[ 'How it's supposed to work'... Barok tries to remember the days when he himself had that kind of bright-eyed optimism about the legal system. It feels like several lifetimes ago. And the system he'd idolized back then, the famed most advanced court system in the world, had proven itself to be so weak to rot and corruption...

Barok van Zieks is still proud to be a British prosecutor. He is still proud of the accomplishments of his country. But he will never again put blind faith in the institution itself without holding every individual player under tight scrutiny. ]

Is it not a depraved mockery of justice already?

[ He huffs, darkly amused. ]

But even when it is so, that is no excuse for us to succumb to resignation and let it sink further. The only way to bring about change is to be uncompromising in our values, even as the path it leads us on is not necessarily the one deemed most 'efficient'.