Line of Duty Page #6

Kate keeps looking at Rich, haunted by the situation.

She storms towards the interview room. Steve pulls her back.

At this, the Custody Officer moves towards them.

STEVE:

(To Kate, low.)

It’s bad enough already. Behave

yourself.

(To Custody Officer.)

Intel interview.

The Custody Officer accepts this is a normal procedure and

writes it in the log.

Kate and Steve go into the interview room.

CUT TO:

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

Steve enters followed by Kate. Steve addresses the Solicitor.

STEVE:

DS Arnott, AC-12. We’ve been given

authorisation by the Custody

Officer to conduct an intelligence

interview, off tape.

RICH:

(To Solicitor.)

It’s fine.

Exit Solicitor, saying “Okay” or “Fine”.

KATE:

Bastard.

RICH:

Holier than thou doesn’t suit you,

Kate. You never turned a blind eye?

Or benefited from one?

Kate takes that on the chin for a beat.

(CONTINUED)

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424 CONTINUED:

KATE:

This lot, they’re going to crucify

Jayne, whether they get the facts

or not.

RICH:

(Beats. Indicates one-way

glass.)

Who’s out there?

STEVE:

No one.

RICH:

(Beats.)

She kept records. Hidden.

KATE:

Records of what?

RICH:

Her last case. The protected

witness who got killed. I believe

she wanted leverage against the

criminal parties she was dealing

with.

STEVE:

These records. Where are they now?

RICH:

On flash-drives. I put them all in

a Jiffy bag. I set up a P.O. box

and sent them all to it.

Kate sees Rich wants to atone. The mood changes completely.

KATE:

Thank you.

He grips her hand. She holds it briefly but he doesn’t let

go. She has to wrench free. He starts to sob. She can’t get

out of there fast enough.

CUT TO:

424aA INT. PRISON. VPU. LATER THAT DAY.

Lindsay follows a couple of prison officers through the

Vulnerable Prisoners Unit to an office door.

The first prison officer taps on the door signed:

MRS. F. JACKSON

VULNERABLE PRISONERS UNIT

WELLBEING OFFICER

(CONTINUED)

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424aA CONTINUED:

JACKSON (O.S.)

Come in.

The prison officer opens the door and goes in.

CUT TO:

424aB INT. VPU WELLBEING OFFICE. CONTINUOUS.

NB CHANGED ACTION AND DIALOGUE UNDERLINED.

The first officer enters, followed by Lindsay, followed by

the second officer. Then they flank her as she faces the

Wellbeing Officer, MRS. JACKSON (40s).

JACKSON:

I’m Fiona Jackson. I have some bad

news for you. This morning I took a

call from the Ashcliffe Nursing

Home. In the early hours, your

mother suffered a very severe

stroke. She’s very poorly. I’m very

sorry.

LINDSAY:

How, uh, how’s she doing now?

JACKSON:

They’re keeping her comfortable.

LINDSAY:

There’s a geriatrician, Dr. Panesar

JACKSON:

He’s seen her. It’s been decided

not to transfer her, as she’s

D.N.R. -- Not for Re-

LINDSAY:

I know, I signed the order.

JACKSON:

Please accept our sympathies at

this very difficult time. I’m

available to you as your Personal

Wellbeing Officer. I can also

arrange an appointment with our

Chaplaincy Service.

LINDSAY:

Maybe I should see a homeopath

while I’m about it.

(CONTINUED)

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424aB CONTINUED:

JACKSON:

Are you being very sarcastic or

would you like me to contact a

homeopath?

LINDSAY:

(Vulnerable, young.)

I want to see my mum.

Jackson inputs that request into her computer.

JACKSON:

(Reading off screen.)

You were involved in a disturbance.

You’ve self-harmed.

LINDSAY:

I was attacked.

JACKSON:

I can only go on what’s been

recorded in your file.

LINDSAY:

And that means I can’t see my mum?

JACKSON:

Up to the Governor.

Lindsay is powerless and upset.

CUT TO:

424A INT. KATE’S HOUSE. THAT EVENING.

Kate lets herself in to the hall.

Her partner darts through a door at the end of the hall and

slams it.

She girds herself for a difficult conversation, then heads

towards the door at the end of the hall.

At the top of the stairs, their son edges into view.

CUT TO:

425 INT. AC-12. OPEN-PLAN OFFICE. NEXT DAY.

At the window, pensive, Kate reflects on Rich’s arrest.

A staffer enters with a Jiffy bag in a clear plastic evidence

bag.

Steve sees and gets Kate’s attention.

(CONTINUED)

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STEVE:

Kate.

Steve, Cottan and Kate gather round as the staffer pulls on

exam gloves.

STEVE:

Go for it.

The staffer opens the Jiffy bag carefully. He spills the

contents onto a desk top: six flash-drives.

CUT TO:

426 OMITTED

427 INT. AC-12. OPEN-PLAN OFFICE. LATER THAT DAY.

A long time has been spent carrying out the first day’s

analysis of the flash-drive files.

Down to shirt sleeves in a near-deserted office, Kate reads

from a hard-copy print-out to Cottan and Steve. A few

staffers gather round, awaiting orders.

KATE:

We’ve prioritised the stuff dated

in the run-up to the ambush. “T.

incensed by August 9th statement.”

T. - Tommy.

COTTAN:

(To 1st staffer.)

Let’s see who was saying what on

August 9th.

The 1st staffer makes a note.

KATE:

“T. worried been recognised. Was

spotted on trip to medical

appointment.”

COTTAN:

One of the reasons he wasn’t

relocated to another part of the

country was his health. Or so he

claimed.

STEVE:

More likely he was keeping up his

“business interests”.

(CONTINUED)

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427 CONTINUED:

KATE:

“Need to reassure him about his

immunity from prosecution.”

Kate keeps reading, looking for the next bit of useful

information.

KATE:

“If SH compromised, require quick

Tx.”

STEVE:

Safe House.

COTTAN:

Transfer.

Kate keeps reading.

KATE:

“Contact made.”

STEVE:

Contact with who?

KATE:

Doesn’t say.

COTTAN:

Denton, maybe?

STEVE:

Can’t be. This was from before the

night of the ambush, before Akers

called her.

She reads on.

KATE (CONT’D)

No further entries saying who she

made contact with.

COTTAN:

Whatever. Keep at it.

Cottan returns to his desk.

Steve and Kate reflect on where they now stand with the case.

Hastings has watched the whole thing. He approaches.

HASTINGS:

Steve.

Hastings moves off to the window. Steve follows.

(CONTINUED)

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427 CONTINUED:
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HASTINGS:

24 hours, son, that’s what you

said.

STEVE:

(Beat.)

I messed up, boss. No excuses.

Hastings studies him.

HASTINGS:

You and I, Steve, we’ve had our

differences. They’re a sight easier

to overlook when the job’s getting

done.

Exit Hastings. Steve looks troubled.

CUT TO:

428 INT. STEVE’S FLAT. THAT NIGHT.

Steve sips a beer glumly, watching football on TV.

The entry-phone buzzes. He goes to answer it.

On the entry-phone camera, Rogerson is at the outside door,

waiting.

He hesitates over letting her in, takes another slug of beer.

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