皇家律师第三季

       第三季开头，martha一如既往的全力以赴为客户辩论，不断的找寻着客户无罪的证据。到了帮助恐怖袭击的学生的那个案子，在martha的帮助下，学生最终成功的没有被引渡到美国，相当于not guilty。最后clive告诉martha,那个学生确实帮助了恐怖袭击，在空旷的大厅里，martha呆看着学生离开。觉得那个时候martha的心里有东西在慢慢的倒塌。
      然后最后一个案子，帮助前男友，在法庭上不断的发现前男友的谎言。他们回忆起来都会笑的情话，原来不仅仅是属于她，被他说给很多别的女生听。在这个案子里，martha真的不是原来的martha了，她不再冷静，完全没有找不到突破口。即使认为前男友是无罪的，但是又在发现预订周围房间的名字都是高中同学后，慌乱的跑出去吸烟听歌，试图镇定下来。
     在这个案子中，martha拥有的东西在一件一件的失去，billy癌症的扩散， clive的渣， 然后前男友被判有罪。最后发现因为自己的失误，遗漏了关键的证据，导致无罪的前男友有罪，之前很多次帮助有罪的客户得到无罪的结果，却让真正无罪的在乎的人被判有罪。
     martha说的最后一个台词是 Who am I, 之后是她离开鞋巷， 沉默的走在大街上。最后martha听到billy喊的“miss”,回头。之后在billy&jack看来，martha就这样消失了。
     再见martha

有关键情节透露

run for your life 这是mickey给martha最后的忠告

最后一集 终于clive变成了原来放荡不羁爱情色的clive，martha却不再是那个机智的QC

唇红齿白 干净利落的短发 谁说martha是倏尔一变呢 难道忘记了成为QC之后 在第二季里丢弃了的手拉车 和精致的high heels


EP06 keep out


7'
- So you can't say where it was from.
- I was told.
- You were told? Sorry, sorry, sorry. You were told?
When things go wrong, this is how they go wrong.
- I'm sorry?
- This prosecution, these police officers, you.
- What are you all saying?
- We've found our man, now let's make the evidence fit.
Well, that is the wrong way round and this is how miscarriages of justice happen.
It should be "- look at the evidence
- and see who fits it. "
- Is this a speech?
- It's a description of everything that's wrong with the prosecution and police culture in this country.
- Just put your case, Miss Costello.
- You can't be sure it was a 9mm pistol because you need the cartridge for that.
The striations caused by its journey down the barrel of the gun tell you what the weapon was.
So you can't say what this type of gun was,
and anyway, you don't know how rare a 9mm pistol is in the UK
because your statistical database is too narrow.
-And that was all performance.
Ask the question, sit down before it can be answered
and then the question becomes the answer.
It's a dishonest technique.
What I should have said is that Miss Costello is doing her job,
which, unless she believes everything her clients tell her,
means her working life is one big performance.




Jamming a square peg in a round hole.


33'
I knew I was a grown-up from the age of about five,
because I thought all other children were wasting their time - being children.
That's the thing about the Catholic faith.
Teaches you to take life seriously.
You pay attention.
My fifth birthday. I'm trying to find the courage to dive in.
I remember it as if it was yesterday.
It's the last moment in my life
before I started to think about death.
Everybody goes, Billy.
There are three things that matter.
The manner of your going.
What you leave behind.
And where you're going afterwards.






48'
You lose your heart to every case you take, don't you?
Passion, conviction, fearlessness.
All of them admirable qualities,
and all of them qualities shared by DCI Fitzpatrick.
- He's... - The other side of the same coin.
- No. - You only see what you need to see.
Look at the jacket.
- What?
- The blood on the sleeve means Sean's guilty, doesn't it?
Fitzpatrick wins, you lose.
The blood on the right sleeve.
The wound behind the left ear.
The killer's left-handed. Sean isn't.
You win.
- I didn't think... - No, you didn't.
You lost a game you could have won.
- Game? - And there's another game to play tomorrow
and, like all games, it's about winning and losing,
and that means everyone in it is corrupted.
After years a lawyer...
..Finally...
..At the death...
I've stopped playing the game and I told the truth.
I can't tell you how good that feels.
- What are you saying?
- I'm telling you.
Begging you.
Walk away.
No. Run.
Run for your life.
Martha.

EP03 Things don't add up
3季应当合并为一个整体来看，1季着重一个律师的成长，2季着重一个律师的职业技能，3季着重一个律师的职业操守和爱情，这个律师当然是MC。

这一集非常丰富，从PTSD，到天主教义，到伟大的母爱，这种“剥洋葱”式的故事讲述，最终能把故事圆满了，不容易。

1'28 day's already been seized, strip-searched and sentenced.

4'21 I always thought you were a great loss to Parliament, Billy.
I can just see you whipping the backbenchers into voting for some illegal war without them ever quite knowing what they were voting for.

4'40 She's a cross between Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King and a small Rottweiler.

5'12 You have lots in common, you and Elizabeth.
Brave, strong...
- Pale. - Pale.
- Surrounded by men. - Surrounded by men.
Saying no to all of them.

6'10 You can argue about an individual's right to die, but not putting murder on the indictment here would send a huge message. It could open the floodgates to anyone who wants to...finish off a burdensome relative.We, the law,can't allow that to happen.

6'30
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
creeps in this petty pace from day to day
to the last syllable of recorded time.
And all our yesterdays
have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle."

express a desire to die.

18'39
While none of us can be anything but profoundly moved by the tragedy of the situation that Joanna Stephens found herself in,or by the desperately hard situation that Sarah Stephens faced...no-one,has the right...to play God.

adjusting to her new circumstances.

I take instructions from my client,
whereas you take instructions from a supernatural entity
that can't be cross-examined,
but whose wisdom you ask us to take as read?

Don't ever do what I'm about to.

EP02 U don't Know Football

Jordan成了英格兰足球史上一个出柜的运动员 虽然是在电视剧里 而且只是对自己的律师

Martha这一回第一次表现出比较感性的态度 询问client究竟怎么辩论 Clive和Martha末尾的drama 也印证了Martha对于client的态度

（27‘）实际上这一集讲work and family多一点 上一回Bill的医师讲到他会哭得多一点 这一回就哭了两次 You'll be there forever. 是大家对他的认可 也或许就是他自己对Shoe Lane的态度

Ps. Jack吃的是什么 （¯﹃¯）看起来就好好吃





EP01 Leave Me Alone

一部剧能够成功不仅需要情节的推进 主角的表现 台词的雕琢 很大程度上需要配角的支撑 比如这一集的CW 本来没什么表演（32‘）但是白色窗帷吹拂着 她put the exact date when she lost her chance for motherhood 作为QC 还需要怎么样的drama 怎样的表演呢？

和韩剧相比 英剧真是太简练了 不需要街拍一样的秀服装 每一帧都在推动情节 （48’）比如Ruby看着Shoe Lane 而Marsha从反方向走过来 被告知David losing himself的事实 而dad又恰巧走过来 不难猜测Rudy需要怎样的勇气来告诉他这个残酷的事实 哎……

副线Billy的情节也很灵动 真是内容丰富！

Ps （7‘）我真以为他们会在法庭上做爱呢

Billy让人想起老一辈在对待事业、工作和朋友的方式，有侠义也有暗箱操作，坚强不可摧的外在包裹着一颗铁胆忠心，虽然在时代的潮流下，逐渐被淘汰，换上Harriet这种事事均可与目标利益挂钩的高效运营。不能说谁的做法更好，但剧中明显偏向塑造Billy的高大形象，从而反映出英国人对旧时代和传统的怀念，希望有过去的情怀，可是又被迫面对冷漠的现在，那种复杂的感情是每一个人面对时代交替、甚或年龄渐长时都会有心态，诠释得非常好！

其实我也是Billy的脑残粉，呵呵，原因是忽然看到某些他的举动让我想起老爸，比如即使有很大的苦衷却不愿意与家人分享而独自承担；为你做一件事不论过程有多复杂困难，最终只给你一个圆满的结果；以及几十年来为数不多的一两次看到他的无助……这一切一切让我非常感同身受。

或许一个法律外行看这个剧只能感受到皮毛，但人性本来就是终极哲学，不论哪个行业都有对良心的拷问，只是法庭上、案件中所揭露的人性可能更加直接，因此一直也对多了解一点法律的相关很感兴趣。

强烈推荐全部3季！

女生可以得到启发how to be a woman and free. 虽然感觉这里面并没有特别理想的professional woman的榜样...我在现实生活中看到更多非常棒的老总，同时是很好的妻子and/or母亲，英国人反映的现实更冷酷。

大家都可以得到启发how to address the conflict between everyday ethics and work ethics when it happens. 虽然我目前做过的两个行当consulting和science中，ethics issue并没有law和medicine里面那面严重，但是我相信如果每个人都能想想这个问题，the world will become a better place. 对Martha Costello, work ethics overrules every other ethics, which made her a truly extraordinary QC, but also led the eventual crash of her whole belief system (as she was forced out of work due to change in chamber politics). 不过也许目前更可怕的问题可能是很多人work ethics和everyday ethics都偏弱。还记得之前一个项目中客户接受访谈时说“如果你们有良心的话就把这个问题如实反映上去”。相信他们之前也曾经找过其他途径，但是捅马蜂窝的事情很多人都不愿意干，慢慢搁置就大事化了了。（幸运的是上司最终非常有技巧的如实反映了问题。）

第三季一开始就很不对劲，Martha换发型了，和Clive莫名其妙就开始甜蜜了，最重要的是案子没有以前精彩了，而Martha最后却总是莫名其妙地赢了。

我以为Peter Moffat也开始江郎才尽了，也开始粗制滥造了，也开始给他的女主角套上不败的光环了。直到最后一集才发现，原来他就为了最后的十分钟用了整整一季在铺垫。

回想前两季的模式，确实和第三季很不一样。那时候Martha经常被逼入绝境，直到最后才发现真相绝地反击。有时候觉得，她更像一个侦探。这种如破案般抽丝剥茧的法庭辩论总是看得人酣畅淋漓。我最喜欢的一个案子，也是哭得最凶的一个，是Martha为Farr Family的打手辩护，那个憨厚却敏感的大个子，在法庭上讲述自己残忍的暴行，然而真相却是他在尽可能地帮助他伤害的人，他诉说着自己如何狠利地戳瞎被害人的双眼，因为他越狠利，被害人就越能少受一点折磨。
真相，这是前两季想要说的。Martha的可爱，或者说伟大，就在于她如此固执地追逐着真相。她把那样残忍的真相赤裸裸地摆在法庭上，摆在陪审团面前，告诉他们，The law and what's right and what's wrong aren't always the same thing.That's why we have you.Juries tell us,the lawyers,about the space between the rules.And that space,is occupied by common sense and humanity.

前两季的Martha，让人觉得真相比法律重要。法律是确定无疑的，残忍地伤害了被害人的打手是有罪的，但在真相的审判中，他被宣告无罪。

然而这一季，一切都变了。不管是精神失常的儿子，还是同性恋足球运动员，Martha在为他们辩护时不再摆出真相，而是在对陪审团讲故事，讲一个听上去很合理的故事，幸运的是，Martha是个讲故事的高手，她的遣词造句、她的语气、她的表情、她的动作，都是一个老辣的Silk所具备的，和年轻的Amy形成鲜明的对比，和前两季的她自己相比，也显得咄咄逼人得多。Martha不再靠真相取胜，她开始成为一个经验老道的Silk，凭借辩护技巧取胜。这或许就是为什么习惯了前两季模式的观众看到这一季会觉得Martha赢得有些莫名其妙。

第三季前几集我们还能看到以前那个追逐真相的Martha的影子，毕竟她依旧弄清了真相，只是为了当事人的利益选择对陪审团讲另一个故事。然而发展到美国引渡案的时候，有什么不对了，Martha这次没能看清楚真相，她赢了，但她被愚弄了。或许这就是Moffat为最后的崩溃所埋下的伏笔。

最后的最后，Moffat给了Martha一个比以往任何一次都感情用事的案子，和一次比以往任何一次都要咄咄逼人的辩论表现。就像那个枪支专家说的，你只是在法庭上表演，你的辩词只是一种Performance。有意思的是，Clive也说了类似的话，他说Martha为Billy辩护时盘问Amy的策略完全是一种Politics。所以你看，其实Martha身边的人多少都注意到了，只是Martha不自知，直到Micky Joy的那番话才让她恍然大悟。

Billy这条暗线很有意思，且不论Moffat笔法老辣将这个人物塑造的多么成功，只说他和Amy这个案子对Martha的影射。Martha是知道真相的，出于对朋友的道义她不能说，但最后让案子解决的还是Bethany所说出的一番真相。而Sean的案子则恰恰相反，Martha不知道真相，但出于对Ex的感情和信任她必须说点什么，最后却陷入这个泥潭，导致双眼被蒙蔽没有看到本应看到的真相。

不知何时，Martha也从那个在律师行业里特立独行的真相追逐者便成一个和大部分老辣的律师一样凭借技巧和手腕取胜的Silk了。Clive是这样，不惜毁掉承诺也要在庭上取得最好的结果，Warick也是这样，不管真相，将一切有利于自己的证据拿来在庭上大虐新人律师，Micky Joy更是这样，35年的律师从业生涯都没有理会过真相，直到最后终于能够在庭上说出真相然后从容地面对死亡。而讽刺的是，他的证词不符合法律程序，因此法官要求陪审团不予采纳。这是Moffat对整个法律制度最大的嘲讽。

因此最后的最后，Clive成了Head of Chamber，为他赢得竞选的不是他的法律理念，而是他承诺让大家一辈子都有案可办。Billy大概命不久矣，他代表的是一个时代的衰落，时代已经不需要腐朽的Clerk了，时代需要像Harriet那样高效的行政、管理。Martha问了一句Who am I，大概因为她终于意识到自己已经逐渐偏离了真相，失去了以前那个Martha Costello身上最特别的东西。她在车流中消失，从此世上再无Martha Costello。

所以直到最后一集，甚至直到最后十分钟，我才看懂Moffat要说的究竟是什么。回过头看，原来之前那么多琐碎的细节都有它的隐喻。前几天跟朋友讨论好的作者究竟是什么样的，我说好的作者不在于他/她能创作出多少好故事，而在与他/她肯牺牲掉多少好故事。在稚嫩的作者笔下，总是容易出现完美的人物，而真正厉害的作家，总是能表现出人性的复杂，让人又爱又恨。为了他想说的主题，Moffat可以牺牲掉一整季的精彩度，可以牺牲掉他笔下挚爱的人物。Moffat真的没有给Martha套上主角不败光环，他在故事的结尾给了Martha一个最大的挫败，甚至可以说他抹杀了Martha Costello这个人物。Clive、Billy、Warick，无一不是让人又爱又恨的人物，却让人觉得如此真实。虽然我希望Martha和Clive真的能够从此幸福快乐地生活在一起，但我也清楚Clive给不了Martha幸福，Martha也顽强到无法接受Clive给的幸福。

但即使这样，我也还是想骂一句Harriet是totally bitch，我就是偏爱Billy和Martha的脑残粉，同意的请点赞。