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Dryden is seriously worried now.

Kate takes one photo out of an envelope and lays it on the

desk. It’s the clearest shot of Dryden with Carly.

Dryden is utterly shocked, unable to speak.

KATE:

For the tape, I’m presenting the

suspect with a photograph entered

in evidence, evidence number H86734

dash D.

STEVE:

Do you recognise the male in these

photographs?

DRYDEN:

(Barely audible.)

Me.

STEVE:

Speak up for the tape.

DRYDEN:

It’s me.

KATE:

And the female?

DRYDEN:

Don’t know.

Kate lays the rest of the photographs out.

KATE:

For the tape, I’m presenting the

suspect with photographs entered in

evidence, evidence numbers H86734

dash A to C and dash E to K.

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STEVE:

That’s you and the female?

DRYDEN:

Plainly.

KATE:

What’s happening in these photos?

Dryden just looks glum and defeated. Kate raps her finger on

the photos.

KATE:

Who’s the girl?

DRYDEN:

I don’t know.

STEVE:

You appear to know her well enough

in these photos.

DRYDEN:

Appear to.

KATE:

This girl is Carly Kirk. She was

seen working as part of the

catering team at the City Hall

reception on the evening of the

16th of August. Carly Kirk was 15

years old.

DRYDEN:

(Stunned. Flustered.)

I ... no ... she looked older ...

KATE:

How old? 18?

DRYDEN:

I ... uh ...

STEVE:

Carly Kirk was a vulnerable young

girl groomed by DC Manish Prasad.

Steve shoves a screen-grab of Prasad with Dryden at the

reception across to Dryden.

STEVE:

You worked with Prasad in Vice.

Here you are together.

KATE:

Did Prasad provide you with young

women for sex?

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DRYDEN:

Absolutely not.

Steve shoves a screen-grab of Carly dressed as a waitress,

glammed up.

STEVE:

But he knew what you liked.

Dryden looks cowed and ashamed.

STEVE:

Did an offence take place between

you and Carly Kirk, namely Sexual

Activity with a Child under the

Sexual Offences Act 2003?

DRYDEN:

It’s not what it looks like. She

never got started. I came to my

senses.

KATE:

Why did you even let her get that

far?

DRYDEN:

Why d’you think?

KATE:

I’m not an old perv so you’ll have

to tell me.

DRYDEN:

I was tempted. For a moment. Then I

chucked her out of the car.

(CONTINUED)

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KATE:

We believe the photos would be used

by John Thomas Hunter to blackmail

you.

STEVE:

John Thomas Hunter was the target

of the ambush.

KATE:

Did you set up the ambush?

DRYDEN:

No! I never knew about Hunter,

never knew about this blackmail!

STEVE:

You turned the tables on Hunter.

Had him silenced.

DRYDEN:

That’s not something I would do.

I’m not a criminal.

KATE:

According to these photos you are.

DRYDEN:

What does the girl say’s happening

in these photos?

Steve and Kate both show a flicker of reaction.

DRYDEN:

What?

Kate takes photos out of a folder.

KATE:

For the tape, I’m showing the

suspect photographs H86734 dash L

to P.

Dryden gazes at the images of Carly’s body.

Now Dryden knows he’s totally f***ed. His head sinks.

STEVE:

The point is who she was last seen

with before she disappeared.

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DRYDEN:

Now wait -

STEVE:

She was murdered. D’you know who

murdered her?

DRYDEN:

No -

KATE:

Did you murder her?

DRYDEN:

No -

STEVE:

She was strangled. D’you know who

strangled her?

DRYDEN:

No -

KATE:

Did you strangle her?

DRYDEN:

No -

KATE:

Her teeth were ripped out and face

and finger-pulps were burnt off

with a blow-torch. D’you know who

did that to her?

DRYDEN:

No!

STEVE:

Did you do that to her?

DRYDEN:

No!

Steve and Kate pause to take a breath. They let things calm

down for a couple of beats, then they start up again.

STEVE:

While you’ve been in custody,

there’s been a search of your

residence and vehicle under Section

18 brackets 1 of the Police and

Criminal Evidence Act.

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KATE:

Our people were looking for clothes

matching the ones you’re wearing in

these photos.

STEVE:

Why didn’t they find any?

DRYDEN:

I don’t know.

KATE:

Because you purposefully disposed

of them to remove any trace of this

girl’s DNA and clothes fibres.

DRYDEN:

I must’ve had a clear-out, donated

them to the charity shop.

STEVE:

Same with your vehicle. A ring-

around of local businesses reveals

you had the car valeted the very

next day.

KATE:

Steam-cleaned.

DRYDEN:

I didn’t want my wife finding

anything, smelling the girl’s cheap

perfume.

STEVE:

You admit taking measures to

conceal evidence you were with her.

DRYDEN:

Because I got how incriminating it

would be.

STEVE:

Funny, that.

KATE:

You’re the last person to see Carly

Kirk before she disappeared. The

last person to see a girl who’s

later found buried under an

industrial unit.

DRYDEN:

There’s no evidence I did it.

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KATE:

Look at these photos! You had Tommy

killed to silence him and you

needed to kill Carly too.

DRYDEN:

You’ve got nothing connecting me to

the body. Nothing.

KATE:

Your career’s over, sir. Probably

your marriage too. Why keep up the

lies?

DRYDEN:

I’m not a criminal. I’m an honest

man!

STEVE:

You instigated a conspiracy that

led to the deaths of four police

officers.

DRYDEN:

The only conspiracy’s against me!

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INT. EAST MIDLANDS CONSTABULARY. OUTSIDE INTERVIEW ROOM.

CONTINUOUS.

Dryden looks out through the one-way glass, blindly.

DRYDEN:

Hastings! I know you’re out there.

You’re behind this. Did they bribe

you? Got you out of a mess you made

for yourself? It’s all going to

come out! You’re finished! You’re

finished!

Hastings stares back for a beat or two, defiant.

COTTAN:

Empty threats, sir.

Hastings reveals just a chink of unease, enough for us to

appreciate that he fears they’re more than empty threats.

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INT. EAST MIDLANDS CONSTABULARY. INTERVIEW ROOM. CONTINUOUS.

Dryden’s head drops. He looks a beaten man.

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STEVE:

Michael Edward Dryden, I hereby

inform you that the senior

investigating officer,

Superintendent Hastings, will be

submitting your case file to the

Crown Prosecutor for the purpose of

seeking authority to charge you

with the following offences:

Conspiracy to Murder, Murder,

Perverting the Course of Justice

and Sexual Activity with a Child.

Dryden is devastated.

DRYDEN:

I’m innocent. Someone’s setting me

up.

Steve and Kate gaze at him coldly.

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INT. AC-12. OPEN-PLAN OFFICE/HASTINGS’ OFFICE. LATER THAT

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