![]() The opening action sets the throbbing pace and it doesn’t let up as the initial episodes unfurl. ![]() Without Fleming - and until Davidson’s questionable operation, without an interesting dodgy-cop case to dig into - AC-12 is a shell of an office, filled with silence, minor complaints and nervy new junior staff. And at least seemingly, she’s left her ex-workmates very firmly behind. She quickly finds her loyalties tested as her new unit, and boss, find themselves under investigation by her old colleagues. Kate Fleming ( Vicky McClure) was in the charging convoy, having left the anti-corruption unit for a new job in Hillside Lane police station, working for Davidson in the murder squad. ![]() It’s all change and has been clearly for some time. But who does he know, and who knows who he is? And more to the point: why on earth does Davidson (a wonderfully tense and tart Macdonald) appear quite so unbelievably, well, bent? As this is Line Of Duty, we have to assume that absolutely nothing is as it seems, and that absolutely everything will be tipped on its head fairly shortly.Įven without this, it was already shaping up to be no simple AC-12 investigation. To add suspicion to increasingly dodgy behaviour, there’s a familiar face in Davidson’s team: a criminal we recognise from prior seasons who’s now firmly embedded in the police force. As they divert to tackle “an immediate risk to the public”, they incur a three-hour-plus delay which potentially allows the suspect to escape and a vulnerable man to be left to take the rap in his stead. A raid that’s delayed dramatically en route by murder-investigation boss DCI Joanne Davidson ( Kelly Macdonald), who coincidentally spots a seemingly unrelated armed robbery taking place. This series, it’s a charging convoy of black unmarked cop cars (quite literally sucking diesel), en route to raid a property thought to house a suspect in the murder of journalist Gail Vella (Andi Osho). ![]() As has now become Line Of Duty tradition, episode one of the new season opens with a high-octane, nerve-shredding, pulse-pounding police-work set-piece. ![]()
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