Line of Duty #4 - in Ted we trust

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Just new one ready for fill up of #3

So Ted did tell Lee about John? That makes him bent then, doesn't it?

Permission to post please Acis? 👀

Ludicrous morse code.

Very silly over-acting and signalling that Gill was the villain. It would have been great if that could have come as more of a surprise.

The assassin policewoman with a knife ... come ON! Really??

Has there ever been any suggestion Gill was a copper? She's always been a lawyer hasn't she? Agree she got immunity for next to nothing.

Yes, why has no one started an investigation into Jackie Laverty?

Why is Carmichael so vindictive? She may as well have been wearing a cape and twirly moustache and going mwah ha ha ha.

The final 2 episodes were very flat and that does have a great deal to do with the director on television. Of course it does.

I STILL don't understand the Moffatt and £100,000 storyline if any one can explain it to me in words of one syllable?😆

Jed said so in the digital spy article linked earlier in the thread.

So, re the 'definately'. I thought we were initially told that the techs couldn't read the messages themselves, only the meta data. (Though if that was the case how did they come up with their decision-tree of 'plausible' lines, and how did Carmichael have all the messages?) So how could Ted have read the original 'definately'?

I agree that Lisa seems to have got immunity in return for nothing! I think Gill gave information about more than £100k man, as at the end it said her evidence led to prosecution (s) plural - it's just that £100k man is the only one we were told about.

Oakenbeach - totally agree. And at the point he took it to the shop, what reason did he have to think anyone would investigate his pc?

For those counting Gill as one of 4 corrupt officers; she's NOT a police officer.

Re definAtely.../definitely
Surely all they need to do is go back over old emails and documents that Ted has written in the past and check how he spells it when he not "being H"

This ^^

Ok so it was a bit far fetched and there are a lot of holes but I still loved it as did DH and all my facebook friends that watch.

I was on the edge of my settee thinking that there was going to be a shoot out at the end and Steve would die.

I can't wait for series 6. Just hope Lisa isn't in it. She is such a terrible actress that she ruins every scene she is in for me

yes, Ted panics about the laptop immediately after he's told about the plan for the Eastsomething raid. It seemed at the time that something Kate and Steve told Ted made him want to be rid of the laptop pronto.

I agree, if Ted told Lee Banks about Corbett, he is bent. And keeping the 50k is also bent. Jed M seems to suggest Ted thought that if he was exposed, Corbett would have to give himself up - but surely Ted would have realised Corbett's life would be in danger (didn't come up the Lagan in a bubble etc)? Perhaps the truth was that Ted didn't care - 'he had it coming to him'. Much as I dislike Carmichael personally (and I do), I wish she'd nabbed him on that!

For those counting Gill as one of 4 corrupt officers; she's NOT a police officer.

The only information about there being 4 of anything is from Dot tapping his fingers and indicating yes to 'H'. Nothing to say they are police officers per se.

In fact as, there is NOTHING to back up there even being 4 people! - other than the writer's interview with Digital Spy. For all we know, that is a misunderstanding just like 'H' is now being seen as a misunderstanding. Series 6 could end with the revelation that perhap Dot was using a binary system for tapping and there are 15 people to find!!

I've just seen this on Fbook.

Simon Banagee was the nice copper in series 1 but in series 2 or 3 we found out he had turned bent.

The money- Ted originally kept half the money as part of the plan to flush out the real H. Bungalow said in the his interview "the rest of the money" and Ted and his solicitor reacted. Moffat also said "£50k?" and that's what made Kate and Steve suspicious (even though they didn't know about the money).

And the report Carmichael read out in the interview stated officer or officers of DSI or Exec level. Bungalow isn't police but she is exec level.

Simon Banagee was the nice copper in series 1 but in series 2 or 3 we found out he had turned bent.

I'm pretty sure we didn't. What storyline are you referring to?

Simon Banerjee's picture has been up on the wall with those of people like Hilton and Hargreaves, so I assume he's in the frame as being involved with police corruption.

I dont recall any mention of Bannerjee since series 1?

Where was he on the wall?

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I agree with you re Anna Maxwell Martin and Nicola Walker.

I don't recall Banarjee being in it after series 1. Are you not thinking of Harri?

Interesting interview with Mercurio - but I don’t understand why that image has to be a composite of Hargreaves and hastings? He was identified as Hargreaves almost immediately by Kate wasn’t he?

I think @Acis is thinking of Prasad (?) the one who kidnapped Denton.

Whenwillthewashingend That’s exactly what me and DH said just after the episode finished! Well not exactly but we said it was like a 321 “clue”.

I enjoyed the episode as a whole and can basically accept everything except the Morse code, which is utterly ridiculous. I thought it might be that Dot was blinking on I instead of H, but the Morse code makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, either it means H or it means 4 but they seem to be taking it to mean both.

No Simon Banerjee hasn't been seen since S1, you are conflating him with one of the two bad seeds from S2 whose pictures are on the AC12 board of shame - Hari Bains or Manish Prasad.

Hmm ... Yeah ... Maybe a teeny bit underwhelmed.

The morse code was silly. Too flimsy to be convincing. Hastings attempting to pass on £50k to Mrs Corbett - when neither the offering nor the spending could possibly be kept secret - daft.

But lots set up for the next series. I really hope we haven’t seen the last of the delightful Ms Brandyce! Perhaps, once transferred, she’ll prove a thorn in the side of Carmichael? Brilliant to have Lisa now embedded as a pretend poacher turned gamekeeper. All we now know of the OCG is that it contains her and Ryan - and lots of potential new girl recruits. And surely Tatleen now knows enough about everybody to set up as a crime boss on her own account? (Joke btw.)

Wonder who they’ll send to tempt Ted now Gill is out of action?

The Morse Code Thing was a bit feeble. Although there is a similar thing on the first series of Homeland.

I think its Osbourne from the first series stilk the one who wanted steve to lie in court