Line of Duty

Season #3 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
499 Views


Danny challenges Arnott. |

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DANNY |

What was that? |

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MARLEY |

Interview’s finished, Danny. |

DANNY:

I’m not.

STEVE:

Good. Neither are we.

SUPER CAPTION:
ADRIAN DUNBAR CRAIG PARKINSON |

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Gill Biggeloe in the interview room with |

Hastings and Arnott. |

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GILL |

You know why I’ve been appointed. |

To ensure that anticorruption |

inquiries don’t get pulled apart in |

court |

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SUPER CAPTION:
LINE OF DUTY

Danny with Rod and Jackie.

DANNY:

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Don’t try playing the big man. We |

both know you’re not up to it.|

(Off Jackie.)|

She definitely does. |

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Danny with Hari. |

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DANNY |

You need me to make the hard |

choices for you. Because I see |

what’s inside you. Jelly. |

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00:58

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00:58 SUPER CAPTION: POLLY WALKER WILL MELLOR |

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Dot, Kate and Steve with Hastings. |

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DOT |

Putting Kate into an AFO role is a |

whole level of jeopardy above a |

normal undercover--|

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KATE |

I can handle it. |

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Kate at the firing range. LOUD BANGS. |

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01:06 SUPER CAPTION: ARSHER ALI LEANNE BEST |

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Steve has received Ronan’s file. |

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DOT (O.S)|

Is that the file on the suspect |

shot by Waldron? |

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STEVE |

Yeah |

(close up file)|

We need an unredacted file. |

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DOT |

Leave it to me. |

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Steve challenges Danny outside his home. |

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STEVE |

You didn’t know the suspect? |

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DANNY |

No. |

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Insert Ronan’s funeral. Danny watches from a |

distance through binoculars. |

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STEVE (V.O)|

Ronan Murphy. The suspect’s name. |

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He focuses on Linus. We move to Linus’ home. |

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DANNY |

Don’t remember me? |

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Dog Barks. Reveal gun pointed at Linus. |

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Danny stares down at Linus. |

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DANNY |

The only thing with Ronan, it was |

over too fast.

SUPER CAPTION:
SHAUN PARKES

Danny reading a list of names.

STEVE (V.O)

If there’s something bigger here, |

Danny, you don’t want to be the one |

left carrying the can. |

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He puts it in an envelope and addresses it to DS |

Steve Arnott. |

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SUP CAPTION:
WRITTEN AND CREATED BY JED MERCURIO |

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Danny receives a call over the radio. |

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HARI (O.S.)|

(Out of radio.)|

You better come up here, Skipper. |

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DANNY |

On my way. |

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Kate watches Danny go upstairs. |

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Gun shot. BANG. |

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SUPER CAPTION:
PRODUCED BY PETER NORRIS |

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KATE (V.O)|

Shot fired. |

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Kate rushes upstairs. |

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KATE |

Shot fired. |

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AIYSHA HART |

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Runs into the room. Danny is on the floor. Kate

kneels beside him.

Danny tries to whisper something to Kate.

ROD:

What’s he saying?

Off Hari and Jackie.

ROD (O.S)

What’s he saying?

Danny is bleeding heavily.

KATE:

Stay with me, Danny.

(louder)

Danny. Danny.

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SUPER CAPTION:
DIRECTED BY MICHAEL KEILLOR

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EXT. SECOND DRUG HOUSE (ABBOTT'S LANE). MOMENTS

LATER (FROM END OF EP 1).

Cops and paramedics rush into the house.

McAndrew calls down from upstairs.

MCANDREW:

(To Paramedics)

Come on, guys.

They run upstairs passing Hari, Jackie and Rod

remain on the landing, still stunned

MCANDREW (CONT’D)

Come away. Let them in.

McAndrew guides the Paramedics into the bedroom.

Kate is crouched beside Danny, pushing part of a

blanket hard into his neck wound that turns it

red with gushing blood. Danny’s breathing is

forced. His eyes are closed.

MCANDREW (CONT’D)

Come on, Kate. Let’s leave them to

it.

PARAMEDIC 1

Let me in.

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Specially

composed by

Carly

Paradis.

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Paramedic 1 takes over from Kate compressing the |

wound while Paramedic 2 starts managing Danny’s |

airway --suction, oxygen mask etc. |

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Paramedic 1 tries to feel for a carotid pulse.|

McAndrew shepherds Kate out onto the landing. |

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PARAMEDIC 1 |

Weak pulse right carotid. Left |

side’s completely traumatised. |

Probably tolerate a Guedel... Let’s |

get suction on, secure the airway. |

Oxygen and IV access. |

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One more blast of suction, then Paramedic 2 |

passes a Guedel airway into Danny’s mouth.|

On the landing, Kate walks away, shell-shocked, |

heading downstairs. She has a final glance back |

at Hari, Rod and Jackie. |

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MCANDREW |

(To Hari, Rod & Jackie)|

What the hell happened in there? |

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HARI |

I’m still in shock, guv. I just |

need a couple of minutes to get my |

head around it. |

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McAndrew turns her glare on Rod and Jackie. |

They’re both all over the place emotionally. |

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ROD |

I’m still making sense of it, Guv. |

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And Jackie is too traumatised to talk. McAndrew |

looks deeply frustrated. |

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MCANDREW |

(To PCs)|

Get them to the station. |

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A couple of PCs lead Hari, Rod and Jackie |

downstairs. They’re silent, traumatised. |

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MCANDREW (CONT’D)|

You too, Francis. |

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Kate glances back one last time at the efforts |

to save Danny. |

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PARAMEDIC |

Maintaining pressure on left |

submandibular GSW. |

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EXT. SECOND DRUG HOUSE. CONTINUOUS.

The PCs lead Rod, Jackie, Hari and Kate towards

transport. Rod, Jackie and Hari exchange looks -

probing, tense, mistrustful --while Kate keys

her phone and sends a text.

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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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