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New thread. Let's conspiracy theory chat away

Well it's not clear what they are: if they are SPADs they are temporary civil servants, but exempt from the obligations of impartiality and objectivity.

Tahir not Tamir, doh.

@Taffeta. Yes he was meant to keep his badge.
He was asked to hand his blue card back which is his police firearms license, so he can be identified by other police as firearms trained.

However he still keeps his badge as he is still a cop but just not allowed to carry firearms anymore.

Don’t trust Tom & unsure about the 2 female bosses. He clearly wanted to get Chanels number for non flirtatious reasons, same for her.

Someone said on the Guardian thread that the CCTV footage was at different dates so maybe Dave is a bad guy & we are presented with his version.

How did the PM even get into no 10, without that info coming out?

the little smarm bucket who gave a voluntary statement about the briefcase said he was a senior civil servant then went on to say he was involved in the politics of what was going on. Civil servants don't have political allegiance - the civil service is independent and they do all the work in the background for whoever is in charge. DP was complaining about that inaccuracy last night. Yes, he's a civil servant.

He's a SPAD - I don't think they are civil servants, are they? They are party paid advisors?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/3wMx2PBgTWdjN7sp1VXy784/rob-macdonald

@VanGoghsDog SPADS are paid by the department and so classed as civil servants for employment purposes, but they are political advisers. Well, that's at least how they are in my dept.

I still can't believe that the Secret Service or police haven't linked David and the shooter on the roof yet.
They were in Afghanistan together, meet up in London at that meeting where many witnesses could link them

You would think they must have linked them because of the forces connection but was Dave actually seen at the meeting? Chanel's driver turned round enough for Dave and us to see his face, but if I remember rightly Dave didn't go into the meeting room, he just spoke to the shooter out in the corridor.

I reckon they have got a my least a circumstantial link between David and the shooter. But it’s not intheir interest to reveal it just yet. That’s why Richard longcross said he’s got one over David (or similar).

Tippety that's a good theory.

I don't think there will be a huge twist on the denouement only to think that:

Wife's new partner will be a HCP and they will live happily ever after. Yeah right! The new partner must know that the house is under police protection. Not a great start to a new relationship.

Deepak will be working with the Secret Service under cover.

/David went rogue in Helmand. He is part of the Prime Minister's office to get to the nub of the 'problem regarding the Home Secretary'.

So I went and scratched an itch - watched a bit of episode one again when slash Dave first met Julia....
Tom used to be her PPO - David took over from him. I wonder if that has anything to do with anything.

This is why Kim started running the moment she saw him. She knew about the bomb and tried to stop him walking further.

This makes sense - I cannot fathom why Kim made a run for it as, other than Tahir, there was no other movement on the stage to warrant her bolting and SlashDave only ran in reaction to her.

I still have no idea who did what though!

Obviously the bomb was set before the event took place. The trigger could have been someone within the room running up towards the bomb. Either by footfall or by use of something on their vest.

Yes that explanation about Kim running makes total sense. In the recap of last weeks episode, I tried to see if anyone or anything appeared at the front. There was nothing.

Do we think it possible that at the end of next week's episode we still won't have the full picture - as in, Jed is teeing up series 2? Seem a lot of loose ends even though I gather final episode is longer than usual.

There's usually a resolution to the particular story with Jed M's stuff though there may be threads that continue - that's what happened with LoD.

I just wanted to say that when he started shagging the HomeSec it got very boring and we were about to give up on it when she was killed, so they stopped shagging, and suddenly it got good again.

I'll read the rest of the thread now....

It's a good drama but I can't say I'm bothered about who actually did it - who planted the bomb.

I am interested in Dave and his world. Good acting by the way.

frisky

Yes, series finale is 75 mins apparently ....must get some more gin in!

Love all these theories, we all said Chanel must be in on it some how!

I think David is right in that it's London Mafia not terrorists behind it all- maybe Chanels rich Daddy is an underworld Don & got her the job to get inside info on the HS but she lost her rag after a while ( real or staged?) & got sacked. Her driver is part bodyguard/driver/fixer for Daddy.

IMDb has JM on the cast list so either appears in Poirot style flashbacks at the big reveal or returns having been whisked away to a secure nursing home while a fake death anouncement/private funeral is sorted.

JM's consultant who is wheeled out to talk to David was very indiscrete, even if he was her PPO, was she (medic) a plant or coached to give certain answers??

I was thinking about Chanel - she reacted really badly to being sacked - but she clearly didn't need the job or money. So why such a big deal about it??

Believeitornot I think either

a) she did have a complete meltdown, bc Daddy would be cross that he lost his spy & she was scared if what he'd say

OR

b) She was told to get out of the way & stage the huge fuss to divert David, but why? And why then go to a journo, that was def a piece of bithchery that came to nowt.

Yes Inkanta that's how I feel. He's a good guy who is struggling with a lot going on his head. He has clearly suffered for a long time and while his wife cares for him, she's had enough. He's a real three dimensional character unlike most around him.
I suspect the finale will involve his family coming into danger.

I had the whole day at work and came up with something . So next week a massive investigation is under way and Dave gets brought into the nick. His phone is searched and we find Chanel's tel no ,only it isn't. It is the right wing militant veterans group . Dave denies any knowledge but they need a scapegoat and he will do.

Isn't the Longcross one over the bugging of the room and knowledge of the relationship?

Yes Mrs L! Reports to the creepy head of security guy that the police chief hates.