![]() ![]() Yes, there was a clever bait-and-switch car chase and a shoot-out after Jo was abducted by the OCG but fans might be forgiven for having become a bit blasé about these. Some of this was achieved by having various murder weapons used over the years conveniently discovered in a strongbox, and some of it by way of a postscript: Terry Boyle and Farida Jatri at liberty again and Jo Davidson living under assumed identity in a pretty cottage with a pretty girlfriend and a pretty dog – like an advert for fabric conditioner. But it didn’t exactly make for gripping drama here, especially as there were an awful lot of loose ends needing to be tied up as the show sagged beneath the weight of its own mythology. This is a valid point, and certainly chimes with the excellent recent BBC Two documentary series about police corruption in the 1970s, Bent Coppers, which ended on a similarly downbeat, inconclusive note. ![]() Line of Duty ending explained: What happened in season 6 episode 7, as the Fourth Man is finally revealed “This has been driving me mad for years,” said Hastings at one point. ![]() But by turning the identity of ‘the fourth man’ into a national guessing game, Mercurio was arguably making a rod for his own back. The show’s creator is so successful now that he could probably pitch his weekly supermarket shop to BBC drama commissioners and have it greenlit. It’s not easy to feel sorry for Jed Mercurio. Step forward, er, Ian Buckells.Īfter all the wild fan theories, and as much as I’ve admired Nigel Boyle’s understated performance as the disgraced Hillside station chief, the revelation that Buckells was “the last man standing” turned what should have been a tyre-screeching climactic episode into something of a slow puncture. But the burning question of the series-six finale of Line of Duty was of course the identity of ‘the fourth man’, as ‘H’ has been rebranded. And so that was seemingly that: Ted Hastings forced into retirement and coming clean about the missing £50,000, Steve Arnott facing up to his painkiller addiction and reconciling with Kate Fleming, and AC-12 reconfigured under the aegis of DCS Carmichael. ![]()
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