LINE OF DUTY: cop-on-cop action TV procedural that demands analysis

"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

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!

"Everyone makes mistakes"

"Indeed we do, DI Cottan"

the attempted getaway scene is rather daft though!

Yep

cottan doing his ministry of funny runs with an armed policeman down the high street while kate hangs off a truck is v funny.

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

steve arnott: sharpshooter

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.

well it is the same company!

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.

Is Kate the only core cast member we haven't been led to suspect in a previous season?

"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.

That van crash can't have been good for poor Steve's bad back.

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

why haven't you seen series 1-4?!

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.

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.

Not to spoil the good legwork here but Adrian Dunbar apparently said on a podcast he’s not H?

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

🤔

Not to spoil the good legwork here but Adrian Dunbar apparently said on a podcast he’s not H?

Did he? Ah, bless him. He'd never get a job at Marvel.

that's exactly what H would say, though...

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”

Is it Birmingham?? I thought it was Anyville

Anyville, the Metropolis to Birmingham's New York City

Lol i took a second to try and think of what the UK equiv was but came up with zilch

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

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...

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

Love his accent.

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 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

Poor formatting skills

John's accent place it as Liverpool.

Accents mean about as much in this show as they do in Game of Thrones.

Snidey bit of editing there chap

Sorry, wasn't meant as a dig, just saying!

Haha np, you're right of course

'The more I listen to the PM, the more I think that Ted Hastings and AC-12 are needed to get to the bottom of this one.'

Sir Keir makes a Line of Duty reference as he pressed MPs to back Labour’s motion for a parliamentary inquiry into Greensill scandalhttps://t.co/kUo7IwEiXU pic.twitter.com/mVrcbk946N

— ITV News (@itvnews) April 14, 2021

Ignoring (or unaware) that Ted Hasting and AC-12 aren't actually that good at getting to the bottom of stuff.

TOMMY HUNTER HOW ARE YOU

!!!!!

not james bloody nesbitt! for unaccountable reasons we watched bloodlands, the mercurio produced cop drama starring nesbitt. it was not good.

why can't cops just shoot people in the leg?