The Brief - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
The Road to Hell
Good-natured but unconventional barrister Henry Farmer takes on an unwinnable murder case as his 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 Ray Scanlon.
So Long, Samantha
Henry Farmer's search for truth and justice has him risking 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's love affair with Polly is complicated by an unexpectedly friendly meeting with her MP husband, and his working relationship with beautiful solicitor Amena Laing.
Children
Farmer has doubts about his prosecution of a twelve year old gypsy girl for murder and takes custody of his son while his ex-wife vacations.
A Sort of Love
Polly leaves her husband; Henry takes an appeal of a man involved in a sex triangle; Henry faces off with Cleo Steyn.
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