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Season #2 Episode #4
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
559 Views


He lays a cruise brochure (fictional company) on the table.

ROISIN:

What’s this?

HASTINGS:

What’s it look like? We talked

about it often enough.

(Off her resistant look.)

Things are on the up. Have a look.

Pick one.

ROISIN:

(Admonishing but falling

for it.)

Ted.

HASTINGS:

Go on. Look at it.

ROISIN:

We need to be clear on a few things

first.

(CONTINUED)

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408A CONTINUED:
(2)

HASTINGS:

(Beat or two to take her

meaning.)

I’ll say again, I’m deeply sorry. I

should’ve discussed the finances

with you. All I wanted was to

surprise you, with the best

possible life for us both.

ROISIN:

(Beats. Of brochure.)

Where’s the harm in looking?

HASTINGS:

Looking’s no crime. And I should

know!

She’s given him a chink of encouragement. One tiny chink

means the world to him. She starts to flick through the

brochure. He pours the tea eagerly, a man with hope in his

heart again.

CUT TO:

409

INT. AC-12. OPEN-PLAN OFFICE/HASTINGS’ OFFICE. LATER THAT

DAY.

Steve, Kate and Cottan are at their desks. All three are

reading a document headed FINANCIAL FORENSICS REPORT.

Hastings comes out of his office, holding the same document.

They all rise.

HASTINGS:

Look alive.

They all troop into his office.

HASTINGS:

We’ve all read the report. So DS

Akers appears to have been on the

take.

STEVE:

(Supporting Kate.)

It’s only circumstantial so far.

COTTAN:

If the officer meant to be taking

care of a protected witness is

getting paid off, and that witness

ends up getting killed, it doesn’t

leave much room for circumstances

as far as I’m concerned.

(To Kate.)

Sorry, mate.

(CONTINUED)

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409 CONTINUED:

KATE:

Evidence is evidence.

HASTINGS:

Good. The husband -- Dot, Steve,

you reckon he was acting

suspiciously?

STEVE:

I could’ve jumped to the wrong

conclusion.

Again Steve is trying to protect Kate. It just makes them

both very uneasy.

KATE:

It’s fine, Steve. Let’s do our

jobs.

HASTINGS:

Well said, Kate. We’ll put it

beyond doubt. Bring the husband in

for questioning and make sure we

get a 32 search done on the house.

KATE:

Very good, sir.

HASTINGS:

Crack on, thanks.

Hastings moves to usher them out.

STEVE:

Sir. We haven’t discussed Deputy

Chief Constable Dryden.

Hastings pauses, but looks ill at ease.

STEVE:

Lindsay Denton’s thrown suspicion

towards him and so far it’s all

checked out. They worked together

in Crime Audit. They had contact

outside of work. He made sure she

was on duty the night of the

ambush.

HASTINGS:

That’s one hell of an accusation to

be throwing at a senior officer

with an outstanding record of

public service.

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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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