皇家律师第三季

       第三季开头，martha一如既往的全力以赴为客户辩论，不断的找寻着客户无罪的证据。到了帮助恐怖袭击的学生的那个案子，在martha的帮助下，学生最终成功的没有被引渡到美国，相当于not guilty。最后clive告诉martha,那个学生确实帮助了恐怖袭击，在空旷的大厅里，martha呆看着学生离开。觉得那个时候martha的心里有东西在慢慢的倒塌。
      然后最后一个案子，帮助前男友，在法庭上不断的发现前男友的谎言。他们回忆起来都会笑的情话，原来不仅仅是属于她，被他说给很多别的女生听。在这个案子里，martha真的不是原来的martha了，她不再冷静，完全没有找不到突破口。即使认为前男友是无罪的，但是又在发现预订周围房间的名字都是高中同学后，慌乱的跑出去吸烟听歌，试图镇定下来。
     在这个案子中，martha拥有的东西在一件一件的失去，billy癌症的扩散， clive的渣， 然后前男友被判有罪。最后发现因为自己的失误，遗漏了关键的证据，导致无罪的前男友有罪，之前很多次帮助有罪的客户得到无罪的结果，却让真正无罪的在乎的人被判有罪。
     martha说的最后一个台词是 Who am I, 之后是她离开鞋巷， 沉默的走在大街上。最后martha听到billy喊的“miss”,回头。之后在billy&jack看来，martha就这样消失了。
     再见martha

Accidentally read a review on Silk. It mentions that the justice procedure of the Law of England & Wales is a procedure based on the theory of truth agnosticism, which means it despises the pursuit of the truth. Thus neither of the prosecution and the defence can regard themselves as equalling to the justice itself. What they perform is just to protect their clients' interests. This is the ultimate justice the law can grant to the beings to protect themselves. That is, innocent until proven guilty.

However, this arouses a controversial debate on barristers' ethical duty. Theoretically, a barrister owes duty of not misleading the court. This duty comes first When they represent their clients to seek for a justice conviction. Therefore a barrister is not allowed to represent the client if he or she has the knowledge of the crime commitment made by the client. Otherwise it will amount to contempt of court. What the barrister can only do in such a situation is to cease the representation relationship to protect the justice of the court. Nonetheless, since the law practice industry is the derivative of current economic demand, most lawyers, usually intend to represent clients and maximise the clients' interests by shunning the truth deliberately. This is the formation of grey area.

Back to the series. Season Three explores what the lawyer and the justice system can do when confronting the truth and humanity. Martha Cestello is built to be a figure of justice. This justice more likely represents the sympathy to the weak side, rather than the pursuit of truth. Just like Martha says the justice (for her) aims to providing best defence for the client. She is always doing her job based on a barrister's intuition and her obsession of the truth. But such a basement could be voidable. The case of extradition proves the voidability of the powerless intuition on her not guilty assumption made to the kid who seems innocent when facing an incontrovertible evidence. Another case is about Martha's ex. When she finds out the name list, she is totally convinced that her ex is the murderer and neglects the most obvious evidence that the murderer is left-hand, but Shawn is not. Because her belief has been a little bit conflicted by the extradition case at that time. It is easily to see her emotional struggling here since she has assured the 'truth' that Shawn is the murderer. But she chooses to represent him continuously even this is an obey to both her belief and the enforced obligation posed on a barrister. At the end of season 3, Micky Joy crushes out the truth, but the court gives the direction of not adopting Joy's testimony since it does not comply with the juridical procedures. This is so ironic. When the trial is finished, Martha has completely lost and asked: who am I.

In the end, Martha's disappearance and Billy's cancer seem to be a metaphor that being symbolic for an era curtain that belief of justice is no longer exist in a contemporary law practice. Clive gets the chairman position only because he can ensure the case amount for Shoe Lane, which turns out that the value of justice has become the value of lawyer fee.

English series are so ironic.

有关键情节透露

run for your life 这是mickey给martha最后的忠告

最后一集 终于clive变成了原来放荡不羁爱情色的clive，martha却不再是那个机智的QC

唇红齿白 干净利落的短发 谁说martha是倏尔一变呢 难道忘记了成为QC之后 在第二季里丢弃了的手拉车 和精致的high heels


EP06 keep out


7'
- So you can't say where it was from.
- I was told.
- You were told? Sorry, sorry, sorry. You were told?
When things go wrong, this is how they go wrong.
- I'm sorry?
- This prosecution, these police officers, you.
- What are you all saying?
- We've found our man, now let's make the evidence fit.
Well, that is the wrong way round and this is how miscarriages of justice happen.
It should be "- look at the evidence
- and see who fits it. "
- Is this a speech?
- It's a description of everything that's wrong with the prosecution and police culture in this country.
- Just put your case, Miss Costello.
- You can't be sure it was a 9mm pistol because you need the cartridge for that.
The striations caused by its journey down the barrel of the gun tell you what the weapon was.
So you can't say what this type of gun was,
and anyway, you don't know how rare a 9mm pistol is in the UK
because your statistical database is too narrow.
-And that was all performance.
Ask the question, sit down before it can be answered
and then the question becomes the answer.
It's a dishonest technique.
What I should have said is that Miss Costello is doing her job,
which, unless she believes everything her clients tell her,
means her working life is one big performance.




Jamming a square peg in a round hole.


33'
I knew I was a grown-up from the age of about five,
because I thought all other children were wasting their time - being children.
That's the thing about the Catholic faith.
Teaches you to take life seriously.
You pay attention.
My fifth birthday. I'm trying to find the courage to dive in.
I remember it as if it was yesterday.
It's the last moment in my life
before I started to think about death.
Everybody goes, Billy.
There are three things that matter.
The manner of your going.
What you leave behind.
And where you're going afterwards.






48'
You lose your heart to every case you take, don't you?
Passion, conviction, fearlessness.
All of them admirable qualities,
and all of them qualities shared by DCI Fitzpatrick.
- He's... - The other side of the same coin.
- No. - You only see what you need to see.
Look at the jacket.
- What?
- The blood on the sleeve means Sean's guilty, doesn't it?
Fitzpatrick wins, you lose.
The blood on the right sleeve.
The wound behind the left ear.
The killer's left-handed. Sean isn't.
You win.
- I didn't think... - No, you didn't.
You lost a game you could have won.
- Game? - And there's another game to play tomorrow
and, like all games, it's about winning and losing,
and that means everyone in it is corrupted.
After years a lawyer...
..Finally...
..At the death...
I've stopped playing the game and I told the truth.
I can't tell you how good that feels.
- What are you saying?
- I'm telling you.
Begging you.
Walk away.
No. Run.
Run for your life.
Martha.

EP03 Things don't add up
3季应当合并为一个整体来看，1季着重一个律师的成长，2季着重一个律师的职业技能，3季着重一个律师的职业操守和爱情，这个律师当然是MC。

这一集非常丰富，从PTSD，到天主教义，到伟大的母爱，这种“剥洋葱”式的故事讲述，最终能把故事圆满了，不容易。

1'28 day's already been seized, strip-searched and sentenced.

4'21 I always thought you were a great loss to Parliament, Billy.
I can just see you whipping the backbenchers into voting for some illegal war without them ever quite knowing what they were voting for.

4'40 She's a cross between Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King and a small Rottweiler.

5'12 You have lots in common, you and Elizabeth.
Brave, strong...
- Pale. - Pale.
- Surrounded by men. - Surrounded by men.
Saying no to all of them.

6'10 You can argue about an individual's right to die, but not putting murder on the indictment here would send a huge message. It could open the floodgates to anyone who wants to...finish off a burdensome relative.We, the law,can't allow that to happen.

6'30
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
creeps in this petty pace from day to day
to the last syllable of recorded time.
And all our yesterdays
have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle."

express a desire to die.

18'39
While none of us can be anything but profoundly moved by the tragedy of the situation that Joanna Stephens found herself in,or by the desperately hard situation that Sarah Stephens faced...no-one,has the right...to play God.

adjusting to her new circumstances.

I take instructions from my client,
whereas you take instructions from a supernatural entity
that can't be cross-examined,
but whose wisdom you ask us to take as read?

Don't ever do what I'm about to.

EP02 U don't Know Football

Jordan成了英格兰足球史上一个出柜的运动员 虽然是在电视剧里 而且只是对自己的律师

Martha这一回第一次表现出比较感性的态度 询问client究竟怎么辩论 Clive和Martha末尾的drama 也印证了Martha对于client的态度

（27‘）实际上这一集讲work and family多一点 上一回Bill的医师讲到他会哭得多一点 这一回就哭了两次 You'll be there forever. 是大家对他的认可 也或许就是他自己对Shoe Lane的态度

Ps. Jack吃的是什么 （¯﹃¯）看起来就好好吃





EP01 Leave Me Alone

一部剧能够成功不仅需要情节的推进 主角的表现 台词的雕琢 很大程度上需要配角的支撑 比如这一集的CW 本来没什么表演（32‘）但是白色窗帷吹拂着 她put the exact date when she lost her chance for motherhood 作为QC 还需要怎么样的drama 怎样的表演呢？

和韩剧相比 英剧真是太简练了 不需要街拍一样的秀服装 每一帧都在推动情节 （48’）比如Ruby看着Shoe Lane 而Marsha从反方向走过来 被告知David losing himself的事实 而dad又恰巧走过来 不难猜测Rudy需要怎样的勇气来告诉他这个残酷的事实 哎……

副线Billy的情节也很灵动 真是内容丰富！

Ps （7‘）我真以为他们会在法庭上做爱呢

强烈推荐全部3季！

女生可以得到启发how to be a woman and free. 虽然感觉这里面并没有特别理想的professional woman的榜样...我在现实生活中看到更多非常棒的老总，同时是很好的妻子and/or母亲，英国人反映的现实更冷酷。

大家都可以得到启发how to address the conflict between everyday ethics and work ethics when it happens. 虽然我目前做过的两个行当consulting和science中，ethics issue并没有law和medicine里面那面严重，但是我相信如果每个人都能想想这个问题，the world will become a better place. 对Martha Costello, work ethics overrules every other ethics, which made her a truly extraordinary QC, but also led the eventual crash of her whole belief system (as she was forced out of work due to change in chamber politics). 不过也许目前更可怕的问题可能是很多人work ethics和everyday ethics都偏弱。还记得之前一个项目中客户接受访谈时说“如果你们有良心的话就把这个问题如实反映上去”。相信他们之前也曾经找过其他途径，但是捅马蜂窝的事情很多人都不愿意干，慢慢搁置就大事化了了。（幸运的是上司最终非常有技巧的如实反映了问题。）