Law & Order: UK (TV Series)

Unloved (2009)

Freema Agyeman: Junior Crown Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

Quotes 

• James Steel : [about Beatrice McArdle]  I know her; she's up to something. That defence is way too simple.

  George Castle : Just because you two used to do the headboard shuffle, doesn't mean that you have any insight into how she runs her defences, nowadays.

  Alesha Phillips : What, you and her?

  James Steel : Yeah, it was a long time ago. Thanks for that, George.

• Alesha Phillips : McArdle's asked for the jury to be discharged. She's changed the basis of her plea.

  George Castle : She's put in an application?

  Alesha Phillips : For a retrial. The new defence she's running is that Jono is not guilty by reason of mental defect.

  George Castle : [laughing]  What? She'll never make it home on an insanity defence.

  Alesha Phillips : She's not saying he's insane. She's running non-insane automatism, an involuntary act committed while not conscious of actions taken. Most of Jono's blood relatives are in prison. Her defence is that Jono is genetically predisposed to violent behaviour.

  James Steel : [scoffing]  Oh, she can't run that. It's outrageous. We'd have every criminal in the country making the same case. What's she playing at?

  George Castle : "Don't blame me, blame my genes." It's bold, I'll give her that. But let's not panic. No sane judge would let that get beyond a hearing. So, who did we draw?

  Alesha Phillips : Uh, Judge DeMarco.

  George Castle : Oh, God. Let's panic.