Line of Duty Page #11
Season #1 Episode #1- NOT RATED
- Year:
- 2012
- 60 min
- 1,020 Views
MORTON:
Morning, boss.
Gates doesn’t answer, peers into the living room grimly --
two dead Asian men, tied to chairs, dead from multiple stab
wounds. There’s a lot of blood. Both men have had all their
fingers cut off, which lie on the carpet round them, being
bagged one by one by FSI’s in white suits.
Cottan looks very, very sheepish.
COTTAN:
Tone, I don’t know what to say,
mate ...
GATES:
Later, Dot, alright.
Cottan nods, hangs his head sheepishly.
FLEMING:
From the blood spatter both men
were alive when the fingers were
amputated. Looks like whoever
killed them wanted to know
something, and didn’t find out.
GATES:
The finger amputations are clean.
Each one done with a single stroke.
Most likely with a bolt-cutter.
Dot, go through the files back at
the station, see if there’s a
similar M.O. here or in another
force’s case history.
COTTAN:
OK.
(Exit.)
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GATES:
Nige, I want entry control back and
front, dabs from all the downstairs
rooms; if there’s a bathroom
upstairs, there too. Once Forensics
have got all their samples, I want
you to go through everything, find
out who this pair were.
MORTON:
Aye, aye, skipper.
GATES:
Fleming, I want you to run door-todoor.
Exit Gates and Fleming.
CUT TO:
1/86 EXT. GREEN LANE. CONTINUOUS. DAY 9. 1/86
Gates and Fleming come out of the house, shed their shoe
covers and walk.
GATES:
This is what I’m dealing with. I’m
trying to run a round-the-clock op
and some bloody penpusher bans
overtime.
FLEMING:
There were fifteen minutes for
someone to break in.
GATES:
The lads in that house were new
kids on the block. Someone didn’t
like them muscling in on their
territory.
FLEMING:
Not tempted to dump this one on
CID, sir?
GATES:
(Shakes his head.)
It’s big. It’s sexy. That makes it
mine.
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He exits. Fleming watches him go, even more fascinated by
Gates than she was.
CUT TO:
1/87 INT. OUTSIDE INTERVIEW ROOMS. LATER THAT DAY. DAY 9. 1/87
Wearing a grave expression, Fleming heads towards an
interview room. Janson “greets” her.
JANSON:
What goes around comes around.
Janson exits with a sneer. Fleming goes in. Alf Butterfield
is inside, being comforted by Larkin. Alf has a black eye and
a cut lip.
ALF:
This time I was home when they
broke in.
FLEMING:
Mr. Butterfield, I’m very sorry -
Enter Hilton, at the door, beckoning Fleming out. They talk
in the corridor, in whispers.
HILTON:
He’s going to make a complaint!
FLEMING:
Sir, with respect, you told me to
put the case on the back-burner.
HILTON:
I told you to prioritize.
Butter wouldn’t melt in Hilton’s mouth. He exits. Fleming
looks very bitter.
CUT TO:
1/88 INT. AC-12. OPEN PLAN OFFICE. LATER THAT DAY. DAY 9. 1/88
Arnott is still at it, bleary eyed, empty coffee cups strewn
round his desk. He’s filled a dozen pages of the note pad.
He’s on case number 15, a case of ARMED ROBBERY.
Arnott makes notes about the laddering here: additional
charges of:
-- aggravated criminal damage
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-- false imprisonment
-- conspiracy
-- possession of firearm with criminal intent
CUT TO:
1/89 INT. CID. SAME TIME. DAY 9. 1/89
Rita clicks open the image for Gates. Gates looks very
uneasy.
RITA:
This missing persons report came
through from County CID.
She opens a missing persons file on someone called GURJIT
PATEL. Switching between the morgue images of the dead man
and Gurjit Patel we see they’re one and the same.
RITA (cont’d)
Gurjit Patel went missing the day
before the hit and run. Mr Patel
was an accountant for Laverty
Holdings.
Gates turns from uneasy to ashen.
Rita calls up the file image for Jackie Laverty.
RITA (cont’d)
Jacqueline Laverty, the lady whose
vehicle was stolen the same night
Mr. Patel got run over. He was her
account-
GATES:
Thanks, Rita. My squad’s taking
over this case from now on. Leave
it to me to inform County we’ve got
an ID.
RITA:
Yes -- of course -
GATES:
It’s a sensitive case. I need to
shoot these files to my computer.
May I?
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RITA:
Yes, sir -- of course.
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He takes her seat.
GATES:
(With a wink.)
Milk, no sugar.
Rita complies, happy to do so and not one bit suspicious. As
soon as Rita reaches the kitchen, Gates highlights the
section relating to Gurjit Patel.
The enormous dilemma plays on Gates’s face. He looks like his
world is about to cave in.
CUT TO:
1/90 OMITTED 1/90
1/91 INT. AC-12. OPEN PLAN OFFICE. CONTINUOUS. DAY 9. 1/91
Arnott exits the previous case, back to the main list of
Gates’s cases. There’s a new one at the top, the most recent:
-- HIT AND RUN
Arnott is curious and a little puzzled.
CUT TO:
1/92 INT. CID. CONTINUOUS. DAY 9. 1/92
Gates hits DELETE.
CUT TO:
1/93 INT. AC-12. OPEN PLAN OFFICE. CONTINUOUS. DAY 9. 1/93
Arnott's finger hovers over the mouse, ready to open the
file.
CUT TO:
1/94 INT. CID. CONTINUOUS. DAY 9. 1/94
Gates exits -- calm, in control, invulnerable.
CUT TO:
1/95 INT. AC-12. OPEN PLAN OFFICE. CONTINUOUS. DAY 9. 1/95
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CLOSE-UP:
Arnott's finger clicks the mouse.
SMASH OUT.
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