All language subtitles for Silk s01e05.eng

Billy said this judge might be
a reference for my application. He said that to me, too.

Your silk application
is unlikely to fail.

You're headhunting me.
Clive's offered me tenancy.

What he wants you to go with him?
You don't have a choice.

You'd be tainted if you stayed.
You were going to say yes to him.

Gary Rush is a horrible
burglar with pages of form.

Say hello to Martha Costello,
tell her she's the girl for me.

I'm pregnant.
I just thought you should know, and it's your right as a father...

I don't want anything from you.

You're keeping it? Billy,

we're not sure how he fits in.

What did you think, Miss?
What Billy does is invisible.

He does things that we don't see
and probably don't even want to see.

We employ him,
not the other way round.

I want you on the inside
of this coup, working for me, feeding me everything I need to know.

I think if Martha came over to us
the rest of Chambers would follow.

PHONE RINGS

Return, just came in
from Paper Lane.

We don't want their sloppy seconds.

You'll want this. Tony Paddick.

I'll call you back. This is
the same Tony Paddick, I take it?

They had some QC on it. Baines.

Yep, well, his murder
trial ran on, no-one else on their chambers was free, so...

So it's landed on out lap. Big kudos
for us, acting for both sides.

When is it listed again? Tomorrow.

Oh, fun and games. Somehow we got to
squeeze in one more trial.

Miss Costello, Mr Reader.

Silk interviews. Means one of them
going to have rather a busy day.

Bingo.

You got it yet?

What? The answer.

Eight words or less.

That's what they said.

If you can sum it up in eight words,

then you don't know what
the answer is.

Why do you want to take Silk?

Because I'm a competitive bastard.
Five. Five words. You?

The money's good. Three.

Yeah, great. We're all set.

Any problems? They don't make
decent suits for women who are 14 weeks pregnant.

I meant the interview training.
Cost us a bomb sending both of you.

Don't criticise your colleagues,
try and sum up the reason for applying in eight words.

Eight words?

To get Billy off my back.

Yes. Two days' work.

Return came in this morning.

You promised me
you'd keep the day free.

I promised that,
if we're not busy. We are.

Tony Paddick?
He's that teacher. Remember him? Beat the shit out of that kid?

I don't do prosecution.
Why, you got no chums in CPS?

No, I don't go drinking
with policemen.

You need a good prosecution under
your belt before this interview.

Easy win, a slam dunk, bosh. Noah?

200 kids in that playground.
One of them filmed it. CPS are expecting you this morning.

Take a cab on me.

Thank you very much, sir. Bye now.

Camden Mags, drunk driver. When?

Tomorrow. What did you say?
I said thank you. Oh, spiffing. Let's cram another one in, shall we?

Nice suit you're wearing there,
Miss Brockman.

Whatever it is,
I don't have a window in my week.

Come on, Miss, how can you say no
to a face like that?

OK, how about piss off? Is that
in my list of options? Always.

Been a long time. Oh, hello, Martha.

What? Been a long time since
we were against each other.

Tony Paddick.
Oh, please don't tell me.

As of nine o'clock this morning.

We should just carve it out.

Hang on. You haven't even got
the ribbon off yet.

PHONE RINGS

Ah. It's always about now. What?

Scavenging. There's always
a trolley here mid-morning. It's not what I meant.

Been with us, what, three months?

It's always about now
the old bank account runs thin. I missed my breakfast.

Long enough to use up the overdraft
but not long enough to start getting paid properly.

It's always the ones that aren't
spoony, that don't have a silver...

Silver spoon in their mouth.

Yeah. Want a brief?

Please, yeah. It'll pay for
the shopping and the rent.

Camden Mags. Drink driving.

Mitigation. Cheers. When?

Tomorrow.

I'm kind of at a loose end, is there
anything you need me to do?

I'm busy reviewing old cases.

Oh, right, of course,
your interview this week.

Is there anything I can do to help?

You know, take the pressure off?

You could work in the library.

What? Give me some space.

Most helpful, really.

Ask around, see if anyone else
has got work.

What's going on? Oh, it's
probably best, you and I... What?

You and I, what?

Don't make this difficult.

The baby doesn't change
anything, Clive.

I don't expect you to start
planning your life around us.

Martha?

Fees, a selection of briefs,
one guy in charge of everything, the system isn't working.

You're concerned
because you can't get on with him.

I'm concerned because it's starting
to feel like a dictatorship.

He's our face. He's our public face.
He's the link between us and the rest of the legal establishment.

They all come with an Essex accent.

For God's sake,
this isn't a class thing.

He's getting very reckless.

There's a group of us, we think
we should rationalise...

Look, look, you want me in your gang
when you kick Billy out the door.

I'm suggesting that
we redefine his role.

Sorry, no.
Let's not talk about this again.

Ever. Feels dirty.

I've blown it. What?

Chambers? Tenancy? Clive's just
asked me to move out of his room.

What did he say?
He says that he needs some space.

Um, he's got his interview
this week.

I'm sure it's nothing
to worry about.

What are you doing?

Drink driving.

You've got a brief in your name?!

Yep. See? I told you.
That proves it, you're in, I'm out.

Might as well pack up my stuff now.

Billy just happened to
walk past me and...

Niamh!

Ah, ah, ah! Oh.

20, Wimpole Street, please.

Sorry, you've been waiting.

Miss Costello? Martha.

I can give you a few minutes.

Tony Paddick's just landed with me.

And you're familiar with it?
I've read the file.

So, you've got questions. One. OK.

Attempted murder
very hard to make it stick.

That's not a question.

I can phrase it like a question.
You're worried that the charge...

It's notoriously difficult to prove.

You want to change it?

Tony Paddick lost his temper.

He was wound up by
some kids in his class.

I can't see intent, can you?

Your predecessor?

He didn't have a problem with it?
No. Great.

Well, he passed you up for
another case and I at the helm now and I'm afraid I do.

So perhaps you could set aside
some time and try to convince me.

What did she say?
She gave me a lecture.

Her Joan of Arc impression.
We've all had that before, haven't we?

I'm really sorry, I don't know where
she is. I'm really sorry, Mr Rush.

Don't give me
"I really sorry, Mr Rush."

What's he doing here?
Says he's got a con booked.

But there's nothing in the diary
and Miss Costello's not here.

I'll handle it.

HE SIGHS

What do you mean?
I mean, she's unavailable.

She's double booked.

If you want, you can
discuss your concerns with me.

Are those stockings or tights?

Shall we talk about the trial?

Which ones does Miss Costello wear?

This is a teacher who's
been singled out, victimised.

It's a pretty tough school
and there's a whole gang of kids got it in for him.

All this stuff they've
plastered on the internet, it must have got to him.

Common sense says he just snapped.

Look, I have to stand up in court
tomorrow and try and persuade the jury that the charge should stick.

Attempted murder.

Well, quite frankly, I don't see it.

So?

Section 20, GBH will get a
guilty plea, I guarantee it.

Can I ask you a question? Sure.

How much time have you given this?

Nine months this has been
on my desk, and you've come in here to steer me straight.

I call it as I see it.

You've done the deal
already, I suppose? What?

His counsel is a colleague of yours.

We haven't discussed it. Same
chambers. We haven't discussed it.

I don't appreciate being undermined.

I came to you first.

You should read the brief. In full.

I mean, you should devote more
time to this than just a taxi ride.

Three minutes, between the attack
and the end of the lesson.

He didn't
lose his temper in the classroom.

Lesson ended, he went to his office.

Three minutes later the boy knocked
on the door. Paddick invited him.

Three minutes is easily enough time
to plan and execute a murder.

This internet hate campaign,
he became obsessed.

Thinks he spots the boy responsible.

Post-traumatic retrograde amnesia.

He beat him so hard, the kid
can't even remember what happened.

Couldn't Prosecute Satan...

BOTH: CPS...
I've heard that joke before.

Yes, but how do you think
these things get started?

Two barristers do a deal on the sly,
try to kick our legs out.

We haven't discussed it yet.

Section 20. Of course not.

I've been looking for you all day.

I was at the CPS.
I've got a case tomorrow.

Ah, good. Well, congratulations.

Drink driving. Guilty plea, just
over the limit, drove off the road.

What's his mitigation,
make the judge's heart melt?

I don't want to cock it up.

I need a script. Please.

Two minutes.

Right, so...
No previous, won't reoffend.

Other people's live destroyed
if he goes to jail.

You've got to make him seem like
a special case worthy of redemption,

so find something,
anything to hang it on.

Right. That is brilliant.

No, that's standard stuff.
Stuff you should know. I can't always hold your hand.

Miss? I'm up to my ears.

What do you need, Jake? Your con.

You forgot it. Miss Cranitch did it?

What con? I didn't have a con.

Seriously, all he wanted
to talk about. Your clothes?

Did it bother me
that I always had to wear black?

Spent more time staring at my
tights than at my face. Creepy guy.

Thank you.

Jake said it could've turned nasty.

Martha? The work that Clive's giving
me, it isn't really filling my day.

It would be good if I could
work with you on this.

Aggravated burglary with attempt
to commit a sexual assault.

I'm already
familiar with all the details.

I think you should ask him first.

You were right.

It's embarrassing for him
having me around all the time.

I need a new mentor.

I intend to steer clear of him
socially from now on.

Kennedy's or the Wig and Brief?
Sorry? I'm buying you a drink.

Somewhere that
isn't round the corner.

CAR ALARM BLARES

CREAKING

CLATTERING, SHE GASPS

TELEPHONE RINGS
Do you reckon it was him?

I don't want to speculate thank you,
but somebody definitely broke in.

Have you told the police?
About my stockings?

You're right, it bit late for that.

You should've told them
about the medal.

Morning, Miss.

All geared up for today? Two of Shoe
Lane's finest, going head-to-head.

Mmm. A word.

Do you think she's going to make a
complaint? It won't be official.

What exactly did you
do to upset her? Attempted murder.

It's the wrong call. I told her.
So now she thinks you in cahoots with Mr Zeigler?

It's always delicate when both
sides are in the same chambers but she'll get over it.

We have to be extra cautious.
Separate clerks, Chinese wall.

That bit excessive.

I don't want to give her
any cause to criticise. Fine.

Right, Chinese wall it is.

Miss Costello is in here,
I'll take care of her.

John handles
Mr Zeigler in the clerks' room.

Don't put anything
in their pigeon holes unless it's sealed in an envelope.

What's going on in there?

A Chinese wall.

The MP3 stuff you asked for.

Shall we, maybe, start again?

We're not flatmates.
We don't need to get along.

I just thought it might be easier.

All set. Ready to take him down.

Got my truncheon, knuckle duster.

I need to give you this. An advice.
I don't understand.

I want it on record, in the file,
I think attempted murder is the wrong call. But we agreed.

Yeah. You're paying for it,
so if it's what you want,

it's what you're getting.

Excuse me.

All right.
If you'd like to follow me.

Thank you. All rise.

HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

"Rational". Bet you're going to say
that word a hundred times today.

Please don't talk to me.

Yes, Miss Costello.

The bell went.
I saw Tony in the corridor.

What was he doing?
Just walking, over to the office.

And how did he seem?
Was he... rational?

He seemed normal, yes.

And what happened next?

I went outside on duty. Next thing
one of the children came to find me.

She was sobbing.

Said there'd been a fight.

I mean, I just assumed that...

Obviously, I just thought
it was just kids. I went into the office and found them.

Tony was sitting at his desk.
Sean was lying on the floor.

And was he conscious?

No...

He wasn't moving.

And what were the
nature of his injuries?

His...

His face... was
just a mass of blood.

So much blood.

I just...

didn't recognise him.

I was in the office.

Free second lesson. The bell rang.

Tony came in just a moment later.

I was marking books
so I didn't chat to him.

The phone went, Tony answered.

What was the phone call about?

I didn't hear
the whole conversation.

I was leaving. And how did he seem?

Was he shouting?

He was just conversing normally.

He appeared to be having
a rational conversation?

Yes. Sean the pupil, he knocked
on the door as I was going.

To be clear - Tony Paddick
left his classroom,

went back to his office,
took a call and all this time, he was conversing normally.

Is there a question, Miss Costello?

Do you like Tony Paddick?

I don't know him well.

He'd worked at the school
three years. You shared an office.

Do you like him?

I suppose.

And did you know about the
internet campaign against him?

Yes. And did you talk about it ever?

No, never. Did you ever
talk about professional problems?

Well, this was personal.

How is it personal when students
are involved?

How is it personal?

Did Tony Paddick ever see
his students outside of school?

There was a party.

Tony Paddick
socialised with his pupils?

A 16th birthday,
one of them invited him.

And you thought
that he shouldn't go?

There price you pay
for crossing those boundaries.

He became the centre of gossip
and the kids,

they all started to target
him afterwards.

How did you know?

One of the photos on a webpage.

Sir at a party. Jury cares if he
lusting after 16-year-old girls.

They've got children, too.

We just kicked out his character.

Take a seat,
your barrister's not here yet.

Oh no, no, no, I'm not the client.
I'm here to meet the Turleys.

Why are we meeting here and not
at Chambers? Disabled access.

His wife's in a wheelchair.

Thank you. Pleasure.

Amy, which English set are you in?

Five. And who's your teacher?

Mr Paddick. And is it a good set?

Is it the top set? It's bottom.

Describe the lesson for
me on that day. Normal.

I mean, lots of noise and that.

What kind of noise?
Jokes, people not concentrating.

And how did Mr Paddick react?

OK, I guess. And where was Sean?

He was sitting near the window.
He had headphones and Paddick...

Mr Paddick came and took them away.

Just the headphones?

And Sean's MP3 player.

Mr Paddick said that he could
come and get them at break.

So he invited him
to come back at break.

Where?

He told him to come
over to his office.

Amy, were you ever at a party
that Mr Paddick attended? Yes.

And what went on at that party?

Just... dancing.

Was Mr Paddick dancing?

Yes. Slow dancing?

I suppose.

Did you dance with him?

Loads of us did. But did you?

Yes. Thank you, Amy.

Thank you so much, Amy.
You've been really helpful.

Did you see the uniform?

The girl? Brand new.

Yep. So? So she's 16,
about to leave school,

and they buy her
a whole new uniform.

I bet her real skirt's
only half that length.

Sexually provocative teenager.
They dress her up so he looks like the evil-doer.

Don't want to risk the jury feeling
too sorry for him. Yes, exactly, so why hasn't Noah pounced on it?

Of course I know we
should have got a taxi.

There's no point in saying it now.

Taxis can be difficult, most of
them, it's tough to get the chair in.

It's not an excuse. I know
I'll have to pay for what I did.

You were both in the car?
And the little 'un.

We had a family party.

My brother's finally got engaged.

Only live a few streets away, so
people keep filling up your glass. You lose count, you know.

Um, Mr Turley,
we need to make you a special case.

You've already pleaded guilty,
and the probation service have filed a pre-sentence report.

Now, there's likely to
be a prison sentence,

but the length of the sentence
depends on what happens next.

What is it? Second six?

Tell Billy he's an arsehole.

What? Taking stuff like this,
farming it out to the diaper crew.

You think I'm too inexperienced?

Two-year-old and wife
in a wheelchair.

Cock this up, and I will kill you.

Three years.

I did my teacher training straight
from college, my first school. I've been there three years this autumn.

And has it been a happy time?
The first two years. More recently?

The kids have not been easy.

In the classroom?
Yes. There's one or two.

We can't all get along.

There's a few kids that have
taken against me, I suppose, made things quite... unpleasant.

How did they do that? Firstly,
there was stuff drawn on my car.

It became a sort of ritual.

Then the flat. They came to
my flat and broke a window.

I thought - I hoped -
maybe if I just ignored it, maybe it would stop.

But then they started
posting stuff on the internet.

Your Honour, if I may, I'd like to
read a couple of passages from the internet message board in question.

Do I have it? It's 21.

These were posted on 20th March
on the webpage entitled

"Paddick beat it upright."
I'm not familiar with the term.

It's rap metal song
and slang phrase.

It's a page where people fantasise
about your sexual habits, yes? Yes.

"Paddick beats off under
the desk in class, I seen him..."

"Tony P sniffs kiddy knickers,"
and so on.

Your Honour, there are over
200 such messages here, all posted on the same networking site,

all between March and July
of last year.

Your Honour, is there a
question on its way for Mr Paddick?

Were you aware of the webpage?

Yes, I was.

A kid in my form said he'd seen it,
so I went online to look.

And how did it make you feel
seeing what they wrote about you, reading these fantasies online?

Obviously, I felt sickened.

Did you report it? I told the Head.

There was a brief investigation.

Why did you become a teacher?

I wanted to do something meaningful.

Not a very fashionable word.

And has it been
the career you hoped for?

Relevance?
My client's mental state...

It wasn't Mr Chips.

I mean, he didn't have
teenagers smearing excrement

on his windows, posting
condoms through his letterbox.

And why did you attack Sean?
I'd had enough. I snapped.

Did you intend to kill him? No, no.

Absolutely not.

Thank you.

Miss Cranitch not here? No.
I've asked her to work elsewhere.

Busy week. Interview.

Mm. And with a new little Reader
on the way, don't want your exes

cluttering up your life.
Billy, you're starting to forget your manners lately.

I mean, don't get me wrong,
I've always found your boorish attitude charming.

I'd just hate to see it
get you into trouble.

Well, let her know there's some
work going begging, will you?

Thanks.
I hate to see talent going to waste.

Billy? Yes, Miss.

All that confusion
about Clive leaving.

You know my loyalty
isn't to him, it's to Chambers.

Yes, Miss.

A blur?

Yes, it was. Your word, a "blur"?

Yes. Are there any aspects of
the attack that you do remember?

You remember him
coming to your office? Yes.

Remember him coming to collect the
MP3 player that you'd confiscated?

Yes.
And then the next part is a blur?

Did he speak to you?

He muttered something. Muttered?

"Letch".

And then you snapped? Yes I did.

Have you been called names
by students before?

It goes with the turf.
Have you ever lashed out before?

Never.
Why did you confiscate the player?

I could hear it in my lesson.

What song?

I don't recall.

Your Honour, a print out
from Sean McDaid's laptop.

It's a catalogue of all
the songs in his library.

"Beat It Upright".

I don't know rap songs.

You know those lyrics, though.

You'd seen them before on a webpage.

A webpage where you
didn't know the author.

But Sean McDaid
had that song on in your lesson.

He had it up loud, loud enough
to hear the words,

loud enough to provoke you
in the classroom.

How long had you been trying to
find the author of that webpage?

Months. Were you angry?

Well, obviously.

What made you angry?

Are you serious? Mr Paddick.

What made you angry?

"Paddick jerks off under the desk
in lessons", "Paddick feels up all the girls after class".

It wasn't one, it was all of them,
every message.

I wanted to teach, that's
the reason I took the position, to teach children English.

Did you attend a student party?

It was a mistake.
So the answer is yes.

Yes, I did, some kids invited me.
Did you dance? Yes. With students?

Yes, I realised my mistake.

What mistake?

I became the centre of attention.
Because you danced?

Because teenage girls have fantasies
and because teenage boys become angry and jealous and irrational.

I danced with a couple of students,
and it left me open to all this... adolescent speculation.

The head teacher
advised you to ignore it.

And did you? For a while.

And then?

It started to affect things.

Things? My home life,

my girlfriend.

She left me.

When was this?

Mr Paddick?

The day before the incident.

And why did she leave you?

She found stuff on my computer.

Pornography.

What pornography?

Teacher/pupil fantasy stuff.

These kids, they'd
signed me up to some website.

And who was to blame?

For the fact that she left you?

Your Honour. Who was to blame?

The person who created the webpage.
Who presumably...

owned a copy of that song?

You've given them intent.

And you've come to congratulate me.
Yes.

You planning on making
any sort of effort?

So, Silk interview.

Good for you, good for Chambers.

Good for my overdraft.
Not so good for one's mental state.

Tomorrow morning.

Yeah, I just need a couple of hours.
Start a little late. OK.

No chance of a deal, I suppose?

Drop the attempted murder,
Section 20, GBH, without intent, and then my client will plead.

Look, you want a deal, I know you
want a deal, compassion demands it.

It's common sense. The man
was under extraordinary pressure.

Then make a case.
Stand up and make a case.

Don't offer plea bargains.

Do your job.

I'm... doing my job.

Bag, please, sir.

Is that what I think it is?

Names of my interviewers.
I don't know one of them.

From the private sector.
Who else you got?

Only the most high-ranking
female judge in the country. Shit.

Yes. Shit. Exactly.

Cranitch. Judge Cranitch.

Busy morning?

Billy found some work for me to do.
Oh, good for him.

Do you need something?

I'm sorry.

Yesterday... I was abrupt.

It's just nerves, really.

Let me buy you dinner this evening.

Clive, I don't know what's going on.

You're a brilliant pupil,
and a good friend.

I was stupid. I'm just worried
about my interview, that's all.

I'll make it up to you tonight.

Let's... let's pretend yesterday
never happened.

Mr Slade, I'm looking forward
to hearing from you. Sir.

On your feet.

My client, Mr Turley,
has already pleaded guilty.

I'm aware. What I need to hear
from you now is some mitigation.

Alex Turley has no
previous convictions.

That's it? No, no.

Um, he also has a wife
who's confined to a wheelchair and a two-year-old child.

His family relies
on him for everything.

He's a decent citizen.

A long custodial sentence
would devastate his life, all because of a minor error.

Driving your car off
the road and into the side of a house is hardly minor.

I meant it was a momentary mistake.

He and his wife suffered
only minor injuries.

It was a critical mistake that
posed a threat to people's lives.

And your tone, your facetious tone,
is not doing your client any favours.

Right. Shall we begin again?

"Professional, committed,
great interpersonal skills".

You wrote that when? Last year.

Mr Paddick asked me for a reference.
He'd applied for a head of department job.

Obviously, I was sorry to lose him,

but that is the nature of our world.
Good people, you can only keep in posts for a time.

And Tony Paddick was good? Yes.

Professional? Definitely.

Would it be fair to say that
a good career is now threatened by a moment's... Your Honour.

Quite.

You're not the witness, Mr Zeigler.

I only met Mr Turley for
the first time this morning.

We had barely 30 minutes
together to prepare.

Are you trying to excuse
a lack of preparation?

No, I'm trying to make you aware
of what was said.

30 minutes.

And in that time, Mr Turley made no
mention of the word "mitigation", he asked for no special consideration.

He said he had no excuse.

He knows he has to
pay for what he did.

It's true,
he has no previous convictions.

It is true that other people's
lives would be ruined if he was sent to prison.

If we are willing to
show mercy to anyone,

surely those most deserving are
the people that don't ask for it.

A man who is persecuted by
his own conscience does not need the law to join in.

Mr Turley
believes he should be punished.

He wants no favours, when
this is precisely the time that we should be granting them.

Thank you.

Your Honour,
some of the unused material.

A document dated December last year.

Is this your writing?

Yes. Please tell us what this is.

It's an appraisal statement.

An appraisal of Tony Paddick? Yes.

"Chaotic classroom management,
relationships with his pupils have completely broken down..."

And below...
"He has been over-familiar with some of his students,

"and now he finds it hard
to discipline effectively".

Is this your signature? Yes.

You wrote this statement? Yes.

About the man who weeks before
in a reference, you said was a committed professional.

Is it hard to get rid of
incompetent staff? Your Honour,

my client's competence...
Please continue.

It is hard, yes. Far quicker
to just whisk them out of the door with a good job reference,

get them off to
the next school sharpish.

Mr Paddick had a difficult year.
And your school had a problem.

And this is how you
chose to manage it.

I'm not anxious to admonish him
publicly. Or to tell us the truth.

This might be
a good moment to adjourn.

All rise.

Another wicket.
I'm not winning this.

It's his defence counsel
that are losing it.

I wish they'd do something.

I'm going to get him
burnt at the stake at this rate.

Are you OK? I'm a bully. You what?

I've just spent six hours at the
Bailey kicking some bloke's head in. It's just not me, prosecution.

The CPS want me to play a part and
I hate it, plus he's on the wrong charge, which makes it intolerable.

Anyway, end of tirade.
Tell me about YOUR day.

Um, sentence tomorrow,
wants to review the material.

Great.

Lend me some money,
and I'll buy you a drink.

Right, give us that 20 quid then,
come on.

Hi. Hi.

Martha, hi. Hi.

Dinner?

Thanks, but...

But? Like I said, I've got
a lot of work I need to finish.

Look at this stuff...
There's thousands.

Where's it going?

Get me a print out of all of it.

Everything.

Technical skill, subject knowledge,
communication, insight.

Technical skill, subject knowledge,
communication, insight.

Technical skill, subject knowledge,
communication, insight.

Those are the four basic areas.

Insight?

Well, often,
there's a gap between what a person says and what they're meaning.

Your latest case.

Was it work that made you proud?

My latest case is ongoing.

Can you tell us anything about it?

Are you proud of what you're doing?

I'm doing a job.

That's all? I'm doing a job well.

And that doesn't make you proud?

No, it doesn't.

There's a considerable
difference between the two sides.

I don't follow. I'm better,
and I'm winning.

And that makes you uncomfortable?
Yes. A man will go to prison because I punch lower than my opponent.

People have different skills.

Yes. Diversity is good. Well, no, not
if it affects the course of justice.

You want a better opponent?
I don't want to win 10-0.

I want to feel as if
they're putting up a fight.

What is it?
"Don't criticise your colleagues".

That's the one thing we're told
not to do in this interview.

"Don't criticise your
colleagues when you answer".

And answer in less than eight words.

I did that course too.

You're prosecuting this one? Yes.

A prosecutor doesn't win or lose.

She just presents the facts.

So, the head teacher writes a report
last year saying your guy's going under, failing in the classroom.

It's the last page in there.
Nothing after. What?

Ask her why there's been no
follow up, no support, no training courses, no inset, no mentoring.

A member of your staff
is having a tough time, you don't just feed them to the wolves.

This is deliberate. You think?

A head with a nightmare on her hands.
An internet campaign against Paddick,

potential scandal, nasty rumours,
kids eat him alive?

Still she leaves him at the arse-end
of the school with those same kids?

Ask her why. She's my witness.
I can't do her over.

It's your best chance.
The head was palling under pressure.

You've just got to prove
that Tony Paddick had stopped thinking rationally.

What are you doing, Martha?

If I was prosecuting
this case, I'd cut a deal.

And if I was defending,
Tony Paddick would walk.

Set five? Yes. The very worst class.

The least able.

You left a teacher who you
knew was struggling with the very worst class. Mr Zeigler.

I'm trying to establish
why a teacher who was under

enormous personal pressure was
put in this incendiary position. Set five struggle academically.

That doesn't make them delinquent.
None of the other staff have a problem with them.

You say in this appraisal statement
that Mr Paddick's relations with his pupils had completely broken down.

Yes.

What's the next step?

You're a very successful head.

How do you turn a situation
like that around? Miss Costello?

Your Honour, my learned friend
tried to imply that there was a vendetta by the school.

That Ms Glover was trying
to force Mr Paddick out.

I wish to establish
that that's not the case.

I imagine there was some sort
of structured support? Yes. What?

Some mentoring of
the failing teacher?

No.

Counselling?

The internet campaign
had left a mark. No.

Or maybe inset?

To help him address his failings?

We had one-to-one discussions.

In your office? On the phone.

Your phone system in the school,
how does it work?

Um...

You have a phone in every office?

Internal lines only? Yes.

Relevance? Was there a call
that day? The day of the attack?

At break time.

Ah, so...

you phone the English office
and you spoke to Mr Paddick during break time, offering support?

Miss Costello? I just want to
underline that Mr Paddick was not cut adrift by his boss.

What was the phone call about?

I don't recall the details.
It's OK, just the headlines.

Timetabling for the coming term.

And were there changes to be made?
Mr Paddick, he'd expressed his reluctance

to carry on teaching set five,
that particular group of students.

And as part of your ongoing support,
you tried to oblige.

I told him a change wasn't possible.

But you tried to help?
Yes, of course.

And this conversation, it took place
just before the attack? Yes.

And how did he react on the phone
to the news that

he would have to continue
teaching this difficult class?

He wasn't happy. Was he angry?

Yes, very.

We've heard evidence that
Mr Paddick took a call just prior to the attack.

The point has been made repeatedly
that he was in a rational state of mind after leaving his class.

If subsequently, he had cause to
lose his temper, then that has serious implications for the case.

Did Tony Paddick invite this boy
into the office with the express purpose of taking his life?

Or was Sean McDaid
an unfortunate bystander?

And if so, what made Tony Paddick
lose control at that precise moment?

We can nail him to
the wall with this stuff.

You actually
hacked into his computer?

Thousands unaccounted for.

This doesn't change a thing.

We're not going to manage
this without Martha.

KNOCK ON DOOR

Yep. Call for you, listing clerk.
Says it's urgent.

Will the defendant please stand?

Have the jury reached verdicts
on which they are all agreed? Yes.

On count one,
do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty of attempted murder?

Not guilty.

On count two, do you find
the defendant guilty or not guilty

of inflicting grievous bodily harm,
contrary to section 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act?

Guilty.

We will proceed to
sentence on Count Two.

Section 20, GBH, but without intent
to harm. Best possible result.

If you'd been better at your job,
I wouldn't have to bloody do it for you.

What happened in there?

"A prosecutor doesn't win or lose,
she just presents the facts".

He's going to prison.
What's the matter?

Not content unless
they clap him in irons?

THEY CHEER

What about this guy? What happened?

I got a suspended sentence.

He's not going to prison.

The boy done good. Clever bugger!

Guess dinner's on me. Martha?

Can I have a word? Yeah, sure.

There you go. Jakey boy.
Oh, thanks, Billy.

All that trouble,
separate clerks, separate faxes.

What? The CPS have been on.
They've made a complaint.

Just because I didn't get
the verdict? Your advice pushing for the deal on GBH?

Noah's solicitor found it.

It was in his bundle by mistake.

They sent it to your solicitor.

Oh, God. She's saying
that you gave it to him,

that you and Noah tried to do
a deal, and then you lied about it. How the hell did this happen?

Billy. He was clerking you,
wasn't he? He doesn't make that kind of mistake.

I get half my work from the CPS. An
error like this is going to cost me.

They'll stop sending us cases.

You need to go to
the management committee.

You mean turn Billy in?

His mistake.

I swear to God, if you smile at me...

Privileged files going
to the wrong solicitor.

You or Billy?
Choose, Martha. Someone's got to take the rap for it.

Your co-defendant says it was you
who did it. I was defending myself.

Liar. Mark Draper.

I turned around...

and that's when
I saw him stab my husband.

Set up a moot. Sir?

I want to see both pupils
in action under pressure.

I've been given an unfair advantage.

A breakaway set?
We need a head of Chambers.

Do you think you'll be a QC
this time next week?

It doesn't add up.
What? Mark's story.

You stabbed Colin Guthrie.
Do you deny it? No.

I'm telling the truth.

Martha Costello has to do Gary Rush.

You took the words right out of my
mouth. This is the biggest case I've ever done. I need your support.

You lied to me,
Martha, you lied to me!

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