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Wasn't there speculation that Corbett could have been Ted's son? Can't remember if that was proven to be incorrect or not.

little ted corbett (ooh ooh)

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.

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.

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.

Was he already Line of Duty famous at this point?

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.

adrian dunbar was a singer

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.

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?

enjoying it loads obv.

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, April 6, 2021 9:10 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is hilarious.

compston is 5 foot 6/7 inches

ok so maybe he lives in a giant’s kitchen tho.

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

Turn to document 69 in your folders:

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and he’s crouching

they r all giants, to me

Steve with his waistcoats and beard is like a well-groomed Edwardian little terrier of a man

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.

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

ditto for meeting Hastings in the tunnel then going to AC-12 office

This is so hard to watch this episode, jfc

omg I was literally joking about them offering immunity to the one person they'd managed to get in prison

Mysterious blood relative of Jo Davidson's is Corbett, right?

Fucking hell

How will I survive two more episodes of this

I was really stressed they were going to kill Bishop

Mysterious blood relative of Jo Davidson's is Corbett, right?

Mysterious blood relative of Jo Davidson's is Corbett, right?

― ailsa

I thought maybe that horrible Scottish gangster from S1 was her dad.

xpost ha

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.

"Saturnine faces of my cellmates"
Saturn is the 6th planet
THERE ARE 6 DOTS

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

"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.

Mysterious blood relative of Jo Davidson's is Corbett, right?

― ailsa

I 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

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.

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

And the mysterious person in the file they passed to Ted was a man.

The image in the file was Davidson, no?

Yes the image was.
Thought they said 'he' though.
Would an officer be a 'nominal'?

"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")

Then referred to as 'this individual'.

Maybe's she's literally the Mother of God

That would be an annoying plot twist

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

I’m now pretty convinced Ted is H.

His destruction of the laptop in Series 5 clearly wasn’t porn.

He’d then leak the solicitor’s prison excursion. The solicitor would have feared Ted. And isn’t Ted trying to stitch Steve up with a drugs test?#LineofDuty6

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 11, 2021

this doesn’t match up with the solo Ted reaction scenes where he seems genuinely devastated, but an intriguing theory nonetheless

Nah not having it

this doesn’t match up with the solo Ted reaction scenes where he seems genuinely devastated, but an intriguing theory nonetheless

Ted knows we're watching him and he's trying to throw us off the scent.

By living in a Travelodge

Twitter 10pm Sundays is pure gold.
Didn't spot this

OMG the evidence to catch Ryan happened last week, it’s gone unnoticed I’m screaming at the telly #LineOfDuty pic.twitter.com/xon52fWne3

— 🐝 Gillian Turner 🐝 (@gillyqueenbee) April 11, 2021