody take that away from me?

I'll rip her heart out first.

If you're not capable of
neutering Deed, I'll do it personally.

Someone fall off the roof?

Can we get out of here?

Mum says the building's bugged.

She called me last night. She said
I shouldn't speak to you in the digs.

I am not going to get paranoid.

She had dinner with her clients.

She told me to warn
you to be on your guard.

The CEO, Tim Listfield, is so
mad that the case is going on,

he might try and get you.

Well, did she say how?

You have to be discreet.
Mum's in a really difficult position.

If she has information that there's
been interference with the case,

she must reveal it.
We'll have to abandon.

No. No, no, no. She wouldn't
be that devious, would she?

Dad, if this was a
trial-wrecking strategy,

she'd have to
expose her clients.

Yeah, maybe.

Mrs Hulsey, let me offer
you the heartfelt sympathy

of each of the directors
of One-Way Phones.

Although they don't accept their
product is in any way responsible

for your condition, they
hope the stress of all this won't

aggravate your suffering.

Are you well enough to
answer a few questions?

Yes, I am.

If you find any of this
too difficult, we will stop.

Mrs Hulsey, are either
of your parents alive?

No. Neither of them are.

Could you tell the court
how they died, Mrs Hulsey?

My Lord, my learned friend
persists on calling the claimant "Mrs".

She knows from the reams
of documents that she is Ms.

Yes. As a courtesy, you might
use the witness's correct title,

Miss Channing.

I do beg your pardon, Ms Hulsey.

- You are an unmarried mother.
- Yes, I am.

This situation must
cause you added stress.

No. I chose it for myself.

You don't find not
having a partner's support,

making all the decisions
yourself, stressful?

Yes. Sometimes I wish the
father of Michael were around.

You must worry
about Michael's safety.

Of course. I'm his mother.

You were going to tell me
about the death of your parents.

What was the cause of death?

They both died of
cancer. Two years apart.

My mother died of
breast cancer in 1993.

And two years later, my
father died of a brain tumour.

Did anyone else in
your family die of cancer?

I don't know. I don't really
know my extended family.

If I have one.

Then possibly all of
them died of cancer.

Ms Hulsey?

- What was the question?
- Do you need to take a break?

- What was the question?
- Would you like me to stop?

No. I'm fine, thank you.

How well do you cope
with stress, Ms Hulsey?

Depends on the situation.

Did you scream at
an assistant in Tesco's

when they ran out
of Rice Krispies?

Become so angry the
police had to be called?

It wasn't just the Rice Krispies.
It had been a hectic day.

I'd had a headache for two days.

The assistant being rude
was just the last straw.

I'm sure everyone on the
jury has had those sort of days.

It's how we cope
with them that matters.

Look at item 33B.

Your annual assessment
from your supervisor,

the year before
you left the hospital.

"Dedicated to the work,
but needs to learn to relax.

"We fear she'll make herself ill and
totally alienate friends and colleagues

"unless she learns to cope
with everyday stresses."

She had no right to judge me.

Isn't it true that you
have alienated people?

Well, some people find it hard
to deal with the terminally ill.

Ms Hulsey, do you know the
theory Brain Tumour Trauma?

Yes. I've heard of it.

Can you recall a fairly recent
major trauma in your life?

Are you offering evidence
to support this argument?

I will be exploring
the hypothesis.

Well, as long as the jury
understands, this is only a hypothesis.

Ms Hulsey, I will
repeat the question.

Can you recall a fairly
major trauma in your life?

No, not really.

What's the biggest scare you've
had in the last two and a half years?

Once when Michael was
out alone for most of the night.

I thought the parent of a
school friend had picked him up.

She hadn't.

He couldn't find his way home.

It was 2:00 in the morning
before the police found him.

- It was terrifying.
- Yes.

It must have been.

Did you scream at the policewoman,
"If anything has happened to him,

- "I'll kill myself"?
- Well, I would have done.

I never let him out
of my sight any more.

Added to the stress you
were already suffering,

plus a possible family
predisposition to cancer,

mightn't this be the
cause of your tumour

rather than your mobile phone?

Thank you, Ms Hulsey.

Mrs Mills, we could
adjourn a little early.

I'll be brief, My Lord.

- Can you continue?
- Yes.

Ms Hulsey, can you tell the jury

what your son means to you?

What leaving him will
mean when you die?

I can't describe it.

Sometimes I sit with him
on his bed till he falls asleep.

Sometimes I sit there for hours
just watching him breathing.

He's the best thing that
ever happened to me.

And soon I'll be
leaving him alone.

I don't know that... If he
understands that it's forever.

What I'm most afraid of

is that I might die suddenly

and I won't be able to
say, "Goodbye, my darling.

"Mum will always be with you."

Why did you keep
our Beano books?

- And our three-legged dog stories?
- Tom used to read them to you.

Well, he won't be
reading them anymore.

Your children might.

It's the past, Mum.
It clutters up your life.

Everything is the past, Mark.

- It isn't clutter.
- Isn't that why we moved?

- What if we didn't have books?
- There's the internet.

- It's not the same.
- It's more up-to-date.

Did you think about
what Diana Hulsey asked?

I think you'd be mad
to even contemplate it.

It's up to you, Mum.

- I'll be away at university anyway.
- It's still your home and Tom's.

I can't believe you're seriously
thinking about lumbering yourself

with another kid. I mean,
could you even cope?

No, I suppose not.

I keep thinking about that
boy ending up on his own.

His mother doesn't seem to
have anyone else to turn to.

Not even any friends.

Well, these people always
seem to find you, don't they, Mum?

- You're a soft touch.
- Am I?

- I said no.
- Most people would just forget about it.

It may never happen. Doctors
often get these things wrong.

What if they get it entirely
wrong and she dies tomorrow?

I thought about giving up you
and Tom after your dad died.

I couldn't cope. I was too
depressed and exhausted.

I asked your grandma to take you
and do you know what she said?

Mum?

Can you even imagine
how Diana must be feeling?

No, not really.

Mary must be grateful
for some consistency.

I've pondered long and hard
over your hypothetical, Ian.

I assume it was hypothetical.

At the moment. It may become
fact and come to the court of appeal.

Ah, then perhaps I
shouldn't become involved.

- It may come to me.
- We'd make sure it didn't.

- Hello, Jerry.
- Morning.

I've taken the minds of Sean Arnold
and Matthew Waugh on the subject.

I'm intrigued, Joe.
Left, right and centre.

We were unanimous.

If a judge has a
relationship with a barrister,

being a witness of both
fact and character for him,

and subsequently has that
barrister before him in a case,

he must recuse himself or
run the risk of being overturned.

- Excellent.
- Er, Ian?

Sean thought it might be Deed.

Monty Everard was
complaining about him in the club.

Was he?

Dr Colbin,

when you were forced to abandon
Ms Hulsey's experimental therapy,

did you tell a Sergeant Bridges

that the reason was that One-Way
Phones had leaned on the hospital lawyers?

My Lord, my learned friend
is seeking to introduce this

- as if it were a statement of fact.
- I'm merely asking a question.

To besmirch my clients.

Address the court, not each other.
You should know better, both of you.

I'm sure Mrs Mills is
trying to do just that.

But it's a valid question.

I did say that, but
I'm not sure if it's true.

Then why say it?

Well, because I was cross
when I had to stop the treatment.

Have you been leaned on, too?

- My Lord...
- I'm sure the jury is curious

as to why the doctor's
changed his mind.

Answer the question, Doctor.

When my anger subsided,

I realised that I had been a little rash
when Sergeant Bridges spoke to me.

In other words, your job
has been made more secure

by a research programme
funded by One-Way.

The hospital is conducting
research funded by One-Way?

That has no bearing.

You didn't inform the claimant's
legal team about your change of mind?

No, sir. I didn't know I had to.

I was asked to
discuss Diana's tumour.

Do you wish to treat this
witness as hostile, Mrs Mills?

I do not.

Dr Colbin, is the brain tumour Ms
Hulsey is suffering from common?

No, but it's becoming
more common.

A GP who would have expected to
see one or two over an entire career

is now seeing two a year.

How long has this
incidence been rising?

Over the last decade.

Since the widespread
use of mobile phones.

My Lord, my learned
friend is leading the witness.

Yes, yes. Mrs Mills.

Dr Colbin, in your opinion,

is there any connection between
the rise in incidence of tumours

in this part of the brain and
the use of mobile phones?

There's no hard evidence.

Armac, I can't believe
you just did that.

Why did you do that?
You've ruined our case.

I'm sorry, Di. I just
can't talk at the moment.

They stopped my
treatment and you know why.

You should take their offer.

- You still can.
- You know I can't do that.

Not after what they've
done. You've helped them.

I trusted you. I thought
you were my friend.

The stress of all this
isn't helping your chances.

What you've done is taken away
any chance that Michael ever had.

Now he'll be left
alone with nothing.

Take the book in your hand
and read the card, please.

"I swear

"that the evidence I
shall give shall be the truth

"and nothing but
the truth as I know it."

You find the oath
inadequate, Professor?

I can only speak the
truth as I interpret it.

It is neither the
truth, the whole truth

nor nothing but the truth.

I appreciate your candour.

Professor, are you the
head of molecular neurology

- at Oxford University?
- You know I am.

Yes. It's for the court.

Have you become the
foremost expert on astrocytomas,

the type of brain tumour
Diana Hulsey has?

Well, that label has been
stuck on me, unfortunately.

Is this false modesty or are you
indeed highly qualified, Professor,

because the jury needs to know.

Let us say I know a
lot about such tumours.

Then we'll accept you as the
foremost expert in your field.

As such, can you tell us

why this sort of tumour is
on the increase, Professor?

Even with my grand label,
I can only give an opinion.

In my opinion, it's due to
the frequent and persistent

interruption of molecular activity
in the brain by microwaves.

Do we know what's
brought about this increase?

The increased use of television.

Microwave ovens, computers.

The single biggest
cause is mobile telephones

used against the
side of the head.

They create heating. They
interrupt the molecular connections.

They heat, in particular, the
cortical surface of the brain.

Due to the angle which
the phone is held at,

most microwaves are
directed to the parietal lobe.

- Is there any way to avoid this?
- Yes. Don't use mobile phones.

How long does the sort of tumour
that Ms Hulsey has taken to develop?

The time is infinitely variable.

These tests haven't been
done in humans, only animals.

But brain tumours are the
fastest growing cancers.

Three to six months from
the breakdown of cells

to detection would be usual.

- Did you examine Ms Hulsey?
- You know I did. You asked me to.

Did you draw any conclusion
as to the cause of her tumour?

In my opinion,

the persistent use of her
mobile phone was the cause.

How did you come to your conclusion
without putting humans at risk?

Humans are quite able
to put themselves at risk.

We use mice and extrapolate.

You surprise me.

Is a mouse the same as a human?

I've never seen one
using a mobile phone.

Well, you should
come to our laboratory.

Exposed to pulsed
900 megahertz radiation

for one hour a day
for three months,

mice show a significant
doubling of B-cell lymphomas.

Animal rights activists

claim that animals are so
significantly different from humans

as to render the
whole work unscientific.

Mmm. That is true of
many pharmaceutical trials.

Animals...

can be quite different from
humans in their responses.

Is much of this work inaccurate?

Most scientific work
is subject to error.

Could you have made an error
about Diana Hulsey's tumour?

It's possible.

So, what we have here is a
biased and error-prone opinion

extrapolated from mice.

Isn't it true that the
animals in your laboratory

are genetically modified so as to
render them more susceptible to cancer?

- That helps us accelerate the process.
- It distorts the tests.

All tests, by their very
nature, are distorted.

- Therefore inaccurate.
- Yes. Sometimes they are.

Why doesn't everybody who uses a
mobile phone develop a brain tumour?

For the same reason that all people
who smoke don't develop lung cancer

or develop breast
cancer from pesticides.

So, if Diana Hulsey were more
susceptible to this sort of tumour,

you think her mobile
phone could be incidental.

Yes?

It's possible.

With your leave, My Lord, I'd like to
call my next witness, Dr Angus Whitten.

Dr Whitten is a partner

in the research unit that
did the initial safety tests

on the ZP-9 phone. He's
here on a witness summons.

Thank you, Mrs Mills.

In view of the hour, I think Monday
morning will be more suitable.

All rise.

- Are they not coming down?
- No. Not until after the tribunal.

Charlie! Don't give an inch!

- The college agreed to that?
- We dug our heels in.

- We don't trust the faculty.
- What if it goes against you?

- Sir John.
- Vice-Chancellor.

Are you a participant in
our exercise in democracy?

- Oh, simply an observer.
- Ah.

You'll find it all above board.

Our case is very straightforward.
People are damaged by living and working

in close proximity to
mobile phone masts.

Mrs Burnham is a
mother of three children,

all under the age of 10 years
old. She was healthy and outgoing

until a mobile phone mast was
erected not within 15 metres of her home.

First she, then her middle
child, then her eldest child,

started to feel
nauseous headaches,

to get rashes on their skins,
to feel tired and lethargic.

The phone company
that erected the mast

said they were following
government guidelines.

But Mrs Burnham and her
three children are still sick

and have been for
the past 18 months.

Under common law, it can be
argued that this is an assault.

The phone mast that's on
college property is not 10 miles

from where we are right now.

Security's all over the
roof. Nick's been pushed off.

You two-faced,
scummy hypocrites!

- How's Nick?
- He's lucky to be alive.

He's broken his ankle, a
thigh bone and six of his ribs.

Well, you made the news. The
college has given way. No mast.

It's a crummy victory, Dad.

Well, they often are, Chaz,
even when you win at law.

- How's it going with your one?
- Oh, all right.

I'm just going through
some of the technical stuff.

- Is Rachel Crawcheck seeing anybody?
- I don't know.

- She doesn't want to see me anymore.
- Yeah, well, what do you expect?

I rather liked her.

And you liked Jo Mills, too, and
Carol. You should make up your mind.

Yeah, well, people like Jo
Mills and Carol and Rachel

make me wish I was
more than one person.

Make me wish that
could have more than one

life-affirming
relationship at once.

You need to see another
therapist, Dad. A man.

I think I'll save my money
and take you to dinner.

Dr Whitten, how long did your
lab do research for One-Way?

We were 15 months into
our second two-year contract.

Who terminated your services?

The marketing director, Max
Solveigh, on 12th of December, 2000.

Do you know why your
contract was terminated?

The reason given
was sloppy work.

- Had it been sloppy?
- If they say so.

Did you make sloppy mistakes?

- Everyone makes mistakes.
- Well, what were yours?

I can't remember.

Dr Whitten, are
you telling the court

that you can't remember
mistakes for which your company

had its contract terminated?

It was all rather vague.

Was not one of the so-called
"mistakes" your daring to show your client

high levels of heat-shock
proteins in the brain cells of mice?

Mice that had been
exposed to microwave levels

as those from the ZP-9 phone?

Look, I don't recall.

Are the heat-shock proteins
you discovered in test mice

so called because
of their response

to considerable rise in
temperature in the cells?

Yes, of course.

Ordinarily, a rise of at least 20
degrees centigrade is needed,

but you were recording
damage to the protein structure

in DNA and RNA cells at
much lower temperatures.

I really don't remember.

Then oblige us

by looking in your
bundle marked A.

Items 29A to 41A.

You will find copies of emails
between yourselves and One-Way.

Item 29A sets out
what you have found.

Each subsequent email further
argues the case, does it not?

It seems to.

You discover that exposing cells to
microwaves from the ZP-9 cell phone

heated cells of the brain

in such a way as to
damage protein structure.

- That appeared to be a conclusion.
- Have you since changed your mind?

We were taken off the case
before reaching further conclusions.

Would you read, please,
email 39A to the court?

"Max, unless you
drastically modify this one,

"you could be
marketing a time bomb."

Yes. I'm sure the
jury cannot hear that.

"Max, unless you
drastically modify this one,

"you could be
marketing a time bomb."

Are you sure your
man is reliable, Max?

He's expensive, but
you get what you pay for.

- What he'll do to Deed won't get undone.
- How long do we have to wait?

Dr Goodfellow, were
you until June of last year

employed by Crighton
Industries of Pennsylvania?

- Indeed, I was.
- Can you tell us what you did?

I was helping to develop
microwave components for industry.

- Was that for the mobile phone industry?
- A huge part of it was.

We were involved in trying to
make ever smaller circuits for phones.

Why did you leave
Crighton Industries?

Essentially, I was unhappy with the
way the products were being tested

by so-called
independent testers.

They would fund research units
at universities to do the testing.

They would even loan employees to
the Environmental Protection Agency

in order to get the
research passed.

That person would then
return to the company.

- You're saying they cheat?
- It's not called cheating.

- It's the politics of science.
- Thank you.

Did you see problems in the
results you were getting back?

I did.

The smaller the microprocessors,
the more they heated the tissue.

How was that?

You pass microwaves
through ever smaller gateways,

they heat the brain rather like a
magnifying glass concentrates the sun.

Did Crighton
Industries know these

concentrated microwaves were
damaging tissue in the brain?

I told them again and again.

Dr Goodfellow,

Dr Andrew Marcus Goodfellow,
MSc of Magdalen College, Oxford.

- Yes.
- Yes.

That's what it says
here on your CV.

Did you also do a degree course at
the Oxford Polytechnic, as it then was?

No. At Magdalen College.

An MSc from Oxford
sounds more prestigious

than one from the Polytechnic.

However,

there aren't any records of your
ever having been to Magdalen, Oxford.

I do have your graduation
record from the Poly.

Are you exhibiting
this, Mrs Channing?

Well, Dr Goodfellow?

- I suggest it's a mistake.
- I see.

A mistake.

What have you been doing
since you lost your job last June?

- Writing a book.
- Ah, aren't we all?

Can you avoid such comments?

Were you dismissed from
Crighton Industries for stealing?

No. I wasn't. I
wasn't. It's not true.

Your work permit was revoked
by the Labour Department.

That's the dirty tricks they used
because I threatened to expose them.

I put it to you, Dr Goodfellow,
that you are a thief and an impostor.

You take these cheap shots.
Well, let's see how you feel

in five or ten years' time
for your part in this deceit,

when there are tens of thousands
of people with brain tumours!

I think we'll let the
jury decide who it is

who's trying to
foster the deceit.

Did you know about his past?

There's only so much you
can reasonably ask about.

- Well, it's damaged our case.
- If the jury believe the defence.

Well, don't you?

Don't let it worry you.

Look, um, I'm sorry
about the other night.

You're right. It
might never happen.

My father was a
recovering alcoholic.

He wasn't sponging drinks
from the street or anything.

But I went with him to some of the
AA meetings and they had a sign.

It said, "Trust in the divine,
and take it a day at a time".

That advice does help.

Is he still around, your dad?

I've thought about
what you asked.

I don't know if I'd even be
up to such a responsibility.

I'm sorry. It's too much to ask.

What arrangements have
you made for Michael?

A day at a time.

Have we made our case?

Well, we still
have Josh Arditti.

The erased emails will show
the company knew the risk.

That only helps secure
damages if we convince the jury

the phone caused the tumour.

What's worrying you, Jo?

I keep thinking about that
little boy being left all alone

and what'll happen
if we fail him.

- Night, Mike.
- George.

I thought we were
meeting at the Mirabelle.

Yeah, well, I don't
want to talk there.

George.

I've just come from a meeting
with the party chairman.

He wants to know why we're not
taking control of the cell phone case.

We are. We're way ahead.

That's not the view of Tim
Listfield or Max Solveigh.

Their shares
slipped again today.

Well, I hope they've
enough left to pay me.

Listfield is mad enough to do
something stupid if he loses.

He's not losing.

George, half a billion slashed
off your shares is losing.

Well, what do you expect me to
do? Tell my ex to roll over and die?

Well, that's Listfield's view.

Is my note-taking that bad?

Coop?

- How'd that get there?
- Well, I...

just saw the cursor
flashing and I opened the file.

It's awful.

How do you know it's not mine?

I wouldn't believe
that in a million years.

Why?

Well, I know you, Judge.

You wouldn't have anything
to do with this. It's vile.

Well, thank you for
your faith in me, Coop.

But that's all it is, isn't it?

And hitherto respectable
people, like doctors and teachers

and policemen

and magistrates download
child pornography, why not me?

But you wouldn't have
anything to do with this.

They're closing in on me.

Who, Judge?

Well, whoever turns up to
discover this, I would imagine.

- You should go to DAC Colemore.
- It would look like I'm covering up.

Well, it will if you
don't go to the police.

And if I do, the newspapers
will have it within hours

and my reputation
will be torn to pieces.

See if Mrs Channing's
arrived, would you?

And ask her to come here.

Mrs Channing, the Judge
would like a word in chambers.

What have I done wrong now?

- And me, Mrs Cooper?
- No. Just Mrs Channing.

Thanks, Coop.

Are you trying to
make Jo jealous?

When you had Charlie warn me to
be careful, what had you in mind?

John, has something happened?

Look on the screen.

Oh, dear God!

How did they put it there?

Who are they, George?

Why did you ask
Charlie to warn me?

- Nothing specific.
- Something must have prompted it.

Just that you're up against
people who don't care how they win.

Yes. Your clients, George.

John,

Neil and Sir Ian Rochester
won't hesitate to exploit this.

What are you going to do?

Sooner or later, someone will turn
up to find it. I'll wait and see who.

- That's terribly risky.
- Yes.

Items 29A to 41A in
your bundle marked A.

Could you tell us what they are?

They're copies of emails
sent by the research lab

to the One-Way Phone Company

between November
2000 and December 2000.

They had been erased by
One-Way and recovered by me.

I must protest this
outrageous assertion.

If my learned friend would
allow me to examine the witness

before she interrupts, she would
find that it is not an assertion.

Yes, we should wait to see what
the claimant's barrister has to say.

Were they all you
recovered, Mr Arditti?

I also recovered erased
emails sent from One-Way.

Items 42A to 53A.

Are these the recovered e-mails?

- Yes, they are.
- There is no evidence

to suggest my clients
erased these emails.

That's what we shall see.

Can you tell at which terminal the
emails or the material was erased?

All these emails here came from the
terminal used by the personal assistants

to Tim Listfield
and Max Solveigh.

Would you read out
items 40 and 52A?

40A is from Angus
Whitten. It reads,

"Max,

"our findings indicate that
the radiation from the ZP-9

"heats brain tissue to a level
where there is protein damage

"in both DNA and RNA.

"You could be
marketing a time bomb."

- And 52A?
- 52A is a reply from Solveigh.

"We've spent far too
much on R&D to turn back.

"I want another result."

What says that these emails

were written or erased by
any of the named directors?

They came from
their workstations.

That wasn't what you
were asked, Mr Arditti.

I can't say if they actually
sent or erased the emails.

Someone could've
hacked into their computers

and set this up?

It's possible.

- Without them knowing?
- Of course.

Thank you, Mr Arditti.

Would you ask Sergeant Bridges
to come to chambers? He's in court.

- It is pretty nasty, My Lord.
- Well, what do you advise, Jay?

- That you report it, sir.
- Can we find out who put it there?

It depends how clever they are.

Well, how do you get something
like this onto somebody's computer

without their knowing?

There's a renegade program
called Back Orifice, sir.

Anyone competent can work it.

If you stay logged on, they can
even come in via your mobile phone.

Can't they be traced?

They use proxy servers
all over the world.

You could go mad looking and
end up back where you started.

I can't get rid of this, can I?

You can overwrite
it a dozen times.

Police forensics will
still find its shadow.

- There is another way, sir.
- Sir Monty Everard, Judge.

He wants to come along right
away, with Sir Ian Rochester.

- Yeah, all right.
- Yes. He's free, My Lord.

- Net's about to close.
- What do you want me to do, sir?

What can you do in
the next five seconds?

Thought you'd get here sooner.

- You were expecting us?
- Since about 9:50 this morning.

We need to speak to you
on a very private matter.

This is Sergeant Bridges.

I've asked him here to investigate
that for which I suspect you're here.

The department has
received a call from the police.

This is very awkward, Sir John.

They received a complaint that you
have been downloading child pornography.

Did you believe them, Ian?

We cannot allow such things to
be said about a High Court judge.

That's not what I asked.

If it does prove to be true,
the scandal will be such

that the Queen will be compelled
to ask for your resignation.

Yes. My question is, Monty,

are you dupes in this or more
instrumental than I care to believe?

That is a monstrous suggestion.

No more so than you coming
here assuming that it's true.

Is it true, Sir John?

Who reported it to the police?

I didn't ask. And I'm not
sure they'd say anyway.

They would if you'd forced
their hands, they'd have to.

There is a tradition
that one does not

probe into police sources
too deeply, Sir John.

Oh, really?

I am obliged to ask,

is there child pornography
on your computer?

Why is it I'm not more
shocked that you ask?

You will have to give up
your computer, Sir John.

The police will need to
examine it for its contents.

Why would I let you do that?

Are you hiding something?

Perhaps I can help find
the material for you, sir.

Well?

Well, Mac?

We cannot allow a High Court
judge to be falsely accused.

Now this thing has started,

we will need to examine
the contents of your computer,

- with or without your consent, Sir John.
- Yes.

Will that be before or after I've
finished the case I'm hearing?

- What have you done with it?
- I had to erase it, sir.

They'll know there was a file erased.
You've made me part of a conspiracy.

- Though I can get it back, sir.
- So can they.

- How much time have we got?
- It may already be too late, sir.

Excuse me, My Lord. Mrs Mills is
here. She hasn't got an appointment.

Yes, fine.

John, there are rumours
all over chambers

about a judge downloading
child pornography.

Let's go outside.

- Does George know these people?
- If she does, she's not saying.

No one is going to believe
that you're involved, John.

The Presider was prepared
to, so was Ian Rochester.

It might already be too late.

- Can Sergeant Bridges help?
- Maybe.

They can't do anything anyway
without this and the information inside it.

In the meantime,
Sergeant Bridges is trying to

find a way to get rid of the
porn without leaving any trace.

John, you will win.

Ah!

I hope I'm going to be reimbursed
for dining all these judges, Ian.

Did we get the
response we require?

My brethren are appalled.

However, they wait to see
the evidence against Deed,

as one would expect. We are
going to get the evidence, Ian?

Oh, we are. We're just taking
the mind of some of the cabinet,

then we grab Deed's computer.

With your leave, My
Lord, I call Joan Aylsford.

She's the senior personal assistant in
the One-Way Phone Company boardroom.

You calling any of the
directors of One-Way?

It's not felt they
can add anything.

I check all email traffic.
I've never seen these emails.

Do you see every email
that comes to the directors?

Yes. In and out.

Items 29A to 41A

and items 42A to 53A.

I've never seen any of them.

If they didn't emanate from
the directors' computers,

how did they end up retrieved
from your server's electronic dustbin?

Anyone could've dumped
them there to discredit us

using a rogue program
like Back Orifice.

Have you no shame?

You coached that witness using
exactly what you'd heard from John.

- Don't know what you're talking about.
- You don't? It would be a first.

We lost. They out-manoeuvred us.

The phone company is putting up
their mast on a local primary school.

Dad, they're polluting children.

Chaz, the people who
run these companies

don't wake up in the morning
saying, "Who can we harm today?"

Scientists tell them that there's
no harm from phones or masts.

Oh, we'll see in five or ten
years and then it'll be too late.

Then get rid of your phone. Say,
"No, we won't use them anymore."

- It won't happen.
- Well, make it happen.

One phone at a
time. Yours first!

You do it for the
animals over cruelty.

- Are you all right?
- Yeah.

Just a bit tired, that's all.

- Hello.
- Sir Ian.

Is this fatigue, Ian,
or over-confidence?

I do beg your pardon, My Lord.

In our judicial system,

we have a trial
before the sentence.

You may think you have something
on me. I know nothing about it.

We are entirely
confident about that.

However, on advice
from the Attorney General,

we are prepared to
seek a warrant to seize

and search your computer files.

We would prefer to have your
permission for the police to have access.

I'm sure you would.

Your permission would've made
the whole process less painful

and less public.

Michael!

Come on, lovey. We'll be late.

- Michael, I'll be late for court.
- All you care about is your stupid case.

Mum!

Mum!

Like each and every one of
us, Diana Hulsey is a consumer.

Like most of us,
she led a busy life,

running a post-cancer
counselling practice in the NHS,

a home, bringing up her son.

Like you and me,

she relies on the truth of
what manufacturers tell us

about their products.

Not the sales hype, but the bald
facts about their specifications.

We have shown that the
One-Way Phone Company

was less than honest
about their ZP-9 phone.

They lied about its lethal
potential to cook the brain,

and as a result, Diana Hulsey,
who used the phone freely,

developed a tumour
from which she will die,

leaving a seven-year-old
dependent son.

Mrs Mills?

You all right, Mrs Mills?

It is with much regret...

Diana Hulsey suffered a severe cerebral
haemorrhage and died on her way...

I'm very sorry to hear that.

She was a courageous
young woman.

What's happened to her son?

Where is he?

He's been taken into
care by the Social Services.

I see.

Thank you, Mrs Mills.

- My Lord, in the circumstances...
- Would the jury go out, please?

Yes?

In these tragic circumstances,

I am compelled to ask that the
case against my clients be dismissed.

I hardly see why, Mrs Channing.

The claimant's right of
action, as you well know,

survives for the
benefit of the estate.

Ms Hulsey has a dependent son.

Perhaps counsel for the
claimant's estate would now wish to

reconsider the defendant's
earlier settlement offer.

My Lord, I hardly
think that still stands.

I didn't hear them
withdrawn, Mrs Channing.

My Lord, could I
consult with my clients?

Yes, yes, yes, feel free.

Judge, Sergeant Bridges
has brought in Josh Arditti.

He can't.

I think you need more time,
Mrs Channing. Until the morning.

Max.

George, nothing this judge
says will have any credibility.

He's a dead duck.

What's happening?

Your opponents know
what they're doing, sir.

Mr Arditti is a witness in a case
before me. He shouldn't be here.

I couldn't get rid of the
pornography. It's beyond my expertise.

- He's your only hope, sir.
- That's very ironical.

What I can do, Judge, is
download everything but the porn

from the old hard drive on your
laptop onto a new hard drive.

To do that, I have to
connect to the server.

Soon as I do, they'll
know what we're doing.

Perhaps I should just
resign myself to fate.

Mrs Mills would like to speak to
you, Judge. It is a private matter.

Are you totally cracked?
This boy is not your concern.

- His name is Michael.
- I don't care what he's called.

Diana Hulsey was a
client. You hardly knew her.

You don't know her son at all.

I know what he must be
feeling, hurt and scared.

Yeah, well, so are half
the kids in the world,

are you gonna mother them all?

I wasn't asked to look
out for them, only Michael.

Not looking out for
him! If you get involved,

it'll be a full-time job.

- It's called commitment, John.
- Yeah, and it'll be total.

- Once you start, you can't walk out.
- Yeah.

It'll be difficult and
inconvenient at times.

Difficult? Inconvenient?
Jo, you won't have a life!

Well, that's what happens
when you get involved.

You give up a certain amount.
That's what makes us human!

Jo, Jo, listen. You
are getting emotional

because you think that
you failed his mother.

You didn't. She was dying anyway.
This boy is not your responsibility.

Okay. What if someone
had said that about you?

What if your mum and dad had not
made that commitment to adopt you?

They put their hands up!

Diana Hulsey obviously caught
you at your lowest emotional point.

Oh, I'd love to be God. Must
make you feel very secure.

Or perhaps you just
don't feel anything.

No, no. Probably not.

- George.
- Neil.

- You didn't say you were coming down.
- I'm seeing Monty Everard.

It's the moment
of truth for Deed.

What can you do to him? Nothing.

We are going to spread
his entrails out for the crows.

Yes! We're cooking.

Someone's downloading all
the files off Sir John's computer.

Well, stop whoever it is.

- I can't.
- You must!

At least until the police
get here with a warrant.

Why don't you take some dock
officers and just seize his computer?

You're the Presider,
Monty. Why don't you?

Where's the evidence? Where?

The police were informed
it's there on his computer.

What, it's not there, Ian?
Is that what you're saying?

The judges I talked to are
demanding to see the evidence, Ian.

That's what we're
trying to secure here.

Well, there must
be other evidence.

The Attorney General
said the pornography

needs to be in his
computer to be effective.

We will be reviled and castigated
by the brethren for our impotence.

Who cares about that?

I care, sir! I care a great deal
what my brothers think of me.

They've downloaded it
onto a new hard drive.

You must seize it quickly, sir.

Why can't anyone
take control of this man?

Everything but the porn is
downloaded onto the clean drive.

Get the dock officers.

- The Presider's coming.
- Come on, come on.

I suggest you destroy that, sir.

- That is LCD property, Sir John.
- Well, help yourself.

Why did you react
that way about the boy?

I don't know. You're
the therapist. You tell me.

I'm not your therapist.
Only you have the answer.

It's a big commitment. She
shouldn't burden herself.

Well, women make such commitments
every day. Where's the problem?

Jo is a great barrister. She
will go on to make a fine judge.

She won't if she
diverts herself like this.

Are you still in love with her?

Perhaps it's you who doesn't want
the commitment, the responsibility.

I can't help you, John.

Try it.

See what it feels like.

What's it to be, Tim?

- If they win?
- We would appeal.

Another case.
More bad publicity.

All rise.

Mrs Channing.

My Lord,

my clients are prepared
to reinstate their offer

for the benefit of the
claimant's dependent child.

This is subject to
certain conditions.

Is counsel for the claimant
agreeable to the settlement?

- I am, My Lord.
- I see.

There is still a major
question to answer.

Do mobile phones
damage the user?

It will have to
await another case.

I'm sure there will be many.

Well, as much as we
might despise Deed,

it is now incumbent upon
you to apologise to him.

I would not, sir. Not
before hell freezes over.

You did his reputation
a great deal of harm

speaking so precipitously to
our brethren without any evidence.

- Well, it's all Ian Rochester's fault.
- Yes, well, he must apologise as well.

Not to do so would be
to imbrute the bench.

- Monty.
- Terror. Oh, no.

When are we starting
this rape case?

Joseph Channing.

Ah. Vera.

Hello.

- It's been a long time.
- Too long.

Why didn't you tell
me about their offer?

- How much was it?
- £25,000, plus school fees.

- Well, that'll go nowhere.
- In trust, every year,

until he finishes university.

You going to see the boy?

- His name is Michael.
- Yes, I know.

So what will you do?

I don't know. You're right. It
is a massive responsibility.

If I go and see him, it'll
be hard to walk away.

You can't just leave him
there and not see him.

Well, I hardly think
Social Services

will let me breeze
in there and take him.

Are you kidding? They're
crying out for good foster parents.

You do realise that we wouldn't
have a moment to ourselves, don't you?

"We" wouldn't?

Come on, Mimi. Let's go
and see if Michael likes dogs.

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