JUDGE JOHN DEED.

Episode one - Health Hazard.

Sir Ian Rochester (Simon Chandler) is furious when vainglorious new president, Sir Monty 'Legover' Everard (Simon Ward), miscalculates and hands Mr Justice Deed (Martin Shaw) a controversial case against a mobile phone company. Unable to wrest the case back, Sir Ian turns his malign attention to Jo Mills (Jenny Seagrove) in order to defeat Deed.
As a result, Jo is brought up before a disciplinary hearing for having an improper relationship with Deed and is forced to cut all ties with him. Deed turns up unexpectedly at the hearing, being chaired by Everard, who is forced to accept the word of a high court judge, despite the evidence to the contrary. Sir Monty will have to wait to extract his revenge.


Episode two - Judicial review.

When Sir Monty Everard grants a political benefactor a non-custodial sentence, Deed flies into a rage and publicly accuses him of corruption. Pushed into a corner, Everard bites back. Jo Mills takes the brunt of his ill will and is ostracised by the legal profession. Jo pleads with Deed to give up his fight. Finally he agrees to see a therapist, Rachel Crawcheck (Amita Dhiri), with unnerving results. But Deed still refuses to back down until the over-lenient sentence is appealed. Finally he out manoeuvres Sir Ian Rochester and saves Jo's career.

Episode three - Conspiracy.

Jo Mills is prosecuting an MP accused of attempted murder. The MP had been investigating deaths in the arms industry, and Row Colemore (Christopher Cazenove) floats the idea that the charge has been fabricated in order to shut him up.
Judge John Deed is still seeing his therapist, Rachel Crawcheck, and the emotional revelations continue to unnerve him. But, when he and Rachel end up in bed together, it ends his therapy - along with his chances of a relationship with Jo.
Deed discovers that Row is part of a conspiracy to acquit the MP so that he can continue his damaging investigation in order to aid a take over by a rival arms company. Friendship notwithstanding, Deed starts proceedings against Row and his putative boss for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Episode four - Economic Imperative.

Single mother Diana Hulsey (Lara Cazalet) pursues her case against the mobile phone company for causing her terminal brain tumour. Despite their strong relationship, Jo Mills is shocked when Diana asks her is she'll take on her little boy once she dies.
Meanwhile, Sir Ian Rochester conspires with the trade secretary, who is uncomfortably close to the phone company. They want to discredit Deed, who's hearing the case. Child pornography is found in Deed's computer.
When Diana dies, the phone company refuses to settle, believing Deed is washed up.
But, with just moments to spare, a computer expert helps Deed deal with the evidence as Sir Ian and Sir Monty Everard approach with security guards to seize his computer.

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