Line of Duty Page #4

Season #2 Episode #2
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
632 Views


Hastings hangs up, looks stressed out.

CUT TO:

INT. 4TH ST STATION. INTERVIEW ROOM. LATER THAT DAY.

Steve continues to stew. He hears the door unlock. Enter

Hastings.

HASTINGS:

It’s all fine. C’mon.

Hastings leads Steve out.

CUT TO:

INT. 4TH ST STATION. CUSTODY SUITE. CONTINUOUS.

Hastings comes out with Steve. Hargreaves enters with

Rogerson and Hastings confronts him immediately.

HASTINGS:

Sir. A word. Please.

HARGREAVES:

If you want to go down that road.

HASTINGS:

Has AC-12 done something to annoy

you, sir?

HARGREAVES:

You need to ask?

HASTINGS:

I’d be delighted to look at

establishing greater cooperation.

We should meet with Deputy Chief

Constable Dryden.

HARGREAVES:

I do, regularly.

The rebuff annoys Hastings.

HASTINGS:

Your treatment of my officer was

unsympathetic and provocative.

(CONTINUED)

Line of Duty #2.2 02/06/2013 CHERRY revisions 12.

209 CONTINUED:

HARGREAVES:

If we’re missing out on a lead

because you’re withholding the

source of a tip-off ...

HASTINGS:

As a matter of policy,

Anticorruption can’t disclose

details of ongoing investigations,

as you well kn-

HARGREAVES:

Have it your own way. Leave real

policing to the experts.

(Moves to exit.)

HASTINGS:

Experts? Would that be your guard

unit you’re referring to, sir?

Hargreaves semi-pauses but keeps on going, red-faced.

Hastings and Steve move on.

HASTINGS:

How’s your face? D’you need to see

the doc?

STEVE:

I’m fine. What happened to the

guards?

HASTINGS:

They got locked on a disused fire

escape chasing an intruder. Thought

they could find a way back to their

posts before anyone noticed. Pair

of bloody idiots got Georgia

killed.

Steve reacts. Mention of Georgia brings them both to a pause,

and a mutual acknowledgement of her loss that propels them

into the next scene.

CUT TO:

210 INT. GEORGIA’S PARENTS’ HOUSE. LATER THAT DAY.

Hastings and Steve face Georgia’s mum and dad (50/60s), with

cups and saucers perched awkwardly on their laps.

HASTINGS:

You can be proud of your daughter.

She was a dedicated young officer

who gave her life trying to protect

the public.

(MORE)

(CONTINUED)

Line of Duty #2.2 02/06/2013 CHERRY revisions 13.

CONTINUED:

HASTINGS (CONT'D)

Georgia had a bright future ahead

of her, that makes her loss all the

more tragic. We’ll miss her

terribly, but we know we feel only

a fraction of what you must be

going through.

Throughout Hasting’s eulogy, Steve looks ill at ease, his

efforts at appearing sympathetic fighting with other, less

clear emotions such as guilt and anger.

His gaze settles on a photo of Georgia in riding gear,

holding a trophy proudly, with her horse in the background.

It stirs up difficult memories of their night together.

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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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