Line of Duty Page #12

Dot is poker faced and utterly in command of hisanswers. He gazes at them all coolly. Tensebeats.

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KATE 11:
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Returning to the mobile phones...

DOT:

(Confident smile.)

Happy to.

Dot looks in command, ready for anything. Kateholds her nerve.

KATE:

On screen, Image 104.

Kate keys the remote. On screen is an image ofan evidence bag containing a mobile phone and aloose sim card.

KATE (CONT’D)

Image 104 shows item reference KMF13,

an unregistered mobile phone,

and item reference KMF-14, is a

subscriber identification module.

Do you recognise these items?

DOT:

No.

HASTINGS:

“No”? I’ll give you “No”.

KATE:

These items were submitted to us in

evidence by a witness who allegesthat they do, or did belong to you.

DOT:

Well then the witness is mistaken.

KATE:

Analysis of said subscriberidentification module KMF-14

revealed no activity since October2014. All communications up to and

including that date appeared torelate to other unregistered users.

DOT:

Right, so you’ve got a phone that

doesn’t belong to me, and a load of

mysterious calls. Pardon me if Idon’t see the significance.

KATE:

On screen, Image 909.

Kate keys a remote. Another mobile phone

appears.

KATE (CONT’D)

Image 909 is item reference SJP-32.

It was detected in the boot of a

vehicle found at the Edge Park Golf

Club in July of 2012. The vehicle

is registered to Alex Campbell, the

alias being used at the time by one

John Thomas Hunter. Now it was

known Tommy Hunter used numerous

such phones to conduct his criminal

activities. But this particular

phone is of interest to us because

of a call made on the 8th July of

2012 at around midnight was from

Hunter’s phone to yours.

HASTINGS:

And that’s the significance fella,

in black and white.

DOT:

I’ve no connection with this phone

or sim card you’ve been given, and

I’ve certainly no connection to

Hunter.

HASTINGS:

So how come we’re being told this

phone belongs to you?

DOT:

This witness you’ve got, I bet he

said he found this phone in my

service vehicle a couple of years

back.

HASTINGS:

Yes, well, I can neither confirm

nor deny.

DOT:

Yeah, but, I can confirm that he’s

sat on this so-called evidence for

a long time. I reckon he also told

you he conned me into taking the

wrong sim card back, while he held

on to the real McCoy.

HASTINGS:

(More uneasy. Beat.)

Yes, well, as I said, I can neither

confirm nor deny.

DOT:

Is there anything you’ve got

linking me to these items? Mmm?

Something like forensic evidence?

Hastings and Kate aren’t forthcoming. So Dot

knows they’re are no forensics

DOT (CONT’D)

I did leave my phone in my service

vehicle. And I was very grateful

when DC Morton and let’s not be coy

about names --returned it to me.

Now I’ve no idea where this other

sim card has come from.

HASTINGS:

But DC Morton informed us that it

was you who induced him to mislead

the original inquiry about the

Caddy --that it was you, DI

Cottan, who suggested attributing

the nickname, to a deceased police

officer.

DOT:

That’s just not true, sir. It was

DC Morton who did the misleading.

He’s the one that’s been falsely

claiming disability benefits. And

he’ll say anything to cling onto

his pension, anything at all. The

man is a completely unreliable

witness.

Dot relaxes further, sips some water coolly.

KATE:

DI Cottan, where were you on the

morning of July 17th?

DOT:

You’re asking me where I was when

Lindsay Denton was murdered?

HASTINGS:

One hundred per cent, that’s what

she’s asking you.

VFX:
Dot sees an apparition of murdered Lindsay

reflected in the glass. It unsettles him

briefly, then he recovers.

SOLICITOR:

You need to demonstrate some legal

basis for that question, or I

suggest you withdraw it

immediately.

HASTINGS:

Kate, bring up the next item in the

map.

KATE:

Items reference MB-1 to MB-5.

Kate keys a remote and the traffic stills of the

car with fake plates appears on screen.

KATE (CONT’D)

Traffic cameras captured images of

this vehicle on the morning of

Lindsay’s murder. Identical make

model and colour as Steve Arnott’s

but with a different registration.

It was driven on the route matching

Lindsay’s location that morning.

The registration proved to be

false.

HASTINGS:

We’re curious about the logic here.

DOT:

The logic?

KATE:

Steve Arnott takes the trouble to

disguise the vehicle, but there

were no fake plates found where

Lindsay’s body was discovered.

HASTINGS:

I mean, why would Steve remove the

fake plates and then leave

Lindsay’s body lying in the front

passenger seat for all the world to

find?

DOT:

My hypothesis would be Steven

Arnott only meant to abduct Lindsay

Denton, something went wrong, he

killed her, he panicked.

KATE:

Would Lindsay really have got in to

Steve’s car if she’d seen it was

displaying fake plates?

DOT:

(Shrugs.)

Everyone makes mistakes.

HASTINGS:

(As if he knows something.)

Indeed we do, DI Cottan...

Dot reacts uneasily to Hastings’ little barb.

DOT:

Are there any witnesses that saw

Steve’s car being stolen, as he

claimed? Mmmm? Any witnesses that

saw anyone else driving the

vehicle?

Hastings and Kate aren’t forthcoming.

DOT (CONT’D)

I think these are questions for

Steven Arnott, not me.

HASTINGS:

DC Fleming.

KATE:

Steve Arnott insists he returned

his firearm four days before

Lindsay’s murder. The booking-out

officer at South Ferry Armoury

corroborates Steve’s story.

DOT:

The booking-out officer’s covering

his own arse.

KATE:

Yeah, well, an impostor could have

obtained the murder weapon and then

forged the paperwork to make it

appear that Steve Arnott’s firearm

had the same serial number as the

murder weapon and that he never

returned it.

DOT:

That’s an interesting theory, but

it couldn’t have been me. I’m not

an AFO. How would I have obtained

the murder weapon?

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HASTINGS |

The Caddy commands a network of |

corrupt officers. |

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DOT |

He does. But Steve Arnott’s the |

Caddy, not me. |

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AFO X is stationed outside the interview room. |

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KATE |

You’ve thought that since before |

Lindsay’s murder ... |

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DOT |

Yeah. |

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KATE |

Yeah. In fact you made a call to me |

the night before Lindsay’s murder. |

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Dot reacts. Looks nervous. |

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KATE (CONT’D)|

You called me after you’d observed |

Lindsay Denton return to her |

Approved Premises. |

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DOT |

Yeah. |

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Kate refers to her pocketbook. |

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KATE |

At fifteen minutes after midnight, |

you called me from your mobile and |

you said, “That lead on Steve. |

Looks like it’s going to pan out. |

He really did plant the money at |

Lindsay’s. Sorry. I thought you’d |

want to know before it becomes |

common knowledge.” |

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HASTINGS |

Did you make that call, DI Cottan? |

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DOT |

Uh... yeah... |

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KATE |

Yeah. So what was the lead that was |

gonna pan out? |

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DOT |

Uhmm... |

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