The Twelve - First Season

Kate: They're gonna be in my house.

How did you let that happen?

You're getting outplayed.

You know this could cause a mistrial?

There's actually nothing in the jury act

about incidental contact.

My wife and son are still in Iraq.

What? What is it?

Sweetheart, hey, what happened?

-Dad! -Simon: What the hell were you thinking, Ava?

-What about your boyfriend being there? -He's a guy you're not seeing anymore.

We had an illegal labourer on site.

He fell. He died a few hours later.

I think we killed him.

What do you think about having your entire debt cleared?

What about the banker?

Can you put pressure on him?

Knocking people off the jury was not part of the agreement.

Ripley! Zeus!

It all just happened so fast...

I have photographs of Alice's arm.

Fucking stop! No! No!

You need to leave immediately.

What happened? Jamie's angry.

He's punishing me. You should just stay at mine.

Claire was upset because she'd found something out.

Claire told me her father was having an affair.

-Colby: Who was he having an affair with? -Kate.

I love that. I love that.

That's fantastic.

Can you make it a little tighter?

Yeah, wait. With your hand, a little bit.

Ok, stay in that position. Claire: Yeah?

Yep, keep it tight. Yeah.

Wait. It has to look real.

That's great.

Try that one.

That should be fine.

We don't have to set out to prove that Nathan killed Claire.

We just have to convince the jury

that he had a motive to do so,

and therefore, give them reasonable doubt.

But it does mean, I'm afraid,

leaning into your affair.

You sure you want to risk that?

Oh, the damage with Diane is already done,

so I'll make it up to her, sometime.

But I need to get acquitted, first.

So you need to use this to take Nathan down.

What I'm saying, Kate,

is recalling any witness without due preparation is always dangerous.

But isn't it enough that he lied?

To give the jury reasonable doubt?

As long as the jury believe

that Nathan's the liar and not Claire and the house mistress.

Then make them believe it.

20 minutes.

We need to pack up.

I think I've found something.

Is it pertinent to this testimony?

No.

But I think you need to look.

This is 12 minutes after Kate left in her car with amita.

Watch.

Is that a flash? Is that a camera flash?

Ezekiel: Every ten seconds, for six minutes.

Colby: So what do you think? Is this Claire?

She was the only one there.

Welcome back, mr Spears.

Earlier in your evidence,

you said that you met Kate Lawson at art school

before you met her sister, Diane.

Is that correct? That's correct.

And you admitted an affair,

one affair, during your marriage to Diane Spears.

Yes, I also said that I regretted it.

Colby: Was that affair with Kate Lawson?

Nathan: No.

Colby: Then who was it with?

Nathan: It was with my wife, Sonia.

Colby: So you are a liar and an adulterer.

Nathan: I'm not a liar.

Colby: Did you lie to your wife, Diane,

about an affair with your wife, Sonia?

Yes.

Colby: So you are an adulterer and a liar.

That is established.

Can the witness be shown exhibit a, please?

Now, mr Spears, you will be shown the footage

of you attending ms Lawson's house on the night of 14 September,

in response to the online video Claire had posted that afternoon.

Now, here you are seen dragging Claire

away from ms Lawson's house, correct?

That's correct.

Colby: But here, Kate interrupts

and you are unable to finish your argument.

That must have been frustrating, was it not?

Well, we were both emotional.

I just decided to let it go.

Were you emotional because Claire told you

she knew about your affair with her aunt,

and she was threatening to tell your wife?

No.

So what were you arguing about?

I just told her that Sonia was losing the baby

that she was carrying at the time.

Claire didn't want to come home. She was uncomfortable.

She said she didn't know what she would say to Sonia.

I told her she should come home, but she refused.

Colby: That is not the evidence that you gave before, is it?

No. So you perjured yourself.

Yes.

Colby: Why, then, did you choose to lie?

Because as you can see,

my wife is in a delicate condition again.

The loss of a baby is a very private thing. I didn't think it was fair to expose it

when it wasn't relevant to anyone else but myself and my wife.

It would cause her too much distress.

But the fact remains that you lied to this court

when you were under oath to tell the truth.

And, when you were first interviewed by the police,

your wife was not, then, in a delicate condition, was she?

No.

So why did you lie to the police?

Nathan: I'd lost two children inside 24 hours.

By the time I was interviewed about that footage,

our lives were spread all over the news.

So if I chose to protect my wife

by keeping our personal tragedy to myself, would you blame me?

I put it to you that your two explanations are different

because they are two different lies.

That's not true.

True, not true, those are just words to a liar.

I know the difference.

I will ask you again, mr Spears.

Did you have a longstanding affair with your sister-in-law,

the defendant, Kate Lawson?

No.

Claire's house mistress said your daughter told her

you were having an affair with her aunt.

Now, who's telling the lie?

Is it the house mistress?

No, I don't think so.

Is it Claire that's lying, then?

Claire lied about a lot of things.

Now, is your current wife wealthy?

Yes. Colby: She is. How is that?

Nathan: Her family are involved in the Italian automotive industry.

Colby: So do you have a prenuptial agreement

that states that if you commit adultery

and the marriage ends in divorce,

you forfeit any right to a financial settlement?

Yes. But I haven't committed adultery.

Look, the police had access to my phone, to Kate's records, too.

You can check. There was nothing.

No contact except about Claire.

Hand me a note.

And don't answer.

Mr Spears, are you aware that there are apps on mobile phones

that allow you to send messages that cannot be traced?

No.

Colby: So you don't know of...

Wick...

What is this, wick...

Wick...

I'm sorry, your honour, there seems to be a typographical...

Wickr. Wickr. Wickr.

So you are aware of this app.

I've heard of it.

Did you and ms Lawson use the wickr app

to conduct a secret liaison that could not be traced?

Nathan: No.

Then why is the wickr app on your phone?

I don't know. I mean, Claire may have uploaded it.

She did that sometimes. I don't know.

Mr Spears, in the course of a few moments,

you've accused your daughter, your 14-year-old daughter,

of being a liar.

And now you're accusing her of tampering with your phone.

Is it your intention to use Claire,

who can't answer for herself, to use Claire to cover

all the inconsistencies in your evidence?

I'm not using Claire.

Now, since we've established

that you've lied to your wife about your affairs,

and you've lied here under oath,

why should the jury believe you are now telling the truth?

I lost my daughter, thanks to Kate.

And by that, I mean long before she died.

Why would I have an affair with someone that I hated?

Colby: No more questions, your honour.

I have no further questions, your honour,

and that is the close of the crown's case.

So do we think he was actually having an affair with her?

Well, she must be saying they were,

or the defence wouldn't call him back.

It's a bit of a he said, she said sitch.

Mm, people fuck who they hate all the time.

Exactly. And he's a gold-digger.

If they were having an affair, they could be in it together.