Just catching up with the comments and there’s a few things I can answer...
Anne-Marie is Corbett’s mother, who died before he was 10, and he was then adopted from NI to Liverpool. It’s his wife that brings up her name, I didn’t hear him say anything about mum, but maybe she’s referring to his birth mother and he’s referring to his adoptive mother?
Lee Banks was arrested after the raid in episode 2 - he was one of the guys identified from the phone cam footage of the witness, bundling Maneet into the van, and he was the guy John shoved out of the way when he was about to shoot one of the AFOs
Sam was asking about the relevance of the pattern of injuries she had, and then later either Steve or Kate said that it matches the MO of NI paramilitary (didn’t catch the exact wording but that was the gist).
So either Ted was in the NI paramilitary and killed Corbett’s mother and / or father. Or Ted is Corbett’s father. That’s my current theory.
With the fingerprints, they said he gave his prints so he could be ruled out when they’re finger printing crime scenes. I’m guessing the adoption had his finger prints linked, as a way of keeping track, so that’s why it flagged up.
The money that came from Moffat - Moffat specifically said it was “more details about the project” or something like that, right? I can’t remember where in the episode it came - just wondering if that’s a pay off for doing something specific (eg giving the farenheit order, going to see Banks and potentially revealing Corbett or some other info etc). It can’t be the loan they discussed as he wouldn’t say it was “more information”, he’d say here’s your loan and I need it back. Or it’s his original stake, returned - but why?
In terms of the handling of the trafficked women, I understand the concerns. However, they’ve chosen that storyline because it’s a way for bent coppers to have their DNA harvested and used against them, and so that people like Prasad and Cole have access through their work in Vice. I had some issues with the way the child abuse storyline was handled but I don’t think they’re finished with it yet.
IT didn’t set it up to automatically spell things the same - they came up with a (totally useless) flowchart of responses. Ted was very good at it though - it his first time on the old OCG-IM, methinks.
I posted right at the end of the last thread when I just finished rewatching S2 as it threw up a few things for me - mainly my radar is now alerting af Morton. Who was giving him that cash, and why? Surely it’s not just a sloppy “because he’s bent”?!
And what did Tommy Hunter think was happening when they were ambushed? Where did he think they were going? He knew they were off course. I think there’s still more to that than we know.