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2008.

STEVE:

I know the Regs.

LINDSAY:

Were you coaching Staff Nurse

Tindall to corroborate the

allegation against me regarding the

call to the hospital?

STEVE:

I don’t have to.

LINDSAY:

No? I’d say you’re in desperate

need of someone being able to

identify me as the caller. Was

Staff Nurse Tindall able to do that

for you?

(Off Steve’s bitter

silence.)

For the tape, DS Arnott is not

forthcoming.

STEVE:

No.

LINDSAY:

No, she wasn’t able?

STEVE:

She wasn’t able.

LINDSAY:

Was she able to state any

relationship with me?

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STEVE:

(Beat.)

No.

LINDSAY:

We’ve established you know this

witness better than most. She

likely to lie?

STEVE:

No.

LINDSAY:

If I was connected, she’d say,

wouldn’t she?

STEVE:

(Beat.)

Yes.

Steve looks like he’s got serious doubts about the case.

Lindsay seizes on those doubts.

LINDSAY:

DS Arnott, you know a suspect’s

three incriminating criteria ...

STEVE:

Motive, opportunity, means.

LINDSAY:

Motive:
I had none. Why on earth

would I want to kill fellow

officers? Opportunity: I had none.

I only knew about the Witness from

a phone call one hour before the

ambush. Means:
I had none. I’ve

never worked Serious Crime. I don’t

have the criminal connections to

conspire in an ambush.

Steve visibly wrestles with his doubts.

LINDSAY:

DC Fleming.

Lindsay brings out the mobile phone she stole from her at the

industrial estate.

LINDSAY:

Is this your mobile phone?

Kate is at once extremely uneasy, knowing exactly where this

could be going (the call from Rich Akers on the night of the

ambush).

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KATE:

(Very quietly.)

Yes.

LINDSAY:

Please speak up for the tape.

KATE:

Yes.

LINDSAY:

I came into possession of this

mobile phone during our altercation

at the Canalside Industrial Estate,

is that correct?

KATE:

You stole it from me.

LINDSAY:

Your call history made for very

interesting reading. Significant

people at significant times.

Steve and Hastings have no idea where this is going.

Kate shifts very uncomfortably.

Lindsay toys with the phone, toying with Kate.

LINDSAY:

Stealing’s against the law. My bad.

Lindsay slides the phone across the table back to Kate.

Kate’s hugely relieved but remains unsettled.

LINDSAY:

Let’s save the rest of this

conversation for another time,

Kate, that work for you?

Lindsay fixes Kate with a strong glare. They both know that

she knows.

Hastings has had enough.

HASTINGS:

Show’s over.

(Clicks off tape.)

(To Steve.)

Hold her here till Kate’s organised

custody.

Hastings glares at Lindsay, still angry, as he exits with

Kate.

Royal gathers his things.

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ROYAL:

The best I can do for you now,

Lindsay, is find you a good

Solicitor.

Exit Royal.

Steve looks very uneasy about his duty.

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INT. AC-12. OPEN-PLAN OFFICE/INTERVIEW ROOM/HASTING’S OFFICE.

MOMENTS LATER.

Kate talks into a phone at a her desk.

KATE:

(Into phone.)

AC-12 are bringing in an officer.

She works at 4th Street Station so

ideally somewhere she’s not known.

While she listens on the phone, she gazes at Lindsay held in

the glass box.

KATE:

(Into phone.)

Great. We’ll fax the paperwork for

charging. Thanks.

She hangs up. From his office, Hastings summons her by

tapping on the window.

From the interview room, Lindsay watches Kate go into

Hastings’ office.

HASTINGS:

What the hell was all that with

your phone?

KATE:

Nothing.

HASTINGS:

Nothing?

Hastings and Kate continue a tense, whispered exchange.

Lindsay looks satisfied, darkly, with their discord.

Steve sees two men in full motorcycle kit come out of the

lifts. He tenses.

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Then he sees they’re couriers. They heft boxes out of the

lift.

STEVE:

(To Lindsay.)

Don’t move.

Steve leaves the interview room.

STEVE:

(To uniformed staffer.)

Watch her.

Hastings sees and comes out of his office with Kate.

HASTINGS:

They’ve turned over the Witness

Protection files. Let’s get

cracking.

Lindsay watches from the interview room, now guarded by the

uniformed officer. Various AC-12 officers start distributing

boxes of files.

HASTINGS:

This little lot gets locked down.

Access by named personnel only. Not

one page leaves these premises

without my approval in triplicate.

A specific file is handed to Hastings and he signs for it.

Hastings glances inside the file.

HASTINGS:

Mother of God.

He passes Steve and Kate the file.

HASTINGS:

The protected witness. The wee

gobshite this was all about.

Steve and Kate look in the file but it’s not revealed what’s

inside.

KATE:

Christ.

Steve contains his reaction.

Lindsay observes this moment intently.

Steve looks round at Lindsay in the interview room.

She gazes at him intently.

He looks away again.

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STEVE:

We need to start over.

Steve marches to Georgia’s white board.

HASTINGS:

(Generally.)

Call your wives, husbands,

boyfriends and girlfriends. No one

leaves this office till we’ve gone

through ever last shred of

information.

He gazes at one of the pictures of Georgia for a couple of

beats. He hesitates, but knowing it’s time to move on, for

the sake of the job. He wipes the board clean.

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Steve leads Lindsay into the lift in handcuffs. He’s awkward.

She’s very tense. They get in. The lift door shuts.

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255B INT. AC-12. LIFT. CONTINUOUS.

Steve accompanies Lindsay down in the lift.

LINDSAY:

What was in the Witness Protection

files?

Naturally, he doesn’t answer.

LINDSAY:

I saw your reaction. The Witness

... ?

He can’t help but look uncomfortable. She twigs.

LINDSAY:

My God. It’s someone you knew.

STEVE:

I can’t discuss this.

LINDSAY:

How can you let this happen to me,

when you know there’s so much more

to it!

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She looks imploringly at him. He can’t meet her eye.

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INT. HILLSIDE LANE POLICE STATION. CUSTODY DESK. LATER THAT

NIGHT.

All eyes are on Lindsay, handcuffed, as Steve walks her up to

the Custody Desk. The atmosphere’s electric. (All this

following admin is to provide opportunities to cover

Lindsay’s looks/feelings and Steve’s.)

STEVE:

DS Arnott, DI Denton. You okay to

book her in for me?

The Custody Sergeant gets the paperwork and lays it out in

front of Steve.

CUSTODY SGT:

Lindsay Denton, I’m satisfied your

arrest is lawful. I’m authorising

your detention at this police

station in order that we can secure

and preserve evidence in this

investigation, and to obtain

evidence from you by questioning.

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