the angle and handling of the storyline gave this ep an unusually brooksidey vibe tbh (combined with steph's accent and the look of her house i guess)
― mark s, Monday, 5 April 2021 10:26 (three years ago) link
Steph's accent doesn't remind me of anywhere near Liverpool, unfortunately, but her kitchen tiles are giving off a very 'H' vibe.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/04/23/41336560-9435719-image-a-21_1617574580534.jpg
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Monday, 5 April 2021 10:51 (three years ago) link
oh i just remembered! in e2 they referenced the daniel morgan murder (and podcast lol), which is absolutely the london-centric truliefz version of all this
his brother has been fighting for justice and a full investigation of the police and role of the tabs since the late 80s
― mark s, Monday, 5 April 2021 10:52 (three years ago) link
looks like four dots to me
https://i.imgur.com/IWHUm3h.png
― mark s, Monday, 5 April 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
lol brookside otm. and i’ll take it.the lovely Emma B thinks there’s no way Kate is this dense. Davidson acting as guilty as a kid trying to pass off a fake bank note written in Sharpie. “i’ll level with you Kate - cause you’re such a straight arrow!” o rlyi have to admit i’m a little flummoxed by Steve’s hell-for-leather investigations of the widow Corbett. (quiet in the back.) what exactly does he expect to find and what does that have to do with his job?? feel pretty sorry for the guy but i was hoping he’d go cold turkey and that would fuel a new, no-fucks-given mega-arnott but it sadly seems not to be.too bad ted didn’t give him the heads up for the SECOND round of tests?! welpexcellent nominative determinism invoked from our man ted btw
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 5 April 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
what exactly does he expect to find and what does that have to do with his job??
Evidence she was getting hush money from Hastings (hence still being able to afford the big house, premium Sky package, etc)? Which the wodge of cash in the attic seems to confirm.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Monday, 5 April 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link
Ep 3 was crammed full of laugh out loud moments ("total bastard bollocks" and Hastings' nominative determinism line as mentioned, plus blank as a new born lamb butter couldn't melt in his mouth Ryan speaking to Kate, lift doors closing shot on Kelly McD after apparently setting up Buckles, return of the fort knox lock system + OCG anonymous chat room finale). We're heading for utter hokum, but I'm actually loving Jed M playing so wildly and densely with all the wee clues and details we've been collectively wondering about from the past five series.
― brain (krakow), Monday, 5 April 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
hang on hush money for what? i thought ted gave steph the cash out of.. guilt? pity? something like that. in any case arnott's sherlock holmes routine with her feels wildly beside the point? nagging feeling i've forgotten something important.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 5 April 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
Wasn't there speculation that Corbett could have been Ted's son? Can't remember if that was proven to be incorrect or not.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 12:49 (three years ago) link
little ted corbett (ooh ooh)
― building a hole (NickB), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
Ted gave Mrs Corbett the "missing" 50 grand that he was (allegedly) set up with but wasn't found when they searched his place- presumably given out of niceness/guilt that Corbett died but could also be guilt that he caused Corbett's mum's death and/or that Corbett is Ted's secret son (don't think there's currently anything other than speculation to support this).Arnott saw Ted and Steph in contact hence sniffing around and examining her Sky package - I assume he correctly put 2+2 together re the cash but could've been looking for other links between them.
― kinder, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 13:41 (three years ago) link
also why does steve keep his bad pills on such a high shelf when he is not a tall man
Are you sure it's not just a very small kitchen? A couple of years ago I saw Adrian Dunbar doing his live jazz version of The Waste Land (no I am not making this up) and he is yr absolute classic 'much smaller than he looks on telly' actor so unless they're doing something incredible with the camera angles then DS Arnott would probably struggle to reach your kitchen sink without a stool.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
A couple of years ago I saw Adrian Dunbar doing his live jazz version of The Waste Land
Oh my god. I'm assuming you suffered no long term psychological damage.
― chap, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
Was he already Line of Duty famous at this point?
― chap, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
How could I have forgotten Buckles playing with a golf club while on the phone in his office as well. Jed is just toying with us at this point.
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
adrian dunbar was a singer
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link
buckles with golf club is like some weird dramatic irony misdirection. i mean he’s obviously an idiot and being played but also an in joke with the audience. bit of a weird writing decision imo. also is it just me or is the tension in this series well done on previous ones?
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 19:21 (three years ago) link
enjoying it loads obv.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, April 6, 2021 9:10 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is hilarious.
compston is 5 foot 6/7 inches
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
ok so maybe he lives in a giant’s kitchen tho.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
Don’t think Dunbar is that short, here he is with someone who’s 5’11”
H? Please No pic.twitter.com/zty4D21J8C— Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) April 30, 2019
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
Turn to document 69 in your folders:https://i2-prod.ok.co.uk/incoming/article21482260.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_Screen-Shot-2020-02-12-at-112810.pngand he’s crouching
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
they r all giants, to me
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link
Steve with his waistcoats and beard is like a well-groomed Edwardian little terrier of a man
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 8 April 2021 01:56 (three years ago) link
Also, having just watched the 3 episodes so far in a big wodge, all I can hear in my head is "CHIS CHIS chis chis CHIS chis CHIS CHIS CHIS chis chis CHIS chis chis CHIS CHIS"
The voice on the murdered journalist's recovered audio file sounded very much like Jimmy Lakewell, the dodgy solicitor from Series 4, played by Patrick Baladi.
Told ya.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 11 April 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
remind me again why Kate and Steve meet in a secret tunnel only to go to work at the same office the next day?― kinder, Sunday, March 24, 2019 5:57 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― kinder, Sunday, March 24, 2019 5:57 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
ditto for meeting Hastings in the tunnel then going to AC-12 office
― kinder, Sunday, 11 April 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
This is so hard to watch this episode, jfc
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 11 April 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
omg I was literally joking about them offering immunity to the one person they'd managed to get in prison
― kinder, Sunday, 11 April 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
Mysterious blood relative of Jo Davidson's is Corbett, right?
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
Fucking hell
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
How will I survive two more episodes of thisI was really stressed they were going to kill Bishop
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
― ailsa
I thought maybe that horrible Scottish gangster from S1 was her dad.
xpost ha
― chap, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
Yeah I thought Chloe was a goner"I didn't say anything, did I, DI Arnott" - was that supposed to be some coded thing? Did he do a dying declaration in the van?Literally cheered when Arnott shot window sniper.Good to see Lakewell "Windermere" back even for a bit, the slimy shite.
― kinder, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
"Saturnine faces of my cellmates"Saturn is the 6th planetTHERE ARE 6 DOTS
― kinder, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
Btw I’m guessing that if Lakewell was a coward but not a fool then Buckell is both going by that scene in the cell.
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
Lakewell must have said something to Arnott that we didn't see.
Arnott just deleting the demands from Occupational Health like that would make that them go away when he's spent six years recovering decoded messages from dead laptops is even more hilarious than Ted trying get the porn taken off his by some mobile phone fixing shop on the high street.
And Kate continues to just be laughably bad at everything.
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:24 (three years ago) link
I loved the 'barely able to make a cup of tea' trope to show how scared Buckell was. Also, how's he supposed to practise his putting with Lakewell's corpse in the way?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link
Anyone else distracted by Buckell and Devereux's 'show me your trunshon' text convo being back to front? I thought it was supposed to be off of Buckell's phone?
Also I've been idly wondering where Kate's trench coat is from - I've concluded my investigation and it's from APC.
― kinder, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
xp it feels like they’re setting it up for Steve and Hastings to just be going full hail mary on this case knowing that neither of them will be on the force in a month. Steve ‘delaying’ the new job felt like him sort of acknowledging that
― crisp, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:29 (three years ago) link
"I didn't say anything, did I, DI Arnott" - was that supposed to be some coded thing? Did he do a dying declaration in the van?
Thought it was odd during the post-raid interview that Lakewell called Steve by his surname ('DI Arnott'), but called Chloë by her first name.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
Mysterious blood relative of Jo Davidson's is Corbett, right?― ailsaI thought maybe that horrible Scottish gangster from S1 was her dad.xpost ha
_Mysterious blood relative of Jo Davidson's is Corbett, right?_Or Tommy Hunter
― Fizzles, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
Subtitles said it was a 'he' iirc...? But the photo in her apartment was her and a woman.Could be... Hastings!Hunter's a good bet.
What's the 'racist element' in Vella's investigation all about then?
BTW it was Lee Banks offing Lakewell, wasn't it? The guy Ted did or didn't rat out John Corbett to in prison.
― kinder, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
Well, yeah, I was going for blood relative of Corbett via his birth mother, since they pointed out it was on the police database due to them being a police person. Anne Marie McGillis was his birth mother, and one of Ted's informants back in his RUC days
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
And the mysterious person in the file they passed to Ted was a man.
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
The image in the file was Davidson, no?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
Yes the image was.Thought they said 'he' though.Would an officer be a 'nominal'?
― kinder, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
"The analysis detected partial matches to a nominal, whose DNA is stored on other police databases. He's/it's identified over the page." (Subtitles says 'he's' but it's not clear - more like "s'identified")
― kinder, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
Then referred to as 'this individual'.
― kinder, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link