Silk (2011–2014): Season 3, Episode 4 - Episode #3.4 - full transcript

I love that you put into everything
you do, when you've got a wig on.

I am the only reason that you're
allowed to carry on existing.

You have lots in common,
you and Elizabeth -

brave, strong, surrounded by
men, saying no to all of them.

- How long?
- Every case is different.

Keep an eye.
I won't be here,

because I'm dying.

Your clients come first. But where
are they, Martha? Here with you now?

There is one thing
I'll be asking for in return.

I can't be only a lawyer, Clive.

But, Martha... Will you just leave
me alone?



Billy Lamb?
What do you want?

I'm a solicitor.
Well, that's a relief.

It's family. I... I really need your
help.

I need Martha Costello.

Well, why didn't you say so?
Come in, come in.

I came in today with verve in
my loins.

My question is, can I make it to the
end of the day feeling the same way?

Your grooming trial, miss...

Yes, John?
..turned into a conspiracy.

Just like that? Well, no-one could
get hold of you.

And the CPS have just delivered
a batch of phone logs.

A batch?
A... bit more than that.

Right.
And your judge is Alan Cowdrey.

The words I'm waiting to hear
are, "But don't worry,



"I've got you a junior
and they're already on it."

Sorry, miss.

Get Jake to shift that lot.

Jake left. Remember?

Worth remembering, Harriet,
I'm the talent, darling.

You're backstage.

Miss, this is Dani Kakwani.

Martha Costello.

The, er... Arizona bombing.

What about it?

Hassan Makhdoom
was blown up in the attack.

His brother Sajit survived
and is about to stand trial.

So...

The US want to extradite
someone else from Wolverhampton Tech.

My nephew Rashid,
they're saying he was involved,

that he did some sort of
hacking to plan for their attack.

Some sort of hacking?
This is the US Government.

They're not big on sharing
their thoughts

with a solicitor
whose dad was born in Lahore.

I'm not an extradition lawyer.
Nor am I,

but Rashid's running out of
options

and the judge doesn't want
the case reopened.

I need someone
who's going to fight for him.

Even if I wanted to help, you need
someone who understands the arguments.

Clive, you've done extradition.
Once. Never again.

Why? Because you lose.

Can I see?

You could argue improper
purpose.

Looks like the US have drawn up charges
without knowing if he's involved,

to get him into the interrogation
programme, to find out if he is.

It's what they do.

Lying so they can torture
people. I didn't say that.

Yes, you did.

Oh, good. You two have
found each other.

His parents are good people.

He plays cricket in the street,
for goodness' sake.

There's no way he's mixed up
in this.

I never even knew the brothers.

They were at my college,
that's all.

And I'm a follower of the
Prophet.

Violence is haram. I could have
never done what they're saying.

Rashid, if the US is trying to
get you there to interrogate,

we can still argue improper
purpose.

That's what they do
in Guantanamo, isn't it?

They don't tell you why you're there.
They... They don't show you anything.

But this is England.

My father came here when he
was 18

because he wanted to live
in the home of democracy.

And now he has to hear
his son... called a terrorist.

And his son can't even tell
him what the evidence is.

Why?

That sounds like a good place
to start.

Asking why and not taking no
for an answer.

If they decide to make me their
scapegoat, I will not get on that plane.

I don't care what I have to do
to myself.

I'll do it.

Prosecution as the promised
land?

You have to give the people
hope.

Yeah, but some of the people
here have never done prosecution.

CW is moving in on the junior
end and the squeezed middle

cos she sees how unhappy
they are.

She thinks a bit of agitprop
will get their votes.

Her message is one of despair.

What? And I'm hope?

Well, if CW is despair and I'm
hope, what's Martha?

I don't think she knows.

Hello, Billy.

In with the new.

Out with the old.

- What hearing?
- We sent a pupil.

Amy Lang. It was a five-minute
application to move the trial date forward.

To Monday. Did Ms Lang fight it?
She had your dates.

And there's no clash in my diary,
so in your clerking brain

the fact that I've got about 100 hours of
preparation to do...

Miss, I'll understand if you don't
want to carry on with the campaign.

I want you to get everyone in
chambers

who is as fed up as I am
with this nightmare of a life

and send them to see me.

I am their candidate.

I am sick and tired of being exhausted
because there's no legal aid for juniors,

which means I stay up all night
every night working on complex trials

only to be told I'm a fat cat
by a government

full of the fattest cats
in the history of fatness!

And get me Amy.

Since she's happy for this trial
to start so soon, she can bloody well help.

Hello, miss.

I need you to call Damian
Garner at the Maudsley.

I want a full psychiatric
assessment on Rashid Hirani.

Done.
How was your con, by the way?

Forget abuse of process. I'm going to
fight and win on mental-health grounds.

What mental-health grounds?

He wants to kill himself.
Martha...

Shoe Lane. I'm sorry, but it's the
right argument.

He's a vulnerable child and what
they're doing to him is abusive.

He's being destroyed by an
unjust process.

If they get him to the States, they'll get
him to say whatever they want him to.

Hold the line, would you,
please?

Miss, I've got an Elizabeth Forester
from the US Embassy.

Says she'd like to speak to you and
that she could save you a lot of effort.

Martha.
Er... Amy, sorry,

just got to take this call.
Thank you.

Hello, Martha Costello.

Amy?

What is it? Amy, can you come with
me, please?

It's nothing.

We don't need regulating. If we're not
good enough, we don't get the work.

Miss?

Amy, you're not busy,
are you? Good.

The grooming trial you so kindly
agreed to bring forward for me.

The evidence the police just
sent me is in there.

Read it, schedule the hell out of it, and
tell me everything I need to know.

We have three days.

So, can I count on your vote,
David?

I understand that
you saw Rashid today.

Who told you that?

I thought you should know that the
US takes its duty of care to prisoners,

especially vulnerable
prisoners, very seriously...

Who told you that I saw
Rashid today?

..which is why I'd like you
to consider these assurances.

First of all, we can now guarantee that
Rashid will not go to Guantanamo Bay.

There was never any mention
of Guantanamo.

We can also guarantee,
if you co-operate,

that as a UK citizen, he will not
face the death penalty.

But if he goes into your prison system
he will be living under 23-hour lockdown,

he won't see his family,

he won't have proper access
to legal advice,

and, as present history suggests, you'll
be employing interrogation techniques,

which, to be frank, are a little bit
bloody medieval.

Martha, due to the importance of
this case, we will make more compromises.

Why are you sounding like a
press officer?

We can just speak English.

Rashid will be housed
under regular US prison conditions.

He will have 24-hour access
to medical supervision.

We'll provide him
with his own psychologist

and he will be free to choose his own
attorney in accordance with Arizona law.

He's not well enough,
even with your assurances.

Hm.

Isn't it odd how suicide
is a terrible sin for Muslims,

except when they're blowing
themselves up or about to face extradition?

So, are... are you leaving?
Excuse me?

Because I haven't finished yet.

If we don't win on the
mental-health argument,

we will go back to improper
purpose.

There's not enough detail on
the charges

to prove that you're not just
getting Rashid over for interrogation.

OK, if that's the case,

then the US Government is happy to
add a little flesh to the indictment.

We know where the hacking happened,
Martha, we know when it was done,

and the minute Rashid hits
US soil,

he will go on trial for conspiracy
to murder innocent Americans.

Good day.

Sami Allahu liman Hamidah.

Allahu Akbar.

Allahu Akbar.

Allahu Akbar.

Allahu Akbar.

Rashid, I know you've lost
faith in this process,

but we have an opportunity
now, a small one.

The US has added information to your
charges because they want us to give up.

Our one hope is that somewhere in what
they've added there's a mistake or a lie.

I need you to answer some
questions for me... truthfully.

Were you at the college at the time
the attack was planned,

the two-day window they've
got down here?

Yeah.

Were you in the hall of residence
they say, with the brothers,

when the attack was planned,
at the time?

Rashid, answer.

Yeah, I was.

And what about the room?

See, now, they say they can pinpoint
that hacking to a specific computer

in a specific room.

What is it? No. No, I was never in
that room.

And you're certain of that?
Yeah.

The room they say I did that
hacking in,

I...I never stepped foot in it
during the time they say.

Abuse of process.
What?

When you wake up in the morning,
the first three seconds of consciousness,

do you think about the case
you're doing?

Yes.

Is it abuse of process,

if I can prove the US got details
wrong on their charge summary?

Depends what and where.

Well, the US had put Rashid

in a specific room at a specific
time doing this research.

Now, he says he wasn't there.

Martha, if they're being that
specific, then they must have proof.

I bet you dream about them too.

All right, Mar?

You probably don't share
cigarettes any more, do you?

I don't smoke roll-ups any more.
No, not here, not with this crowd.

It's amazing in here, but it makes
you feel like you're not allowed in.

20 years ago, you'd have said
that was anti-democratic.

Why are you here, Sean?

I was passing.
Oh, right, you were passing?

I was passing, and I thought,

"What happened to the girl
that broke my teenage heart?"

Um... listen, I'll, er...
I'll see you in chambers.

Yeah.

Not your husband, is he?
And what would you say if he was?

I'd ask you why you married a
big dolphin.

I hope he's not the jealous type

cos I would love to go for a coffee
with you, Martha Costello.

First you tell me why you're here...
and then I'll think about coffee.

Maybe another time, then.

Who was that? Mr Mysterious.

Sean McBride.

Right. Thanks.
Who's Sean McBride?

He's...

He's what I used to be.

Well, anyway, um...
if you want to argue abuse of process,

it's not enough to say
that the information was false.

You have to prove that
the US knew it was false.

And how the hell are you
going to do that...

Mar?

Ah! Put extradition on the chambers
website, would you, Harriet?

Another string to the Shoe
Lane bow.

Well done.
Whoa!

Was that a compliment? I always give
credit where it's due.

Maybe it's the female mind - open, capable
of thinking beyond dull prejudice.

What, and Clive Reader's a better
candidate than Martha Costello

for head of chambers?

I think so.

Do you fancy him, Harriet? What's
that got to do with anything?

I'm just asking.
Just sexist.

Imagine if I asked you the
same question.

What? Do I fancy Clive Reader?
Do you fancy Martha Costello?

How I feel about Miss Costello
surpasseth all understanding.

Talking of medieval,
you know what amazes me?

How much energy you're expending

on someone who would ban you from
working and getting an education,

and who would expect you to walk behind
him all the way back to the 13th century.

Have you been practising that
speech?

Are women even allowed
to drive in Saudi Arabia?

You see, there's a disconnect.

Rashid is 19 years old. He's an
individual. He feels like a victim.

But the real victims?

Frances Brady, Adam Gilmartin,
Joey Maldini, Angel Valera.

Four University of
West Arizona students,

enjoying their graduation day, with
the whole of their lives ahead of them,

when they were blown to pieces.

Brady was pregnant.

That's not the point.

If that's not, what is?

Oh, didn't you know?
I've got dual qualification.

With this much lazy
anti-American feeling around,

we think it's better that an
American stands up for America.

That's the point.
Sorry?

There's a principle that transcends
national interest and religion

and... well, everything else.

Habeas corpus, Elizabeth,
the right to be tried,

the right to know what you're accused
of so that you can defend yourself.

All rise.

Miss Costello...

..from what I can see from your
skeleton argument,

you want to reopen this appeal by arguing
that there's been an abuse of process

and forcing the United States

to show you all the evidence they
have against Rashid Hirani?

Your Lordship will have seen...
I'm a direct man, Miss Costello,

and I've been told you're the
same.

I do not want this appeal
reopened without good reason.

Now, what is the answer to
my question?

My client has always
maintained he was set up

and now there's a discrepancy that
confirms that.

Why has it taken six months
for him to remember this?

The United States have only just
added the specific location.

The, er... room in the hall of
residence.

This is our first chance to
respond to it.

This detail is crucial

because it's the only thing that
links him to the conspiracy.

Ms Forester?

My lord, whatever Mr Hirani
claims,

we are confident that he was in that room
at the time the hacking was activated.

We can put him there.

We're happy to let the court
see further evidence,

if it can help
bring this process to an end.

You have two days.

All rise.

What's our listing?

Er... court nine, first on at ten.

Time now?
Ten to.

So, fill me in.
The phone logs?

Er... there's lots.

Yes, Amy. Bottom line,
is it for us or against us?

From what I've seen, um...

the stuff I've been able to examine has
been mainly from the men to the girl.

OK.

Er... I've asked you to prepare a
schedule.

I'm guessing you haven't done that, so all
I want is a simple, clear answer instead.

Does this work for us or not?

The material mainly consists of calls and
texts that suggest bullying and coercion.

So, yeah.

Yes, I... I'd say it definitely
helps us

in trying to prove
that there was a conspiracy.

There.

Wasn't so hard.

Hello, Caroline.

So exciting to be against you. One
just doesn't know what's coming.

Which Albanian paedophile are you
representing?

Touch of racism there.

Under pressure, are we?

I don't need to remind you that this is
the property of the US Government,

so if you leak it or share it with
any party not involved in this case,

you're in violation of US law
and at risk of prosecution.

I don't know. Maybe a drink
would do it.

What?

Stop you making speeches
and get you talking instead.

I know it's hard for you to accept
what Rashid was part of,

but our investigators were pushed
to the limit finding this material.

It was hidden deep on his
hard drive.

Once you've had a chance to
look at that, I hope you can accept it,

however painful that may be.

Oh, hello.

Clive Reader. I know.

Thank you, Elizabeth.
I think we've got everything.

Jesus, that woman!

What's this?

Evidence, apparently, that Rashid
Hirani is linked to the bombing.

I mean, half of it's redacted.

That's to protect the security
services who gathered it. Look.

The MI5 seal,

telling you that the bulk of the
evidence that the US is relying on

has actually been gathered
by British intelligence.

That's why they're so confident.

So, none of this links to the
bombing.

What are you talking about?

Jihadi websites.

Searches on Yemeni training
camps.

This does not put him in room 132,
hacking into security details.

Martha, if they've got this,
imagine what else they've got.

Well, maybe this is everything.

Rashid is radicalised.
Why can't you see that?

I am only interested in whether he's
linked directly to doing that research.

Well, is this clear enough for
you?

You said you didn't even know
the Makhdoom brothers.

I mean, what did you think?
They wouldn't find these?

Answer her, Rashid!

These photos aren't right.

This is a picture of you in a
corridor

with the two people who set off the
bomb in Arizona,

and that's not all.

They've got you outside the room

where they say the university's
security details were hacked,

and, this is the killer blow,

they've got a witness

who says they can place you in
the room where the hacking was done.

Rashid.

We believed you.
I promise.

I was never in that room.

Is that you or isn't it?

I only met them briefly.

I didn't admit it, because I know
how it would look,

but I... I only met them once,
on that day.

And what happened?

Sorry, but if... if you've lied
about this,

how am I supposed to believe
you're still innocent?

Because there was
someone else there as well.

He was the one who said that we
should meet the brothers.

He was the one that pushed
me into it...

..who said...

if we were true Muslims, we'd listen
to what they had to say.

Rashid, who are you talking
about?

I'm talking about someone
who was there.

I'm talking about a friend.

He should have been in that
photo.

He was at that meeting, and... and whoever
gave this to you has taken him out.

What was his name, Rashid?

I promised.

This is how you open, Amy.

Get it right and, by the time you sit down,
the trial can be effectively over.

Yes, Ms Warwick?

Ladies and gentlemen of the
jury,

this was a case of systematic
and brutal exploitation.

Three men identified, isolated, groomed
and terrorised a vulnerable teenager.

They separated her from her
family

and used her for their own
revolting sexual purposes.

She is 17.

They are all over 40.

The defence will seek to portray
her actions as consenting,

but all you need to know

is that in one three-week
period

this victim was bombarded by over 2,000
texts, e-mails and calls from these men,

a relentless barrage of
disgusting demands

that this young victim was
hopelessly ill-equipped to resist.

These alone demonstrate
the defendants conspired to...

This is the first time that
I've ever had to do this, my lord,

and it gives me no pleasure,

but I feel compelled
to interrupt my learned friend

and ask that the jury leave the
court.

Jury, five minutes, please.

Never in my whole career
have I had an opening interrupted.

You are blatantly misleading
the jury.

In at least 40% of the material
that my learned friend is talking about...

..it was from the complainant
to the men, not the other way round.

I'm so sorry. I was sure I'd gone
through this box.

These texts are from the girl.

I thought I'd said I wasn't sure.
Look, I'm sorry, I'm just a bit stressed.

We're all stressed, ducky.
It's the Criminal Bar.

I'm sorry.

And don't worry.

It's not fatal.

It's for Martha.
It's from the Maudsley. Thanks.

There's a message from the
doctor. Sure.

So, what's happened? He didn't deny
he met the brothers.

But he says there was
someone else there,

somebody he doesn't want to
get into trouble, who knew them better,

and someone who was in this
image before it was altered.

Did you believe him?

I don't know.

Ooh! Whose are these?

They came for you, miss. Actually,
they were hand-delivered.

Grateful client, maybe?

Possibly.

Amy?
Can I have a word?

What's he look like, then,
flower man?

Tall, dark, handsome.

Northern.

How's the trial?
Erm... not great.

Why?
This isn't about the trial.

I've been trying to talk to you
about this, but I didn't know how.

What is it?

Billy.

What about him?

He took me to the pub

and when we were there he promised
that he'd get me tenancy.

Well...

And he said it while his hand
was on my knee,

and the same thing
happened a second time.

When?

At Alan Cowdrey's party.

Are you sure?

Yeah, and I swear I didn't do
anything to encourage him.

I didn't do anything to lead
him on.

The reason I didn't tell you was because
I came here to learn from you,

not to be a part of some
scandal,

and because if I don't get tenancy here,
I don't know how I'm going to survive.

Right.

I want you to go home, get a good night's
sleep and let me take care of it.

OK?

Martha.

What did you get?

I went to the college to find
out

who was resident in room 132
and that's what I got.

Redacted. Did you try and...

They're not at liberty
to share that information.

They said a man from the
MOD had been in to see them.

MOD is what MI5 are
when they're pretending to be normal.

So Rashid is protecting someone.

Yeah, but so are MI5 and, from what
I can see, they're the same person.

Miss Costello,

this is not a trial.
The evidence is not at issue.

My lord, but the process by
which the evidence was acquired is.

It appears to us that there is
another individual involved,

someone who is right
at the heart of this case

and whose... whose role and motive,
as of yet, we don't understand.

My lord, this is all speculation

and it's making the UK
extradition process look ridiculous.

The presence of this individual and his
relationship to the security services

opens up questions
that this court has to address.

My client says he's innocent,

so why did the United States pass us
MI5 material that had been falsified?

What do you mean, falsified?

We believe there was a fourth person
at this meeting, my lord,

and his presence has been
obscured.

And you say that fourth person has
been airbrushed out?

My lord...

Miss Costello, whatever the role
of this individual, if he or she exists,

the court cannot grant you permission
to see everything you want to see.

But, my lord...
A great deal

of the material you've requested
is classified intelligence material.

Well, until this
court examines that material,

then none of can say whether my
client deserves to stand trial or not.

You asked to see me?

She's...

very tenacious, Martha Costello.

She's, er... committed.

Well, as a result of her efforts,

the Rashid Hirani extradition
is now spiralling out of control.

She wants to see all classified
evidence against her client.

The Americans are going berserk. They
thought they had their man on the plane.

There is clearly an issue.

The exact role of an informant, on
which far too much seems to rest.

You know the usual solution in situations
that involve this much sensitive material?

You appoint someone to look
at it,

who then makes sure that
everyone's being fair to the defendant

without actually telling him
what any of it says.

I need someone independent,
Clive,

but also someone who understands
the true complexity of the, er... situation.

We have a treaty with the US,
a treaty we... we can't afford to damage.

Our security services
are in a... delicate situation.

You know I'm in chambers
with Martha Costello?

Tiny world, the Criminal Bar.

We'd never get anything done if you
couldn't do cases with people you know.

And I'm sure you're entirely
independent-minded.

Well done. We've just heard.

Er... yeah, just between you
and me, I'd love to know how it happened.

She knew who I was. Who?

Elizabeth Forester.

She must have seen your
name on chambers' website.

The whole thing about special counsel
is it's meant to be independent, Harriet.

Couldn't agree more.

Ah, special counsel, sir.
Great honour.

Who gave you the news?
Lord Justice Reynolds.

Just you and him, was it?
Cosy little chat?

Stood the Church clock at ten to
three? And was there honey still for tea?

I'm my own man, Billy.
Course you are, sir.

Of course he is.

They came to me. I didn't approach them,
if that's what you're thinking.

Yeah, well, you could have
said no.

How often does something like this
come along?

Oh, come on, Clive. You're being
incredibly naive.

You don't think they picked you because
you're the right man for the job?

They picked you
because they want to wind me up.

They? Who are they?
You're being delusional.

I saw how you reacted to the
material the US served. And what?

All of a sudden, you're the only
person who can look at secret material

and tell me whether someone else has
unfairly incriminated my client?

Yes.

How does Elizabeth know you?
She doesn't.

And don't you think she might
be a bit more concerned

about how well you know me?

I knew I had to reply
immediately.

Why?

Because of what they would
do if I didn't.

What was that, Ashley?

They would threaten me,

and when they saw me again
they would make me do things.

What sort of things?

They would force me to have sex.

So,

these...

texts and e-mails
from you to the defendants...

I sent them because I had to.

Are you saying that you feel you had
no choice other than to send them?

No.

None. I had no choice.
I had to do whatever they wanted.

Thank you, Ashley.

"I sucked your cock, you fat
bastard.

"You owe me the drugs."

Did you write that, Ashley?
I don't remember.

It's here in black and white,

one of 25 texts you sent
over a two-hour period

on June 29th.

"Give me the drugs."

"Where are the drugs?"
"You owe me those drugs."

They used the drugs to control me!
The truth is, Ashley,

that you were a prostitute.
Isn't that right?

No.

You were a prostitute and you
willingly gave those men

sex for drugs. No!

And if the frequency
of these calls proves anything,

it proves that you were
determined

to extract whatever payment
you could from them.

That's not true!

Shall I read the last text
that you sent that day?

"Give me the drugs,
you bastards,

"or I'll call the cops and tell them
what a bunch of paedos you are."

That's why we're here, isn't it?

Because these men didn't pay their
prostitute on time.

Lunch?

The court has appointed
someone called special counsel.

That means all the material that's been
used to establish a case against you

is going to be examined

so there's no point
in protecting anyone any more.

Do you understand?

Now, whoever it is that you don't
want to get into trouble,

whoever it is you thought
you were being loyal to,

well, odds are that's who's
betrayed you

and that's who MI5 are
working with.

So you need to tell me
everything.

Rashid?

It was after...

a big drone attack

on the Pakistani border.

The deaths used to get
reported in the mosque...

..and this time a whole family
died.

Four kids under ten.

There was a lot of anger, people
saying someone had to do something.

Even the imam was furious.

Finally, as we were leaving, Salim said
he knew some people we could talk to.

What did he say?

He said he knew these two brothers
in our hall...

..and they were planning
something.

The Makhdoom brothers?

Salim had met them before.

We talked, we prayed.

They told us they had a plan.

They didn't say what.

They said they knew
I was good with computers

and could use the help getting security
details of the University of West Arizona.

I agreed.

But, straight after, I got
scared.

I didn't want to be part of it.

I told Salim I didn't want to do
it. I... I didn't want to be involved.

So you were never in his
room doing that research?

No.

But Salim went back in.

He must have done it, not me.

Then what happened?
I don't know.

After I told him I didn't want to do it,
I... I saw him with them one more time

And then he told me he'd
pulled out too.

Did he say why?

A few months later,
the attacks happened.

I mean, we couldn't believe it.
We were terrified.

But we promised we'd never say
anything to incriminate the other.

And you thought he'd stuck to
that?

I thought our friendship
was part of my faith.

You know what we
used to think in my family?

We used to think our problem
with the next generation

would be that they'd be too
westernised,

that we'd struggle to get them
interested in our traditions.

Dani, you've got contacts in
the police.

How about we go and have our own
little conversation with Salim?

Thank you for seeing us.

What can I do for you?

I'm professionally embarrassed.

What do you mean? How?

In the short adjournment,
I went to the robing room.

On the desk next to my bag,
there was a sheet of paper.

I wasn't thinking,
and I started to read it.

Well, what was it?

The first defendant's proof of
evidence.

I'm afraid I have completely inadvertently
given myself a huge advantage,

essentially meaning that these
defendants wouldn't get a fair trial,

were I to continue prosecuting.

It is with great reluctance,
I am obliged to withdraw,

as the bishop said to the
actress.

Mr Lever?

I'm not sure my learned friend is so
embarrassed she can't continue.

What you mean is that it's going
really well for you right now

and the last thing you want to
do is stop.

She's got a junior.
Did she read the defendant's proof?

The whole point of having a
junior

is that they can take over
in a situation like this.

No, she didn't read it.

But...

..I did tell her what I'd read.

Then I have no choice
but to discharge the jury

and order a new trial as soon
as possible.

It is with huge regret that I'm afraid
I just don't see any other way out.

Salim. What are you reading?

Politics?

After the attack, I didn't sleep
for days.

Rashid had gone home,
but I was still at college.

It only took 'em 48 hours to
pick me up

and then it was straight
to Paddington Green,

14 days' detention,

and every day being told
they've got evidence

that could have me facing
150 years in a US jail.

I know what I'd do. I'd say anything
to get out of there.

- I didn't say anything.
- But you did.

You told them

that Rashid had hacked into the
university security plans for the brothers.

How could I have done it? He was the
one who knew how to do that, not me.

Did you see him? I mean,
did you actually see him,

in your room, at your machine,
doing that research?

You think Rashid is innocent,
because he's awkward and shy,

but you don't know him.

You didn't hear him talk
every night when we read the Koran.

He was the one who said infidels
would get what they deserved.

Did you see him or not, Salim?
I pulled out, OK?

Once I heard the details,

I didn't want anything to do with
what the brothers were planning.

Neither did Rashid, so why incriminate him?
Why do a deal with MI5?

You don't understand. I... I don't
like what I've done to him,

but... but I had no choice.

No, you did,

and you still have.

You can come to court.

Come to court and admit that you
never saw him do that hacking.

It's too late for that.

I went to see Salim Dasti.

What?
This whole case

rests on the word of one terrified
boy against another,

and no proof of which
is telling the truth.

Martha, enough.

Look, come on, Clive.
Nobody's listening.

Why don't you talk to me properly?
What have you seen?

All I'll say is, is that somebody
helped the brothers.

They didn't plan the attack
alone.

Salim was at the same
meeting as Rashid,

so why not charge both boys?

Why work with one and
punish the other?

What if I told you that there was
something in the files

that has convinced me
that Rashid was involved?

I wouldn't believe you.

You don't think I'd be honest
with you?

I'm going to call Salim to give
evidence, make him tell the truth.

Want a drink, miss?

Excuse me.

Billy, Amy came to see me.

About what?
You promising her tenancy.

So?

With your hand on her knee.

Hang on!

She's very upset, Billy.
Well, she's got it wrong.

How?
It's not what it looks like.

Then what the hell is it? I couldn't
have done anything like that.

I... Miss, since I've had the
implants, I can't even...

This is how it is for me now.
Oh, Billy.

No, I don't want your pity,
miss,

but I want you to know that I didn't do
anything ugly or untoward with Miss Lang.

That is a misunderstanding.

Well, you need to apologise
and tell her what's going on.

Miss?

You promised me that if this was
affecting Shoe Lane, you would tell me.

If Amy makes an official
complaint...

It's the only way, Billy.

Miss.

Miss.

I've told Amy you've got
something to say.

Something you want to explain.

I can't.

Just... Just give him
till the end of the day, please.

Salim?
He hasn't shown.

My client now admits he was at a
meeting with the Makhdoom brothers.

However, it was at someone
else's behest

and that was the full limit
of his involvement.

My lord, I'm afraid that is not a
position

which is supported
by the redacted material.

My lord, sorry, is there any chance of
the court actually seeing this evidence?

If you don't have proof

that your client has been implicated
through an abuse of process,

then I'm afraid
this application is at an end.

We're going to adjourn for ten
minutes,

during which I want you
to consider your position.

All rise.

You're doing their job for them,
and I don't understand why.

I'm telling the court what I've
seen. That's all.

Well, let's find out the truth.

My name is Salim Dasti.

I was at college with Rashid
and... I was his friend.

Have you ever been at a meeting
with the Makhdoom brothers?

Yes.

Who else was there?
Rashid.

And can you tell the court
what happened at that meeting?

Rashid and I talked with the
brothers,

and, um... they explained

that they were serious about using
their student exchange to do something...

..something that would show
the Americans how we felt

about the way innocent Muslims
were being killed.

And then what happened?

They said that, if we were
serious, we had to prove it.

Rashid and I had to help them get
security details for their attack.

But Rashid didn't go through
with it, did he?

You went ahead, but Rashid
backed out.

No.

It was the other way around.

I backed out.

I told him I didn't
want to go through with it,

and then I went back into my
room.

Then why did you tell this court

that Rashid did the research
from the same room?

Because he did. The evidence they
showed me proved he did.

Your claim doesn't make any
sense.

You've said that you went
back to your room alone,

and then you insisted that this is
where Rashid did his research.

I mean, how can you
expect us to believe you?

Because when I told him I wanted to
back out, he told me he wouldn't.

He said he didn't care
if I didn't have the guts.

He would show the brothers
he wasn't scared.

He's lying!
You know what you said.

Calm down.
I'm warning both of you.

You're lying, Salim, and MI5
know that,

and that's why they've done everything
they can to hide your involvement.

No, that's... that's not true.

I don't know how he did that hacking
from my computer, but he did it,

and the reason MI5 protected
me is nothing to do with that.

Then what is it? I mean, why cover
up your presence?

Why remove you from the
photographs?

Salim, you are obliged
to give this court an answer.

Because I didn't just back out.
I called them.

After that meeting with the
brothers, I panicked.

I found a number and I...
I called a helpline...

..and I told the person I spoke to
that something might happen.

And what did they do?

Nothing.

They took my details and they said
they'd call back, but they never called me.

That's why we're all here,

because our intelligence services
were too busy to make a call,

and then, because they knew how it
looked, they offered me a deal.

They hauled me in after the
bomb went off,

and they told me that they had
enough to send me to prison.

They said that if I could give them
enough about Rashid's role,

then... then I could avoid it,
because...

..because then, at least, the US would
have a proper conspirator to put on trial.

Can I point out that this admission
doesn't change the fact

that Rashid Hirani was at that
meeting?

He agreed to do research
on the proposed attack

and there is no other person
who could have done it.

We will retire to consider our
decision.

Mr Reader, we may call on you for
assistance.

All rise.

So that's what this has been
about?

Sending my nephew to America so
no-one would know MI5 screwed up?

I can't comment,

except to say that from what I've
seen Rashid deserves to stand trial.

If we lose this,

I'll make sure journalists on both sides
of the Atlantic know about Salim's call,

and then we'll know
what the public cares about,

a kid who made the mistake of going to
one meeting or MI5 letting a bomb go off.

I hope you're not
going to let him do that.

What else can he do?

Martha, it's human error. Trust me.
How many calls do MI5 get right?

How many great decisions have they made
that we've never even heard about?

Rashid Hirani is my client

and Rashid's been made to
suffer to cover MI5's cock-up.

Billy, did we ever get
that psych report for Rashid?

Miss!

Billy.
It was in your in-tray.

Thank you.
Uh.

Oh...

Clive.

Clive.

This is your solution?
It's a solution.

And it's better than MI5 looking
stupid over an innocent kid.

I just came to see how you were.

Why?

Well, it's unusual for prosecuting
counsel to be embarrassed.

Well, I was.

Right.

So, how's chambers?

Dysfunctional, riven with
political internal infighting.

Nothing changes, then.

Maybe what you need is a break.

I've never felt less like taking
a break.

I'm going to stand in this election to
replace you, and I intend to win it,

and when I do, things are
going to change.

Matt Busby made it hard
for everyone who followed him.

What?

We probably don't need
an elder statesman coming back,

giving sage-like advice, Alan.

Well, then, all I can do is wish
you luck.

We have arrived at our decision.

Our judgment has been
strongly affected

by the report into the psychiatric
condition of the applicant, Rashid Hirani.

We are particularly influenced
by the fact

that, although it was commissioned
by Mr Hirani's legal team,

it is also endorsed
by the security services.

We rule that Rashid Hirani

is not fit to endure conditions
he would find in US custody

and must remain here.

Since there are no charges
against you here, Mr Hirani,

it is my duty to inform you
that you are now a free man.

All rise.

Martha, well done.
Thank you.

Thank you.

This would be the heart,
wouldn't it, if you had to say?

Hm?

This place would be
the heart of our legal system,

and there's nobody here,
just you and me and the truth.

There was no evidence
to link him to that hacking.

The evidence was still being uncovered.
That's not the same thing.

Clive, they couldn't put him in
that room where the research was done.

It is as simple as that.

Is it?

What's this?

It's a string of code from a
Trojan virus,

found by forensic officers
examining Salim's hard drive.

His computer was infected
with software,

which allowed somebody
to control it remotely

and then destroy all traces of
their work.

Now, there's nothing to link it to Rashid,
yet, which is why I couldn't use it.

But I can't think of anyone
else who could have put it there, can you?

There's more than one way for him
to have been in that room, Martha.

Yeah, it's a great talent,

the ability to convince people
that you're a helpless victim,

when you're pulling
the strings all the way.

I'd like to make an official
complaint...

..against Billy.

I won't blame you, miss...

..if you feel you can't stand
by me on this one.

I'll understand.

Help me, please, miss.

Go and tell your self-pitying
paedo,

he will never recover from what I do
to him in cross-examination.

Please come with me, sir. Head of
chambers, it's a three-way tie.

When are we deciding on Amy?
Next week.

It's my application to join
chambers.

Imagine how embarrassed you'd be.
You'd need a big drink.

Are you OK?
I need you, Martha.

We have this rule,
never represent a friend.

You're jealous. Mm.

Help!