The Process Recap Part I

This is part I of a recap for the episode "The Process". The second part of the recap can be found here.

## Details

This episode starts exactly where the last episode finishes, in the drugs house with Danny Waldron bleeding out on the floor or an upstairs room. Kate is trying to stop the bleeding. Two medics are running inside to assist. Inspector Tracey McAndrew calls them up the stairs. They rush past Constable Rod Kennedy, Constable Hari Bains, Constable Jackie Brickford who were all in the room with Sergeant Danny Waldron when he was shot. They are at the end of the hallway, looking dejected and trying to keep out of the way. The medics rush into the room and McAndrew tells Kate to get out of the room and leave the medics to it. Kate hands over compression of his neck wound to the medic and retreats. Kate's hands are dark crimson from all his blood. She watches in shock as they begin treating him.

McAndrew turns to the three AFOs huddled in the hallway and ask then what the hell happened in there. Hari says he's in shock and he needs a couple of minutes to get his head around it, Rod says he's still making sense of it. Jackie just shakes her head. McAndrew looks very frustrated with them. She tells another officer to get them to the station. More gently she tells Kate to head out too. Kate looks back in at Danny and as the medics keep working on him. She then walks outside. Rod, Jackie and Hari get in the van. Kate takes out her phone and texts DS Steve Arnott.

Steve checks his phone on the road, does U-turn and heads for the incident with his sirens blazing. He arrives at the police cordon and shows his badge. He rushes upstairs and asks if Danny is talking. McAndrew says that the incident took place inside the bedroom and it's off limits except to preserve life. Steve stops at the doorway and just stares in disbelief at the sight within, there are now four medics working tirelessly to stabilise Danny. Steve looks at McAndrew and asks if she thinks he'll make it. McAndrew just stares back at him.

In South Ferry Station, Chief Superintendent Terry Reynolds is walking with Hari, Jackie, Rod and Kate down a hallway. He is telling them that they need to fill out their pocket books, then they'll be debriefed and legal will walk them through everything. Hari asks if there is any news on Danny yet.

We cut to Danny being stretchered out of the house, with multiple leads, wires and tubes coming out of him. The monitors start beeping, warning of issues and the rush to get him into the ambulance. The medics confirm they are losing him and that there is no output is being recorded. They decided to start CPR.

Hari, Jackie, Kate and Rod sit in the hallway in silence looking pensive.

Back in the ambulance, the medics are still continuing with CPR. Steve and McAndrew are watching, they can't turn away from the scene in the back of the ambulance. The medics are discussing next steps as after four rounds of CPR there has been no change, no output with chest compressions and asystole on the monitor. They pronounce life extinct at 08:34. Steve and McAndrews look shocked at what's just happened. Steve turns and wanders off to his car.

Rod, Jackie, Kate and Hari are put inside the briefing room in isolation. They all sit far away from each other, in silence looking devastated. Kate stares at them all and breaks the silence first, she wasn't with them when the shot occurred and wants to know what happened. Hari replies "Jesus Christ, Kate." Jackie says that there was a struggle, Kate asks who with. Rod says they were all involved. Hari says that Danny had his firearm out and it just went off. Kate says that she didn't hear a struggle from downstairs. Jackie says that Kate was downstairs. Kate says that from downstairs she didn't hear a struggle and when she got upstairs not one of them was giving Danny first aid.

Rod wants to know what Danny said to her. Kate says she's not sure what he meant. Rod pushes he wants to know exactly he said. Kate makes a point of not saying anything about that. Jackie says that just because Kate didn't hear a struggle, doesn't mean there wasn't one. Kate demands to know why they didn't help him, he was lying on the floor with blood everyone and they just stood there. Jackie says they were in shock. Kate yells at them that they couldn't lift a finger, could call for help. Hari asks if they have to talk about it right now, that all he can see is the image of Danny lying on the floor. Jackie breaks down into tears and Rod puts he head in hands. Kate doesn't let up and asks what Hari's RT was about Hari asks what RT. Kate says she heard Hari says "Better come up here, Skipper." Hari says he'd have to hear the recording. Kate says as they were back to back on two there is no recording. Rod has had enough, he yells at her to stop, she's doing his head in.

Kate says that if she's going to go along with it, she needs to know what she's covering for. Kate gets no answer, so says that the ballistics will tell what happened in that room. Hari says "Yeah, you'd think." Kate looks around, she doesn't have a clue what happened in that room.

Part II of the recap continued here - The Process Recap Part II