Verdict

Cast

• Susan Duerden
• John Bowe
• Barrie Rutter
• Sarah Lancashire
• Marian McLoughlin
• Tracie Bennett
• David Robb
• Vanessa Knox-Mawer
• Stella Gonet
• Richard Dillane
• Emily Hamilton
• Idris Elba
• Michelle Collins
• John Woodvine
• John Duttine
• June Brown
• Ken Drury
• Ian Curtis
• Haydn Gwynne
• Martin Walsh
• Bernard Gallagher
• Keith Barron
• Jonathan Barlow
• Judy Holt
• Jason Merrells

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Split Second
  UK:31 July 1998...
• Episode 2: Neighbours from Hell
  UK:7 August 1998...
• Episode 3: The Doctor's Opinion
  UK:14 August 1998...
• Episode 4: Be My Valentine
  UK:21 August 1998...

• Verdict - Westlife
• Verdict - Diary Of Dreams
• Verdict - Return To Innocence
• Verdict - Spina Bifida

I will confess to you
Because you made me think about the times
You turn the picture on to me and I'll turn over
The vision was a masterpiece of comic timing
But you wouldn't laugh at all
And I wonder what the boy was thinking
The picture was an old collage of something classical
The model with a tragic air
Because without a doubt he'd given up the fight
The ghost of somebody at his side
I will confess to you
Because I didn't think about the message
As I walked down the alleyway it was a Sunday
And all my friends deserted me because you painted me
As the fraud I really was
And if you think you see with just your eyes you're mad
'Cause Lisa learned a lot from putting on a blindfold
When she knew she had been bad
She met another blind kid at a fancy dress
It was the best sex she ever had
I'll send a dress to you
Because it's needing badly taken in
But I was so embarressed when I missed your party
It was me that paid for it eventually
Because you know how much I wanted
To meet your friend the star of stage and local press
The dream of all the bowlie boys that hang around here
And I'm no different from the rest
I'm not too proud to say that I'm okay with
The girl next door who's famous for showing her breasts
You're not impressed by me
But it's a funny way for you to tell me
A whisper in a choir stall
The man was talking about you simultaneously
Frankly, I let my heavy eyelids flutter
Because I have been sleeping badly lately
I know you were historical from all the books I've read
But I thought you could be bluffing
And with this chance I've missed I feel remiss
It's days and months before I see you again

[An ode to sleep]
Observe the strategies of war
I know you needed so much more
This is mental, so sentimental
Any way is my way
Anything I cared for you destroyed,
any promise null and void
Can't you take my pain away. Tell me, can you?
Can't we close our eyes forever. Help me, can you?
And now, you wonder why I'm asking you to go.
I'd give up anything to make your dreams come true
and if I'd pray I'd pray for you.
I'd leave your world to find a new one,
but don't you dare misunderstand!
How can this be a sacrifice,
if you did not lose anything?
I know it isn't fair,
but have we ever asked for fairness?
Save yourself from needless harm.
An overdose for now?
How can I talk about completeness,
if I consist of many pieces?
How can these walls come closer,
if there are really none?
To prevent misinterpretations:
This song tells the story of the urge

I remember us riding white horses
that would die for their faithfulness
with us on their backs.
Paths that went across the lands of fields,
only your white dress flied behind us.
hillock that extends along the path,
a cross on top guards its land.
It extends its hands sideways and it leaves everybody choose direction.
Shadows and clouds are flowing towards the night
and towards the light where the sun looks,Sun looks up by day.
You have chosen (the) way of night
where the moon spill a shiny thin thread
It lights up trees and abandoned houses
which are empty and where is no children shouting.
I felt like in a trap
when my legs turned to stones.
But you have chased your horse on
up to the edge of the wood where a quarry was.
I have rambled since this moment
and the woods are my judges.
I expect my verdict and judgement on and on
Close to the end of my strength and infirm,

Manslaughter, frenzied action, lost desires.
Thus sentenced, time's slowed down since you're here.
Fugitive existence, made way for apathetic waiting.
Thoughts crossed your mind, adrenaline excreted.
Death's collecting, your time is gone now you're on.
Dementing scare rips the hope, useless anyway.
Indigestion, bile is all you taste.
Heart pounding, perspiring body, muscles trembling.
Lights slithering along you, when you pass the hallway.
The room approaching, life's still strong but doubtfull soon.
Arms are clasped, tighting straps, poison prepared.
Immunity is a joke, or would you prefer some volts.
The needle penetrating, unleashing evil in your blood.
Scorching it's way to your brain.
Muscles, contracting, spinning eyeball,