A police ‘critical incident’ arises when a member of the Police Force, while in the execution of their duties –namely conducting a pursuit of a suspect – is involved in the death or serious injury of themselves, or another person.  

On the beat in plain clothes, Senior Constable Zilficar (‘Zil’) Ahmed clocks teenager Dalia Tun – she matches the description of a suspect wanted for assaulting a police officer. He approaches. She runs. He chases her onto a busy train platform. Chaos and confusion over a brown man pursuing a teenage girl. Someone yells “gun!”. Zil dodges an object thrown at him, and in doing so, knocks a schoolboy onto the tracks. A train approaches...  

 

Catastrophes like this don’t happen to Zil – he’s a good officer with great instincts. At least he got the girl responsible for the assault. But Zil’s world comes crashing down around him when he discovers Dalia was in fact not the suspect. The immense guilt over the schoolboy’s horrific injuries, coupled with the pressure of the critical incident investigation and the media scrutiny, creates an unbearable burden. 

 

Encouraged by his brothers in blue, Zil becomes obsessed with pinning something on Dalia. She must have done something wrong.  

 

Why else would she run?  

 

As Dalia finds herself constantly stopped, questioned and searched by police, she turns to those who understand what it’s like to be a police target. And so begins Dalia’s descent into the criminal underworld, leaving Zil to reflect on whether the Force apprehends criminals, or creates them. As he grapples with the role he played in Dalia’s fate, he races to prevent Dalia from committing her life to crime.