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Line of Duty recap: series five, episode five – mother of God what a bad day

There’s trouble in AC-12 towers – but who is the real H? Let’s hope the finale gives us the answers we ‘definately’ crave

Spoiler alert: this blog is for people watching series five of Line of Duty (it also contains spoilers from earlier series). Don’t read on unless you have watched episode five.

Oh dear, Ted in trouble is something I never wish to see, but in trouble he most certainly is. Everything came crashing down on Superintendent Hastings here: the shifty looks, the unexplained visits, the brown envelope filled with £50 notes. But is he actually guilty, or is he being set up as he claims? I err towards the latter, though Adrian Dunbar’s performance has contained enough ambiguity to suggest the former could be true. Here’s hoping next week’s 90-minute finale will provide at least some of the answers we crave.

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