Line of Duty Page #5

okay?

LITTLE GIRL:

Aha.

He holds her tight, protective.

JOE:

Come here.

EXT/INT. NURSING HOME. CORRIDOR. LATER THAT DAY. |

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Steve and the junior manager enter. |

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STEVE |

How long has he been here? |

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CARE HOME MANAGER |

I’d have to check. Two or three |

years at least. |

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Steve walks through the corridor of a nursing |

home escorted by a junior manager. |

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STEVE |

Any family? |

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CARE HOME MANAGER |

No family, no visitors. |

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The care worker shows Steve into a private room.

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INT. NURSING HOME. ROOM. CONTINUOUS.

Steve enters with the Care Home Manager.

In the bed lies a morbidly obese old man, Dale

Roach, who is blank-eyed and semiconscious.

STEVE:

Mr Roach? Mr Roach? Can he hear me?

Dale stares blankly at Steve.

CARE HOME MANAGER

He doesn’t understand much. Can’t

talk.

STEVE:

What’s wrong with him?

CARE HOME MANAGER

Massive stroke.

Dale stares blankly at Steve.

CARE HOME MANAGER (CONT’D)

Sorry, do you need me to stay?

STEVE:

No. Thank you.

CARE HOME MANAGER

Call if you need me.

Exit Care Home Manager.

STEVE:

Mr Roach, do you recognise the name

Sands View Boys’ Home?

Dale doesn’t respond.

STEVE (CONT’D)

Mr Roach. I’m Detective Sergeant

Steve Arnott. I’m investigating

claims relating to Sands View. Do

you understand me?

Still total blankness from Dale.

STEVE (CONT’D)

(Closer, more intense.)

I know what you did to those boys.

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But Dale is just a big blank lump, leaving Steve

utterly bitter and frustrated. He needs a moment

to deal with his feelings. He steps away, alone

for a few beats in the room with this oblivious

monster.

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INT. AC-12. HASTINGS’ OFFICE. LATER THAT DAY.

Steve updates Hastings.

STEVE:

Danny Waldron recognized Ronan

Murphy as an occasional sports

volunteer at Sands View Boys’ home.

Somehow from Ronan he was able to

track down Linus Murphy. Now Linus

was the caretaker at Sands View who

used his position to include Ronan,

his nephew, in his activities. Now

a witness has given us another

name, Dale Roach – Councillor Dale

Roach.

Hastings reacts to Dale’s status.

STEVE (CONT’D)

Unfortunately Roach isn’t fit to

stand trial.

Hastings absorbs this. It makes him

uncomfortable.

STEVE (CONT’D)

I think Danny Waldron purposefully

created a trail of evidence that

led us to connect him to Linus

Murphy’s murder. And now we’re on

the trail of the other abusers.

HASTINGS:

There’s only one thing we’re

interested in here, son. And one

thing only. And that’s bent

coppers.

STEVE:

The boys made complaints, some

allegedly to police officers.

That bombshell hits Hastings.

HASTINGS:

Thank you, Steve.

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STEVE:

Sir.

Exit Steve. Hastings looks very, very troubled.

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INT. KATE’S FLAT. THAT NIGHT.

Kate butters some toast. There’s a buzz on her

entry-phone. She goes to the door and sees a

cctv image of Jackie.

KATE:

(into intercom)

Hi.

JACKIE:

Kate?

Kate presses the intercom.

KATE:

(into intercom)

Come in.

Kate looks pleased with herself as she waits.

She selects voice memos on her mobile phone and

starts a new recording and places it in her

pocket.

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ENT. KATE’S FLAT. HALLWAY/STAIRS THAT NIGHT.

Kate steps onto the landing and opens thedoorway to the stairs.

She smiles as she sees Jackie.

KATE:

Something wrong?

JACKIE:

You didn’t come back to the

station.

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25:08

KATE:

By the time I’d finished with AC12,

my shift was over.

JACKIE:

So what’s going on?

KATE:

They just wanted to go over the

details of the day Danny was

killed. Times, places. You know

what they’re like --fishing for

inconsistencies, anything they can

pounce on.

JACKIE:

And did they?

KATE:

Did they what?

JACKIE:

Pounce?

KATE:

We shouldn’t talk about this.

JACKIE:

(Suddenly worried)

What did you tell them, Kate?

KATE:

We can’t have this conversation.

You should leave.

JACKIE:

I need to know!

KATE:

You keep asking me to leave you

alone. Congratulations you’re on

your own.

Kate moves to the door to let her out but Jackie

stops her.

JACKIE:

What do they know, Kate?

KATE:

You should go.

JACKIE:

What do they know?

KATE:

They’re on to the pair of you.

Kate lets that hang in the air and it works on

all of Jackie’s insecurities.

JACKIE:

What about us?

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26:34

KATE:

They know Hari stopped McAndrew

from disbanding Danny’s squad.

JACKIE:

What? I never knew anything about

that.

KATE:

And they know about the phone

calls.

JACKIE:

What? What phone calls?

KATE:

(Disbelieving of Jackie’s

ignorance)

Yeah, right, “what phone calls”.

Bye, Jackie.

Kate moves to open the door again and again

Jackie stops her, desperate.

JACKIE:

What phone calls, Kate?

KATE:

They’ve got Hari making calls from

a phone box to an unregistered pay-

as-you-go number. They know it must

be a phone you’re using covertly.

You two are in collusion and

developing your strategy using

untraceable telephone calls.

Jackie looks shocked and bemused.

JACKIE:

(Penny drops)

It’s not me he’s been calling.

Jackie looks very worried, and then she goes.

Kate looks pleased with herself. She takes out

the phone and stops the recording.

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INT. HARI’S HOUSE. LATER THAT NIGHT.

Hari watches TV with Laila. The doorbell rings.

It’s late --it spooks both of them.

HARI:

Stay here. I’ll get it.

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Specially

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Paradis.

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26:39

10:
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INT. HARI’S HOUSE. GARAGE. CONTINUOUS.

Hari and Jackie convene in the garage.

HARI:

So, what’s up then?

JACKIE:

Who have you been calling?

HARI:

What?

JACKIE:

AC-12 know you’ve been making dodgy

calls. They think I’m in on it.

All this time, we trusted you. It

was just the three of us. Now Rod’s

dead, and that still isn’t the end

of it.

She looks very upset, sniffs back tears.

HARI:

Jackie, what...

He moves towards her to comfort her but she

steps back.

JACKIE:

Who have you been making those

calls to? What aren’t you telling

me?

HARI:

I haven’t been making any calls.

All right. It’s just me and you and

as long as we stick together

then...

She’s heard this all before. She turns on her

heels and exits.

HARI (CONT’D)

...Jackie, I’ve been telling you

the truth.

But she keeps going. Hari trails off, defeated.

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