Judge John Deed - Season 2 Episode 1
Political Expediency

After a call girl is found dead in a skip, an Arab sheikhs chauffeur is charged with killing her, but the evidence points to the sheikh himself being involved in the murder. Unfortunately for Deed, the Arab ruler was in London to place a huge order with a British aircraft manufacturer, and pressure is piled on Deed by the British government, as well as by the sheikhs own. The plot thickens when counsel for the prosecution is also killed and Deeds lover, Jo Mills, takes over the case, and when he hears that Georgina Channing, his former wife, is engaged to marry Neil Haughton, the government minister fighting for the aeroplane order. Before long, witnesses disappear and the jury is being interfered with - by the British Government, no less. And then Deed gets an offer they think he cant refuse, when appointment as an Appeal Court judge is dangled before him.