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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Shore claret » Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:34 pm

Who is saying H is the top guy?
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Re: Line of Duty

Post by WestMidsClaret » Wed May 01, 2019 6:57 am

I've had a little fun bet but I can't back Hunter as he really is dead so not showing in the running. :lol: after careful consideration, thinking and possibly linking a few things I've gone for..
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Re: Line of Duty

Post by WestMidsClaret » Sat May 04, 2019 9:28 am

Come on chaps let's be having your picks/theories! I'm leaning towards either Kate or Hastings. Ryan to be the new caddy. Think there may have been a few "H" 's. Might still be :shock:

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Tread Warily » Sat May 04, 2019 9:49 am

As Dunbar's in the next two series,he's hardly likely to be "H".

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by TVC15 » Sat May 04, 2019 10:26 pm

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Tricky Trevor » Sun May 05, 2019 6:51 am

If we get to series 8 it’ll be the “H”ome Secretary!

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Buxtonclaret » Sun May 05, 2019 8:53 pm

Come on.
Let's be 'avin you....who's watching then?

Cheese board, grapes, rivita & a tin of Stella at the ready. 8-)
H only sings when he's winning! (If we're sure it's a him...)

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Foulthrow » Sun May 05, 2019 9:53 pm

JamesSherbourne wrote:Just finished all 4 series of Line of Duty - What a brilliant series. Anybody watched anything similar that they reccomend ? Can’t wait for the new series in April.
I don’t want to read the entire thread as I’m spoiler averse. However, with the hype around Line of Duty I thought I’d give it a go. The first episode was fairly standard BBC stuff, nothing much happened, no real engagement (for me) with the characters. I tried to get through the second episode but even less happened. I assume I should keep going? Cos so far it’s distinctly underwhelming.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Steve1956 » Sun May 05, 2019 10:26 pm

Ok who's "H"

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by FactualFrank » Sun May 05, 2019 10:27 pm

Steve1956 wrote:Ok who's "H"
Not seen it?

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by thatdberight » Sun May 05, 2019 10:28 pm

Bob Hydrogen, DCI down from West Mids on secondment. Can't believe we didn't spot it.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Buxtonclaret » Sun May 05, 2019 10:29 pm

I know nothing.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Bordeauxclaret » Sun May 05, 2019 10:31 pm

Well that was very disappointing

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by thatdberight » Sun May 05, 2019 10:32 pm

Bordeauxclaret wrote:Well that was very disappointing
You didn't expect to be strung along?

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by FactualFrank » Sun May 05, 2019 10:35 pm

Bordeauxclaret wrote:Well that was very disappointing
It looked it.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Tall Paul » Sun May 05, 2019 10:36 pm

The explanation for the disposal of his laptop was very unsatisfying.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by ksrclaret » Sun May 05, 2019 10:36 pm

Well who could have given the order to that ginger copper to do away with kill Gill Bigelow?

DSC Carmichael?

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Bordeauxclaret » Sun May 05, 2019 10:41 pm

thatdberight wrote:You didn't expect to be strung along?
As usual, thatdbwrong.
The previous series endings were far better. That’s where the disappointment came in.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by thatdberight » Sun May 05, 2019 10:52 pm

Bordeauxclaret wrote:As usual, thatdbwrong.
The previous series endings were far better. That’s where the disappointment came in.
It was a question so I'm not sure how I could be wrong? It was a question because I lost interest in this programme after series 1 (or during 2 maybe) so am not familiar with its current style or this series. I caught the last ten minutes while waiting for the news so knew what had happened. I take it you weren't expecting to be strung along. That might be why you're tetchy.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Bordeauxclaret » Sun May 05, 2019 10:55 pm

Again, as usual, thatdbwrong.
Thanks for the effort though. Hang tough lovely.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by brigante » Sun May 05, 2019 11:09 pm

The big mystery is what kind of filth was Ted jacking off over that warranted hard drive destruction? Something to do with the dog unit?
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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Tricky Trevor » Mon May 06, 2019 12:20 am

What a let down. Loopholes all through it. Why would anybody give permission for someone to record a conversation and then not wonder why she hadn’t put the device on the desk?
How does dot,dot,dot,dot become 4 Hs?
So we are left with; there is still a H out there. Big deal.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Buxtonclaret » Mon May 06, 2019 2:07 am

GoT just starting.
At least we might get to know who gets to sweep up all the broken glass from the last episode. 8-)

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Steve1956 » Mon May 06, 2019 8:23 am

Crap ending.to many loose ends.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by IanMcL » Mon May 06, 2019 10:18 am

Another series beckons!

It was as though the writer had put so much effort, into the build up, that the deadline loomed, with no time to fathom a decent set of trails.

Never mind!

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Steve1956 » Mon May 06, 2019 11:29 am

The wife has slept on last nights episode and just said to me Hastings is "H".....I think she has a point,what do you reckon?

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by ElectroClaret » Mon May 06, 2019 11:33 am

Certainly, Carmichaels full involvement was left unexplained and mysterious.....

...but maybe that was deliberate, bearing in mind the next series.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Steve1956 » Mon May 06, 2019 11:36 am

The biggest question left unanswered for me was why couldn't Arnott get an erection.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by WestMidsClaret » Mon May 06, 2019 11:44 am

It was a bit disjointed again regarding plots and explanations. But a person or persons are good at being undercover so easy to portray themselves as something else that's all I'm saying.

I was a little disappointed with last night's finale but I understood why they did it like that. Still think it was a decent finale even if it didn't satisfy my need for there being one corrupt officer being the main man/woman being H. I think Hastings is still up to something as the laptop and porn excuse is weak and bullshite IMO. That leads his character open to further exploitation down the line or not if they deceide they don't want to.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by bob-the-scutter » Mon May 06, 2019 4:50 pm

Spoiler alert! After some research and deep cover detective work I can now reveal the identity of H.

















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Re: Line of Duty

Post by theroyaldyche » Mon May 06, 2019 6:28 pm

So after watching it who actually is H?

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by brigante » Mon May 06, 2019 10:54 pm

Bit bo||ocks that

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Tricky Trevor » Mon May 06, 2019 11:03 pm

Steve1956 wrote:The wife has slept on last nights episode and just said to me Hastings is "H".....I think she has a point,what do you reckon?
Surprised nobody has mentioned the final scene. Hastings in the cemetery with Corbetts widow and a brown envelope in his hand. After we hear that £50k is still missing.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by boatshed bill » Mon May 06, 2019 11:10 pm

It's not a finale, so shouldn't be seen that way. Everything has been left open to possibility so they can sell another series (or two!). All got a bit stupid in my opinion, but nothing surpasses the stupid story line where that cop played by Thandy Newton watches her own arm drop off!

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Tricky Trevor » Tue May 07, 2019 12:00 am

boatshed bill wrote:It's not a finale, so shouldn't be seen that way. Everything has been left open to possibility so they can sell another series (or two!).
This is one of the problems with tv drama, currently. The British public has been raised on a beginning, a middle and an end. Now we never get the end. Everything appears to be left open for another series, whether we get one or not. Surely a talented writer could end one series conclusively and start the following series anew, even if the events unfolding are continous.
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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Shore claret » Tue May 07, 2019 12:01 am

I've been shot in the chest and I'm ta!king into a phone , but I shall also do morse code with my other hand.
Hmmm ******** springs to mind, how the he'll has he kept his job?

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Rileybobs » Tue May 07, 2019 12:05 am

Shore claret wrote:I've been shot in the chest and I'm ta!king into a phone , but I shall also do morse code with my other hand.
Hmmm ******** springs to mind, how the he'll has he kept his job?
That was extremely stupid.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by evensteadiereddie » Tue May 07, 2019 6:22 am

Different, certainly.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by JamesSherbourne » Tue May 07, 2019 11:16 pm

Daft question perhaps but why did the AC3 cop stab Jill ?

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Darnhill Claret » Wed May 08, 2019 7:23 am

She knew too much, but they failed to silence her so she is now ‘in witness protection’.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by TheFamilyCat » Wed May 08, 2019 7:35 am

Darnhill Claret wrote:She knew too much, but they failed to silence her so she is now ‘in witness protection’.
How did she get witness protection? Surely to get WP she’d have to give evidence that led to convictions, basically bringing down the whole network of corruption

Likewise Lisa McQueen got immunity and a new identity for telling them who killed Corbett (a bloke who is now dead).

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Shore claret » Wed May 08, 2019 7:43 am

TheFamilyCat wrote:How did she get witness protection? Surely to get WP she’d have to give evidence that led to convictions, basically bringing down the whole network of corruption

Likewise Lisa McQueen got immunity and a new identity for telling them who killed Corbett (a bloke who is now dead).
but she said the wrong guy, and nobody has mentioned the young lad Ryan joining the coppers, they are all obviously still scared of the top guy otherwise they would of shopped him.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Carport » Wed May 08, 2019 11:16 am

Tricky Trevor wrote:Surprised nobody has mentioned the final scene. Hastings in the cemetery with Corbetts widow and a brown envelope in his hand. After we hear that £50k is still missing.
Corbett was Hastings’ son. That’s why he broke down on hearing the news that Corbett was the son of the woman CHIS in NI. He’s giving Corbett’s widow £50k as he feels responsible/guilty in some way.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Tricky Trevor » Wed May 08, 2019 11:44 am

Carport wrote:Corbett was Hastings’ son. That’s why he broke down on hearing the news that Corbett was the son of the woman CHIS in NI. He’s giving Corbett’s widow £50k as he feels responsible/guilty in some way.
But the original 50K was never his. Is it the other 50k as Moffat said he had given him 100k? but this would make him bent.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Test User » Wed May 08, 2019 11:46 am

Carport wrote:Corbett was Hastings’ son. That’s why he broke down on hearing the news that Corbett was the son of the woman CHIS in NI. He’s giving Corbett’s widow £50k as he feels responsible/guilty in some way.
He wasn't. Corbett was 10 when his mother was killed.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by spadesclaret » Wed May 08, 2019 11:55 am

Carport wrote:Corbett was Hastings’ son. That’s why he broke down on hearing the news that Corbett was the son of the woman CHIS in NI. He’s giving Corbett’s widow £50k as he feels responsible/guilty in some way.
From research Hastings was born in 1963, Corbett was born in 1979. It's possible but unlikely that 16 year old Hastings fathered a son.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by Test User » Wed May 08, 2019 12:01 pm

Tricky Trevor wrote:But the original 50K was never his. Is it the other 50k as Moffat said he had given him 100k? but this would make him bent.

It's ethically questionable, but then so was rescinding the Reg 15 on Maneet Bindra when she was killed.

Hastings can't be H. If he turns out to be H then i'll flip my **** because who has the IT knowledge to route his internet traffic through multiple VPNs but doesn't know how to download BleachBit to erase the metadata from a hard drive or SSD?

Also, Steve's explanation that he noticed something strange from a freeze-frame of Dot's dying declaration makes no sense since it means from a freeze-frame he noticed someone moving their hand to signal morse code. Just how did he notice that exactly?

Aside from that i thought it was a really good finale to the season.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by SammyBoy » Wed May 08, 2019 12:05 pm

I found the final episode of the latest season to be flaky at best, and the Morse code part utterly laughable. However, I'm willing to cut them some slack as it's been an excellent show to date.

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by THEWELLERNUT70 » Wed May 08, 2019 12:27 pm

Mercurio has stated in digital spy that Corbett was not Hastings son. However he was fond of the lad and knew him because of an extra marital affair Hastings and Corbetts mum were having

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Re: Line of Duty

Post by WestMidsClaret » Thu May 09, 2019 11:05 am

Hastings favourite to be the 4th member of "H".

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