Line of Duty Thread 8: All aboard the wee donkey for the final episode - no spoilers, the wee donkey bites!

[Furries]

Hope you all don’t mind, getting near the end of thread 7, so thought I’d trot this one out!

Nah - Lomax just wanted to knock off shift and go to the pub instead of hanging round a cold industrial unit whilst the floor was being dug up.

I don't think that was Thurwell's dead body the policia found..it was the mexican house thief...

Agree with others who said they don’t believe it was Thurwells body.

For all we know the OCG could have influence and connections to other police forces around the world and this was a fake raid to protect H and their cronies.

The way the series has touched on child sexual exploitation by mentioning Saville it may link towards the Epstein case or something similar leading into season 7.

I absolutely am invested in Jo, in a way I wasn't invested in Roz Huntley or John Corbett, and very much was in Gates and Denton. I sobbed at the end of Series 1 and 3.

Welshwabbit I was the same. I remember Tony Gates dying and it was like "What just happened?!" By the time of Lindsay, we knew she was not safe and never would be.

I've not totally ruled out Jo being a more active OCG participant than we think, although if that's the case the private shots of her looking pained about it all would be a bit naughty.

On this whole will there be a series 7 thing... Does anyone think the BBC will just offer Jed so many ££££he won't be able to refuse?

The amazing and wonderful thing about LoD is that after being able to binge on whole boxsets at once during lockdown it has only been put put one episode at a time. So it really has brought the nation back together IYSWIM. Destination telly like the old days. Everyone gathered at 9pm. Twitter on fire. Water cooler moments the next morning. More people watched this than the blooming boring Oscars!!! Can't see the BBC going, 'yeah you're all right, Jed off you go lad, thanks mate, t'was great while it lasted.'

Won't they be offering him diamond encrusted handcuffs to keep going?

I've found Kate quite annoying this series.

I think he'll want to work on other things after such a long period working on LoD and the Beeb will want to keep him. I know I'd far rather watch a Jed Mercurio drama than many of the other things that are shown.

He could easily keep going with LoD, while also working on 'new things' by doing a spin off?

100% yes to the poster that said lots of stuff this series has happened off screen.
I mean Gail murder thing is like wtf

I hope he writes something different. Loved Bodies and Bodyguard. I think he should do something different and be careful not to try and milk LoD.

@SchadenfreudePersonified

I don't think that was Thurwell's dead body the policia found..it was the mexican house thief...

And SpanGran!

I have a gut feeling that Hastings is going to die “ in the line of duty” to bring down H. I can’t see retirement suiting him, wife left him, no children mentioned at all , the job is his life.

@Welshwabbit

I absolutely am invested in Jo, in a way I wasn't invested in Roz Huntley or John Corbett, and very much was in Gates and Denton. I sobbed at the end of Series 1 and 3.

Same here, although with Gates it was his dog that upset me. Denton’s funeral was heartbreaking, no one there, I thought one of the three main characters would have been there, she deserved better.

Denton’s funeral was heartbreaking, no one there, I thought one of the three main characters would have been there, she deserved better.

She really did. Yes agree with Welshwabbit didn’t enjoy series 5 as much. I had little
sympathy for Roz Huntley & last series I couldn’t invest. This one is better.

Doesn't Mercurio start to write for Netflix? www.digitalspy.com/movies/a36146944/line-of-duty-creator-jed-mercurio-political-thriller-netflix/

Random musing for the afternoon - if H/OCG were able to fix it so Jo and Ryan were strategically placed on Operation Lighthouse, why didn’t they fix it so Ac-12 alumni and expert sleuther of bent coppers Kate Fleming wasn’t placed on Operation Lighthouse

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I noticed that Ryan didn’t mention Gail, or Lisa the policewoman he drowned when speaking to Kate and Jo, only his previous two victims. It’s possible he didn’t kill Gail.

@Rhannion

I noticed that Ryan didn’t mention Gail, or Lisa the policewoman he drowned when speaking to Kate and Jo, only his previous two victims. It’s possible he didn’t kill Gail.

Ryan was never in the frame - it was believed to be Carl Banks.

Yes Carl killed Gail. Then he got killed as blabbed in a pub

Think that’s right

Shrine of Duty have an extra episode out now where they interview Martin Compston. Hilariously, he describes Steve Arnott as 'the wanker in the office with the waistcoats and the headset, who's having all the office affairs and no-one can understand why' which I think is the best summation of the character I've ever heard.

@Rhannion she did mention the drowning Kate did no?

For those thinking Lomax is dodgy, there's lots of speculation online as apparently he mentioned going to the Red Lion pub for a drink in the scene at the workshop.

The Red Lion pub is where Carl Banks blabbed about killing Gail and a known meeting place for OCG members. Although obviously Red Lion is the most common pub name.

I will be a bit peeved if Lomax does turn out to be a big baddie as he's had a very low key presence throughout and it doesn't feel right somehow to just shoehorn him into the finale.

Agreed Lomax has been to insignificant for that to be the case.