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432 EXT. POLICE STORAGE FACILITY. LATER THAT DAY.

Outside the gate, Steve and Kate lean against their cars,

sharing their emotional burdens. Kate is particularly haunted

by the sight of Akers’ vehicle.

STEVE:

Hargreaves didn’t decide all on his

own to sit on the tracker evidence.

Dryden must’ve known, and stood by

while we sent Lindsay down.

KATE:

I pushed as hard as anyone to point

the finger at Denton. Harder.

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STEVE:

Jayne Akers was your mate. What

else were you supposed to do?

KATE:

My job. And leave judgement to a

court.

STEVE:

It’s done with now. As far as I saw

in his interview, Rich Akers isn’t

going to embarrass you.

KATE:

He doesn’t have to. Didn’t you

wonder, why he didn’t challenge

Jayne?

STEVE:

About the money? No, I suppose I

...

KATE:

She took that money to feather her

nest. She was leaving him.

STEVE:

You think she knew about the two of

you?

KATE:

The Jayne Akers I knew wasn’t bent.

Our thing, it corrupted her. Put

her in a car on a dark, empty road

that got filled with bullets and

set alight.

Kate looks as low as he’s ever seen her. Instinctively he

reaches out for her and they hug. He needs it after the breakup

with Rogerson. It comes from real friendship, real mutual

support, nothing sexual at all.

STEVE:

You didn’t corrupt Akers. She made

that leap all by herself. And she’s

not the only one. They’re who we’re

going after next. Yeah?

Kate tries to buck up.

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435 INT. PRISON. VPU. OUTSIDE WELLBEING OFFICE. NEXT DAY.

Escorted by two officers, Lindsay trudges to the Wellbeing

Office in handcuffs.

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436 INT. PRISON. VPU. WELLBEING OFFICE. CONTINUOUS.

Lindsay stands in front of Jackson, flanked by the two

officers.

JACKSON:

You’re to be escorted off the

premises today.

LINDSAY:

How long will I have with my mum?

JACKSON:

The Governor hasn’t given her

approval. This is a Production

Order, to attend a police

interview.

Lindsay’s face drops.

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436A INT. AC-12. LOBBY. LATER THAT DAY.

Escorted by the uniformed police officers, Lindsay enters.

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437 INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. MOMENTS LATER.

Lindsay faces Steve, Kate and Hastings. She sits alongside

her Solicitor. The police escort stand a distance away in the

main office.

Kate is eager to make amends by believing Lindsay. Hastings,

for his own reasons, remains sceptical.

KATE:

Returning to the night of the

ambush, the only officer you

disclosed the operation to was who?

LINDSAY:

Deputy Chief Constable Mike Dryden.

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KATE:

DCC Dryden corroborates receiving

your call.

LINDSAY:

Good.

KATE:

Did you request approval from DCC

Dryden to proceed without back-up

and without firearms?

LINDSAY:

I did.

HASTINGS:

With no recording, it’s your word

against his, isn’t it, DI Denton?

LINDSAY:

My word is I did.

Tense beats.

KATE:

Was DCC Dryden known to you in

purely a professional capacity?

LINDSAY:

No, it went beyond that.

HASTINGS:

This alleged relationship with

Deputy Chief Constable Dryden ...

LINDSAY:

“Alleged”?

HASTINGS:

Describe the alleged relationship.

LINDSAY:

It began when we worked together in

Crime Audit and ended a couple of

months ago.

HASTINGS:

How’d it end?

LINDSAY:

He didn’t leave his wife.

KATE:

He made promises, is that right?

LINDSAY:

Yes.

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KATE:

What kind?

LINDSAY:

That he would leave his wife.

HASTINGS:

God give me strength. The issue

here is that there’s an allegation

been put forward by you, DI Denton,

that somehow the Deputy Chief

Constable has set you up to take

the blame for the ambush. Is that

about the top and bottom of it?

LINDSAY:

Honestly, sir, I’m not sure.

HASTINGS:

Would you happen to have anything

that might substantiate this

theory? I don’t know, a little

thing called “evidence”. Or is that

too much to ask?

LINDSAY:

I resent your tone, Superintendent

Hastings.

HASTINGS:

She resents my tone.

STEVE:

If there’s been a relationship, we

require corroboration. Did you ever

go to his home?

LINDSAY:

No, he came to mine.

STEVE:

Witnesses?

LINDSAY:

Doubt it. We were very discreet.

STEVE:

Hotels?

LINDSAY:

There was a place we used a few

times. I’ve submitted the details

for you.

The solicitor shoves a document across the table to Steve.

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STEVE:

Most places, they insist on you

giving a credit card imprint when

you check in.

LINDSAY:

Mike always insisted we used mine,

and then he gave me cash.

STEVE:

He never used his?

LINDSAY:

Not that I recall.

STEVE:

Did he make calls from there on his

mobile or the room phone?

LINDSAY:

Yes.

STEVE:

Good, and we’ll find out if any of

the staff remember both of you

being there.

KATE:

What about calls to you?

LINDSAY:

The last was out of the blue, a

couple of months ago.

STEVE:

What was said?

LINDSAY:

He wanted to talk, maybe to see me.

He sounded drunk. I told him to

call me when he was sober.

KATE:

Did he?

LINDSAY:

(Beat.)

No.

KATE:

Thank you, we’ll check that out.

HASTINGS:

Here’s the thing, DI Denton. The

more intricate this investigation

gets, the easier it is for you to

try and confound my team.

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HASTINGS (CONT'D)

Me, I’ve been around the block a

time or two. I don’t care if you

and DCC Dryden were swinging from

the chandeliers. That doesn’t make

him a conspirator.

LINDSAY:

I -

HASTINGS:

And you maintain you’ve never even

heard of the Protected Witness?

LINDSAY:

I haven’t.

HASTINGS:

And you’d never even met Akers

before?

LINDSAY:

No.

HASTINGS:

Yet one phone call from Akers, and

you’re up to your neck in her dodgy

business.

LINDSAY:

Because I’m a police officer and

she needed my help.

Hastings bites his lip. Even he’s starting to waver now.

LINDSAY:

If you’ve been around the block,

sir, then you tell me -- what’ve

you found lately that makes me

appear guilty? Anything?

(Off Hastings’

hesitation.)

Or is it starting to look like

you’ve got the wrong person?

KATE:

(Off Hastings’

discomfort.)

Ma’am, all the information gleaned

from our post-charge investigation

-it’s going to the CPS.

LINDSAY:

Then it won’t be long before they

recognise there’s no credible case

against me.

Lindsay shows her first sign of real optimism.

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LINDSAY:

My mum’s very ill. As I’ve

cooperated, I’d appreciate any good

word that might persuade the

Governor to permit me a visit.

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