Line of Duty Page #3

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Carly

Paradis.

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An officer guides everyone --firmly but

politely.

OFFICER (O.S)

All right. Everyone out.

STEVE:

You’ve got the wrong guy.

See man walking down landing. Shot below the

knees. We don’t see his face.

AFO X:

All clear, sir.

We see a man walking up the steps towards

Lindsay’s room. Angle from knee down.

Reveal -Enter Dot (in different clothes from

the scenes with Lindsay).

STEVE:

Dot?

DOT:

Steven Arnott, I’m arresting you on

suspicion of murdering Lindsay

Denton.

Steve is shocked.

DOT (CONT’D)

You do not have to say anything but

it may harm your defence if you do

not mention when questioned

something you later rely on in

court. Anything you do say may be

used in evidence.

STEVE:

What’s going on?

DOT:

You know (what’s)... Keep your

mouth shut till you get a lawyer.

I’m trying to do you a favour. Get

him out.

Steve is shocked, speechless, devastated.

The AFO manhandles him out. Down the steps

followed by Cottan.

CUT TO:

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Carly

Paradis.

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INT. SOUTH FERRY POLICE STATION. CUSTODY. THAT

NIGHT.

All eyes are on Steve, handcuffed, as Dot walks

him up to the Custody Desk. The atmosphere’s

electric.

DOT:

DI Cottan, DS Arnott. You all right

to book him in for me? You need to

take his clothes for forensics

before he goes in his cell.

The Custody Sergeant gets the paperwork and lays

it out in front of Dot and he starts signing

without hesitation.

CUSTODY SGT:

Steven Arnott, I’m satisfied that

your arrest is lawful. I’m

authorising your detention in this

police station in order that we can

secure and preserve evidence in

this investigation, and to obtain

evidence from you by questioning.

Dot watches expressionless as two custody

officers lead Steve towards a cell. They hold

the door open and Steve trudges inside.

CUSTODY SGT (CONT’D)

I will also speak to an Inspector

to authorise you being held

incommunicado at this time,

delaying your right to have anyone

told you're here, or to make any

calls. Do you understand?

He turns round to look back at Dot with a

devastated expression and then the door shuts

with a clang.

Dot grins.

CUT TO:

INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. NEXT DAY.

Hastings, Dot and Kate take seats opposite

Steve. The awkwardness is overwhelming as they

gather their folders and materials.

HASTINGS:

DS Arnott, can you account for your

whereabouts between 08:00 and 12:00

hours on July 17th this year?

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Music Ends

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12:11

STEVE:

I was at home.

KATE:

This would be your home address,

Flat 5, Kingsgate Apartments?

STEVE:

Yes.

HASTINGS:

Who were you with?

STEVE:

Between those hours I was alone.

KATE:

And your girlfriend, DS Samantha

Railston, where was she?

STEVE:

Sam left early for work, around

06:
30. I was alone in the flat but

I made phone calls --they’ll prove

where I was.

KATE:

Document 3 in your folders.

Document 3 is a photocopy of Item

Reference ASJ-3, telecommunications

record for mobile telephone 07591

152 425 registered to Steven

Arnott. Three calls are shown.

HASTINGS:

Can you tell us what was happening

with these calls?

STEVE:

I’d realised Lindsay had stolen my

pocketbook. I called her from my

flat but it went straight to her

voicemail. I went to her Approved

Premises to try and track her down

but she wasn’t there, so I tried

calling her again.

HASTINGS:

And the call to the AC-12

switchboard?

STEVE:

To report the theft of my service

vehicle.

HASTINGS:

Thank you. When was the last time

you saw Lindsay Denton alive?

STEVE:

The night before. My flat. Lindsay

had a theory that Danny Waldron

left a list of abusers in a

graveyard. We were searching online

burial records for a name that

might have been a memorable

association for Danny. She left my

flat and I went to the graveyard

alone. It must have been while she

was in my flat that she took my

pocketbook.

KATE:

(To Solicitor.)

At this time, myself and DI Cottan

were carrying out direct

surveillance on Steve Arnott’s

flat, authorised by Superintendent

Hastings under the Regulation of

Investigatory Powers Act 2000.

SOLICITOR:

Noted.

DOT:

We saw you and Lindsay split up.

Then after you’d left, she looked

like the cat who’d got the cream.

She sent you off on a wild goose

chase while she went and cracked

the case.

KATE:

‘Cause actually Danny had hidden

the list online.

STEVE:

(Shocked.)

She found the list?

HASTINGS:

She did indeed.

Steve is stunned.

HASTINGS (CONT’D)

You’ve got to hand it to her. She

got the job done.

DOT (O.S)

And she made a total mug of you.

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0’34”.

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Carly

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Steve shows utter animosity to Dot.

DOT (CONT’D)

And these phone calls we’ve been

talking about, they’re all around

noon onwards. None of them

corroborate you being in your flat

before that time.

Steve knows that’s correct and looks downcast.

DOT (CONT’D)

The proprietor of the internet

cafe, now she reckons she saw

Denton leave around eleven, eleven-

thirty. She didn’t see where Denton

went or who she met. We’ve no

information on her whereabouts till

her body was discovered at 12:30.

HASTINGS:

But you were at home all this time?

STEVE:

Yes, sir.

DOT:

So what were you doing all this

time?

Steve looks hesitant.

HASTINGS:

DS Arnott?

STEVE:

I slept.

DOT:

You had a kip? Seriously?

STEVE:

I’d been up most of the night.

HASTINGS:

You didn’t think of calling her

straight away?

STEVE:

No, sir.

HASTINGS:

She’d sent you to this graveyard on

a fool’s errand and stolen your

pocketbook.

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X:

Music Ends

10:
14:53

DOT:

I’d have been after her like a

shot. You, you’re stuck to your

sofa watching Homes Under the

Hammer.

Steve shows great animosity to Dot’s question.

He answers to Hastings.

STEVE:

I got home late. Sam, my girlfriend

and I, we had a row. I had some

wine and I fell asleep on the sofa.

I overslept. As soon as I realised

my pocketbook was gone, I took

action.

DOT:

Still, you were sorely pissed off

with her, weren’t you?

SOLICITOR:

DS Arnott is simply stating the

facts.

DOT:

Ah, right. So you weren’t pissed

off with her?

Off Steve’s hesitation, Kate refers to a typed-

up version of her pocketbook.

KATE:

In the early hours of the 17th, I

followed Mr Arnott to the graveyard

of St. Barnabas’s Church. In which

he stated, “If there’s no list

here, then Lindsay’s going to get

what’s coming!”

HASTINGS:

Can you tell us what you meant by

those words?

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