Line of Duty

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Fab or what!

Keely hawes is 38, Mark Bonnar 45 & Robert Lindsay 64 so tbh it makes a change not for the female having an affair with someone old enough to be their father!

Well that came out as a load of bollocks!

makes a change for the female not to be having an affair with someone old enough to be their father.

I don't doubt that it happens in real life, but happens too often on tv!

BTW I feel slightly let down. I still enjoyed it though. Especially when Nige took off like Usain Bolt on the golf course and you realised he'd been faking it all along.

He dropped his stick but had another one in the underground car park. Also, bit neat that he found Dot's phone hidden under the back seat. Perhaps he found it while searching for a spare walking stick.

I don't see why Denton would be so easily recruited and also not ask for any names. She was too smart for that.

Well done to whoever it was who guessed she'd hidden something in her mum's room.

Also, Arnott's success with the ladies was baffling.

That's a good point about Lindsay's age diddl. He was too old for the part, let alone the affair.

Surely he'd have retired by then? Every other bugger in the police seems to.

No, the reason for Arnott's appeal was revealed yesterday - he's a really good listener and a supremely excellent friend!

I think that Arnott is lovely.

PLus of course nurses & cops are at it at the drop of a hat

Robert Lindsay would have been crap. Agree it would have been all about him.
In that Telegraph article, he says: "But I hadn’t seen the script and when I got it at the last minute, I thought: 'Hmm, I don’t want to do this."

Yeah, bollocks. It was a terrific script.

Maybe he just didn't want to be in a role where his character gets a blow-job (or maybe not) from a 15 year old - but feels awkward about saying that. I think he'd have been a worse choice, so glad he walked for whatever reason.

I do wonder why we are even being told that he didn't do it.

Are we supposed to think what a shame/thank goodness??

I suppose it's just publicity for him though, isn't it?

Tagging onto the coattails of a really good drama that he wasn't even in?

Just to answer the question upthread that someone had about why Prassad had killed Cole, Prassad actually said why straight away, he'd become a liability as soon as the e fit went public.

Tagging onto the coattails of a really good drama that he wasn't even in?

The Sunday Telegraph magazine may well have done the interview just after the first or second episodes when everyone was raving about it so the writer asked about it and it was a bit of damage limitation.

And if before, I'm sure he would have heard on the grapevine that TV critics had seen advance screenings a couple of weeks before transmission and loved it.

I don't know about that thing about him not seeing the script. I imagine actors do rely heavily on their agents to pick the right things whether they're new or established.

The first series of Line of Duty was so good that I imagine Robert Lindsay probably did say yes without reading it. Maybe he was okay with being a corrupt officer - murder, money, drugs - but didn't like playing a creepy sex sleaze and found out at the last minute.

But why did they cast him? The cast is really good and even the high-profile actors like Lennie James and Adrian Dunbar worked for the good of the show.

Lindsay would have ruined it. Maybe they realised their mistake and came to an arrangement without actually sacking him.

Anyway, all power to Mark Bonnar for doing that role. It's not like it's real. I read that Laurence Olivier was so pissed off with Dustin Hoffman's method-acting on Marathon Man that he said: 'It's just playing "let's pretend", dear boy'.

Apparently Harrison Ford has said the same thing. I think I'd like Dustin Hoffman if I met him after seeing him on Graham Norton.

But I bet Robert Lindsay is a horrible luvvie.

I too found last night's episode confusing and had to go back and watch some of it twice!

So as someone else asked why did Prasad kill Cole? Were they just killing off anyone who knew something? Was Denton spared because she didn't ask who was involved and therefore knew nothing? Akers was killed because she knew too much presumably but yes someone was telling Prasad and the prison officers etc what to do after Akers was dead so did Dot give those orders from his pay as you go phone? Think that's what Prasad said in his hospital bed interview.

Who was the dead girl then? No one seemed remotely bothered about that. Lindsay just said good when it wasn't Carly. No asking so who was it! And why did they kill her? To try and blackmail Dryden? Why did they want to blackmail him anyway?

So I guess all set up for another series with dot firmly in place in AC12. But Neil knows stuff now....

Dustin Hoffman is a huuuuge luvvie

Denton was spared because the mob wanted her to be blamed for the ambush. The dead girl .... ?

why did Prasad kill Cole? Prasad told Denton that Cole 'as a liability' as soon as the e-fit came out. As a viewer, I don't understand why Cole dragged up. Male nurses exist. I'd never suspect one of those but even if I was really ill I'd notice a man in a bad wig and lipstick.

Was Denton spared because she didn't ask who was involved and therefore knew nothing? Yes. She was going to be left alive as Dot's fall-girl. I don't get why someone as smart as her would have gone along with the plan so quickly and not asked for the names of the other players though.

Akers was killed because she knew too much presumably Yes. She knew about Dot, who's the only one that matters.

someone was telling Prasad and the prison officers etc what to do after Akers was dead so did Dot give those orders from his pay as you go phone? Missed that bit. Prasad talked about a middle man who I think was Dot. I think Prasad didn't know his identity which is what saved him, but maybe someone else knows better. I don't know who was instructing the prison officers. Perhaps they just liked doing that.

Who was the dead girl then? Just one of the many girls they were using. Carly had run away so they needed someone else in order to continue with the blackmail of Dryden. Remember that the corpse was dressed in a waitresses's uniform so she could have been Carly.

No one seemed remotely bothered about that. Lindsay just said good when it wasn't Carly. Sad, that, wasn't it?

And why did they kill her? see above

To try and blackmail Dryden? Why did they want to blackmail him anyway? Because he was backing out of the deal he'd done with Tommy and Tommy wanted revenge.

Prasad said that the dead girl was 'just some little slapper' that they had dressed up to look like Carly. So presumably they killed her for that reason.

The more I think about it, the more I am dissatisfied with last night's episode. It's tough, as the previous one was some of the best tv I have seen in years.

Oh, and i recall some 'gossip' to the effect that Robert Lindsay is an insufferable princess to work with, but I can't remember who told me, nor the specifics.

What was the deal that Tommy had done with Dryden - the witness protection for the series 1 terrorist plot that was not?

So are we to think that it was Dot covering his own arse because he was the caddy??

Had Dryden done a deal with Tommy or was Tommy trying to get something on him so that he wouldn't go ahead with the changes he was wanting to make?

Wasn't he trying to stop witness protection meaning immunity from prosecution?

Hazel,yes I think so -then Dryden did a press conference saying that he disagreed with criminals being given immunity and witness protection which set Tommy off on that rant that Ackers taped.

Dot is the Caddy. So, yes, he's covering.

It was revealed in the final scene of series one. As a teenager he caddied for Tommy on the golf course and Tommy advised him to go into the police, knowing that if Dot made it, he'd have an inside man.

Dryden had done some kind of deal with Tommy at the end of the last series to put him in witness protection. I don't remember him but maybe he was in the first series.

They pretended it was terrorism but it wasn't. Dryden reneged. I don't know why

Why would someone be in witness protection in the same town they were already living in, not much of a protection? And be free to beat people up, blackmail etc?

Yes I know that Dot is the caddy.

What I meant was are we supposed to believe that Dot was behind the ambush to stop the truth coming out?

I don't remember Dryden in series one either.

Dot told Tommy to say that the Greek Lane murders were connected to al qaeda as that would get him into witness protection.

But it did suggest that Dryden arranged the WP for Tommy.

Surely whoever is of the rank at the time does it?