Line of Duty fans believe Chief Constable Philip Osborne is the most likely to be unveiled as H in this Sunday s series finale, a poll has revealed.
The BBC drama has gone from strength to strength since its release, growing from an initial audience of four million adults to more than 11 million tuning in for the current series penultimate episode.
The show sees the officers of police anti-corruption unit AC-12 pitted against the mysterious antagonist known only as H or the fourth man , who heads up an organised crime syndicate controlling events from the shadows and potentially from within AC-12 itself.
Rod McPhee, TV Editor
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LINE Of Duty fans are on tenterhooks for tomorrow as the finale of the cop thriller looks set to land the big fish they have been chasing – arch criminal H.
AC-12 boss Supt Ted Hastings, played by Adrian Dunbar, has split the bad guys into sprats (small-time) and mackerels (big-time).
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Supt Ted Hastings, played by Adrian Dunbar, has split the bad guys into sprats (small-time) and mackerels (big-time)Credit: BBC
But creator Jed Mercurio has also sprinkled in quite a few red herrings, leaving viewers and the anti-corruption team the difficult task of landing the real catch.
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The front page of the Sun on 27 April had the headline “Lying of Duty” stamped across a mocked-up case file from AC-12, the police anti-corruption unit featured in BBC One’s Line of Duty. The conceit is that Adrian Dunbar’s Ch Supt Ted Hastings, scourge of “bent coppers” in the show, should investigate multiple allegations of impropriety against Boris Johnson.
This joke escalates a metaphor introduced by Keir Starmer at prime minister’s questions on 14 April, when the Labour leader suggested Hastings could be hired to look at David Cameron’s lobbying of Johnson’s government on behalf of the finance company Greensill.
Jimmy Savile detective examines each Line Of Duty character - and explains who is H Mirror 30/04/2021 Mark Jefferies & Poppy Danby
As the sixth series of Line of Duty reaches its nail-biting finale on Sunday, fans hope they will finally discover the identity of criminal mastermind “H”, or the “fourth man”.
Could it be one of the more obviously bent coppers, or will there be another breathtaking twist?
We examine the suspects alongside investigator and former detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who exposed Jimmy Savile as a paedophile in the TV documentary The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile, to see who is in the frame.
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