Line of Duty Page #2

Season #2 Episode #2
Synopsis: After a mistaken shooting during a counter-terrorist operation, Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott is transferred to AC-12, a police anti-corruption unit. Alongside Detective Constable Kate Fleming ,they are assigned to lead an investigation into the alleged corruption by a popular and successful officer, Detective Chief Inspector Tony Gates. While Gates cleverly manipulates his unit's figures, DS Arnott questions whether Gates is being made a scapegoat for a culture of institutionalized spin, or is guilty of darker corruption.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
  5 wins & 23 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.5
NOT RATED
Year:
2012
60 min
632 Views


(Heavy sigh. Beat.)

Would you be “at liberty” to

describe the person you claim was

tampering with the Witness’s drip?

STEVE:

Average height and build. IC1.

HARGREAVES:

Distinguishing features?

STEVE:

He was wearing a wig and mask.

(CONTINUED)

Line of Duty #2.2 02/06/2013 CHERRY revisions 7.

202 CONTINUED:
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HARGREAVES:

(Another heavy sigh. To

Rogerson.)

Jolly?

Rogerson spreads a series of blown-up CCTV vid-caps on the

table in front of Steve. They show a man in a motorcycle

helmet entering a back stairwell, then exiting about 15

minutes later.

ROGERSON:

These vid-caps were taken from a

CCTV camera located on Stairwell G,

a set of service stairs, shortly

before and shortly after the

Witness’s death.

HARGREAVES:

How’d he get in the Witness’s room?

STEVE:

There was meant to be a pair of

your uniforms on the door. You tell

me.

HARGREAVES:

(Reflecting back at

Steve.)

Love to help but not at liberty to

say.

STEVE:

(Beats.)

With respect, sir, if this is how

it’s going to be, can I go now?

HARGREAVES:

You were there because you got a

tip-off.

STEVE:

If you speak to Superintendent

Hastings -

HARGREAVES:

Where’d the tip-off come from?

Who’s got that kind of inside

information?

STEVE:

Apologies, sir, I can’t -

HARGREAVES:

Your partner fell five floors. The

pathologist had to spoon half her

brain back inside her skull.

(MORE)

(CONTINUED)

Line of Duty #2.2 02/06/2013 CHERRY revisions 8.

202 CONTINUED:
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HARGREAVES (CONT'D)

Don’t you want to help us get the

bastard that did it?

Steve maintains a resistant silence.

HARGREAVES:

There were two of you. One of him.

Anger flickers in Steve’s eyes.

Rogerson looks away, embarrassed by Hargreaves’

insensitivity.

Hargreaves and Steve exchange glares.

HARGREAVES:

Have it your own way, son.

Steve rises.

HARGREAVES:

Oh, no. We’re not finished till

I’ve got corroboration you were

there on lawful business.

Exit Hargreaves. In a look back, Rogerson shows a beat of

sympathy for Steve (he’s a fellow officer and just lost his

partner).

Steve is left to stew, alone with his conflicting emotions

about Georgia’s death.

CUT TO:

203

INT. 4TH ST STATION. SQUAD ROOM/LINDSAY’S OFFICE. MOMENTS

LATER.

Kate glances towards Lindsay’s office.

Suddenly the slats of the blind snap open, revealing Lindsay

peering out. Lindsay’s manner is twitchy, very anxious.

She watches Mallick whisper in O’Neill’s ear. While Mallick

goes back into his office, O’Neill crosses to Lindsay’s

office, raps on the glass, indicates Mallick’s office with a

hitch-hiker’s thumb and exits.

Kate watches Lindsay cross to Mallick’s office. When Lindsay

glances towards her, Kate drops her gaze back to her

computer. On the Misper database, she’s updating Carly Kirk’s

entry:
foster parents re-interviewed by DI Denton, etc.

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Jed Mercurio (born 1966) is a British television writer, producer, director and novelist. He is reported to be one of the few British script-writers to work as a U.S.-style showrunner. A former hospital physician and RAF officer, Mercurio has been ranked among UK television's leading writers by TV-industry magazine Broadcast. more…

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