Law & Order: UK (TV Series)

Care (2009)

Ben Daniels: Senior Crown Prosecutor James Steel

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  CPS Director George Castle : Well done James. A good result. Go home, have a drink; it's over.

  Senior Crown Prosecutor James Steel : For us maybe.

• Senior Crown Prosecutor James Steel : In my experience, Mr. Turner, people change their plea for two reasons: conscience or self-preservation. Now, as conscience seems beyond you, I'm giving you one last chance to save yourself.

• Alesha Phillips : Looking back through Turner's files, on his last assault charge, he was offered to deal down to a year in prison if he gave up Maureen Walters. He didn't bite.

  Senior Crown Prosecutor James Steel : So he went to prison rather than give evidence against his boss? That's some loyalty.

  Alesha Phillips : Because she's not his boss. Mike Turner is a silent partner in the whole company. All of those buildings, they own them together. Their property portfolio must be worth nearly £5 million.

  CPS Director George Castle : While a child dies in squalor in one of their flats.

  Senior Crown Prosecutor James Steel : So Maureen Walters must've known exactly what Mike Turner was doing. They must've hatched the plan together to get the tenants out. She's culpable.

  Alesha Phillips : Mmm-hmm.

  Senior Crown Prosecutor James Steel : We go after Maureen Walters. As head of the company, the buck stops with her. We put her in the dock...

  CPS Director George Castle : Now, now, just hold on a second. If they're partners, then they will deny everything in unison. We have to be more pragmatic.

  Senior Crown Prosecutor James Steel : But surely it's worth...

  CPS Director George Castle : No trial. We get Turner and Walters to plead guilty to a lesser charge.

  Alesha Phillips : George, a baby was killed. Dionne Farrah's life has been destroyed.

  CPS Director George Castle : And this way, we convict those responsible.

  Alesha Phillips : The most they could get would be a couple of months in prison. They could even walk out of court with fines for a child's death. That's a disgrace.

  Senior Crown Prosecutor James Steel : George is right. A trial is no guarantee of success. I'd rather see them convicted of something than walk free of everything.

• Mike Turner : I've already been through one trial, but why do you keep coming after me?

  Senior Crown Prosecutor James Steel : For all the years Dionne Farrah won't get to spend with her son.

• Senior Crown Prosecutor James Steel : This is why the rest or Ridley's chambers call him "Limbo", because there's nothing he won't stoop to.