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Rogerson appears from another door.

COTTAN:

This is DS Rogerson. DS Arnott, DC

Fleming.

KATE:

We’ve met. Hi.

ROGERSON:

Hi.

Rogerson and Steve acknowledge each other but keep schtum.

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Kate steps up to the one-way glass. She peers through at:

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INT. 4TH STREET STATION. INTERVIEW ROOM. CONTINUOUS.

KATE’S POV:

Rich sits behind a desk, handcuffed, looking very morose.

Alongside him is a solicitor (female, 40s).

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419 INT. 4TH STREET STATION. OUTSIDE INTERVIEW ROOM. CONTINUOUS.

KATE:

What we waiting for?

As if to answer, enter Hargreaves.

HARGREAVES:

(To Rogerson.)

We right, Jolly?

ROGERSON:

(Brandishes envelope.)

Right, sir.

Hargreaves glances glassily at Cottan, Steve and Kate.

COTTAN:

Sir.

Hargreaves and Rogerson go into the interview room.

Steve, Kate and Cottan observe through the glass.

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INT. 4TH STREET STATION. OUTSIDE/INTERVIEW ROOM. CONTINUOUS.

Hargreaves and Rogerson take seats opposite Rich and his

solicitor.

HARGREAVES:

So ... you going to write about all

this?

RICH:

I, uh ... Sorry?

HARGREAVES:

What was it you called yourself

again?

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RICH:

I don’t see how this is relevant.

ROGERSON:

“D.C. Comic.”

HARGREAVES:

Nothing funny about betraying your

colleagues and betraying the

Service.

RICH:

I’ll start answering when you start

the tape.

HARGREAVES:

Just my two penn’th.

Hargreaves starts the tape.

COTTAN ROGERSON:

What was that about? MVC interview -

KATE ROGERSON:

He wrote an anonymous blog -- with Richard Akers in the

about service bureaucracy and presence of Detective Chief

the target culture. Dismissed Superintendent Hargreaves and

for Gross Misconduct. Detective Sergeant Rogerson.

HARGREAVES:

Your late wife, DS Jayne Akers: why

was there a dramatic change in her

financial situation in the month

leading up to her death?

RICH:

I don’t know what you’re referring

to.

Rogerson slides documents out of the envelope and shoves them

across the table to Rich.

ROGERSON:

Here’s a breakdown obtained by our

Financial Forensics Unit. It shows

her financial activity over the

last six months.

RICH:

Okay.

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HARGREAVES:

For the first five months, there’s

a consistent pattern of debits to

the account -- cashpoint

withdrawals, goods and services

paid for using the associated debit

card. Then, suddenly, it stops

dead.

ROGERSON:

No cashpoint withdrawals. No debit

card payments. It’s as if your wife

miraculously stopped spending any

money. Or needing any.

RICH:

I, uh ... Okay.

HARGREAVES:

We see this pattern when a person

converts to paying their way in

cash.

RICH:

(Very uneasy.)

Okay.

ROGERSON:

(Slides second document.)

Do you recognise this bank

statement, also obtained by our

F.F.U.?

RICH:

(Beat.)

My bank account.

HARGREAVES:

In the past year you’ve had

occasional work in security, a

couple of articles published in the

Guardian -

RICH:

They weren’t in the Guardian.

HARGREAVES:

Whatever. How come we’re seeing the

same pattern?

Rich hesitates. The solicitor whispers in his ear.

RICH:

No comment.

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ROGERSON:

You haven’t made a single cashpoint

withdrawal in six weeks. There’s

barely an item paid for by card.

HARGREAVES:

Didn’t you need money either?

RICH:

I, uh ... I wasn’t earning. I knew

I had to tighten my belt.

ROGERSON:

Or did your wife start paying for

everything? In cash?

RICH:

I really wasn’t keeping track.

HARGREAVES:

Did you ask where the money was

coming from?

RICH:

As I said, I wasn’t keeping track.

Rogerson takes some photographs out of the envelope.

ROGERSON:

A team conducted a search of your

property today.

(To solicitor.)

Your client was under arrest, hence

the search was authorised under

Section 18 brackets 1 of the Police

and Criminal Evidence Act.

She lays the photos out in front of Rich. In a sequence of

shots, they show a carpet pulled up and floorboards lifted. A

case hidden under the floorboards contains wads of cash.

HARGREAVES:

This case, hidden under the

floorboards, contained nearly

twenty thousand pounds in cash.

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421 INT. 4TH STREET STATION. OUTSIDE INTERVIEW ROOM. CONTINUOUS.

Cottan steps back, furious with Steve.

COTTAN:

24 hours. He’s going nowhere. Twat.

Exit Cottan in a fury.

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Kate looks devastated, and feels dreadful for Steve.

KATE:

Not your fault, mate. They got hold

of the financial forensics, that’s

all.

STEVE:

(Beat.)

Yeah.

But he only looks even more uneasy.

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422 INT. 4TH STREET STATION. INTERVIEW ROOM. CONTINUOUS.

Hargreaves prods the photo at Rich.

HARGREAVES:

Where’d it come from?

RICH:

Never seen it before.

ROGERSON:

Never saw your wife with it?

RICH:

I said, I’ve never seen it before.

HARGREAVES:

Your wife was receiving bribes,

wasn’t she?

RICH:

No.

HARGREAVES:

You said you didn’t ask!

RICH:

I, uh ...

ROGERSON:

It must’ve been pretty obvious

something was going on. You didn’t

think to ask where all this cash

was coming from?

RICH:

No.

HARGREAVES:

Why not?

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RICH:

I just didn’t.

ROGERSON:

After what happened to you, it

would’ve been easy to carry a

grudge against the Job.

RICH:

No.

HARGREAVES:

No? You got sacked. You didn’t give

a toss what harm your missus did

the Service.

Rich just lets that hang, but looks a very sad case.

HARGREAVES:

Richard Akers, the evidence

obtained in our investigation is

being referred to the Crown

Prosecution Service for authority

to charge you under Section 329

brackets 1 of the Proceeds of Crime

Act, in that you acquired, used or

had possession of criminal

property, namely funds received by

your wife as part of a conspiracy

to murder a protected witness. Do

you have anything else to say at

this time?

RICH:

No.

HARGREAVES:

Interview terminated.

Hargreaves stops the tape, ejects it and he and Rogerson

exit.

Rich stares out at the one-way glass.

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423 INT. 4TH STREET STATION. OUTSIDE INTERVIEW ROOM. CONTINUOUS.

Kate stares through the one-way glass at Rich.

Hargreaves and Rogerson come out to face Steve and Kate.

HARGREAVES:

Fact is, you had the same evidence

we did. We acted, you didn’t.

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They look glum, can’t argue.

HARGREAVES:

(To Custody Officer.)

We’re done. Cheers, Taff.

Exit Hargreaves and Rogerson. As Rogerson goes, she and Steve

make tense eye contact.

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