'Crime Crackers' Episode 9

 

2-4-1 Nanette Aldous

INT: FRONT ROOM/OFFICE

Naz: consider me temporary boss Lavinia; you're not quite with us today

Lavinia: have this nagging feeling-never get so drunk I can't remember

Naz: facts so far, £40m worth of painting- stolen- right next door, last night

Lavinia: Naz I'm in the frame, right next door, we're going to be questioned

Naz: now hacking into Canterbury high-street CCTV, they stream it online

Lavinia: need to solve this one before-

Naz: cameras on front and back doors of gallery

FX COMPUTER CLICK. FRONT DOOR OPENING

Sting: guys, there's been a robbery next door dur-

Lavinia: we know

Sting: bumped into Ski, mate from home- working as a Copper,

Lavinia: go on

Sting: told me the alarm and cameras were cut at 12.17, secondary control panel used somewhere in this building

Naz: CCTV shows thief didn't use front or back door, no one near gallery all night, except for…

Lavinia: except for what Naz

Naz: except for you and Mr Orlando Vandercamp coming back here at 11.46

Lavinia: that's decided it, we have to find a way in to that gallery, get to the evidence first

FX HEAR POLICE SIREN OUTSIDE

Sting: they've got the whole building sealed off; they're waiting for forensics

Lavinia: Naz, Orlando was architect for the gallery refurb

Naz: already searched his name, found his home network, he lives on Dover Road

Sting: come on geek boy we hardly gonna pop round for tea

Naz: there, in on his files, I'm bringing up the plans for the gallery…look got it

Lavinia: go on then

Naz: there's a secret passage, runs parallel with our back wall, they take art in and out

Sting: be easy to get through there, let's do it

Naz: I'm gonna get Jade we'll need a forensic expert

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INT: BACK ROOM/KITCHEN
FX BANGING INTO WARDROBE

Sting: see Lav, even thought it's fixed to wall these wardrobe doors can be opened

Lavinia: what's inside?

FX WARDROBE DOOR OPENING

Sting: you're not gonna believe this

Lavinia: let me se-

Sting: the back is hanging off, look it leads straight into the gallery passage

Lavinia: let's get Jade, it's too risky for me to go in, I'll be prime suspect

Sting: you and Helen Mirren both

Lavinia: get Naz, Jade, now, no time

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INT: INSIDE GALLERY
JADE AND NAZ CRAWLING ACROSS FLOOR

Jade: I can't go out any further, I'll be seen

FX HEAR POLICE SIREN OUTSIDE

Naz: pass me the swabs I'll bag them

FX WHIRRING NOISE

Naz: what's that

Jade: electrostatic dust print lifter

Naz: (sarcastic) of course, a women's job is never done

Jade: need to do a static lift for small trace evidence

Naz: En Anglais?

Jade: clothing fibres

Naz: you sure we're ok to take all this to the University labs

Jade: we haven't got much choice

Naz: how will we get in?

Jade: my lecturer would do anything for me

Naz: why, you do anything for him?

Jade: shut it Nazi

Naz: whatever

Jade: uber geek

Naz: dust bug

Jade: you're only here cos you mum used a bus stop for protection

FX ALARM SOUNDING

Naz: let's bag the evidence and scram

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INT: KITCHENETTE

FX ALCHOLIC DRINK BEING POURED

Lavinia: (monologue) hair of the dog

FX LAVINIA TAKES LARGE DRINK

Lavinia: urgh if it wasn't me and no one else was around, Orlando must have had something to do with it, damn it Orlando must have been the thief. So quick to disappear, I don't know anything about him except his name. Why would someone rob a gallery they were so involved with, why don't I remember anything, he must have got me so drunk he knew I would pass out and he could go through the wall and steal the painting then - how did he know the wall was - he must have been planning this for - oh it all sounds so stupid. The wall is going to be discovered as some as police forensics get in there; I'm going to be held responsible, Orlando's my only alibi, what a mess

FX NOISE OF NAZ AND JADE COMING BACK THROUGH WALL/ WARDROBE

Jade: Inspector Clouseau here set off an alarm so we had to bail

Naz: we got some-

Jade: I got

Naz: Jade collected bags of evidence we're going to hit the lab

Lavinia: imperative we get out of here, Sting's gone awol again, he went out saying something about cornering Orlando

Naz: evidence is all pointing to him right now, jade see if you can find some of this big shot's clothing fibres here - we might be able to make a match

Jade: you saying the guy that stayed here last night with Lavinia is responsible

Lavinia: (overcome) well it wasn't me

Naz: I still can't understand why you didn't wake up

Lavinia: It's like I was drugged

Jade: hang on, Orlando Vandercamp, the man you…

Lavinia: yes you met him on the high-street, I remember that much

Jade: Orlando Vandercamp, the architect yeah? The man you were with was not Vandercamp

Lavinia: you sure

Jade: one hundred per cent

Lavinia: but the restaurant, his credit card, the waitress called him Mr Vandercamp

Jade: I'm telling you

Naz: if it wasn't the real guy who w