LINE OF DUTY: cop-on-cop action TV procedural that demands analysis

Mysterious blood relative of Jo Davidson's is Corbett, right?

Mysterious blood relative of Jo Davidson's is Corbett, right?

― ailsa

I thought maybe that horrible Scottish gangster from S1 was her dad.

xpost ha

Yeah I thought Chloe was a goner
"I didn't say anything, did I, DI Arnott" - was that supposed to be some coded thing? Did he do a dying declaration in the van?
Literally cheered when Arnott shot window sniper.
Good to see Lakewell "Windermere" back even for a bit, the slimy shite.

"Saturnine faces of my cellmates"
Saturn is the 6th planet
THERE ARE 6 DOTS

Btw I’m guessing that if Lakewell was a coward but not a fool then Buckell is both going by that scene in the cell.

Lakewell must have said something to Arnott that we didn't see.

Arnott just deleting the demands from Occupational Health like that would make that them go away when he's spent six years recovering decoded messages from dead laptops is even more hilarious than Ted trying get the porn taken off his by some mobile phone fixing shop on the high street.

And Kate continues to just be laughably bad at everything.

I loved the 'barely able to make a cup of tea' trope to show how scared Buckell was. Also, how's he supposed to practise his putting with Lakewell's corpse in the way?

Anyone else distracted by Buckell and Devereux's 'show me your trunshon' text convo being back to front? I thought it was supposed to be off of Buckell's phone?

Also I've been idly wondering where Kate's trench coat is from - I've concluded my investigation and it's from APC.

xp it feels like they’re setting it up for Steve and Hastings to just be going full hail mary on this case knowing that neither of them will be on the force in a month. Steve ‘delaying’ the new job felt like him sort of acknowledging that

"I didn't say anything, did I, DI Arnott" - was that supposed to be some coded thing? Did he do a dying declaration in the van?

Thought it was odd during the post-raid interview that Lakewell called Steve by his surname ('DI Arnott'), but called Chloë by her first name.

Mysterious blood relative of Jo Davidson's is Corbett, right?

― ailsa

I thought maybe that horrible Scottish gangster from S1 was her dad.

xpost ha

_Mysterious blood relative of Jo Davidson's is Corbett, right?_


Or Tommy Hunter

Subtitles said it was a 'he' iirc...? But the photo in her apartment was her and a woman.
Could be... Hastings!
Hunter's a good bet.

What's the 'racist element' in Vella's investigation all about then?

BTW it was Lee Banks offing Lakewell, wasn't it? The guy Ted did or didn't rat out John Corbett to in prison.

Well, yeah, I was going for blood relative of Corbett via his birth mother, since they pointed out it was on the police database due to them being a police person. Anne Marie McGillis was his birth mother, and one of Ted's informants back in his RUC days

And the mysterious person in the file they passed to Ted was a man.

The image in the file was Davidson, no?

Yes the image was.
Thought they said 'he' though.
Would an officer be a 'nominal'?

"The analysis detected partial matches to a nominal, whose DNA is stored on other police databases. He's/it's identified over the page." (Subtitles says 'he's' but it's not clear - more like "s'identified")

Then referred to as 'this individual'.

Maybe's she's literally the Mother of God

That would be an annoying plot twist

Well, yeah, I was going for blood relative of Corbett via his birth mother, since they pointed out it was on the police database due to them being a police person. Anne Marie McGillis was his birth mother, and one of Ted's informants back in his RUC days

I’m now pretty convinced Ted is H.

His destruction of the laptop in Series 5 clearly wasn’t porn.

He’d then leak the solicitor’s prison excursion. The solicitor would have feared Ted. And isn’t Ted trying to stitch Steve up with a drugs test?#LineofDuty6

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 11, 2021

this doesn’t match up with the solo Ted reaction scenes where he seems genuinely devastated, but an intriguing theory nonetheless

Nah not having it

this doesn’t match up with the solo Ted reaction scenes where he seems genuinely devastated, but an intriguing theory nonetheless

Ted knows we're watching him and he's trying to throw us off the scent.

By living in a Travelodge

Twitter 10pm Sundays is pure gold.
Didn't spot this

OMG the evidence to catch Ryan happened last week, it’s gone unnoticed I’m screaming at the telly #LineOfDuty pic.twitter.com/xon52fWne3

— 🐝 Gillian Turner 🐝 (@gillyqueenbee) April 11, 2021

I'm way behind on this and just catching up on season 3 tonight. The scene where they bring in Dot for questioning and the net tightens is so tight and forensic!

"Everyone makes mistakes"

"Indeed we do, DI Cottan"

the attempted getaway scene is rather daft though!

Yep

cottan doing his ministry of funny runs with an armed policeman down the high street while kate hangs off a truck is v funny.

It would have been improved if it was speeded up with a Benny Hill music track and Kate jumped on the side of an old-school milk truck

steve arnott: sharpshooter

Had to admit I had a chuckle at Steve's pronunciation of "Michelin Star restaurants",

They'll make you a soufflé and give your tyres a pump for no extra charge.

well it is the same company!

i’m a little embarrassed by how enthusiastically i greeted steve’s headshot.

can’t remember ANY of the people that are being mooted as the blood relative...

it seems increasingly clear that davidson is being squeezed by the OCG and doesn’t know how to get out of it. she (and buckells) basically told: make sure none of this points at us. but they have no endgame.

Is Kate the only core cast member we haven't been led to suspect in a previous season?

"I didn't say anything, did I, DI Arnott" - on the face of it the most obvious reading is that he's saying "I'm not a rat" to the person he knows holds his life in their hands. I haven't seen series 1-4 but from what I know it would be a bit of a stretch to pin Steve as H though.

That van crash can't have been good for poor Steve's bad back.

no it seems clear to me, and from steve's tiny nod, that he DID talk in that van, and that as they discussed (handily just before the shooting started) steve can't use that testimony - he can only use it as an investigative tool

why haven't you seen series 1-4?!

I'm not normally one for cop shows but my wife was catching up with S5 so I joined in and got hooked, not too fussed about going back though. I watched a six minute explainer lol.

xp yeah that makes more sense.

no it seems clear to me, and from steve's tiny nod, that he DID talk in that van

So either Steve is H (which would be some "Gossip Girl is uh ... Dan" bs) or H wasn't in the room.

Not to spoil the good legwork here but Adrian Dunbar apparently said on a podcast he’s not H?

Fan favourite Anna Maxwell Martin to return to #LineOfDuty as Detective Chief Superintendent Patricia Carmichael this Sunday! https://t.co/cNtuFC4FXy pic.twitter.com/aTghfPLDlk

— BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) April 13, 2021

🤔

Not to spoil the good legwork here but Adrian Dunbar apparently said on a podcast he’s not H?

Did he? Ah, bless him. He'd never get a job at Marvel.

that's exactly what H would say, though...

Perhaps Birmingham is like 1920s Chicago, but the scepticism about organised crime involvement is reaching Scully-like levels of denial — it’s, like, how many armed road blockades/alien invasions do you have to witness before you think “ok maybe something’s going on here”

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