Criminal justice - season 3.


FADE IN:

INT. IDI'S HOUSE - CORRIDOR.

DIEGETIC SOUND: POLICE MAN BANGING ON DOOR.

CAMERA AT THE BACK OF THE CORRIDOR SHOWING THE DOOR AND THE BLURRED OUTLINE OF A POLICE MAN.

CUTS TO: OVER SHOULDER SHOT OF THE POLICE MAN AT THE DOOR.

CAMERA SHOW THE BLURRED FIGURE OF IDI RUSHING TO THE DOOR WHILST TRYING TO DO UP HER DRESSING GOWN.

Idi: Do you have any idea what the time it is?

CUTS TO: OVER SHOULDER SHOT OF THE POLICE MAN.

Police man: Yes mam, I'm sorry to disturb you at this hour, may we come in?

Idi: Not until you tell me whats going on.

CUTS TO: OVER SHOULDER SHOT OF IDI.

Police man: We have arrested Raza on the suspicion of murdering Frank Cordingley.

Idi: I think you've got the wrong house, Raza would never do anything like that.

IDI STARTS TO CLOSE THE DOOR BUT THE OFFICER STICKS HIS FOOT IN THE WAY.

CUTS TO: POLICE MANS POV.

Police man: Mam, If you would please accompany us down to the station, we need you to answer some questions.

FADE IN.

INT. POLICE STATION - INTERVIEW ROOM.

NON-DIEGETIC SOUND: CELL DOOR CLOSING IN THE BACKGROUND.

CUTS TO: EXTREME CLOSE UP OF RAZA SITTING IN AN INTERVIEW ROOM.

INTERVIEW ROOM: A SMALL, DARK ROOM. THE ONLY LIGHT IS A SPOT LIGHT SHINING ON RAZA. THERE IS ONE POLICE MAN BY THE DOOR AND ONE MAN SITTING INFRONT OF RAZA.

CUTS TO: BIRDS EYE VIEW OF THE TABLE WHICH RAZA AND THE MAN ARE SITTING AT.

Enter the interviewer, he places some files down on the table.

Interviewer: So Mr. ...

Raza: Mohammed.

Interviewer: We are going to have to get you to answer some questions, they will be taped in case we later need to rely on them in court.

Raza: Ok.

Raza starts to shake and a tear starts to form in his left eye.

CUTS TO OVER SHOULDER SHOT OF RAZA.

Interviewer: How long had you known Mr. Cordingley for?

Interviewer: Did you and him get along well?

Raza: I didn't know him that well but he seemed like a nice guy.

Interviewer: Apart from the University is there anywhere else that you would see him?

Raza: He lived on the same road as me.

Interviewer: Is there anything that you and Mr. Cordingley disagreed on?

Raza: Like I said, I didn't know him that well so we didn't speak a lot.

CUTS TO OVER SHOULDER SHOT OF THE INTERVIEWER WITH THE SEE-THROUGH MIRROR BEHIND HIM.

Interviewer: You are currently in in a lot of debt am I right in saying?

Pause

Interviewer: £26,000?

Raza: Yes.

Interviewer: Are you aware that a few week before Mr. Cordingley had won £32,000 cash price from the Lottery?

Raza: Yes.

CUTS TO: OVER SHOULDER SHOT OF RAZA.

Interviewer: Is it true that all that debt has now been paid off?

Raza: Most of it, yes. 

The interviewer looks at the police man at the door.

CUTS TO: POV SHOT OF THE INTERVIEWER LOOKING AT THE POLICE MAN

Interviewer: Don't you think it's strange that shortly after Mr. Cordingley's murder your debts suddenly disappeared? 

Raza: It was inheritance from my grandma who recently passed away, it's bad enough I'm accused of murder but now your saying I did it for money?

Raza starts to break into a sweat.

The police man at the door smirks. The interviewer starts to get more aggressive with Raza

CUTS TO: MEDIUM SHOT OF THE TABLE WITH THE TWO CHARACTERS ON EITHER SIDE.

Raza is starting to talk quietly. Raza is crying now with his head low, looking at the floor.

Interviewer: Did you kill Mr. Cordingley?

Raza: No.

Interviewer: Theres no point in lying to me Raza. Did you kill Mr. Cordingley.

Raza: No.

CUTS TO: CLOSE UP OF RAZA WITH HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS.

Raza starts to mumble.

Raza: This can't be happening, this can't be happening.

Interviewer: Do you have something to say?

Raza gives no reply.

CUTS TO: WIDE SHOT WHICH INCLUDES THE WHOLE ROOM WITH THE POLICE MAN AND THE DOOR IN THE CENTRE.

The interviewer gets up and walks out of the room leaving Raza in pieces at the table.

Raza: I didn't kill him, why would any one think I did, I barely knew him, I barely talked to him, I barely ...

The interview room door opens and a policeman shows Raza to a cell.

FADE IN:

INT. POLICE STATION - RECEPTION.

DIEGETIC SOUND: THE MAN NEXT TO HIM GRUNTS AND TURNS THE PAGE OF HIS MAGAZINE.

CAMERA SHOWS IDI SAT, WAIT QUIETLY ON A CHAIR IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM.

Idi looks up.

CUTS TO: MEDIUM SHOT OF A POLICE WOMAN BEHIND A DESK.

Police woman: You are free to see your son, although he will be held in the police station under we get further orders.

FADE OUT.