Line of Duty (BBC Police Drama)

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MiniMan64

16,926 posts

190 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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carl_w said:
Getting a suspension of disbelief issue. Have arm amputated and go straight back to work?
More like suspension of disbelief that someone has clever as her leaves an infected arm to get rotten enough that it needs to be amputated!

AMG Merc

11,954 posts

253 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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MiniMan64 said:
More like suspension of disbelief that someone has clever as her leaves an infected arm to get rotten enough that it needs to be amputated!
I'd have thought she'd have gone to a private clinic and given a false name. And what's having one hand going to do for her acting career?! jester

Nimby

4,591 posts

150 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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AMG Merc said:
I'd have thought she'd have gone to a private clinic and given a false name. And what's having one hand going to do for her acting career?! jester
They can just grow her a new arm on Westworld.

AMG Merc

11,954 posts

253 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Nimby said:
AMG Merc said:
I'd have thought she'd have gone to a private clinic and given a false name. And what's having one hand going to do for her acting career?! jester
They can just grow her a new arm on Westworld.
laugh Saw the original but not the latest as not on Sky. She could also get a 3D printer from Maplin (remembering to reverse the scan before printing - otherwise she'd end up with two right hands) smile

Ki3r

7,818 posts

159 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Its getting a bit silly now isn't it? I mean putting a latex glove on with ONE hand? It takes me ages to put one on with both my hands!

silverthorn2151

6,298 posts

179 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Adrian Dunbar was on breakfast telly this morning and he said that some, but not all lines would be tied up next week.

Excited!!!!

KTF

9,805 posts

150 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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What exactly did the forensics guy do to her arm before he was killed that caused her to get MRSA? It looked more like a graze than the result of contact with the chainsaw or whatever it was that he was going to use to chop her up.

Antony Moxey

8,065 posts

219 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Is there anywhere to watch the previous three series? I only started watching at the beginning of this current series. Tried looking through the various Sky menus but can't see anything (although to be fair I am rubbish at looking stuff up).

Blaster72

10,838 posts

197 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Ki3r said:
Its getting a bit silly now isn't it? I mean putting a latex glove on with ONE hand? It takes me ages to put one on with both my hands!
Getting a bit silly!!

The whole show is some sort of comic farce now. What next, someone squashed by a piano dropped from height?

It's got so ridiculous I don't think I'll even bother watching next week.

CoolC

4,216 posts

214 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Antony Moxey said:
Is there anywhere to watch the previous three series? I only started watching at the beginning of this current series. Tried looking through the various Sky menus but can't see anything (although to be fair I am rubbish at looking stuff up).
Netflix I believe.

SAB888

3,243 posts

207 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Brilliant series so far, hoping for a great finale next week. I'm convinced that Hilton is the "top dog" and is deep into corruption, hence him getting inside info from within AC-12 as insurance if he is outed. I feel sure that Jimmy, the lawyer (Patrick Baladi) is bent and will be knocked off his perch by Steve Arnott for his part in framing Michael. Still not sure who attacked Arnott but don't think it was Nick Huntley , , , or maybe it was.

Mr GrimNasty

8,172 posts

170 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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KTF said:
What exactly did the forensics guy do to her arm before he was killed that caused her to get MRSA? It looked more like a graze than the result of contact with the chainsaw or whatever it was that he was going to use to chop her up.
That was rubbish medically speaking, no reason why MRSA couldn't get in through a scratch from a brick wall as she stated, or a scratch from a power tool or his nails as supposedly happened. The staph. could have already have been harmlessly on her own skin or from the source of the injury.

Very rare to cause Necrotising Fasciitis as the wound implied, even if untreated though - looks like natural justice caught up with her!

chilistrucker

4,541 posts

151 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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SAB888 said:
Brilliant series so far, hoping for a great finale next week. I'm convinced that Hilton is the "top dog" and is deep into corruption, hence him getting inside info from within AC-12 as insurance if he is outed. I feel sure that Jimmy, the lawyer (Patrick Baladi) is bent and will be knocked off his perch by Steve Arnott for his part in framing Michael. Still not sure who attacked Arnott but don't think it was Nick Huntley , , , or maybe it was.
Could it possibly be the lawyer who threw Arnott down the stairwell? I reckon he has been banging his so called 'MATES' Mrs for a while. The pair of them could be as thick as thieves maybe?

OR

As a curve ball in the last episode it was hinting that the beardy copper was onto Huntley as he was really watching her and what was going on very carefully. What if he is an inside mole for top brass Hilton and has been for a very long time, maybe as long as when a certain business woman went missing many moons ago. Long shot I know, but......

Also who is getting shot at in the next episode as we seem to keep seeing in the current trailers?

Is it Sunday yet?

BraveSirRobin

842 posts

282 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Mr GrimNasty said:
KTF said:
What exactly did the forensics guy do to her arm before he was killed that caused her to get MRSA? It looked more like a graze than the result of contact with the chainsaw or whatever it was that he was going to use to chop her up.
That was rubbish medically speaking, no reason why MRSA couldn't get in through a scratch from a brick wall as she stated, or a scratch from a power tool or his nails as supposedly happened. The staph. could have already have been harmlessly on her own skin or from the source of the injury.

Very rare to cause Necrotising Fasciitis as the wound implied, even if untreated though - looks like natural justice caught up with her!
And yet her colleagues seem to treat it as though she's lost a fingernail!

SAB888

3,243 posts

207 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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chilistrucker said:
Could it possibly be the lawyer who threw Arnott down the stairwell? I reckon he has been banging his so called 'MATES' Mrs for a while. The pair of them could be as thick as thieves maybe?

OR

As a curve ball in the last episode it was hinting that the beardy copper was onto Huntley as he was really watching her and what was going on very carefully. What if he is an inside mole for top brass Hilton and has been for a very long time, maybe as long as when a certain business woman went missing many moons ago. Long shot I know, but......
I've also been thinking that.

I think the bearded cop is straight and has sussed out that Huntley is bent, which is why he went to Kate.

Edited by SAB888 on Monday 24th April 21:18

FiF

44,081 posts

251 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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I wondered if Jodie, the speccy DC, might spot something seeing as she doesn't appear to miss much. Sadly she missed seeing the signs as her nose is wedged so far up Huntley's butt crack.

Halmyre

11,197 posts

139 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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FiF said:
I wondered if Jodie, the speccy DC, might spot something seeing as she doesn't appear to miss much. Sadly she missed seeing the signs as her nose is wedged so far up Huntley's butt crack.
I wouldn't put it past Huntley to stitch her up as well.

chilistrucker

4,541 posts

151 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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SAB888 said:
I've also been thinking that.

I think the bearded cop is straight and has sussed out that Huntley is bent, which is why he went to Kate..
DOH!!!!!

My memory is lousy, and it was only last night paperbag

croyde

22,898 posts

230 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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As well as Huntley popping back to work after an amputation you also have Arnott who didn't fall down the stairs, he was dropped through the middle of them already beaten unconscious and subsequently landing on his back and head.

Those steps must of played merry hell with his spine and skull yet he's back at work without a bruise.

OK he is in a wheelchair but apart from that he looks fine.

Nimby

4,591 posts

150 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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chilistrucker said:
Could it possibly be the lawyer who threw Arnott down the stairwell?
Not that easy to see from an iPlayer screen-grab but that balaclava man (maybe there's more than one?) had blue eyes. Lakewell (Baladi) has brown eyes.