Law & Order: UK - Series One - Unloved
Law & Order: UK' makes its long-awaited debut in the UK, meting out justice on the country's crinmals in this brilliant reimagining of the Emmy award-winning US drama.
Employing the original series' iconic two-part structure that focuses first on the investigation of a crime at the police level and then shifts in its second half to the prosecution of the suspects, 'Law & Order: UK' approaches the format and characters from a uniquely English perspective.
Series One : Episode Two : Unloved
Monday, 2 March 2009 9:00pm - 10:00pm ITV 1
A 13-year-old boy is found kicked to death at Euston Station, but DS Ronnie Brooks and
DS Matt Devlin have nothing to go on. DI Natalie Chandler holds a press conference, which
identifies the victim as Danny Jackson, and Matt and Ronnie soon discover that Danny's
mother, Mandy, is an ex-junkie whose boyfriend Stevie is suspected of physically abusing
Danny.
As the case develops, suspicions fall on Danny's foster home, run by Phoebe Baxter. But
Ronnie and Matt are at a loss as to who is responsible for Danny's death. Was it the
parents who abused then abandoned him? Or a foster mother who gave him too much freedom?
Or was it his friends, the last people to see him alive?
Crown Prosecutors James Steel and Alesha Phillips have the prime suspect in the dock but
Beatrice McArdle, on old flame from James's defence days, thinks he's prosecuting the
wrong person. James knows Beatrice is trying to gather evidence to suggest that the
accused was genetically predisposed towards murder; a defence that could prompt change
in the British legal system.
As the legal system hangs by a thread, James must fight harder than ever to win justice
for Danny - but at what cost?
