All language subtitles for Line of Duty - 05x06 - Episode 6.MTB

It's called Operation Pear Tree.

Our brief was to embed
an undercover officer

within an organised crime group.

Detective Sergeant John Corbett.

I'm just trying to get to the truth.

The top brass,
they don't want me to succeed.

There's a bent copper running
organised crime, I'm sure of it.

The man that broke in,
I never saw his face.

He said you'd know why he'd done it.

I assaulted your gaffer's wife.

He'll make sure I go down,
there's no two ways about it.

One zero to four five.
The order is Fahrenheit.

Sir, we'll lose all of Corbett's intel.

We know that Corbett
is a coldblooded killer.

Give yourself up!

You shoot me, then the truth
never comes out.

Lee Banks?

- Who the hell are you?
- Superintendent Hastings.

You're a rat, John.

A rat.

What if he did blow Corbett's cover?

Doesn't bear thinking about.

- This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
- How much?

£100,000.

Haven't we earned a payday?

I don't want the fiasco of Operation
Pear Tree, which was not of your

making, add a disastrous coda to
an otherwise distinguished career.

Cover it up with all this stuff. Come on.

I never asked you how your exams went.

Yeah, I got a date for my interview.

It's clear to me that the threshold
test has been passed

and therefore it is my lawful right
to arrest you on suspicion

- of conspiracy to murder John Corbett.
- No, no, no.

You will be held in custody

while we gather further
evidence against you.

What is happening here?
I am being framed!

Today was just for starters.

Now I'm going to prove
that Hastings is H.

The inquiry into Superintendent Hastings

is not a matter over which
you're entitled to exercise choice.

Cooperation is your lawful duty
as police officers

and failure to comply is an offence
under police conduct regulations.

Any of you obstructing my officers
can and will face arrest.

But let's not fall out over this.

I'm sure we can all work together nicely.

DI Fleming, DS Arnott,
can I borrow you a minute?

Seven years and counting.

No-one's worked more closely
with Ted Hastings than you two.

You have better insights into
the man than anyone else in AC12.

So, what you know, I need to know,
my team needs to know.

Ma'am, I'm not comfortable
kicking the gaffer when he's down.

He recruited you.

- Yes, ma'am.
- Mm-hm.

Stuck by you when perhaps
some others wouldn't have.

Shagging witnesses and suspects
and the like.

I sympathise with your loyalties,
DS Arnott, I really do,

but on the other hand we have found
£50,000 stashed in his hotel room

so if I were you I wouldn't go round
professing too close a loyalty

to Ted Hastings, otherwise people
might just start suspecting you

of being an accessory to his offences.

H.

A senior police officer
sitting at the top

of an institutionalised relationship

between organised crime
and corrupt police officers.

AC12 failed to bring him down.

I won't.

Wow.

£50,000.

Ma'am, Sarge, can we talk please?

- Sure. What's up?

- I've been looking into
John Corbett's past,

like you asked me to. You said
it was completely confidential

- and I couldn't share it with anyone.
- What have you found?

- May I ask what's going on in here?
- Yeah. A private conversation.

Didn't you hear DCS Carmichael?
We need to know everything.

- It's Michelle, isn't it?
- Yes.

Listen, Michelle, we're AC12.

We do this to other units
week-in-week-out

so don't try telling me how it works.

We're witnesses, not suspects.

Now, stop making a tit of yourself
and piss off.

Sorry. Go on.

It goes back to
Superintendent Hastings' service

with the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

When he was a PC in the 1980s,
he was interviewed in connection

with the disappearance
of Anne-Marie McGillis.

- Corbett's mum?
- Yeah.

- The records aren't brilliant.
- No, they never were in them days.

But they've been retained as
the disappearance remains unsolved.

You've got this on file?

Yes, Sarge,
but I've kept it security protected.

Well done, but I don't want you
getting in trouble

so you should share the file
with DCS Carmichael's team.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you, ma'am.

Christ's sake, Kate.

I'm just calling it as I see it,
Steve. The truth comes first.

What, we just help Carmichael
hammer nails in the gaffer's coffin?

Well, you heard Carmichael.
If the gaffer is found guilty,

I can guarantee it'll be us
she'll be after next.

"Oh, we must have
known Hastings was bent."

What if the gaffer's innocent?
We'll have betrayed him.

He'll come after us and we'll deserve it.

Well, I don't know about you, Steve,
but I'm not going to sit around

and wait for a kicking off
the gaffer or Carmichael

when there's police work to be done.

Stand clear of the door.

Corbett's murder, Hastings' arrest.

Fortunately, it will all be
covered by our application

for Public Interest Immunity.

Nothing need ever come out.

Unless Carmichael proves
a link between Hastings

and organised crime.
We have to go public with that.

There's pros and cons PR-wise.

Which makes me think we need to
emphasise the wording.

Wording?

Operation Pear Tree's objective
was to examine institutionalised

links between corrupt police
officers and organised criminals.

Most people would prefer us spending
that money reducing response times,

putting more bobbies on the beat.

- Anyway, I'll leave that with you.
- Where are you going?

The inquiry into Superintendent Hastings

must be above reproach.

Wouldn't hurt to make sure.

- This is never easy.
- No.

Sorry for your loss.

We're sorry to have to ask

but we're making further enquiries
into John's undercover operation.

I can't help you.

Not sure I would even if I could.

I met John a few times.

He was a very brave man.

Steph, from what Merseyside Police
have told us

about your reaction to the news
of your husband's death...

...it has made us question some
of the things you said to us

when we was last here.

You're not in any trouble.

We just want to do right by John.

Sit down if you like.

Thank you.

It was all an act before.

John told me that was how to play it
to protect him.

Going back to our visit
on the 10th of March,

we asked you about John's links
to Northern Ireland.

He grew up over there.

When his mum died,
he was took in by his auntie.

Did John ever talk about his mum?

Yeah.

We've got a name, Anne-Marie McGillis.

Anne-Marie, yeah.

What did John say about her?

John never said much.

To be honest, I don't know
how much he ever knew.

He was... He was only a kid when it
all happened, about nine or ten.

When what happened?

The story was Anne-Marie
was helping the police

and then the police betrayed her.

Let on she was an informant
and that's why she got killed.

Did John ever say there was
a particular officer involved?

When he was older,
his auntie said there was one

that Anne-Marie had talked about.

A young fella her age.

I think he took a shine to her and
she trusted him to look out for her.

He should have but he didn't.

Or worse.

What do you mean, worse?

Something John said.

This copper, he was married,
and there was a bit of scandal

about him spending so much time
round Anne-Marie's.

Maybe it suited him
for Anne-Marie to go missing.

Did John have any evidence of this?

Not that I know of.

Was there a name for this officer?

If there was, I never heard it.

Not from John.

Did John ever connect this family
history to the undercover operation

he was involved in
at the time of his death?

John never told me what his jobs
was about for me own protection.

And his.

Why are you so interested in what
happened in Northern Ireland?

Is there a connection?

We don't know.

Corbett never mentioned Hastings
to Steph.

He was only a kid when it happened.
Maybe he never knew the name.

Still, the undercover officer
recruited to investigate

links between the OCG
and corrupt officers,

all the way up to H,
just happens to be the son

of a woman murdered on
the gaffer's patch?

Well, now we know why Corbett was
so convinced the gaffer's bent.

What we don't know is if someone
else knew about Corbett's past link

to the gaffer or if somehow
Corbett managed to put himself

- forward for the job.
- Exactly.

Any chance of it being a coincidence?

Coincidence, my arse.

I see you've cleared everybody out.

That'll save the mutual
embarrassment when I'm reinstated.

DCS Carmichael had concerns
about security.

AC12 had a corrupt DI
who shot his way out of here.

- Did you manage to get any sleep?
- Not much.

Thank you. As you were.

Listen, this heavy mob that
you've just parachuted in,

they look a bit trigger-happy to me.

But our man, Police Sergeant
Kyle Ferringham,

he knows this building inside out,

you will not find a safer pair of hands.

You just said it. He's your man.

I'll stick with mine, thank you.

Second interview of Edward Hastings
in the presence of his solicitor

by DCS Carmichael, DI Brandyce
and PS Tranter.

You remain under caution.

As you know, you may be held for up
to 24 hours,

at which point you will
either be released

or charged with conspiracy
to murder John Corbett.

Pausing interview.

PS Ferringham on official business.

What's going on?

Gill Biggeloe, Senior Legal Counsel
to the PCC, attending

as an official observer to ensure
correct procedures are followed.

- Why wasn't I informed?
- You just were.

Thank you.

Ma'am.

Hi, Ted.

Resuming interview, now with PCC's
Senior Legal Counsel observing.

- Mr Hastings, how did you...?
- I thought, ma'am,

that we had agreed that
I would be addressed by my rank.

Given the gravity of the charge
against you,

I know we'd both hate to be accused
of special treatment.

Best we treat you like
any normal, regular person

who's been accused of plotting
to kill someone, don't you agree?

When did you receive confirmation
that John Corbett

had assaulted your wife?

I'm sorry to probe. I know this must
be extremely upsetting for you.

- On the 12th of March.
- When on the 12th of March?

During the operation to apprehend him.

Oh.

I see.

Talk about a pressure situation.
My heart goes out to you.

To have that trauma
at that very same moment

as being in command of armed
officers surrounding John Corbett.

Still, and, I am sorry about this,

I do need to ask you about
the events that followed.

DI Brandyce.

Document 53 in your folders.

Document 53 is a copy of the report

made by the Tactical Firearms Commander

during said operation
on the 12th of March,

written on the 13th of March

and received later that day by
the Strategic Firearms Commander.

Drawing your attention to page three
of said report, paragraph four,

"Superintendent Hastings relayed
a Fahrenheit order to DS Arnott."

- Did you give said order?
- Yes.

What's your understanding of said order?

The authority to deploy lethal force
to prevent immediate loss of life

or prevent immediate danger
to the public.

Responsibility for issuing said order

lies with the Strategic
Firearms Commander.

For the order to be issued by
any other officer is unlawful.

Corbett had already drawn his firearm,

DS Arnott was facing
an immediate threat to life,

I was concerned that DS Arnott
would hesitate

and that Corbett would discharge
his firearm.

I gave the order to save
my officer's life.

In your mind, having just learned
that Corbett had tortured your wife,

- no other motivations were at work?
- None.

And that he was involved in
the death of one of your officers,

- PC Maneet Bindra?
- Yes.

- You weren't vengeful towards Corbett?
- My first concern remained,

as it should do for all police
officers, the preservation of life.

Clearly you weren't concerned
with the preservation

- of John Corbett's life.
- I did not cause his death.

He brought it upon himself
when he went rogue.

I take no pleasure in this

but the man
had it coming to him in spades.

I'd like to return to the remarks
you made to DS Railston

following the assault on your wife.

That's Document 60 in your folders.

Document 60 is a crime report
by DS Samantha Railston

detailing statements made by
Edward Hastings on the 8th of March.

Page 2, para 3,

"Superintendent Hastings stated,

'Whoever's responsible better
start praying

"'he's up in front of the judge
before I get my hands on him.'"

What did you mean by that?

It was rhetorical.

And what would you have done
if, as per your statement,

you had "got your hands on him"?

I would have done what any police
officer would have done

and arrested him for grievous
bodily harm.

Which sounds like what any
law-abiding officer would do.

Well, I am a law-abiding officer.

And yet, on the 12th of March,
you ordered DS Arnott

to shoot John Corbett in cold blood.

To prevent an immediate loss of life!

And later that same day,
you visited Lee Banks,

an OCG member on remand
in Blackthorn Prison.

Yeah, to harvest information on the OCG.

When DS Arnott quite rightly did not
deploy lethal force against

John Corbett, did you take matters
into your own hands

and disclose to Lee Banks

that John Corbett was
an undercover police officer?

No, I did not.

Disclosing this information with
the expectation that it would be

- passed on to the OCG?
- No!

I'm really sorry to labour something that

I know you find very upsetting,
but I'd like to return

to the injuries that John Corbett
inflicted on your wife.

If you must.

Thank you.

The case was dealt with by
the Serious Crime Unit.

Document 60 in your folders.

Drawing your attention to page 2, para 2,

"When questioned, Superintendent
Hastings denied knowledge of

"any significance to the pattern of
injuries sustained by the victim."

- Is that what you said to DS Railston?
- Yes.

Thank you for being truthful with us.

I can't tell you how much easier
that makes everything.

Now, as part of our inquiry,

we've been given access
to your service record.

The service record is summarised
in Document 2 in your folders.

The service record indicates

Edward Hastings joined the
Royal Ulster Constabulary in 1982

and served as a police constable
for seven years,

till his promotion to Police Sergeant

and transfer in 1989.

Sorry, I don't mean to put you on
the spot, but seven years' policing

in Northern Ireland in the 1980s,
and you never came across

a pattern of injuries that involved
the wrists, knees and ankles?

Yeah, but, look...

You have to remember, my team
had only just discovered

that DS Railston's officer,

Commanding Detective Chief
Superintendent Lester Hargreaves,

was corrupt, having been an accomplice

with the OCG in their armed robbery
of Eastfield Depot.

So, you're offering by way of
an explanation

that you withheld information

for fear of how it would be
misused by Railston?

The assault on my wife
appeared to be the work

of the organised crime group
that we were investigating,

a threat or a warning to me
to suppress the inquiry.

I just didn't want to give them
the satisfaction

of knowing how upsetting
I found the whole event.

So, you did appreciate
the significance of the injuries?

Yes, all right, look, if you want
me to state the obvious.

Yes, a resemblance to punishment
and or torture meted out

by paramilitary and/or terrorist
organisations.

Indeed, so now, let's turn
to your service

with the Royal Ulster Constabulary
in the period 1982-1989, inclusive.

Document 62.

PC Edward Hastings served
in West Belfast.

A periodic professional assessment
submitted in the summer of 1988

by Police Sergeant Thomas Cranford
notes the following,

"Hastings appears to have a rapport
with the Catholic community

"due to his own Catholic tendencies."

Are you able to tell us a little bit
about your background?

Well, I'd really rather not.

A Catholic in the RUC,
were you in the minority?

I was, and am, a police officer.

I do not discriminate
against my fellow officers

on grounds of creed, and I would
appreciate the same courtesy.

Well, the sergeant writing up

that RUC periodic professional assessment

didn't mind referring to it.

Document 62 continued,

"Hastings' family background
is more complicated,

"which may prove valuable
in future assignments."

What did he mean by that?

- You'd have to ask him.
- We did.

Document 65 in your folders.

Statement by former Police Sergeant,
now retired, Thomas Cranford,

submitted to Anticorruption Unit 3
on the 14th of March.

"We all thought he was Protestant.

"Edward and Hastings, what else
is the fella going to be?

"Turned out that was a sensitive subject.

"His old man was a Protestant
but he'd married a Catholic,

"and when he went off, his mum
brought up young Ted that way."

Why did you leave the RUC?

Well...

...the kind of talk we just heard
being quoted didn't help.

In 1989, you suffered serious injuries.

On 29th of June 1989,

an RUC patrol vehicle drove over
a pipe bomb, causing the death

of PC Patrick O'Malley and serious
injury to PC Edward Hastings.

Two Catholic officers targeted?

Yeah, well, it doesn't take a genius
to see why I put in for a transfer.

Or were you targeted for another reason?

I don't know what you're referring to.

I'd like to examine events
in the period 1988-1989

and, specifically, a special
assignment that you took part in.

Do you recognise the name
Anne-Marie McGillis?

For the DIR, I'm showing
the interviewee Image 41,

an RUC file photograph of
Anne-Marie McGillis.

Mr Hastings?

You're going back 30 years here, come on.

Let's see if this can jog your memory.

Document 78 in your folders.

Document 78 is a report entered into
the Royal Ulster Constabulary files

on missing persons,
dated the 23rd of May 1989.

Anne-Marie McGillis was reported
missing on the 19th April 1989.

The night before, Tuesday the 18th April,

Anne-Marie left her son with a neighbour,

informing the neighbour that she was
popping out for a couple of hours

to visit a friend in hospital.

Anne-Marie never returned
to collect her son.

No witnesses came forward
to reveal Anne-Marie's movements

on the night she disappeared.

No-one known to Anne-Marie was able
to identify the family friend

who was admitted in to hospital.

The Missing Persons team concluded
that this person didn't exist,

and that Anne-Marie had deceived
her neighbour

regarding her activities
on the night she disappeared.

A number of individuals known to
Anne-Marie were interviewed

in connection with
the Missing Persons inquiry.

And one such individual was
Police Constable Edward Hastings.

Do you recall these events, Mr Hastings?

Some.

What do you recall?

Well, Anne-Marie's husband had been
murdered a few years before.

Apparently, he was active
during the Troubles.

One of those nasty little
tit-for-tat killings.

Anyway, Anne-Marie,

she blamed someone higher up
the chain of command

for her husband's death, you know...

She felt that he was sacrificed
needlessly.

Anyway, grief, I think...

...later turned to passing
information to the police

about terrorist activities.

- She was an CHIS informant?
- Yes.

And did you play a role in
Anne-Marie serving as a CHIS?

Yes, well, she...
Look, she lived on my patch.

You know, in those days,

it was very difficult for the RUC
to enter certain areas, to er...

...to put it mildly.

And I think some local women
found out my mother was a Catholic

and that I was a Catholic too.

And I think that bought a bit of trust.

You were instrumental in Anne-Marie
trusting the police

with information she was disclosing
about terrorist organisations?

I helped, that's all.

Did you have meetings with Mrs McGillis?

- Some.
- According to the file,

you didn't always meet Anne-Marie
in covert locations.

You were seen entering
and leaving her home.

Yes, you know, I'd give her a hand.

Little odd jobs,
there was no man about the house.

I'm no expert in RUC covert tactics
in the 1980s,

but I would have thought that
making it appear

that a young woman
from a Republican community

has some kind of friendship
with a police officer

is only going to invite trouble.

The sort of trouble that might
get you targeted by a pipe bomb,

or get your lady friend murdered.

I object to the term "lady friend".

What level of friendship was it?

What do you mean?

She was an attractive young widow.

Yes.

And I was a married man!

According to the file,

there were rumours you two
were conducting an affair.

Yeah, but that's what they were, rumours.

Just gossip, drummed up by
a bunch of people

no better than they should've been.

Regardless, I'm sure you can see
how your intimacy

could've put Anne-Marie in jeopardy.

That's not what happened!

Did she meet a police
officer to pass information

on the evening of
Tuesday the 18th April 1989?

Yes.

You?

Yes.

What happened that night?

Well, she told me that
she'd made up some story

about going to visit a sick friend.

She passed the information to me.

And, as far as I know, she returned home.

Were you involved in her disappearance?

No.

As God is my witness, I was not.

According to the Missing Persons file,

you were the last person
to see her alive.

That is an equivocation,
Detective Chief Superintendent,

as well you know.

I'll rephrase.

You were the last person to admit
to police in an official statement

to seeing Anne-Marie McGillis alive.

I watched her walk down
the street, turn the corner.

Anne-Marie McGillis
trusted you implicitly?

Yes, I believe she did.

One theory considered by the RUC
is that you exploited that trust

- to lure Anne-Marie to her death.
- Completely false!

The theory being that, as a Catholic,

you were susceptible to
relationships with

the very organisations that
Anne-Marie was informing on.

Look Growing up back then,
in the 70's, in the city,

they were everywhere.
They were part of the culture.

This sort of organisation?

Oh, come on now, I didn't want
any part of that.

I became a police officer.

Anything familiar about their appearance?

It was a different time,
a different thing entirely.

Nonetheless, they're wearing
the clothing associated with

organised crime groups
that AC12 have been investigating

- for seven years or more.
- There's no direct connection!

Anne-Marie McGillis' remains
weren't found until 2001.

Document 72.

Document 72 is the postmortem report
on Anne-Marie McGillis.

The cause of death was
a single gunshot wound to the head.

Additional gunshot wounds were detected

bilaterally on the victim's wrists,
knees and ankles.

Lesions caused by haemorrhage
indicate these gunshot wounds

were inflicted when the victim
was still alive.

Anne-Marie McGillis was tortured
in the same pattern

as that inflicted on your wife.

Yeah, but that's how
they did it back then.

But this does not necessitate
a direct connection.

Her son. Did you ever meet him?

Er...

No. She always left her son with
some neighbours or a family friend,

something like that.
She never wanted him involved.

When Anne-Marie disappeared,

her son was orphaned at the age of 10.

He was taken in by Anne-Marie's sister

and her brother-in-law,
who resided in Liverpool.

The boy was adopted
and he took their surname.

Corbett.

John Corbett.

Corbett was Anne-Marie's wee fella?

No.

Would you like to take a break, Ted?

Yes, of course.

OK.

Is there anything I can do to help?

Just give me a minute.

Mark Moffatt? DI Fleming.

DS Arnott. Do you have a minute, sir?

Sir's long gone.

Mark's fine.

I don't know if you remember us
from AC12.

- Can you give us a minute?
- Yeah, sure.

Water under the bridge,
as far as I'm concerned.

No hard feelings.

We'd like to ask you
a couple of questions

about your commercial relationship
with Superintendent Hastings.

Ted was a...

...an original investor in
a development that went south

about six years back.

We got it back on track,
so I offered Ted a buy-in

to try and recoup his original losses.

And did he?

Unfortunately, he couldn't come up
with the funds.

According to Superintendent Hastings,

you loaned him £50,000 off-book.

50?

Yeah, that's the figure we've been given.

I don't know how Ted's got that idea.

Does the name John Corbett
mean anything to you?

No, sorry.

If that's all...

Thanks for your time.

Give Ted my best.

Well, we drew a blank on Corbett.

Yeah, you saw his reaction
when we mentioned the 50 grand.

Something's not right.

We need to find out what.

Resuming interview.
You remain under caution.

Now, let's examine in more detail

some evidence we found in your
hotel room on the 14th of March.

Image 9.

You'll recall Image 9
shows item reference MB1.

You'll recall item reference MB1
is a brown envelope

addressed to you,
containing item reference MB2.

MB2 are banknotes in the sum of £50,000.

Superintendent Hastings has already
given a full and clear explanation

regarding this item. To summarise,

it was an unsolicited advance
on future profits.

Superintendent Hastings
was extremely uncomfortable

about the loan, and telephoned
Mark Moffat to return the money.

DI Brandyce.

We took further steps to detect
the source of said cash.

I told you, it came from Mark Moffatt.

DI Brandyce.

Document 40 in your folders.

Forensic analysis of banknotes MB2

detected microscopic pollen deposits.

Pollen grains detected on MB2 were
subjected to chemical analysis.

The chemical structure of pollen
grains detected on MB2

closely resembles the chemical
structure of pollen grains

detected on items of evidence gathered

during AC-12's inquiry
into Operation Pear Tree.

Said evidence are item reference
JLM5 and item reference JD5.

Image 12, Tina.

Image 12 shows a cache of banknotes
in the sum of £25,000

detected under floorboards
at 21 Cleric Way.

Do you recognise the banknotes
shown in the image,

- Superintendent Hastings?
- No, no, I do not.

Said banknotes were detected
at a property

belonging to a Vihaan Malhotra.

Image 31.

Image 31 shows item reference JD5.

JD5 is a cache of banknotes
in the sum of £5,000

detected at 17 Hazelton Street.

Said banknotes were detected
at a property

belonging to PS Jane Cafferty.

The similar pollen structures
detected on items JD5, JLM5

and MB2 indicate a 99.5%
probability the items

derive from the same original source.

I have not been bribed!

The 50 grand found in your hotel room

came from the same pot as that
used to bribe Vihaan Malhotra

and PS Jane Cafferty.

And, according to evidence
obtained by your own unit,

those individuals were in the pay
of the same organised crime group

in which John Corbett was embedded.

I do not have a connection
with Malhotra or Cafferty.

- This bribe proves you do.
- No.

Was it an inducement or
a reward for telling Lee Banks

the identity of the undercover
officer within the OCG?

I disclosed nothing to Banks.

A disclosure which brought
about the murder of John Corbett.

No.

What was Corbett on to that you were
so desperate to keep hidden?

I'll repeat the question.

What was John Corbett on to that you
were so desperate to keep hidden?

Look...

...you have fabricated a motive
where none existed.

Who would want John Corbett dead?

- What do you mean?
- If you didn't, who would?

Well, clearly any individual

against whom John Corbett
might be gathering evidence,

including those members of the OCG
with whom he was embedded.

Were there any specific
corrupt police officers

targeted by Operation Pear Tree?

- Not that I'm aware of.
- Mm.

Document 5 in your folders.

This is a copy of a document
seized by AC-12 on the...

...23rd of February from the offices
of Operation Pear Tree.

I direct you to page 6, paragraph 6.

"It remains to be determined

"if police officers of senior
and/or executive rank

"are actively complicit
in organised criminal activities

"either as individuals
or as a conspiracy.

"A hypothesis to be examined
by the operation

"is that said alleged complicity

"is orchestrated by
a single police officer

"of senior or executive rank."

- Do you recognise those words?
- Yes. Yes. I've read the file.

There's a hell of a lot of
ifs and buts in that.

Page 6, paragraph 8,
"Detective Inspector Matthew Cottan,

"serving in Anticorruption Unit 12
from 2013 until his death,

"recorded a dying declaration
on the 18th of July 2015."

Thank you, Tina.

Who's top dog, Dot?

Caddy. No, you're The Caddy.
We know that.

- Told...
- Told!

You told someone. Someone very senior?

Prom...

Prom. Promotion? Someone promoted you?

Who? Come on, Dot.

Come in, he can't talk.

Right, blink with the first two
letters of his name.

A. B.

C. D.

E. F.

G. H.

I.

H? His name begins with H.

Right second letter? A.

B. C.

D. E...

That's it, out of the way!

I'll start bagging.

Thank you, Tina.

In his dying declaration,
DI Cottan declared

that the name of the senior officer

commanding the complicity
with organised crime began with H.

Page 6, paragraph 8 continued,

"An investigation by
Anticorruption Unit 12

"concluded in 2017 that H was

"Assistant Chief Constable Derek Hilton.

"Hilton was found dead
on the 5th of May 2017.

"However, the hypothesis must be
examined that H is

"an officer other than Hilton."
Do you recall these words?

Well, the evidence against Hilton
was overwhelming.

Clearly, if any new evidence
came to light,

AC-12 would gladly investigate.

Has any other officer
ever been accused of being H?

I'll repeat the question.

Has any other senior officer
ever been accused of being H?

- Yes.
- Who?

The accusation was a calculated falsehood

designed to sabotage a lawful
anticorruption inquiry.

Who was accused?

In an effort to sabotage an AC-12 inquiry

that was about to uncover
his own offences,

Assistant Chief Constable
Derek Hilton falsely accused

the Senior Investigating Officer,
in order to discredit AC-12,

discredit the inquiry,
and to protect his own wrongdoing.

The SIO being who?

Myself.

To be clear, you were served with
a Regulation 15 Notice.

The allegation against Superintendent
Hastings was disproved.

It wasn't disproved.

There was insufficient evidence
to prove it.

- I'd argue they're the same thing.
- They're not. They're really not.

Detective Chief Superintendent,
better to save the commentary

and stick to asking questions.

Just saying.

Actually, while I've got your attention,

I wonder if we can dig into this search

of Superintendent Hastings' hotel room.

- This has all been covered.
- Not by me.

What were the grounds for the search?

Section 18.5.

Well, why then does
Document 12 in your folders,

the arresting officer's report,
refer to Section 32

as the legal power
used to carry out the search?

DI Brandyce?

The correct search form was supplied.

Afterwards, yes, but initially it seems

that the officers at the scene of
Superintendent Hastings' arrest

were under the impression

that the search was being
carried out under Section 32.

You were there at that time,

- weren't you?
- Yes.

So, under what power did you
carry out the search at the time?

There was some confusion.

I see that, DI Brandyce.

You carried out the search
under Section 32.

There's even the original
search form in the file.

Thank you.

As we all know,

Section 32 permits the search
of a premises

the detainee was at
either at the time of his arrest

or immediately prior to that arrest.

I refer to Document 13
in your folders, the statement

given by Superintendent Hastings
on the 14th of March.

Superintendent Hastings states
that he travelled from this office,

Anticorruption Unit 12,
to the Edge Park Hotel.

Superintendent Hastings
wasn't in his hotel room

at the time of his arrest
or immediately prior.

Section 32 was the incorrect legal power.

This mistake was detected
and corrected only after the search.

As items MB1 and MB2 submitted in
evidence were detected unlawfully,

I can't see how the cache of £50,000

can be used in evidence
against Superintendent Hastings.

Well, that is for a court to decide.

Given what I've heard, the judge
will almost certainly exclude it.

And it's the only evidence
that you've got

linking Superintendent Hastings
to organised crime.

I think we should call a temporary halt,

giving my team time
to examine further evidence.

Mr Hastings,
you'll be returned to custody

and charged or released within
24 hours of your original arrest.

Approximately six hours.

Interview terminated.

- May I?
- Yes, yes, of course.

Gill, I don't know what to say.

I am not going to lie, Ted,

it is a good job that someone
was paying attention.

God knows where your solicitor
was during all that.

Everything is in here in black and white.

I know, I don't know why
I didn't see it myself.

The idea that you are corrupt
is ridiculous.

Clearly Mark Moffatt's
lying about the money.

You don't have a bent bone in your body.

This'll all go away, Ted.

Trust me.

Thanks, Gill. Thank you.

- Yeah.,
- Yeah.

DI Fleming, DS Arnott to see DSU Powell.

It's fine. I've got this.

- Ma'am.
- Ma'am.

Detective Superintendent Alison Powell

with DI Fleming, DS Arnott, AC-12.

Confirm that you grant permission
for this recording.

- DI Fleming, confirmed.
- DS Arnott, confirmed.

We'd like to fill in some background
on how John Corbett was recruited.

How was Corbett assigned as the UCO?

John was one of a number of
candidates considered for the role.

He presented with a distinguished record

of successful operations
against organised crime.

Did he come to you first, ma'am?
Did he volunteer?

What are you getting at, DI Fleming?

It's a straight question, ma'am.

There was a short list.
The candidates were evaluated.

Corbett was selected as
the right officer for the job.

Who selected him?

Look,

I made the recommendations
on Corbett, this was my operation,

but you can't put all of this on me,
I wasn't the only person involved.

Who else was involved
in selecting Corbett?

This is off the record.

How long have we got?

Just a few hours.

Going to have to blue-light it.

We just got the e-mail.

I'm calling for authentication. Thanks.

Edward Hastings, new evidence
against you has come to light.

This evidence will be submitted
in written form

and you and your solicitor
will have four hours

to consider this evidence.

- What new evidence?
- Great, thanks.

Pending further investigation,

I'll be seeking an extension of 12 hours

to your permitted custody time.

- What evidence?
- Take him to the cells.

Come on, Ted, we should do as they say.

- Thank you, Tina.
- Ma'am.

Looks like we've got him, ma'am.

You nearly cost me this case.

I'll be expecting your transfer request

first thing in the morning.

Mrs Corbett.

We've got a new line of inquiry,
we need your urgent help with it.

May we come in please?

- Yeah, come in.
- Thanks.

Subject is in the building. Repeat,
the subject is in the building.

This must be awful for you, Ted.

Resuming interview of Edward Hastings.

You remain under caution.

Have you had an opportunity
to consider with your solicitor

the new documents disclosed to you?

I have.

Edward Hastings,

when was the last time you were
in contact with John Corbett?

Never.

And have you ever been near enough

to make physical contact
with John Corbett?

Never.

I'll ask you again.

When were you last in physical
contact with John Corbett?

I only ever saw the fella once.

It was across a very busy street

during an AC-12 surveillance operation.

It must have been 100 yards away.

As you'll have seen
in the disclosure documents,

specifically Document 106
in your folders,

forensic examination
of John Corbett's body

has detected human hairs
not belonging to him.

Said hairs were attached
to follicular cells

which permitted DNA analysis.

The DNA found in these follicular cells

matches that of a person
on the police database

who is a police officer
who has submitted a DNA sample

for routine elimination
from crime scene contamination.

As you know from the documents
disclosed to you,

the DNA deposits detected
on John Corbett's body

match your elimination samples.

I've never been within
100 yards of John Corbett.

Your DNA was found on his body.

Can you explain this finding?

I can't! It must have been planted!

As a result of this evidence,
I have been in consultation

with the Senior Prosecutor
in the Complex Case Unit.

I did not kill Corbett!

She is satisfied that
the evidence against you

is sufficient to charge you
with the murder of John Corbett.

No, I'm being framed!

I'd now like to move on
to examine your motive

for murdering John Corbett.

I did not murder Corbett!

May I ask, given the gravity of
the murder charge,

why are you continuing?

I have been tasked with investigating

the highest level of corruption

between police officers
and organised crime,

- the highest level.
- I am not corrupt!

I'm the one who's leading
the fight against corruption!

The highest level is
the individual codenamed H.

Significantly, Cottan led AC-12's inquiry

into the identity of the police officer

believed to be the intermediary
for organised crime,

codenamed The Caddy.

The Caddy was identified
as being Cottan himself.

Superintendent Hastings was
the Senior Investigating Officer

on the inquiry into H.

I see an interesting parallel there.

No, no. There's no parallel there.
I'm not H.

Still, there was
an allegation that you were.

Why were you so reluctant to entrust
the investigation

into an independent anticorruption unit?

I wasn't.

Why did you shoot Robert Denmoor?

Image 76 on screen.
Image 76 shows Robert Denmoor,

a violent criminal with known
associations to organised crime.

Denmoor was incriminated in a plot

to tamper with evidence
in Operation Trapdoor.

Denmoor was shot
dead by Superintendent Hastings

on the ground floor of AC-12's
headquarters on the 4th of May 2017.

Yeah, Denmoor posed an immediate
threat to life

and lethal force was required
to stop him.

Therefore the Coroner recorded
a finding of lawful killing.

The official report records there
were a dozen AFOs on the scene,

and none of them opened fire.

In fact, according to the report,

you snatched a firearm
from a wounded AFO.

Yeah, I did.

The fatal round discharged by you
prevented questioning of Denmoor.

Prevented the loss of life.

Denmoor would have been a key witness

who could have confirmed Hilton as H.

- Yes.
- Or excluded him.

Yes, also.

You were prepared to lose
that priceless evidence,

the same judgment you demonstrated
on the 12th of March

when you ordered DS Arnott to deploy
lethal force against John Corbett.

Look, I told you, Corbett was armed,

he was responsible for the death
of Maneet Bindra,

Lester Hargreaves,

I gave the order to
safeguard my officer's life!

Corbett was notifying DS Arnott
of a meeting

with a high-ranking nominal
who could well have been H.

Corbett was a liar.

He was playing games with all of us.

He was a decorated undercover officer

whose courageous actions in the past
had brought to justice

hardened members of
organised criminal groups.

Corbett gave DS Arnott alone
the details of the meeting with H.

He did.

You ordered DS Arnott
to disclose those details?

You're damn right I did,
I was his commanding officer,

for Christ's sake.
What the hell's going on here?

And at said meeting, the same day,
the 12th of March,

at the Palisades Shopping Centre,
what happened then?

- No meeting took place.
- Why do you think that was?

Well, Corbett was about to be
apprehended by AC-12.

I suspect that he, you know, lied
about the meeting at the Palisades

to secure his own escape.

Or he was telling the truth
and the information was leaked to H.

We detected no evidence of a leak.

We examined your personal
communications records

and found no suspicious calls.

However I do need you to account
for two unexplained findings.

We've detected activity
in the vicinity of AC-12

on unregistered mobile phones,

so-called burner phones
used for illicit communications.

We've identified a specific
burner phone. Tina, thank you.

Document 92.
Document 92 is a call history

of an unregistered mobile, 07700900856.

The device shows clusters of activity

in the vicinity of AC-12
over the last six weeks

and also engaged in communication
with other burner phones.

Cross checking with door entry
download data

reveals only one AC-12 officer
was present in the building

on every occasion 07700900856
was detected.

That officer was
Superintendent Edward Hastings.

Is 07700900856 your phone?

No, it is not.

- Did you dispose of the phone?
- There was never a phone.

Have you ever disposed
of a communications device?

- Tina.
- Document 24.

Document 24 shows screenshots
from a laptop

forensically recovered
from the Flicker nightclub

used by Lisa McQueen and
John Corbett to communicate with H.

As we can see,
H issued his orders via text.

I'll repeat the question.
Have you ever disposed

- of a communications device?
- No.

- PS Tranter, thank you.
- As stated by DCS Carmichael,

we examined the communication
history of Edward Hastings.

Document 28 in your folders
is said communication history

relating to your personal
registered mobile telephone

and your work registered
mobile telephone.

From these phones we've been able
to harvest location data.

We detected suspicious behaviour
on the 5th of March.

Location data places both phones
at the Edge Park Hotel

around 15:00 hours that day.

The user then switches off both
phones for the rest of the day.

When location data resumes
the next day, the 6th of March,

the phones are back
in the Edge Park Hotel.

Why did you switch off your phones?

I... I really don't recall.

Do you recall the significance
of that date, the 5th of March?

- No.
- That night,

the OCG carried out an armed robbery
at the Eastfield Depot,

making away with seized goods

with an estimated street value
of £50 million.

Yeah, OK, look, I'm sorry.

I mean,
the date must have slipped my mind.

Where were you from 15:00 hours
on the 5th of March?

Well, I remained...

I remained in and around
the Edge Park Hotel,

on standby for developments
for AC-12's surveillance operation

on the Eastfield Depot.

This was a hugely important operation.

Wasn't it essential
that you be contactable?

Well, I... We'd established
a direct line of communication

through Airwave radio and I had
direct dial access to my officers.

My own works phone was redundant.

Why didn't you attend
the operation in person?

To ensure operational independence.

DI Fleming, she acted as
the Tactical Firearms Commander

under an independent
Strategic Firearms Commander.

The result being that
your whereabouts were unknown

until you made contact via an
Airwave radio much later that night.

That's neither here nor there.

We attempted to trace your movements
on the 5th of March.

Tina, thank you.

Starting from a radius of 100 metres
around the Edge Park Hotel,

we examined CCTV and traffic cameras.

Image 32.

Who's seen in this image?

Me.

What's the package you're carrying?

I'm reserving comment.

We were able to trace the taxi's journey

to a drop-off point
in the Moss Heath area.

Again, we examined CCTV cameras
in a 100-metre radius.

Image 33.

Who's seen in this image?

Me.

What are you doing in this image?

We know from the recovered laptop
from the nightclub

that the OCG communicated with H
via online messaging.

Examination of the OCG laptop's
hard drive

revealed a sophisticated
re-routing system via various VPNs

to disguise H's IP address.

And while we're still unable
to determine H's location,

we know for certain that
the hard drive of the computer

would contain metadata
proving it was used

to communicate with the OCG.

Evidence that he would take
great pains to... dispose of.

OK.

Well, we shall come back to it.

As we've established, the night
of the 5th of March

saw the OCG robbery
at the Eastfield Depot.

At 22:40 hours that night,

a status zero radio call was
made by PC Kieran Bloom

requesting urgent assistance
to Farmer's Lane.

How did you respond
to that emergency call?

The Authorised Firearms Officers
who were giving assistance

to the AC-12 surveillance
of the Eastfield Depot

were the nearest armed response unit.

And so given our responsibility
towards preserving life,

I authorised the AFOs
to render assistance.

As a result of your actions,
the OCG were able to flee Eastfield

with £50 million worth of seized goods.

My decision was based on saving
police officers' lives.

Priceless, I would say.

H would have wanted the robbery
to succeed, wouldn't he,

so that he could have
shared in the proceeds?

That's hypothetical.

You went to a nightclub
known to be an OCG haunt,

in the hope of effecting a meeting,
without independent authorisation.

Yeah, well, look...
You know, they'd killed Maneet,

they'd murdered Lester Hargreaves,
they'd held up the Eastfield depot.

- Time was running out.
- You pretended to be H

successfully enough for the OCG
to share with you

the proceeds of the Eastfield Robbery.

No. I was using them to find out
where the proceeds were hidden.

Who better to impersonate
H than H himself?

No. That is not what was happening!
It's like I told you,

look, time was running out.
I was desperate.

Well, it's convenient
to rationalise all this

as the desperation of a failing SIO.

But before we do,

let's consider the communications
made between Corbett and you

via a computer link. Tina.

Document 105 in your folders
and on screen.

Document 105 is a transcript
of a written message composed by you

and transmitted on the evening
of the 12th of March.

Please look at line 3, which reads,

"I can definately pull
the right strings."

Note the misspelling of "definitely".

Going back to earlier messages
believed to have been written by H,

please look at the message
transmitted on the 3rd of March,

"Eastfield Depot is definately high
risk." Again, note the misspelling.

How closely had you studied
the messages by H?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Quite closely.

Closely enough to duplicate the
misspelling of this particular word?

Yes.

You're the SIO on one of the biggest
anticorruption operations

this force has ever seen,

and you have the headspace
to learn to spell like H?

Yes.

Isn't it more likely that you
inadvertently misspelled this word?

- No.
- No? Isn't it more likely

that you made the same mistake as H

- because you are H?
- I am not H.

Looking at another part
of the impersonated message

you composed, line 4, "I need you
to bring all this to a close."

What did you mean by that?

What H meant was that
the Eastfield goods were a liability

and needed to be taken
out of the country quickly.

It could imply another meaning,

that you were giving the order
to execute John Corbett.

No! Absolutely not!

What private material was stored
on the hard drive

of the laptop computer that
you erased on the 5th of March?

No, it's not relevant to this inquiry.

If we'd been able to find H's computer,

we'd have the proof we needed.

You disposed of your computer
because you knew that.

That it would prove beyond all
reasonable doubt that you are H.

No.

Then why did you dispose of the computer?

I was looking at pornography.

Nothing illegal, nothing extreme.

I just did not want it to be found.

That's all.

Nothing illegal or extreme,

but you went to the lengths
of disposing of the computer?

Look, it was private stuff,
so, you know...

My wife has left me, and...

Jesus Christ.

Look, I really don't want to discuss it.

And after you entered the nightclub
as part of your...

...unauthorised undercover operation,

you were next located where
the Eastfield goods

were being concealed.

It was pure chance,
an active burner phone

inadvertently left on by an OCG member,

that meant you were found.

We could be forgiven for thinking
that you didn't want to be found.

No, that's simply not true.

The net was closing in. Your
identity was slowly being unmasked.

You reunited with the OCG
in order to share in the profits

of the Eastfield robbery.

Look, no... Look, look...

I had risked my life and my career
in order to catch them.

The two most precious things
to me in the whole world,

I laid them on the line,

because I was so determined,

and I was so desperate
that AC-12 would not fail.

Do you know, one thing
I keep going back to

is that dying declaration
by DI Cottan. Tina, thank you.

Cottan, your own officer,
named the top man as H.

And now, finally, there's
overwhelming evidence that H is you.

I'm not H.

John Corbett was proving

- the trail led to your door.
- No.

That's why you had John Corbett

- murdered.
- No.

You ordered DS Arnott to shoot him dead.

- No.
- And when that plan failed,

you visited Lee Banks
in Blackthorn Prison

and revealed to him that Corbett
was an undercover police officer.

- No. No.
- But killing Corbett wasn't enough.

You needed to know what
he had on you, didn't you?

- No.
- And that was the biggest mistake

that you made.

Because in the final meeting
with Corbett,

before you slashed his throat

and dumped him at the breakers yard,

one of your hairs
contaminated Corbett's body.

NO!

Edward Hastings, H,

I have been in consultation with
the Senior Prosecutor

at the Complex Case Unit and
I will now go back to her

seeking authority to charge you
with the murder of John Corbett,

conspiracy to commit armed robbery
and malfeasance in a public office.

I think it might be helpful

if Mr Hastings is given some time
with his solicitor.

Fine by me.

Thank you, Tina, well done.

Ma'am.

Interview terminated at 21:46.

Where's the AFOs?

Kyle?

Ma'am.

I thought there was meant to be
armed support

while the gaffer was being interviewed?

Looks like it's been scaled back.

It'll be down to other
operational commitments.

- Always is.
- OK.

You've got to hand it to Carmichael.

There's a lot stacking up.

And that's with setting aside

the bundle of cash in your hotel room.

- Which I was about to return!
- All of it?

Moffatt denies any knowledge of the money

so nobody's put the exact sum to him.

But according to the files,
the amount required to buy in

to the property development
wasn't 50 grand...

...it was 100.

Now, if there is another
50 grand somewhere...

...eventually someone's going to find it.

Now, I'm on your side, Ted.

But if I was on a jury,

I'd say this all looks damning.

Now, I'm confident I can talk
the PCC into

applying political pressure to
suppress Carmichael's investigation.

Much better to blow our trumpets
about recovering the stolen goods

and neutralising the OCG.

You'll have to accept a misconduct charge

for carrying out unauthorised operations

and resign from the force.

No doubt AC-12 will be disbanded.

Thank you, yes, the threshold tests
have been met definitely.

What's going on?

The DCS is on to the Crown Prosecutor.

- Ma'am.
- Ma'am.

- DS Arnott.
- DI Fleming.

Well, the last thing I need right
now is another knife in me back.

That was never our intention, sir.

Yeah? Funny way of showing it.

We've been making inquiries
into some of the gaps

in our understanding of Corbett's
involvement in Operation Pear Tree.

Yeah. Under whose orders? Hers?

No, sir, on our own.

We're just trying to find the truth.

What's going on?

We've gathered further information
that may be relevant

- to your inquiry.
- You can brief me in private.

If it's OK with you, ma'am,
we intend to share our findings

with Superintendent Hastings
and his solicitor.

His solicitor is making calls.

Yeah, well, they've come to talk to me

and I'd like to hear what
they've got to say.

Quite right. It's up to you
if you want to be in on it or not.

Operation Pear Tree
was originally authorised

following an instruction
from Rohan Sindwhani,

the Police and Crime Commissioner.

Sindwhani had made an election
promise to tackle police corruption.

The specific remit of Pear Tree
is to examine whether complicity

between organised crime
and police officers

has been institutionalised in this force.

Detective Superintendent Alison Powell,

having no connection to Central Police,

was brought in to lead Pear Tree.

Powell identified suitable
undercover officers

from outside forces

and submitted their CVs to
Deputy Chief Constable Andrea Wise.

Following a consultation process,

John Corbett was selected to be the UCO.

Bear in mind, Corbett's background
was available to be examined

as part of the process.

This was before his service record
was erased from the database

and large portions of the Pear Tree
files were redacted.

DSU Powell informed us

that PCC Sindwhani took no part
in the selection process,

but it was agreed
his Senior Legal Counsel

would act on his behalf.

I don't need to remind everyone

there's been controversies
surrounding undercover operations.

The PCC required assurances that
Pear Tree was legally watertight.

According to DSU Powell,

the Senior Legal Counsel
strongly favoured Corbett

and was instrumental in selecting him.

Corbett had a distinguished record

handling the perils of being embedded

inside an organised crime group.

He was by far the best man for the job.

Ms Biggeloe, when did you first
become aware of John Corbett?

When we looked at the files
to select an undercover officer.

Gill Biggeloe, you do not have to
say anything

but it may harm your defence if you
do not mention when questioned

something you later rely on in court.

Anything you do say
may be used in evidence.

OK.

Well, given that the DIR's off,

I'd like to make my own
personal recording.

Any objections?

I think we need to take
a step back, actually.

Recording on.

If you could kindly bear with us, ma'am.

Ms Biggeloe, did you
ever meet John Corbett?

I refer you to my previous response.

DS Arnott.

As part of our inquiry,
we interviewed Corbett's widow,

Stephanie. On the first occasion,

she confirmed Corbett's
upbringing in Northern Ireland.

Following our interview with DSU Powell,

we went back to Mrs Corbett
with some specific questions

regarding John Corbett's recruitment
to Operation Pear Tree.

We managed to convince her to
cooperate with our inquiry

and reveal hitherto undisclosed evidence.

Following a lawful search
of the family home

under Mrs Corbett's guidance,

we recovered items concealed
by her husband.

Among the items was
an audio recording of a meeting

between John Corbett and Gill Biggeloe

which took place in January 2018,

a full month before the inception
of Operation Pear Tree.

Well, if such a recording exists,
it's inadmissible.

That is correct that if acting
on official police business,

Corbett would have required
authorisation from Ripa.

Yeah, well, he wasn't acting on
official police business,

and I can assure you that
my legal team and I

will move heaven and Earth

so that this particular recording
will be heard in court.

Playing recording.

The RUC officer who betrayed your mother,

his name's Hastings.

Superintendent Ted Hastings.

He's a Super now. That's taking the piss.

How do you know all this?

From a private investigator who's
been looking into Hastings' past.

It's all in the file, chapter and verse.

You read it and then tell me
how you feel about my proposal.

I'm in. Tell me now.

We're setting up an undercover
operation to prove he's bent.

To finally bring down the man

who had your mother killed.

And it's definitely him, Hastings?

Yeah.

Gill Biggeloe sought incriminating
material on Superintendent Hastings

and then used it to manipulate
John Corbett

into believing
Superintendent Hastings is H.

Why, Gill?

It's complicated.

We've got time.

Actually, you don't.

I'm TFC! Guns down. Stand by!

OK. We need to shut
this building down right now.

- Guns down now!
- Do as he says.

TFC now. Received, moving in.

Guns down.

Hands where we can see them.

- Hands above your head.
- Who authorised this?

We detected apparent security lapses
on entering the building.

The SFC authorised us to deploy firearms.

All your AFOs are being
disarmed as a precaution.

This burner phone,

it isn't the same burner phone
that I've been accused of owning,

by any chance, Tina, is it?

Tina, the number.

07700900856.

Oh, yeah.

There it is.

You see Gill only ever visited me
when she came to AC-12.

That's how you mistook
this phone for mine.

TFC, 6-4, any obs on OCG?

6-4, no contact yet, stand by.

Looks like the cavalry's
not coming over the hill.

Yeah, the last time Dot Cottan
sent that message out,

he was busted out in a couple of seconds.

Looks like you're not as valuable as him.

Or as valuable as you thought you were.

As valuable to who exactly?

Well, Gill told me that
she was a defence solicitor.

You're going to meet a lot of
shady types doing that job.

So you get some major piece of work
off a serious criminal charge,

they put you on a retainer.

But these retainers, they come with
strings attached, don't they, Gill?

But I suspect that she was
enticed by the glamour.

Why frame the gaffer?

It's always more palatable
to offer up a rotten apple

than to uncover
institutionalised corruption.

And as AC-12 have been a constant
thorn in the side of the OCG,

what better rotten apple than their
commanding officer, right, Gill?

The money in the hotel room,
where did that come from?

I bet you asked some of
your little criminal mates

to slip that through to Moffatt,
am I right?

There's damning DNA evidence
against Superintendent Hastings.

Hardly damning, a couple
of hair follicles? Come on.

Hang on.

Don't tell me, was that your doing, Gill?

Don't worry, Ted,

I'll spare your blushes
in front of everyone.

Gill used the bathroom of my hotel room.

She must have taken some hairs
out of the comb,

passed them on to the OCG and
they planted them on Corbett's body.

Who killed Corbett?

Did you give the order?

We all know confessing
to conspiracy to murder

will make me ineligible
for immunity from prosecution.

And the institutionalised
complicity between organised crime

and corrupt police officers?

Have you not been listening, love?

There's no such thing.

I'm just one rotten apple.

Well, never mind betraying me, Gill.

Never mind framing me.
What about John Corbett?

I mean, you let him believe
that he was chasing the truth.

Justice for his mother,

for Christ's sake, for Anne-Marie.

But instead he was chasing a lie.

You set it running,

then you sat around as you watched
the dogs rip it apart.

A tragic, senseless death.

3-7, 6-4, sit rep.

6-4, still no obs.

Received.

Ma'am, it appears we no longer need
to defend ourselves

against a threat in this building.

I suggest we make arrangements

to transport
Miss Biggeloe to custody ASAP.

Agreed.

- I'll take care of that, ma'am.
- Thank you, Tina.

Gill Biggeloe,
you are under arrest for perverting

the course of justice
and misconduct in a public office.

Sir, I'd advise you
get out the building too.

Yeah. Thank you, Kate.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to cuff you.

Could be a trek to custody. You
might want to do a loo break now.

Thank you.

Going to have to come with you,
I'm sorry.

- 3-7, 6-4.
- 6-4 receiving.

We're sending down DCS Carmichael
and the gaffer.

We'll keep Gill Biggeloe up here
until we can provide escort.

- 6-4, received.
- Thanks, you two.

I don't know what to say.

You're welcome, sir.

Just doing our job.

It's a damn sight more than that.

I could murder a cuppa.

Ah!

Help!

Drop it!

Alpha Charlie 3-7, request urgent casevac

from AC-12 for two persons,

one low-velocity GSW, one knife wound.

- Gill, are you all right?
- Yeah.

Steve.

Steve, are you all right?

I never shot anybody.

Can you confirm, premises now secure?

Yes, confirmed.

Do you think she'll talk?

She'll want to make a deal.

Too fond of the finer things
to do a prison stretch.

The OCG didn't think Gill
was worth saving,

but someone gave the order
to stop her talking.

Who?

What is it?

Out of the way.

I'll start bagging, respiratory arrest...

Gone through my solicitor,
and she's advised me

to cooperate with your inquiry

but it all depends if there's
definitely immunity

from prosecution, and witness protection.

I want to help.

Maybe I could do something

to stop others from making
the same mistakes.

Immunity from prosecution and
witness protection has been agreed.

There is one final gap
we need to fill in.

How did you know that John Clayton
was an undercover officer,

DS John Corbett?

I didn't.

Just that he was a rat.

How?

The leak about the meeting
at the Palisades.

It could have only come from him.

How did that work?

John was told the top man wanted
to meet at the shopping centre.

We had a meeting point
on one of the walkways.

It was nice and public
so if anyone spotted us

they'd think twice about
trying to take us out.

No-one else in the unit knew about
the meet except for me and John.

We had one of our blokes working
the shopping centre in security.

He said he'd seen the coppers
waiting to ambush us.

So we knew for certain the leak
had to come from John.

What did Lee Banks reveal to you
about John Corbett?

Only that there was a rat in the unit.

Hastings told Lee Banks
about Corbett, I'm sure of it.

She's lying to cover herself.

She knows if she admits
to killing Corbett

then she forfeits immunity
from prosecution.

What does Banks say?

He's still not talking.

Then, without his testimony,

you can't prove Hastings blew
Corbett's cover.

It's a dead end, Patricia.
Close the case.

- Ma'am, I think if I can just keep...
- You had a bent officer on your team.

Glass houses.

Which OCG members were involved

in the murder of John Corbett?

A few of them.

Not me.

They're all dead now.

Who inflicted the fatal knife wound

that caused John Corbett
to bleed to death?

He's dead now too.

Miroslav Minkowicz.

Are there any members
of the OCG still at large?

Not that I know of.

Where I grew up, it was easy
to fall in with the wrong crowd.

My mum, she was off her face on
drink and drugs a lot of the time.

The person who made me see
that there was another way,

to be a useful member of society,

was a police officer, PC Simon Bannerjee.

He's the reason why I wanted
to become a police officer too.

To help people.

- Sir.
- Sir.

We've been re-examining
Dot's dying declaration.

Now, the frame it was frozen on
during your interview

made me spot something we've all missed.

Look at Dot's left hand.

Watch again.

Right, so his fingers are tapping. So?

Dot was trying to tell us something
before he lost consciousness.

He couldn't speak due to
the gunshot wound to his chest,

but he could move his hand.

Tap, tap, tap-tap.

Tap, tap, tap, tap.

Morse code.

Dot, dot, dot, dot.

The letter H in Morse Code is four dots.

H is not an initial.

It's a clue.

Four Dots.

Four Caddies.

Four police staff
in league with organised crime.

Dot.

Hilton.

Gill.

Plus one more.

And they're still out there.

The Deputy Chief Constable
and I are pleased to report

Operation Pear Tree has completed
a thorough investigation

into institutionalised complicity

between organised criminals
and corrupt police officers.

Its robust findings couldn't be clearer,

there is no institutionalised
corruption in this police force.

This constabulary will work
tirelessly to root out

rotten apples in its ranks...

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