Line of Duty new series

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Starts Sunday 26th March, 9pm BBC1

I can't wait!

Just that really

I agree Tim wasn't the killer, this the cornerstone of my theory.

she looks at her wrist because it's a reminder of what happened- she has cuts.

She's looking at her wrist because it is badly scratched and paining her. I think the cuts are really deep and should probably be stitched but she can't present at a hospital with it so it will get infected and become more of a problem for her.

Really not sure on this episode a lot of twists and turns and second guessing put the one thing that runs through is how implausible it all is. Once something starts becoming so unbelievable you lose investment in it and stop caring .

I wonder if there are no CCTV cameras in the area? Surely the first line of enquiry is to check the cars and people coming and going to Tim's flat? You'd look at all traffic in the area in the window of time when this occurred- forensics ought to be able to put a time of death to within 48 hours. You'd also do forensics on the buzzer entry on his flat, his flat door etc.

Dulra, you've summed up exactly how I feel.

Hasn't TN been quoted in press as having left UK for US because she couldn't get decent roles here ? Under anonymity of Mumsnet and armchair critic status, I can see why. I've never watched Westworld but so many people on here have raved about her performance but am I wrong to think it's about AI robots ?

TN bashing over....back to the armchair.

Dulra, although I want to give it just one more episode before giving up, I know I'm going to end up watching all of it.

I really don't think they'll do the number plate swap again - it's too recently done from season 3.

Anyone else think Hastings is over egging the misogyny? He's too lovely surely there is a good reason to be revealed?
She had scratches on her arm under the dressing - like claw marks, presumably why the killer took fingers as her skin was under them.
I'm leaning towards husband.
That was his car outside the flats, maybe one of the prostitutes he used told him Tim was looking into the investigation and then when he had TN's phone, he used location and saw she was there, listened in, saw TN escape Tim and went in and killed him.
The End

So she was tied up at some point

There has to be another person involved

I was thought last week Tim in the balaclava was her semi conscious thoughts as she was coming round from being knocked out

Enthusiasm, she has a large wound on it which makes me think she pushed the chainsaw away as a reflex and as well as cutting her it cut Tim's throat.

That's a good theory

Shall concentrate more next week

Whywaitfortomorrow I know I'll be watching to end too invested too much time already to give up

The marks on her arm I think are definite scratch marks made by Tim. Forensics think that's why his fingers were cut off so they couldn't get forensics on anything under his finger nails and also probably why Tim scratched her so her skin residue (no idea of technical term lol) would be under his nails linking TN to his murder he obviously didn't think she'd chop his fingers off .

I'm liking the theory that she may have pushed the chainsaw in self defence and it cut his neck and then I guess she could overpower him but had to finish him off

I thought it was interesting that Roz didn't seem to know about the calculation of balaclava man's foot size from the CCTV still.

Did Tim send it to her but she didn't read the email? It's hard to believe evidence like that, perfect for ruling people in or out, would have been overlooked.

Or perhaps Tim didn't send it to Roz but went straight to AC12 with it, which would be rather unfair.

Or, maybe Tim has manufactured the evidence. Can you tell someone's foot size from a photograph? My teenage son wears a variety of different sizes depending on the style of the shoe. It's clear that Steve wouldn't know if Tim had made the whole thing up and it hasn't been confirmed by anyone who knows something about forensics.

I was intrigued by the fact that TN had access to Tim's computer, given his obsessive concern with security. Did she use his sliced off finger as a biometric? Can you even do that?

So even when he was about to die, Tim was still thinking about forensics and trying to get TN's skin under his nails.

I wasn't convinced by how easy she could access the evidence and swap it over. Surely the other evidence bags had a lot more information on them than just a ref number?

I agree about access to Tim's computer- not credible. How would she know the password? I said that aloud to DH at the time!

There are too many 'incredible' goings on and it does make you think less of the writer when stuff like this happens. I mean T wouldn't even let people in his flat without a right old rigmarole- so why would he leave his pc open to the world and not hide sensitive information? (unless his pc was being used when he opened the door and he'd not closed it down.)

Didn't she use Tim'scomputer by the car to search for the biometrics?

I think Tim hasn't closed the computer down. He lives on his own and the computer was in his home office so he probably didn't think that it was necessary to log off.

He used his laptop to see who was at the door - he said to her that the door security was accessed through the computer. I assumed that was why she took it, so they couldn't see she'd been there. And she took his phone because of the texts he'd sent her.

She searched for biomterics on the laptop to see if he was the one who had provided the evidence to AC12

The crossed out 30 on the evidence bag ought surely to raise massive questions, and should have when the retest was done. Is it really acceptable forensic practice to cross out a number on an exhibit bag when you've made a mistake? Shouldn't you get a new bag? At some point someone will work out that the writing is different anyway.

Oh, Noble Ted, big fella...

please be very intentionally sprinkling your sexist comments liberally (for v. Noble-and-yet-to-be-revealed reasons)

Even if said in your undeniably attractive NI accent, you are above such.

Love from the MN Noble Ted Massive.

PS In appropriate circumstances, we'd all willingly call you "Sir"

All it needs is for someone to notice the crossed out 30 and ask the forensics team if they made an error when they wrote on the bag.

I like that all the AC12 people are flawed, including Ted, it makes them more real.

I love how cheesed off Kate is getting with the, "Ah well, you had children you silly thing so you can't expect to be seen as devoted to your career in the same way as the men" attitude.

Agreed with PPs upthread:
very unrealistic, surely, for Forensics Evidence 'secure' area not to be permanently monitored to the nth degree?

By the most sophisticated tech available: not simply reliant on one overtired bloke/ human error, thereby jeopardising crucial investigations???

(And don't get me started on uselessness/ unlikelihood of Michael Farmer's sleeping solicitor...).
Sidenote:
Wow...his eyebrows, though

Leave the lovely Jodie alone - she is fab and I think she and Maneet will come up with a nugget of pure gold which will blow the case apart.

I don't think Roz killed Ifield - it's too obvious. I reckon there was a 3rd party - Hanna maybe? I agree with whoever said that ifield is a copycat rather than the genuine balaclava man.

I wanted a bit of action yesterday......hope things hot up next week. absolutely dying to see what happened when Roz came to to find a chainsaw hovering over her head

That wrist wound is going to deteriorate but she can't go to hospital can she? unless it's under an alias.

Poor Michael Farmer in his cell smeared with excrement . I think he will take his own life. there is currently a crisis of suicide in British prisons and Jed Mercurio has form (good on him) for raising topical, unpleasant social issues in his drama.

I think it's a folie a deux story. Roz and her husband do the murders together, or he does them and she covers up for him like Maxine Carr did for Ian Huntley (coincidentally the same surname). Or even worse, it might be a Fred and Rose West situation.

Agree that you're not going to cast Lee Ingleby to be just the husband of one of the leads, and he nearly always plays baddies, except in Our Zoo!

They definitely chopped Tim's fingers off to access the laptop. Looking forward to seeing the exact sequence of events after she woke up with Tim and his saw looming over her.

Really like the theory that Roz's head injury will cause her to become careless.