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
― kolarov spring (NickB), Monday, 8 April 2019 12:25 (five years ago) link
omg
― mark s, Monday, 8 April 2019 12:30 (five years ago) link
weapons cache turns out to be a bunch of water pistols
― kinder, Monday, 8 April 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
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
― mark s, Monday, 8 April 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
Can anybody enhance the image to reveal what sinister IMs Ted is receiving in his bachelor pad?
https://i.imgur.com/vgUe5rV.png
― mick signals, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
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"?
― mick signals, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3wc-puU4AADAoJ.jpg
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
ha ha.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 04:14 (five years ago) link
Gonna get medieval on some bent coppers' asses, fella
― mick signals, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
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?
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
that's basically the plot of carry on screaming, so yes
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
James Morrison - could you please do one of those with Ted watching Steptoe And Son in honour of NickB's brilliant observation?
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/v1tKKYt/ted2.jpg
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 April 2019 00:59 (five years ago) link
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
― paolo, Thursday, 11 April 2019 07:40 (five years ago) link
the cruise
― kinder, Thursday, 11 April 2019 07:46 (five years ago) link
Amazing, thanks James Morrison! I think that's NickB's theory confirmed.
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 11 April 2019 07:50 (five years ago) link
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
― mark s, Sunday, 14 April 2019 21:59 (five years ago) link
what's on Ted's computer? Theories please
― kinder, Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link
Also who's this guy
― kinder, Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:29 (five years ago) link
Who is this guy?! #LineOfDuty 🧐🤔 pic.twitter.com/ZmVUAU8Ynr— Lauren (@laurenproffitt_) April 14, 2019
― gyac, Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:31 (five years ago) link
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"
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
i: he is addicted to on-line poker hence his having no money and his wife left him ii: he is addicted to fortniteiii: some computer sex thing i don't want to think abt probably involving balaclavas and furries iv: he is ilx's frederick bv: he watches gamer youtubes vi: he records gamer youtubes
― mark s, Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:42 (five years ago) link
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?
― gyac, Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
iv
― mark s, Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
: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
― mark s, Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
You forgot vii: evidence of his other life as a Mr Blobby fetish site operator
― gyac, Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
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.
― gyac, Sunday, 14 April 2019 23:00 (five years ago) link
xp no shame to that, fella
― mark s, Sunday, 14 April 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
I thought Hargreaves was Hastings at first when Kate took his balaclava off
― paolo, Monday, 15 April 2019 08:41 (five years ago) link
And let me tell you fellas I was mighty relieved to see him walking around in the next scene
― paolo, Monday, 15 April 2019 08:42 (five years ago) link
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!"
― mark s, Monday, 15 April 2019 09:17 (five years ago) link
the bit of evidence they were missing there was checking whether or not there was any oil on the car tyres
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Monday, 15 April 2019 09:40 (five years ago) link
have to say their paperwork is always superbly in order in the powerpoint displays
― mark s, Monday, 15 April 2019 10:01 (five years ago) link
Bent cop oil man could surely say he,d touched his car tires while crouching in hiding
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Monday, 15 April 2019 12:03 (five years ago) link
the powerpoint is always at the right aspect ratio on the monitors and everything
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 15 April 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
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?
― mick signals, Thursday, 18 April 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
(a) yes(b) plot reasons (c) see (b) (d) see (a)
― mark s, Thursday, 18 April 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
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!"
― mick signals, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
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
― mick signals, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:36 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Heh, I've actually done that with my tablet before I had a proper cover for it - stuck it in a padded envelope when I was carrying it around.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
xp iirc he just died before he could spell out any other letters
― kinder, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
The OCG members have been calling him H.
― mick signals, Friday, 19 April 2019 02:56 (five years ago) link
*dying* *faint*"it was h — "*fainter still, listeners leans in""— to the izzle" *dies*
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2019 09:01 (five years ago) link
It's true that everything is initialed now, making it easy for dying coppers to maximize their last breaths.
*DS John Corbett grabs mic*from the AFOs to the DCCyou haven't heard a declaration till you heard it from mei'm the UCO in the OCGi'm the CHIS with the biz in the CIDnow i'll tell you H's real identity*dies*
― mick signals, Friday, 19 April 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
I've started watching Bodies but not sure my nerves can take it
― kinder, Friday, 19 April 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
definatelyargh
― kinder, Sunday, 21 April 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
was really looking forward to a Corbett interview scene too
― kinder, Sunday, 21 April 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
good ep
any variation of Hastings = Corbett's Dad / Hastings killed Corbett's Dad would be a stupid twist imoIf McQueen is undercover police then she's way further over the line than Corbett was so that's kind of interesting
― seandalai, Sunday, 21 April 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link