TIC the Box

Episode 2: TIC the Box 

Gulliver's education continues as Dunbar tries to show him the benefits of co-operating with the police.

But it's Dunbar who ends up with blood on his hands - and his shirt.

"So, the more I admit, the less I get punished?", asks Dunbar's client after Bruce has just explained how taking the TICs, the Taken Into Considerations, will help "reset your conviction clock" and that, by helping the police to clear up unsoled cases, it means they won't even look at anything else he may have done up to that point.

DC Simons is quick to jump in now with a long list of cases that the client is now encouraged to 'just nod' to admit to.

In court, up against Sarah, is a nervous Theodore flustering his way through his case papers as she looks on coolly. Afterwards, Bruce reassures him that the Chair of the Bench thought "you were very articulate", meaning that she thought "You're a black man who won't steal her handbag". Dunbar now also encourages Theo in the use of TICs. "It's good for business, give 'em a few TICs and they'll mark everything down for a lesser charge".