Line of Duty Page #9

He doesn’t read much before he reacts. He heads

into Hastings’ office.

CUT TO:

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

Hearing Steve knock, Hastings beckons him in.

HASTINGS:

Yeah.

STEVE:

Sir, I’ve got all the forensics in

on Linus Murphy.

HASTINGS:

And?

STEVE:

The head’s been formally identified

as Linus Murphy’s based on DNA and

dental records, and matched to the

body found at Linus Murphy’s

address. Forensic examination of

the head has also provided the

missing link to Danny Waldron.

Cells in the mouth that match

Waldron’s DNA.

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10:
38:26

10:
39:27

HASTINGS:

Cells?

STEVE:

Semen cells.

HASTINGS:

And now we know why he wanted to

chop the head off. You did right to

question Waldron’s private life.

Mind you, I never had the man

pegged as a homosexual.

Steve reacts to Hastings’ moral tone --it makes

him uneasy.

STEVE:

I’m not sure that’s necessarily

true, sir.

Hastings goes to a filing cabinet and unlocks

it. He hands Steve the unredacted file on Ronan

Murphy (it’s got his mug-shot clipped to the

front for recognition value). Steve reacts

positively.

HASTINGS:

The unredacted file on Ronan

Murphy.

STEVE:

Thank you, sir.

HASTINGS:

I haven’t read anything in it that

changes my understanding of

anything. But take it away with

you. You might find something. On

you go.

STEVE:

Sir.

Disregarding Steve, Hastings goes back to his

desk. Steve senses he’s out of favour as he

exits with the file.

CUT TO:

INT. AC-12. OPEN-PLAN OFFICE. LATER THAT DAY.

Steve is seated at his desk reading through the

file.

From his desk, Dot glances over --he seems more

interested in the file than anything else.

Music

10:
39:23

DUR:
1’05”.

Specially

composed by

Carly

Paradis.

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10:
39:55

DOT:

What’s that then?

STEVE:

Gaffer finally got us the file on

Ronan Murphy... Dead end.

Steve places the file in his own in tray and

moves off.

Dot seems happy with that outcome.

CUT TO:

EXT. INDUSTRIAL ESTATE. THAT NIGHT.

From his parked car, Hari makes his way through

a deserted/derelict site. He meets Rod in the

warehouse.

HARI:

Hey up, buddy. How’s it going then,

you all right?

ROD:

I don’t know about you, but I ain’t

slept in God knows how long.

HARI:

(Nods. Stressed)

Yeah, I know. Just trying not to

show it to the missus. It’s

horrible isn’t it? I don’t see any

way of getting through to the other

side.

ROD:

What other side?

HARI:

AC-12 dropping the investigation.

Going back to work and that.

ROD:

(Bitterly)

Like nothing ever happened eh?

HARI:

I didn’t mean it like that did I?

ROD:

Look erm... I’ve been talking to

my... to my rep and the legal

advisor.

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10:
40:28

Hari reacts.

ROD (CONT’D)

I ain’t told them anything. I need

this job. I need my pension. People

are putting two and two together.

HARI:

Wait. What are you on about? What

people?

ROD:

Danny managed to say something.

Kate knows what happened.

HARI:

Yes, but. How can she though?

ROD:

I don’t know! I don’t know! If

anyone’s in the frame, it’s me.

HARI:

Listen, mate. Look. It’s Like I

said, mate, we’ve got to sit tight.

ROD (OVERLAPPING)

If Kate knows about me and Jackie

and Danny ... I’ve got to come

clean to AC-12. The longer I leave

it, the worse it looks.

HARI:

Mate, I’ve got a littl’un and

another one on the way!

Rod grabs Hari.

ROD:

(Cracks. Anguished)

It wasn’t my idea to lie through

our teeth.

HARI:

Yeah but, we had to lie though,

didn’t we. Cos the truth makes us

sound guilty. And we’re not guilty,

are we. It was us or him weren’t

it.

ROD:

It wasn’t us. It was you.

Rod shoves Hari away, knocking him off balance,

down to the ground. Rod looms over Hari.

Music

10:
41:36

DUR:
1’34”.

Specially

composed by

Carly

Paradis.

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10:
42:41

10:
42:48

ROD (CONT’D)

Look where it’s got us! Career up

the spout. A stint inside. That’s a

great place for a copper.

Rod looks adamant.

CUT TO black:

INT. CELL. NEXT DAY.

Fluorescent light lights up to reveal Lindsay

Denton.

CUT TO:

INT. COURTROOM. NEXT DAY.

In a packed court, watched by Hastings and Gill,

the Defence Counsel stands.

DEFENCE COUNSEL:

The Defence calls Lindsay Denton.

The usher releases Lindsay from the dock, and

she makes the walk across the front of the court

to the witness box, where the usher offers her

an oath of affirmation.

LINDSAY:

“I do solemnly, sincerely and truly

declare and affirm that the

evidence I shall give will be the

truth, the whole truth and nothing

but the truth.”

Lindsay stands in the box and the usher

withdraws.

DEFENCE COUNSEL:

Ms Denton, last year you were

convicted in this court because ten

out of twelve jurors were sure

you’d conspired in the murder of a

protected witness, John Thomas

Hunter. Would you tell this jury

whether you were guilty of that

crime?

LINDSAY:

(To jury, very convincing)

No, I had nothing to do with the

murder of Tommy Hunter.

See Jury.

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Music Ends

10:
43:10

DEFENCE COUNSEL:

We’ve heard from Detective Sergeant

Arnott that one important item of

evidence against you was a sum of

approximately fifty thousand pounds

in cash found at your home. To the

best of your knowledge, how was

that evidence found?

LINDSAY:

I have full knowledge of how it was

found, as I was present at the

time. Detective Constable Kate

Fleming led me upstairs, where a

team of forensic scene

investigators led by Detective

Sergeant Arnott were in the process

of searching my bedroom. Detective

Sergeant Arnott remarked upon the

fact I’d shown a peculiar interest

in my mum’s personal belongings.

DEFENCE COUNSEL:

Peculiar in what way?

LINDSAY:

Detective Sergeant Arnott remarked

that I’d been particularly anxious

about mum’s things not being

returned to me.

DEFENCE COUNSEL:

Were you?

LINDSAY:

I was devastated by her death. The

thought of them being lost was

heart breaking. I kept them in that

room and I didn’t even touch them,

I didn’t even try to move them. I

just... As long as they were there,

somehow it felt to me that my mum

was there.

DEFENCE COUNSEL:

Are you okay to carry on, Ms

Denton?

LINDSAY:

Yes.

DEFENCE COUNSEL:

You were recalling that Detective

Sergeant Arnott was leading a

forensic search...

LINDSAY:

He asked one of the forensic search

team to open mum’s overnight case.

DEFENCE COUNSEL:

And what was found in the case?

LINDSAY:

A large number of banknotes.

DEFENCE COUNSEL:

Had you ever seen these banknotes

before?

LINDSAY:

Never.

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