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Warning: contains spoilers for the Line of Duty series 6 finale.
Perhaps thanks to the extra half hour of screen time (with seven one-hour episodes instead of five plus a 90-minute finale), or perhaps because there was a genuine sense of threads being tied up as AC-12 went into storage for potentially the last time, there are fewer questions left to answer than usual after Line of Duty series six. The finale gave us lots of certainty, and just a few things still to mull over. After you’ve read our weekly episode review, catch up on the post-finale theories and questions below.
So, Buckells was H all along?
He was bent all along, ever since being part of the corrupt team that investigated the racist murder of Lawrence Christopher. But Buckells only stepped into the shoes of ‘H’ or ‘The Fourth Man’ or whatever you want to call the senior...
Perhaps thanks to the extra half hour of screen time (with seven one-hour episodes instead of five plus a 90-minute finale), or perhaps because there was a genuine sense of threads being tied up as AC-12 went into storage for potentially the last time, there are fewer questions left to answer than usual after Line of Duty series six. The finale gave us lots of certainty, and just a few things still to mull over. After you’ve read our weekly episode review, catch up on the post-finale theories and questions below.
So, Buckells was H all along?
He was bent all along, ever since being part of the corrupt team that investigated the racist murder of Lawrence Christopher. But Buckells only stepped into the shoes of ‘H’ or ‘The Fourth Man’ or whatever you want to call the senior...
- 5/2/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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Warning: contains major spoilers for Line of Duty series 1-6.
You could say we’ve taken this too far. You could be right. You could also say that, for a Line of Duty fan attempting to solve the Jo Davidson family mystery, it’s useful to know that Tommy Hunter was 13 years old when Jo Davidson was born, making him more likely to be her brother than her father. Or that John Corbett was born two months after Jo Davidson, making it impossible for his mother Anne-Marie McGillis to also be her mother.
And then there are the real questions, such as: the day before AC-12 raided Hillside Lane Station in series six, it was Kate Fleming’s 35th birthday. Did she bring in doughnuts? Had Kate come in worse for wear from one too many glasses of white in Frederico’s with Jo? The people demand to know.
You could say we’ve taken this too far. You could be right. You could also say that, for a Line of Duty fan attempting to solve the Jo Davidson family mystery, it’s useful to know that Tommy Hunter was 13 years old when Jo Davidson was born, making him more likely to be her brother than her father. Or that John Corbett was born two months after Jo Davidson, making it impossible for his mother Anne-Marie McGillis to also be her mother.
And then there are the real questions, such as: the day before AC-12 raided Hillside Lane Station in series six, it was Kate Fleming’s 35th birthday. Did she bring in doughnuts? Had Kate come in worse for wear from one too many glasses of white in Frederico’s with Jo? The people demand to know.
- 4/14/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series 6 episode 4.
After all the excitement of episode four (read our spoiler-filled review here), fans could be forgiven for taking a recovery day before putting their minds to work and trying to figure out series six’s many mysteries. But did Steve and Chloe take a rest after that shoot-out? No, so in their honour, neither will we. After all, as Kate told Ted in that piss-stinking underpass make-up scene, we’ve got a case to solve.
Jargon of the week: Nominal
Anybody convicted, cautioned, reprimanded, warned or arrested of a recordable offence has a “nominal record” on the Police National Computer, and is therefore a nominal. In the show, it seems to mean the chief individual/suspect in an investigation. In the series five opener, AC-12 referred to both Lisa McQueen and John ‘Clayton’ (before they knew he was an undercover officer) as “the nominal.
After all the excitement of episode four (read our spoiler-filled review here), fans could be forgiven for taking a recovery day before putting their minds to work and trying to figure out series six’s many mysteries. But did Steve and Chloe take a rest after that shoot-out? No, so in their honour, neither will we. After all, as Kate told Ted in that piss-stinking underpass make-up scene, we’ve got a case to solve.
Jargon of the week: Nominal
Anybody convicted, cautioned, reprimanded, warned or arrested of a recordable offence has a “nominal record” on the Police National Computer, and is therefore a nominal. In the show, it seems to mean the chief individual/suspect in an investigation. In the series five opener, AC-12 referred to both Lisa McQueen and John ‘Clayton’ (before they knew he was an undercover officer) as “the nominal.
- 4/11/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series 6 episode 2
If you’re left with niggling doubts and unchecked hunches after reading our weekly episode review, we can help. Consider the below a communal evidence wall on which to pin mugshots of potentially bent coppers connected by red string and Post-Its scribbled with question marks. Join us as we delve into this week’s Line of Duty theories and questions…
Jargon of the Week: Reg 15
Stands for a Regulation 15 Notice, or Yellow Notice. It advises an officer that they’re going to be investigated by professional standards and therefore enter Line of Duty‘s interrogation room of doom.
Who is Ryan Pilkington?
Recruited by the Ocg as a child when paedophile pimp Tommy Hunter was in charge, Ryan is the son of an addict mother on the ‘Bog’ or Borogrove Estate in Moss Heath. In series one, he ran errands for the gang,...
If you’re left with niggling doubts and unchecked hunches after reading our weekly episode review, we can help. Consider the below a communal evidence wall on which to pin mugshots of potentially bent coppers connected by red string and Post-Its scribbled with question marks. Join us as we delve into this week’s Line of Duty theories and questions…
Jargon of the Week: Reg 15
Stands for a Regulation 15 Notice, or Yellow Notice. It advises an officer that they’re going to be investigated by professional standards and therefore enter Line of Duty‘s interrogation room of doom.
Who is Ryan Pilkington?
Recruited by the Ocg as a child when paedophile pimp Tommy Hunter was in charge, Ryan is the son of an addict mother on the ‘Bog’ or Borogrove Estate in Moss Heath. In series one, he ran errands for the gang,...
- 3/28/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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Roku has launched an advertising brand studio, hiring execs from Snap Inc. and Funny or Die to help develop the venture.
The new operation will produce ads and TV programming customized for marketers. While those offerings have become typical for many media companies, brands and agencies over the past two decades, they are a relatively new dimension to streaming. In early 2020, Hulu announced it was forming a brand studio called Greenhouse.
Roku plans to share additional details, including about specific partners and projects, in its May 3 presentation during the NewFronts.
Two 2020 developments led directly to the new venture, Roku VP of ad marketing Dan Robbins told Deadline in an interview. One was the “tectonic shift” in overall ad spending from linear TV to streaming, and the other was a research project conducted by Roku with Magna and Ipg Media Lab. The study found that branded content led to a quadrupling...
The new operation will produce ads and TV programming customized for marketers. While those offerings have become typical for many media companies, brands and agencies over the past two decades, they are a relatively new dimension to streaming. In early 2020, Hulu announced it was forming a brand studio called Greenhouse.
Roku plans to share additional details, including about specific partners and projects, in its May 3 presentation during the NewFronts.
Two 2020 developments led directly to the new venture, Roku VP of ad marketing Dan Robbins told Deadline in an interview. One was the “tectonic shift” in overall ad spending from linear TV to streaming, and the other was a research project conducted by Roku with Magna and Ipg Media Lab. The study found that branded content led to a quadrupling...
- 3/23/2021
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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Six series in, and Line of Duty has pinged a Jack-in-the-Box into the audience’s face so many times that we’ve learned to approach new episodes with the vigilant, arms-crossed suspicion of a mum whose teenager wants to have a party. Have you forgotten what happened last time? You can promise whatever you like, son, but ever since that girl got pushed out of that window, we have no reason to believe you.
In this state of high-alert vigilance, Line of Duty fans trust nothing and nobody. Worse than that: we start to listen out for the next loud bang, trying to anticipate where the next shock will come from. That leads, inevitably, to nonsense.
Nonsense like the popular but spurious fan theory last series that Rochenda Sandall’s character Lisa McQueen would turn out to be the secret love child of series one characters Dci Tony Gates and murder victim Jackie Laverty.
In this state of high-alert vigilance, Line of Duty fans trust nothing and nobody. Worse than that: we start to listen out for the next loud bang, trying to anticipate where the next shock will come from. That leads, inevitably, to nonsense.
Nonsense like the popular but spurious fan theory last series that Rochenda Sandall’s character Lisa McQueen would turn out to be the secret love child of series one characters Dci Tony Gates and murder victim Jackie Laverty.
- 3/22/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series 6 episode 1
Line of Duty requires attentive viewing. Try to watch it while doing the ironing and it’ll be burnt shirt collars and confusion for you, son. Every sly look, slight frown and worried swallow by the characters needs to be absorbed by fans if we’re to construct our usual baroque theories week by week.
You could keep a little notebook at hand in which to jot down and underline key info, or you could just come here every week after reading the episode review, and have your memory jogged to the relevant bits…
Acronym of the Week: Chis
Pronounced to rhyme with ‘fizz’. Stands for: Covert Human Intelligence Source, or informant.
Why did Kate leave AC-12?
She’s ambitious, for one, but the cracks started to show in series five. It was Kate and Steve who went to Acc Wise...
Line of Duty requires attentive viewing. Try to watch it while doing the ironing and it’ll be burnt shirt collars and confusion for you, son. Every sly look, slight frown and worried swallow by the characters needs to be absorbed by fans if we’re to construct our usual baroque theories week by week.
You could keep a little notebook at hand in which to jot down and underline key info, or you could just come here every week after reading the episode review, and have your memory jogged to the relevant bits…
Acronym of the Week: Chis
Pronounced to rhyme with ‘fizz’. Stands for: Covert Human Intelligence Source, or informant.
Why did Kate leave AC-12?
She’s ambitious, for one, but the cracks started to show in series five. It was Kate and Steve who went to Acc Wise...
- 3/21/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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Warning: contains major spoilers for Line of Duty series 5
For almost a decade, Ted Hastings’ AC-12 has been a thorn in the side of Line of Duty’s organised crime group. In series one, when the Ocg blackmailed Dci Tony Gates with his lover’s corpse to make him stymie investigations into their money laundering and drug dealing operation, AC-12 uncovered it all – and they’d only been called in to investigate a freebie bacon sandwich.
In series two, when the Ocg blackmailed DS Jayne Akers and Di Lindsay Denton to reroute the police transport of former gang leader-turned-witness Tommy Hunter so they could ambush the convoy and kill Hunter to stop him from talking, AC-12 sussed the lot.
In series three, Hunter was found to have been one of 17 paedophiles including a senior police officer who sexually abused boys at a children’s home in the 1990s. AC-12 exposed...
For almost a decade, Ted Hastings’ AC-12 has been a thorn in the side of Line of Duty’s organised crime group. In series one, when the Ocg blackmailed Dci Tony Gates with his lover’s corpse to make him stymie investigations into their money laundering and drug dealing operation, AC-12 uncovered it all – and they’d only been called in to investigate a freebie bacon sandwich.
In series two, when the Ocg blackmailed DS Jayne Akers and Di Lindsay Denton to reroute the police transport of former gang leader-turned-witness Tommy Hunter so they could ambush the convoy and kill Hunter to stop him from talking, AC-12 sussed the lot.
In series three, Hunter was found to have been one of 17 paedophiles including a senior police officer who sexually abused boys at a children’s home in the 1990s. AC-12 exposed...
- 3/17/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
U.S. streaming service Acorn TV has nabbed the fifth season of British cop drama Line of Duty, created and written by Bodyguard’s Jed Mercurio. Previous seasons of the BBC drama have premiered on Hulu in the U.S.
The Svod platform will have the exclusive premiere of the six-part series after striking a deal with distributor Kew Media. It will air it in line with its BBC One premiere in early 2019.
Produced by Bodyguard indie World Productions, the series follows police anti-corruption division AC-12. It stars Vicky McClure, Martin Compston and Adrian Dunbar, while Boardwalk Empire star Stephen Graham has joined the show for season five. Graham plays a pivotal figure in a deadly organized crime group, alongside Broken star Lisa McQueen, that is known to have links to corrupt police officers and suspected to be under direct command of the shadowy figure known only as ‘H’.
Filming is now underway in Belfast,...
The Svod platform will have the exclusive premiere of the six-part series after striking a deal with distributor Kew Media. It will air it in line with its BBC One premiere in early 2019.
Produced by Bodyguard indie World Productions, the series follows police anti-corruption division AC-12. It stars Vicky McClure, Martin Compston and Adrian Dunbar, while Boardwalk Empire star Stephen Graham has joined the show for season five. Graham plays a pivotal figure in a deadly organized crime group, alongside Broken star Lisa McQueen, that is known to have links to corrupt police officers and suspected to be under direct command of the shadowy figure known only as ‘H’.
Filming is now underway in Belfast,...
- 11/5/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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