Line of Duty

Yes, Steve Arnott is behaving foolishly isn't he. Risking life n limb - again

It won't be Ted, it is too obvious. Arnott is sailing close to the wind...he obviously hasn't learned any lessons from the Keeley Hawes debacle!

I agree with Iam64 - please not Ted!

Bring on more red herrings - this just gets better

I have some visual impairment so I cannot see what is written as a text or on a piece of paper handed to someone but I am really enjoying it.

The speech is quite fast and some do mumble so I find that subtitles on the whole help me. I cannot wait until Sunday!

Some of it was very dark and so it was difficult to see who was who - and we had to put sub-titles on; perhaps we should have done that from the beginning.

I thought it might be Dot too but we shall see. Enjoying it muchly.

As usual some good acting from Stephen Graham who was also the leading cop in the Rhys Jones murder.

Well done AB. You'll love it!

Jealous that you've got it all to look forward to.

I think Corbett may be the original Balaclava Man in the image in Series 4 (the one they couldn't do diametrics on because it was taken from above). He's pictured in the trailer in the same pose.

I also think that he's double-bluffing Steve and that Steve is wrong to trust him.

Question: why did Steve go to the phone box NOT in disguise? He must've known the danger of being identified (when Maneet did the same, she put her hood up as far as I recall..).

I'm reliably informed that the image Cafferty identified is Dot.

Just to say I watched series 1 - 4, fantastic, loved it, will watch series 5 when I have recorded it all, couldn’t wait week to week . Now what am I going to watch !

It is intriguing, difficult to remember who is who, but I am sure that everything will be made clear (after it has become more complicated) and we will all be able to breath again.

You said it all Iam64 I agree ( not sure about crooked cooks)

I am trying to be strong and save the new episodes for a binge watch else I shall never remember who said what in the graffitti tunnel.

Seasons 1-4 slowly whittled away a lot of bent coppers and major players in organised crime so who is there left to be corrupt?

All we can be sure of fellas and darlin's is that there will be a lot of ted herrings.

H cannot be ted because:
- he's a Good Guy
- Adrian Dunbar is a national treasure
- Ted is broke, crooked cooks aren't broke

- we don't want him to be we want good to triumph over evil otherwise what's the point of Line of Duty

And double Aaargh, Iam. And we’ve to wait a whole week for the next instalment!

Aaargh

Omg can't wait for episode 2 of this latest series

I don't know what the legal situation is but if officers are already engaged on another important job all they would be able to do is call in the RTA. This is exactly what the AFO in the last car did but went back because there would not have been time for another unit to respond before the car was engulfed. However, she wasn't being very vigilant. She saw the driver get out of the front door of the car. Why not go back in that way to remove the child?

The driver of the van containing the drugs and who did a runner appeared to a civilian. That struck me as odd. Would you not transport something that valuable in an armoured vehicle with a police driver?

The potential UCO ignored a call and Hastings was making one but that's no guarantee that he was calling her.

Would a UCO give orders to kill another officer unless they were rogue? Note the very obvious nod to Balaclava Man near the start of the programme when the OCG revealed the drug haul.

As I said upthread Alima I think Corbett's meant to resemble Arnott to cause confusion later in the story.

There was a lot of tension between Arnott and Fleming at the start of series four when she made sergeant. It's now about two years on I reckon. PC Bindra looked about six months pregant in series four and the baby pictured on her phone looked around 18 months. Hastings said Fleming needed to get some management experience under her belt and may have taken heed of DCI Buckley's criticism that he was prejudcied against female officers. On the other hand, Arnott's accident may be a factor in him not making inspector. He seems to calling her Ma'am without any rancour.

Really good episode. Expect there to be more said about Kate Fleming leapfrogging Steve to become DI. Knew it was weird Maneet still working with AC 12 as she had been giving info to ADC Hilton. Good twist at the end though I was amazed he turned out to be the UCO, looks to be about 4ft 10, was he tall enough?

Is the woman in the OCG who we were led to believe was the UCO in truth an UCO who has been placed by (my hero) Ted?!

He was with the senior officer heading up the UCO when Steve and Kate arrived and he's made a phone call to the woman I think is his UCO.

It's my understanding (note the legal speak there)that Uniformed Officers are duty bound to stop at an RTA. The convoy drove past, the police woman in the lead was uneasy about doing that and it was the idea a baby was likely to die that had her return to the 'accident' Hang on though, would Ted countenance his UCO putting Officers lives at risk. Ah well,there's that possibility down the swanny (as ted may have said)

I agree. Although each series centres on one suspected corrupt officer or group of officers there is an underlying web of organised crime and collusion amongst the highest ranking officers which runs through all the series. There's little chance of understanding the complex web of intrigue and the pattern of how AC12 carry out their investigations without watching all the series from the start.

BB I didn’t realise you hadn’t watched previous series - you must

The UCO gave the game away in referring to AC12. I doubt a villain would use that term. Also, doesn't a certain character bear a striking resemblance to DS Arnott? Methinks that will cause biometric confusion and mistaken identity later on. Are Arnott's back problems resulting from his injuries in series four going to lead him down the illegal opiates path?

I loved it , but agree that stopping the whole convoy for a one car accident did seem a bit odd as it was almost certainly a trap!! AActually I would have thought that a load of that magnitude would have been escorted by the army?! Also when the police officer who was accused of dishonesty had a van run up the back of her car, why on earth did she get out? as again it was pretty obvious that this also a trap!!! Apart from that though, it was well up to expectations and we're looking forward to next week with anticipation!!

I didn't watch the past 4 series again and, at one point, I said to my DH, "I hope it isn't going to get too complicated," because I was struggling a little. By the end I was up to speed but I don't think I would have stood a hope if I hadn't watched the earlier series which laid much of the groundwork for this one.