Line of Duty series 5

H - Could it be Henry (the mild mannered janitor), Could be !

no, although that is beginning to sound a bit like the Paul Bateson incident back in the late 70s! … mild mannered x-ray technician used as an extra in William Friedkin's film The Exorcist, was later found to be an actual serial killer in New York (body in the bags killer) to which Friedkin had spoken with in build up to him making the Al Pacino film Cruising :eek:
sometimes fact is indeed stranger than fiction!
 


I know that... the person responsible for promoting or arranging promotion of Cottan could still fit in scenario that this Tommy Hunter was not killed at all in season 2 (with nobody actually identifying the body) - it wasn't until episode 3 of season 2 that Hastings read a report claiming it was Tommy Hunter but that's a simple admin switch... :?:

I get feeling writer will have his shock moment with this season by revealing something about long running character... can't see it being Hastings (too obvious) or Arnott (we pretty much know his back story)… so Kate/Lol female cop who has risen from DC to DI in just a few year (whoever helped Cottan could now be helping her climb ladder)… of which we know little about her back story as yet? ;)



so its not a case of bringing somebody back from the dead if that person had never been killed in first place?
In season one Tommy HUnter had been looking after Cottan, and was violent enough to carry out or have carried out all the deaths... he then simply gets arrested, goes into witness protection never to be actually seen again... then 2 years later they just happen to be transporting him (Hunter) in a convoy at night? … to go where exactly? They don't need a witness in court when its not daylight or office hours - and then nobody recognizes him lying injured in hospital because he simply had bandages on? - not having that at all.
But I guess we will see
He was being transported at night because he was being set up for the ambush. A bogus threat was called in as the reason he needed moving to another safe house.

His face wasn’t shown so that later in the series they could drop the bomb that the witness was Tommy. It would have been rather less exciting if it was revealed at the start of episode 1.

Once it was revealed it was Tommy the video in which the revelation was made was also what lead to the first reference to the Caddy that prior to then was only known between Dot and the Audience, eventually leading to the enquiry launched by Hastings into who this was leading to all the events that resulted in Dots death.

It really is far more simple and clear than you’re making out.
 
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I know that... the person responsible for promoting or arranging promotion of Cottan could still fit in scenario that this Tommy Hunter was not killed at all in season 2 (with nobody actually identifying the body) - it wasn't until episode 3 of season 2 that Hastings read a report claiming it was Tommy Hunter but that's a simple admin switch... :?:

I get feeling writer will have his shock moment with this season by revealing something about long running character... can't see it being Hastings (too obvious) or Arnott (we pretty much know his back story)… so Kate/Lol female cop who has risen from DC to DI in just a few year (whoever helped Cottan could now be helping her climb ladder)… of which we know little about her back story as yet? ;)



so its not a case of bringing somebody back from the dead if that person had never been killed in first place?
In season one Tommy HUnter had been looking after Cottan, and was violent enough to carry out or have carried out all the deaths... he then simply gets arrested, goes into witness protection never to be actually seen again... then 2 years later they just happen to be transporting him (Hunter) in a convoy at night? … to go where exactly? They don't need a witness in court when its not daylight or office hours - and then nobody recognizes him lying injured in hospital because he simply had bandages on? - not having that at all.
But I guess we will see
I recently re watched them all and in series 2 it definitely shows Tommy Hunter getting shot then set on fire in the back of the car that was ambushed. The reason AC12 didn't know who it was is that they were not given access to the files until near the end of the series. By that time he was dead.
 
I've been rewatching it from series 1 and it's amazing how much the quality drops off in series 4, almost becomes a bit of a send up of itself.

Not started on it yet but I'm hoping it's back to form in this latest series.
 
The acting in 4 is often ridiculous. Ros's husband is awful, and that f***ing Jodie lass - she's the Jar Jar Binks of the series. Then there's the stupid 'tension' between Steve and Kate, and just the fact that the storyline is...well it's simultaneous mental and quite boring.

Looking forward to 5 like

I'd blanked Jodie out, thanks for the reminder!
 

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