Lawless is a two-part British television thriller miniseries, first broadcast on ITV from 8 to 9 November 2004.
Written by Chris Lang, directed by Roger Gartland and starring Trevor Eve, Orla Brady and David Calder, Lawless follows the story of DI John Paxton, who begins to question his job when a murderer walks free from court because of a legal technicality.
Trevor Eve said of his role in the series; "In one scene I had to drag myself out of the Tyne.
They'd [the producers] selected a particularly filthy dockside for the purpose, so that wasn't particularly enjoyable.
I didn't really grow the beard for a part, but I did Troy last year and when I got back to the UK, I literally went straight on to set and they started to shave off the beard, but then realised that underneath my skin was white – whereas the rest of my face was quite tanned.