Line of Duty Page #6

HASTINGS:

Team effort, sir.

DRYDEN:

No false modesty.

Enter New Jo.

(CONTINUED)

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523 CONTINUED:
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NEW JO:

Denise said to come straight in.

DRYDEN:

Absolutely.

(To Hastings.)

Shame you can’t appear on camera,

but stick around for the press

conference.

HASTINGS:

Press conference?

DRYDEN:

What did I say about false modesty?

This is the breakthrough we’ve all

been desperate for. Excuse us,

won’t you?

HASTINGS:

Sir.

Exit Hastings.

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523A INT. POLICE HQ. OUTSIDE DRYDEN’S OFFICE. CONTINUOUS.

Hastings comes out to find Hargreaves waiting.

HARGREAVES:

What the hell was that?

HASTINGS:

You’ve not been sharing your

information with us. My team, we’re

going to close this case. Then

we’re going to come after all the

bastards who got in our way.

Hargreaves stores that one away. He exits sharply. Hastings

reflects.

CUT TO:

524 INT. POLICE HQ. PRESS BRIEFING ROOM. LATER THAT DAY.

Dryden and New Jo sit behind the table in front of the press.

Hastings watches from the wings.

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524 CONTINUED:

DRYDEN:

Thanks to sterling work by one of

this Force’s most highly

specialised units, the two gunmen

responsible for the ambush on 5th

September are now in our hands.

Cameras flash. Dryden revels in the limelight.

There’s a volley of reporters’ questions: “Who are they? Why

did they do it? Where are they being held? What have they

been charged with? Are they cooperating? Are they answering

questions?”

Dryden talks over them.

DRYDEN:

The investigation is ongoing and

extremely sensitive. I can’t

disclose any further details. But

this is a momentous day for this

police force, for the rule of law,

and most importantly for the

grieving families of our four

fallen comrades.

Dryden revels in the camera flashes. Another volley of

questions, the same ones again.

Hastings’ eyes narrow as he watches Dryden at work.

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529B

INT. GENERAL HOSPITAL. WAITING AREA/CONSULTING ROOM. THAT

DAY.

Steve enters.

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529B CONTINUED:

Lindsay is waiting, now wearing a paper forensic suit,

accompanied by two uniformed PCs.

A nurse comes out of a room.

CLINIC NURSE:

Sorry to keep you. Dr Kaur will see

you now, and then the Burns

Specialist will come and take a

look at your hands.

STEVE:

(To Lindsay.)

I’ll wait here.

LINDSAY:

Thanks.

Lindsay goes into the consulting room with the nurse, being

greeted by a female Asian doctor, before the door shuts.

Steve reflects.

The nurse comes out to a reception desk manned by a clerk.

CLINIC NURSE:

Dr. Kaur wants her notes

downloaded. She was seen earlier

this year.

(Mouths, inaudible.)

T-o-P.

The nurse goes back into the room.

Steve has witnessed the exchange and, despite not

understanding it, his curiosity has been piqued.

He pulls out his phone discreetly, starts writing an e-mail:

TO:
AC-12 RECORDS OFFICER

SUBJECT:
MEDICAL RECORDS -- DI DENTON

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529C INT. GENERAL HOSPITAL. ITU. THAT NIGHT.

Steve (in casual clothes having had to give up his work

clothes to forensics) and Kate peer at Prasad, who remains

unconscious and under armed guard.

KATE:

When he talks, we’ll know the

truth.

STEVE:

He’s already talked.

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529C CONTINUED:

KATE:

(Sceptical.)

Under extreme duress.

He keeps his mouth shut. Beat.

KATE:

Did you tell Lindsay’s he’s alive?

STEVE:

No.

KATE:

Good.

Steve studies Kate, absorbing her doubts about Lindsay.

STEVE:

You should get off home.

KATE:

I’ll stay. I want to be here when

he comes round.

Steve knows something’s up. He studies her but decides not to

pursue it.

STEVE:

Night.

KATE:

Night.

Exit Steve.

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530

INT. SOUTH FERRY POLICE STATION. CUSTODY SUITE. LATER THAT

NIGHT.

A uniformed Custody Officer fills in a clipboard as he leads

Lindsay into a cell. She still wears scrubs. Steve hovers

outside.

Lindsay immediately feels tense and traumatised about her

confinement.

LINDSAY:

Steve ...

STEVE:

(To Custody Officer.)

Give us a minute. Promise I won’t

leave without filling in the

paperwork.

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530 CONTINUED:

The Custody Officer steps aside and Steve goes into the cell.

LINDSAY:

I don’t suppose you’d have any idea

what it’s like being locked up day

and night.

STEVE:

I’m sorry.

LINDSAY:

Hold me on the original conspiracy

charge and let me make a second

bail application.

(Off his hesitation.)

Please, Steve, I can’t be locked up

any more.

He weighs up the situation.

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530A INT. HOTEL LOBBY. LATER THAT NIGHT.

Kate returns to the hotel. The front desk is unattended. She

goes round to get her key. In the pigeon-hole she finds a

bill, a list of charges at fifty quid a night, with a total

at the bottom in the low hundreds.

Handwritten over the figures is:

PLEASE PAY!

She looks dismayed.

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530B EXT. KATE’S HOUSE. EARLY NEXT DAY.

Kate arrives home. The house looks quiet, lights out. She’s

puzzled. Kate gets out of her car, gets a bag/bundle of

clothes from the boot. She girds herself to go in.

Her key doesn’t get in the lock. She tries again and it still

won’t go in.

She bangs on the door. No answer.

She steps back, powerless, and looks devastated.

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531 INT. COURT. LATER THAT DAY.

Lindsay, still in scrubs/replacement clothes, is escorted in

handcuffs by private security officers. She proceeds up a

short flight of stairs into the dock of a bright court room.

She looks round and sees the Clerk, the Prosecutor and the

Defence Counsel from Ep. 3 with their legal teams. In an

otherwise empty public gallery is Steve.

The legal teams are bantering casually, ignoring Lindsay.

They stop when the Judge enters.

CLERK OF THE COURT

All rise.

Everyone stands. The Judge sits. Everyone sits but Lindsay.

CLERK OF THE COURT

Are you Lindsay Elizabeth Denton?

LINDSAY:

I am.

CLERK OF THE COURT

Be seated, Ms. Denton.

Lindsay sits in the dock.

JUDGE:

Morning, Ms. Latimer.

PROSECUTOR:

(Stands.)

Your Honour, due to a lack of

evidence, the Prosecution is not

proceeding with the charge of

Escape from Lawful Custody against

the Defendant; however, the

Prosecution remains fully intent on

the Defendant answering the

original charge of Conspiracy to

Murder, in this court on November

18th.

JUDGE:

Very good.

The Prosecutor sits. The Defence Counsel stands.

DEFENCE COUNSEL:

Your Honour, the Defendant wishes

to make a second bail application.

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