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HASTINGS:

All yours, Dot. What else?

STEVE:

The lump on Akers’ vehicle. Dryden

knew about it and kept it from us.

HASTINGS:

Get copies of the evidence logs,

make sure Dryden was in the loop.

What else?

STEVE:

Lindsay claims Dryden changed the

rota so she was on duty the night

of the ambush.

HASTINGS:

Get proof that came directly from

him. What else?

None of them having anything further to offer up.

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HASTINGS:

Okay, hop to it, you lot.

KATE:

Sir.

COTTAN:

Sir.

Exit Steve, Kate and Cottan.

Hastings appears uneasy.

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534A INT. AC-12. OPEN-PLAN OFFICE. CONTINUOUS.

Steve looks back and studies Hastings. Steve shows doubtsabout his boss’s motives.

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544 EXT. CAR PARK. THAT EVENING.

This is the car park of a retail park, deserted at this timeof night. Cottan leans on his car waiting.

Headlights coast into the car park and swings into a space.

The door swings open and a walking stick hits the ground.

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544 CONTINUED:

DC NIGEL MORTON approaches Cottan.

COTTAN:

Alright.

MORTON:

Alright.

Morton lights himself a cigarette.

MORTON:

Want one, sir, or have you packed

up now you’ve gone squeaky clean?

COTTAN:

Have packed up, as it happens.

MORTON:

Another thing you can act superior

about, sir.

COTTAN:

We’re off duty, mate. It’s still

“Dot”.

MORTON:

How can I help you, sir?

COTTAN:

(Beat. Lets it drop.)

It’s all about information in this

game. Wonder if there’s something

you can tell me about a certain

Executive Officer.

MORTON:

You’re asking the wrong bloke.

COTTAN:

Aforementioned Executive Officer

had his name slapped all over the

papers for his wife’s SP-30. A

paper you used to throw the odd

titbit every now and then, if I

remember right.

MORTON:

No comment.

COTTAN:

I’m not after you, you daft bugger,

but this one’s got your paw-prints

all over it.

MORTON:

No comment.

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COTTAN:

No skin off my nose if you’re

making a bit of holiday money out

of it. Perk of the job. What counts

is what was known about Dryden.

What was he really up to that

night?

MORTON:

You’re in AC five minutes and now

you think it’s okay to grass on our

own.

COTTAN:

Dryden -- one of our own? He’s

having posh lunches with the PCC

and shagging on expenses. We don’t

owe him a thing, mate.

MORTON:

If it’s a choice between sticking

it to an Exec or sticking it to AC,

I’d have to think about it.

COTTAN:

This is all off the record. Come

on, help me stick it to that smug

bastard.

MORTON:

(Beats.)

What I heard was it was going round

wife to wife. She was in a state

about the SP-30, terrified of the

embarrassment. Then all of a sudden

it wasn’t her who was driving, it

was him.

COTTAN:

What was he up to?

MORTON:

(Shrugs.)

Everyone’s heard the rumours.

COTTAN:

I haven’t.

MORTON:

That’s what happens when you move

to AC. No one trusts you. Funny

that.

COTTAN:

Tell me about the rumours.

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MORTON:

This is from Vice. You never heard

it from me.

COTTAN:

Scout’s honour.

MORTON:

He likes ‘em young.

COTTAN:

(Beats.)

Any name you can give me in Vice?

MORTON:

There’s a lad. Mouthy. Jez Cole.

COTTAN:

Jez Cole. Jeremy Cole?

(Off Morton’s shrug.)

I’ve heard they call him The Caddy.

MORTON:

I’ll have to take your word for it.

COTTAN:

Will you, though?

MORTON:

What?

COTTAN:

If you think you’ve got it bad, you

want to try AC. The bean-counters

are all over you for everything. I

need to get this box ticked. All

you have to do is say you’ve heard

this nickname for Cole. Makes it

easier to keep your name out of the

Dryden saga. Don’t think the DCC’d

be best pleased if he found out

who’d splashed his name all over

the papers.

Morton suddenly looks very pissed off at being blackmailed.

COTTAN:

But it won’t have to come to that.

For old times’ sake.

Morton weighs his options uneasily.

MORTON:

Apparently Cole likes wearing golf

jumpers but he’s never played the

game. Hence, the Caddy.

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COTTAN:

Nice one.

Morton heads back to his car. He looks very, very pissed off.

He drives off.

Cottan lights himself a cigarette coolly.

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545BA INT. AC-12. OPEN-PLAN OFFICE. NEXT DAY.

The office is completely deserted. The unlikely early bird,

at his desk, Cottan writes a file, naming Cole as the Caddy,

looking very shifty.

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545C INT. GENERAL HOSPITAL. LIFT. LATER THAT DAY.

The lift door opens. Out step Steve and Hastings, to be

greeted by Kate. They all walk together.

KATE:

He came round early this morning.

The doctors have agreed he’s fit

for questioning.

HASTINGS:

Time for some answers.

They run into Hargreaves approaching with Rogerson.

HARGREAVES:

We’ve been investigating the

gunmen. Prasad’s ours.

HASTINGS:

He’s a police officer -- makes this

Anti-Corruption. Finders keepers,

sir.

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545C CONTINUED:

Hastings continues, loving every minute of it. He may even

start whistling. Hargreaves gives Hastings a very dark look

that makes Kate, Steve and Rogerson uncomfortable.

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545D INT. GENERAL HOSPITAL. ITU. MOMENTS LATER.

Hastings, Kate and Steve interview Prasad. Prasad’s still on

intravenous drips. Both Kate and Steve record answers in

their notebooks.

HASTINGS:

We have on record your Dying

Declaration, made when you were

under the hopeless expectation of

death, attesting to the facts you

carried out the ambush, did so in

concert with DC Jeremy Cole, and

did so under orders from Deputy

Chief Constable Michael Dryden. Is

that all true?

PRASAD:

Whether it’s true or false is

irrelevant. It was obtained under

duress so it’s inadmissable in

court.

STEVE:

We’ve got a pile of evidence that

is admissable.

HASTINGS:

Kidnap, attempted murder, murder,

conspiracy, perverting the course

of justice, sexual activity with a

child. You’re looking at going down

for a long time.

PRASAD:

And I’m looking at three muppets

who know I’m their best witness.

KATE:

Jesus.

He’s got them over a barrel and they know it. It sticks in

their craw. Tense beats.

HASTINGS:

Let’s talk about this fifteen-year

old girl.

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545D CONTINUED:

KATE:

Carly Kirk. We’ve got a witness

telling us you were her boyfriend.

STEVE:

Her foster parents found a used

condom in her room.

KATE:

You mopped up the DNA control

samples from her foster parents’

home so her body couldn’t be

identified.

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