The first episode of Kavanagh Q.C.'s third season is "Mute of Malice," in which high-profile British barrister James Kavanagh (
John Thaw) is saddled with a client who is unable to speak -- literally -- after confessing to fratricide. Next on the docket is "
Blood Money," wherein Kavanagh prosecutes a surgeon who loses a patient under highly suspicious circumstances. In "Ancient History," Kavanagh is involved with a case whose outcome may hinge upon revelations of Nazi war crimes. "Diplomatic Baggage" follows, in which Kavanagh's defense of an ambassador's daughter on a murder charge is compromised by interference from powerful, unnamed forces; similarly, the next episode "
The Ties That Bind" places Kavanagh in a bind of his own when well-connected power brokers interfere in the dispensation of justice to the victim of a brutal killing. The season's final episode, "
In God We Trust," finds Kavanagh travelling to the U.S. to help his former colleague Julia Piper (Anna Chancellor) save a man from the death house. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide