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forensics.

Then they diverge as if the moment never happened.

Kate looks back one last time at the body being moved.

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339 INT. PRISON. VISITATION SUITE. LATER THAT DAY.

Kate faces Lindsay through the screen.

KATE:

We need to question you further in

regard to the industrial estate.

Kate gets her notebook out.

KATE:

What were you really doing there?

LINDSAY:

Investigating the disappearance of

Carly Kirk. As I’ve already stated.

KATE:

Never been there before, never

consorted with individuals

connected with the place?

LINDSAY:

No.

KATE:

A body’s been found buried under

the floor of the old A&B Carriage

Repairs industrial unit. Been there

about two months. And your presence

was, what, a coincidence?

LINDSAY:

I was investigating a disappear-

KATE:

The men who carried out the ambush

are the same men who used the nurse

to gain access to the hospital.

Same target, same clothing --

motorcycle gear. They took the

nurse to that garage, the same

place this girl’s body was buried.

And you went there too. If this was

your case, would you write them off

as coincidences?

LINDSAY:

(Beat.)

No.

KATE:

“No.” So one way or another, you’re

involved.

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LINDSAY:

No.

KATE:

The evidence is out there. We will

find it.

Kate studies Lindsay hard, not letting her off the hook.

LINDSAY:

A girl. What age?

KATE:

About 15.

LINDSAY:

Carly Kirk?

KATE:

No ID yet only initial forensics.

LINDSAY:

Why not?

KATE:

Her face and finger-pulps were

burned off using a high-temperature

flame, most likely a blow torch.

Her teeth were also removed, post

mortem, most likely with pliers,

preventing comparison of dental

records.

LINDSAY:

Cause of death?

KATE:

Strangulation using some kind of

ligature.

LINDSAY:

Can her DNA be compared to Carly’s?

KATE:

There were control samples obtained

from her personal effects when she

disappeared. They haven’t been

traced yet.

LINDSAY:

They’re lost?

KATE:

Just an admin glitch.

(CONTINUED)

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LINDSAY:

She was a nobody when she was

alive. Dead, she’s still one.

KATE:

How come you’re so convinced it’s

her?

LINDSAY:

Because of the lead I was

following. The lead you think makes

out I had to be in on it. I was

only trying to find Carly.

KATE:

Why? Of all the long-term mispers,

why her?

LINDSAY:

She was recently disappeared, there

were leads ... I thought we’d find

her, I thought I’d get some good

news for once in this job.

Lindsay looks low. This has hit her harder than Kate would’ve

expected. With her resistance battered by dehumanising

incarceration, tears flow down her cheeks. It’s shocking and

unexpected for Kate to see.

KATE:

Ma’am? What’s wrong?

Lindsay can’t answer, just can’t stop the tears flowing.

Kate changes tack, trying to buck her up.

KATE:

It’s tough in here, on anyone. They

told me about your food. Maybe you

could make sure you only eat stuff

out of a sealed wrapper.

Lindsay doesn’t even respond.

KATE:

They said you’d requested a piano

keyboard. I’m sure we could look at

that. If you were able to cooperate

with our investigation, tell us

things we still don’t know, there’s

all sorts we can do to improve your

situation.

LINDSAY:

You know why I’m in here? Because I

picked up a phone!

(MORE)

(CONTINUED)

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LINDSAY (CONT'D)

Because an officer in danger,

someone I’d never met before,

requested my help, and I did for

her what any decent police officer

would -

KATE:

You did pick up a phone. In a call

box. To speak to the nurse looking

after the target of the ambush. And

lied through your teeth about it

ever since. That’s the reason

you’re in here.

LINDSAY:

(Long beats.)

I shouldn’t’ve lied. I realised how

incriminating it sounded, that I’d

called the nurse.

KATE:

You’re admitting it?

LINDSAY:

Yes.

KATE:

What’s your connection to the

nurse?

LINDSAY:

None! It didn’t take a genius to

figure out where the Witness was

being treated. I made calls, always

from phone boxes, pretending to be

from a recruiting agency, asking

for names of nurses who worked on

the intensive care unit.

KATE:

Why?

LINDSAY:

He must’ve known who was after him,

who was in on it. I wanted to ask

if he’d spoken yet, if he’d said

anything that could prove my

innocence.

KATE:

That’s the best you can come up

with?

LINDSAY:

It’s true!

(CONTINUED)

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KATE:

It sounds -

LINDSAY:

Pathetic? Desperate?

KATE:

Yes.

LINDSAY:

I wasn’t even meant to be on duty

that night. I was covering. I did

that a lot, for the inspectors with

families. My way of trying to get

on. “Pathetic. Desperate.”

KATE:

(Beats.)

I need you to amend your statement,

ma’am, to go on the record with

what you’ve admitted regarding the

phone call.

LINDSAY:

Happy to.

(Beat.)

Just as soon as you do the same.

Lindsay’s recovered, a worthy adversary again. Kate absorbs

the situation she’s in.

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340 INT. BAR. THAT NIGHT.

Kate sits at a table in a loud, buzzing bar. She nurses a

drink, very pensive.

Enter Steve. He sees her and joins her.

STEVE:

Makes a change from a minging

subway.

From her reaction, he instantly reads her tension. He sits

quickly.

STEVE:

Something up? Get you a drink?

KATE:

Better not have any more. Have

mine.

She slips her drink across the table to him.

(CONTINUED)

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STEVE:

What’s wrong, mate?

KATE:

Rich Akers is hiding something. On

the night of the ambush, he called

me.

Steve is gobsmacked. Beats.

STEVE:

What d’he call you about?

KATE:

A message from Jayne. She needed to

speak to me.

STEVE:

About moving the Witness?

KATE:

(Shrugs. Will never know.)

STEVE:

Why d’you hide it?

KATE:

Rich and I had been involved,

behind Jayne’s back. I didn’t want

that coming out.

STEVE:

(Beats.)

Who else you told?

KATE:

No one.

STEVE:

Keep it that way. You draw a line

round it and you walk away from it

like it never happened.

KATE:

Steve -

STEVE:

This’d be your career. You see a

life for yourself outside the job?

KATE:

No.

STEVE:

Richard Akers -- he won’t blab

about this?

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KATE:

Hasn’t so far.

STEVE:

(Slides drink back to

her.)

Down this and I’ll get you home.

(Starts to get up.)

KATE:

(Beats.)

Lindsay Denton knows.

STEVE:

(Shocked. Sits. Beats.)

That’s what all the business was

with your phone.

KATE:

She went through my call history.

Using it as leverage.

STEVE:

Your version of events is Richard

Akers called you because he was

worried about his wife. It didn’t

materially affect the

investigation. End of.

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