Line of Duty

'Officer of the year, Detective Chief Inspector Anthony Gates.'

Flat 56.

Welcome to Anti Corruption. This will be good.

Wasn't your fault, son.

Hit and run? Why us?

We've got a big sign over our heads saying, "CID - dump your crap here".

I'm sick of CID. I want to join TO-20, Sir.

I hit something. What did you hit? A dog.

'You killed a man.'

Oh, my god!

'The finger amputations are clean.

'It was 10 minutes.'

15 tops before the next turn clocked on.

It's big. It's sexy.

Makes it mine, OK?

'We're going to get Gates with or without you, Steve.'

Looks like you've found your level, Arnott. Nobody plays me!

Didn't know AC 12 used undercover officers.

I wouldn't be risking it if I didn't believe Gates was a special case.

'Mr Patel was an accountant for Laverty Holdings.'

'I thought maybe you were clean. Looks like you're dirty after all.'

You take a shot at the king? Make sure you kill him, son.

Looks like there's still a turd on the driver's seat.

Best tell the boss he's here. In a minute.

DS Arnott. DCI Gates asked me to escort you into the building.

Arsehole.

Fine.

Tony Gates - best detective in the city.

You? You see someone getting results and you have to bring him down.

You're safe, then.

I never worked hard enough. Tony Gates has.

He cares about solving crime.

You done?

Haven't finished me smoke yet.

Shall we get a move on?

Bollocks!

Having a bit of a bad time. All right, mate.

DCI Gates, I bear a signed action

assigning me access to TO-20 files.

You're a bean counter. How does that feel?

Briefing room, please.

OK. Greek Lane. Two unidentified IC6 males. Amputated fingers.

Fingers were cut off while these lads were still alive.

Most likely with bolt-cutters

and most likely to extract information.

Given the finger count, looks like they didn't have much to say. They gave the murderer the finger.

Yeah, 20 times!

Maybe it was a warning? Well, it worked on these two.

Right. Known dealer Wesley Duke,

seen ingressing and egressing the dwelling.

The house became the subject of a surveillance op.

We're assuming the offenders broke in via the window.

The 15-minute window between Deepak and Dot leaving

and the next shift arriving.

Yeah, I'm sorry about that, Tone. Very sorry, sir.

If we'd have stayed, we'd have gone over the hour.

They're all over us about overtime, boss.

So we make it up by nicking whoever did it, right?

Cheers, Tone.

Well, all this makes Wesley Duke our principal lead.

Worth bringing him in?

Oh, I've already had uniform pick him up.

Interview Room 1.

Sir, I hope it's OK, but I'm just going to go over our case load.

Knock yourself out.

I'll just be a minute, Nige. Oh, don't mind me.

'Interview under caution'

of Wesley Duke by Detective Chief Inspector Anthony Gates

in the presence of Wesley's solicitor, Lis Burton.

You've both had the benefit of disclosure, so you're aware

that we have evidence that Wesley was a frequent visitor

of the house on Greek Lane. Tell me what you were buying.

Hard food? White boy?

No, I was just borrowing some DVDs.

I see.

So, you would take away some DVDs,

come back the next night and what, borrow some more?

That's correct. Disclosure of evidence and four hours

and this is the story you've cooked up? All right.

I would be very disappointed if you couldn't tell me

the titles of some of those DVDs.

Iron Man 2. Kick-Ass. Piranha 3D, except not in 3D.

Yeah, all right, Wesley. Well done.

But what I really want to know is, those lads who were lending

the DVDs, who were they and where were they getting their DVDs from?

They were just some lads that was into DVDs, innit?

Thing is, Wesley, those lads were brutally murdered and you are

the only person that we can connect to that house.

And that makes you prime suspect. Mr Duke had nothing to do

with the murder and you know it.

Wesley, where were you between the hours of 11pm

on Wednesday the 4th and 6am on Thursday the 5th?

No comment. No alibi offered at first interview.

My line of inquirys? They're going to hit you like a steamroller

if you don't stop feeding me this pack of porkies.

My client strenuously denies the allegation.

You have no forensic evidence as per disclosure.

This is going to be a compensation claim for wrongful arrest.

Have him, Tone.

OK.

Interview terminated.

Thank you very much, Wesley.

You've been a great help. What you mean?

As a token of our gratitude for the information you've provided,

I'll have you returned home in a marked police car.

He'll thank you warmly in front of the whole estate.

Then I'll get our community policing operations

to make a blatant point of turning a blind eye

to all of your activities.

He's just turned a ferret into a rat.

Whoa, whoa! My client is absolutely not a police informer.

So?

Interview continued. How long were they operating out of that house?

Not long. A month, tops.

And where were they from?

Some Arabs or Muslims or something.

What were their names, Wesley? Ali... Ahmed... How am I supposed to know?

Do you know where were they getting their supply? Of DVDs?

They never said. They had loads.

Good quality. Not mixed up or nothing.

All right. Now we're getting somewhere. I need one more fact.

Anything, Wesley. Help me to help you out here.

It came in some white sacks.

They! THEY came in some white sacks.

Can I go now?

No.

Not with our paperwork.

Interview terminated.

Cheers.

You'll be fine. This week they're only into burglaries.

Rita? Jackie Laverty.

Oh! All yours.

Thanks.

Has DCI Gates called you in?

DCI Gates?

He's, er, taken over your case.

If you come with me, I'll see if he's available.

Officer of the year.

Ms Laverty, isn't it?

Would you like to come into my office, please. I'd be happy to.

Thank you, Rita.

You're welcome, sir.

Can you leave the door open, please?

Thank you.

Have a seat.

So I welcome this opportunity to bring you up to speed, Miss Laverty.

We're satisfied there was a break-in at your home

that enabled the thieves to steal your vehicle.

It was subsequently involved in a fatal hit-and-run with a pedestrian.

We've looked at identifying the victim through Missing Persons.

There was an individual who appeared to match the deceased.

However, that is no longer an active line of enquiry.

Your case remains open and unsolved.

Just in case you think of contacting me again.

I hope that clarifies the situation, Ms Laverty.

I see.

Rita? Could you show Ms Laverty out, please?

Steve? I just had a call from Kate.

I skimmed the hit-and-run file, sir. It's a red herring.

Don't you think it's curious that the Officer of the Year

should be involving himself in a hit-and-run incident?

He knows we're on to him and he's deliberately taken

on a low-profile case with virtually zero chance of clean-up.

What I do have, sir,

is a pattern of laddering going back years.

Gates selects an open-and-shut case and bumps up additional charges.

He's clearing four crimes for every one that's actually committed.

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?

Hiya. Hey.

Hi there, how you doing?

The performance is just there on the left.

Medium latte? Thank you.

What's your name? Nadzia.

Hawaii Five-O.

Could I ask you some questions please, Nadzia?

Should I ask for a lawyer first?

Depends if you're a criminal or not.

I'm a very good person. Then you'll be fine.

Nadzia. N-A-D-Z-I-A.

Surname?

Wojcik. W-O-J-C-I-K.

Last week, a police officer was having breakfast here.

There was a mugging outside and he intervened. I remember.

Does he regularly receive free meals?

No, he never came in before.

Some officers make sure everyone knows they're in the job.

Fishing for special treatment. They were quiet, no trouble.

He was with someone?

Yes.

Another police officer?

I don't know, but she didn't do anything to stop the mugging

like he did.

A woman?