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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


LINDSAY (CONT’D)

But thank you, that’s very

gracious.

Lindsay turns her gaze from Hastings to Steve.

LINDSAY (CONT’D)

DS Arnott. We’re all waiting.

STEVE:

Your allegation that I planted

incriminating evidence against you

is false.

LINDSAY:

Point of information. I’ve made two

allegations --one, you engaged in

inappropriate sexual relations

whilst on an undercover operation

and, two, you planted fifty

thousand pounds to simulate a

bribe.

STEVE:

And it’s all crap.

HASTINGS:

(Calming.)

Steve.

LINDSAY:

Really? Do tell.

STEVE:

(To Gill)

Lindsay Denton knows our procedures

inside out. She exploited doubts

and grey areas to tie our

investigation in knots.

LINDSAY:

Oh, you did that all by yourself.

First DC Fleming’s failed

undercover operation and then

yours.

KATE:

I didn’t do too badly. You ended up

in prison.

STEVE:

We didn’t fail. We got you

convicted. But you know sexual

misconduct by undercover officers

is a hot topic so you invented this

story about us going to bed

together so the jury sees you as a

wronged woman. They obviously felt

I must’ve shagged you into

conspiring to murder a protected

witness.

HASTINGS:

(Less calming, more admonishing.)

Steven.

LINDSAY:

(Doesn’t bat an eye.)

Thank you, DS Arnott. I couldn’t

agree more, that the question of

your sexual integrity quite rightly

made the jury sceptical.

Lindsay reaches into her jacket and lays a phone

on the table.

Everyone immediately gets very tense.

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LINDSAY (CONT’D)

But I've got a recording that will

be of interest to you all.

Hasting’s leans in.

HASTINGS:

All right then. This just isn’t the

time or the place.

LINDSAY:

Now is exactly the time and exactly

the place. Not in court, in a room

full of rubberneckers and

reporters, my pathetic private life

laid out for everyone to laugh at,

to pity. I couldn’t bear that. But

to show you all what kind of

officer got me locked up for 585

miserable days, of that --that I

can live with.

(To Steve)

I’ve had my whole life put on trial

and now it’s your turn.

The others are spectators, not knowing what’s

going on between Lindsay and Steve but being

forced to watch.

STEVE:

You’ve been charged and tried but

the one person that refuses to

examine what you’re accused of is

you.

LINDSAY:

I’m innocent. The question is, Are

you? This phone was next to the bed

the entire time. Although I can

believe that you were too

preoccupied to notice. Would you

like me to play it for everyone?

(Off Steve’s defiant silence.)

DS Arnott?

STEVE:

(Beats)

No.

KATE:

Christ sake, Steve.

Exit Kate, thoroughly disappointed in him. Steve

looks ashamed.

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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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