Line of Duty 2....Anyone Else..?

[Smokeandsteam]

He'l go down the paedo hunting route,his politicoboss who wants to make Dot a DCI, not so much

I can see him buckling under peer and political pressure and hanging Arnott out to dry.

 

[gosub]

I can see him buckling under peer and political pressure and hanging Arnott out to dry.

Or himself being hung out to dry as well, with Dot "the Caddy" Cotton the new defacto head of AC12

 

[gosub]

Read the guardian review praising it for being "real world" then saying it hopes the reveal of Dots paymasters isn't too Bloefield - why do they have to reveal who's pulling Dot's strings

 

[felixthecat]

I'm semi-convinced Kate is onto Dot

I'm completely convinced she is.

 

[Pickman's model]

Read the guardian review praising it for being "real world" then saying it hopes the reveal of Dots paymasters isn't too Bloefield - why do they have to reveal who's pulling Dot's strings

blofeld

 

[rubbershoes]

Did it? Well, we'll know next week what his agenda is given the growing tension between his masonic membership and his seemingly genuine desire to hunt down the paedos.

Let's hope he does the right thing and sticks by his brothers at the Lodge

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Or himself being hung out to dry as well, with Dot "the Caddy" Cotton the new defacto head of AC12

That is entirely possible. Series 4 has already been commissioned so presumably the end will need to set that up.

 

[Pickman's model]

Let's hope he does the right thing and sticks by his brothers at the Lodge

from the looks of it he's only an entered apprentice

 

[Ms T]

Just caught up. Blimey!

 

[sojourner]

We have been absolutely LOVING this - seriously good writing. Caught up with 3 episodes yesterday - gutted we have to wait til next weekend to watch the last one. He's rehearsing til late Thursday, we're busy Friday, and I've got 2 gigs on the Sat and Sun! I might see if the first two are on dl anywhere.

 

[gosub]

Watched as they aired so can't remember 1st did dot come from vice.?

 

[Saffy]

Just caught up with all the series 3 episodes, what excellent telly!
Last episode tomorrow is a feature length one they said.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Last episode tomorrow is a feature length one they said.

Yep, 90 minutes. I'm really quite looking forward to it.

 

[sojourner]

Ooo is it?! Fab! We love it so much we've decided to watch it as it happens, which we never do with anything else ha Plus the fella's rehearsal day's been changed so yay

 

[zoooo]

If bloody Cotton doesn't get his comeuppance by the end of this episode I'm going to absolutely EXPLODE.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

The amount of drama and tension wrung out of jargon heavy interview scenes in this is really impressive.

 

[Shirl]

That was good then

 

[zoooo]

Oh my christ, that was good.

I want to be Kate when I grow up. Comandeering a lorry and riding on the side of it with a massive gun? Yes please.

 

[Sue]

Well that was all a bit tense.

 

[quiet guy]

Brilliant series and a fantastic action packed ending.

 

[JimW]

Not too keen on the subtitles about what happened after at the end as seems off for a work of fiction. Plus I'd have been delighted with Kate's headshot if I was playing Quake.

 

[belboid]

Blimey.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

That took a slight tonal shift towards the end of the episode it's fair to say, but my goodness that was a great series. The way they forensically took down Dot was just masterful writing and acting, and Kate packing an automatic weapon, hanging off the side of a lorry, was pretty good too.

Roll on Series 4.

 

[Ms T]

It was great but the ending was a bit contrived. I was wondering what the armed police were doing outside the interview room - basically a plot device!

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I mean that was about, what, 75 minutes of people talking, sat at various tables?

 

[Sue]

I mean that was about, what, 75 minutes of people talking, sat at various tables?

Yep. And trying to work out how or if they were going to catch him out. Thought he was somehow going to get away with it, given he'd an answer for (practically) everything.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Series 4 was commissioned at the same time as series 3, so Mercurio had that freedom to do a bit of planning.

Dot isn't dead, is he? He's in the witness protection scheme that was offered to him.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

First 75 minutes - seriously good writing. Tense, exciting, riveting. As others have said it was essentially two interviews and the the pace and unfolding of the evidence was absolutely excellent.
Last 15 minutes - spectacularly daft.

I am hoping that now Dot has been exposed as 'the caddy' that series 4 will focus on the hunt for those he was working for and whose interests he protected?

Best series of the year so far, but I did note at the end that Peaky Blinders is replacing it in the 9.00 Thursday slot

 

[gosub]

I remember being at a seminar when State of Play was first airing, where the then BBC Head of Drama said she liked her department because it gave the creative license to paint pictures in broad strokes that made statements other departments couldn't, for fear of litigation.




Adrian Dunbar was spot on.

 

[trabuquera]

First 75 minutes - seriously good writing. Tense, exciting, riveting. As others have said it was essentially two interviews and the the pace and unfolding of the evidence was absolutely excellent. Last 15 minutes - spectacularly daft.

Agree 100% and I was hacked off that they chose to go this (completely and utterly implausible) route. Not to mention, apart from the testosterone-overload "let's all run around and shout a lot and point guns a lot" laziness, it didn't make any sense at all. Why would bent firearms copper risk it in a crowded police station? Why the shouty (and badly written) convo between Kate and Dot at the end? And why didn't she just try shooting him in the legs first? she's a trained firearms officer and it would have been the right thing to do tactically surely?

argh. it's eating away at me like a case of systemic corruption. It was SO GOOD in parts and then let down by these shenanigans.