#Getting it right

[forensicated]

05x01 - Getting It Right

Pete is in with the CID lot today for an operation outside the rundown Camfort Hotel. Frank orders them to keep quiet as they gather outside and directs 2 armed officers where to cover the back.

Bob ushers Uniform out of the door and onto the streets, telling them to 'give the public some value for their money'. It's still early, only just gone 6am.

Once Frank is assured - by two radio clicks - that the back exit is secure, the owner guides them up to the room in question.

CAD is slow and no calls are coming in so Tom and his two extra!PC's are bored. Tom tells Bob that CID are out on an raid with Pete as Pete reckons he's got the address of 'that weirdo who has been abducting women at gunpoint' from a snout. Tom remembers that Bob's son, Patrick, is up in court and assures him that he'll be alright. Bob isn't so sure.

The hotel owner lets CID into the room. Frank approaches the bed and wakes the occupant in a rather unique way...!!!

"POLICE!"

The man is wrestled from the bed and down onto the floor with his arms behind his back. His female companion panics and keeps asking who they are. "You can't do this, this is my room!" Frank barks at the woman to shut up and orders Pete to get the man on his feet. Pete removes a piece of paper from his pocket and looks at it before looking rather ashen at Frank. "... No, Guv."

"Looks like there's been a mistake, sir..." Frank sighs, warning Pete that he'll 'see him in a minute'.

Bob rings home and asks to speak to Patrick. Bob's wife, Shirley, tells him that he's not up yet. Bob can't believe it and snarks that she should wake him and 'remind him that he has to be at court over the little matter of death by dangerous driving'. Shirley accuses him of trying to have another row and Bob assures her he isn't. He asks her to make sure that Patrick is in a suit for his appearance.

Outside the hotel room, Pete growls at the hotel owner for telling him that that was the room for the man they are after. The owner points out that everything Pete said fit the description. "You didn't tell me he was a 7ft giant, did you!" The two silent armed officers simply shrug and walk off.

Inside the room Frank apologises again and the man tells him he'll be hearing from his solicitors. "It was a genuine mistake." The man claims he's going to make an official complaint and issue a writ against Frank for damages, assault and unlawful arrest.

Ted asks the owner if any other residents at the hotel match the description. Pete is desperate and asks if anyone else staying has a beard. The owner mentions that his odd-job-man had a beard but shaved it off recently. He says that he doesn't charge him for the room because he does all the odd jobs around the place but his permanent job is a plumber. "He's a strange fellow..." He claims he's moody and he used to be in the army. Ted asks to be shown to his room. They burst inside but it's empty. Pete is adamant that it could be him "You can smell the sweat!" he exclaims as they search for the gun, remembering one of the victims said 'that terrifying stench will stay with [her] for the rest of [her] life.' Ted keeps reminding him to look for the gun whilst he arranges for forensics to visit.

A young girl approaches the front desk and asks for PC Cryer. Robin tells her they don't have one but they do have a Sergeant by that name. She asks to speak to him and he tells her she can if she hurries after the man who has just left - Bob is on his way to support his family through Patrick's court appearance.

"You prat!" Frank snarls at Pete as they leave. Pete protests it was the right hotel but the wrong room. Ted thinks it was good information but Frank scoffs that their suspect walked out dressed as a plumber with a 9mm on him. "I made a boob-" "I've now got a writ slapped on me by some toffee nosed snob spending the night with his bit of rough!" Frank growls before ordering Pete to look for dirt on the man so he can quash the complaint. He reminds Pete that he gave him a 2 week stint in CID because he promised he could bring the goods and so far he hasn't and Frank's neck is on the block.

At Sun Hill, Frank and Ted are extremely confused to hear the sounds of a clarinet coming from CID. Hello Alistair!

Alistair confuses Frank for Ted and goes to shake his hand. Frank snarkily corrects him and tells him he's the DI. Ted grins and shakes his hand, introducing himself. Frank tells Alistair he was supposed to arrive last week but Alistair explains he had a weeks leave already booked to play a 'gig in Hamburg'. "I'll give you a gig(!) My office!"

Pete follows the man from the hotel but his car gives out on him just as he disappears right/ Pete has run out of petrol. 🤦‍♀️

The girl from the station follows Bob on his way home. She manages until they get to a cash and carry where she loses him. Bob appears out of nowhere and confronts her for following him. She tells him she's named Bobbie after him.

Frank growls at Alistair that he has 20 entries in the crime book assigned to him and he wants action on them before he leaves the station - even if it takes him a couple of days. Alistair tells him it's out of the question as he has a practice for the MET band that afternoon because they have a lot of gigs coming up. Frank tells him his resources are already stretched to the limit, he's had to borrow uniform officers and Detectives from other boroughs as it is and he hates 'having to go cap in hand to a Superintendent who hates my guts' to plead for assistance. Alistair tells him it's not his problem but Frank insists it his because he asked for a new Sgt, not a part time copper and he expects him to work his arse off for him.

A court usher ushers Ted into a courtroom as Patrick's case has been moved forward. Noone has told Bob though. He's in a cafe with Bobbie, sure he's alright for time. She was abandoned in a telephone box near the council officers as a newborn and was found by Bob. There was a note taped to her wrist asking whoever found her to look after her. Bob apologises but he can't remember, telling her he's done a lot of things over a lot of years. Bobbie tells him that she heard she wasn't well and that Bob kept returning to see how she was getting on. He slowly starts to remember that it was when he was a PC and that he was asked what his name was. The night she was found it was raining cats and dogs. "I'm glad you weren't christened Fred!"

In CID, Frank continues moaning about Alistair's prior attachment to the band, claiming he's lucky he doesn't play rugby and football for the MET as well as he'd only see him 3 weeks out of 52. "You've made your point... guv." Alistair explains that the MET band is a showpiece and a major part of public relations for the force.

Pete returns to the station and has to tell Frank that he lost the target due to running out of petrol. The car the man was driving is registered to a woman, presumably his wife. Frank growls that he wants to know the man's name and gives Pete an hour. Pete takes to a desk and tries to find out who plays the rates at the address the car is registered under. In the mean time Alistair considers screening some of the cases he'd been assigned to over the phone and Pete warns him not to let Frank hear him say that because he'd do his nut.

Bobbie tells Bob she wants to find her real mother. He tells her to be a good kid and go home to her adoptive parents and he heads off to the court. He arrives to find that the case has been thrown out as the CPS didn't submit the commital paperwork by the date they were supposed to. Bob is flabbergasted, 'Patrick must be guilty!" The father of Patrick's girlfriend who died angrily confronts Bob and reckons that it's a cover up because he's a coppers son.

One of the borrowed CID officers tells Frank there is nothing tangible in the odd job mans room to link him to the crime and SOCO have found nothing either. Frank insists something will turn up - it always does.

Pete finds out that the man from the hotel is a doctor and asks for a list of local doctors. Pete finally locates him - Dr Matthew de Beyfus practicing at the Longley Medical Practice in Holland Park. He's there as they speak. Frank smirks and reckons that the woman he was with that morning is probably a patient of his. Alistair looks uncomfortable as Frank tells Pete to pull strings to find out.

Bobbie is waiting for Bob as he leaves court. He's in shock about Patrick's case being thrown out. Bob is unusually but understandably dismissiv and tells her to go home to her adopted mother. "Kids are all the same, you don't think of the grief you cause your parents. GO HOME!" he shouts.

Pete swaggers into Frank's office and tells him that the woman from that morning is a patient at the doctors practice "Who's been a naughty little doctor then!" Frank tells him to stay there and not leave the office whilst he goes to speak to the doctor. Pete is clearly impressed and tells Ted and Alistair that he thinks Burnside is a shrewd operator. Ted warns him not to look up to him. "Remember Goebbels! He was a hero worshipper!" warns Alistair.

Ted reminds Pete how keen he was to get the lunatic with the gun that morning but now he and Frank are bending the rules to get off a justifiable complaint. Pete insists it's wrong that the doctor is sleeping with one of his patients. Ted just looks flatly at him. "You ever slept with a bird you've nicked?" "... Yeah. But that's different!" "Not if you get nicked it isn't!" Alistair drawls.

Frank goes to speak to the doctor and tells him it won't take long. The doctor allows him two minutes so Frank apologises for the morning again. The doctor tells him he'll hear from his solicitor and asks him to come to the point. Frank accuses him of having an affair with a patient. "Are you blackmailing me inspector?" "I'm offering a trade..." The doctor tells him that the woman he found him in bed with is not a patient of his. She's registered under one of the other doctors at the practice. Frank casually asks if his wife knows about it and the doctor tells him he doubts it because his wife died 9 months ago. The car he was driving was hers but he hasn't yet told the DVLA but guesses that's how Frank found out her name. He tells Frank his time is up and asks him to leave.

In the canteen Bob notices a PC putting a missing poster up. He takes a double take - it's Bobbie.

[eatenbyfaeries]

FINALLY. FINALLY. MESSY GAY MAN ROMANCE ON THE BIG ANIMATION. LET'S ROCK. Hell YEAH.

[podcastwizard]

my most toxic trait is i fucking love work gossip. i play neutral not to be the bigger person or take the high road but to hear slander and hearsay from every side. two coworkers complained about each other to me in the same afternoon and i nearly blacked out from the rush

[chris-in-eugene]

It's not just that all of the characters of the Avengers use the same quippy banter, but that if you didn't hear who said what quip, you would be hard pressed to identify who said it.

It's fun to see when they actually pull of comedy, without resorting to quips that could have been said by anybody. Heck, The Marvels was a good, funny movie, that was just saddled with having to carry an "end of the world/universe" MCU plot on it's back.

I need people to stop blaming the death of movies on “quips”. A quip is just a funny line of dialogue. That’s all. Like I just saw a post talking about quips and the death of movies and brought up Pirates of the Caribbean as an example of a better movie and yes it is but also that movie is FULL OF QUIPS. I just rewatched The Princess Bride. It’s all quips. Every single line. And it’s a masterpiece.

Movies suck when people don’t care about the art they’re making. That includes them not caring about their quips. Which is why a lot of comic relief dialogue ALSO sucks now. But the problem isn’t that funny dialogue exists.

[bizarrebazaar13]

what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

[marcusbrutus]

the worst part about ocd and ocd-like tendencies is that you think hyper-analyzing your thoughts and constantly psychoanalyzing yourself will fix you but that's actually part of the disorder. it's the disorder. disordering.

[bitchfitch]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[moonchild311]

"people who stay up at night are either insomniac or In love" people who stay up at night read gay fanfiction on AO3 what are you on about?

[oldtvandcomics]

The last days of the petition against conversion therapy are FASCINATING to watch. I have been following it pretty closely for almost a year now, and the progress was, above all, steady. There was this jump when some algorithm in Finland picked it up, but even that was local.

And now, everyone is panicking.

Which really shows.

These past three or four days, multiple countries have reached the threshold. Even more notably, the number of signatures in total, the ones that we need to get one million of, are growing rapidly. There are only 400'000 signatures missing. Two days ago, it was closer to 600'000.

You can see the progress here:

Consider joining the fun by making everyone around you sign it!

[rafeandonlyrafe]

well 🧍‍♀️ as a reminder this blog is NOT a safe space for trump supporters but it IS a safe place for women, queers, trans ppl, people of color, undocumented people, and any marginalized group.

[bookwyrminspiration]

god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

[mochasucculent]

Dumb thing that would not leave my brain

[singinginthecar]

south africa was banned in the olympics in 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 & 1992. a total of 8 times. for 28 years they didn't set foot in the olympics. you know why? apartheid. apparently the olympics disagreed with the apartheid regime in south africa. russia & belarus aren't allowed to take part in the olympics this year. you know why? because of their involvement in the war in ukraine. several countries throughout history haven't been allowed to participate in the olympics because of various reason from their involvement in war to human rights abuses. now if the olympics aren't blind to all that... why in the world are they blind to what israel has been doing to gaza for the past 10 months? why is a genocidal apartheid nation allowed to participate in the olympics when any other country in its place would've been banned?

[cricketcat9]

I’ve been married to an artist who occasionally supplemented the income by designing books covers, and had friends who did. To my knowledge, they were happy with being told “what’s this all about”. My husband was once praised for an abstract cover in olive green, white and magenta, for “capturing the essence of the Polish military history in WWII” 🤷🏼

im dying over this thread of algorithmically-generated/otherwise low-effort Kindle covers

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am