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PRASAD:

They were killed by DC Jeremy Cole.

COTTAN:

On whose orders?

PRASAD:

I’m not getting into that.

HASTINGS:

No? You’ve recorded a Dying

Declaration stating that the ambush

was carried out on the orders of

Deputy Chief Constable Michael

Dryden.

PRASAD:

That statement was made under fear

for my life when I would’ve said

anything. I retract.

HASTINGS:

Mother of God.

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PRASAD:

To the best of my knowledge, Dryden

had nothing to do with the ambush.

Hastings looks very uneasy. He went all out to get Dryden and

now the evidence is vanishing.

HASTINGS:

You’re a born liar, son. I don’t

believe a blind word you’re saying.

PRASAD:

Why are you talking to me, then,

sir?

Tense beat.

KATE:

So who did order the ambush?

PRASAD:

Told you. I’m not getting into

that.

COTTAN:

What about these photos of Dryden

and Carly Kirk?

Prasad exchanges looks with his Solicitor.

HASTINGS:

To confirm the agreement, any

evidence you provide in this regard

is immune from prosecution.

The Solicitor nods to Prasad: “It’s covered.”

KATE:

Were you involved in grooming

Carly?

PRASAD:

I was.

HASTINGS:

By means of your work as a Vice

officer?

PRASAD:

It gives an insight.

KATE:

You coached her to entrap Dryden?

PRASAD:

He didn’t take much “entrapping”.

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COTTAN:

Tommy Hunter approached you to do

this?

Prasad holds his tongue.

HASTINGS:

Come on, son. We’ve got Hunter on

tape saying he intended to

blackmail Dryden and we’ve got the

photos on your computer.

Prasad confers in whispers with his Solicitor. Solicitor:

“This is still covered by immunity.”

PRASAD:

I confirm that Tommy Hunter engaged

me to arrange for Deputy Chief

Constable Dryden to have sexual

relations with an underage girl for

the purpose of acquiring

incriminating photographs.

HASTINGS:

Here’s where my head starts

spinning. You’re Tommy’s man. Then

you’re involved in trying to kill

him?

PRASAD:

Tommy was blackmailing the Deputy

Chief Constable. If he’d do that to

keep his immunity, what else would

he do? There was a school of

thought that maybe we’d be better

off with Tommy out of the picture.

COTTAN:

Who’s “we”?

PRASAD:

Various parties associated with

Tommy’s past, various parties

associated with ongoing illicit

interests.

HASTINGS:

Other departments will pursue those

lines of enquiry. There’s one thing

we deal with and one thing alone.

Bent coppers. Each police officer

we name, you tell us what crime or

crimes they committed. Got it?

Starting with Deputy Chief

Constable Michael Dryden?

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PRASAD:

Dryden got himself blown by the

girl.

KATE:

Did he kill her?

PRASAD:

(To Solicitor.)

This is covered?

HASTINGS:

Complete immunity.

The Solicitor nods/says Yes.

PRASAD:

We had the photos but we needed the

threat of the girl being able to

testify to really turn the screw.

But she did a runner.

KATE:

So you killed her?

PRASAD:

You’re not listening. She did a

runner. Something spooked Dryden

at the station. He took off and so

did the girl.

KATE:

He saw you?

PRASAD:

Dunno. But losing the girl lost us

leverage against Dryden.

HASTINGS:

What did you do?

PRASAD:

We got another body, dressed her up

in a waitress’s uniform and took

photos, but we never sent ‘em to

Dryden.

KATE:

This body ...

PRASAD:

Another girl.

KATE:

Who?

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PRASAD:

Just some little slapper that fit

the bill.

Kate reacts. Normally she can handle this but she’s a little

vulnerable. She’s disgusted.

HASTINGS:

You killed this other girl?

PRASAD:

Another girl “was killed”.

HASTINGS:

By you?

PRASAD:

No comment.

COTTAN:

DS Jayne Akers, the Witness

Protection Officer. How’d she get

involved?

PRASAD:

There’s a middle man.

KATE:

Who?

PRASAD:

Never met him. Just talked over

pay phones. No name. He fixed

Akers.

KATE:

So Akers knew who he was?

HASTINGS:

That why she was killed?

PRASAD:

Partly. She knew names.

COTTAN:

This middle man. We’ve had DC

Jeremy Cole named as “the Caddy”.

(Off Prasad’s blank look.)

A police detective groomed since

teenage to be a fixer for organised

crime and named as such by Tommy

Hunter.

PRASAD:

Cole couldn’t organise a piss-up in

a brewery.

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HASTINGS:

So he wasn’t the Caddy?

PRASAD:

If he was, it’s news to me.

KATE:

One final name we’re interested in.

DI Lindsay Denton.

PRASAD:

What about her?

KATE:

At the ambush, why was DI Lindsay

Denton spared?

PRASAD:

Her car smacked into a tree and she

didn’t get out. We assumed she was

in a bad way but didn’t want to

hang around and find out. We did

the business and got out of there

as fast as we could.

HASTINGS:

Come off it, son. You had time to

douse one vehicle in petrol and set

it alight. You seriously expect us

to believe you didn’t kill Lindsay

Denton because you couldn’t be

bothered? You were working to a

plan.

PRASAD:

(Beats.)

All I know is there was an order.

KATE:

What was the order?

PRASAD:

“Don’t hurt Denton.”

HASTINGS:

Because she was innocent?

PRASAD:

Innocent. Right. Look what she did

to me to get a Dying Declaration

that she was framed.

That sits with Kate, Cottan and Hastings, and lifts Kate’s

suspicions to new heights.

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HASTINGS:

We’re going to go through the lot,

chapter and verse -- if it takes

all day and all night. I’ll be

right back.

Hastings heads out. Kate signals for Cottan to stay and she

heads out.

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608C EXT. GENERAL HOSPITAL. CONTINUOUS.

Hastings comes out for a breather. He looks pretty stressed.

Kate joins him.

KATE:

I hope you don’t mind, sir ...

HASTINGS:

God knows why I quit smoking.

KATE:

You’ve put your career on the line

going after Dryden.

HASTINGS:

More than that, Kate.

KATE:

Sir?

HASTINGS:

Doesn’t matter. What does is we get

the guilty parties. The cost to

ourselves is immaterial. That’s

what being an anticorruption

officer means. At least to me it

does.

KATE:

To me too, sir.

Kate goes back in. Hastings reflects.

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608D INT. STEVE’S CAR. LATER THAT DAY.

Steve opens the passenger door for Lindsay. Her eye make-up

is smudged from crying.

LINDSAY:

Thanks, Steve. I really appreciated

this.

(MORE)

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LINDSAY (CONT'D)

I’d’ve hated having a couple of

uniforms standing next to me at the

grave-side ...

STEVE:

No problem.

She gets in. He walks round to the driver’s side. He starts

the engine.

LINDSAY:

Can I ask another favour?

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