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
Maybe's she's literally the Mother of God
― kinder, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
That would be an annoying plot twist
― The Rampaging Goats of Llandudno (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 11 April 2021 22:13 (three years ago) link
― Fizzles, Sunday, 11 April 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
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
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 11 April 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
this doesn’t match up with the solo Ted reaction scenes where he seems genuinely devastated, but an intriguing theory nonetheless
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 11 April 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
Nah not having it
― kinder, Sunday, 11 April 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
Ted knows we're watching him and he's trying to throw us off the scent.
― The Rampaging Goats of Llandudno (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 11 April 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
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
― kinder, Sunday, 11 April 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link
I'm way behind on this and just catching up on season 3 tonight. The scene where they bring in Dot for questioning and the net tightens is so tight and forensic!
― calzino, Sunday, 11 April 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link
"Everyone makes mistakes"
"Indeed we do, DI Cottan"
― calzino, Sunday, 11 April 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
the attempted getaway scene is rather daft though!
― calzino, Sunday, 11 April 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
Yep
― The Rampaging Goats of Llandudno (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 11 April 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
cottan doing his ministry of funny runs with an armed policeman down the high street while kate hangs off a truck is v funny.
― Fizzles, Monday, 12 April 2021 09:01 (three years ago) link
It would have been improved if it was speeded up with a Benny Hill music track and Kate jumped on the side of an old-school milk truck
― calzino, Monday, 12 April 2021 09:05 (three years ago) link
steve arnott: sharpshooter
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 12 April 2021 16:29 (three years ago) link
Had to admit I had a chuckle at Steve's pronunciation of "Michelin Star restaurants",
They'll make you a soufflé and give your tyres a pump for no extra charge.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Monday, 12 April 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
well it is the same company!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 April 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
i’m a little embarrassed by how enthusiastically i greeted steve’s headshot.can’t remember ANY of the people that are being mooted as the blood relative...it seems increasingly clear that davidson is being squeezed by the OCG and doesn’t know how to get out of it. she (and buckells) basically told: make sure none of this points at us. but they have no endgame.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 April 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
Is Kate the only core cast member we haven't been led to suspect in a previous season?
― Bignefs Proportionable (seandalai), Monday, 12 April 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
"I didn't say anything, did I, DI Arnott" - on the face of it the most obvious reading is that he's saying "I'm not a rat" to the person he knows holds his life in their hands. I haven't seen series 1-4 but from what I know it would be a bit of a stretch to pin Steve as H though.
― Scheming politicians are captivating, and it hurts (ledge), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 07:40 (three years ago) link
That van crash can't have been good for poor Steve's bad back.
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 07:46 (three years ago) link
no it seems clear to me, and from steve's tiny nod, that he DID talk in that van, and that as they discussed (handily just before the shooting started) steve can't use that testimony - he can only use it as an investigative tool
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 07:52 (three years ago) link
why haven't you seen series 1-4?!
― kinder, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 08:05 (three years ago) link
I'm not normally one for cop shows but my wife was catching up with S5 so I joined in and got hooked, not too fussed about going back though. I watched a six minute explainer lol.
xp yeah that makes more sense.
― Scheming politicians are captivating, and it hurts (ledge), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 08:08 (three years ago) link
no it seems clear to me, and from steve's tiny nod, that he DID talk in that van
So either Steve is H (which would be some "Gossip Girl is uh ... Dan" bs) or H wasn't in the room.
― stet, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 11:33 (three years ago) link
Not to spoil the good legwork here but Adrian Dunbar apparently said on a podcast he’s not H?
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 11:41 (three years ago) link
Fan favourite Anna Maxwell Martin to return to #LineOfDuty as Detective Chief Superintendent Patricia Carmichael this Sunday! https://t.co/cNtuFC4FXy pic.twitter.com/aTghfPLDlk— BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) April 13, 2021
🤔
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 11:43 (three years ago) link
Did he? Ah, bless him. He'd never get a job at Marvel.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
that's exactly what H would say, though...
― kinder, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link
Perhaps Birmingham is like 1920s Chicago, but the scepticism about organised crime involvement is reaching Scully-like levels of denial — it’s, like, how many armed road blockades/alien invasions do you have to witness before you think “ok maybe something’s going on here”
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
Is it Birmingham?? I thought it was Anyville
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
Anyville, the Metropolis to Birmingham's New York City
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
Lol i took a second to try and think of what the UK equiv was but came up with zilch
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
The geography is a bit all over the place. Filmed in Belfast, I thought it was supposed to be Nottingham at first cos they've all got East Midlands accents. But then Steve pops up to Liverpool every 5 minutes
― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
First series filmed in Brum, and I seem to recall reading the maps on the walls of the interview room are of there as well? But I think it's not really supposed to be a real place, rather a bad dream amalgamation of the shit bits of every UK city.
Steve pops up to Liverpool every 5 minutes
So that's actually supposed to be Liverpool? Thought I recognised the cathedral in the background of one shot...
― chap, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
Buckells is definitely a Brummie - the actor Nigel Boyle grew up in Birmingham and is known to be a huge Aston Villa fan (good man!).
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ian-buckells-line-of-duty-13027180
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
Love his accent.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
― chap, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:42 (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, the cathedral and John's accent place it as Liverpool. Steph's accent places it as some weird fantasy land
― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
Poor formatting skills
― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
John's accent place it as Liverpool.
Accents mean about as much in this show as they do in Game of Thrones.
― chap, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:35 (three years ago) link