Whilst Clive Reader celebrates his taking silk but Mha hits the bottle, angry that inspector Wright has lied in urt to nvict her client Johnny Foster. Later David, the teen-aged son of chambers head Alan Cowdrey, is arrested for causing the death of a policeman , one of six who kettled him during a demonstration. Mha believes David has been bullied into pleading guilty by Wright and wants Alan involved in his son's case but David is not keen to see his father. Reader and Caroline Warwick agree to help Mha, who sees on CCTV that an anonymous man spoke to David in custody but there is no rerd of this meeting. In urt she faces Wright, this time determined to beat him but evidence es to light which weakens Mha's crusade.