Line of Duty Page #4

ROD:

No. No. What did he... What did he

actually say?

Kate makes a point of holding out on them.

Jackie tries to reassure Kate, in a flat, quiet

(and unconvincing) way.

JACKIE:

Just ‘cause you didn’t hear a

struggle, doesn’t mean there wasn’t

one.

Jackie and Kate exchange glares.

KATE:

Why didn’t one of you help Danny?

He was lying on the floor. He’d

been shot and there was blood

everywhere.

JACKIE:

We were in shock.

KATE:

What? You couldn’t lift a finger?

Couldn’t call for help?

HARI:

Do we have to talk about this right

now? All I can see in my head is

Danny just lying there. Bleeding

out, man.

Hari trails off, clearly traumatised, and goes

into his shell.

KATE:

What was your RT about?

HARI:

What RT?

KATE:

You radioed Danny, telling him to

come up.

HARI:

Did I?

KATE:

Yeah. You sent, “Better come up

here, Skipper.”

HARI:

I’d have to hear the recording.

KATE:

We were back-to-back on 2. So there

is no recording.

ROD:

Can you just stop! Doing my head

in.

Kate glares at Jackie. Jackie looks away

tensely. Kate looks at Hari --strung out, edgy

--and Rod --head in hands, anguished beyond

words.

No one’s telling her what she wants to know.

KATE:

You know. If I’m going along with

this, I need to know what I’m

covering for.

Silence from the others.

KATE (CONT’D)

Fine. The ballistics will say what

really happened in that bedroom.

HARI:

(Ironic.)

Yeah. You’d think.

Kate looks to Rod and to Jackie and they look as

unforthcoming as Hari. Kate hasn’t a clue what

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Specially

composed by

Carly

Paradis.

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could’ve happened.

CUT TO:

INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. ONE WEEK LATER.

Hastings, Steve and Dot organise their folders.

Steve labels a tape and puts it in the machine.

Dot looks at his watch --it has a distinctive

black leather strap.

DOT:

Time, gaffer?

HASTINGS:

I say they’ve had plenty.

Exit Dot.

CUT TO:

INT. AC-12. WAITING AREA. CONTINUOUS.

Kate, Hari, Jackie and Rod wait tensely, in

smart uniform, each accompanied by their rep and

solicitor. Enter Dot.

DOT:

PC Francis.

KATE:

Sir.

Kate stands, and she, her solicitor and her rep

follow Dot out. Hari, Jackie and Rod watch Kate

intently and mistrustfully as she heads towards

the interview room.

HASTINGS (V.O)

Right. Let’s get straight down to

brass tacks. How did Sergeant

Daniel Waldron meet his death?

CUT TO:

INT. AC-12. INTERVIEW ROOM. INTERCUT.

In smart uniform alongside her rep (a male PC)

and solicitor, Kate faces Steve, Dot and

Hastings. The tape turns in the machine.

KATE:

He died in the ambulance, Sir.

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