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Season #3 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
466 Views


GILL:

Ms Denton, I’m Gill Biggeloe, Legal

Counsel to AC-12.

LINDSAY:

I imagine they keep you very busy.

GILL:

(Beat. Unsure how to react)

Have a seat. You know

Superintendent Hastings.

LINDSAY:

I do.

Lindsay calmly takes her seat facing Hastings.

Gill sits tensely in her “conciliatory”

position. Hastings bears the look of a man about

to undergo root-canal work.

GILL:

As part of a new initiative

christened Truth and

Reconciliation, following a

miscarriage of justice parties are

invited to engage in dialogue to

initiate the healing process.

LINDSAY:

There seems to be an oversight.

Some of the officers involved in my

wrongful conviction are missing.

GILL:

Superintendent Hastings, as Senior

Investigating Officer, represents

the whole team.

LINDSAY:

Well. I want them here. Or this new

box you need to tick just... won’t

get ticked.

Lindsay regards Gill and Hastings coolly. Gill

looks embarrassed. Hastings snaps and stands.

HASTINGS:

God, give me strength.

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Music Ends

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02:43

10:
03:41

Exit Hastings. Lindsay looks coolly at Gill.

CUT TO:

INT. AC-12. MEETING ROOM. MOMENTS LATER.

Steve and Kate troop in behind Hastings. They

sit tensely facing Lindsay, with Gill still off

to the side.

LINDSAY:

Thank you. It wouldn’t have been

the same without you.

Steve and Kate look daggers at Lindsay, in

response to this first “victory” by her.

GILL:

Ms Denton, on behalf of this

department and this constabulary, I

offer you a sincere and

unconditional apology for your

wrongful conviction in respect of

the offence of conspiracy to

murder.

Gill looks to Hastings.

He hesitates.

GILL (CONT’D)

Ted.

HASTINGS:

(Through gritted teeth)

As the senior investigating

officer, I acknowledge your

feelings regarding your conviction.

LINDSAY:

Wrongful conviction. And you

haven’t actually said sorry.

Hastings looks like he needs to go somewhere and

puke.

Lindsay turns her gaze full on Steve.

LINDSAY (CONT’D)

Maybe you’ll do better, DS Arnott.

Lindsay’s continued glare at Steve doesn’t

result in an apology from him. After a long

beat.

LINDSAY (CONT’D)

You require me to sign off that I

accept your apology. I won’t unless

it comes from the officers who

wronged me.

KATE:

You’re out. What more do you want?

LINDSAY:

An. Apology.

KATE:

Jesus Christ.

LINDSAY:

(To Gill)

This isn’t going very well at all

is it?

Excruciatingly tense beats.

GILL:

Ted.

HASTINGS:

As Senior Investigating Officer, I

apologise for your conviction.

LINDSAY:

You omitted “wrongful”.

Kate gazes at her with disgust.

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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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