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HASTINGS:

You killed this other girl?

PRASAD:

Another girl “was killed”.

HASTINGS:

By you?

PRASAD:

No comment.

COTTAN:

DS Jayne Akers, the Witness

Protection Officer. How’d she get

involved?

PRASAD:

There’s a middle man.

KATE:

Who?

PRASAD:

Never met him. Just talked over

pay phones. No name. He fixed

Akers.

KATE:

So Akers knew who he was?

HASTINGS:

That why she was killed?

PRASAD:

Partly. She knew names.

COTTAN:

This middle man. We’ve had DC

Jeremy Cole named as “the Caddy”.

(Off Prasad’s blank look.)

A police detective groomed since

teenage to be a fixer for organised

crime and named as such by Tommy

Hunter.

PRASAD:

Cole couldn’t organise a piss-up in

a brewery.

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HASTINGS:

So he wasn’t the Caddy?

PRASAD:

If he was, it’s news to me.

KATE:

One final name we’re interested in.

DI Lindsay Denton.

PRASAD:

What about her?

KATE:

At the ambush, why was DI Lindsay

Denton spared?

PRASAD:

Her car smacked into a tree and she

didn’t get out. We assumed she was

in a bad way but didn’t want to

hang around and find out. We did

the business and got out of there

as fast as we could.

HASTINGS:

Come off it, son. You had time to

douse one vehicle in petrol and set

it alight. You seriously expect us

to believe you didn’t kill Lindsay

Denton because you couldn’t be

bothered? You were working to a

plan.

PRASAD:

(Beats.)

All I know is there was an order.

KATE:

What was the order?

PRASAD:

“Don’t hurt Denton.”

HASTINGS:

Because she was innocent?

PRASAD:

Innocent. Right. Look what she did

to me to get a Dying Declaration

that she was framed.

That sits with Kate, Cottan and Hastings, and lifts Kate’s

suspicions to new heights.

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HASTINGS:

We’re going to go through the lot,

chapter and verse -- if it takes

all day and all night. I’ll be

right back.

Hastings heads out. Kate signals for Cottan to stay and she

heads out.

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Hastings comes out for a breather. He looks pretty stressed.

Kate joins him.

KATE:

I hope you don’t mind, sir ...

HASTINGS:

God knows why I quit smoking.

KATE:

You’ve put your career on the line

going after Dryden.

HASTINGS:

More than that, Kate.

KATE:

Sir?

HASTINGS:

Doesn’t matter. What does is we get

the guilty parties. The cost to

ourselves is immaterial. That’s

what being an anticorruption

officer means. At least to me it

does.

KATE:

To me too, sir.

Kate goes back in. Hastings reflects.

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