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CLAIRE:

Okay.

She can’t wait to get back deeper into the house. Steve goes

in.

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214 INT. CLAIRE TINDALL’S HOUSE. MOMENTS LATER.

Steve sits at the kitchen table with his notebook out. Claire

attempts to deal with her hyperactive 2-year-old son. She’s

frazzled and anxious.

STEVE:

Moving you to a new address is

miles safer than trying to protect

you here.

CLAIRE:

I can’t, not with Nathan.

Steve takes in how frazzled she is and decides to drop it.

STEVE:

I know you had a very long

interview with my colleagues on the

Major Violent Crime Unit, so I’ll

keep this as brief as possible.

(MORE)

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214 CONTINUED:

STEVE (CONT'D)

I want to start with the two

firearms officers who were assigned

to protect the Witness. Why weren’t

they at their post?

CLAIRE:

Because of Joe -- sorry, that’s the

only name I’ve got.

STEVE:

How?

CLAIRE:

He was dressed in scrubs and told

them he thought he’d seen someone

out on the fire escape with a gun.

It was disused so there shouldn’t

be anyone out there. As soon as

they stepped out to check, he

locked the door.

STEVE:

How’d he get onto the intensive

care unit and pass himself off as a

nurse?

CLAIRE:

(Beat. Anxious.)

I gave him access.

STEVE:

How did you know Joe?

CLAIRE:

A couple of days earlier, he bumped

into my car in the hospital car

park. He was very apologetic and

offered to pay for the repairs at

his mate’s garage so I wouldn’t

have to wait for the insurance.

STEVE:

You weren’t suspicious that he was

avoiding insurance to withhold his

full name and address?

CLAIRE:

He had a nice car, nice clothes,

seemed like he was trying to do me

a favour.

STEVE:

How’d you describe him?

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CLAIRE:

Twenties, white. I’ve done the

computer photo-fit for the other

police officers.

STEVE:

Good. So tell me how Joe involved

you?

CLAIRE:

We dropped my car at his mate’s

garage, and then he gave me a lift

home. The next morning, he called

round so we could drop Nathan at

nursery. But instead of going to

collect my car, Joe said we were

going to the hospital. He said he

knew people who’d kill Nathan

unless I did what they needed me to

do.

(Sniffs back tears.)

I should’ve told someone so they

could stop him, but I was too

scared. Joe said they’d already

killed police so not even they

could protect me.

STEVE:

Around the time of the killing,

there was a call to the hospital.

Do you know or have you ever had

any contact with a police officer

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