Line of Duty Page #12

AKERS:

I don’t know if I can trust you.

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LINDSAY:

(Long beats. Very

hesitant.)

You can if it’s about saving a 15year-

old girl’s life.

AKERS:

It’s got to be done right. He’s

smart and won’t be taken in easily.

You’ll get involved when you’re on

call as Duty Inspector.

LINDSAY:

No.

AKERS:

Lindsay -- can I call you Lindsay? -

LINDSAY:

Please leave this minute.

Lindsay tries to move Akers to the door. She doesn’t budge.

AKERS:

There are “parties” interested in

him. The less you know, the better,

for your own good. You’ll get the

information you need about the

girl. After that, d’you care what

happens to him?

(Off Lindsay’s

hesitation.)

Do you? Really?

Lindsay thinks hard and reaches a conclusion.

AKERS:

And obviously we can help you in

other ways.

Akers indicates their surroundings.

AKERS:

Don’t tell me you don’t need it.

LINDSAY:

No.

Akers becomes intense.

AKERS:

We’re already in this together,

Lindsay. We’ve committed the crime

of Conspiracy.

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LINDSAY:

No. You have. I could arrest you.

AKERS:

And all I’ll say is you confronted

Mr. Campbell today and I came here

to challenge you over your breach

of regulations and your highly

damaging breach of his security.

The last thing you need right now

is a misconduct hearing.

Akers has called Lindsay’s bluff.

AKERS:

It’ll be a nice calm orderly hand-

over of the witness. No heroics.

Definitely no guns. Everybody walks

away, everybody wins. But before I

leave tonight I need reassurance

you’ve got as much to lose as I do.

So you take the money. Enjoy it.

Pressure beats on Lindsay.

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662D FLASHBACK. INT. AKERS’ CAR. CONTINUOUS.

Akers gets in the driver’s seat. The passenger is Cottan.

AKERS:

She’s in.

COTTAN:

She want to know names?

AKERS:

No.

COTTAN:

Good for her.

Cottan wears a dark expression. Akers pulls away.

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662E FLASHBACK. INT. LINDSAY’S HOUSE. THAT NIGHT.

Lindsay opens a bulky package and stares at wads of cash.

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FLASHBACK. PREVIOUSLY SHOT MATERIAL. INT. LINDSAY’S CAR. 5TH

SEPT.

Lindsay drives along a country road. In her rearview mirror

she sees Akers’ car following.

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668 FLASHBACK. INT. AKERS’ CAR. CONTINUOUS.

Akers rides alongside Tommy. Tommy has the blanket off

briefly so we see it’s him, then puts it back on.

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FLASHBACK. PREVIOUSLY SHOT MATERIAL. INT. LINDSAY’S CAR.

CONTINUOUS.

All her conflicts play out on Lindsay’s face. Long, long

beats of her agonising over what she’s doing.

LINDSAY:

F*** this.

Lindsay makes a sharp left turn.

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670 FLASHBACK. PREVIOUSLY SHOT MATERIAL. INT. AKERS’ CAR.

CONTINUOUS.

Wallis and Butler react.

BUTLER:

What’s she playing at?

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671 FLASHBACK. INT. LINDSAY’S CAR. CONTINUOUS.

Lindsay sees headlights flare in front of her. She reacts

with shock.

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671A

FLASHBACK. PREVIOUSLY SHOT MATERIAL. EXT. LONG LANE. 5TH

SEPT. NIGHT.

The ambush vehicle clips Lindsay’s car, sending her into a

tree.

In her cracked wing mirror, Lindsay sees two men hop out of

the ambush vehicle. Both wear thick black jackets and

motorcycle helmets. The front-seat passengers of Akers’

vehicle are restrained by their air-bags. One gunman sprays

the windscreen of Akers’ vehicle with automatic fire, hitting

the front seat passengers. The second gunman aims pistol fire

through the rear windows at the backseat passengers.

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671B

FLASHBACK. PREVIOUSLY SHOT MATERIAL. EXT. LONG LANE.

CONTINUOUS.

Lindsay struggles out of the car. An inferno engulfs Akers’

car only. Suddenly a rear door pops open and two figures

tumble out, screaming, on fire.

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FLASHBACK. PREVIOUSLY SHOT BUT UNSEEN MATERIAL. EXT. LONG

LANE. CONTINUOUS.

Lindsay throws her coat over Akers’ burning body.

LINDSAY:

Sh*t, sh*t.

Akers is dying, completely unresponsive.

Lindsay takes cover, needs time to think. She weeps, wipes

back tears.

LINDSAY:

Sh*t, sh*t.

She gets a grip. She has a sudden insight.

She scurries back to her car, keeping low. She looks under

the car. She sees something.

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LINDSAY:

Sh*t.

Lindsay struggles to reach under the car and pulls off a lump

of magnetic metal -- a tracking device.

She stares at in anguish.

She hears multiple distant sirens approaching.

She starts to panic.

She sees blue lights in the distance.

She stares into an abyss.

Lindsay holds the tracker in her hand. She hears distant

sirens.

Panicking, She grabs a branch that’s been broken off by her

car’s impact into the tree.

She uses her handkerchief to wipe prints off the tracker

then, holding it via the handkerchief, pushes it between a

clutch of twigs.

Cradling the tracker with the branch, she hurries it to

Akers’ burning vehicle.

She pokes it under the wheel arch.

The magnetic device jumps off the branch and sticks under the

wheel arch.

Lindsay puts the handkerchief on the branch and throws them

both into the burning car (so there can’t be a fibre match).

Emergency vehicles turn into Long Lane. Their blue lights

play on Lindsay’s face.

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671D

FLASHBACK. INT. ASHCLIFFE NURSING HOME. ELIZABETH’S ROOM.

NEXT DAY.

Lindsay sits with her mother.

ELIZABETH:

All that money getting me in here --

You’ve got your own life to think

of.

LINDSAY:

Mum. Don’t.

Awkward silence.

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ELIZABETH:

My life’s finished -

LINDSAY:

Don’t say that.

ELIZABETH:

I have to say it.

Lindsay looks very pensive.

ELIZABETH:

You’ve got to live yours, before it

passes you by.

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671E

FLASHBACK. PREVIOUSLY SHOT MATERIAL. EXT. LONG LANE. 5TH

SEPT.

Lindsay sees burning bodies, then she’s seen through

foreground fire coming from the car, lit by the inferno.

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INT. KATE’S CAR. PRESENT.

Lindsay shakes herself out of the reflection.

Her expression gradually becomes more relaxed, more serene.

She knows she’s going to get away with it.

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673 EXT. LINDSAY’S HOUSE. MOMENTS LATER.

Kate’s car pulls up. She and Lindsay get out.

KATE:

Anything to say, ma’am?

They stare at each other for a couple of beats, no need for

words to express their battle.

Then Lindsay walks towards her house serenely.

The PC opens the front door. Kate follows.

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674 INT. LINDSAY’S HOUSE. CONTINUOUS.

Entering, Lindsay is shocked to see Steve standing halfway up

the stairs. He wears a white forensic suit.

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