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The big question for Line of Duty’s Ted Hastings: ‘Am I the bad guy now?’

Adrian Dunbar talks about the flaws of his character, who had always been a bastion of probity, as Jed Mercurio’s series returns to TV

When hit police drama Line of Duty returns to BBC One on Sunday evening, eager fans will have just one question on their minds: can Superintendent Ted Hastings, father figure to his police crew and deployer of excellent Ulster colloquialisms, really be H, the corrupt mastermind behind the evil deeds that fuel the show’s labyrinthine plot?

If he does turn out to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing, the loud noise you’ll hear across the land will be the breaking of thousands of hearts.

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