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I reckon both are badly injured. Ryan will probably die before being able to give info
 

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The DNA reveal with her being a relative of Tommy Hunter would've been much better if I could remember who Tommy Hunter was and if it actually turned out to have anything to do with the plot after such a massive cliffhanger last week. Them trying to tie in so much from previous seasons is just making the whole thing such a mess.
 

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The DNA reveal with her being a relative of Tommy Hunter would've been much better if I could remember who Tommy Hunter was and if it actually turned out to have anything to do with the plot after such a massive cliffhanger last week. Them trying to tie in so much from previous seasons is just making the whole thing such a mess.
Was just saying this to a sibling.

It's all so confusing now.
 

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So did they confirm Hastings essentially had Corbett murdered?
 
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The DNA reveal with her being a relative of Tommy Hunter would've been much better if I could remember who Tommy Hunter was and if it actually turned out to have anything to do with the plot after such a massive cliffhanger last week. Them trying to tie in so much from previous seasons is just making the whole thing such a mess.
so true. It went absolutely nowhere.

after every episode, you have to go and google who is who.
 

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The DNA reveal with her being a relative of Tommy Hunter would've been much better if I could remember who Tommy Hunter was and if it actually turned out to have anything to do with the plot after such a massive cliffhanger last week. Them trying to tie in so much from previous seasons is just making the whole thing such a mess.
Agreed. I only vaguely remember what happened last week let alone several series ago. Its been a good watch but I hope it ends after this series.
 

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The DNA reveal with her being a relative of Tommy Hunter would've been much better if I could remember who Tommy Hunter was and if it actually turned out to have anything to do with the plot after such a massive cliffhanger last week. Them trying to tie in so much from previous seasons is just making the whole thing such a mess.
It'll make for a good binge watch though!
 

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Aside from never remembering who half the characters we’re supposed to remember are, I see we’ve now added Stephen Lawrence to the fictionalised real cases dragged into the giant hodgepodge of this one never ending corruption investigation... erm... yay?

Also, has Martin Compston been doing a David Beckham impression this whole time?
 

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Aside from never remembering who half the characters we’re supposed to remember are, I see we’ve now added Stephen Lawrence to the fictionalised real cases dragged into the giant hodgepodge of this one never ending corruption investigation... erm... yay?

Also, has Martin Compston been doing a David Beckham impression this whole time?
Christopher Alder too.
 

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It’s becoming quite distracting all the “real” stuff... it feels a bit mucky in a way, and then makes the more dramatic stuff seem silly.

Also, what previous season was Carmichael in? And Jimmy Nesbit wasn’t in it before, was he? I’d have remembered that, surely? (I’m pretty sure he wasn’t, as they obviously had to badly photoshop his hair onto that picture, to maintain hairline continuity)
 

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Mother of God what if

again we saw the "definately"
They never found that laptop Ted was using last season and was seen using that OCG chat room. He when pretending to be OCG in that chat room when with the other AC12 team members used definately despite having little research into their wording etc

What if he got rid of the laptop as it had child porn on. They're investigating the boys home sex abuse case. What if he had child porn on it and was part of the sex abuse as well as using the OCG chat room? You wouldn't bin a laptop just because it had porn on. It's either the TYPE of porn that's dodgy, but we did also see him using that chat room last series didn't we?
 
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It’s becoming quite distracting all the “real” stuff... it feels a bit mucky in a way, and then makes the more dramatic stuff seem silly.

Also, what previous season was Carmichael in? And Jimmy Nesbit wasn’t in it before, was he? I’d have remembered that, surely? (I’m pretty sure he wasn’t, as they obviously had to badly photoshop his hair onto that picture, to maintain hairline continuity)
he’s a secret reveal (I assume). Prob did some filming at the same time as Badlands.
 

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Why, in the feck, did they play that promo at the start of the season showing every character who is alive under a helicopter spotlight?

Fantastic tension..
So annoying!

Unless it's a double bluff and they mixed up who was where and in the stand off to make people think certain characters are dead when they aren't? (Fingers crossed but probably too hopeful!) It just seems too lax for them to have shown who was alive in the biggest cliff hanger of the series so far
 

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Yeah that’s was so stupid, we basically know Kate isn’t dead because of the footage of her in the promo hasn’t been seen yet so must be next week’s episode.
They could do what MCU did with Infinity War and show stuff in the promo that was never a part of the actual movie. :lol:
 

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Yeah that’s was so stupid, we basically know Kate isn’t dead because of the footage of her in the promo hasn’t been seen yet so must be next week’s episode.
Oh ffs. Maybe some of us hadn't seen the promo.....
 

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In season 5 they traced the computer IP to a location in Spain. So assume that Nesbett's character is the one behind it?
 

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I know, what a shit post to read
It's a bit shit, but Kate is obviously not going to die. It's not like this is early GoT where major characters might actually die.
 

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It's a bit shit, but Kate is obviously not going to die. It's not like this is early GoT where major characters might actually die.
I suppose but she could have been hurt or something maybe, now I’ve got visions of her running around saving the day again in the next episode.

I binge watched every season from the start before this one so didn’t see any promo, I just rolled on into this season from last, it’s aldd also helped loads as I would never have remembered a lot of what’s going on this year otherwise
 

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I’d never watched Line of Duty till about 3 weeks ago. I started from the beginning and glad I did - it’s all fresh in my memory (fresh-ish anyway). That has helped my enjoyment a lot - as most of the call backs have been memorable enough.

I saw a trailer last night from March which shows one of the 2 last night standing alongside Davidson, but won’t say which.
 

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I’d never watched Line of Duty till about 3 weeks ago. I started from the beginning and glad I did - it’s all fresh in my memory (fresh-ish anyway). That has helped my enjoyment a lot - as most of the call backs have been memorable enough.

I saw a trailer last night from March which shows one of the 2 last night standing alongside Davidson, but won’t say which.
Don't worry it's already been said in the thread
 

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See I still wonder if Dot was using the Morse code to tap out a name in his dying declaration.

You use morse code to send signals don't you, the whole point is to spell a word eg SOS. Obviously he couldn't speak as he was dying, so what if he tried to use morse code to spell a name, but died before he could finish? I don't think they've ever considered this possibility. I don't know morse code, but if he was using it to do that, what letters had he got out?

Also re the trailer, it seems such a disappointment it gives away probably one of the biggest cliff hangers they've done. I almost hope it's a double bluff, they could still have filmed all that scene with the helicopter etc but for the purposes of the trailer, just changed who was stood in the light. Wouldn't have cost any extra, you'd still have Ted asking them to surrender as part of the main series, they've just filmed 2 shots of people stood in the searchlight and switched them for them purposes of the show and trailer. It just seems too loose to effectively give away such a big ending...

One of the best endings to an episode (bar the trailer potentially spoiling it) however "urgent exit required" is still one of the best endings to an episode I've seen on TV.

I hope Ryan doesn't die, he's acted so well and is so chilling in his scenes, that death stare he does! He is so much more compelling than Jo, I'd like to see more of what he gets up to. I have a hunch Jo killed Vela, unless Ryan did. Ryan putting the gun to the back of her head could be him saying I know what you did, I'm OCG too but could easily name you as the killer
 

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See I still wonder if Dot was using the Morse code to tap out a name in his dying declaration.

You use morse code to send signals don't you, the whole point is to spell a word eg SOS. Obviously he couldn't speak as he was dying, so what if he tried to use morse code to spell a name, but died before he could finish? I don't think they've ever considered this possibility. I don't know morse code, but if he was using it to do that, what letters had he got out?

Also re the trailer, it seems such a disappointment it gives away probably one of the biggest cliff hangers they've done. I almost hope it's a double bluff, they could still have filmed all that scene with the helicopter etc but for the purposes of the trailer, just changed who was stood in the light. Wouldn't have cost any extra, you'd still have Ted asking them to surrender as part of the main series, they've just filmed 2 shots of people stood in the searchlight and switched them for them purposes of the show and trailer. It just seems too loose to effectively give away such a big ending...

One of the best endings to an episode (bar the trailer potentially spoiling it) however "urgent exit required" is still one of the best endings to an episode I've seen on TV.

I hope Ryan doesn't die, he's acted so well and is so chilling in his scenes, that death stare he does! He is so much more compelling than Jo, I'd like to see more of what he gets up to. I have a hunch Jo killed Vela, unless Ryan did. Ryan putting the gun to the back of her head could be him saying I know what you did, I'm OCG too but could easily name you as the killer
It was morse code that led them to the name "H", 4 dots = H. That’s what they originally thought, then figured he might have meant 4, as in 4 corrupt officers /
 

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So did they confirm Hastings essentially had Corbett murdered?
I thought the way Steve told Kate about it, all the pieces had fallen into place for him. Ted had been desperate to crack the case and was using the chat room to talk to the OCG and he either accidentally or trying to be too smart let it slip that there was a rat in the OCG and this lead to them figuring out and killing Corbett.

Ted, feeling horribly guilty about it, has decided to use that money he was tricked into taking to make sure that she’s seen right. The police didn’t know about that half of the money and the OCG thought it had been confiscated so Ted thought he could get away with giving it to her because he couldn’t use it himself.

All of this still leaves him compromised in various ways but it does mean that he’s probably not crooked.


The one I was most surprised at this episode was the politician who it seemed wanted rid of Ted and now wants him to do as much as he can before he is ousted. I still think he’s dodgy, I think he was just setting a bit of a decoy so Ted doesn’t suspect him before he arranged for the Governor lady to come in and shut down AC-12 way before he could actually achieve anything.
 

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Just rewatching,

Does anyone else think it's weird Steph went out the house to take Steve's call?

She didn't actually say why she was.

I know she's got kids, but surely you go to another room/ upstairs, if I had kids her age I wouldn't go out the house, leaving them alone to take a phone call...

I think someone else (Ted?) was in the house.

Also, Ryan's facial expressions are brilliant!
 

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Since Joel has taken the lead i too wish apologise for the hurt and pain I have caused over the past few days it was not my intention to ruin the plot for the other viewing members and should have spoilered the post I made.

I will do my upmost to try and repair the damage I’ve caused and I know it will take time for the scars to heal.

Yours sincerely

Deery.
 

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Interesting the parallels between the Osbourne cover up in episode one of the entire series and the Menezes shooting following 7/11. Osbourne goes on to become Chief constable and the gold commander in the Menezes case goes on to become the head of the met Cressida Dick.
 

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Thought we were going to have a massive shock, that trailer really got rid of any tension

Speculation

who Jo thought was her father is a big one, given her reactions in the interview I thought it was Carl Banks, however they said she thought it was a police officer - Thurwell or Osborne?
Her no comment was infuriating.
Can't make out Carmichealeither, she kept cuttingoff Ted's questions about corruption high up....