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Kavanagh QC Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1996 - 1996
Episode 1
True Commitment
75 mins
Kavanagh finds himself defending a left-leaning protester accused of stabbing a skinhead at a protest march. The accused claims that it was entirely his fault, but when he hears that his upper middle class girlfriend has shopped him to the police, he changes his story saying he was just being chivalrous and that it was his girlfriend who did the stabbing. The Kavanaghs continue their commuter marriage with Lizzie working in Strasbourg and it all proves to be a challenge to them both. Kate has left for Cambridge and Lizzie is pleased to hear that her tutor is the husband of one of her closest childhood friends. She is far less pleased when she learns that her daughter and the tutor are having an affair and Kavanagh himself simply blows a gasket.
Episode 2
Men of Substance
75 mins
Kavanagh finds himself prosecuting a case for HM Customs. The case is anything but straightforward however. While 15 kilos of heroin was seized being smuggled in condemned meat, there is no physical or forensic evidence linking the drugs to any of the accused. One of them, Kevin Gregson, may have eliminated a witness in a previous case and he seems true to form when Kavanagh and his wife are threatened. Kavanagh suspects that not all is on the up an and as far as the evidence is concerned.
Episode 3
The Burning Deck
75 mins
Kavanagh defends Lt. Ralph Kinross RN accused of starting a fire in a barracks. His co-accused is Jones, a childhood friend who is a sailor in the same unit, who had loaned money to the sailor whose bed was set on fire. Kavanagh's colleague Eleanor Harker QC is defending Jones but is also having problems at home. The defense focuses on the role of Chief Evans, the senior rating in charge of the engineering department, who was also Jones' main tormentor. In Chambers, Julia receives a proposal of marriage but has only a very short time to make up her mind.
Episode 4
A Sense of Loss
75 mins
Kavanagh and Julia Piper defend Paul Warwick, a bitter youth with a long record of burglary for the murder of a popular policewoman who had been working with him to going straight. When a bloody sneaker and the murder weapon is found in his room, he initially confesses, but then withdraws it and avows he didn't do it. Even though he behaves belligerently toward Kavanagh and is generally uncooperative in his own defense, the QC believes him. His colleague Peter Pweter Foxcort opposes Kavanagh as prosecutor. At the same time Jeremy Aldermarten assisted by Alex Wilson are assigned to represent a political refugee from the Ivory Coast in an deportation hearing. Unfortunately both his client and Alex doubt Jeremy's dedication to the case. As a sidebar, Lizzie's septuagenarian father becomes involved romantically with a widow who may or may not be a gold digger.
Episode 5
A Stranger in the Family
76 mins
Young David Lomax is crushed by equipment at the recycling plant where he was working and ends up in a wheel-chair with physical and mental damage. Whilst the employers have always claimed it was David's own fault for not observing procedure, his devoted and dogged mother pushes for compensation and ultimately Kavanagh is able to impress upon an honest employee, whose recent bereavement made him a prey to suggestion, to tell the truth in David's favour.
Episode 6
Job Satisfaction
76 mins
Sam and Caroline Wicks,a brother and sister, are charged with killing their father and step-mother,from which they gain financially. Sam is a very forceful character, whom Kavanagh must dissuade from conducting his own defence, and Caroline has a clear dependency on him, possibly being controlled by him. The defence is successful but an aggrieved relative wants the case re-opening,assured of Sam's guilt. Kavanagh has to cope with his ailing mother's death meanwhile.
