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But as he watches her go, he’s dealing with his own doubts.

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647 INT. AC-12. 3RD FLOOR WINDOW. MOMENTS LATER.

Kate peers down towards the lobby.

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648

INT. AC-12. LOBBY. CONTINUOUS.

The female staffer holds Lindsay in the lobby.

Steve joins Lindsay, leaving the staffer behind. As they go

through the revolving door, he guides her with a hand in the

small of her back.

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649 INT. AC-12. 3RD FLOOR WINDOW. CONTINUOUS.

Utterly dismayed, Kate looks defeated and, worse, betrayed.

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649A

EXT. LAY-BY. THAT EVENING.

Ronson waits patiently in the lay-by.

A car pulls up.

A man with a walking stick gets out and approaches -- it’s

Morton.

MORTON:

Nice evening for it.

RONSON:

For what?

Morton shows him an envelope.

MORTON:

There’s a phone number in there.

You don’t need to know where I got

it from, let’s just say a mate’s

been up to no good. It belongs to

an underage girl.

RONSON:

What girl?

MORTON:

One who allegedly was servicing the

Deputy Chief Constable.

Ronson’s eyes light up.

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649A CONTINUED:

MORTON:

Well?

Ronson pulls a thick brown envelope out of his jacket pocket.

The flap is open. Morton sneaks a look at a thick wad of bank-

notes.

Morton and Ronson swap envelopes then go their separate ways.

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650 INT. STEVE’S FLAT. THAT NIGHT.

Steve’s phone wakes him. He answers it.

STEVE:

(Into phone.)

DS Arnott.

(Listens.)

On my way.

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651 EXT. KATE’S HOUSE. MOMENTS LATER.

Steve pulls up in his car. There’s a liveried patrol car

outside Kate’s house manned by two PCs.

STEVE:

Cheers, guys, thanks for the call.

Kate stands on the drive defiantly. Steve approaches her.

KATE:

Bastard’s changed the locks.

(Shouts at house.)

I bloody live here!

STEVE:

Come on, mate, let’s get you away.

KATE:

Last thing I need right now is you.

STEVE:

Those two uniforms are doing you a

favour. So am I.

KATE:

I live here.

STEVE:

Come on.

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651

CONTINUED:

He puts his arm round her. She lets him. She starts to cry.

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651A

OMITTED - 651 & 651A shot on 10 July as continuous scene 651

(retrospective revision).

Steve and Kate sit and talk.

STEVE:

What’s happened?

KATE:

I just wanted to see my son.

STEVE:

You will. Just not in the middle of

the night.

KATE:

I’ve got nowhere to go.

STEVE:

Where’ve you been staying?

(Off her shame.)

(Very sympathetic.)

Kate.

KATE:

I was undercover on Denton. I blew

the undercover and now we’re

blowing the whole case. I need to

close it or I’ve got nothing.

STEVE:

Kate -

KATE:

First you shagged the nurse. Now

you’re shagging the prime suspect -

STEVE:

I’m not.

KATE:

I’ve seen you together.

STEVE:

Your undercover failed because we

underestimated Lindsay. Mine’s

succeeding. Because she

underestimates me as much as you

do.

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651A CONTINUED:

KATE:

(Confused.)

What?

STEVE:

I think you’re right about her.

Kate comes down from her emotional reaction. The sense of

betrayal vanishes to be replaced by relief and vindication.

She’s deeply grateful and moved. She grips his hand briefly,

in friendship. He grips hers in return.

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652 INT. STEVE’S FLAT. LATER THAT NIGHT.

Kate’s had a much needed shower. Hair wet, she wears a bath

towel. Her clothes turn in the tumble-dryer.

Steve lays a coffee in front of her, keeps one for himself.

They drink.

Kate gets her note-pad out and he does the same.

KATE:

The scene of the ambush has been

gone over every which way. There

aren’t any forensics that

incriminate Lindsay.

STEVE:

We’ve got to go back further. Let’s

assume Lindsay was following Dryden

and Carly and was present at the

railway station. There was limited

CCTV coverage and she was smart

enough to avoid the camera, but she

witnessed the sting on Dryden

involving Carly. She’s constantly

denied a connection to Tommy, the

target of the ambush. But this

would be it, 20 days before the

ambush.

KATE:

Carly’s the connection. She

connects Tommy to Dryden, and the

both of them to Lindsay.

STEVE:

Which would leave a trail.

The tumble-dryer finishes and beeps.

STEVE:

Get dressed.

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652 CONTINUED:

KATE:

You break a girl’s heart.

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652A INT. AC-12. OPEN-PLAN OFFICE. NEXT DAY.

Alone in the office, the unlikely early bird, Cottan writes

up his computer report on Cole as the Caddy, entering:

“DC Cole boasted of underworld connections and attempted to

recruit DC Morton into a clandestine network of corrupt

police officers.”

Enter Steve and Kate.

COTTAN:

(Cool as a cucumber.)

Morning, campers.

STEVE:

What you doing in?

COTTAN:

This is why I’ve made DI and you

haven’t.

KATE:

Sir, we want to take one more pop

at Denton.

COTTAN:

(Blows a sigh.)

Gluttons for punishment.

STEVE:

The holy grail is proving a link

between Lindsay and Tommy Hunter

that pre-dates the ambush.

COTTAN:

There isn’t one. We searched her

house, didn’t find a pay-off like

we did with Akers. Nothing.

KATE:

We believe that link is Carly Kirk.

STEVE:

Still, we need to pick up the trail

from before the ambush.

Cottan becomes a little bit shifty.

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652A CONTINUED:

COTTAN:

You know what? I always thought it

was a bit convenient that her Chief

Super never got involved in okaying

the transfer the night of the

ambush.

KATE:

Cheers, Dot.

Steve and Kate head back to the lifts. Cottan wears a poker

face. (He’s misdirecting them.)

Steve and Kate hit the call button.

KATE:

We’ve got to make sure Denton still

knows we’re after her.

They get into the lift.

STEVE:

You push from the outside. I’ll

push from the inside. She’ll crack.

The door shuts.

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654

INT. 4TH ST. STATION. SQUAD ROOM/MALLICK’S OFFICE. LATER THAT

DAY.

Steve and Kate enter. Mistrustful eyes track them, not least

O’Neill’s. In fact, he looks decidedly uncomfortable. O’Neill

tries to keep his head down.

They tap on Mallick’s open door.

STEVE:

DS Arnott, sir.

KATE:

DC Fleming.

Mallick doesn’t look very welcoming, but he lets them in and

shuts the door.

MALLICK:

(With animosity.)

You were here undercover.

KATE:

Yes, sir.

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654 CONTINUED:

MALLICK:

Still spying on us?

STEVE:

Sir, we’d like to ask you about the

ambush, if we may. We’ve reviewed

your original statement. DI Denton

was unable to obtain Gold Approval

from you to move the Witness.

MALLICK:

I’d like my Superintendents

Association Rep here before I

address any questions.

STEVE:

It’s your prerogative, sir, if you

want to go down that route.

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