The Brief Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - The Road to HellUnconventional barrister Henry Farmer takes on an un-winnable murder case as his personal life falls apart around him. Saddled with alimony and gambling debts he is tempted into taking on too much work by his scheming Senior Clerk. Henry defends a woman of murdering her partners two children; a dodgy, but wealthy businessman of receiving stolen goods and a foreign businessman, who has had a sale in his shop for the last 30 years, of obtaining by deception.
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Episode 2 - So Long, SamanthaHenry Farmer risks a misconduct charge when he takes up the cause of obsessive father, Costas Nicolaou, who is convinced his daughter was raped and murdered at a party in the Far East. Henry comes head to head with Coroner's court judge, Greenaway, when he requests an inquest into what has been deemed by Indonesian authorities as an accidental death.
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Episode 3 - ChildrenHenry moves away from his usual role as a defence barrister when he is persuaded to prosecute a 12-year-old girl in a gripping murder trial. He comes up against devious defence barrister Marcel Crane. Henry quickly discovers the case may not be as cut and dry as he thought and begins to question the innocence of his own child to the defence, and in doing so risks losing the case.
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Episode 4 - A Sort of LoveHenry takes on the appeal of Peter McKee, a man convicted of murdering his partner through his involvement in a bizarre sex triangle ten years before. McKee, now a born again Christian with a law degree, proves to be a formidably difficult client and Henry comes into fierce professional conflict with Cleo over how to handle the appeal.
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