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He does not confess. He does not tell Juliet. He simply goes to bed, pulls the covers over his head, and lives with what he has done.
If you meant the 2019 HBO adaptation The Night Of (based on this series) or the 2019 Indian Criminal Justice (Hotstar), please clarify. This summary covers the original UK Season 1, which is a self-contained 5-episode arc. Full Story: Criminal Justice Season 1 (BBC, 2008) Premise: A young man’s one-night stand turns into a nightmare when he wakes up to find the woman brutally stabbed to death. He has no memory of the killing, but all evidence points to him. The series follows his journey through the British criminal justice system—from arrest to trial—and reveals a world where truth is secondary to narrative.
Ben insists: “I didn’t do it.” But his lies (about taking heroin, about leaving the flat) make him look guilty. His own barrister, Juliet Miller, initially believes he’s guilty too. Ben is sent to HM Prison Belmarsh to await trial. There, he is placed in a cell with Rashid, a volatile but intelligent young Muslim dealer who runs the wing’s drug trade. Rashid initially bullies Ben, but later protects him from violent predators in exchange for Ben running errands (delivering drugs). criminal justice season 1
But the prosecution has a star witness: Mel’s neighbor, who now changes her story under pressure, claiming she saw Ben standing over Mel with the knife while laughing . She’s lying—she’s been threatened by Mel’s ex—but the jury doesn’t know that.
The police pick him up within 48 hours. DI Munday presents a damning picture: Ben’s prints on the murder weapon (a kitchen knife), his DNA mixed with Mel’s blood, a neighbor who heard a man’s angry voice that night, and Mel’s diary entries that suggest she feared a younger lover. He does not confess
He wakes hours later, disoriented. Mel lies next to him, her throat cut, blood everywhere. He has no memory of the night. In panic, he flees, leaving fingerprints, DNA, and his jacket behind. He doesn’t call police. He goes home, showers, and tries to pretend it never happened.
The courtroom is silent. The prosecution leaps on this: “You see? He admits he held the knife!” The jury deliberates for hours. The judge warns that the evidence is circumstantial but strong. Juliet delivers a closing speech that is less about Ben’s innocence and more about reasonable doubt: “The prosecution asks you to believe a man in a heroin stupor committed a precise, violent act, cleaned himself up, and went back to sleep. That is not reasonable. That is fantasy.” If you meant the 2019 HBO adaptation The
But Ben doesn’t want to believe he’s a killer. He remembers Mel kissing him, then suddenly turning cold. He remembers her saying, “You’re just a boy.” He remembers pushing her… but the stabbing? A blank. Juliet Miller, a chain-smoking, sharp-tongued barrister who has seen every kind of guilty client, begins to doubt the prosecution’s case. She realizes that DI Munday suppressed evidence: Mel had a history of violent arguments with an ex-boyfriend, and her phone records show a call to that ex the night she died, after Ben passed out.