Line of Duty

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Fab or what!

Did Denton set Dryden up? Am slightly befuddled by all the twists and turns. Dryden was a baddie, wasn't he?

Thought it was odd Dryden's tastes in females apparently stretched from un-glamorous grown up Denton and un-glamorous Mrs Dryden to under-age girls...

I was pleased that Arnott turned out Ok. I was just saying to my husband that he was fuckwit who thinks with his dick and then it turned out he wasnt fooled at all.

yes but he did shag a vulnerable witness - the nurse who was looking after Tommy. So he's dodgy too.

I think denton thought dryden had set her up, as she had seen him with Carly and then saw Carly with Tommy & associates.

I'm confused about where they were moving Tommy to?

I missed the first episode and still don't feel like I know wtf happened.

Thanks edam, Ive cottoned on what was going on now.

Mike, I think they were taking Tommy to be killed by the corrupt officers, but Tommy thought he was being moved to a new safe house.

coco

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Someone said something up thread about why Prassad hadn't grassed up Dot. I assumed its cos he doesn't know it's Dot that was in on it. Dot dealt with Akers by the looks of it, Prassad said there was a middle man who he never met, which I took to be Dot. Dot was the middle man between the gangland types that Tommy had pissed off and the dodgy cops.

So cotton knew he was being taken to be killed?

Who gave the order to spare Denton? Or is that still a mystery?

I am more confused than ever! Who was ultimately behind the hit - Dot, or an as-yet-unseen party? Probably the latter as the bribe monies had to come from somewhere - meaning Dot had 2 masters. Ot was Dot offing Tommy so as to clear his name?

I don't get how he'd not met Prasad - if not, there would have to have been a go-between between the 2, someone involved in the killing, no? Unless he had 2 masters also?

I also don't get why Lindsay seemed to not know Prasad in the woods after the prison van ambush, but she had seen/met him at least twice ref Carly - once when he was with Tommy in the car, and then with Tommy and Akers also. So she at least knew that he was involved with Carly, with the witness, yet went with him in the woods.

Yes - Prasad never met Dot he said and we have no particular reason to disbelieve him. A cabal of corrupt officers led (?) by Dot and including Akers, Prasad and Cole decided that Tommy was more trouble than he was worth and decided to off him - they played on Denton's better nature to get her to cooperate. Chilling considering that Tommy was Dot's mentor from his teens. But it couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.

ALso, given the whoel The Caddy thing, why the hell didn't the BBC show Series 1? I've not seen it, so without this thread, I'd have even less of a clue as to The Caddy - who / what / why ?

NB I loved that it turned out that Neil Morrissey pc was not actually disabled but was faking all along for £££.

I've just read the BBC webchat linked to upthread and Jed Mercurio states clearly that the brains behind the ambush were Tommy's criminal chums, using Dot as their intermediary between them and the corrupt cops on the ground.

It wasnt very clear that there was criminals behind it all using Dot, was it? I feel a bit let down by it all, but it could be my own vault because I got completely lost watching the last episode.

It might have been more enjoyable, to me, if I had worked it out that Dot was the main player in it all, there was no OMG! moment. because Im stupid

I presumed Denton was spared for her to be set up.

Where does it say series 3 is confirmed? Hope so!

Disappointed - again. BBC multi part series always have a weak /rushed ending after a number of gripping episodes. I get that they can have another series from this but I just didn't buy into the outcomes, especially Denton. They had portrayed her a really bright but in the end she was pretty stupid. I think upthread several of us knew that the bag of stuff from the hospital was going to be important - not sure we thought it would be a bung. Messy, unsatisfactory ending.

Loved this series though I needed to read this thread to follow everything that went on. Why did Prasad kill Cole?

Apparently Robert Lindsay was first choice to play Dryden [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10698813/Robert-Lindsay-on-quitting-Line-of-Duty-they-were-happy-to-get-rid-of-me.html] Strange to think of him in the part as Mark Bonnar was so good.

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10698813/Robert-Lindsay-on-quitting-Line-of-Duty-they-were-happy-to-get-rid-of-me.html

Robert Lindsay wouldn't have been good at all. I admit he's a good actor but I don't like him. He's too mannered and a scene stealer and everything is I'm Robert Lindsay.

He seems incapable of blending in with everyone else. And everyone did work together.

I think he's too famous as well. I'd find him distracting.

I've read it now. He's such a fibber. There was so obviously a huge flounce.