Jo Davidson got the best deal! Line of Duty viewers joke that they want witness protection after bent DCI ends up living her best life in a country cottage with a hot love interest and waggy-tailed dog
Kelly Macdonald, 45, is starring as DCI Joanne Davidson in BBC s hit police drama, Line of Duty
Bent copper was seen living her best life in witness protection at end of nail-biting series finale last night
Closing scene showed her standing at front of cobbled cottage with Golden Retriever and redhead girlfriend
One avid fan of the show joked: We all need protecting to a cobbled cottage and waggy-tailed dog
The real meat of the episode, though, still lay ahead. Some have criticised recent seasons of the show for resorting to thriller pyrotechnics – gunplay over nuance. That certainly wasn’t the case here. Instead, creator Jed Mercurio treated viewers to an attempt at achieving moral closure for the protagonists – which may tell its own story about whether or not Line of Duty has a future beyond this season. Many viewers harboured dark fears about Ted Hastings. Surely not Ted? Well, no. But there were undeniably questions to answer, and answer he did. The most affecting interrogation scene yet involved Hastings spilling his secrets relating to John Corbett’s death and Steph Corbett’s money, and trusting in Arnott and Kate Fleming, whose pained, “disappointed not angry” faces were at once amusing and mildly heartbreaking.
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Sunday s explosive finale saw AC-12 unravel the secret identity of H or the Fourth Man as the seemingly bumbling officer Ian Buckles.
Fireworks were going off on social media when fans complained about the anti-climatic end to the series which also saw Jo Davidson gain witness protection where she lived happily ever after in a beautiful house with a new lover and a dog.
Gregory Piper was just 13 years old when he first appeared in the show, and his return was a great bit of continuity. However, the actor has admitted that the role could have easily been recast when it came time to bring him back.
Line of Duty alumni, Craig Parkinson, Gregory said: One day I was at college rehearsing for a play and on my phone was Oh my God,
Line of Duty are getting in touch about Ryan , completely out of the blue. It really took me as a surprise.
He recalled the team asking: Okay, obviously we need to find out if you still act. Like, do you still do this anymore? So then I felt very eager to show them I’m still here, I still really want to do this.
Thank the stars for Tv the one force that still has the power to bring the nation together.
On Sunday night, as the BBC1 police thriller Line Of Duty finally revealed the bent copper at the heart of its web of corruption, up to 13 million Brits were glued to their sets . . . at the same moment.
Whatever you thought of that finale and many applauded it as subtly ingenious, while others denounced it loudly as a letdown it achieved its purpose. We re all still talking about it.
There s a magical sense of community in knowing that millions of us are watching together. Every gasp of surprise and grunt of puzzlement is echoed across the land.