Series 6

I’m rewatching with my girlfriend who didn’t see them the first time around, and I’m loving it.

It’s great seeing her reactions to things as she gets to know the story for the first time, and also refreshing my memory of things I’d either misremembered or completely forgotten.

We’re now a couple of episodes into season four and should have ‘got the job done’ by the middle of next week.

I really hope they sort out whether season 7 will be happening or not.

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Rewatching LOD at series 3.

I get its a TV show and thats why it didnt go down like this but:

Its crazy how Rod, Whats'her'face, and Harri (forgotten her name) didn't just dob danny in from the start. The 3 of them against him no question he'd be done for. Infact when he headbutted Rod I'd have been tempted if I were Rod to nick him for assault 😆

Just finished watching the entire show, all 6 seasons, for the first time. I must say, I was quite disappointed with how Lindsay Denton, the best-written character by far, was disposed of at the end of season 3. After her departure, no other character came close to matching her depth. I'm surprised by the lack of foresight from the British writers. It seems obvious, especially after season 2, that Denton's character should have remained integral to the show. They could have explored options like making her the DI in AC-12 or involving her in some other capacity. Particularly considering how stagnant Kate Fleming's character had become, with the whole undercover operation and Arnott's external pressures becoming tiresome quickly.

I can't shake the feeling that if this show were adapted in the US, similar to The Office, American writers would have better understood how to adapt the storyline organically based on the desired outcome, with a more open-minded approach. Why the rigidity? It appears the show struggles to introduce permanent new characters without resorting to killing them off, regardless of how forced the plot developments become.

The letter of the law, THE LETTER.

That is all, joined the sub just to say that.

As I'm sure all of you feel the same, Line Of Duty has left a void that is hard to fill. But eventually reality has to settle in, so I'm looking for a show with similar vibes. Edit: thank you all <3

I’m currently rewatching and I’ve made it to season 2 ep 5 where AC12 had to arrest Dryden. This means Ted won’t be getting that promotion he was promised and therefore can’t take a holiday with his wife.

There might be more to come out about Ted and his wife’s relationship (I’ve completely forgotten) and I am aware he lost their money on a risky business venture and that’s why they are separated, but pardon my language she seems like such a bitch. She was willing to go away with him and seemingly began to forgive him because she was being taken on a cruise… However when he reveals he had to do the right thing at work instead she throws the brochure in his face and storms out. I’m just a bit gooped as to why she’s appearing to be a materialistic, angry hag?

Steve tells the boss that another DNA was found with Davidson's and that the only explanation is that it is relative, and the boss is shocked. Who is this person? I don't wanna wait to find out in the next ep as I've called it a night and won't be able to sleep thinking about this lol.

I don't understand why people think ******* being the last of the big players to be caught was stupid or lazy writing or whatever. He's been there right from the very start. One of the first times you see him is after he'd found out that Ryan has been arrested and is already being questioned so he literally runs to the interview room to put a stop to that. He usually seems a bit lazy, but that mattered to him a lot. Pretty much all of his appearances (starting all the way back in season 1) are plot points where he is doing exactly what one of the 'H's would do, but presented (to us, the audience) as if there's not much to see, minimising the number of people who'd suspect him before season 6 started. And given his character traits, of all the 'H's it seems very plausible that he'd either be the closest to getting away with it only to be caught by complacency, or to end up being a scapegoat for others after his attempt at a slimy witness deal failed. Season 6 ended with one of those exact scenarios, just not confirming which one it was.

I could go on but I guess the point I'm trying to make is: The ending of season 6 definitely didn't just come from nowhere. I also think it seemed like a natural, fitting end to the overall story we were being told, a story about catching corrupt police. (I hope there's more seasons though.)

I have the same hatred that the haters have, I hate when long story arcs feel like they were being made up as the story was being told with a quick unrelated ending tacked on. The Buckells thing doesn't feel like that to me though. Not at all. It would've felt like that if the big reveal was that Thurwell had been pulling the strings all along lol, and that was what made me pretty certain he was red herring immediately. Yeah I think that the "he wasn't saying H, he was saying 4 dots" thing was blatantly a retcon, one of many, but one way of trying to determine whether a story was being told with no plans for an ending is to look at the first part of the story and the last part of it, and see if they match up, accepting that everything in-between is less important. Season 1 and season 6 of Line of Duty go together very well as the beginning and end of a main, long story arc.

There seemed to be two widespread let downs from the last episode - lack of action and the identity reveal. I can understand people being disappointed that it wasn't action packed although even that seems to be kinda missing the point of what the show was, at least near the beginning. The main story throughout all seasons was finding out who dodgy coppers are, and doing so using clever tactics such as the awesome interview scenes. Fighting gangstas was kinda a side thing, so of course the last episode would (and should) get back to the main story. But the show probably set other expectations with some its action-movie-wannabe scenes so I can understand the disappointment about it all being wrapped up with searching for evidence followed by an interview. But as for what was revealed before and in the interview - I just don't understand the hate for that.

The number of people who seem to think the opposite as me is overwhelming though, which makes me wonder - am I just crazy for thinking all the above?

Tony Gates would be such a great detective if he didn’t think with his penis. Beautiful wife and kids at home, great detective (cut a few corners but it’s expected) and seemed to be making decent money. But had to ruin it. I don’t even think Laverty was as good looking as his wife.

Three years since Season 6 aired, and I'm still mad that the fourth member of the OCG wasn't Chief Constable Philip Osborne.

For context, I've been watching older episodes of Gogglebox UK, and in their seventeenth series they were watching Series 6 of Line of Duty week by week, and it's just reminded me how utterly disappointed I was with the ending of this fantastic series.

Especially with how in Series 6 the OCG took a definitive turn to more paramilitary strikes (the raid on the prison convoy), I think it would have made sense story wise that 'bent copper' leading it was the one who had previously led the Counter Terrorism Unit - as we saw Osborne doing in the pilot episode.

What did the OCG have on him? Why the death of Karim Ali, the civilian who was mistakenly shot dead by CTU in the pilot episode and how Osborne helped cover it up.

But no... the bad guy was Boris Johnson Ian Buckells, who since appearing as a bumbling idiot in Series 1 had continued to fail upwards as AC-12 chopped down each person on the ladder in front of him, only to be himself undone because he was sloppy and bought a sports car and a mansion on a Detective Superintendent's salary ... oh and because someone at AC-12 finally decided to do a Ctrl+F word search on how everyone in the Central Police spells 'definitely'.

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Seen a few things about a season 7 of this, can anybody confirm if there is gonna be a season 7 or if it’s just a hypothetical type thing?

I loved legislation and law enforcement way before I watched Line of Duty but since I started watching it I’ve been obsessed. I’m a student pilot and I’m hopefully going to become a pilot and in my spare time I want to be a special, I’m 15 and my teacher who used to be in traffic and BTP told me to buy this book. It has all the legislation in it and it’s great for people who want to become police. I know this isn’t really about Line of Duty I just wanted to say it.

Like did he know every bent cop??

Has anyone else here watched Jed Mercurio’s previous show BODIES? I love it! I need to talk about it with others!

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In a world where Lord Sugar and Ted Hastings know eachother.

The fact that Jodie wasn’t red noticed and dragged out of Polk Avenue station in handcuffs for what she did pisses me off

She was such a boot licker and I thought was just a loser but she is really really really a stupid human. She nearly got people charged for crimes they didn’t commit and was complicit in Tim being murdered because she is clearly the single worst detective that exists.

I have to give the actress who played her credit because she did a great job especially if it makes me this mad 😂

I like how the AC detective interviewing Hastings (why didn't Hasting consul bring it up) casually missed the part were Cottan didn't blink on "A" when he was trying to inform Fleming of who H was.

How did Flemming and Arnott know Cottan was saying 4 Hs as 4 dots means H? Isn't it more likely he was just saying the letter H? Its not like he did 16 dots.

I have just discovered "Line of Duty" and am currently binging it. Just finished season 3, but there are a couple of things in the otherwise excellent seasons 2 and 3 that bug me:

First of all there is the whole Lindsay hiding money in her mother's room in the nursing home.That was a highly insecure location to which lots of people would have had access - nurses, cleaners, etc. Not to mention her mother herself before her stroke. Now, Denton, while brilliant and meticilous, could make mistakes of course. But usually it was when she had to make decisions in the heat of the moment or emotions got the better of her. Here she had enough time to prepare and also knew that she would be put under a microscope even if nobody else got hurt when Hunter was handed over. So, this makes no sense. While we do know that she took a bribe, I fully expected that she'd hidden it much better, somewhere without personal connection, and the money that Steve found would be revealed as part of the frame, which would be how she'd beat the murder conspiracy charges. It makes no sense to me that they played it straight.

Frankly, Akers spending the money immediately and keeping it in a trunk under the bed was also stupid, but maybe she was just that dumb. Denton demonstrably wasn't.

Then this whole job placement interview in season 3 when she was out on probation looked like bad comedy. I mean, Denton knew her laws and regulations to a T, how could she have believed that she'd be able to work for the police before quashing her other conviction?

On the whole it is a pity that they killed her off IMHO - such a great character! They are generally a bit too bloodthirsty - it is increasingly more difficult to suspend disbelief with such high body count among the people they investigate.