The trailer for the final episode of Series 6 of Line of Duty has dropped, with viewers looking for clues, embodying the detective element of the show.
The Line of Duty ending was perfect – you just don’t know it yet
Convinced that Jed Mercurio’s finale wasn’t explosive enough, or that H was too banal? Then you just haven t been paying attention
One of the few action-packed scenes in Sunday s divisive finale of Line of Duty
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Here’s an alternative scenario. We watch a grey-jumpered figure being led into AC-12’s infamous “glass box” interrogation room. This is him, this is H. The camera lingers on the suspect’s back before cutting to the doleful gazes of our three AC-12 heroes. The interview begins. The camera cuts to the face of our suspect – Chief Constable Philip Osborne.
Vicky McClure and Martin Compston star in Line of Duty
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“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”).
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It’s the spelling mistake which launched a thousand fan theories. And now it has popped up again. Honestly, don’t they have spellcheck in these so-called OCGs? Disorganised crime groups, more like.
In the fifth episode of bent copper nail-biter Line Of Duty – while we were still reeling from the shock revelation that Acting DSU Jo Davidson (Kelly Macdonald) was a blood relative of gangster Tommy Hunter – Davidson hopped on her laptop and fired up that mysterious messaging app to check in with her “Unknown” handler.
After the “Fourth Man” (or woman – let’s not be sexist dinosaurs like dear old Ted Hastings) expressed anger that two OCG thugs were killed during AC-12’s raid on the gun workshop, he or she chillingly ordered Davidson to “get rid of” DI Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure).
Line of Duty: What s the significance of the definately typo?
Apparently the OCG doesn t do autocorrect for long enough now to know that there are no accidents and definitely no coincidences. Which is why fans are losing it over the repeated misspelling of the word definitely during various characters correspondence with a mystery OCG member. And there s a very good reason for why it matters so much.
During episode five Joanne Davidson got out her laptop to talk to her unknown criminal handler following AC-12 s raid on a gun workshop. Unknown isn t happy about the fact that two OCG henchmen were shot during the operation and tells Davidson that she ll have to do away with DCI Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure).