Vicky McClure and Martin Compston star in Line of Duty
Credit: BBC
“And all the time we were here, thinking we were chasing some criminal mastermind.” I feel you, Ted Hastings, I feel you.
DCI Ian Buckells was “H”, aka the Fourth Man
Be honest, who saw that coming? Up until the moment we saw Buckells’s face, I was utterly convinced that Chief Constable Philip Osborne was the bent cop mastermind behind it all. Well played, Jed Mercurio. No, it was the bluffing, blustering, buffoonish Buckells (who I had my suspicions about in episode two – but I assumed he was bent, not “H”).