Line of Duty Page #3

Rod being interviewed.

ROD:

But we... We couldn’t get the gun

off him and the firearm discharged.

INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT.

Kate being interviewed.

KATE:

By the time I entered the room.

Danny was already bleeding

profusely.

INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT.

Hari being interviewed.

HASTINGS:

Did you administer first aid?

HARI:

Kate... erm, Victor Charlie Five

Five... she ran in and she tried to

control the bleeding until the

paramedics arrived.

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HASTINGS:

So you didn’t administer first aid?

HARI:

Well you hope you’ll know what to

do in them situations. Till it

comes to it.

Hari looks ashamed.

Keying the remote, Steve shows images relating

to the following dialogue.

Image = a ballistic diagram showing a gun

pointed upwards from a man’s chest and a bullet

track travelling vertically upwards through the

jaw into the brain.

STEVE:

Image 297:
a ballistic simulation

of the bullet’s trajectory. It

appears the fatal shot was fired in

a position close to Sergeant

Waldron’s chest and aimed upwards.

HASTINGS:

That how it happened, Constable?

HARI:

Yes, sir.

DOT:

The forensics detected firearms

residue on your hands, Victor

Charlie Five Four, and the hands of

your mates, Victor Charlie Five Two

and Five Three. So that would all

seem to fit. Case closed. We can

all knock off early.

Dot sarcasm hangs in the air.

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INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT.

Rod’s interview.

HASTINGS:

There is an alternative explanation

as to why you had your hands on

that gun.

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INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT.

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Hari’s interview.

HARI:

As I said, sir, we were trying to

get it off him.

HASTINGS:

You weren’t trying to force that

firearm under Waldron’s chin?

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INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT.

Jackie’s interview. Jackie wipes away tears.

JACKIE:

That’s just a horrible accusation.

We tried to save Danny.

STEVE:

Who grabbed the gun first?

JACKIE:

Hari did, Sir. Sorry. Victor

Charlie Five Four. I didn’t even

know that Danny had drawn his gun

and the next minute Hari’s

wrestling him for the gun and he’s

shouting, “Danny, no!” and he’s

calling for me and Rod to help him.

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INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT.

Rod is very nervous, shifting in his seat.

ROD:

The three of us ended up fighting

over the gun. We did everything we

could to try and stop him. We just

couldn’t.

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INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT.

Kate.

STEVE:

Did he make any kind of statement?

KATE:

He tried to say something.

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DOT:

What did he say?

KATE:

I couldn’t make it out, sir.

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INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT.

Jump cut Rod, Katie then Hari’s interview. All

look very nervous.

HASTINGS:

Now Daniel Waldron, as you know,

was involved in the shooting of a

suspect during Operation Damson.

STEVE:

You and Victor Charlie Five Two and

Five Three were on his team and

witnessed what really happened. Was

Danny coercing you into

corroborating his version of

events?

HARI:

(As if idea is crazy)

No.

Steve refers to a typed transcript.

STEVE:

For the tape, I am referring to a

transcript of an interview with you

on May 21st. DI Cottan and I

repeatedly asked you if there were

inaccuracies in your account of

Sergeant Waldron’s shooting of

Ronan Murphy, to which you replied:

“I can’t do this. I’m sorry. I

can’t do this. No way am I

testifying against Danny Waldron.”

HARI:

No.

DOT:

How’s about Danny Waldron scared

you into covering for him. And then

the three of you clubbed together

and then you put an end to it.

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Specially

composed by

Carly

Paradis.

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Rod is hyperventilating, having a panic attack. |

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ROD |

No. No. |

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09:39 INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT. |

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Jackie is holding back the tears. |

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JACKIE |

That’s just not what happened. Will |

you please stop. This is really |

upsetting |

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Hari’s interview. |

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HARI |

If Danny was threatening me. I|

would have reported him, without a |

doubt. |

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09:47 INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT. |

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Jackie makes her defence. |

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JACKIE |

All I had to do was report him. |

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Jackie’s point strikes home. |

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09:48 INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT. |

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Rod recovers to fight back. |

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ROD |

He can be a difficult bastard,|

yeah. But on an op you’ve got your |

skipper’s back. We were trying to |

save him, not hurt him. |

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INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT. |

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As does Hari. |

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HARI |

(To Hastings.)|

Danny Waldron killed himself, sir, |

that’s the honest truth. |

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STEVE |

Why, though? Given back his |

firearms licence, he was |

operational again. As far as |

Waldron was concerned, the case |

against him was closed. |

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HARI |

Who knows what was going on in his |

head? |

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Hari just looking totally lost, wanting the |

ground to open up. |

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10:07 INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT. |

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KATE |

I was downstairs at the Abbott’s |

Lane address and didn’t witness the |

incident at the upstairs bedroom. |

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HASTINGS |

Authorised Firearms Officer Victor |

Charlie Five Two |

(off Don)|

Victor Charlie Five Three |

(off Jackie)|

Victor Charlie Five Four |

(off Hari)|

In my view you have failed to |

provide a plausible account of the |

events leading up to the death of |

Sergeant Daniel Waldron and |

therefore I am arresting you on |

suspicion of his murder.|

(off Rod, Jackie and Hari)|

Now you don’t have to say anything |

however it may harm your defence if |

you fail to mention something under |

questioning that you later go on to |

rely on in court. And of course |

anything you do say may be taken |

down in evidence. |

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Out on Hari shaking his head. |

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INT. AC-12. OPEN-PLAN OFFICE. CONTINUOUS.

Steve and Dot are on separate phone calls doing

the same job arranging custody for Hari, Rod and

Jackie.

DOT:

(Into phone)

I’m after a cell for a copper,

somewhere where no one knows her.

STEVE:

(Into phone)

I need to arrange custody for a

police officer at a station where

he isn’t known. Now.

Gill enters Hastings office.

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INT. AC-12. HASTINGS’S OFFICE. CONTINUOUS.

Gill takes a couple of beats to find a non-

confrontational way of making her point.

GILL:

I wonder if, on reflection, you’d

consider that perhaps you should

have run it by me first?

HASTINGS:

Four coppers went into a room, only

three came out alive. That’s what I

considered.

GILL:

They’ve experienced a tragic and

shocking event. They’ve admitted

that they were too traumatised to

even remember first aid. Their

Police Federation reps and their

legal advisors are arguing that

perhaps they were sent back to work

too soon after the Damson shooting,

their inspector’s getting it in the

neck for not disbanding the squad,

and frankly I think they’ve all got

a point.

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