Line of Duty finale: five theories on how series six will end

Is Ted really a bent copper? Is brilliantly awful DCS Patricia Carmichael up to her polo neck in it? Is Marcus Thurwell actually dead?

As Line of Duty draws to a close on Sunday, the big questions are: who really is H? How might it all end? And who is most definately (remember that one?) going down?

Supt Ted Hastings is H, or ‘the fourth man’
It would be a shock for viewers if the man who has spent six series proudly railing against bent coppers turns out to be a bent copper, but there’s no denying the gaffer’s behaviour is looking more and more suspicious. There’s the money given to DS John Corbett’s widow, Steph, the meeting last series with Carl Banks’s brother, Lee, in prison, who claims Hastings told him there was a rat in the organised crime group, and then there is Hastings’ inability or refusal to spell a certain word favoured by the digital OCG puppet master who has been pulling Jo Davidson’s strings. Is Hastings bent? Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey, he may just be.

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