Line of Duty Page #3

Rod, Hari and Jackie all look browbeaten by

Danny.

They hear distant sirens approaching.

DANNY (CONT’D)

Discharge your weapons.

JACKIE:

No way.

DANNY:

Shoot over the suspect’s body, in

the direction you’d have fired if

you’d actually managed to get here

in time.

ROD:

(Off look from Jackie)

No.

Tense stand-off. The sirens get nearer and then

stop approaching (i.e. they’ve arrived at the

hard-stop location on Prince’s Road).

Danny pushes his face into Rods.

DANNY:

Shoot now!

Rod fires. Shaken up, Jackie fires an instant

later.

Danny glares at Hari.

DANNY (CONT’D)

Shoot.

Hari doesn’t.

DANNY (CONT’D)

Shoot.

(Beat)

You choked. Plausible.

Hari looks intimidated and exasperated. Without

warning Danny fires Ronan’s gun past Hari’s

head.

ROD (O.S)

Jesus!

The ejected shell casing rolls across the

concrete ground. Everyone’s stunned. Hari is

shaking with terror.

MCANDREW (OUT OF RADIO)

Five Zero, status report. Status

report?

Danny places the gun in Ronan’s hand.

Rod, Jackie and especially Hari are shocked by

Danny’s actions. But he just glares at them

calmly and coolly as he takes off his gloves.

DANNY:

We’re all in this together. Best

way.

Extremely tense beats as Rod (full of pent-up

energy), Jackie (utterly gobsmacked) and Hari

(still badly shaken by the gunshot) absorb the

enormity of their predicament. Only Danny

appears calm.

Enter McAndrew and her crew, appearing at the

far end of the courtyard.

MCANDREW:

Is anyone hurt?

DANNY:

We’re fine, thanks, guv.

MCANDREW (INTO RADIO)

Suspect down, repeat, suspect down!

McAndrew studies Danny, Rod, Jackie and Hari.

Danny is calm, the others shaken.

10:
06:41

MCANDREW (CONT’D)

Store your weapons.

(Into radio)

Victor Charlie Four One requesting

forensic deployment for the scene.

All AFOs and weapons require

transporting to base for forensic

recovery of evidence and debrief.

(To Danny)

You sure you’re okay?

DANNY:

Fine. Everyone did their job.

Danny eyes his team --Rod, Jackie and Hari, all

dreading their involuntary pact.

CUT TO:

EXT. PRINCE’S COURT. LATER THAT DAY.

Police vehicles surround the area and officers

swarm over the site, excluding the public.

Between the buildings Hastings marches, hat on,

carrying a sealed folder of documents.

FEMALE UNIFORMED OFFICER

Sir.

HASTINGS:

Carry on.

MALE UNIFORMED OFFICER

Sir.

HASTINGS:

Carry on.

Hastings approaches the police guarding the

Outer Cordon and signs in.

Hastings proceeds to the Inner Cordon. Portable

screens block views of the crime scene itself,

and a white forensic tent has been set up just

outside of the courtyard.

Inside the Inner Cordon, forensic scene

investigators in white suits swarm over the

crime scene. The body is still in place and the

investigators are painstakingly identifying and

photographing blood stains, shell casings,

gunshot residue and bullet holes (the latter

being on the wall directly behind the suspect’s

last position).

At the inner cordon stands Det Sgt Steve Arnott.

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Paradis.

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10:
07:08

STEVE:

Sir.

HASTINGS:

Steve.

Together they watch the forensic evidence.

HASTINGS (CONT’D)

What do you reckon, son? One for

us?

Steve’s gaze moves from the body to the gun to

the positions of the bullet casings. Staring at

the bullet casings, he looks suspicious.

STEVE:

Yeah. One for us.

CUT TO:

EXT. PRINCE’S ROAD. MOMENTS LATER.

Reynolds marches straight to where Danny, Hari,

Rod and Jackie are boarding transport.

DANNY:

Sir.

Danny, Hari, Rod and Jackie move to attention.

REYNOLDS:

As you were. Forensics will take

your firearms, gunshot residue

samples, clothing, nail scrapings.

You are to remain at the station

until they advise they don’t need

any further samples.

DANNY:

Sir.

REYNOLDS:

You’re all entitled to 48 hours’

recovery time. You’ll all be

offered post-traumatic counselling.

My advice is to use these 48 hours

wisely.

DANNY:

Sir.

Exit Reynolds. Jackie, Rod and Hari board the

Police Van. Danny gets into the front of the

vehicle and slides the door closed.

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X:

Music Ends

10:
07:15

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10:
07:59

CUT TO:

INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. DAY. ONE WEEK LATER.

On one side of the table sits Danny, alongside

his rep, Sgt Karen Marley.

On the other side sit Steve, Hastings and Det

Insp Matthew “Dot” Cottan.

STEVE:

For the tape, please confirm you

are the officer using the call-sign

“Victor Charlie Five One”.

DANNY:

I am.

Steve uses a remote control to bring up a scan

image onto a large monitor screen.

STEVE:

Document 2 in your folders. This

FA-1 was issued to AFOs at South

Ferry Police Station on the day of

13th of May of this year.

HASTINGS:

Do you recognise that form?

DANNY:

I do, sir.

HASTINGS:

Is that your signature?

DANNY:

It is, sir.

STEVE:

According to the FA-1, you were

issued with a Glock 17 Service

pistol serial number Mike-November8746546

and 9-by-19 millimetre

parabellum rounds.

Steve calls Danny’s statement up on the screen.

DANNY:

I was.

HASTINGS:

Now. Can you inform us as to how

you personally became involved in

Operation Damson?

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X:

Music Ends

10:
08:03

DANNY:

It was a real-time deployment

authorised by the SFC. I travelled

in the second vehicle, designated

Victor Charlie Five Zero, crewed by

myself and the rest of my team.

Outside Kate is listening to and watching the

interview.

STEVE:

The rest of your team are AFO

Victor Charlie Five Two, AFO Victor

Charlie Five Three and AFO Victor

Charlie Five Four.

Steve calls up photos of Rod, Jackie and Hari

with their names and call-signs alongside.

DANNY:

We deployed to a holding position

on one of four exit routes for the

suspect and maintained radio

contact with the operational senior

AFO.

STEVE:

For the tape please confirm this

was an inspector using the call-

sign Victor Charlie Four One.

Steve calls up a photo of McAndrew.

DANNY:

Correct. Victor Charlie Four One

notified me that the suspect was

travelling towards us and

authorised us to carry out a real-

time intercept.

HASTINGS:

Real time intercept, yeah. Things

get a wee bit fuzzy for me here

Sergeant. Maybe you could be a ray

of sunshine and burn off the fog.

Mmm?

Danny just stares right back at Hastings, hard-

eyed, tough, cool and completely unflappable.

HASTINGS (CONT’D)

I’m waiting.

DANNY:

Sir, I’m waiting for a question.

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09:16

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DOT:

What the Super’s asking you is how

come, as per the statement given by

Victor Charlie Four One, you were

ordered to wait for support.

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