Line of Duty new series

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Starts Sunday 26th March, 9pm BBC1

I can't wait!

Just that really

Hey, Farmer'sSleepingSolicitor, wanna join our Gang?

Yours, Bernard Ingham (Margaret Thatcher's press secretary),
Rowan Williams (former Archbishop of Canterbury),
and (ghost of) Denis Healey (Labour cabinet minister).

I think the clue is in what the guy brought into replace Roz said - something like a lot of theories but not enough basic coppering - need to look at who was there at the time.

Confused by your previous comment saying Ros was hard on Hana as she new Huntley was watching her - Ros IS Huntley

Sorry, I meant Kate.

Can someone remind me why Roz went to I field's flat in the first place?

Think I might need to rewatch earlier episodes

I've become obsessed... Very little work getting done here today!

I don't really understand why Steve was killed / nearly killed. Steve thinks that there's something suspicious about Roz ("she's at the centre of all this"). Roz's alibi is that she was at home sick the evening Tim died and initially this seemed to tie up with her phone records showing that her phone was at home that evening and the next day. However, when they looked at the messages the children asked her if they could order pizza indicating that neither parent was at home. So, Steve has been pressing Roz's husband as to whether she was at home or not. Can he / will he confirm her alibi?

Has Steve missed that the pizza text means neither Roz NOR her husband has an alibi?

Killing / nearly killing Steve doesn't get rid of the alibi problem for Roz or her husband as various other members of AC12 know about it, so what's the point?

Actually the kids texting mum to ask for pizza doesn't necessarily mean she's not home. My teenagers Whatsapp people they're in the same room as.

Roz's husband knows about the wrist injury. What did she tell him? Or was he there when she got it?

Steve is a bit like Schoedinger's cat isn't he? Both alive and dead until we watch the next LOD episode.

Why is Roz's wrist wound festering so? Tim strikes me as the type to have very clean fingernails.

Also, Emily, would you be able to do that much damage just with your fingernails? Maybe he used something else - or she hurt herself while in the process of killing him?

About Steve - it would make no sense in my view for Roz's husband to kill him. All he has to do is lie convincingly about what he and/or Roz were doing that evening. Killing Steve just, well, outs you as a killer, doesn't it? So that's why I think the man who attacked him can't have been Huntley. I don't know why anyone else would attack him, though, unless it's a police insider who feels he's getting too close to the truth.

Tin would have deliberately dug his nails deep into her flesh, knowing that forensic evidence would be found under his nails. He didn't count on someone cutting off his fingers...lol.

I don't know why she didn't just go to A and E and claim she had been scratched by her cat or something.

Was it his fingernails tho? Not sure what else could have caused the injury. The power tools would've done more damage I'm sure.

Thank you for clearing up my confusion about Roz typing "I'm coming in".... I'd read to much into it and was thinking she had a handler like Dot Cottan did. Instead of realising it was about the witness interview.

What about the guy that Roz's husband called before Steve went upstairs, 'Jim Kellaway'. Apparently the criminal lawyer.
The camera seemed to linger for quite a while on the phone - so I was thinking it might be a bigger deal than first seems.

I also noticed that when Sreve was going to Huntleys office that they showed the floor of the solicitors being floor 5 but I'm sure the lift stopped at floor 3 when he was then attacked. Although that might be a red herring cos' they were after all moving floors hence all the boxes around. They made a point of Huntley saying that to Steve.

don't know why she didn't just go to A and E and claim she had been scratched by her cat or something

I suppose because the injury is on record. Steve's theory is that they cut off Tim's fingers because he deliberately scratched his killer to collect DNA. If Roz is under suspicion as the killer, they'll be looking for any injuries that coincide with that.

Can we discuss theories from other sites? Den Of Geek have just put forward an interesting theory as to who the balaclava man last night might be.

Roz told her husband she scraped her wrist on a wall (yeah, right).

It's now festering as a plot device. She will conveniently collapse at a crucial moment and will then be diagnosed with sepsis, which may or may not kill her.

I was assuming Roz will end up neededing an amputation.
Justice done !

There was something odd about Hana's interview that I can't quite put my finger on. Hana no commented about the cash, condoms and evidence of multiple partners at her flat, which I took to mean that rather than evidence being planted at her flat, she had been working as a prostitute and that Tim had been one of her clients. When Roz comes in she seems to me to be feeding Hana an account of how Hana could admit to killing Tim but, because it was self defence Hana would get off relatively lightly. The way she spoke to Hana there was almost an undertone of telling Hana what she wanted her to do that suggested there was something else going on.

Could it be that AC12 have stumbled onto something completely different to what they think they're investigating? Perhaps the women who were killed were killed for another reason. Perhaps rather than being killed by a sexual predator they were killed because they knew something. Perhaps Hana knows it too.

Yes, Ive just read that Den of Geek review and have to say its very convincing. Really hoping Arnott isnt dead but cant see how he cannot be. Glad he had "make up" curry meal with Kate.

Thought Huntley's conflicted expression quite telling, at ACC Hilton's "...what else are friends for?", as he touched her (right, non-injured, fortunately) wrist for quite a camera-lingering length of time (only then interrupted by his mobile).

If a peer had tried similar (or even a superior outside her own dept., see icy response to NobleTed's patronising comment, ep2), she'd have read them the riot act.
To such a senior rank as Hilton, who's apparently responsible for the 2nd career chance, it would be within her usual character to at least make it clear that was unacceptable...even restricting it to a Very Hard Stare).

More there than just the 'official' power disparity? Am sure he's involved at a deeper level with dark dealings of the case.

hackmum,

Interesting re the BFI talk/ discussion you attended.
Am also in no way envious you shared air space with an in-the-flesh Adrian Dunbar...

Why is Roz's wrist wound festering so? Tim strikes me as the type to have very clean fingernails

Yes agree, Emily - also probably very short, so not a lot of damage could be caused.

Marilyn - I was dying to ask Mr Dunbar if he was aware of his huge female fan following! But I couldn't pluck up the courage. You'll be pleased to know he looks extra sexy wearing specs.

hackmum,

Ooh.
Yes, can imagine specs would only further add to his attractiveness.

Wouldn't Tim have been wearing gloves too? Seeing as he was suited up in forensics gear ready to chop Roz up? In which case no finger nails available to scratch with anyway.
If Arnott survives (and I hope he does, though he would be very annoying to work with) I will be slightly puzzled that 2 people manage to survive seriously bleeding head injuries in this series. And Roz didn't even seem to have a headache after?

I agree that there's something suspicious about Roz's relationship with Hilton. He seemed to be reminding her that she owed him something. There's a theme running through this series about getting promotion. Hilton keeps talking about Roz's career break and how that's held her back, both Kate and Steve are keen to be promoted and very competitive with each other. Roz is keeping Jodie loyal by suggesting that she can help her to advance in her career. Roz is very aware that she needs to get a result in the balaclava man case in terms of her career. Bucknell has told Kate that he gets on by doing "proper coppering" and avoiding conflict. I'm not sure how it all ties in to what's going on though!

It is good though

Can anyone remember the name of Farmer's solicitor? It was mentioned once.

I find it odd that he's always referred to as The Solicitor, and not by name.

Bugger, good shout, solicitors name might have been mentioned in ep 1? I might be seeing things but maybe it was on paperwork ? I am going to rewatch anyways at some point before next Sunday.