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Ben breaks down. His mother screams in relief. Juliet shows no emotion. Ben is released. He walks out of the courthouse into the rain. No one waits for him but his father, who says nothing and drives him home.

The courtroom is silent. The prosecution leaps on this: “You see? He admits he held the knife!” The jury deliberates for hours. The judge warns that the evidence is circumstantial but strong. Juliet delivers a closing speech that is less about Ben’s innocence and more about reasonable doubt: “The prosecution asks you to believe a man in a heroin stupor committed a precise, violent act, cleaned himself up, and went back to sleep. That is not reasonable. That is fantasy.” criminal justice season 1

More importantly, the heroin in Ben’s system was at a level that would have rendered him unconscious for 6–8 hours. Forensic expert testimony suggests the murder likely occurred while Ben was in a deep nod , making it physically impossible for him to have committed the act. Ben breaks down

He wakes hours later, disoriented. Mel lies next to him, her throat cut, blood everywhere. He has no memory of the night. In panic, he flees, leaving fingerprints, DNA, and his jacket behind. He doesn’t call police. He goes home, showers, and tries to pretend it never happened. Ben is released

He does not confess. He does not tell Juliet. He simply goes to bed, pulls the covers over his head, and lives with what he has done.

But Ben doesn’t want to believe he’s a killer. He remembers Mel kissing him, then suddenly turning cold. He remembers her saying, “You’re just a boy.” He remembers pushing her… but the stabbing? A blank. Juliet Miller, a chain-smoking, sharp-tongued barrister who has seen every kind of guilty client, begins to doubt the prosecution’s case. She realizes that DI Munday suppressed evidence: Mel had a history of violent arguments with an ex-boyfriend, and her phone records show a call to that ex the night she died, after Ben passed out.

Inside prison, Ben transforms. He stops being the meek boy. He learns to fight, to lie, and to survive. He also begins to remember fragments of the night: the argument, the knife in his hand, the look of betrayal in Mel’s eyes. He confides in Rashid: “I think I might have done it.”