The Coroner Page #3
Season #1 Episode #2- Year:
- 2015
- 45 min
- 495 Views
DAVEY:
Tell me about this body that’s washed up. How long was it in the water?
JANE:
Haven’t got the PM yet but bodies rot quickly when they’re exposed. This
one’s particularly grim. (BLOWS CHEEKS OUT) Looks like the
marshmallow man.
DAVEY:
Have you got an ID?
JANE:
It’s further gone than the other two, getting an ID from it’s going to take a
miracle.
DAVEY:
Could it be this guy?
[HE PUTS A MUGSHOT OF KEVIN BURTON ONTO
THE TABLE]
JANE:
Honestly, the fish had a right go. The clothes had been torn off by bloating
and the only thing on him was a watch.
DAVEY:
Kevin Burton. He’s a troublemaker and he’s missing. Rubs people up the
wrong way, gets into fights. I’ve arrested him a few times but he’s never
been charged. He went sailing ten days ago and didn’t come back.
JANE:
My bloat’n’float’s a botched sea-burial.
DAVEY:
If it’s this guy it’s my bloat’n’float.
JANE:
The body’s mine, not yours.
[JANE STANDS AND CRACKS THE DOOR SLIGHTLY,
TRYING TO GET A GLIMPSE OF THE HALLWAY]
DAVEY:
It was stormy when he went out.
[BEAT]
JANE:
If you’ve arrested him don’t you have his DNA in your system?
DAVEY:
Should but we can’t find it. I’m chasing up the National Database but I think
this is my man.
JANE:
My man. Maybe your man just had a blowout with his girlfriend and gone
off for some space.
DAVEY:
Or maybe he’s lying in the mortuary.
JANE:
Have you checked out where he works?
DAVEY:
Going to now. Are you alright?
JANE:
Fine, just don’t want to talk to the flipping journalist in the hallway.
DAVEY:
Then don’t.
JANE:
Can’t exactly avoid him, Davey, he’s camped out in my office.
DAVEY:
Then get out of your office. I’m going to the Hippodrome Casino.
JANE:
I don’t like to gamble before lunch.
DAVEY:
Burton worked security there. Come on, prove me wrong.
JANE:
Ok, never too early for a flutter.
[JANE HEADS OUT AFTER DAVEY, KEEN TO AVOID
HAVING TO TALK TO THE JOURNALIST]
CUT TO:
EP2/SC12. EXT. HIPPODROME. DAY 1. 11.05
DAVEY, JANE
[JANE AND DAVEY PULL UP OUTSIDE THE
HIPPODROME ON THE SEAFRONT. IN DAYLIGHT
IT’S A SORE SIGHT]
CUT TO:
EP2/SC12A. INT. HIPPODROME CASINO FLOOR. DAY 1. 11:06
DAVEY, JANE
NSE CLEANER:
[JANE AND DAVEY HEAD PAST SLEEPY ROULETTE
TABLES. AN NSE CLEANER HOOVERS THE FLOOR.
DAVEY ASKS HER WHERE TO GO. SHE POINTS]
CUT TO:
EP2/SC13. INT. HIPPODROME CASINO. DAY 1. 11:11
DAVEY, JANE, HARVEY CAMPBELL
[HE WOULD HAVE BEEN HARD TO FIND WERE IT
NOT FOR THE LOUD GRUNTING COMING FROM HIS
OFFICE. WHEN THEY ENTER, DAVEY AND JANE
FIND A HUGE MAN LYING ON A BENCH BENEATH
AN EVEN HUGER BAR OF WEIGHTS. THIS IS
HARVEY CAMPBELL (51), CASINO OWNER]
HARVEY:
Seven!
DAVEY:
Harvey Campbell?
[CAMPBELL KEEPS LIFTING]
DAVEY (CONT’D):
(FLASHING ID) DS Higgins and this is my colleague Jane Kennedy.
[JANE THROWS DAVEY A SIDEWAYS LOOK]
DAVEY (CONT’D):
We’re looking for Kevin Burton.
HARVEY:
Eight!
DAVEY:
We understand he works here?
HARVEY:
Niiiiiiine!
DAVEY:
(TO JANE) Is this a gym or a Bingo hall?
HARVEY:
Ten!!
[WITH ALL HIS EFFORT HE PUSHES THE BAR ONTO
THE HOOKS THEN SITS UP, TOWELLING SWEAT
AND INSPECTING HIS MUSCLES IN THE MIRRORS]
JANE:
(SOTTO) Or a hall of mirrors?
HARVEY:
(WINKING) Got mirrors on the ceiling too, love.
DAVEY:
Burton.
HARVEY:
What about him?
DAVEY:
Seen him?
HARVEY:
You think he’d come back here. (SCOFFS) Please.
DAVEY:
When was the last time you did?
HARVEY:
Did his shift on that Saturday and that’s it. Vanished.
DAVEY:
Has he ever missed work before?
HARVEY:
Too precise for that; got that sportsman’s mentality. Hasn’t missed a day in
three years.
DAVEY:
And you’d say you know him well?
HARVEY:
Should do. Promoted him for long enough. Heavy-weight division. Good
fighter, hands like shovels.
DAVEY:
Burton’s a boxer?
HARVEY:
Could lift more than me. (AT JANE) And I’m pretty big.
JANE:
The only muscles I like are in seafood.
HARVEY:
It’s not a crime til someone reports it right, and I haven’t so who’s grassed?
DAVEY:
What makes you think there’s a crime, Mr Campbell?
HARVEY:
The money.
DAVEY:
We’re just investigating a missing person.
[HARVEY SITS, REALISING HE’S DROPPED HIMSELF
IN IT]
HARVEY:
(RELUCTANTLY DIVULGING) Look, every weekend a security truck
collects the casino’s earnings and a week ago Saturday seventy-five grand
goes missing between the front door and the van.
JANE:
And Burton was on security?
HARVEY:
Looks and brains.
DAVEY:
Why haven’t you reported that?
HARVEY:
Probably should have done.
DAVEY:
Well would you like to make a statement?
HARVEY:
No thanks. I can look after myself.
DAVEY:
How about you leave the law and order to me?
HARVEY:
And how about you toddle back to your station. (TO JANE) You can stay if
you like?
JANE:
Think I’ll toddle too. Good morning, Mr Campbell.
[THEY GO. HARVEY PICKS UP HIS PHONE]
HARVEY (INTO PHONE):
Police have got a sniff of Burton. Yeah well get up here.
CUT TO:
EP2/SC14. EXT. CORONER’S OFFICE. DAY 1. 11:43
CLINT, DAVEY, JANE
[DAVEY AND JANE STEP OUT OF HIS CAR. WAITING
FOR THEM BY THE OFFICE DOORS IS CLINT, FILES
IN HAND]
DAVEY:
An exemplary employee goes missing from work the same day as he goes
missing from home after going sailing and a body washes up ten days
later…And the missing’s a suspect in a robbery.
JANE:
A robbery that hasn’t been officially reported.
DAVEY:
A suspect in a suspected robbery then.
JANE:
My gut still says it’s a botched sea-burial not Burton.
DAVEY:
Yeah well mine doesn’t.
[THEY REACH CLINT]
CLINT:
(HANDING HER THE PM) PM’s ready.
JANE:
Great. Is that journalist still here?
CLINT:
Not leaving til he gets your comment.
JANE:
Not going to happen. (TO DAVEY) Let’s see the body.
[JANE TURNS]
CLINT:
If that’s everything I’m going to nip out -
DAVEY:
(TO JANE) Maybe you’re hanging onto your view because you’re cheesed
off at the Undertakers Association.
JANE:
Or maybe because three in a month’s a pattern I can’t ignore.
DAVEY:
You follow your gut, I’ll follow mine. But I’m telling you I’m right.
JANE:
And what’s at stake?
DAVEY:
How about a steak. From Mick’s new menu?
JANE:
Alright. Clint, I want you to doorstop all the Undertakers on our books
registered to perform sea-burials. Get a description and history for all sea-
burials in the last two months.
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