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Series 1
Jackie: What’s wrong? What is it?
Gates: You didn’t kill a dog, Jackie, you killed a man.
Jackie: Oh, God. Oh, my God...
Gates: You just go to the police. You tell ‘em exactly what you told me.
Jackie: No, Tony, I can’t-
Gates: Oh, yes, you bloody can. Jackie, a man is dead, and that is a big problem, but trying to cover it up is an even bigger one. Do you understand me? Jackie, have you got it?!
Jackie: Yes, yes!
Gates: Okay, so you tell the fewest lies possible. You say that you panicked, but now you want to come clean. You got it? Jackie, have you got it?
Jackie: OK.
Gates: Don’t call me, and don’t bottle it. I’ll put the case where I can keep an eye on it.
S1 E1 - Gates confronts Jackie Laverty after connecting her late-night drink-driving to a hit-and-run near her estate
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Ted: He’s an arrogant so-and-so, isn’t he? I mean, a player like Gates, he knows it’s against the rules and regulations not to declare a gratuity, so what does it say about him that he doesn’t even bother his arse to fill in the form?
Steve: Well, with respect, what’s a free breakfast got to do with investigating Gates’ crime figures?
Ted: Well, sooner or later, he’s gonna know we’re onto him. This way, he thinks it’s just a Storm in a Teacup. Or should that be a coffee cup? I’ll give him laughing all over his face at us. His guard’s down. That’s how we’re going to get him, Steve.
Steve: There’s another possibility.
Ted: Yeah?
Steve: Gates’ figures are for real.
Ted: Oh, I see what you’re getting at. You think he’s Bob Beamon and I think he’s, what, Ben Johnson? I mean admittedly, an athlete does come along once in a while who breaks the world record by a mile, and sometimes he’s genuinely superhuman, but I will lay you odds all day long that more often than not, that guy is a cheat.
(Ted leaves, Steve follows)
Steve: Sir. DCI Gates appears to be an exemplary officer.
Ted: Appears to be. My point exactly.
S1 E1 - Ted and Steve argue over Gates being corrupt after serving him a yellow notice over a free breakfast
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Ted: AC-12 interview with DCI Gates, Police Federation Representative DCI Alice Prior. I’ve been authorised to notify you that we have grounds to widen our investigation into DCI Gates’ performance of professional duties.
Prior: Widen the investigation?
Gates: What?
Ted: We have grounds under Professional Duties and General Conduct. Specifically, the practise of laddering, which is the amplification, indeed, the multiplication of charges against an offender…
Gates: I know what laddering is, sir.
Ted: That’s right, Tony, you do. Here’s the yellow notice. You’ve got the regulation ten days.
Prior: DCI Gates strenuously denies any wrongdoing. Nevertheless, he offers the investigation his full cooperation.
Ted: Thank you, that’s much appreciated.
Prior: I’d like to determine the conditions of Tony’s suspension from duty.
Ted: Oh no, no, no, we’re not asking for a suspension at this time. We don’t think he’s a threat to his fellow officers or indeed the public in general. Now, why should the citizens of this country be denied his… selfless… service? Interview terminated.
Gates: That’s very generous of you, sir.
(Gates gets up to leave)
Gates: Looks like you’ve found your level, Arnott.
Prior: Tony, let’s not descend to-
Gates: Nobody plays me. Sir.
(Gates and Prior leave)
Ted: You never detected the laddering because you didn’t even look! I recruited you because you took a moral stand against your colleagues, despite the personal cost. You’re a born AC-12 officer, why don’t you start acting like one?
Steve: You’ve dropped me into an ongoing investigation. Now, you could test me, or you could actually brief me.
Ted: OK. Tony Gates cherry-picks the crimes that are easy to solve, then he dumps the rest. Then he invents a whole series of additional charges that never make it into the courtroom but boost his clean-up rates. Laddering. That’s how Tony Gates got where he is.
Steve: He got where he is because he had to be twice as good as the next bloke-
Ted: What? So what are you saying? To be corrupt, he’s got to be twice as bad?
Steve: No, sir? Victimisation of a black officer-
Ted: Oh, hang on a second, now don’t you talk to me about victimisation. What are you saying? Let me tell you something, son. Me and my best mate, we went through basic training together, OK? First year out, they sent us on this particular job. The two Catholics, are you with me? We go straight over a pipe bomb. I end up in Intensive Care, him they bury. The log book goes missing, nobody says a word. Don’t you talk to me about victimisation. Nobody’s blacker than me, son.
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Rita: This missing persons report came through from County CID. Mr Gurjit Patel, reported missing the day after the hit-and-run.
(She clicks ‘link to case TO76477’, and a picture of Jackie's hit-and-run victim appears)
Rita: Mr Patel was an accountant for Laverty Holdings. Laverty Holdings is owned by Jacqueline Laverty, the woman whose vehicle was reported stolen. He was her accountant when-
Gates: Thank you, Rita. My squad is going to be taking over this case from now on. And you can leave it to me to tell County that we’ve got an ID. This is a very sensitive case, Rita, so I’m going to need you to shoot those files over to my computer. May I?
Rita: Yes, sir, of course.
Gates: Thank you. Erm, milk, no sugar, would be nice.
Rita: Yes, right.
Gates: You’re a star.
S1 E1 - Gates finds out the victim of Jackie's hit-and-run was known to her, making it almost certainly a murder, and makes a fateful choice to destroy evidence of the connection
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Ted: Steve? I've just had a call... from Kate.
Steve: I skimmed the hit-and-run file, sir. It's a red herring.
Ted: Don't you think it's curious that the Officer of the Year should be involving himself in a hit-and-run incident?
Steve: He knows we're onto him and he's deliberately taken on a low-profile case with virtually zero chance of cleanup. What I do have, sir, is a pattern of laddering going back years. Gates selects an open-shut case and bumps up additional charges. I mean, he's clearing four crimes for every one that's actually committed.
Ted: Tony Gates, eh? He's your bent copper for the 21st Century. Steve, when I first came over here, there was ten bent coppers to every station, minimum. We didn't put our house in order. These new procedures, we brought them on ourselves. And Gates is using this messed up system to get to the top, but why, Steve? Why is he doing it? What's in this for him, hm?
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Steve: Good day at the office, DCI Gates?
Gates: One call and you’re on a harassment charge.
Steve: Yeah, well I could do the same for your goons.
Gates: If you want to talk to me, Arnott, call me into AC-12, we’ll do it in front of my Federation rep.
Steve: Well, why go to all that bother when I’m only after a minor detail? The reason you took over a hit-and-run.
(Gates leaves the office, and Steve follows)
Steve: I mean, it’s hardly Officer of the Year material. It may harm your defence, if you do not mention when questioned… I expect you know the rest.
Gates: I received information that the incident in question was connected to one of my team’s ongoing investigations. Turned out, that information was wrong.
Steve: You haven’t bounced it back to Traffic, yet?
Gates: Hey! I am the Senior Investigating Officer on a double murder. That is proper policing, son! Maybe you remember it?
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(Gates pulls up somewhere. Jackie's calling again, and after ignoring multiple calls throughout the day, he finally answers it)
Gates: Hello?
Jackie: I didn't think you'd pick up. I had a message all prepared, I was… I was going to say how sorry I was about coming to the station. I had to see you, Tony.
Gates: That bloke… the one that jumped out in front of your car, on the dark country lane… he just happened to be your bloody accountant, did he? Jesus, for Christ's sake, Jackie.
Jackie: Let me explain, please.
Gates: Yeah. What do you take me for?
Jackie: Having you back in my life after all these years… now I'm losing you all over again. You're all I think about. I'm thinking about you now, Tony. I'm thinking about what I let you do to me. Are you thinking about what I let you do? You know I'd do anything you ask. Anything. Nothing's off-limits for you and me, Tony. Nothing. I know what we do is wrong. I wish you were here, inside me right now. Nothing else compares. I'd die if we ever had to stop. Oh, I wish you were here now, Tony.
(Gates's lip quivers, like he's trying to stop himself saying something)
Gates: I am.
(The gates of Jackie's house open for him. He starts the car and drives in)
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Ryan: Woah, where did you get those trainers, blud?
Duke: Go, get lost, rude boy.
Ryan: Woah, Wesley.
(Duke grabs Ryan)
Duke: Have some blud clart respect!
Ryan: Woah, woah, woah, chill, man. Tom wants to speak to you.
(Ryan hands Duke a burner phone. Duke takes it and answers the call)
Duke: Hello?
"Tom": Arsehole.
Duke: Yo, Tommy.
Tommy: You've been dealing with them Arabs.
Duke: Yo, Tom, I'd never disrespect you, don.
Tommy: Them Arabs lost their fingers. You give the kid your score. If it doesn't get to me by tonight, you'll go the same way they did.
S1 E2 - Tommy makes his first appearance schooling drug dealer Wesley Duke
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Steve: Ms Laverty?
Jackie: Yes.
Steve: Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott. You’re here to declare an interest in commercial units?
Jackie: How can I help you?
Steve: You must be doing well for yourself, given the economic climate.
Jackie: We’ve made shrewd investments.
Steve: 60 billion quid.
Jackie: Ex-excuse me?
Steve: Estimated annual revenue from white-collar crime. 20 times the cost of conventional robbery.
Jackie: Am I being accused of something?
Steve: A month ago, your hairdressing business in Moss Heath was burgled.
Jackie: We only own those premises. The business operating there is an independent commercial entity.
Steve: Well, when I questioned him earlier today, the manager of the salon indicated there was a direct business relationship with you personally. Unfortunately, he didn’t seem to know you from Adam.
Jackie: Why should he know me?
Steve: That’s true. You have dozens of these places, don’t you? And today, you appear to be taking an interest in market units. Maybe you’d like to discuss this somewhere less public.
Jackie: I-I’m very happy to cooperate with your investigation, but… as this is a commercially sensitive area, I’d prefer my solicitor was present to verify all the small details.
Steve: Are you familiar with the term, “captive business”? Services paid for in cash, with no paper trail or ID. Earnings from illegal activities can be hidden through the books of salons, market stalls and so forth. All the money goes to the bank, and bingo. It’s clean.
Jackie: I’m in the middle of an important meeting…
Steve: Laundered money finds its way back to criminal interests, while the launderer takes his cut. Or hers.
Jackie: Like I said, I’m happy to cooperate.
Steve: As you were when your stolen vehicle was used in a hit-and-run?
Jackie: Yes.
Steve: The officer in charge of that case, Detective Chief Inspector Tony Gates. D’you know him?
Jackie: I met him briefly at the police station.
Steve: That’s the extent of your relationship? See, I have a witness to your breakfast in Kingsgate the morning before your car was stolen.
(Silence from Jackie)
Steve: Ms Laverty, you’ll attend Anticorruption Unit 12, located at this address, with your solicitor, at 9am tomorrow morning, to be interviewed under police caution by myself and my superior, Superintendent Hastings. If you do not have a solicitor, one will be appointed for you. I’m not arresting you at this time, but if you fail to attend, a warrant will be issued for your arrest. Do you understand, Ms Laverty?
S1 E2 - Steve confronts Jackie after finding evidence of money laundering
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Steve: DCI Gates, how did you come by the information that Jackie had killed her accountant?
(Gates falls speechless)
Steve: This is the critical piece of evidence against your stalker. Surely you remember exactly how you found out?
Prior: DCI Gates was not prepared for this line of questions. I request them in writing with the statutory ten days to respond.
Gates: Rita Bennett informed me. The civvy support.
(Steve opens Rita’s witness statement)
Steve: I took a statement from Rita Bennett prior to this interview. I wonder if her recollection matches yours?
(Gates looks uncomfortable)
Ted: DCI Gates?
Gates: The information came in from County CID, regarding the identity of the victim. That was three days after Ms Laverty informed me about her stolen car.
Prior: You should have a copy of that statement.
Ted: Yeah, I’ll see to that, Alice, yeah.
Steve: The information you’ve just given - why isn’t it in the computer file?
Gates: Why…
Steve: Your answers match what Rita said and what she claims she entered in the file, but it’s not there. Why not?
Gates: She must be mistaken.
Steve: ...You deleted it.
Prior: Stop right there. We’re all aware of IT problems as a day-to-day reality. Have you any proof that this file was deleted?
Steve: We could impound the hard drive.
Prior: Tch. The database can be accessed by any computer from the mainframe. Do you intend to impound them all, DS Arnott? Send the whole station back to bikes and whistles?
S1 E3 - Gates is brought into AC-12 for interview, and a hole in his story is revealed
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Buckells: We should, er…
Gates: Don’t make any assumptions about Jackie Laverty’s fate. She was facing a manslaughter charge. She could’ve faked this whole thing.
Buckells: Right. Erm…
Gates: She had the cash and the connections to get herself out of the country. Maybe her ex is involved.
Buckells: Okay. Erm…
Gates: AC are talking crap about that whisky glass. Don’t make a tit out of yourself chasing shadows. I’ve seen too many ambitious young DI’s looking up the ladder without realising they’ve stepped on a big, slippery snake. D’you know what I mean? Good to see you.
S1 E3 - Gates tries to stop Buckells looking into him the only way he knows how: by speaking in barely-veiled threats
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Ted: What's going on?
Steve: I'm chasing forensics that place Gates at Jackie's murder.
Ted: You got any?
Steve: No.
Ted: No. [Whispering] But you've just made a spectacle of yourself by searching Gates' car in front of the whole station. Then you go and visit the man's wife, at his house!
Steve: I'm trying to put pressure on him. Play him at his own game.
Ted: Steve, are we expecting to ask officers to behave professionally, if we can't behave professionally ourselves?! You're over the line here, son, you're way over the line! I'll tell ya what. You better come back with a result out of this. For all our sakes.
S1 E3 - Ted Hastings chews Steve out for the extreme measures he's taking to obtain evidence against Gates
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Colin: The lads are all getting twitchy. We’ve all been suspended from active duty, and we’ve heard you’re gonna accuse us of lying to cover up breaking into the wrong flat.
Steve: And you’re saying I screwed up the orders? Sent you in the wrong door?
Colin: This has gotten out of hand, that’s why I’m here.
Steve: Took guts for you lot to go out there thinking he was a bomber. All I know is, we’ve all been asked to lie, and I’m the only one not going along with it.
Colin: We both know there was a massive failure of intel. The op was thrown together without proper prep. No-one responsible wants to cop for that. That’s why they’re laying it on us.
Steve: There’s no “us”.
Colin: There is if we all tell the same story.
Steve: And in return, none of the lads put any blame in my direction?
Colin: We’re in this together, Steve.
[Steve leans in]
Steve: An innocent man… is dead.
Colin: ...There’s not a day goes by I don’t think about that. I was the one who pulled the trigger. I’m sick with it, man. Can’t sleep at night. Can’t look any other copper in the eye, I’m… bouncing my little boy on my knee and I’m just bursting out crying for no reason. You feel it too, don’t you? The guilt. You knew the kill order was suspect, if you hadn’t passed it on…
Steve: Let me get you another drink.
[Steve gets up, and Colin’s arm shoots out and grabs him]
Colin: Nothing’s ever gonna bring him back, so what good does it do for us to be thrown on the scrap heap? Isn’t it better, isn’t it a better service for us to put this behind us and be the cleanest, most dedicated officers on the job? You’ve already figured that out, haven’t you? That’s why you joined Anti-corruption.
[Colin lets go. Steve goes up to the bar]
Steve: A pint, please.
S1 E3 - Steve meets Colin Brackley, the CT officer who shot Karim Ali dead, in a pub to discuss the inquest
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Hilton: Sorry, Ted. I know you’ve been chasing me. It-it occurred to me that neutral ground often makes for more productive conversations.
Ted: It’s always nice to get out of the… office, sir.
Hilton: Frankly, I’ve been avoiding this conversation.
Ted: I was beginning to feel a wee bit like the… ginger stepchild, there.
S1 E3 - Ted and Hilton meet in a fancy restaurant to discuss the case against Gates
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Ted: So this is where you are.
Steve: Poor bastard's been in the morgue for weeks. Three post-mortems.
Ted: Wasn't your fault, Steve.
Steve: I should've done more to challenge his Fahrenheit order. He'd still be alive.
Ted: Fleming's still out there, you know? She's not given up.
Steve: Yeah, well, she can sit in judgement on Gates. Who am I to?
Ted: Well, that's a matter for your own conscience, Steve. All I know is, because of you, Kate's been left high and dry.
S1 E4 - After Steve quits, Ted finds him in the vicinity of Karim Ali's funeral
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Kate: Look, you're right, we don't have to talk about difficult stuff.
Gates: Nah, it's alright, it's… I knew her [Jackie] from years back.
Kate: I didn't realise.
Gates: Yeah, I was a DC. She was the estate agent that showed me round my first flat.
Kate: You're kidding?
Gates: And when I moved in, I made this joke that now she knows my address, and, erm…
Officer: Afternoon, sir.
Gates: How are you?
[The officer leaves, then Gates continues]
Gates: A couple of nights later, she knocked on my door. Then six months down the line, I'm doing the whole thing. I bought a ring, I'm down on one knee in a restaurant like a mug, then…
[He fiddles with his drink, as if uncomfortable with what comes next]
Gates: ...She pissed off with a millionaire. Hmph. I spent a couple of years feeling sorry for myself, and then I met my Jools.
Kate: Mrs Gates?
Gates: Yeah. And then out of the blue, Jackie's back in town, newly divorced.
Kate: What happened?
Gates: Hmph. It was like before. It was like that night when I was alone in a bare flat and she came knocking. A… and now she's dead, and it's probably because of me.
Kate: Don't torture yourself.
S1 E4 - Gates invites Kate to a cafe, and opens up about his private life
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Nige: Alright, mate?
Gates: Is there something wrong?
Nige: No, I was just passing by. Wondered if you fancied coming down the Arms for a swift pint.
[Gates chuckles]
Gates: I would love to, mate, but… snowed under.
Nige: Well, that's why I thought you could do with a night off.
Gates: Any other night.
[Nige pushes the living room door to]
Nige: You're in the middle of a shitstorm, Tone. Why've you stopped talking to me?
Gates: Of course I haven't. You're my best mate.
Nige: Am I?
Gates: Friday night. You, Mel, me, Jools, we'll get a babysitter. We'll have a balti.
[Nige has a wicked smile stretching across his face]
Nige: Great.
Gates: Yeah. I appreciate this, Nige.
Nige: Hmph. Right. Goodnight, Jools!
Jools: Night-night!
Nige: Night, Natalie! Night, Chloe!
Natalie: Night-night!
Gates: Goodnight, man.
Nige: Yeah.
S1 E4 - Nige Morton comes round Gates' house unannounced and tries to get him to hang out with him
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Gates: It's my girls. When they, erm, got into their school, I got slapped with a nine grand bill. And I was trying to get a loan to cover it, cos they were in danger of losing their places. Jackie paid it without telling me. She said it was a gift. I should've said no. I should've… My old man never did anything for his kids, and I swore I was going to be different.
Kate: Well, I'll keep tabs on Arnott. Whatever he finds, you'll know about it.
Gates: Thank you.
S1 E4 - Gates opens up to Kate about his financial connection to Jackie after learning that Steve went to his kids' school
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Ted: We’ve built a very damning case against him, Morton.
Nige: Then you won’t need to turn me, sir.
Steve: When the bomb goes off… be a hell of a lot of collateral damage.
[Nige is silent for a moment, then leans in]
Nige: I’ve been a DC for 20 years. I’ll still be one when I retire. Ambitious blokes, like you, get buffeted by every little wind of change. Me? Just keep sailing on.
Ted: Interview terminated. Go on, piss off!
Nige: Thank you, sir. Pissing off, sir. Welcome back, DS Arnott.
S1 E4 - Morton is first to be interviewed when all of TO-20 is brought in to AC-12
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Nige: Everyone knows she’s been stuck for a complaint, but AC-12 don’t seem to give a toss! What’s all that about?
Kate: With all due modesty, they’ve got bigger fish to fry.
Nige: Their case against you started with the free breakfast at the cafe. Who was the one wrote up the arrest report?
Kate: Yeah, that’s right. It was me. We all know the complaint came from the muggers.
Nige: Oh, do we?!
Kate: Yes.
Gates: Cut it out! Cut it out! Do you not see, Christ, they’re into me for everything! The laddering, the breakfast, Jackie, fucking everything!
Nige: Who are those bastards to come after you, boss? They’ve forgot what the job used to be. All the crap you took at Hendon.
Gates: Jesus, Nige, what the hell did you tell them?
Nige: Boss… Mate, what do you think? No comment to everything.
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Steve: Gates is playing you. Those lads were using chemistry to make crack, not bombs, and bleach to scrub the sink.
Hilton: They were selling drugs to finance terrorist activity. A recognised AQ Modus Operandi.
Steve: AQ? Al Qaeda? Jesus Christ, you’re loving this. And if you get a promotion out of it-
Ted: A little decorum, please, DS Arnott. Sir.
Hilton: Terrorism is the single greatest challenge in modern policing. Not to take this matter seriously could be catastrophic.
Steve: Who for? You?
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Ted: Well, at least we have the laddering.
Steve: Now, come on, that’s a drop in the ocean, boss.
Ted: Look, we’ve been round the houses, Steve, round the houses and down the bloody drains.
Steve: So what, you’re throwing in the towel?
Ted: That’s rich!
Steve: Look, Hilton blows with the wind. I thought you were better than that.
Ted: Now listen. I would’ve thought that if anybody understood that Counter-Terrorism can get you off, it would’ve been you, Steve.
Steve: What’s that supposed to mean?
Ted: You were involved in an operation where an innocent man got killed, and you’re running round, free as a bird. And it’s all because our senior officers and politicians would rather see ten innocents die, than let one terrorist succeed.
Steve: So why’d you recruit me then?
Ted: Well, lately, I’ve been asking meself the same bloody question.
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Gates: I wouldn’t.
Steve: This is pointless, Gates.
Gates: It isn’t about me versus you anymore. The people that Jackie was involved with, they’re all over me.
Steve: Then get in the car. Turn yourself in!
Gates: I wish it was that simple.
[A man in black, wearing a balaclava and wielding a baseball bat, appears behind Gates, walking towards Steve. A similar man appears behind him, and to his side. One of them is the manager of the hair salon. Every which way Steve looks, they’re there, closing in on him.]
Gates: I’m sorry.
- S1 E4, Steve arrives at what he thinks is an intelligence interview with Miroslav Minkowicz, but what is really a trap
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Gates: They killed Sammy!
Jools: Oh, my God…
Gates: Yeah, don't. It's a warning. It's me they're after.
Jools: Who are these people?
Gates: It doesn't matter who they are, I just need to know that you and the girls are safe. That's all I care about right now.
Jools: No, I'm not going anywhere without you!
Gates: Jools, you'll be safe at your mum's!
Jools: This is ridiculous, you're the police!
...
Gates: Hey, listen! I am on my own!
Jools: No, you're not.
Gates: This mess, it's mine. It's not yours, and it's not the girls', I just need you to do what I say.
Jools: I'm calling Nigel.
Gates: Don't.
Jools: There's not a bloke at the station that won't stand by you.
Gates: Jools, stop it!
...
Jools: Why didn't you say anything?
Gates: Because I thought I'd… I was trying to fix everything!
Jools: How? What's going on?
Gates: It doesn't matter, alright? They're criminals. Now, I… I need you to pack those bags and I need you to pick up my girls.
Jools: Why are you shutting me out?
Gates: Because I need to be able to handle this on my own!
Jools: I'm not going anywhere without you!
Gates: ...I was fucking her. Okay? I was fucking Jackie.
- S1 E5, Gates returns to his home after saving Steve from Tommy's men, and tries desperately to convince his wife to get herself and their kids to safety
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Kate: You’re a tough kid, Ryan. Or at least you think you are. Where did you get those injuries?
[He shrugs his shoulders]
Kate: If you carry on like this, the place you’re going has 16-year-olds, 17-year-olds, and they’re built like brick sheds. How do you think you’ll fare against one of those lads?
[He shrugs his shoulders]
Kate: They knock your teeth out, Ryan. They do that so you give a better blowjob.
- S1 E5, Kate interviews Ryan about Steve's torture, and tries to scare him straight
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Steve: Gates? What the hell’s going on?!
Gates: I need to flush out any backup, make ‘em come running.
Steve: There’s no backup, it’s just me.
Gates: Yeah? So you’re looking after your own, that’s not in the Anticorruption code, mate.
Steve: Well, it’s mine.
Gates: I was never on the take. And I was never in with criminals, that was all Jackie.
Steve: You pulled the surveillance off Greek Lane so they could do the murder.
Gates: I never gave that order. Anyone tells you different is lying.
Steve: All the dirty money Jackie was funnelling, you never suspected a thing?
Gates: Listen, I was an idiot, and I never twigged who she was in with. But it was them who did the murder, not me, and it’s them I’m hiding from, not you.
Steve: Turn yourself in. Give evidence against them, we can protect you.
Gates: That’s a bunch of crap and you know it. I’m a dead man walking, and so are you, son. We need to get them before they get us. For Jackie’s murder, for the Greek Lane mob, and for Wesley Duke. Because they’re the real criminals, Arnott, not me.
Steve: What the hell am I supposed to do?
Gates: Just back off! You back off and you keep everybody else off of me until the job’s done.
Steve: How do I know this isn’t just another one of your games?
Gates: This is my only chance of holding on to any of the things I give a toss about. I’ll give you Tommy, and then you let me go. You got it? Arnott, have you got it?!
Steve: Yes!
- S1 E5, Gates kidnaps Steve to bring him on-side
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Ryan: Oh, what now?
Bannerjee: Ryan, I, er… I want you to know you can call me.
Ryan: I ain’t no grass.
Bannerjee: Yeah, I know. It’s… just if there’s stuff you want to talk about. Or you want someone to buy you a burger. That’s all.
Ryan: Okay.
Bannerjee: Promise?
- S1 E5, PC Simon Bannerjee returns Ryan to his apathetic mother and gives him his mobile number in a show of support
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Ted: Steve, fancy a cup of tea? Ha-ha. Shall I be mother?
Steve: Thank you, sir.
Ted: Yeah, the date came through for your inquest. It’s next week.
Steve: Right.
Ted: Yeah… suppose you could always argue you’re not fit to testify. Yeah? Kate?
[He turns and indicates to Kate, and she comes over]
Ted: Yeah, the news came through yesterday, but I decided to let it wait. There’s no point ruining a good night’s sleep. Did you sleep alright last night?
Steve: Good, thank you, sir.
Ted: Yeah, I know, you know, I mean with the arm and all that.
Steve: Just a quiet night in, sir.
Ted: Quiet night?
[Ted suddenly slams the kettle down on the table]
Ted: You cheeky wee shite, ya! Kate, you have a word with him. My doctor told me to watch me blood pressure.
- S1 E5, Ted scolds Steve after finding out about his midnight meeting with Gates
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Tommy: D’you want to know the longest anyone’s ever managed to hold me in a police station?
Gates: I’m not arresting you. I didn’t kill Jackie Laverty.
Tommy: The only evidence they’ll find on her, is from you. You and your dirty business, plus the knife, with your prints all over it.
Gates: When I was with her, she was still alive.
Tommy: I wouldn’t know. I wasn’t there.
Gates: No, but your boys were, weren’t they? And did they make her suffer? Did they have their fun with her?
Tommy: You’ve got a dirty mind. My boys are professionals.
Gates: Bullshit. Probably under orders not to tamper with the evidence.
Tommy: What orders would those be?
Gates: Listen, you used her to get to me, didn’t you?
Tommy: It’s an interesting story, eh? Unfortunately, I’m not in a position to either confirm or deny.
- S1 E5, Gates kidnaps Tommy with AC-12's help, and tries to trick him into incriminating himself
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Gates: So I make Wesley Duke’s murder look like a copycat. But there’s no forensics, so they’re gonna need a confession. Your boys screwed up. Make one of them cop for it. Triple murder hanging around your neck. And I need a decision.
Tommy: I know the toe rag that’ll take the fall.
Gates: He’s gonna need to know chapter and verse.
Tommy: He will.
Gates: Hey, I am risking my neck for you here, I’m going to need more than that, mate.
Tommy: He was there. He did it.
Gates: I can’t carry this off if he’s a nutjob. He’d better be able to take orders.
Tommy: He will if I give them.
Gates: Hey, stop pissing me around! I need a simple answer, to a simple question and we are running out of time!
Tommy: For fucks sake! He killed him, on my orders! Good enough for you?!
Steve: [Victoriously] Yes!
- S1 E5, Gates finally gets the confession out of Tommy
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Steve: It’s over, we’ve got him!
Gates: My wife and my girls get nothing unless this is in the line of duty. That’s what you owe me. This, and nothing else! Do you understand? It’s for my family. I was never bent. You know that, don’tcha?
[Gates shoves Steve away, then climbs over the barrier into the opposite lane]
Steve: Gates. Gates! Gate-
- S1 E5, Gates hands Tommy over to Steve and Kate, then commits suicide to make sure that his family get a payout
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Dot: Sir, do you mind if I get a minute with him? Just a couple of things that might help us with the Greek Lane op. Non-evidential, obviously.
Buckells: Yeah, no problem.
Dot: C’mon.
Buckells: Hear you won’t be calling me sir for much longer. Congratulations, Dot.
Dot: Thanks. Uh, DS Cottan. Do you mind if I use the back of your van a minute? This way, please, sir.
[Dot and Tommy enter the back of the police van, and Dot shuts the door behind them]
Tommy: ...I hope you’ve got some good advice on how to play this hole.
Dot: Well, the top brass think the Greek Lane lads were involved with Al Qaeda. So you just play along with it, in return for immunity.
Tommy: Huh. Huh. Best caddy I’ve ever had, son.
- S1 E5, Dot is revealed to the audience as The Caddy
—
DCI Gates’ evidence against Tommy was never used.
The murders at Greek Lane and of Wesley Duke and Jackie Laverty remain officially unsolved.
Tony Gates’ family received a death-in-service benefit of £107,000 plus pension for life.
The anti-corruption case against Gates was “not proven” and has been closed.
Despite DS Arnott’s testimony, no police officers have been prosecuted for their actions before, during or after the fatal shooting of Karim Ali.
- Finale captions
Series 2
Dryden: There's been an attack on the Police. Three of our colleagues have lost their lives in the line of duty. Our first thoughts are with their families. But now the hunt begins for the people who committed this brutal crime.
- S2 E1, Deputy Chief Constable Mike Dryden addresses a crowd of reporters in the aftermath of the ambush
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Ted: DC Georgina Trotman, meet DS… Steven Arnott. Steve, meet your new partner.
Georgia: Actually, sir, it’s Georgia.
Ted: Georgia. Sorry.
(She offers her hand to Steve)
Georgia: Pleased to meet you.
(He shakes it)
Steve: Likewise.
Ted: Now, I’ve just been given the operational parameters. Witness Protection is off-limits.
Steve: For Christ’s sake.
Ted: Yep, and Major Violent Crime are going after the gunmen. So, AC-12’s brief is to investigate the suspicion that information leakage by a police officer is part of the set-up of the ambush.
Steve: Sir…
Ted: Steve. I get it, I get it. This is how Dryden wants it, we get the 4th Street officers.
Steve: Only one’s still alive.
Ted: So, you go after Denton.
Georgia: Very good, sir.
Ted: Thank you, you two.
(Georgia leaves. Steve shuts the door behind her)
Steve: She up to it?
Ted: Get you, the big I am. (Chuckles) Yes, I think so.
Steve: This investigation, sir-
Ted: Aye, aye. That’s the spirit.
(Steve leaves. Georgia stands and looks at him just outside)
Steve: Welcome to AC-12.
—
Lindsay: DS Akers impressed on me... the secure nature of our communication, and that I should only involve others when strictly operationally necessary. I… I invented a cover story involving the arrest of a missing person suspect.
Steve: You shared the information with no-one?
Lindsay: I discussed the matter with Deputy Chief Constable Dryden. I sought his approval to render assistance.
Ted: But, didn’t DS Akers advise you to inform as few people as possible?
Lindsay: A critical incident response of that type requires Gold approval, sir.
Ted: Quite right.
Steve: You always adhere to regulations?
Lindsay: That’s what they’re there for.
Ted: I can see you and I are going to get on like a house on fire, DI Denton.
- S2 E1, Denton is interviewed by AC-12
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Steve: For the tape, I’m indicating the route taken that night. Two unmarked police vehicles departed the safehouse, and the most direct route to the station is via A roads. Instead, the vehicles travelled along Crown Avenue and then turned left into Long Lane, almost immediately after which, the ambush took place.
Ted: Agreed and accepted?
Lindsay: Agreed and accepted.
Steve: A decision was taken not to go the fastest way, via A roads.
Lindsay: That’s correct.
...
Steve: This back route, it would lead to 4th Street Station, but only if you’d continued along Crown Avenue. The vehicles turned left into Long Lane.
Lindsay: Yeah.
Ted: You didn’t question that decision?
Lindsay: No, sir.
Steve: You had a radio, didn’t you?
Lindsay: Yeah.
Ted: So why didn’t you question the decision?
Royal: Can we… take a step back, please, and remind ourselves that DI Denton is being interviewed as a witness?
Ted: Absolutely, absolutely.
Lindsay: The… the decision appeared to make sense at the time. There were roadworks on Crown Avenue, erm, with… temporary traffic signals controlling a single lane. It was a potential hold-up that would have left us vulnerable.
Steve: There were no roadworks on Crown Avenue that night. Works had been completed the day before.
Lindsay: I wasn’t aware.
Ted: You didn’t make a point of getting up-to-date travel information?
Lindsay: Hmm… No.
—
Ted: You do understand what we’re investigating here, don’t you, DI Denton? The possibility of information leakage.
Lindsay: Yeah, I understand.
Ted: And information leakage can only happen in two ways, deliberately…
Steve: Officer corruption - they’re in with the criminals.
Ted: ...or accidentally.
Steve: Officer incompetence - they failed to communicate securely.
—
Lindsay: My mother… had to go into a nursing home. And the council wouldn’t pay, so we… sold her house, but it wasn’t enough, so… we sold mine, but there was negative equity, so… My mum is being looked after, but I’m stuck with mortgage payments on a horrible little place that I hate, and… you people.
Royal: Lindsay, don’t.
Lindsay: You people, you sit there and you try and twist some case out of my misfortunes. All I did was do my job. That’s all I’ve ever done. I shouldn’t have even been on duty that night. I’d do anything not to have been there, not to have picked up that call, because for all I know, it’s going to take away the one good thing in my life, and that is being a police officer.
—
Dryden: God asks us to forgive. But first, we must gain justice, for our fallen comrades. “Dearly beloved. Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath. For it is written, vengeance is mine. I will repay, saith the Lord”. Detective Sergeant Jayne Akers leaves a loving husband, Richard Akers, and many colleagues devastated by her loss. The families of Sergeant Alex Wallis and Constable Vincent Butler will miss them terribly…
- S2 E1, Dryden's speech at the funeral of the officers killed in the ambush
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Ted: I asked Kate to check out the operational options. Neither of us expected she’d get embedded so quickly. You know, there was an unfulfilled post for Denton’s DC.
Steve: Yeah, well, a heads-up would have been nice.
Ted: Do you want a row? What the hell were you doing there, anyway, interviewing Denton again?
Steve: We’re not allowed to investigate Akers, so... I asked Denton about her.
Ted: Full marks for ingenuity, son.
- S2 E1, Ted and Steve meet up at a restaurant after work, and discuss Kate's undercover on Denton, which Steve was previously unaware of
—
Ted: So, Steve’s been in AC for a year now, and every day has felt like a lifetime.
Steve: That’d make me about your age, sir.
Ted: He also likes the banter, the cheeky wee b-
Roisin: Ted.
Ted: “Boy”. I was going to say “cheeky wee boy”.
—
Georgia: Alright. Here are three facts about me, but one of them is false.
Steve: You’ve bitten off more than you can chew, Trotman. I do this for a living.
Georgia: Well, let’s see, shall we? I’m a gifted horsewoman. I won a poetry competition when I was 11. I’m a secret pool hustler.
Steve: You don’t know one end of a pool cue from the other.
[Cut to Georgia effortlessly potting every ball on the pool table like a pro]
—
Hargreaves: We’re interested in what you were up to at the hospital. There on a tip-off, weren’t you?
Steve: If you speak to Superintendent Hastings…
Hargreaves: Where did that tip-off come from, eh? Who’s got that kind of inside information?
Steve: I do honestly want to help, sir, but I’m really not at liberty to answer that question.
Hargreaves: Your partner fell five floors. The pathologist had to spoon half her brain back inside her skull. Do you not want to help us get the bastard that did it? There were two of you, weren’t there, eh? Two of you, one of him.
- S2 E2, DCS Hargreaves' delightful introduction, as he grills Steve following Georgia's murder
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Hargreaves: This is an e-fit of the suspect. We put that together with the nurse, sir.
Jo: Would be great if we could circulate to the press.
Dryden: Absolutely. I want those guards disciplined.
Hargreaves: Sir.
Dryden: This can’t bloody get out. The witness was close to regaining consciousness!
Hargreaves: It’s very disappointing, sir.
Dryden: OUR BEST LEAD.
Hargreaves: Sir.
Dryden: So, where are you with the vehicle?
Hargreaves: The ambush vehicle?
Dryden: Yes, the ambush vehicle.
Hargreaves: There’s no forensics to connect it to the gunmen. Since we can’t trace them via the vehicle, we’ve been concentrating on traffic cams, trying to plot the route that it took that night, but so far, we’ve-
Dryden: Nothing? Right.
—
Ted: So, when would it be possible to schedule a meeting with Deputy Chief Constable Dryden?
Denise: His diary’s full for the week.
Ted: Yeah- I… I appreciate he’s got a hectic round of media appoint-
Denise: I can go back to him. Did you say you were Superintendent Hayman?
Ted: No, no, Hastings, like the battle?
Denise: Leave it with me, sir.
Ted: Thank you kindly.
—
Denton: There’s an interesting exercise. You take the worst thing you’ve ever done, and you state it in the simplest terms. No dressing it up, no implicit mitigation.
Kate: I wouldn’t want to play that game.
Denton: No, me neither, but AC-12 do. What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done to anyone?
Kate: Have you done something, boss?
Denton: Yours first.
Kate: Erm… someone told a lie to help a dead man’s family, and I didn’t stand up for the truth.
Denton: [Whispered] ...No. You’ve done worse than that. We’ll work well together only when you can be completely honest with me.
Kate: ...I’ll let you get some rest.
- S2 E2, Kate goes round to Lindsay's to try and ingratiate herself with her, but gets more than she bargained for
—
Dryden: What do they know, or think they know?
Jo: They’ve got a source claiming that a vehicle registered to your wife was captured by a safety camera around 10pm on August the 16th. A fixed three-point penalty notice was sent to your wife and it’s alleged she claimed, falsely, that you were the driver.
Dryden: How the hell did they get that?
Jo: I told you. They’ve got a source.
Dryden: What, some bobby with an axe to grind fancies stabbing me in the back for a few quid? Don’t these idiots realise I’m trying to improve their lot?
Jo: But is it true?
Dryden: Helen was home, I was driving.
Jo: I’ll throw your denial straight back at them.
Dryden: Thank you.
Jo: But if they’re confident in their source, they’ll run it anyway.
Dryden: What can you do to… limit the damage?
Jo: Me? You. The ambush is still the bigger story. Crack the case and the speed camera won’t even make page 8.
Dryden: Why are they doing this to me?
Jo: You have to ask? Seriously?
—
Dryden: Have you been offered tea, coffee?
Ted: Ah, plenty, plenty, thank you sir. I can see you’re busy, so I’ll come straight to the point, if I may.
Dryden: I’d be grateful.
Ted: AC-12 would like to access all areas relevant to the 5th of September ambush.
Dryden: Those areas being?
Ted: Witness Protection.
Dryden: Ted…
Ted: With no reciprocity.
...
Ted: We’ve identified a prime suspect, sir. A police officer possibly involved in setting up the ambush, and a go-between, with links to the criminal parties who carried it out. The missing link is in Witness Protection, sir, I’m nearly certain of it.
Dryden: Who are these individuals?
Ted: I’d rather not say at this particular time, sir.
Dryden: “Rather not”?
Ted: With respect, sir, that’s what ‘no reciprocity’ means. It’s the appropriate way of investigating blue-on-blue crime. A way of keeping the lid on internal leaks, sir.
Dryden: Of course.
Ted: We’re the best in the business, sir. I think we can sort this thing out… pretty quickly.
Dryden: ...I’ll open up Witness Protection to your team.
Ted: Thank you, sir.
Dryden: There’s a DI in AC-9. He’s your man. You’ll second him.
Ted: As you wish, sir.
Dryden: Whatever it takes to nail those bastards, right, Ted?
Ted: Absolutely, thank you, sir.
—
Jo: Hi. 8:30 okay for tomorrow’s briefing?
Dryden: Look, Jo, the Hargreaves interview, the whole thing, this isn’t working.
Jo: You’re firing me?
Dryden: No. You know that’s more hassle than it’s worth.
Jo: You’re bringing someone else in. Why?
Dryden: You have to ask? Seriously?
—
Ted: DI Denton, I’m arresting you for conspiracy to murder a protected witness-
Denton: State the grounds.
Ted: You do not have to say anything-
Denton: Under Code G of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, state the grounds. Why are you arresting me?
Ted: As the arresting officer, I submit: one - you’re the sole survivor of an ambush you had the means of setting up; two - you made a phone call, and freely admit that you made a phone call, to the hospital, after which two people were murdered. Regarding the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, I note subsection 5C brackets 1, C brackets 2, E and F, and I’m sure you’re very familiar with those terms. Lindsay Denton, you do not have to say anything, however, you may harm your defence if you fail to mention when questioned something you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
- S2 E2, Denton is brought in for interview as a suspect, and charged
—
Denton: I would like to say something. Keep the tape running. Superintendent Hastings… I have in my possession certain financial records pertaining to you.
Ted: How the hell did you get these?
Denton: The document requests were signed off by an officer of Chief Superintendent rank. Anything I say may be used in evidence. That works both ways, sir.
[Ted reaches to stop the tape]
Royal: Uh, sir, DI Denton has asked that the tape be left running. She’s got a right to be heard.
Denton: Without going into details, the records show that Superintendent Hastings is in considerable financial difficulties.
Ted: These have absolutely no relevance… [chuckles] to the case against you, DI Denton.
Denton: I’m reading from a transcript of our first interview. Supt. Hastings: “Our strongest supposition is that criminal interests attempted to assassinate the witness to prevent him testifying. Those criminal interests would pay a pretty penny for an inside man, or woman. Any officer in the kind of financial mess you’re in, DI Denton, is honour-bound to declare it, on account of vulnerability to bribery”. Have you declared your situation, sir? Sir?
Ted: No.
Denton: No.
...
Denton: This is the home, under protective custody, of Staff Nurse Claire Tindall. You interviewed her in connection with events at the hospital. There are more photos.
Steve: How’d you get these?
Denton: For the tape, the images show DS Arnott returning to Staff Nurse Tindall’s home. And he’s later photographed in an upstairs bedroom with her. What was the purpose of your return visit?
Steve: [Almost inaudible] Um…
Denton: I’m sure you took notes of the conversation. May we hear them?
[Silence from Steve]
Denton: No notes, then? I’m sure you’re aware - or perhaps you’re not, but I hope Superintendent Hastings is - that inappropriate relations with a witness is a breach of the England and Wales Police Conduct Regulations 2008.
...
Denton: DC Fleming, is this your mobile phone?
Kate: [Almost Inaudible] Yes.
Denton: Please speak up for the tape.
Kate: ...Yes.
Denton: I came into possession of this mobile phone during our altercation at the Canalside Industrial Estate, is that correct?
Kate: Yeah. You stole it from me.
Denton: Your call history makes for very interesting reading. Significant people at significant times. Stealing… is against the law. My bad. Let’s save the rest of this conversation for another time, does that suit you, Kate?
- S2 E2, Lindsay ruthlessly tears into each of our heroes and reveals they all have feet of clay
—
Ted: Look, our investigation has expanded into Witness Protection. The Deputy Chief Constable ordered me to bring on a specialist from AC-9.
Steve: Those bastards have been keeping us out.
Ted: AC-9 did not make the call, Steve, Dot Cottan certainly did not make the call. This has come directly from the office of the Deputy Chief Constable.
Steve: I'm not saying you should've run it by us first.
Ted: I'm glad you're not saying that, Steve, because that shows you're not confused about who's in charge here. Come on, give him a chance. The Tony Gates team was disbanded, Cottan went on to distinguish himself, got himself a promotion, and the fact of the matter is he was the only officer on that unit who was prepared to stand up and give evidence against his boss. He's a born Anti-Corruption officer, poacher turned gamekeeper.
- S2 E3, Steve complains to Ted after seeing Dot in the office
—
Kate: Why didn’t you reveal to Hastings and Arnott that I’d received a call off DS Akers’ husband on the night of the ambush?
Denton: I didn’t need to.
Kate: No?
Denton: No. Hastings makes Greece look solvent, and Arnott can’t keep it in his pants.
Kate: Their transgressions are minor in comparison. Irrelevant. How did you figure out I was an undercover officer?
Denton: What, I give you tips so that you can do a better job on the next innocent officer that you go after?
Kate: I did a good enough job on you. You want me on a string, wondering when you’re going to screw up my career.
Denton: You don’t like it when the shoe’s on the other foot, do you, Kate?
Kate: Let me explain something to you, Inspector. You’re facing a charge of conspiracy to murder. That’s a life sentence.
Denton: I’m not going to be in here for life. I’m innocent, and I’m going to clear my name and that will become apparent at the trial. If we get that far.
- S2 E3, Kate goes to interview Lindsay in HMP Brentiss.
—
Kate: “How are you?”
Ted: “You do not have to say anything…”
Denton: “Tickety-boo”. “You sit there and you try and twist some case out of my misfortunes”. “Status zero! Status zero!”
Dryden: “Three of our colleagues have lost their lives in the line of duty”.
Denton: “All I did was do my job”.
Ted: “It was no accident, was it?” “Three of YOUR own in the morgue because of you”. “No firearms…”
O’Neill: “...no backup!”
TV: “The officer plunged five floors and is reported to have died…”
Ted: “DI Denton, I am arresting you for conspiracy…”
Denton: “Take away the one good thing in my life…”
Ted: “The sole survivor”.
Kate: “I think you’re guilty.” “I think you’re guilty”. “I think you’re guilty”. “I think you’re guilty”. “I think you’re guilty…”
Denton: No.
- S2 E3, Denton sits down in a changing room and hears various voices chastising her, before becoming resolved to proving her innocence
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