Topic: Line of Duty

[Barefoot Doctor]

Haven't watched it yet but they've put the opening scene from the new episode online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn2iszEQi_g

[sinnermichael]

Tick tock, tick tock.

[jillcwhomever]

Thank god I turned this on.

[cdav]

Anyone got the bottle left after today to watch an hour of this?

[Mag Hull]

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Challenge accepted, Neil Morrisseys character DC Nigel Morton was also straight but claimed disability and forced into the cover up.
 You may be right about Hastings, I was thinking the same before  this series started and posted this a month ago.

 Hastings was given a doctored file by Polly Walker, he told her to resign otherwise he would nick her with all the rest of the other bent coppers involved with the case.
Hastings had threatened her in one earlier episode and she told him something on the lines of. you've made a mistake in your career haven't you and just left it at that.

Seems a bit late for it to be a part of the plot in this series though, we shall see   

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And we’re back in the room!   

[sinnermichael]

Some ending. Bloody hell.

[jillcwhomever]

I'm breathless that ending. 

[The Gulleysucker]

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Heart of darkness stuff, the Graham character is a Kurtz.

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[Millie]

So who is "H" ?  Hargreaves, Hilton or Hastings?

[Millie]

I'm breathless that ending. 

Yep

[Musketeer Gripweed]

That particular twist was a bit obvious to me.

I forgot to learn up on my police acronyms. I feel as if I was missing something.

Bloody great show though.

[gerrardisgod]

Thought it was a bit obvious too.

Steve’s obviously going to miss something glaring too.

[oldfordie]

And we’re back in the room!   

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Nobody is above suspicion on the RAWK casefile, not even Hastings,   I don't know what Bindra was thinking. I knew she was a goner after 5 min, golden rule in these violent series , never start showing people photos of your kids. you always get bumped off when you do that. Lise is living on borrowed time as well.
 

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[Buck Pete]

Just watched the end bit again and still a bit confused

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What was in the burner phone (A tracker?) that was given to Bindra by the gang, and who put it here?

Whatever is was got her killed. 

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[gamble]

Worth watching?? From the start?

[Red Viper]

Just watched the end bit again and still a bit confused

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What was in the burner phone (A tracker?) that was given to Bindra by the gang, and who put it here?

Whatever is was got her killed. 

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Either a tracker or a wire tap I think. Guessing she was either working for AC12 to try and infiltrate the group or she was doing it for herself in an ill thought out attempt to make amends. Suspect it was the latter

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[Buck Pete]

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Either a tracker or a wire tap I think. Guessing she was either working for AC12 to try and infiltrate the group or she was doing it for herself in an ill thought out attempt to make amends. Suspect it was the latter

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Cheers mate. that's what i suspected

I suppose it will be made clearer and confirmed in the next episode.

[Crosby Nick]

My head couldn’t take watching this yesterday after our game! Will watch tonight. Do you need to recall everything that’s happened in past series (I’m a bit rusty!) or can you watch this ‘fresh’ as it were.

[RedSince86]

My head couldn’t take watching this yesterday after our game! Will watch tonight. Do you need to recall everything that’s happened in past series (I’m a bit rusty!) or can you watch this ‘fresh’ as it were.

Same.

Gonna watch it after TWD season finale tonight.

[Alan_X]

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Nobody is above suspicion on the RAWK casefile, not even Hastings,   I don't know what Bindra was thinking. I knew she was a goner after 5 min, golden rule in these violent series , never start showing people photos of your kids. you always get bumped off when you do that. Lise is living on borrowed time as well.
 

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I don't think it's a given that she's a goner. She was bleeding out but not dead.

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[Red Viper]

My head couldn’t take watching this yesterday after our game! Will watch tonight. Do you need to recall everything that’s happened in past series (I’m a bit rusty!) or can you watch this ‘fresh’ as it were.

I think you could probably do with reading a quick recap of the previous series.

[oldfordie]

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I don't think it's a given that she's a goner. She was bleeding out but not dead.

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Maybe but I doubt it,  the boat house is their dumping ground for bodies, woods nearby. secluded, Hilton was found dead in the same spot at the end of the last series. I think Hilton was involved with Stephen Grahams character, Graham also bumped him off and thats when he lost contact with Powell.
EDIT, Just read this write up on last series, a social worker was also killed in the same spot.

How did ACC Hilton die and was he “H”?

Most likely murdered, then staged to look like suicide. When corrupt ACC Derek Hilton (Paul Higgins) got the tip-off that he was about to be arrested, he fled – a typical act of cowardice from the slippery senior cop. However, the shady gangland figures who’d been controlling Hilton soon caught up with him and silenced him for good.

His body was found at the same quayside as that of Oliver Stevens-Lloyd – the social worker who tried to blow whistle on the paedophile ring at Sands View Boys’ Home during series three's case. Strong chances are that wasn’t suicide either.

So was Hilton the mysterious top dog of the network of corrupt cops working for organised crime, known only by his initial “H”? Debatable. He was being blackmailed like those lower down the chain, which suggests not. Then again, he was the most senior officer on that rogue’s gallery of possible “H”s at AC-12 HQ.

“I’m satisfied H was ACC Hilton,” said Supt Ted Hastings. But did Hastings have an ulterior motive for saying that?

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[UntouchableLuis]

Great return last night - the plot is secondary to just seeing Kate, Steve and Ted in an interview room interrogating the fuck out of some poor sod.

Saw an interesting theory on twitter that 'H' might be

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Ted's wife

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[DrTobiasFunke]

God, I hope Hastings isn't the mastermind behind all of this. What a great character!

The "I didn't float up the Lagan in a bubble" line just confirmed his greatness. At this point I'll probably still root for him regardless of what he's been up to.

[Crosby Nick]

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So is Stephen Graham an undercover cop who’s gone completely rogue? How long has he been on the inside if he’s the head of that gang?

Or will there be some other twist somehow. Like the officers shot at the beginning weren’t actually killed (and were in on it) for some other bigger reason that will be revealed later?

And loads of little shots of Hastings looking a bit dodgy, although they’ve done that through other series. They know we’ll read too much into every little thing I guess and fall for red herrings galore.

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[Buck Pete]

Love Hasting's accommodation arrangements

Partridge-esq

Love to see Ted next episode with a big plate at breakfast using his sausage as a breakwater between his beans and eggs

[oldfordie]

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So is Stephen Graham an undercover cop who’s gone completely rogue? How long has he been on the inside if he’s the head of that gang?

Or will there be some other twist somehow. Like the officers shot at the beginning weren’t actually killed (and were in on it) for some other bigger reason that will be revealed later?

And loads of little shots of Hastings looking a bit dodgy, although they’ve done that through other series. They know we’ll read too much into every little thing I guess and fall for red herrings galore.

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I can't see how he can order someone to be killed and still be a straight UCO. Leese his 2nd in command may also be a UCO gone rogue as well, we shall see.

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[Crosby Nick]

Love Hasting's accommodation arrangements

Partridge-esq

Love to see Ted next episode with a big plate at breakfast using his sausage as a breakwater between his beans and eggs

Haha I thought that too. His Corby trouser press hadn’t been dismantled so he can’t have been there too long.

We’re there hints of troubles with his wife in the last series? I remember nothing!

[Buck Pete]

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Dead as fuck. They've all been wishing her well on Twitter and that they're gutted to see her go etc.

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Thoughts and prayers are with her family

[oldfordie]

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Dead as fuck. They've all been wishing her well on Twitter and that they're gutted to see her go etc.

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Amazing, twitters done away with ouija boards 

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[gerrardisgod]

Haha I thought that too. His Corby trouser press hadn’t been dismantled so he can’t have been there too long.

We’re there hints of troubles with his wife in the last series? I remember nothing!

Think they were separated in series one, they were definitely in the first episode of series two and were keeping up appearances, when they went for a meal with Steve and the copper that got threw out of a window.

[Dazzer23]

God, I hope Hastings isn't the mastermind behind all of this. What a great character!

The "I didn't float up the Lagan in a bubble" line just confirmed his greatness. At this point I'll probably still root for him regardless of what he's been up to.

One of my favorite characters on TV. Although I'm a little disappointed he hasn't called anyone "Laddie" or "Wee Lassie" this series yet.

[Mutton Geoff]

Either working with giants in one scene or Stephen Graham is a bit of a diddy man

[JamesG L4]

God, I hope Hastings isn't the mastermind behind all of this. What a great character!

The "I didn't float up the Lagan in a bubble" line just confirmed his greatness. At this point I'll probably still root for him regardless of what he's been up to.

The money problems are mounting up for him. A quandary for me, as surely if he is H, he would have had money from the criminal underworld to pay off his wife and get a better hotel!

I feel it’s got to the point where Kate taking Hastings down could be the most fulfilling... line of duty?Whatever Sir Jed comes up with, though, I’m sure it will be genius.

I’m suspicious that the new PC, Tatleen, worked out Maneet’s cousin link too easily, she could well be a plant and was giving beardy Steve a good ogle. She’s up to something!

Prediction: Ted is H, Tatleen gets close to Steve and compromises his investigation into Stephen Graham - Kate arrests Ted and links to the past with the criminal underworld and the Masons are being used to blackmail him. Stephen Graham is killed by the (perhaps) other UCO as he voyages deeper into the Heart of Darkness. Would Jed do this to the patriarch and in some ways the moral compass of AC-12?

Would that taint the other series?

[Ray K]

Love Hasting's accommodation arrangements

Partridge-esq

Love to see Ted next episode with a big plate at breakfast using his sausage as a breakwater between his beans and eggs

Haha I thought that too. His Corby trouser press hadn’t been dismantled so he can’t have been there too long.

We’re there hints of troubles with his wife in the last series? I remember nothing!

Guys, guys, I can't believe you missed the massive fucking clue.

The undercover operation is Operation Pear Tree. Named after the famous production company.
He's the power behind Hastings. Why do you think he was pulled in by the coppers the other night??

[Crosby Nick]

Guys, guys, I can't believe you missed the massive fucking clue.

The undercover operation is Operation Pear Tree. Named after the famous production company.
He's the power behind Hastings. Why do you think he was pulled in by the coppers the other night??

Pete Carr?

[zamagiure]

God, I hope Hastings isn't the mastermind behind all of this. What a great character!

The "I didn't float up the Lagan in a bubble" line just confirmed his greatness. At this point I'll probably still root for him regardless of what he's been up to.

Technical this is wrong. He should have said the Erne instead of the Lagan

[oldfordie]

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Was wondering why Grahams gang keep leaving the bodies on the quayside,3 up to now all found in the same spot.  1st man found was killed to stop him exposing paedophiles, sounds like Grahams gang have had orders to get rid of him, then again Graham might be trying to pass suspicion onto others.

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[Buck Pete]

The undercover operation is Operation Pear Tree.

Soon as I heard that i had a little chuckle.

[Red Viper]

Teasing bastards.