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INT. TO-20. MOMENTS LATER. DAY 7.

Gates briefs his team -- Fleming, Morton, Cottan and Kapoor.

Gates refers to a map of their area, “Central”, divided into

three neighbourhoods:

-- Kingsgate -- city centre, the location of the police

station;

-- Edge Park -- leafy, well-to-do;

-- Moss Heath -- run-down, high crime.

Gates indicates a particular sink estate in Moss Heath -- the

Borogrove Estate, nicknamed The Bog.

GATES:

Kate’s been tracking arrests on the

Bog. Over the past month there’s

been a three-fold increase in

supply and demand of Class A

narcotics. I’ve talked to the Fifth

Floor and we’ve got the go-ahead

for a surveillance op -

Enter Arnott, furious. Everyone tenses.

ARNOTT:

DCI Gates.

GATES:

Can I help you, DS Arnott?

ARNOTT:

My car -- that your doing?

MORTON:

You shat on the boss.

COTTAN:

Maybe someone decided to return the

compliment.

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Arnott sees he’s outnumbered. Fleming looks neutral.

ARNOTT:

(To Gates.)

I want to talk to you alone. Now.

GATES:

Fire away.

Sniggers from Gates’s team.

Cottan even points his fingers at himself and pretends to

shoot himself.

ARNOTT:

I thought maybe you were clean.

Looks like you’re dirty, after all.

GATES:

Shoot at the king, you better kill

him.

Gates glares at Arnott. Arnott glares right back. Then exits.

MORTON:

“Fire away.” That’s priceless,

boss. That’s Mastercard.

The lads snigger. Gates enjoys the moment.

GATES:

Which one of you muppets did it?

COTTAN:

I’m Spartacus.

MORTON:

No, I’m Spartacus.

Gates laughs with them.

Fleming shows a flash of concern for Arnott as she watches

him walk away.

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1/78 INT. CID. CONTINUOUS. DAY 7.

Arnott walks out. He looks daunted.

CUT TO:

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1/79 INT. JACKIE’S HOUSE. LATER THAT DAY. DAY 7. 1/79

Gates lets himself in with a key. He’s hesitant, edgy He

follows music to a back room, where he finds Jackie.

JACKIE:

Any news?

GATES:

Nothing yet.

JACKIE:

They’re not suspicious?

GATES:

It’s been filed as an unexplained

hit-and-run.

JACKIE:

That’s good, isn’t it?

GATES:

(Beats.)

I shouldn’t be here.

JACKIE:

But you are.

He wants to leave but can’t. She moves towards him, kisses

him, then goes down on him. On his face, we see she’s his

drug.

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1/80 INT. AC-12. OPEN PLAN OFFICE. THAT NIGHT. NIGHT 7. 1/80

At a computer station, Arnott starts a database search on the

name “Gates”.

The screen fills with matches.

The cases are listed by most recent first: top of the list is

the car-jacking, followed by the double arrest for the

mugging outside the cafe.

He opens the first entry.

Arnott opens a notepad, writes a heading:

-- LADDERING

Then he writes the number 1, then CARJACKING.

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Hastings appears behind him, lays a hand on his shoulder.

HASTINGS:

I have it on good authority it was

Gates, personally, who soiled your

car.

Hastings gives him a heavy look then exits. Arnott reflects.

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1/81

EXT./INT. THE BOG. STREET CORNER/UNMARKED CAR. LATER 1/81

THAT NIGHT. NIGHT 7.

This is the red-light area -- pretty run-down, women on the

streets, cars kerb-crawling.

A drug dealer we’ll meet again later -- WESLEY DUKE (20s) --

slips one of the street-walkers a wrap of crack in exchange

for a few fivers. The girl has the starved, anaemic look of a

junkie.

In an unmarked car, Cottan snaps a photo on a very long lens,

Morton at his side watching through binoculars.

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1/82

EXT./INT. THE BOG. GREEN LANE/UNMARKED CAR. LATER THAT 1/82

NIGHT. NIGHT 7.

LONG LENS PHOTO MONTAGE:

Wesley goes up to the door of a little semi-detached house in

a rundown street, carrying an empty rucksack. The door opens,

Wesley goes in.

Wesley comes out, rucksack full.

A photo-click.

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1/83

INT. TO-20. NEXT DAY. DAY 8. 1/83

The surveillance photos of Wesley are on a projector screen.

Morton briefs the team -- Gates, Cottan, Kapoor and Fleming.

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MORTON:

Our old friend Wesley Duke, with a

big fat rucksack full of crack

cocaine. While you were all tucked

up in your warm beds -

GATES:

You were tucked up with Dot.

Laughter.

MORTON:

-- Dot and me traced the source

back to this address -

Further pictures repeat the images of Wesley at the semi; in

the doorway are two figures who are almost impossible to make

out except they’re dark-skinned and wear hoodies.

MORTON:

-161 Green Lane. Wesley’s been

small-time but this appears to be a

new, large-scale supply he’s tapped

into. Next stage would be to pick

up Wesley and turn him.

FLEMING:

What if he blabs? We don’t want to

alert the Green Lane mob to us

watching them.

GATES:

I agree. Keep up the surveillance

for now. Let’s see who else comes

and goes from this address.

(To Morton.)

Tah, Nige.

Morton starts to turn off the visual aids.

GATES:

Leave them, Nige.

The team disperses but Gates remains in the room, troubled,

pensive. He keys the remote control and goes back to the only

image that shows the shadowy figures in the doorway of the

semi. Fleming is last to exit.

GATES:

Oh, Fleming, I’ll talk to the Fifth

Floor about formally approving your

transfer to TO-20

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FLEMING:

Thanks, sir. I won’t let you down.

Exit Fleming. Gates glances at the photos again, intrigued by

these new kids on the block.

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1/84

EXT. THE BOG. GREEN LANE/SURVEILLANCE VAN. THAT NIGHT. 1/84

NIGHT 8.

Kapoor and Cottan stake out 161 Green Lane from a

surveillance van parked down the street. Kapoor’s mobile

vibrates; he reads the caller ID.

KAPOOR:

(Into phone.)

DC Kapoor.

(Listens.)

OK.

(Hangs up.)

Next turn’s on the way, Dot.

They’re pulling us off for the

night.

COTTAN:

“Pulling us off.” Best I got at

Hillside Lane was a pint after

work.

They both laugh hard. Cottan guns the engine.

KAPOOR:

Shouldn’t we wait for the next

turn?

COTTAN:

(Taps clock/watch.)

You had the memo about overtime.

They’ll be here in ten minutes.

Cottan accelerates away.

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1/85

EXT./INT. THE BOG. 161 GREEN LANE. NEXT DAY. DAY 9. 1/85

Crime scene tape cordons off the house. A crowd of scraggy

locals -- adults, teenagers and kids - stand around gawping.

Forensic Scene Investigators comb the scene. Gates arrives,

immediately addressing a uniformed PC.

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GATES:

Move the pond life further away and

they’ll soon go back to watching

Jeremy Kyle. And make the kids go

to school, the ones who aren’t

excluded.

Gates slips covers over his shoes and then walks in through

the front door of No. 161.

In the hallway, well back from the living room, are Morton,

Cottan and Fleming, covers over their clothes.

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