Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio admits stars schedules can alter the show s storylines
Jed Mercurio has admitted that if actors on the show are unavailable or can t commit to filming at specific times he changes the script
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When last man standing DSU Ian Buckells smugly asked Supt Ted Hastings if heâd like a glass of water, I honestly thought the gaffer might lean across the desk and punch that smirk clean off his face.
Sunday, 2nd May 2021 at 10:00 pm
Halfway through the Line of Duty season six finale, AC-12 finally found out the identity of ‘H’, or the “Fourth Man” who they had been chasing for so long. Did we, the viewers, find out at the same time? No, we most certainly did not.
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For another excruciating eight minutes, the team passed around print-outs and made cryptic remarks, exchanged knowing looks, and got sidetracked into other conversations. “All this time we’ve been chasing shadows! If this is right he’s been under our noses from the very beginning!” declared Steve. (Who was he talking about? Surely it’s Chief Constable Osborne, we thought.) And then we had a montage of armed officers drawing up to AC-12 and marching an unseen interviewee into the building, while DI Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) tap-tapped on his iPad and linked up the DIR. Of course, the camera pulled away before he typed in the name of the interviewee.
AFTER nine years and six seasons this was it. The big one. The grand reveal of “H”. Not since who shot JR had millions gathered in front of their tellies, preparing to be amazed. There was even a whisper that a teenager in Newton Mearns was going to switch his phone off for an hour. Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey it was tense out there. And then … Ian Buckells? The dopey Brummie Noddy Holder lookalike you wouldn’t send out for a pint of milk? He was H, the fourth man, the lynchpin of a clandestine network of corrupt police officers in league with organised crime gangs?
Line Of Duty series six final episode: All Ted Hastings AC-12 investigations have led to this - as finale finally gives us answers WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE LATEST EPISODE OF LINE OF DUTY, SEASON SIX, EPISODE SEVEN, AS WELL AS PREVIOUS SEASONS. DO NOT CONTINUE READING IF YOU ARE NOT UP TO DATE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED This thing has been driving me mad for years! says a frustrated Superintendent Ted Hastings. Us too, Ted! Us too. But now, finally, we have some answers on the identity of H.
Season six of
Line Of Duty ended with our fractured AC-12 heroes back together, albeit in a silent, awkward-looking lift journey to the bottom of HQ if not riding joyously off into the sunset.