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Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole and The Official Secret
Season 4
Episode 3
Rumpole feels surrounded by secrecy: Claude Erskine-Brown is deep in operatic duplicity; his wife is being evasive; and the Ministry of Defense overreacts to a leak about the number of biscuits consumed by the civil service.
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50:17
Rumpole accuses a dishonest policeman of framing his safecracker client.
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52:29
After a long spell without cases, Rumpole is apparently divorcing his old friend.
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51:22
An MP is accused of raping one of his assistants, and seems reluctant to defend himself.
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51:52
Rumpole is very content to be defending a drugs case in the peace of the West Country.
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51:21
Rumpole successfully defends a teenager accused of robbery with violence.