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Clips from Anatomy of a Scandal - Episode #1.2 (S01E01)

"[Sophie scoffing]"
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"[dramatic music playing]"
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"[whispering] Holly."
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"Did you finish the whatsit?"
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"-[Holly] The Malory? -[Sophie] Yeah."
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"[Holly] Did you read your part?"
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"Not yet, but I am getting an essay from my friend Ned later."
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"I got it in exchange for two beers."
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"Is that all it cost you?"
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"Holly. [chuckles]"
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"What are you implying?"
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"So do you have those notes?"
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"Okay."
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"Well…"
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"I've got to get to practice."
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"You're a goddess."
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"[music fading]"
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"[ducks quacking]"
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"[dramatic music playing]"
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"[breathing heavily]"
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"[water sloshing]"
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"[duck warbling]"
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"[door closing]"
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"[alarm chirps]"
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"[Velcro barking]"
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"[whispering] Hi."
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"When are you leaving?"
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"Half past."
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"I'll be ready."
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"[Velcro barking]"
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"[sighs]"
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"[journalists clamouring]"
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"[journalist] Do you have the Prime Minister's support, Mr Whitehouse?"
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"[journalist 2] What'd you think your marriage--"
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"[camera shutters clicking]"
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"[judge] If you follow politics, if you follow the media,"
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"you may recognise the man being tried."
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"But I want you to be impervious to whatever you've read or heard."
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"This is a rape case."
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"A serious crime, obviously."
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"Now, we all have prejudices,"
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"but you must not let preconceived ideas or conjecture"
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"influence you at any time."
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"The case must be tried solely according to the evidence."
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"So from this point on, you are instructed"
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"to stay off the Internet."
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"Nor under any circumstances"
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"are you to conduct your own research."
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"Most importantly, you are not to discuss the case outside the jury room."
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"Not with friends,"
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"not with family."
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"-[man clearing throat] -[woman coughing]"
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"I am Miss Woodcroft, and I appear on behalf of the prosecution."
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"The defendant, James Whitehouse, is represented by Miss Regan"
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"who sits to my right."
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"[dramatic music playing]"
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"This case concerns an event that took place between two individuals,"
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"James Whitehouse, the defendant,"
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"and a young woman named Olivia Lytton."
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"Mr Whitehouse, as his Lordship has said, may look familiar."
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"He is a member of Parliament,"
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"and until he was charged with this offence, a government minister."
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"He is married with two young children."
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"Miss Lytton was his parliamentary researcher."
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"She started working for him in March of last year."
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"By May, the two of them had embarked on an affair."
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"It was a consensual relationship,"
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"which was ended by Mr Whitehouse on the 5th of October."
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"And that might have been that."
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"Except it wasn't."
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"Miss Lytton continued to work for James Whitehouse,"
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"and on the 12th of October, a week after their affair had finished,"
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"he raped her"
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"in a lift"
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"off the committee corridor in the heart of the House of Commons."
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"There is no dispute that sexual intercourse took place."
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"What is in dispute is the nature of it."
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"Was this, as the Crown submits,"
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"a violent act of rape to which Miss Lytton did not consent?"
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"Or was it, as the defence submits,"
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"an act of passion,"
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"a frenzied bout of lovemaking"
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"by two individuals caught up in the moment?"
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"Yes, or no."
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"That is what consent comes down to."
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"In this case, it is the Crown's simple contention"
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"that what began as a "yes""
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"very quickly became a "no.""
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"When you come to consider your verdict, you must decide three things."
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"One, did penetration by a penis take place?"
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"The answer is yes. That is not in dispute."
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"Two, at the point of penetration did Miss Lytton consent?"
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"And three, at the point of penetration"
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"did Mr Whitehouse reasonably believe that Miss Lytton was consenting?"
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"It really is no more complicated than that."
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"[door opens]"
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"Can you swear in the witness?"
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"[clerk] Can you read the words on the card?"
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"I swear by almighty God that the evidence I shall give"
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"shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."
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"[Olivia sighs heavily]"
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"[tense music playing]"
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"Could you state your name, please?"
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"Olivia Lytton."
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"Your full name and a little louder, please."
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"Olivia Clarissa Lytton."
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"Ms Lytton, I'm going to ask you some questions"
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"and we're going to take things slowly."
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"Okay?"
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"Let's begin at the beginning."
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"When did you start working for Mr Whitehouse?"
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"In March."
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"[Kate] And what was your role in his office?"
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"I was a parliamentary researcher."
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"Did you enjoy your work?"
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"Very much. I was able to put my education to use."
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"I don't think it's in dispute that you went to Cambridge University"
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"and took a degree in political science."
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"And studied public policy as a postgrad."
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"Could you just tell us a bit about"
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