Newton's Law

Por fin, Carmelita.

Open wide. Yummy, yummy. No, cari!

Si, senora! Carmelita, no.

No hices Nada!

Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta.

Poor favor!

He's going to hurt you, Carmelita! Dios mio, no!

Apurate!

Ai-ai-ai, come!

Carmelita, no!

Carmelita, por favor, apurate!

Run, Carmelita.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Dios mio!

Ya! Apurate, pero ya!

Asesinato!

Don't tell me that, Charlie.

I woke up this morning hoping for a good day.

It's an arson case.

We're due in court in 20 minutes.

Oh, Patty, you got your scooter back!

What about MacKenzie?

He's just finished an aggravated burglary at the County Court.

He should be free.

Two o'clock, I promise, Patty. Oh, go on. Get moving.

Oh, don't try and palm your seconds off onto me, Charlie.

What is it? The Barrister's jammed.

Clerk's trying to replace him.

Margaret Sefton's very thorough. Sefton.

Can you get me Sefton?

I should drive. No way.

No, it's an indictable charge. This case is important.

You say that about every case.

Nice, Josephine.

We should have bought the hatchback.

I just burned enough fossil fuel to heat a small village.

Don't listen to her. She loves ya.

There's all-day parking at the back of the court.

Nah, I'm not parking her in a public car park.

I'll I'll lap the block.

Johnny!

Oh.

Cutting it fine, Charlie.

Look, there's Tautolu.

Stop smiling. He still owes us $300.

Oh, come on. He's only got two teeth to go.

Yep, yep, I'm here.

Oh, no, Charlie. No, not him.

No, no, that's not fair.

Ludlow. Oh, God!

He's already here. What about the injury to his groin?

Is he still on the medication? Oh, let's hope not.

Welcome!

Welcome, Josephine, Helena.

So good to see you both.

Hello, Ian. Nice to see you too.

Directions hearing for Nikos Aristides

charged with setting fire to his workplace,

but this isn't his MO.

So, get rid of the eyewitness

claims that he saw Nikos on the night in question

with fire lighting gear.

A Molotov cocktail.

I mean, it was a tea towel soaked in metho

with some dishwashing liquid.

Ditch the psychiatrist. Nikos is just a troubled soul.

He's never been diagnosed with pyromania.

Pyromaniac label will almost guarantee a jail sentence.

Which Nikos is terrified of.

Two weeks in remand and he can barely keep a meal down.

Chill, ladies. I've read the brief.

We'll walk all over them.

Um, Ian, it's actually this direction.

Oh!

Ah! Got it.

Hello, Josephine. Lewis.

Helena Chatterjee, my associate.

Lewis Hughes, my Greatest admirer.

Old uni mate. Fellow law student.

Friend of my husband's. Ex-husband.

We're having a trial separation.

I believe we're opposing.

Oh. Why are you slumming it with the prosecutors' office?

Short on entertainment or are you just lost?

Well, crime rates are soaring.

You know, I feel it's my duty to help stem the rot.

And apart from your social conscience?

I heard you were defending.

How is Cal?

Ah, he's saving something, somewhere.

Right. Not his marriage, apparently.

Who's that? Where's the other guy?

Um, Mr Patterson's delayed, so Mr Ludlow's kindly stepped in.

He's a very experienced barrister. I'm not going back to jail! I can't.

You said you'd fix this. Nikos, don't worry. It's fine.

Please stand.

The 5th Division of the Magistrate Court is now in session.

Be seated, please.

This should be good.

And we also have our eyewitness

who saw the accused on the evening in question

with a bottle of methylated spirits and a tea towel.

Mr Hughes, five witnesses apart from the informant?

Ludlow! This.

We're preparing for an arson trial

No note.

Not a production of Guys And Dolls.

If it pleases Your Honour, I could warble the rest.

Continue. Ludlow, we don't want the eyewitness.

Mr Ludlow, is your instructing solicitor all right?

Yep. Good.

If there's no objection, your last witness is in.

Ludlow!

And finally Doctor Patrick Marshall,

a psychiatrist who's an expert in pyromania.

No! He has never been diagnosed with pyromania.

Doctor Marshall can attest to

the typical patterns

of pyromaniacs.

Ludlow! Evidence of tendency, Your Honour.

A history of similar attacks. We want

A house, a toilet block, a car.

Oh, God!

Even my learned friend can't contain his astonishment

at my evidentiary line-up.

We're on the first rung here, Mr Hughes.

Save the long words for the trial.

Pyromania is an addiction that runs deep, Your Honour.

It's like an old love.

You can try to forget, but you can never be cured.

I'm not like that! Why don't you tell them?

Mr Aristides, let your counsel do the talking.

Mr Ludlow, do you object to witness number five?

Um

All right, then, looks like we'll be seeing the good doctor.

On the matter of bail Yes, we want bail!

Hmm? Contain yourself, Ms Newton.

Um, look, I I think

We oppose bail, Your Honour. Oh. Oh, dear.

Based on the strength of the evidence,

Mr Aristides is likely to receive a sentence of imprisonment.

We want Oh! Oh!

Oh!

I'm sorry, Your Honour.

My learned friend would like me to take over,

as he's seriously indisposed.

I have no objection to that, Your Honour.

Well, I do, Ms Newton.

This is highly irregular

and pointless at this stage of the proceedings.

Please sit down.

Um, but regarding the matter of bail

I asked you to take a seat. Ooh!

Your Honour, my learned friend needs a bucket.

There's one just under

Trial set for a date to be fixed and bail denied.

You lied! You said you'd fix this! I trusted you!

Hey, stop that guy! Hey! Hey, get him!

Grab him!

Josephine Newton is a hopeless lawyer!

She's a big, fat liar! Don't nobody give her a job!

You're going to regret this!

I must confess, that was entertaining.

And so ends that farce.

The real farce is that imbecile's gunning for silk

while you threw it all away to advise flashers and jaywalkers

in the back blocks of Nowheresville.

I like being a suburban solicitor.

Hasn't the kid left home yet? She's 15.

Chambers have become available on my floor.

No, Lewis. My clerk could put you on his list.

You'd be doing what you love.

Um, I am doing what I love. I'm helping people who need me.

And what do YOU need?

Car's here!

We're coming!

Impulse buy?

What did you think I'd drive? A hatchback?

Excuse me.

They want Nikos's details and last known address for the warrant.

Have a drink with me later on.

At least let me try to convince you.

Ancient history.

Sorry, Patty.

Oh, that's all right. Got held up.

But your arvo tea's gone cold.

Oh, thank you. That's nice.

Hey, I've been looking into my case.

VicRoads reckons this is a wheelchair, not a vehicle,

so if you want to get technical about it, I wasn't driving.

Can you smell something?

I mean, you can't drink and drive

if all you're doing is sitting in a chair, right?

Shit a brick!

Fully qualified solicitor. All for nothing.

You're not getting out of it that easily.

This is a minor setback.

Johnny, potential crime scene!

Nah, not until the cops get here.

Fireys reckon it was deliberate.

You reckon it was Nikos?