Line of Duty (BBC Police Drama)

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The Don of Croy

5,976 posts

158 months

Monday 3rd April 2017
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Presumably we'll be treated to a flashback? How lady DCi gets from laying on back underneath adult male wielding a chopsaw to seeing him off after & getting him to disclose his codes etc etc. All without getting injured.

I think the lead character AC12 DS Arnott is very well cast / acted - really fits the OCD mould with his spouting all the rules and regs during interrogation, and his appearance...shame he cocked up the armed response bit in Series 1 EP1 (or did he?).

Agreed on his 'super' becoming very 'old skool' sexist all of a sudden. Strange. Very watchable still.


Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Monday 3rd April 2017
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DSLiverpool said:
This is by far the poorest story, it has nowhere to go that we care about and the detail of the escape was skipped. I think a sex discrimination line gets introduced as Ted has changed character to be patronising to Huntley and blocked Kate's promotion. Also all the evidence pointed to the CSI guy so why make more evidence and risk getting caught.
For me there are lots of unanswered questions;

If CSIGuy was dodgy then why was he so keen to suggest that the person they've locked up is innocent?
If CSIGuy was genuinely dodgy why did he go Power Tool shopping whilst wearing a balaclava? That seemed a blatant piece of misdirection?
Why did DCI Huntley go round to his flat? And also kill him if it wasn't self defence?
How did the second victim get CSIGuy's blood on her? And how did DCI Huntley know that Forensics would find it?



Don Veloci

1,920 posts

280 months

Monday 3rd April 2017
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The Don of Croy said:
Agreed on his 'super' becoming very 'old skool' sexist all of a sudden. Strange. Very watchable still.
Seems that Super Ted often gets a little spotlight cast on him. In a previous season I think it was a possible hint of corruption that eventually got tidied up.

speedking31

3,543 posts

135 months

Monday 3rd April 2017
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Countdown said:
For me there are lots of unanswered questions;
How did the second victim get CSIGuy's blood on her? And how did DCI Huntley know that Forensics would find it?
She didn't. Thandie took two swabs from CSI's blood and put the second into the evidence in forensics.

Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Monday 3rd April 2017
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I reckon Huntley's husband is the real killer and she's covering for him.

K12beano

20,854 posts

274 months

Monday 3rd April 2017
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Well I've always been suspicious of Adrian Dunbar ever since he turned out to be a baddie in Cracker many years ago....

Amirhussain

11,486 posts

162 months

Monday 3rd April 2017
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The Don of Croy said:
Agreed on his 'super' becoming very 'old skool' sexist all of a sudden. Strange. Very watchable still.
Few of the reviews I've read about the second episode have noted this...could it just be something to distract viewers and try to throw us off track a little?

Anyone find Hilton a bit odd? Can't seem to make my mind up about him.

Also, the guy who replaced Huntley, Buckles, nice little throwback to series 1.

Edited by Amirhussain on Monday 3rd April 15:51

DoctorX

7,240 posts

166 months

Monday 3rd April 2017
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Pickled said:
I reckon Huntley's husband is the real killer and she's covering for him.
yes he's a well known actor surely destined for more than the bit part he's played so far.

Spanna

3,732 posts

175 months

Monday 3rd April 2017
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The CSI's death seems a little OT but I'll accept it, the situation was far from an easy resolution when she popped her eyes open. I just reckoned she'd fight him off and tie the fker up but she went a little serial killery with the finger removal.

Still love the interrogation scenes, some of the best parts to this series.

RC1807

12,482 posts

167 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Spanna said:
The CSI's death seems a little OT but I'll accept it, the situation was far from an easy resolution when she popped her eyes open. I just reckoned she'd fight him off and tie the fker up but she went a little serial killery with the finger removal.

Still love the interrogation scenes, some of the best parts to this series.
Fingers removed to avoid her DNA trace evidence under the nails, surely, looking at her arm injury?
(I couldn't believe she'd kill him, or that he seemed to be the balaclava killer anyway, thinking back to how he approached the DIY store late at night?... yes, I'm lost on this one, obviously...)

DS240

4,637 posts

217 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Sloppy details again...

Evidence bag will be individually numbered, exhibit reference given and signed by seizing or exhibiting officer.. Ideally both. Bag probably would have been photographed at time of seizing also at a scene like that.

So walking in and simply swapping the bags will draw massive attention later on... Different bag numbers, no (incorrect) signatures. It might remove her possible blood sample, but it's still silly.

Quite a few holes... Laptop password (or possible fingerprint ID, so chopped finger used).

jimKRFC

484 posts

141 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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RC1807 said:
Spanna said:
The CSI's death seems a little OT but I'll accept it, the situation was far from an easy resolution when she popped her eyes open. I just reckoned she'd fight him off and tie the fker up but she went a little serial killery with the finger removal.

Still love the interrogation scenes, some of the best parts to this series.
Fingers removed to avoid her DNA trace evidence under the nails, surely, looking at her arm injury?
(I couldn't believe she'd kill him, or that he seemed to be the balaclava killer anyway, thinking back to how he approached the DIY store late at night?... yes, I'm lost on this one, obviously...)
He had biometric password on his pc, needed the fingers to open it and delete the film of her arriving.

droopsnoot

11,810 posts

241 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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chilistrucker said:
I imagine his laptop will have the images from his security system on it, showing how things really unfolded in the flat that night.
It seems a massive inconsistency that he's got this high-tech entry control system "all controlled from my PC" as he makes a point of telling her, but that it's not backed up anywhere else.

DS240 said:
Sloppy details again...

Evidence bag will be individually numbered, exhibit reference given and signed by seizing or exhibiting officer.. Ideally both. Bag probably would have been photographed at time of seizing also at a scene like that.

So walking in and simply swapping the bags will draw massive attention later on... Different bag numbers, no (incorrect) signatures. It might remove her possible blood sample, but it's still silly.
I'm expecting at some point the CSI tech will remember that when they wrote the reference number on the bag, they didn't cross it out and replace with a different number that sounds like the first one, especially as there were two people involved - one who assigned the number from the log book, and the other who wrote it on the bag IIRC. So they'd remember saying "no, not 30, 13". Still, the whole 30/13 thing was really drummed home, showing her carefully writing it on her glove, so we'd all think she was done for, then the whole fridge thing.

Swervin_Mervin

4,429 posts

237 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Pickled said:
I reckon Huntley's husband is the real killer and she's covering for him.
This. There's certainly some explaining to do regarding his late arrivals home etc.

The guy that plays her boss is bloody woefully wooden, and it's getting on my moobs everytime he's in a scene.

And why does Kate feel the need to stare directly at people when she's listening in, before then shifting to an "oh I wasn't ear-wigging, honest" look.

And as for the whole absurdity of there being no CCTV covering the evidence store...


LittleBigPlanet

1,115 posts

140 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Swervin_Mervin said:
This. There's certainly some explaining to do regarding his late arrivals home etc.

The guy that plays her boss is bloody woefully wooden, and it's getting on my moobs everytime he's in a scene.

And why does Kate feel the need to stare directly at people when she's listening in, before then shifting to an "oh I wasn't ear-wigging, honest" look.

And as for the whole absurdity of there being no CCTV covering the evidence store...
Yes! I was saying this to my wife and she's now irritated by his (poor) acting too.

RC1807

12,482 posts

167 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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jimKRFC said:
He had biometric password on his pc, needed the fingers to open it and delete the film of her arriving.
See, I told I was rubbish at this sort of thing!

carl_w

9,154 posts

257 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Swervin_Mervin] said:
The guy that plays her boss is bloody woefully wooden, and it's getting on my moobs everytime he's in a scene.
Isn't he Malcolm Tucker's shouty assistant from The Thick of It?

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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chilistrucker said:
Will the young lad be released from prison at some point if he is no longer a suspect, and will the crimes then start to happen again? Based on his prison cell getting trashed, "Beast" and him not being able to remember things/swearing he didn't do it, perhaps he does have a genuine split personality?
I think he'll end up dead one way or another. Pressured to take his own life perhaps?



tommunster10

1,128 posts

90 months

Tuesday 4th April 2017
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LittleBigPlanet said:
Swervin_Mervin said:
This. There's certainly some explaining to do regarding his late arrivals home etc.

The guy that plays her boss is bloody woefully wooden, and it's getting on my moobs everytime he's in a scene.

And why does Kate feel the need to stare directly at people when she's listening in, before then shifting to an "oh I wasn't ear-wigging, honest" look.

And as for the whole absurdity of there being no CCTV covering the evidence store...
Yes! I was saying this to my wife and she's now irritated by his (poor) acting too.
He is the worst Actor I think I've ever seen on TV and that is really saying something. How could he of got the nod over other jobbing actors is beyond me I find myself wondering if he is a friend of a producer or something.

Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Wednesday 5th April 2017
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carl_w said:
Swervin_Mervin] said:
The guy that plays her boss is bloody woefully wooden, and it's getting on my moobs everytime he's in a scene.
Isn't he Malcolm Tucker's shouty assistant from The Thick of It?
Yep - Jamie the Scottish Psycho.

I think he was in LoD Series 1 as well.