Line of Duty definately part 3.

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Here is a new thread for when the old one is full.

pepperpot99

"I am intrigued by the Chicken Licken theory and yes I agree it must have some significance."

What's the Chicken Licken theory ?

Does anyone think that H is Hastings? I only just watched episode 4, but did he know to write Definately, (pretending to be the baddie) as he'd seen copies of previous laptop convos, or was that supposed to make us think he's the Kingpin?

@sink maybe Steve is the "little pig" (little and a copper) and Sam the big bad wolf who is going to come along and blow his house down (ie ruin his life and everything he's built ...).

Ok, I'm overthinking....

I think Ted is "pretending" to misspell. Mainly on the grounds that I cannot imagine Ted making a spelling error. He's too much of a stickler.

Italian yes, there is - a lot of violence, and there is some (but nowhere near as much) sexual violence at times. Much of it is off screen but there are some scenes that linger on some quite unpleasant violence, and one sexual violence scene in particular that’s very disturbing.

Definitely wouldn’t recommend it if you’d struggle with that, although I’d be happy to let you know the few parts that you’d really need to avoid if you want to try it out. It’s mainly more of an issue in later seasons - in the early episodes it’s more off screen, with the odd scene of police violence or gang violence but no torture I can recall. Some of the plot lines are upsetting in terms of the crimes covered but you don’t actually see them occur, if that makes sense.

Hope that helps. I struggle with these things too but I can stomach The Shield for some reason much more than other things (I could never watch Bodies for example)

Charley current general thinking is that Lisa is an UCO under Ted, and he’s been watching the chats on his laptop, hence taking it away to be cleaned out and knowing how to impersonate the chat / spelling errors

Been lurking here. I took it to mean "by the hairs of my chinny chin chin I'll not let you come in" as she'd just asked him up and he'd said no. (Or she'd asked if she could come up, not sure who's house they were outside if)

Right, I think that originally there was a group of corrupt male officers within the Police.

Now I think there is a counter-covert group of female officers (and senior legal counsel) seeking to clear out the corrupt men and / or use their gender to their advantage (they can’t be masons) to gain promotion.

They intend to pin all blame for the bent coppers of the past on Ted, who’s past retirement age anyway, and then replace him with a woman (Kate?).

I won’t be so much that this will be a uncorrupt female-led force (As Gill Bigbelow says, it’s all about presentation) but that it will create a force that is not vulnerable to corruption by way of typically male vices (e.g. blackmail by condom or Jackie Laverty’s frozen torso).

In the gang:
Gill
DCC (not very) Wise
Sam
Kate
Anna Maxwell Martin

If Maneet and Rox Huntley had been ‘in’ Team Woman rather than relying on ACC Hilton for not shopping her cousin / career progression, I think they would still be serving officers.

Just thought, surely it can't be Ted who is communicating through the laptop, as communications have continued on after he handed his laptop into the bright yellow "we destroy dodgy laptops" shop?

I saw a headline from an interview with the Ted actor and he said he’d like to do some comedy roles next...

Is that a hint he won’t be in the next one?

Thanks SinkGirl I'll give it a miss thanks. There is enough grim stuff in life as it is!

Good point whenskiesaregrey

Italian The chicken licken theory is that someone e.g. Corbett was running around shouting that the sky is falling down. No one believes him and then he gets eaten by a fox.

surely it can't be Ted who is communicating through the laptop

I thought that Amanda Yau from the Cyber Crime Unit brought a laptop with a list of prepared responses into the office so that AC12 could communicate covertly with the OCG? That would make the laptop "official kit" and quite separate to other laptop, the one Ted took into the dodgy IT shop.

Cracking theory, CraicMammy! Perfectly possible for a covert women-only network to be operating separately to, but concurrently with, the police/mason and bent coppers/OCG networks. Just adds to the sense of rival and competing interests and conflicts of interest at work. Kate has been doing a very good impression of a submarine in this series and I was struck, early on, by the scene where Steve dropped her off at home and she made some sort of smug comment about how perfect her life is and how satisfied she is with where she is now career-wise. It came over as a bit of schadenfeude at the time.

Can anyone remember what Dot texted to get busted out of AC12?

Urgent exit required

Teds, I took that scene, as well as the earlier one where she comes home and she and Mr Kate stare adoringly at their sleeping child, for honking great foreshadowings that something dreadful is going to happen to her and her family. I'm not really convinced about the women-only network. It is odd, though, how underused Kate is this series.

I thought the Chicken Licken reference was clever and nicely wrapped up what had just happened to John Corbett. He was Chicken Licken, running about in a panic and trying to save the 'livestock' but ending up being offed by the OGC crew that he was supposed to be leading (the Foxy Loxys).

Thanks Luther. DH & I were thinking of a suitable codeword for DS to text if he needs rescuing from an awkward situation. I guess that's not so 'coded'.

Well, I did (mis)hear 'our', but am happy to be corrected and draw a line under it!

And I was also a bit about the 'chinny chin chin' thing too. Then decided she meant 'Chinny reckon' and just got it wrong!

Was Sam not just referring to the beard that Steve has grown since their break up?

Maybe. I just think it's an odd thing to say to someone as a reply to 'I'll call you.'

A bit like Kate cooing over photos of Maneet's baby not long before Maneet met her doom, DarlingNikita. That would make sense. It irks me, though, when great chunks of non-operational storyline disappear out of sight with no explanation. One minute, Kate and her husband are separated and at daggers drawn (he even changes the locks and gets custody of their child) because of her workaholic nature and her affair with Richard Akers, and the next minute, they're a picture-perfect family. No in-between, no hint of any attempts at reconciliation, no wariness, nothing.

Teds, yes, I'd forgotten about the Maneet one!

Lucky for Steve Arnott that his personal life is in the doldrums then! He'll be allowed to survive till the next series