Being both slow and predictable is a death sentence for any kind of courtroom story, even one on the goofier side like this. There are moments where Philip Martin has some fun with the format, like citing fictional legal precedent, but otherwise, it really does crawl across its four-episode length. It's a tribute to '80s Who that recreates pacing issues from '60s Who.

The main reason this isn't getting rated any lower is because the performances are doing a lot of carrying here. This might be my favourite turn from Nabil Shaban as Sil, partly because he's still delightfully slimy, but mostly because, by episode 3, he even got me to ever-so-slightly worry about the guy; actual achievement there. Christopher Ryan, sans prosthetics, still works well next to Shaban, and Sophie Aldred is quite fun as Na.