Line of Duty (BBC) **Spoilers**

volchitsa

Seathrun66 wrote: »

No spoiler released for next week. The trailer people are referring to was shown on the BBC in late Feb/early March. There were several posts about it here so pretty fair to assume that most fans had already seen either the trailer or posts.

I haven't seen it, and if it's a trailer with a spoiler in it about an episode that hasn't yet been broadcast, then it's a spoiler which shouldn't be posted here.
That said, I think it was here that there was a partial spoiler last week that came from the subtitles which I hadn't seen at the time either.

I wish people would be a little more careful.

Seathrun66

volchitsa wrote: »

I haven't seen it, and if it's a trailer with a spoiler in it about an episode that hasn't yet been broadcast, then it's a spoiler which shouldn't be posted here.
That said, I think it was here that there was a partial spoiler last week that came from the subtitles which I hadn't seen at the time either.

I wish people would be a little more careful.

It was posted here in late February, with no complaints.

funkey_monkey

I hope if Nesbitt makes an appearance in this series that he got acting classes between filming Bloodlands and LoD.

Tazium

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

They could've been put there on the recorded versions after the real time viewers finished watching

Did they add any blood too maybe? Real time viewing there wasn’t a drop despite both fatalities and Steve saying something about high powered weapons GSW.

Wife is flipping from Hastings being H and then away to someone more aligned to general theory.
I think I’d be annoyed by now if Hastings turned out to be H but there’s still unanswered stuff there and he’s very very enthusiastic about getting the bent coppers, could that be deflection to clear a necessary path for OCG?

eagle eye

They found the factory and then get shut down by the top man. If that doesn't tell you enough to not suspect Hastings then nothing will.

purifol0

Hastings is definately (see wot I did there) not 'H'. I reckon he gave the widow the money as she is a now a single mother and he's got a famously soft spot for women. Plus the guilt he may feel after he himself ordered Steve to shoot & kill her undercover-but-gone-rogue and since murdered husband.

Also the bean collector shutting down Hastings for blowing the budget....has a bit of a point. 24 cops needed per surveilled target in this day and age??? Then again looking at our Gardai shenanigans to clock up OT, I guess it's not much different

Hercule Poirot

HiGlo wrote: »

Eh, slept with his brother wife???? duh! hahaha

That you Ryan Giggs?

Hercule Poirot

appledrop wrote: »

Just reading there about Carmichael background in series.

I forgot she acussed Ted of informing Lee Banks in prison that John Corbett was a police officer and got him killed as a result the next day.

Then Lee Banks said same tonight.

It could be a decoy but really hope not going to be case that Ted is involved!

Both Banks (last episode) and Liz McQueen (in season 5) state that Ted told them they had a mole but not who it was

McQueen then said they identified Corbett because only him and her knew about the meet at the Palasades Shopping Centre which was under surveillance - when she saw it was under surveillance she knew Corbett was the mole

Kate should have pulled the trigger immediately.

Wallet Inspector

If Hastings is H it would be some load of gimmicky, contrived nonsense.

RandomViewer

funkey_monkey wrote: »

I hope if Nesbitt makes an appearance in this series that he got acting classes between filming Bloodlands and LoD.

I'm guessing atrocious English accent, and even plasticier hair

ohnonotgmail

RandomViewer wrote: »

I'm guessing atrocious English accent, and even plasticier hair

his face looked plastic in the photo they used. It looked like a photofit.

volchitsa

Seathrun66 wrote: »

It was posted here in late February, with no complaints.

Yes but the significance of it wasn't the same back then - nobody knew that it was set after the shoot out so how could they complain?

And if it hadn't been mentioned again now, I wouldn't have remembered it at all - that's if I even saw it at the time (I generally don't watch trailers, for exactly that reason)

volchitsa

RandomViewer wrote: »

I'm guessing atrocious English accent, and even plasticier hair

Never heard Nesbitt doing an English accent, but I was completely fooled by Martin Compston's English accent. When you hear him in real life you can sort of tell that that's his real accent but nevertheless, his English one is good enough for me.

(Although maybe an English person would think differently, TBF.)

But hopefully Nesbitt can do a decent English accent too. Look at English actors doing American accents in US series, though the opposite never seems to work nearly as well.

Sunrise_Sunset

Is Nesbitt really that bad? I haven't seen him in anything.
Well I checked his IMDB and see that he was in The Hobbit, which I have seen, but I don't remember him in it.

Ronaldinho

Seathrun66 wrote: »

It was posted here in late February, with no complaints.

But back then we didn't know it was going to ruin a cliffhanger.

ShineOn7

Keyzer wrote: »

I think you ballsed it up yourself sonny.

Anyone who goes on an internet forum before watching the episode is just asking for trouble.

Mother of God.

The user spoiled a future episode. Which is against Charter

Mother of God indeed

Just to be completely clear on the use of spoilers:

- If a thread title has the word "Spoilers" in it, then it is OK to discuss the most recent episode (or older) without using [ spoiler ] tags.

- If you have news about a future episode, then most people don't want to know (no, really - they prefer to be surprised by major plot developments and twists).

- If you feel it should be posted anyway, please use [ spoiler ] tags (to give people the option of reading them or not). Also contextualise the spoiler by saying what it's about outside of the spoiler tag (Spoiler about Season Finale, Spoiler about Character Exit, etc.)

Wallet Inspector

volchitsa wrote: »

Never heard Nesbitt doing an English accent, but I was completely fooled by Martin Compston's English accent. When you hear him in real life you can sort of tell that that's his real accent but nevertheless, his English one is good enough for me.

(Although maybe an English person would think differently, TBF.)

But hopefully Nesbitt can do a decent English accent too. Look at English actors doing American accents in US series, though the opposite never seems to work nearly as well.

Saw giving out on Twitter about the accent by the woman who plays Corbett's widow. Liverpool accent is very easy to make a mess of.

extra gravy

Sunrise_Sunset wrote: »

Is Nesbitt really that bad? I haven't seen him in anything.
Well I checked his IMDB and see that he was in The Hobbit, which I have seen, but I don't remember him in it.

The last thing I remember him being okay in was "The Missing."

secman

Wallet Inspector wrote: »

Saw giving out on Twitter about the accent by the woman who plays Corbett's widow. Liverpool accent is very easy to make a mess of.

She's an Irish actress, sure there must be several accents in Liverpool , there are several in Dublin.

volchitsa

Wallet Inspector wrote: »

Saw giving out on Twitter about the accent by the woman who plays Corbett's widow. Liverpool accent is very easy to make a mess of.

Yes that's what I was thinking - I wonder whether regional accents are harder to get right than more well-known ones that we're all exposed to all the time. Like, everyone recognises a Liverpool accent, but you don't hear it nearly as often as you hear a generic London/southern England one, so is that why English people didn't complain about Compston's unplaceable English accent but did complain about Steph's Liverpool one? (Don't know the actress' name, but even I thought her Liverpool accent was a bit dodgy, and I couldnt do a Liverpool accent to save my life).

davetherave

purifol0 wrote: »

Also the bean collector shutting down Hastings for blowing the budget....has a bit of a point. 24 cops needed per surveilled target in this day and age??? Then again looking at our Gardai shenanigans to clock up OT, I guess it's not much different

Not unrealistic for 24 hour direct surveillance to be fair.

Three eight hour rotas. Three or four pairs of coppers handing the subject over and back to each other. You're going to need multiple vehicles to avoid the "Hmmm that red ford focus has been behind me for a good while, I'm going to make two left turns to see if it follows me" moments or even just if the subject car goes through an orange light, do you floor it to get through thereby drawing attention to yourself or do you let the 2nd car pick up the tail.

If you have Authorised Firearms Officers then you are taking them off of patrol so that needs to made up by someone else.

You going to need to have an operation commander with some authority, so that's a Sergeant or an Inspector tied up.

volchitsa

extra gravy wrote: »

The last thing I remember him being okay in was "The Missing."

He was great in The Missing and of course in Cold Feet, but his latest stuff has been too much "eyebrow acting" to show "a man in great pain". I think because people were blown away by that in The Missing he then made it his signature style and you can have too much of a good thing.

ShineOn7

Also this

Carmichael enters to the Imperial March.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBt6rcHqpW0

trashcan

Wallet Inspector wrote: »

If Hastings is H it would be some load of gimmicky, contrived nonsense.

I’m very confident he won’t be. It would ruin the series. It’s very much reliant on the three leads being clean (if not totally squeaky.)

purifol0

purifol0 wrote: »

Hastings is definately (see wot I did there) not 'H'. I reckon he gave the widow the money as she is a now a single mother and he's got a famously soft spot for women. Plus the guilt he may feel after he himself ordered Steve to shoot & kill her undercover-but-gone-rogue and since murdered husband.

Also the bean collector shutting down Hastings for blowing the budget....has a bit of a point. 24 cops needed per surveilled target in this day and age??? Then again looking at our Gardai shenanigans to clock up OT, I guess it's not much different

Ted visited Lee Banks in prison and told him that Corbett was a cop. Corbett tortured Ted's wife so that was his revenge. Then out of guilt he gave the money to Steph.

The bean collector is more than that, she's DCS Carmichael and is evil personified Carmichael will be taking over from Ted.

trashcan

razorblunt wrote: »

Then they had the ridiculous stand off with the double shot, could see it coming. It will be Ryan getting shot twice, how that gets Jo off the hook I don't know as she set Kate right up. That was until Ryan decided to go into villain monologue for no good reason.
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I still think it’s pretty compelling viewing, but I have to agree with those points. On previous form, why wouldn’t Ryan have just approached Kate from behind and shot her in the head? But no, he has to go all Bond villain and indulge in completely unnecessary small talk. For that reason alone I’d put money on him being dead and Kate surviving. They could have written it better, for instance, Ryan creeping up on Kate, but Jo has a last minute fit of conscience and shouts out to warn Kate, she turns, Ryan misses his shot and she draws her gun and nails him.

trashcan

Deleted User wrote: »

Ted visited Lee Banks in prison and told him that Corbett was a cop. Corbett tortured Ted's wife so that was his revenge. Then out of guilt he gave the money to Steph.

The bean collector is more than that, she's DCS Carmichael and is evil personified Carmichael will be taking over from Ted.

Ted also felt guilty about Corbetts mother, who was an informer for him in his RUC days, so that could be why he gave Steph the money. He felt responsible for Corbett being orphaned. Doesn’t have to mean he gave him up.

gmisk

volchitsa wrote: »

He was great in The Missing and of course in Cold Feet, but his latest stuff has been too much "eyebrow acting" to show "a man in great pain". I think because people were blown away by that in The Missing he then made it his signature style and you can have too much of a good thing.

He is awful in that really useless recent show bloodlands (despite it being produced by Jed Mercurio)

Fandymo

trashcan wrote: »

I still think it’s pretty compelling viewing, but I have to agree with those points. On previous form, why wouldn’t Ryan have just approached Kate from behind and shot her in the head? But no, he has to go all Bond villain and indulge in completely unnecessary small talk. For that reason alone I’d put money on him being dead and Kate surviving. They could have written it better, for instance, Ryan creeping up on Kate, but Jo has a last minute fit of conscience and shouts out to warn Kate, she turns, Ryan misses his shot and she draws her gun and nails him.

What I think happens, based on absolutely nothing and it may be shot out of the water by more informed posters than me.

Kate shot, not dead but in hospital in coma, Jo calls for back up, claims she was meeting Kate regarding the leak, no one else knew they’d be there except Steve. Carmichael has Steve investigated, finds he’s failed a drugs test, been refusing to meet Oc Health, thinks he’s being leaned on by someone in the OCG because of his addiction. End of this season ends up with Steve in prison.