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Season #2 Episode #1

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25 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, STAIRS. DAY 2. 07.59 25

ANN (dressed very smartly in her brand new PCSO uniform)

heads briskly down the stairs half a step behind CATHERINE.

CATHERINE:

Forget everything they taught you

at training school because none of

it works in the real world. Don’t

call me Catherine in front of the

others, it’s just Sarg. Not Ma’am.

Inspector Taylor is ‘Sir’ until you

get your feet under the table, then

you can have a crack at calling him

boss. If you find yourself on the

wrong side of him, he likes

sherbert lemons. Sledge fancies

himself with the ladies, but if he

comes on a bit strong try and let

him down gently. Get well in with

Joyce, she knows everybody and

everything, and she’ll never see

you fast.

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CATHERINE (CONT'D)

If you don’t understand something

ask me, ask her, ask anyone, but if

you get an answer you don’t like

don’t go asking twenty other

people. Trust your instincts. In my

book there’s two instincts - flight

or fight - and I know which one

you’ve got from the way you refused

to leave that cellar without me

eighteen months since, so have

faith in yourself. Have you got

your smart book?

(ANN’s got it ready in her

hand)

Or not-so-smart book. As we fondly

refer to them.

(we follow them briskly

into the briefing room as

CATHERINE shouts...)

Good morning! You lucky people.

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26 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, BRIEFING ROOM. DAY 2. 26

08.00

Everyone’s gathered: SHAF, JOYCE, SLEDGE, plus four other

OFFICERS and one other PCSO. They were all chatting and

laughing and playing with their phones, but they all go

silent as if by magic the second CATHERINE enters the room.

CATHERINE:

We’ve got a new PCSO assigned to us

today! This is Ann Gallagher. Some

of you already know her. I want you

to go out of your way to make her

feel welcome.

(there’s a friendly chorus

of “hi/hiya/hello Ann”)

Shaf!

(then to ANN, pointing her

in SHAF’s direction)

Sit down.

(then to SHAF again)

I’m pairing Ann up with you today.

SLEDGE:

What about me?

JOYCE:

Bless him, he never stops trying.

CATHERINE:

I’ve got plans for you.

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JOYCE:

I’m not really here! I’ve just come

to say hello.

(she means to ANN, she

offers her hand)

Joyce, we’ve met before, at her

house.

(she nods CATHERINE’s way)

If you need anything I’m at the

front desk.

ANN:

Hi.

SLEDGE:

What plans?

CATHERINE:

Pin your jodrells back and you’ll

find out.

JOYCE:

I’m loving you and leaving you.

CATHERINE:

(waving JOYCE off)

First up! You’ll have n[oticed] (

just then GORKEM heads in

late, embarrassed, brisk)

Oh there’s always one! Good

afternoon, Mr. Tekeli.

GORKEM:

Sorry Sarg. Baby’s teething.

SLEDGE:

Aww!

CATHERINE:

First up! You’ll have noticed

there’s nowhere to park this

morning ‘cos we’ve got H-MIT in the

building, and that’s due to this

body that was f[ound] - that I

found yesterday, so your deployment

-possibly today, possibly

tomorrow, possibly all this week -

is likely to be disrupted ‘cos

chances are we’ll be asked to join

O.S.U. for the house-to-house.

(groans, tuts, murmurs of

stuff like “Oh God”)

I’m loving your enthusiasm!

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27

INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, TEMPORARY H-MIT 27

BRIEFING ROOM. DAY 2. 08.15

The H-MIT briefing. The room’s busting at the seams with

between thirty and forty officers, including a couple of

SOCO’s, and standing by the door, INSPECTOR MIKE TAYLOR. The

S.I.O. (49-year-old Det. Supt. ANDY SHEPHERD) is in mid flow.

Sitting next to him is 32-year-old D.I. JODIE SHACKLETON.

ANDY:

There are some very obvious

similarities between this murder

and the murders of Ana Vasalescu in

Elland five months ago, and the

unidentified white adult female in

Brighouse three months ago. ‘Til

I’ve had the full report from the

pathologist I’m not making any

assumptions, but I’m in a meeting

with the A.C.C. later today to

discuss whether we should now be

making a formal link. So! Today.

CCTV is a priority. Local authority

cameras

and any private security

cameras in the immediate area. I

want house-to-house, concentrating

first of all on any flats, any

houses overlooking the garage where

the body was discovered.

As ANDY talks, we look around the room at the gathered

detectives, SOCOs etc, and eventually we discover JOHN

WADSWORTH. He’s a Detective Sergeant. He looks rather more

abstracted than the others, and isn’t taking notes. Suddenly

ANDY (CONT’D)

John! Are you using divine

inspiration over there, or are

y’going to start taking notes?

JOHN’s embarrassed. He wasn’t listening. Just then D.I.JODIE

SHACKLETON’s phone beeps with a text. She reads it quickly.

JODIE:

We’ve got an ident from the D.N.A.

The victim... is a Lynn Dewhurst.

(that instantly attracts

MIKE’s attention)

Forty-five years old. Address 10

Bateman Street, King Cross.

Convictions for soliciting, shop

lifting, benefit fraud.

ANDY:

Mike! Can we get your team out to

that address right now and get it

secured? Then I’ll get a search

team in there.

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MIKE:

Lynn Dewhurst. You know who that

is, don’t you?

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28 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, MAIN OFFICE. DAY 2. 28

08.20

MIKE heads briskly into the main office towards CATHERINE’s

office when he bumps into one of his PCs who’s just heading

out of the room.

MIKE:

Dave lad, someone from Response is

coming down, you’re off to 10

Bateman Street, King Cross, it’s to

be secured, it’s the address we’ve

got for this dead woman that was

found yesterday.

(MIKE doesn’t pause as he

heads straight through to

CATHERINE’s office -)

Is she in?

DAVE:

(grabbing his hi-vis

jacket)

No she’s still downstairs doing

t’briefing.

MIKE TAYLOR:

Why aren’t you in t’briefing?

DAVE:

I got stuck on a phone call.

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29 INT. NORLAND ROAD POLICE STATION, STAIRS. DAY 2. 08.21 29

Everyone’s heading back upstairs after the briefing as MIKE

heads down through them, against the tide, calling “Morning!

Morning”, to his officers. SHAF’s busy explaining stuff to

ANN. MIKE finds CATHERINE at the bottom of the stairs, last

one out of the briefing room. SLEDGE and GORKEM are there

too.

MIKE:

(confidentially)

That body you found yesterday. It’s

Tommy Lee Royce’s mother.

CATHERINE can’t believe her ears. It seems to hit her harder

than it should.

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