Line of Duty

So many years I wondered what I'd do if I ever saw him again

and then I did, in a photo, in a briefing room

and I was being sent to meet him with a gun.

I don't think we should close

the investigation into Danny Waldron's background.

I'd like to keep digging.

What's he saying?

This man's a young Ronan Murphy,

a suspect shot by Daniel Waldron during Operation Damson.

What, they knew each other?

Did you fabricate the improper relations between you

and Detective Sergeant Arnott? - No.

- Did you fabricate the planting of evidence against you? - No.

What is your verdict?

Not guilty.

It is with deep regret that I inform you all

of the death of PC Rod Kennedy.

Hari initiated the struggle with that gun

and it's only his word for it that it was self-defence.

I owe you an apology for the other night.

Your, erm, dinner invitation.

- You're a married man. - This is it.

I think Danny Waldron purposely created a trail of evidence

and now we're on the trail of the other abusers.

Dale Roach.

He was leader of the city council during the period Danny Waldron

and Joe Nash were residents at Sands View.

The things that he did to us at Sands View...

I promise you, I will get these bastards.

Bains killed Danny. I'll lay you evens he killed Kennedy as well.

- Hello? - 'You're being fitted up for murdering Rod Kennedy.'

If you want a way out, you'll listen to me.

Did he ever mention any other names? Politicians? Coppers?

Single-handedly brings in an AFO. Well done.

'I'd just like to get on with my life.'

Miss Denton.

I'm Gill Bigelow, legal counsel to AC-12.

I imagine they keep you VERY busy.

Have a seat.

You know Superintendent Hastings.

I do.

As part of a new initiative, christened Truth and Reconciliation,

following a miscarriage of justice, parties are invited to

engage in dialogue to initiate the healing process.

There seems to be an oversight.

Some of the officers involved in my wrongful conviction are missing.

Superintendent Hastings, as senior investigating officer,

represents the whole team.

Well, I want them here

or this new box you need to tick, just, well...

.. won't get ticked.

Thank you. It wouldn't have been the same without you.

Miss Denton, on behalf of this department

and this constabulary, I offer you a sincere

and unconditional apology for your wrongful conviction

in respect of the offence of conspiracy to murder.

Ted?

Er, as the senior investigating officer,

I acknowledge your feelings regarding your conviction.

WRONGFUL conviction, and you haven't actually said sorry.

Maybe you'll do better, DS Arnott.

You require me to sign off that I accept your apology.

I won't, unless it comes from the officers who wronged me.

You're out. What more do you want?

An... apology.

This isn't going very well at all, is it?

Ted?

As senior investigating officer, I apologise for your conviction.

You omitted "wrongful" but, thank you, that's very gracious.

DS Arnott? We're all waiting.

Your allegation that I planted incriminating evidence against you

is false.

Point of information -- I've made two allegations.

One, you engaged in inappropriate sexual relations

whilst on an undercover operation.

And, two, you planted £50,000 to simulate a bribe.

- And it's all crap! - Steve.

Really? Do tell.

Lindsay Denton knows our procedures inside out.

She exploited doubts and grey areas to tie our investigation in knots.

Oh, you did that all by yourself.

First, DC Fleming's failed undercover operation and then yours.

- I didn't do too badly. You ended up in prison. - And we didn't fail.

We got you convicted.

But you know sexual misconduct by undercover officers is a hot

topic so you invented this story about us going to bed together

so the jury sees you as a wronged woman.

They obviously felt that I must have shagged you into conspiring

- to murder a protected witness. - Stephen!

Thank you, DS Arnott.

I couldn't agree more that the question of your sexual integrity

quite rightly made the jury sceptical...

.. but I've got a recording that will be of interest to you all.

All right, then. This just isn't the time or the place.

Now is exactly the time and exactly the place.

Not in court, in a room full of rubberneckers and reporters,

my pathetic private life laid out for everyone to laugh at, to pity.

I couldn't bear that.

But to show you all what kind of officer got me

locked up for 585 miserable days,

THAT I can live with.

I've had my whole life put on trial

and now it's your turn.

You've been charged and tried but the one person that refuses

to examine what you're accused of is you.

I'm innocent.

The question is -- are you?

This phone was next to the bed the entire time,

although I can believe that you were too preoccupied to notice.

Would you like me to, erm, play it for everyone?

DS Arnott?

No.

Christ sake, Steve.

Well, I feel this meeting's been remarkably successful

and I'll be very happy to record, in writing,

that it's been a healing process for all parties.

I'd also prefer it

if you'd consider closing the matter of DS Arnott's sexual impropriety.

I don't intend to make a statement of evidence.

The people that actually did the crime that I was imprisoned for,

they're still out there.

Superintendent, you uphold the integrity of the police service.

If you held one iota of doubt about my conviction,

no officer would be more troubled by that than you.

No officer would do more to right that wrong.

I plan to move on with my life.

You won't move on, Steve, until you stop chasing me

and you start chasing your real enemies.

For Christ's sake, son, what was in that phone?!

We've got to take that crap from her, sir?

You lied in court! You lied to your partner and you lied to me!

I didn't lie to you, sir, I just don't think it's appropriate

to discuss an officer's private life.

I don't quiz you on yours.

What do you mean by that?

- I'm a married man. - I know, sir.

Anyway, it isn't private when it's bandied about in a court of law.

What matters, sir, is whether I planted evidence.

Are there any forensic anomalies in respect of the money

found at Denton's address? No.

It matches the other bribe money.

Are the exhibit officer's records inaccurate or incomplete?

- That is NOT the issue! - It's completely the issue.

I did not plant evidence.

If... IF I'd had sex with Lindsay Denton, which I didn't,

does that stop her being guilty?

Lindsay Denton has left the building.

Steve Arnott should do the same.

Discreditable conduct.

Steve Arnott did not plant evidence.

But it's OK to have a relationship with a suspect?

I can see how you feel about this, Ted.

Why defend the indefensible?

Look, he can be an irritating wee gobshite when he wants to be,

- I'll give you that. - I'll tell you why.

Because you personally recruited him from counter-terrorism

and that means you having to admit your misjudgment.

Sorry, Ted, I intend to return to this conversation.

Kate.

Kate, wait, please.

One time you told me Lindsay Denton had dirt on you.

Remember what I said.

Maybe there are some people who always tell the truth.

- The rest of us choose our moments. - And that's what I had to do.

To ensure evidence was put in front of a jury that would convict Lindsay

- Denton of a crime we all know she committed. - But we don't know.

The only person who really knows is Lindsay herself.

We gather the evidence and the people decide and they've decided

she didn't do it cos you couldn't keep it in your pants!

- That's not what happened. - What happened?

It was an undercover operation in which

I nurtured the trust of the target.

That is straight out of the manual and total bollocks.

- You shagged her because you wanted to. - I didn't shag her.

Do you know what, Steve? This is all a bit too late.

You should have told me the truth,

given me the chance to work with you on this.

That's what partners do.

For the tape, image 313 is a photograph of item reference NTW-7.

Said item is a rope found hanging from an overhead support.

Detective Inspector Cottan has given us a statement where you

attempted to overpower him with the intent of causing death by hanging.

The exact same means as PC Rod Kennedy.

I didn't murder Rod and I absolutely didn't attempt to murder DI Cottan.

In fact, DI Cottan set me up.

He set you up?!

Yeah, Cottan smashed himself in the face to make it look like I hit him

but I didn't.

As far as the rope goes, he must have planted it there beforehand.

- He'll say anything to save his own skin. - Yeah.

And why would an officer of mine do such a thing, eh?

To frame me for Rod's murder.

Do you have anything to support these claims against DI Cottan?

I mean, anything at all?

For the tape, the interviewee is offering no supporting evidence.

Moving on. DS Arnott.

For the tape, image 291, item reference MR-3

and image 292, item reference MR-4.

MR-3 and 4 are mobile phones.

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