Tasked with taking down Hastings, Biggeloe was lucky enough to be able to exploit an event from Ted’s past. True. Then she had a second, more successful attempt at seducing him (he’d already turned her down once before), and in his hotel bathroom, took hairs from his comb that were later planted on John Corbett’s corpse, to make it seem as though Ted was involved in his murder. At the last minute, Arnott and Fleming retrieved the secret recording from Corbett’s wife Stephanie, and used it to exonerate Hastings. Line of Duty - Series 5 [DVD] amazon.co.uk. You will not be disappointed - believe me. Here’s what caught our eye in the Line Of Duty series 5 trailer…. SHOP NOW. Whether it was planned from the start or simply a joyfully seized-upon accident, the corrupt and now dead ACC Hilton, DCS Hargreaves and Ted Hastings all sharing the same initial* – the same initial as the corrupt officer rumoured to be leading the Balaclava Men – is going to cause trouble for our man. Movies. Senior Legal Counsel Gill Biggeloe (like bent series four solicitor Jimmy Lakewell), was a former defence lawyer whose association with the OCG presumably started when she represented one of them in court years earlier. This Line of Duty review contains spoilers.. Marcus Thurwell, you old bastard. A retired officer in the pay of the OCG approached Hastings, pretending to give him the chance to recover his losses and lending him the seed money to do it. Like Job, our faith is about to be tested. You get, what, four mentions by name in series three? Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series 6 episode 5. It didn’t help matters that Hastings went rogue after John Corbett’s disappearance, and enacted an unauthorised undercover op of his own. Line of Duty Series 6 Cast: Who are the New Characters and Who's Coming Back? “I’ve got a plan. 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. Or, you know, has he just been putting it about and sleeping over at witnesses’ houses again, necessitating a quick submariner’s freshen-up in the work toilets before returning to his desk? Books. Storyline. Eammon Jacobs reviews the fourth episode of Line of Duty series 5… After the previous episode left viewers on a dangerous cliffhanger, we finally discover what … When his involvement was mooted at AC-12, his cousin PC Maneet Bindra (who’d previously passed on information to bent copper ACC Hilton in exchange for him pulling strings to help Vihaan not lose his job) covered it up. Spoiler alert: Don't read on if you haven't watched episode one of BBC2's Line of Duty.. First things first: I love Jed Mercurio, the writer of Line of Duty. Of course he isn’t. Louisa Mellor | Gregory Piper, Actor: Line of Duty. The most senior of those was once known by the codename ‘H’, as indicated in DI Cottan’s Dying Declaration, but after series five, ‘H’ is interpreted to mean that there were four corrupt senior police staff working with the OCG, only three of which have been uncovered so far. You’d do well to remember that. Mercurio has wisely steered his show's storyline back to the thread that burned brightest in its strongest series - number three - and the results are riveting. She has written about TV, film and books for Den of Geek since 2010, and for…, Line Of Duty series 6: Release Date, Trailer, Cast, Extra Episode & More. @Louisa_Mellor, Louisa Mellor is the Den of Geek UK TV Editor. Line of Duty Series 6 Episode 4 Review: Mother of God! Flip. Line Of Duty series 5 is coming soon to BBC One. Line of Duty series 6 starts on Sunday the 21st of March at 9pm on BBC One. Corbett also told Steve how the OCG communicated with ‘H’, via a chat service on a laptop, which allowed AC-12 to intercept the communication and Hastings to pose as H to get info on the whereabouts of the stolen goods. She used the life savings Ted lost investing in a failed Irish property development years before to make him susceptible to a bribe. The OCG had used the gambling debts of administrator Vihaan Malhotra to bribe him into passing on information that led to the attack. Line of Duty Series 5 Recap: Framing Ted Hastings March 17, 2021 | By Louisa Mellor Line of Duty will return for series 6, but we don’t know exactly when. @Louisa_Mellor, Louisa Mellor is the Den of Geek UK TV Editor. Asked how long Line of Duty can go on for, Mercurio said at a press screening ahead of the fifth season: “I don’t know. After further questioning of Michael Farmer unearths crucial new information, AC-12 challenge the case against him. There are difficult times ahead for fans of Supt. The other £50k Ted gave to John Corbett’s widow, in an act that may have been morally just, but certainly wasn’t lawful. Jed Mercurio on Line Of Duty series 5: ‘Familiarity will be our undoing’, Line Of Duty: a salute to PC Maneet Bindra. Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series 6 episode 1 Line of Duty requires attentive viewing. AC-12 is back, to sniff out bent coppers, dish out Reg 15s and regard each other suspiciously through glazed internal office walls. – Den of Geek. Unbeknownst to Biggeloe though, Corbett had made an audio recording of their first meeting which would prove her downfall. The investigation also takes AC-12 to the riverside, which may be the same site as two murders we know to have been committed by the Balaclava Men in series past. Post author: Post published: April 12, 2021; Post category: Uncategorized; Post comments: 0 Comments; Email address and unique API key are both required. Maneet was the bright spark of series three, making proper coppering connections and making life difficult for bent insider DI Cottan. And while the show's fifth series has officially come to an end, there's no word on an actual release date for season six just yet. All the way through, evidence was mounting to viewers that Ted could well have been ‘H’. Steve Arnott then tried to approach the OCG, and Corbett – recognising him as straight-up – started to pass him information on the gang’s activities and attempted to convince him that Hastings was H. Corbett set up OCG member Lee Banks by getting him to deliver bribe money to PS Cafferty while Steve was waiting to raid her home. This Line of Duty review contains spoilers. They would frame Ted Hastings as ‘H’, get him sent down, and have the team disbanded. It’s something big,” Stephen Graham’s character John Corbett tells a gang colleague in the trailer. A witness a la series two? This police cordon investigating a Kingsgate printing business and launderette suggests that AC-12 could be following the money to track the gang once again. Line Of Duty Season 5 Recap: Here's The Final Episode Explained ... Line Of Duty’s fifth series is available to watch again on BBC iPlayer. Line Of Duty series 5: what did we spot in the trailer. The series follows Superintendent Ted Hastings, DS Steve Arnott and DS Kate Fleming as they investigate the corrupt actions of DCI Roseanne Huntley. They came for Ted Hastings in Line of Duty series five, and though he survived, things won’t ever be the same again. Gill was arrested, took immunity and went into witness protection. If you thought the cliffhanger from last week's episode of Line Of Duty was tense, then you'd better sit down, fella.. Marcus Thurwell, you old bastard. ! Evidence? This is the first Line Of Duty series to air post-Bodyguard, the Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes-starring political thriller that had us all rocking in our seats whispering the words ‘kompromat’ and ‘briefcase’ to ourselves between episodes last summer. – Den of Geek. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Meet the Balaclava men! Now she’s back in uniform, is Maneet on the side of the angels? Here’s what caught our eye in the trailer…. According to official BBC iPlayer figures, it was bigger than the Beatles, Jesus and sliced bread put together, in a sandwich. Weapons? Something contained in these boxes that they all seem pretty pleased about? The corrupt officer who ordered a baseball bat and a short dive down a long flight of stairs for his protegee Steve? Line of Duty Series 5 Recap: Framing Ted Hastings March 17, 2021 | By Louisa Mellor John was adopted by relatives in Liverpool, took their name ‘Corbett’ and grew up to be an officer for Central Police. It’s been cut to show a simmering conflict between Ted and his colleagues Kate and Steve. We see not one, but two guns pulled on Arnott in the one-minute-long trailer, both looking as though they’re in the hands of Stephen Graham’s character John. Post author: Post published: March 22, 2021; Post category: Uncategorized; Post comments: 0 Comments; Email address and unique API key are both required. Seeing as series four’s attack cast doubt as to whether he’d even walk again before he made a swift recovery, could series five see Steve hiding the continuing effects of his injuries from his colleagues? In series four, when the OCG tried to frame vulnerable young Michael Farmer for the murderer of two women they’d killed for the purpose of blackmailing police officers by threatening to plant their DNA on the corpses, AC-12 – with unexpected help from the subject of their investigation DCI Roz Huntley – got to the bottom of it. AC-12 thus got Banks, who was taken to Blackthorn Prison, and learned that Cafferty had been blackmailed by DI Cottan into working for the OCG years earlier. We all love making the show. Remembering that Steve is something of a punching bag for this show (he’s been kidnapped, had his fingers in a vice and almost amputated, tossed down a set of stairs…), his life doesn’t look as though it’s getting any easier. Louisa Mellor | Ted Hastings is true blue. TV. You Might Also Like. Luckily for him, Arnott and Fleming traced a phone used by an OCG member to Ted’s location, raided the gang and recovered the goods. In series one, property developer Jackie Laverty (Gina McKee) was discovered to have been laundering money for the organised crime syndicate using a series of small businesses owned by her holdings company – hair salons, market units and so on. Does this mean that the new series will be its last? In a twist to the usual proceedings, guest star Graham isn’t playing a police officer under investigation, but a character described as a key figure in the organised crime syndicate. £12.99. After Ted’s rogue mission, he was arrested on suspicion of being ‘H’ and interrogated by AC-3, who came very close to being able to charge him for conspiracy to murder. It could be Claudia Jessie’s series four character DS Jodie Taylor, the officer who unwittingly aided DCI Roz Huntley to commit a criminal cover-up because of her unerring loyalty to her boss. Features. To sum up then – a high-stakes hijacking, familial AC-12 tensions, the return of old favourites, a killer of a guest star, and a brand new angle on a story we’ve been gripped by since 2012. Welcome to the Facebook home of Den Of Geek. (Hargreaves was being blackmailed by the OCG, who’d retained the condoms he’d used when abusing an underage victim of their sexual trafficking, and were threatening to use them to plant his DNA on a dead body. Steve’s beard! “There’s no secrets in AC-12,” says Hastings, but this trailer would beg to differ. The hope is that she was simply following orders and isn’t part of the web of corruption. Line of Duty follows Detective Seargent Steve Arnott (Martin Compston), an former authorized firearms officer who led an operation to catch an Islamic terrorist intending to detonate a bomb, but the strike team mistakenly entered the wrong apartment and shot dead an unarmed innocent man. The Balaclava Men, an organised crime syndicate, have been operating in the background of every Line Of Duty series so far. Hastings was served with a final written warning for misconduct. Lisa McQueen gave evidence and took an immunity deal, but continued to protect the identity of active OCG member Ryan Pilkington, now a student police officer. For almost a decade, Ted Hastings’ AC-12 has been a thorn in the side of Line of Duty’s organised crime group. To add insult to injury, they’d use Operation Pear Tree – an undercover op designed to discover whether or not there were institutional links between corrupt officers and organised crime – to do their dirty work. The investigation into Cafferty (who’d been blackmailed by the OCG into stopping the convoy to attend a diversionary car accident they’d set up) led them to stumble upon Operation Pear Tree, where they found that UCO John Corbett had lost contact with his handler and was on a one-man mission to uncover the identity of ‘H’ – who, thanks to Gill Biggeloe, he was convinced was Ted Hastings. – Den of Geek. They’ve dealt drugs, committed murders, robberies, kidnappings, cover-ups, defenestrations and baseball bat-based violence for years in and around the city where AC-12 operates. Jed Mercurio on Line Of Duty series 5: ‘Familiarity will be our undoing’. What was being transported? Line of Duty recap: series four, episode five – Roz Huntley, life-ruiner What a shocking and superb episode, which left Ted, Kate and Steve with the deck firmly stacked against them. Line of Duty Series 6 Episode 1 Review: Who Killed Gail Vella? Time will tell. Prepare for plenty of ‘is he or isn’t he?’ shots of Ted looking shady behind venetian blinds. “There’s a code name. In the words of Steve Arnott, i’m in. AC-12 set up surveillance on the depot, and, despite being distracted by a fake diversion by another bent officer, watched as DCS Lester Hargreaves arrived on scene, told the OCG about the trackers AC-12 had placed in the stolen goods, and was shot dead by John Corbett. At least one is missing. We’ve never even seen your face before today, and now you’re our chief suspect in the search for the Fourth Man. Warning: contains Line of Duty series 5 spoilers. Soon afterwards, Lisa McQueen learned from Banks that there was a rat in the OCG so she devised a plan to flush him out. She lied to him that Ted Hastings was the bent copper responsible for his mother’s death, and had tipped off the IRA that Anne-Marie was an informant in order to quash rumours about the two of them having an affair. Instead, John Corbett discovered her bug and, due to his hatred of bent coppers, had her killed. Led by Corbett and OCG member Lisa McQueen, the gang killed three police officers and injured one – PS Jane Cafferty. 1,828 talking about this. 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