While she had accused him 17 years earlier, Rachel, Anna's best friend, calls on Tom to defend her husband, accused of having killed his mistress. The opportunity for the lawyer to continue to dig his own investigation, helped by Sigourney and their new recruit, Simon, a very helpful but slightly awkward intern.

Peters Marks is found asphyxiated in his car and Tom is the last person to have seen him! Helped by Sigourney and Simon, he must prove his innocence. But the lawyer gets involved in a new case to defend Nour Samaan, an employee on a yacht and accused of having murdered her insistent employer, Vadim Dimitrov...