Line of Duty Page #5

HARI:

Skipper, wait –

ROD (O.S)

For Christ sake!

Danny goes ahead and picks up the gun.

JACKIE:

You’re making it worse.

Danny carries the gun back towards Ronan.

DANNY:

I’m the last person wants to see

you lot in the sh*t.

HARI:

Us?

ROD:

We didn’t do nothing.

DANNY:

That’s the problem. So I’ll cover

for you and say we got here

together, shouted “Armed Police”,

but the mad bastard pulled a gun.

ROD:

What are you talking about?

DANNY:

He would have surrendered if you’d

got here in time. That’s my report

unless the lot of you man up right

now.

Rod, Hari and Jackie all look browbeaten by

Danny.

They hear distant sirens approaching.

DANNY (CONT’D)

Discharge your weapons.

JACKIE:

No way.

DANNY:

Shoot over the suspect’s body, in

the direction you’d have fired if

you’d actually managed to get here

in time.

ROD:

(Off look from Jackie)

No.

Tense stand-off. The sirens get nearer and then

stop approaching (i.e. they’ve arrived at the

hard-stop location on Prince’s Road).

Danny pushes his face into Rods.

DANNY:

Shoot now!

Rod fires. Shaken up, Jackie fires an instant

later.

Danny glares at Hari.

DANNY (CONT’D)

Shoot.

Hari doesn’t.

DANNY (CONT’D)

Shoot.

(Beat)

You choked. Plausible.

Hari looks intimidated and exasperated. Without

warning Danny fires Ronan’s gun past Hari’s

head.

ROD (O.S)

Jesus!

The ejected shell casing rolls across the

concrete ground. Everyone’s stunned. Hari is

shaking with terror.

MCANDREW (OUT OF RADIO)

Five Zero, status report. Status

report?

Danny places the gun in Ronan’s hand.

Rod, Jackie and especially Hari are shocked by

Danny’s actions. But he just glares at them

calmly and coolly as he takes off his gloves.

DANNY:

We’re all in this together. Best

way.

Extremely tense beats as Rod (full of pent-up

energy), Jackie (utterly gobsmacked) and Hari

(still badly shaken by the gunshot) absorb the

enormity of their predicament. Only Danny

appears calm.

Enter McAndrew and her crew, appearing at the

far end of the courtyard.

MCANDREW:

Is anyone hurt?

DANNY:

We’re fine, thanks, guv.

MCANDREW (INTO RADIO)

Suspect down, repeat, suspect down!

McAndrew studies Danny, Rod, Jackie and Hari.

Danny is calm, the others shaken.

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MCANDREW (CONT’D)

Store your weapons.

(Into radio)

Victor Charlie Four One requesting

forensic deployment for the scene.

All AFOs and weapons require

transporting to base for forensic

recovery of evidence and debrief.

(To Danny)

You sure you’re okay?

DANNY:

Fine. Everyone did their job.

Danny eyes his team --Rod, Jackie and Hari, all

dreading their involuntary pact.

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