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Season #2 Episode #6
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
1,035 Views


The Solicitor nods to Prasad: “It’s covered.”

KATE:

Were you involved in grooming

Carly?

PRASAD:

I was.

HASTINGS:

By means of your work as a Vice

officer?

PRASAD:

It gives an insight.

KATE:

You coached her to entrap Dryden?

PRASAD:

He didn’t take much “entrapping”.

(CONTINUED)

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COTTAN:

Tommy Hunter approached you to do

this?

Prasad holds his tongue.

HASTINGS:

Come on, son. We’ve got Hunter on

tape saying he intended to

blackmail Dryden and we’ve got the

photos on your computer.

Prasad confers in whispers with his Solicitor. Solicitor:

“This is still covered by immunity.”

PRASAD:

I confirm that Tommy Hunter engaged

me to arrange for Deputy Chief

Constable Dryden to have sexual

relations with an underage girl for

the purpose of acquiring

incriminating photographs.

HASTINGS:

Here’s where my head starts

spinning. You’re Tommy’s man. Then

you’re involved in trying to kill

him?

PRASAD:

Tommy was blackmailing the Deputy

Chief Constable. If he’d do that to

keep his immunity, what else would

he do? There was a school of

thought that maybe we’d be better

off with Tommy out of the picture.

COTTAN:

Who’s “we”?

PRASAD:

Various parties associated with

Tommy’s past, various parties

associated with ongoing illicit

interests.

HASTINGS:

Other departments will pursue those

lines of enquiry. There’s one thing

we deal with and one thing alone.

Bent coppers. Each police officer

we name, you tell us what crime or

crimes they committed. Got it?

Starting with Deputy Chief

Constable Michael Dryden?

(CONTINUED)

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PRASAD:

Dryden got himself blown by the

girl.

KATE:

Did he kill her?

PRASAD:

(To Solicitor.)

This is covered?

HASTINGS:

Complete immunity.

The Solicitor nods/says Yes.

PRASAD:

We had the photos but we needed the

threat of the girl being able to

testify to really turn the screw.

But she did a runner.

KATE:

So you killed her?

PRASAD:

You’re not listening. She did a

runner. Something spooked Dryden

at the station. He took off and so

did the girl.

KATE:

He saw you?

PRASAD:

Dunno. But losing the girl lost us

leverage against Dryden.

HASTINGS:

What did you do?

PRASAD:

We got another body, dressed her up

in a waitress’s uniform and took

photos, but we never sent ‘em to

Dryden.

KATE:

This body ...

PRASAD:

Another girl.

KATE:

Who?

(CONTINUED)

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PRASAD:

Just some little slapper that fit

the bill.

Kate reacts. Normally she can handle this but she’s a little

vulnerable. She’s disgusted.

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Jed Mercurio

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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