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"Flaw"
UK, Episode 8.01
Production number:
First aired (US): 11 March 2014
First aired (UK): 12 March 2014
First aired (CAN): 11 March 2014
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Written By
Nicholas Hicks Beach

Directed By
Matt King

Summary[]

A police car chase ends when the car the police are pursuing crashes into an oncoming lorry, killing the driver. They find another dead body in the boot, with his teeth and hands missing. Ronnie and his new partner Joe Hawkins (Ben Bailey Smith) investigate the death. After questioning a number of suspects, the victim, jeweler Harry Bernstein, has a sister who is on the jury for the trial of Dale Horgan, a drug dealer and murderer that Ronnie tries to apprehend years before. The sister, Rebecca Bernstein, received her brother's severed hands in a box with the message "not guilty". The defense barrister in the trial, Eleanor Richmond (Helen Baxendale), argues that the jury has been compromised, and they are dismissed. However, the trial continues with Horgan's fate to be determined by the judge alone. The judge however ultimately finds Horgan not guilty, reasoning that the prosecution has not met their burden of proof. However, Joe manages to convince a witness, a scared young graffiti artist, into revealing what transpired during Harry's murder, by sending him to the scene of the crime. After identifying the murderer, Joe and Ronnie question him, where he reveals that Horgan organized the murder. In turn, Ronnie arrests Horgan again for conspiracy to murder and perverting the course of justice.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Recurring Cast[]

Guest Cast[]

  • Nikesh Patel as Tom
  • Jenny Rainsford as Beth
  • Eric Kofi-Abrefa as Kris Akron
  • Tracy Brabin as Lindsay Bernstein
  • Duncan Pow as David Winkleman
  • Sidney Kean as Frank
  • Christopher Fulford as Mickey Belker
  • Elly Fairman as Julie Taylor
  • Sonny Ashbourne Serkis as Danny Taylor
  • Isabel Pollen as Rebecca Waldman
  • Rosalyn Wright as Miranda Jones
  • Peter Barrett as Dale Horgan
  • Helen Baxendale as Eleanor Richmond
  • Diana Quick Judge Hall
  • Jack Beale as Clerk of the Court
  • Paul Blackwell as Armed Officer
  • Habib Nasib Nader as Solicitor

Background information and notes[]

Previous episode:
"Dependent"
"Flaw (UK)"
Law & Order: UK
Season 8
Next episode:
"Safe from Harm"
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