You do wonder when you see an episode almost a quarter of century after it was made, whether new viewers might have caught the references.
An expert witness makes a remark of being 'economical with the actualite.' A hark back to a similar statement made in court by a senior civil service in the dying days of John Major's Tory government.
On the other hand, Jeremy Aldermarten QC who had ambitions to be a Tory MP in the earlier series. Now plans to be a Euro MP in New Labour colours. They were now in government and someone like Aldermarten feels they can fit right in, once they got to know some working class people.
Class warfare is the heart of the story. A RAF jet plane crashes onto a motocross event resulting in the death of 22 people. Matt Kavanagh was present at the event.
Now some time later, Charlotte Sinclair is accused of conspiracy to murder. She has been involved in a radical terrorist group and does not even recognise the court.
To his son's anger, Kavanagh has agreed to act for the defence. Charlotte is a difficult client, it seems her parents were also involved in terrorist groups in their youth.
Charlotte had befriended an air force mechanic who might have sabotaged the plane that caused it to crash. She admits to using him to get access to the base and the boyfriend later killed himself.
It was a dense story, one of the expert witness that Kavanagh got is a bit of a conspiracy freak. A vulnerable but difficult client did not help matters. At one point I thought Kavanagh might go for a mistrial as it seems that the Ministry of Defence might not want to air dirty laundry in public.