Line of Duty (BBC Police Drama)

[marcosgt]

OK, I know it's TV drama and fiction, but this is more far fetched than Midsomer!

I've always enjoyed the earlier series, but this has jumped the shark... in the General Lee... in space....and the shark was a Megaladon...

M

[wjb]

Not sure if it is Jackie in the freezer, but it's definitely an ocg trademark.

[Tony Angelino]

wjb said:

Not sure if it is Jackie in the freezer, but it's definitely an ocg trademark.

As is storing DNA, reckon Gill took a scraping from Teds crusty sheets last week?

[Beefmeister]

Tony Angelino said:

As is storing DNA, reckon Gill took a scraping from Teds crusty sheets last week?

Ew

[Beefmeister]

gmaz said:

Red 4 said:

Did anybody else spot the spelling mistake when Corbett was communicating with "H".

"Definately".

PH - speeling, gramma and punctuationion matter.

Criminal.

Edited by Red 4 on Monday 15th April 11:23

The same word was used again by Hastings on the messenger, spelt wrongly IIRC?

Yep, episode 3. The person on the other end of the messenger used ‘definately’ then. Subtle enough to give you a hint that Hastings is H.

[Red 4]

Beefmeister said:

gmaz said:

Red 4 said:

Did anybody else spot the spelling mistake when Corbett was communicating with "H".

"Definately".

PH - speeling, gramma and punctuationion matter.

Criminal.

Edited by Red 4 on Monday 15th April 11:23

The same word was used again by Hastings on the messenger, spelt wrongly IIRC?

Yep, episode 3. The person on the other end of the messenger used ‘definately’ then. Subtle enough to give you a hint that Hastings is H.

But is he the real H ?

Lisa has custody of the laptop (pretty sure she's a cop ) and " H" hasn't given any orders - only received info from Corbett.

[PurpleTurtle]

The way I see it panning out is a massive fall-out between Steve Arnott and Hastings - remember the latter recruited him as his golden boy.

Arnott will blame Hastings for Corbett getting his throat cut.

Hastings will say that he had to sacrifice Corbett for the greater good - he was trying his best to get him to come in, but Steve let him go so unwittingly sealed his fate. Steve will go rogue in an attempt to finish what Corbett started and will come to a stand-off with Kate.

Lisa will probably get slotted when she is outed as an undercover op working for Hastings.

'H' will continue to be unidentified because they've already commissioned series 6, and won't want to kill off any of the three central characters, or the continuing mystery of who is the bentest of bent coppers.

[Beefmeister]

I'd like to think that everything is going to come to a head in Series 5 and that Series 6 might be the start of a new arc for LoD.

I'm mainly thinking that because if we don't find out who H is in the next two episodes I might kick the crap out of my telly at the end of this series!

[SV_WDC]

FiF said:

Cfnteabag said:

I might have missed something but is There anything significant about the body in the freezer in the boys flat opposite the printing works?

It's a link back to season 1. Beyond that, not sure.

Think that is the problem with this series. They are linking back to stuff that is quite literally years old and expecting people to believe it.

I was late to the LOD party, only watching most of it in 2016, then the last season when it aired a couple years ago. Even then I had to go back and think 'who is Hargreaves and why is this important'

As others have said the whole plot is a complete mess but there is a lot more focus on the action now. I really enjoyed how a CCTV system can be knocked out at a police lock up with some pliers / bolt cutters

[Ruth Rack]

Tense preview from next week's episode as the Garda follow a lead in the hunt for 'H'.

[droopsnoot]

Beefmeister said:

gmaz said:

Red 4 said:

Did anybody else spot the spelling mistake when Corbett was communicating with "H".

"Definately".

PH - speeling, gramma and punctuationion matter.

Criminal.

The same word was used again by Hastings on the messenger, spelt wrongly IIRC?

Yep, episode 3. The person on the other end of the messenger used ‘definately’ then. Subtle enough to give you a hint that Hastings is H.

It's a good job they didn't spell it "defiantly", otherwise it could be half the people who post on PH.

Final episode is 90 minutes, apparently.

[Antony Moxey]

droopsnoot said:

It's a good job they didn't spell it "defiantly", otherwise it could be half the people who post on PH.

Final episode is 90 minutes, apparently.

Is that episode six, or is the series longer than that?

[droopsnoot]

Antony Moxey said:

Is that episode six, or is the series longer than that?

I understood it as being the sixth episode. But the next series has been confirmed, so it's probably too much to expect anything to be properly tied up.

[Trevatanus]

PurpleTurtle said:

' and won't want to kill off any of the three central characters,

I think with the deaths of Corbett and previously Denton, the writer has proved he is not afraid to dispense with any characters.

[droopsnoot]

True, but neither of those were AC-12 characters. I think the reference was to Hastings, Arnott or Fleming. Maneet was a sideline character that seemed to have been brought to the foreground so she could get killed, so I wonder if the new enthusiastic officer whose name I don't recall will last the series.

[nigelpugh7]

Not sure if there is another thread on here, couldn’t see one.

But after watching line of duty latest episode we wanted something more.

So we picked the new one from the BBC, “ The Victim “.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00041yn

No spoilers, but my god it was riveting, so much so that we binge watched all three episodes.

It was scary, and thought provoking and a little worrying too.

Well worth a watch.

[Beefmeister]

nigelpugh7 said:

Not sure if there is another thread on here, couldn’t see one.

But after watching line of duty latest episode we wanted something more.

So we picked the new one from the BBC, “ The Victim “.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00041yn

No spoilers, but my god it was riveting, so much so that we binge watched all three episodes.

It was scary, and thought provoking and a little worrying too.

Well worth a watch.

Yep, really enjoyed the Victim. Cracking bit of telly.

[FiF]

Beefmeister said:

nigelpugh7 said:

Not sure if there is another thread on here, couldn’t see one.

But after watching line of duty latest episode we wanted something more.

So we picked the new one from the BBC, “ The Victim “.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00041yn

No spoilers, but my god it was riveting, so much so that we binge watched all three episodes.

It was scary, and thought provoking and a little worrying too.

Well worth a watch.

Yep, really enjoyed the Victim. Cracking bit of telly.

Yes indeed, superbly written and acted, the way the role of victim and assailant chopped and changed with reversal after reversal was interesting. Victim or offender, which was which.

[CalNaughtonJnr]

Anybody suspicious about the young asian female officer? - seems annoyingly keen!!

[andymc]

CalNaughtonJnr said:

Anybody suspicious about the young asian female officer? - seems annoyingly keen!!

deffo sus, a keen copper