Hastings, Arnott and Fleming return to expose police corruption, with Kelly Macdonald in tow. If it avoids narrative knottiness, this could be the best series yet
They’ve got information from a Chis handler possibly relevant to Vella! Intel’s graded the info 1A on the matrix and it’s the first lead they’ve had on Operation Lighthouse for months! NOW we’re sucking diesel!
If the above makes little to no sense, you’ve either not watched the first five seasons of Line of Duty (BBC One) or … you have. The impenetrability is the point. The accuracy and detail by which the police procedural, Jed Mercurio’s third-finest work (the first two, informed by his years as a hospital doctor, are Cardiac Arrest and Bodies – I will brook no riposte), is characterised has become legendary. Jargon, shorthand and acronyms abound, and the viewer must either keep a glossary to hand or just go along for the ride, enjoying the breeze in their hair as the abbreviations whip past even faster than the plot. PNC! HCP! MIT! HGP! (Unless that’s HCP again and I just misheard.)
