By turns tense, enraging and a total tease, the finale of the anti-corruption police smash was ‘definately’ anticlimactic. Surely the door has closed on our AC-12 heroes for good?
Warning: this article contains spoilers from the Line of Duty series six finale. Do not read on if you haven’t watched
DCI Ian Buckells always had the air of a man who might struggle with spelling. And so it proved, as his inability to spell the word “definitely” acted as both evidence against him and a measure of the banality of his particular brand of evil. But his unmasking as The Fourth Man still felt oddly anticlimactic, leaving a sense, in Ted Hastings’ words, of having “lost a shilling and found a penny”. That’s not to say the finale of season six of Line of Duty was unsatisfactory – not a bit of it, fella. It was by turns heart-stoppingly tense, enraging, triumphant and oddly poignant. But with this show, there’s always a hint of more revelations lurking just outside the peripheral vision; the sense that nothing has quite been resolved.
