In denial about the collapse of her marriage, Annie prepares for her partnership interview. Stephen and Ashley confront Tilson and the PG about the Duvalier deal.
Stephen is offered a job. Dominic is furious when he hears Annie's news.
Annie is asked to oversee the launch of a controversial magazine in America.
Struggling to separate her personal and professional lives, Maria moves out of Stephen's office.
In a busy corporate law firm, Cooper-Fozard in the City of London, Stephen Bradley and his team work fast and furiously to put together mergers, takeovers and buyouts for a range of clients. But it's never as clear and clinical as that. When colleagues work hard they often play hard too; and working closely sometimes brings people together after hours. Soon you develop a taste for a good deal, and you can sense a suspicious one at forty paces. And above all, though you don't have to like the people you work with, you learn that you do need to trust them.