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Season #2 Episode #1
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
1,272 Views


Lindsay swerves hard. The ambush vehicle clips her rear wing

and speeds on.

Lindsay brakes hard but strikes a tree, bringing her car to a

shuddering halt and setting off the air-bags.

Lindsay rubbernecks/looks in her mirror to see the ambush

vehicle smash head-on into Akers’ car behind.

(CONTINUED)

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Akers’ vehicle brakes just before the collision. Both

vehicles are left separate afterwards.

Lindsay is badly shaken by the impact and pressed against her

seat by the air-bag.

In her cracked wing mirror, Lindsay sees two men hop out of

the ambush vehicle. Both wear thick black jackets and

motorcycle helmets. The front-seat passengers of Akers’

vehicle are restrained by their air-bags. One gunman sprays

the windscreen of Akers’ vehicle with automatic fire, hitting

the front seat passengers. The second gunman aims pistol fire

through the rear windows at the backseat passengers. Lindsay

watches in horror as one gunman douses petrol onto the

outside of Akers’ vehicle and through the blown-out windows

into the interior; the other sets it alight using a long gas

cooker lighter. It goes up in flames instantly.

The gunmen vanish into the night.

Her air-bag deflated, Lindsay reaches for the car radio. Her

voice shakes with panic.

LINDSAY:

(Into car radio.)

Charlie Mike two-five, status zero,

status zero, Long Lane and Crown

Avenue!

CONTROLLER (O.S.)

(From radio.)

Charlie Mike two-five, confirm

message.

LINDSAY:

(Into car radio..)

Status zero, status zero!

Lindsay struggles out of the car.

An inferno engulfs Akers’ car only. The ambush vehicle isn’t

on fire.

She moves towards the car keeping low for cover but a sudden

inflation of the fire beats her back.

Suddenly a rear door pops open and two figures tumble out,

screaming, on fire. They hit the ground, rolling to put out

the flames.

One of the burning figures, the man, puts out the fire by

rolling, but the other (Akers) keeps burning. Lindsay hurries

forward and throws her coat over her to put out the fire.

(CONTINUED)

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CONTINUED:
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Lindsay drops back, taking cover, searching the countryside

for a sight of the gunmen. Anguish and horror grip Lindsay’s

face. She wipes away tears. She hears many distant sirens.

SMASH CUT TO:

121

INT. THE GENERAL HOSPITAL. EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT. LATER THAT

NIGHT.

Lindsay sits in a cubicle, her legs dangling over the edge of

a trolley, her neck in a soft cervical collar. She’s dazed

and anguished. The sounds of the Emergency Department go on

all round her.

The curtain slides open, revealing CHIEF SUPT. RAY MALLICK

(40s). He begins sympathetically.

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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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