Defense
Court drama about a Copenhagen law office and the cases and personal entanglements of its small group of attorneys.
Crime • Series • 2003 • 3 seasons
Starring: Lars Brygmann, Anette Støvelbæk, Troels Lyby
Created by: Lars Kjeldgård, Lars K. Andersen, Sveinbjörn I. Baldvinsson, Ib Kastrup, Jørgen Kastrup, Michael Asmussen, Kari Vidø, Ole Meldgaard
S1 E1 - A Happy Family
Defense Attorney Mikael Frank is called to Western Prison, where 17-year-old Tobias is sitting, charged with attempted killing of his father-in-law. The young man strongly denies guilt and explains that a random drug addict fired the hunting rifle - five times. The father-in-law is totally invalid and Mikael Frank gets his case for defending Tobias. The colleagues at the law firm Frank & Christensen doubt that star lawyer Mikael Frank can get the young man acquitted, but then Patrik Larsen appears. He has just been tested and wants to have a job with his former defender. Patrik speaks of an unauthorized investigation into the drug environment in an attempt to find the right perpetrator and at the same time win the lawyers' trust. Meanwhile, in the Eastern District Court, Mikael Frank ranks the tragic story of Tobias' family.
Sep 21, 2003 • 45m
S1 E2 - The man in the south harbor
Things get stirred up at Frank and Christensen as one employee initiates a conflicting relationship with a client and an Olympic lightweight rower is charged with murder of an East German man found in his car needs legal assistance.
Sep 24, 2003 • 45m
S1 E3 - Angry Men
Defending the accused of his former colleague's murder against his own mistress, CC finds himself in a very personal and complicated case.
Oct 1, 2003 • 45m
S1 E4 - Outside of the Law
Rebecca enters a fight over office space with newly employed controversial lawyer Leo whilst defending a police officer accused of a lesbian plot.
Oct 8, 2003 • 45m
S1 E5 - The Good Son
Mikael Frank struggles to acquit a weak-minded Lollandian as the health of both the accused's and his own father complicate the case further.
Oct 15, 2003 • 45m
S1 E6 - The One You Love
Malene gets personally involved in the case of a mother accused of attempting to murder her daughter. Leo likewise in the case of child molestation accusation against a children's author.
Oct 22, 2003 • 45m
S1 E7 - Fight for Everything you Hold Dear
Mikael Frank is having a difficult time defending an accused private of The Royal Life Guards due to his own past at said regiment. Elsewhere Rebecca and Leo bond on a road trip, gathering evidence to save her uncle.
Oct 29, 2003 • 45m
S1 E8 - Loverboy
In order to prove to her colleagues that she is tough enough for the job, Malene decides to have a conductor accused of rape acquitted.
Nov 5, 2003 • 45m
S1 E9 - Brotherhood
CC struggles with a kindergarten strike, his love affair and defending a professor of pathology while Rebecca and Leo defend two outlaw motorcycle gang members charged with murder.
Nov 12, 2003 • 45m
S1 E10 - A good Muslim
Nov 19, 2003 • 45m
S1 E11 - False Witsnesses
With CC on a cruise, the firm relies on Michael and Leo to handle the cases. Michael gets romantically involved with his client in a case in which his own assistant is a witness and Leo thinks his client might have abused him as a child.
Nov 26, 2003 • 45m
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Defense
Court drama about a Copenhagen law office and the cases and personal entanglements of its small group of attorneys.
Crime • TV Series • 2003
