- [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.
- DS Matt Devlin: The old needle/haystack interface.
- DS Ronnie Brooks: Look on the bright side, son, you might end up with a yummy mummy.
- DI Natalie Chandler: He's already working for one.
- 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.
- DS Ronnie Brooks: Why do I have to do this?
- DS Matt Devlin: Well we all took a vote and decided that you look most like a dodgy landlord.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: In the criminal justice system the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime, and the crown prosecutors who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.
- DS Ronnie Brooks: He can't even look after a goldfish.
- DS Matt Devlin: I fed it just like you said. The fish was ailing before I went anywhere near it.
- DS Ronnie Brooks: Tell that to my daughter.
- DS Ronnie Brooks: What about an ID of the person who left it?
- DS Matt Devlin: Chinese guy dumped it around one. Asian bird at around half twelve. She was a fat black woman. It was a thin white guy. Take your pick.
- DS Ronnie Brooks: God bless the Great British public.
- 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.