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and your bit-on-the-side. We’re

investigating a conspiracy that

killed four police officers!

DRYDEN:

Listen to me, Ted. Listen. There

are details I’ve not confessed to.

I gave Carly Kirk a lift to Edge

Park Railway Station. We were there

around quarter to eight that

evening. That’s when I saw Lindsay

Denton. There’ll be CCTV. Her being

there can only mean she knows more

about the girl, the entrapment and

the ambush than she’s letting on.

I’m not being vindictive, Ted. I

just want the guilty parties

brought to justice.

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627

INT. EAST MIDLANDS POLICE. OUTSIDE INTERVIEW ROOM.

CONTINUOUS.

Steve has watched Dryden’s last statement intently. Cottan

reacts sardonically.

COTTAN:

Never gives in, does he? Anything

to save his neck.

HASTINGS (O.S.)

Which railway station did you say?

Steve looks pensive.

DRYDEN (O.S.)

Edge Park.

But Kate takes strength from Dryden -- he’s fed her natural

suspicions.

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628 INT. AC-12. OPEN-PLAN OFFICE/INTERVIEW ROOM. NEXT DAY.

Watched by Steve, Kate and Hastings, Cottan wields a remote

control, going to a menu screen that reads:

EDGE PARK RAILWAY STATION

16/8/13

COTTAN:

Edge Park’s a small station. This

is the only camera facing away from

the platforms. There isn’t a train

for half an hour so nothing comes

in and out then what appears to be

Dryden’s vehicle comes in, carrying

him and Carly.

ON SCREEN:
Dryden’s car enters the car park. It’s zoomed and

circled.

COTTAN:

From this angle, we can’t get the

reg, but it’s the same make and

model he drove out of the City Hall

car park.

ON SCREEN:
fast-forward, to Dryden’s car speeding out.

COTTAN:

Fifteen minutes later, Dryden’s

vehicle leaves at high speed.

ON SCREEN:
the image zooms and a circle appears, showing an

empty passenger seat.

COTTAN:

Passenger seat’s empty. No Carly.

But keep going.

ON SCREEN:
another vehicle speeds out of the car park.

COTTAN:

Shortly after, an unidentified

vehicle drives out of the car park.

No reg available on this angle.

ON SCREEN:
the image zooms and gets circled.

COTTAN:

Two occupants, neither identifiable

due to the speed of the vehicle and

angle of the shot. Rewind.

ON SCREEN:
rewind to before Dryden’s vehicle entered, and the

same unidentified vehicle enters.

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COTTAN:

This same vehicle entered the car

park fifteen minutes before Dryden

did.

STEVE:

This was the vehicle used to obtain

the photos of Dryden and Carly.

COTTAN:

Most likely.

KATE:

Or it was Denton.

STEVE:

You can’t see plates but that

doesn’t look like Denton’s vehicle.

COTTAN:

Doesn’t match the model she was

driving out of the City Hall car

park.

HASTINGS:

Is there any sighting of Denton

herself?

COTTAN.

No.

HASTINGS:

(To Kate.)

“No.”

KATE:

She could’ve been there but knew

how to avoid the cameras.

STEVE:

Dryden didn’t. How come Denton was

so smart?

KATE:

Because she is, Steve.

Tense beats.

HASTINGS:

I see nothing here that

incriminates Denton.

Kate looks frustrated -- this is getting to her.

HASTINGS:

Do what you can to identify the

other vehicle.

(MORE)

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HASTINGS (CONT'D)

(To Cottan.)

Got a minute, Dot?

Hastings dismisses Steve and Kate with a toss of his head.

Steve and Kate exit into the open-plan office.

STEVE:

Sorry about that.

She doesn’t answer. Steve is just behind Kate and he notices

a stain/dirt on her collar. He reacts to her unusual

messiness.

Back in the interview room, Hastings and Cottan:

HASTINGS:

Prasad’s a lying so-and-so but he’s

saying No to Cole being the Caddy.

He’s our missing link between

criminal parties and corrupt police

officers, I’m sure of it. And he’s

your responsibility, Dot.

COTTAN:

Sir. Right. Uh. I’m on it.

HASTINGS:

We’ll pick this up later.

COTTAN:

Sir.

Hastings heads out into the office.

Cottan has a beat of looking very uneasy.

Hastings calls to Steve and Kate (at their desks).

HASTINGS:

You two, c’mon -- we’ve got a

meeting.

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OMITTED:

INT. PRIVATE STORAGE FACILITY. LATER THAT DAY.

Steve, Kate and Hastings stand in the storage space, waiting.

Here are still the vehicles from the ambush and the evidence

on shelves.

A door opens. A different Storage Manager lets in: Hargreaves

and Rogerson.

(CONTINUED)

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630 CONTINUED:

HASTINGS:

The mountain comes to Mohammed.

Exit Storage Manager. Hargreaves and Rogerson approach.

Steve, Kate and Hastings all take up defensive postures as *

Hargreaves casts an eye over them all.

HARGREAVES:

We’ve got a lovely set of offices

at Major Violent Crime. Leather

sofas in the audiovisual suite, the

works.

HASTINGS:

And I offered to host this meeting

at AC-12.

HARGREAVES:

I fancied the arse off Jane Fonda

in Barbarella, but she should never

have gone to Hanoi.

HASTINGS:

We’re not the enemy.

HARGREAVES:

Try telling that to Mike Dryden.

Best boss I’ve ever had. How’d you

sleep at night?

STEVE:

(Cutting in to protect

Hastings.)

You found a lump on Akers’ car, and

hid it from us.

HARGREAVES:

There were irregularities with the

evidence.

HASTINGS:

What irregularities?

ROGERSON:

Forensics on the tracking device

were inconclusive due to fire

damage.

KATE:

That good enough reason for not

sharing the evidence?

Rogerson looks a little embarrassed. Hargreaves looks put out

at hearing that off a DC.

HASTINGS:

We’d appreciate those reports.

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HARGREAVES:

You’ll have ‘em. Jolly?

ROGERSON:

I’ll email them today.

Steve moves to hand over his card but Kate gets in first.

KATE:

(Passes card to Rogerson.)

Here’s mine.

ROGERSON:

Ta.

HASTINGS:

Thank you, Detective Chief

Superintendent.

HARGREAVES:

Right, what did you get out of

Prasad?

HASTINGS:

He’s confessed to the ambush and

named DC Jeremy Cole as his

accomplice.

HARGREAVES:

You’ll send us the file?

HASTINGS:

We will.

HARGREAVES:

Who’d he say ordered the ambush?

HASTINGS:

It was an underworld hit. No names.

ROGERSON:

We’ve got various lines of enquiry

on the likely candidates. Making

progress.

HARGREAVES:

And the DI, Denton?

KATE:

Still not sure, sir.

HASTINGS:

That’s as far as it goes regarding

police involvement in the

conspiracy. Other criminal parties

are, I accept, the province of

Major Violent Crime.

(CONTINUED)

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HARGREAVES:

Thank you, Superintendent, and in

turn I accept DS Prasad is your

witness. Now we’ve all kissed and

made up, I’ve got work to do.

Hargreaves and Rogerson exit. Rogerson and Steve exchange eye

contact as she goes.

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