DI Denton's arrest

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You're right, P, it would never have happened in the real world - someone's finances are no reason to stick a murder charge on them, and everything else was circumstantial and very flimsy.

TV dramas tend to cut corners and create unreal situations like this for dramatic purposes. For instance, her interview - like most TV cop show interviews, it degenerated into a slanging match which would never even have made it past the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service, DA you might say). The twist this time was that the SUSPECT got involved in the slanging, producing a sheaf of documents undermining the interviewers! Was she searched before the interview? She was being interviewed pre-arrest? Normally she would have said "You'll have to arrest me if you want to interview me".

Similarly, TV lawyers in UK shows sit there mute, making the odd note. Her solicitor would not have allowed the adversarial tone to take over the interview - sarcasm, insults etc, all staples of the TV police interview.

In US cop shows, the lawyer bowls in, says "YOU. Shut up" to his client, then "Are you charging my client with anything?", at which the cops all cower away from him and release the suspect. In the UK, we never hear the solicitor speak - for instance "I don't think that question is relevant, officer". And whatever great drama it may have made, he wouldn't let his client turn the tables on the interviewing team with allegations about their private lives - that powder would have been kept dry for another day.





Awight we're The Daamned we're a punk baand and this is called Carn't Be Appy T'day!

I think you left out the meat of the case against her.

1) Denton was on duty. Denton went to move a protected witness who was under immediate threat. In response to the request for helping resolve this threat she failed to:

* bring support never mind armed support to help -- pretty ridiculous that you going to move a protected witness and all you bring is yourself and a pc with no weapons. this when you know that a) it's a protected witness meaning people want to kill him, b) he's under immediate threat -- meaning someone's trying to kill him then and there.

* ensure that they were taking the shortest and safest route to the station. even if she didn't chose the route, she should have checked the correctness of the proposed route and other alternate routes. She should scoped out the best route before arriving. She had the capability to do this with the GPS in her official car. She didn't. Instead she takes a longer route that is going along more rural and less well lit roads.

Those too very circumstantial facts look damning and even more so if she had been a effective competent cop up to that point. All indications is that she was. Why would she make such boneheaded moves -- for money.

2) Denton was the only police officer left alive. Not only wasn't she hurt, but although clearly part of the convoy no attempt was made to harm her. Considering they just killed 3 police officers and thought they had killed the witness, leaving her as a witness seems strange. At that point what did they have to lose. You can only serve one life term.

Once again circumstantial but considering the two prior bad decisions points to her involvement.

3) Denton had serious financial problems.

Again given the above this is yet another link in the circumstantial chain.

4) Denton leaves her office to anonymously call and check up on the protected witness right about the time he's being killed. A police officer (2 IIRC 2) is killed carrying out the attempt. (Highlighting again how she was left unharmed.)

Yet another circumstantial event which when added with the others is pretty damning.

5) Denton miraculously picks the only missing person case which leads to the garage which was also where the conspirators were tracked to.

Highly suspicious. Once more Denton is in the middle and put herself there.

6) Denton's propensity to attack when attacked or feels under attacked.

* Her going after the crime squad clearly demonstrated that, along with her ability to successfully work the system. She got information she wasn't entitled to.

7) the witness was going to name names of corruption within the department.

Denton so far has the most pointers to her. In fact, the only other person in the frame is put there by Denton.

After tonight's episode I think Denton is responsible for the attack. Furthermore to protect herself and get even with her boss/lover, she made it look like she was being set up as a both a form of protection and attack. It allows her to point to Dryden as the person who set her up. What is he going to say? "I'm being eet up?" Who sets up two different fall guys? But she thinks she smarter than everyone else and doesn't believe they will suss out the feint within a feint.

We've seen she's smart; we've seen she managed to do things within the system that she shouldn't have been able to; we've seen her get violent; we've seen her try to murder someone. My money's on her. I think she even set up the attack in the prison.

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