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

they're doing too much based on manipulating the viewers in this series so far. like how as soon as we know who the real undercover ocg person is, the dynamic between him and the woman totally changes.

Jane (another Jane!) Cafferty was basically Lindsay Denton in ep1 but they cleared her almost immediately based on nothing

Given that Ted wouldn't be kipping in a Travelodge surrounded by red bills if he was the big chief kingpin of all Belfast-inflected Midland crime ever, it's totally not him. But I'm quite enjoying all the "omg, it's Ted" hysteria on Twitter from people who have totally missed four seasons of misdirection.

I thought the misdirection in previous serieses was more even-handed though... that's why it annoys me, although it is kind of fun
poor old Maneet though.

Could Cafferty have been told to implicate Hastings in order to redirect attention away from the real "H"? It's very convenient that she would give away the head guy's identity so easily, considering it would probably mean her days are numbered.

I'm worried for Steve, he's so desperate to crack the case he's getting in way over his head, keeping secrets. I'm not convinced Corbett can be trusted, he was just a little too keen to reach out to Arnott for someone who's supposed to be deeply entrenched in an OCG.

this line of posting is oppressive

I thought that the image Cafferty was pointing at was Dot. There was one shot that gave a half decent view, I'm sure someone will have a good freeze-frame of it.

Corbett seemed to be manipulating Steve, but I'm not sure to what end(s).

So who would people be most upset to find out is a crook - Hastings, Kate or Steve?

Hastings for me by some distance. And something bad is obviously going to happen to Kate after those scenes of her happy family life

hold on there fella

series started with a stolen shipment of heroin aka 'Harry'
the shadowy mastermind behind the whole conspiracy is 'H'
the uncover cop gone rogue (or has he?) is one DS Corbett

gentlemen i do believe i may have untangled this whole web of intrigue

omg

weapons cache turns out to be a bunch of water pistols

confusion still lingers:
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/BP98CW/harry-corbett-sooty-sweep-the-sooty-show-1968-BP98CW.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/96/a7/da/96a7dadb30553322c965358e3c2f1e66.jpg

Can anybody enhance the image to reveal what sinister IMs Ted is receiving in his bachelor pad?

https://i.imgur.com/vgUe5rV.png

When they ask her who blackmailed her, why does Jane just shrug "A woman, mixed race" instead of saying "it was her I told you about last episode, her what spared me life in the hijack of ED-209"?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3wc-puU4AADAoJ.jpg

ha ha.

Gonna get medieval on some bent coppers' asses, fella

so are we pretty sure the, uh, UCO has turned vigilante, luring bent or quasi-bent coppers into his net, to the extent of practically being a serial killer?

that's basically the plot of carry on screaming, so yes

James Morrison - could you please do one of those with Ted watching Steptoe And Son in honour of NickB's brilliant observation?

https://i.ibb.co/v1tKKYt/ted2.jpg

This is so catchy I can't stop watching it.

🎵 COPPERS. COPPERS. BENT. COPPERS. REG 15. 🎵 #LineOfDuty pic.twitter.com/S5sT2UJjlI

— BBC One (@BBCOne) April 9, 2019

Mother of god

the cruise

Amazing, thanks James Morrison! I think that's NickB's theory confirmed.

i'm sticking by my scoobydoo theory: it is someone in a rubber mask, with a balaclava over the top of thE mask AND ANOTHER ONE BENEATH IT

― mark s, Sunday, April 9, 2017 11:17 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what's on Ted's computer? Theories please

Also who's this guy

Who is this guy?! #LineOfDuty 🧐🤔 pic.twitter.com/ZmVUAU8Ynr

— Lauren (@laurenproffitt_) April 14, 2019

what's on Ted's computer? Theories please

When he was packaging the computer in bubble wrap, I was thinking "he's concealing the evidence!!!!"

And then: "you know that seems like a sensible way to wrap up a computer if you don't have a bag"

i: he is addicted to on-line poker hence his having no money and his wife left him
ii: he is addicted to fortnite
iii: some computer sex thing i don't want to think abt probably involving balaclavas and furries
iv: he is ilx's frederick b
v: he watches gamer youtubes
vi: he records gamer youtubes

What’s so bad that he’d need to conceal the shape of his laptop from detection and that he’d need to get the whole thing destroyed?

iv

:D

if it's a gambling addiction* then the destruction is bcz he needs to go cold turkey and the concealment is bcz it's NAGL to be seen destroying a computer in the context of his job and this story (hence AGL in the context of the shuwrunners who keep zooming in on his not-actually-guilty guilty looks)

*or anyway something depserate quick-buck related

You forgot vii: evidence of his other life as a Mr Blobby fetish site operator

But surely he needs a laptop anyway? I could 100% buy gambling problem but he’s got a phone and he’s presumably passing bookies all the time. Concealment I agree with you, but it struck me as off and it’s ptobablt going to play out tragically.

xp no shame to that, fella

I thought Hargreaves was Hastings at first when Kate took his balaclava off

And let me tell you fellas I was mighty relieved to see him walking around in the next scene

i mean i've read this a dozen times now -- including here i think -- but the over-egging of hastings' coming doom, the blizzard of possibly false hints that he's a wrong un too, has kind of become a black box they can get anything out of and we won't be surprised (which means we'll be a bit disappointed either way)

hurrah re the cop-on-cop interview where they basically just accused him, teased him with the idea they thought he was innocent, then broke him -- w/o him even getting a say so (let alone his representative pushing back at all).

"let's undermine our usual tropes!"
"in a clever way?"
"no!"

the bit of evidence they were missing there was checking whether or not there was any oil on the car tyres

have to say their paperwork is always superbly in order in the powerpoint displays

Bent cop oil man could surely say he,d touched his car tires while crouching in hiding

the powerpoint is always at the right aspect ratio on the monitors and everything

Have we skidded off the road into implausibility here? Why did anybody take the bold scouse upstart seriously when he demanded that H attend the robbery in person? Why did poor Les go and elaborately collect all the hidden trackers instead of just phoning the crew about them?

Does Hastings tell each of his teams "yer my best team" when they're alone together?

(a) yes
(b) plot reasons
(c) see (b)
(d) see (a)

Thank you.

Does anyone else have the fantasy that when Hastings gets caught and he's sat the other side of the big table, his line is "I've always conducted myself to the letter of the law, son. The letter..... and that letter is H!"

It's another convenient bit of writing that, when Dot is shot and he has to dyingly declare the name of the big baddie, that name is just a single letter long