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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.

But 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.

1-0 to 4-5,
the order is Fahrenheit.

We'll lose
all of Corbett's intel.

We know that Corbett
is a cold-blooded killer.

Give yourself up!

You shoot me
and 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?

It doesn't bear thinking about.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity.

- How much?
- A hundred grand.

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.
Got a date for my interview.

It's clear 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.

What is happening here?
I am being framed!

Today was just for starters.

Now I'm gonna 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.

Failure to comply is an offence

under police conduct
regulations.

Anyone 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?

Ma'am.

Seven years and counting.

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

You've better insights into the
man than anyone else in AC-12.

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, I really do,

but we have found 50 grand
stashed in his hotel room.

So, if I were you,
I wouldn't go around

professing too close a loyalty
to 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.

AC-12 failed to bring him down.

I won't.

Wow.

50 grand?

Ma'am, sarge?
Can we talk, please?

Sure. What's up?

I've been looking into Corbett's
past like you asked me to.

You said it was confidential

and I couldn't share it
with anyone.

- What have you found?
- Er...

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 AC-12.

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.
- Well...

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. Never were in them days.

They've been retained as
the disappearance is unsolved.

- You've got this on file?
- Yes, sarge.

But I've kept it
security-protected.

Well done. 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.

For Christ's sake, Kate.

I'm just calling it
as I see it, Steve.

The truth comes first.

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

You heard Carmichael.
If the Gaffer is found guilty,

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

We "must've 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.

Yeah. Well, I don't know
about you, Steve,

but I'm not gonna sit around and
wait for a kicking from anyone

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 erm... 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.

- Well, this is never easy.
- No.

Sorry for your loss.

We're sorry to have to ask,

but we're making
further inquiries

into John's
undercover operation.

I can't help you.

I'm 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 wanna 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... 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've but he didn't.

Or worse.

What do you mean, worse?

Something John said.

This copper, he was...
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 as 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?

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 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 will save
the mutual embarrassment

when I'm reinstated.

DCS Carmichael
had concerns about security.

AC-12 had a corrupt DI
who shot his way out of here.

- You manage to get any sleep?
- Not much.

Thank you, as you were.

This heavy mob
that you've parachuted in,

they look a bit
trigger-happy to me.

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 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 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...
- I... I thought, ma'am,

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

Given the gravity of the charge,

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.

- 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 same moment

as being in command of armed
officers surrounding Corbett.

Still, and I'm 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 3 of said report,

paragraph 4.

"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
DS Arnott would hesitate

and 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 he was involved
in the death

of one of your officers,
PC Bindra.

- Yes.
- You weren't vengeful

- towards Corbett?
- My first concern remained,

as it should do
for all police officers,

the preservation of life.

You weren't concerned with
preserving 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.

What would you have done
if, as per your statement,

you had "got"
your "hands on him"?

I'd have done what any
police officer would have done

and arrested him
for grievous bodily harm.

What any law-abiding officer
would do.

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.

Later that day
you visited Lee Banks,

an OCG member on remand
in Blackthorn Prison.

Yeah. To harvest information
on the OCG.

When DS Arnott did not deploy
lethal force against Corbett,

did you take matters into your
own hands and disclose to Banks

that John Corbett was an
undercover police officer?

- No, I did not.
- Disclosing this information

with the expectation it would be
passed on to the OCG?

No!

I'm sorry to labour something
I know you find very upsetting

but I'd like to return to

the injuries 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."

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

until his promotion to police
sergeant and transfer in 1989.

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 injuries

that involved the wrists,
knees and ankles?

Yeah, but you have to remember
that my team

had only just discovered that DS
Railston's Officer Commanding,

Detective Chief Superintendent
Hargreaves, was corrupt,

having been an accomplice
with the OCG

in their armed robbery
of the 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
we were investigating -

a threat or a warning to me

to suppress the inquiry.

I 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 to '89
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
about your background?

Well, I'd really rather not.

A Catholic in the RUC,
you were 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
Anti-Corruption 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 the 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.

Hm, 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 1988-89

and specifically a special
assignment you took part in.

Do you recognise the name
Anne-Marie McGillis?

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

an RUC file photograph
of Anne-Marie McGillis.

Mr Hastings?

You're going back 30 years here.
Come on.

Well, 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 of April, 1989.

The night before,
Tuesday the 18th of April,

Anne-Marie left her son
with a neighbour,

informing the neighbour
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 into hospital.

Missing Persons concluded
that this person didn't exist,

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 the missing persons inquiry.

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

in one of those nasty little
tit-for-tat killings.

Anyway, she blamed someone
higher up the chain of command

for her husband's death.
You know...

She felt that he was
sacrificed needlessly.

Grief, I think...

...made her turn to
passing information

to the police
about terrorist activities.

She was a CHIS, an informant?

Yeah.

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

Yeah, well, she lived on my
patch. You know, in those days

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

to... to put it mildly,

and I think some local women

found out my mother was
a Catholic and that I was too

and I think that bought
a bit of trust.

You were instrumental in
Anne-Marie trusting 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 in covert locations.

You were seen entering
and leaving her home.

Yes, well, you know, I'd give
her a hand with odd jobs.

There was no man
about the house.

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

but I'd have thought
making it appear

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!

The file says there were rumours
you were conducting an affair.

Yeah, but that's what they were:
rumours. Just gossip.

Drummed up by people no better
than they should've been.

Regardless,
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 of 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 file,

you were the last person
to see her alive.

That is an equivocation,
Detective Chief Superintendent,

as well you now.

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 you exploited that
to lure Anne-Marie to her death.

- Completely false.
- That as a Catholic

you were susceptible to
relationships with

the organisations
Anne-Marie was informing on.

Look, you know, growing up
back then, in the '70s,

they were everywhere,
part of the culture.

This sort of organisation?

Oh, come on, no. I didn't
want any part of that.

I became a police officer.

Anything familiar
about their appearance?

It was a different time,
different thing.

They're wearing the clothing
associated with OCGs

AC-12 have been investigating
for seven years or more.

There's no direct connection!

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

Document 72.

Document 72
is the postmortem report

on Anne-Marie McGillis.

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.

Well, 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.

- She never wanted him involved.
- When Anne-Marie disappeared,

her son was orphaned
at the age of ten.

He was taken in by Anne-Marie's
sister and brother-in-law

who resided in Liverpool.

The boy was adopted
and he took her surname.

Corbett.

John Corbett.

Corbett was Anne-Marie's
wee fella?

Oh, no.

Would you like a break, Ted?

Yes, of course.

OK.

- Anything I can do, sir?
- Just give me a minute.

Mark Moffatt.

- DI Fleming.
- DS Arnott.

Do you have a minute, sir?

The sir's long gone.

Mark's fine.

I don't know if you remember us
from AC-12.

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

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

No hard feelings.

We have some questions about
your commercial relationship

with Superintendent
Hastings.

Well, Ted was
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.

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

Something's not right.
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 MB-1.

You'll recall
item reference MB-1

is a brown envelope
addressed to you

containing
item reference MB-2.

MB-2 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 phoned Mark Moffatt
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 MB-2

detected microscopic
pollen deposits.

Pollen grains detected on MB-2

were subjected
to chemical analysis.

The chemical structure of
pollen grains detected on MB-2

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 JLM-5

and item reference JD-5.

Image 12, Tina.

Image 12 shows

a cache of banknotes
in the sum of £25,000

detected under floorboards
at 21 Cleric Way.

Recognise the banknotes
shown in the image?

- No, no, I do not.
- Said banknotes were detected

at a property belonging
to Vihaan Malhotra.

Image 31.

Image 31 shows
item reference JD-5.

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

- detected at 17 Hazelton St.
- Said banknotes were detected

at a property
belonging to PS Jane Cafferty.

The similar pollen structures

detected on items
JD-5, JLM-5 and MB-2

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 onto

that you were so desperate
to keep hidden?

I'll repeat the question.

What was John Corbett onto

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?

Clearly any individual
against whom

John Corbett might be
gathering evidence,

including 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.

Hm.

Now 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?

Yeah, yeah. I've read the file.

There's a helluva lot of
ifs and buts in there.

Page 6, paragraph 8:

"DI Matthew Cottan,

serving in
Anti-Corruption Unit 12

from 2013 until his death,

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

Thank you, Tina.

Who was top dog, Dot?

You were the Caddy.

We know that.

- Told...
- Told?

You told someone,
someone very senior.

Prom...

Promotion?
Someone promoted you?

Who?

Come on, Dot.

Come in, he can't talk.

Right, blink for 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 AC-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."

Recall these words?

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
anti-corruption 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.

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.

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,

Anti-Corruption 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.

Now, as items MB-1 and MB-2
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.

Well, given what I've heard,

the judge will almost certainly
exclude it.

And it's the only evidence
you've got

linking Superintendent Hastings
to organised crime.

I think we'll call
a temporary halt,

give my team time to examine
further evidence.

Mr Hastings, you will
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 gonna lie, Ted,

it is a good job that
someone was paying attention.

God knows where your solicitor
was during all that.

Everything is 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.

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 shortlist,
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.

We're gonna have to
blue light it.

We just got the email.

I'm calling for authentication.

- Thanks.
- Edward Hastings?

New evidence against you
has come to light.

It will be submitted
in written form

and you and your solicitor will
have four hours to consider it.

- What new evidence?
- Great, thanks.

Pending further investigation,
I will 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 on.
- Thanks.

Subject is in the building.

Repeat.
Subject is in the building.

This must be awful for you, Ted.

Interview with Edward Hastings.
You remain under caution.

Have you considered
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.

Have you ever been near enough

to make physical contact
with John Corbett?

Never. 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.

Must have been 100 yards away.

As you see in
the disclosure documents,

specifically Document 106
in your folders,

forensic examination of
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!

The evidence against you
is sufficient

to charge you with the murder
of John Corbett.

No, I'm being framed.

I'll move on to examine your
motive for murdering 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 reluctant
to entrust the investigation

to an independent
Anti-Corruption unit?

I-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.

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.

According to the report,
you snatched a firearm

from a wounded AFO.

Yeah, I did.

The round fired 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
priceless evidence -

the same judgment you
demonstrated on 12th March,

when you ordered DS Arnott

to deploy lethal force
against John Corbett.

I told you, Corbett was armed,

he was responsible for
the deaths 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.

But Corbett was a liar!

He was playing games
with all of us.

He was a decorated
undercover officer

whose courageous actions
brought to justice

members
of organised criminal groups.

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

He did.

You ordered DS Arnott
to disclose those details?

Damn right! I was his commanding
officer, for Christ's sake!

What the hell's going on here?

At that meeting, 12th March at
the Palisades Shopping Centre,

- what happened?
- No meeting took place.

- Why do you think that was?
- Well...

Corbett was about to be
apprehended by AC-12.

I suspect he 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.

But 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 is a call history of
an unregistered mobile:

07700 900856.

The device shows
clusters of activity

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

also engaged in communication
with other burner phones.

Cross-checking with door entry
download data reveals

only one AC-12 officer was in
the building on every occasion

07700 900856 was detected.

That officer was Superintendent
Edward Hastings.

Is 07700 900856 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 repeat. 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 mobile

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 1500 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 um... I really don't recall.

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

Er... no.

That night the OCG carried out a
robbery at the Eastfield Depot,

making away with seized goods
with an estimated street value

of £50 million.

OK, look, I'm sorry. The date
must have slipped my mind.

Where were you from 1500 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...
a hugely important operation.

Wasn't it essential
that you be contactable?

Well, we'd established a direct
line of communication

through Airwave radio.

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 your
whereabouts were unknown

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

That's neither here nor there.

We attempted to trace your
movements on 5th March.

Tina, thank you.

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

we examined CCTV
and traffic cameras - Image 32.

Who's seen in this image?

- Me.
- What's the package you carry?

I'm reserving comment.

We traced the taxi's journey to
a drop-off point in Moss Heath.

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

Image 33.

Who's seen in this image?

- Me.
- And what are you doing?

We know from the recovered
laptop from the nightclub

that the OCG communicated
with H via online messaging.

Examination of the OCG's
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 determinate 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 2240 hours that night,

a Status Zero radio call was
made by PC Kieran Bloom,

requesting urgent assistance
to Farmers 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.

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, but 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 robbery.

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

Who better to impersonate H
than H himself?

That is not what was happening.

Like I told you, 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 three,
which reads:

"I can definitely 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 definitely 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 word?

Yes.

You're the SIO
on one of the biggest

Anti-Corruption 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 it?

- No.
- Isn't it more likely

you made the same mistake as H
because you are H?

I am not H.

Looking at another part of
the impersonator message.

Line four: "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 -
the order to execute 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?

It's not relevant
to this inquiry.

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

You disposed of your computer
because you knew

it would prove beyond all
reasonable doubt 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 disposed
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 erm...

...unauthorised
undercover operation,

you were next located where the
Eastfield goods were concealed.

It was pure chance
a burner phone,

inadvertently left on by an OCG
member, meant you were found.

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

That's simply not true!

The net was closing in, your
identity was being unmasked.

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

of the Eastfield robbery.

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'd laid them on the line.

Because I was so determined.

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

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.

Now, finally, there's
overwhelming evidence H is you.

I'm not H.

John Corbett was proving
the trail led to your door.

- No.
- It's why you had him murdered.

- No.
- You told Arnott to shoot him.

No.

When that plan failed, you
visited Lee Banks in prison

and revealed to him Corbett was
an undercover police officer.

No, no.

But killing Corbett
wasn't enough.

You needed to know
what he had on you.

That was the biggest mistake
that you made.

In the final meeting
with Corbett,

before you slashed his throat

and dumped him
at the breaker's 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 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 2146.

Where's the AFOs?

- Kyle.
- Ma'am.

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 is... 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 into
the property development

wasn't 50 grand.

It was 100.

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

eventually someone's
gonna 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.

What's going on?

The DCS is onto
the Crown Prosecutor.

Mm-hm.

- Ma'am.
- Ma'am.

- DS Arnott.
- DI Fleming.

The last thing I need right now
is another knife in my 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, ma'am,

we intend to share our findings
with Superintendent Hastings

and his solicitor.

His solicitor is making calls.

Well, they've come to talk to me

and I'd like to hear
what they 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.

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 controversy

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?

Well, when we looked
at the files

to, um... 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.

Mm. 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 specific questions

regarding 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 month before the inception
of Operation Pear Tree.

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

It's correct that if acting
on official police business,

Corbett would've 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 this particular recording
will be heard in court.

Playing recording.

The RUC officer
who betrayed your mother,

his name's Hastings.

Superintendent Ted Hastings.

What,
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.

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.

Armed TFC, guns down! Stand by!

We need to shut
this building down!

- Guns down now!
- Do as he says!

- TFC, now.
- Received. Moving in.

- Guns down!
- Hands where we can see 'em!

- 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
I've been accused of owning,

by any chance, Tina, is it?

Tina, number.

077... 00...

900856.

Oh, yeah. There it is.

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

That's how we mistook this phone
for mine.

TFC, 6-4.

Any obs on OCG?

6-4. No contacts yet. Stand by.

Looks like the cavalry's
not coming.

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 meet a lot of
shady types doing that.

So you get some
major piece of work...

off a serious criminal charge,

they put you on a retainer.

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

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.

It's 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 sake, for Anne-Marie.

But instead
he was chasing a lie.

You set a hare running
and 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
of the building, too.

Yeah. Thank you, Kate.

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

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

Thank you.

Gonna 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.

Oh, God.

Argh!

Help!

Aargh!

Drop it!

Alpha-Charlie 3-7.

Request urgent cas-evac
from AC-12 for two persons,

one low-velocity GSW,
one knife wound.

- Gill, are you all right?
- Yeah.

- Received, 3-7.
- Steve?

Steve, are you all right?

I never shot anybody.

Confirm premises
now secure...

Confirm. DS Arnott's weapon
has been made safe,

ready for forensics recovery.

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?

That's it.
Out of the way.

I'll start bagging.
Respiratory arrest.

Maybe I can 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 John Clayton
was an undercover officer,

DS John Corbett?

Didn't.

Just thought he was a rat.

How?

That 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 a meet

at the shopping centre.

We had a meeting point
in 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.

One of our blokes worked the
shopping centre, in security.

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,

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...
- 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 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.

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.

So, his fingers are tapping? So?

Dot tried 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.