Line of Duty Page #9

DOT:

We interviewed one of this team, PC

Harinderpal Bains, who we strongly

suspect is detachable from

Waldron’s version of events.

GILL:

Is he on the record?

STEVE:

No, ma’am, but...

GILL:

I’m a civilian. It’s Gill or Miss

Biggeloe. So he’s not on the

record.

HASTINGS:

No. But we have an officer

undercover probing for weaknesses

in the team’s statements.

GILL:

Has she found any?

HASTINGS:

Not yet, but she’s only just

started.

GILL:

So she hasn’t.

HASTINGS:

Look. I’ve seen enough bent coppers

in my time to know when one of them

is hiding something.

GILL:

You know why I’ve been appointed.

To ensure that anticorruption

inquiries don’t get pulled apart in

court --to everyone’s

embarrassment.

HASTINGS:

Yes. Well we’d all be severely

embarrassed if Daniel Waldron

manages to pull something like this

off again. We are protecting the

public and sometimes that means we

have to protect them from our own

officers.

GILL:

Legally this case is weak and

juries don’t convict police

officers for killing suspects. I’ve

got no option but to recommend that

Waldron and his team return to

active duty and their firearms

permits are reinstated.

Exit Gill.

Hastings, Steve and Dot are frustrated.

STEVE:

What? She running our

investigations now?

Hastings glares at Steve.

Music

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Specially

composed by

Carly

Paradis.

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INT. SOUTH FERRY STATION. ARMOURY. A FEW DAYS |

LATER. |

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With a sense of urgency, a team of AFOs sign for |

their weapons and ammunition --Danny, Jackie, |

Hari and Kate. McAndrew briefs them. |

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MCANDREW |

(briefing team)|

Search of premises Class A drugs. |

Residents are known to be in |

possession. Have access to |

firearms. |

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Danny moves near Kate and they load their guns |

together. |

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DANNY |

Good to be back. |

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Danny snaps the magazine into place. He’s |

already back in the zone. |

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EXT. TOWER BLOCK. LATER THAT DAY. |

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Two Unmarked Black Vans pull onto the estate. |

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Danny, Kate, Hari, Rod and Jackie hurry across |

to the tower block. |

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Danny holds his arm up signalling them to stop. |

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An officer carrying an enforcer smashes the door |

in. |

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Danny is the first one through the door. |

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DANNY |

Armed Police! |

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INT. FIRST DRUG HOUSE. CONTINUOUS. |

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Guns up. They begin moving through the premises. |

There are signs of drug use, generalised refuse |

and decay, but no residents visible. |

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Danny reaches the bottom of a staircase. |

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DANNY |

Armed Police! |

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He looks back. |

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DANNY (CONT’D)|

Jacks, you, Rod and Hari secure |

these rooms. Kate, with me. |

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Jackie, Rod and Hari move into rooms. |

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Kate is beside Danny. |

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DANNY (CONT’D) |

Go. Go. |

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Danny creeps on. On Kate: a real sense of fear |

building:
hyperventilating. Then she follows |

Danny up the stairs. |

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Hari secures one of the doors on the ground |

floor. |

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INT. FIRST DRUG HOUSE. FLAT. CONTINUOUS. |

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Danny and Kate have reached the top of the |

steps. Danny approaches a door. |

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DANNY |

Armed Police! |

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Silence. |

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Danny shows Kate the count on his fingers, 3, 2, |

1, then he kicks the door in. |

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DANNY (CONT’D)|

Armed Police. |

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Danny enters first, followed by Kate. They both |

have their guns up and pointed forwards. |

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DANNY (CONT’D)|

Armed Police. |

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They move down the hallway and into a bedroom. |

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There appears to be no one in the room. |

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Danny kicks back the bedding. Still no sign of |

anyone. |

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DANNY (CONT’D)|

All clear. Check the landing. |

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Kate steps out onto the landing. Danny searches |

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the room quickly. He looks through drawers --|

under some cash he finds an illegal pistol. He |

gazes at the cash and gun thoughtfully. |

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DANNY (CONT’D)|

Kate, check in with the others. |

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While Kate works her radio --|

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KATE (INTO RADIO)|

Victor Charlie Five Five. |

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ROD (OUT OF RADIO) |

Five Two. |

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--unseen by her, Danny lifts the gun out of the |

drawer. |

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KATE (INTO RADIO) |

Status? |

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ROD (OUT OF RADIO)|

Still checking. |

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Danny slips it inside his jacket. He lifts his |

gun up and heads out to join Kate on the |

landing. |

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DANNY |

(to Kate)|

Move. Move. |

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Danny comes out of the room and moves across to |

the next door. |

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Danny listens at the door --silence. |

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DANNY (CONT’D)|

Armed Police! |

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No answer. Danny knocks the door in. |

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INT. FIRST DRUG HOUSE. BEDROOM 2. CONTINUOUS. |

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Danny and Kate enter the room. They survey the |

scene, a tip like the others. |

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They move from room to room. |

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Suddenly there’s movement, behind a garden chair |

covered with a sleeping bag. |

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Kate raises her gun and is about to shoot. |

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DANNY:

No!

Danny pushes Kate’s gun arm off aim as from

under the covers a grubby child reveals himself.

Kate shakes with fear and anguish at what she

nearly did.

DANNY (CONT’D)

Check your safety... Stand down.

Kate is clearly shaken.

DANNY (INTO RADIO)

Get the search team in here. And we

need an ambulance and social

services.

HARI (OUT OF RADIO)

Yes, Skipper.

Danny and Kate looking at the kid.

DANNY:

It’s all right. No one’s going to

hurt you. Good boy.

Danny approaches the kid.

Kate clearly anguished at her near-miss.

DANNY (CONT’D)

(to kid)

How old are you, eh?

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EXT. TOWER BLOCK. MOMENTS LATER.

Moving back onto the walkway in anguish, Kate

pulls out her phone and makes a call from a

secluded spot.

KATE:

(Into phone.)

Hi, it’s me...

(Listens.)

Yeah, fine, just I’ll be busy later

and wanted to get him before he

went to bed... Thanks.

(Listens, brightens.)

Hi, sweetheart. Have you had a nice

day?

(Listens.)

Have you? Aw, that’s lovely.

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Music Ends

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Danny steps out of the tower block. Stares at

Kate. Danny makes a decision, turns, exits.

CUT TO:

INT. SOUTH FERRY STATION. ARMOURY. LATER THAT

DAY.

Rod, Jackie and Hari return their guns and

ammunition. When they’ve finished, exit Rod,

Jackie and Hari.

Danny and Kate at the armourers sign their guns

in. Each weapon is checked and signed for by the

armourers. All ammunition is checked, counted

and signed for. We see all the detail of this.

Danny lingers so he can intercept Kate as she’s

last to finish.

DANNY:

Kate?

He crosses to Kate.

DANNY (CONT’D)

There’s no easy way to say this.

This isn’t going to work.

KATE:

Look. Nobody feels worse about what

happened, what nearly happened,

than I do.

DANNY:

I decide who’s right for my team,

no one else, who can cut it and who

can’t. It’s nothing personal.

You’re just not up to the job.

KATE:

I messed up but I’ll learn. I don’t

give in, Skipper.

DANNY:

Neither do I. Best you put in for a

transfer, save me having to turn

nasty.

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