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Dave Wilson: So it was the boring Brummie all along. A man with zero personality and a bad haircut who sounds like Timothy Spall in Auf Wiedersehn pet. And we are supposed to think he was the brains behind it all. He hasn't got the brains to find his own arse hole with a piece of toilet paper. And he sounds like a Birmingham City fan as well which is not good What a shit ending.

david woodward: Osbourne isn't bent, he is a denialist.

Jeremy Wyatt: The more I think about the ending the more I think it was very well done. Clearly the inference is that there is corruption up the food chain (Osborne), but in keeping with a theme of the show, some are to powerful to be got to, and you can’t completely stop corruption. No series has ended in a perfect way, such is life, why should this series have the Hollywood ending. My only gripe is the killing of Ryan. Surely we should have seen it and it be more dramatic as he was a character from series 1. Also as he was involved in torturing Steve Arnott, might have made sense to have Arnott kill him in the end.

Jordan: but why did the ocg scare ian with killing that guy and says this is what happens to a rat. surely they woudnt scare the person who gives out the orders?

shaunacole1: I agree, something just didn't feel right. I don't think the guy who plays Buckells character was a good enough actor.

Sarah Mill: Osborne has to be the 4th man! Thanks for your reviews, very enjoyable ❤️

Victoria Gadd: Ending as you say was “underwhelming” - until then it was gripping. Good entertainment overall.

Bren Killoch: Still a better finish than the real one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG36jUN88mQ

Paul Craig: Forget it Benja, it's Chinatown.

Michael S: I think pausing filming due to the lockdown changed how the series ended. OWEN Teale is a big actor so reducing him to 2 near identical press conferences smacked of actors not being available for the resumption of filming. Had there not been a pandemic I reckon a showdown between Arnott and the Chief Constable would've happened. Also what happened to Arnott's hair? Brushed forward, swept to one side and then brushed forward again.

Ducati SupersportS: One of the most disappointing endings to a massively hyped up conclusion IMO.

Paul Rone-Clarke: But he isn’t necessarily top of the food chain is he? I mean he said he is. Talked about OCG splitting up and him facilitating. Having the double life. But he would have said that either way. What about the CC who we know is a lying toad after the first season? His role is never explained. Wassername, the new head of AC. What’s her game? There are character and plot threads all over the place left dangling. Bucklles might be the head honcho. But we only have is word for it. And his word isn’t worth Jack.

Desolateone: No need to break it down and waste time on a video. The last episode was a pile of gobshite... Buckells H, well, my 9 year old daughter could have wrote a better ending than that bag of bollox

C Sharpe: But he isn't the 4th man. He was made to watch someone being suffocated by the fourth man, so how can he be that person?

Eileen Alderman: Rubbish ending won’t be watching any more series if they come

rahmann: Buckells twice called AC12 mugs. In season 4 ep5 and then season 6 ep7 Who's the mugs now?

Matt Black: The whole point was that we never really get to the bottom of the true people behind corruption, Jed has mirrored the political situation where useful idiots get to positions of power so they can be used as sacrificial lambs and the real people behind it all rarely get found out. I would have liked some kind of big bad but I think that maybe too much to hope for. I’ll be interested to see if there is another season because I think as all the pictures of the antagonists from each season were put into the box and the lid was closed I think that was symbolising that this was the end for this series, however Jed maybe persuaded to do another one as the ratings were so good so we shall have to wait and see

marcusnz chab: They left this open for a movie or something would like to see Hastings get own show solving crimes and murders he comes across in retirement think that be a good show to watch

RickHT: I think people really want Steve Arnott involved in bringing down Philip Osborne. There’s plenty of scope for Steve, Kate & a newly retired Ted to battle Osborne, Carmichael and the establishment’s attempts to leave the police service without any effective mechanisms for scrutiny and accountability. The disappointment here is that the ending feels like the end of act 2. With a shamelessly hardline & overtly political leadership team dismantling AC12 and the future looking so bleak, it all feels a bit Empire Strikes Back. There needs to be a 3rd Act. There’s so much potential here for more high drama, and plenty of cameos from significant faces from previous seasons. There’s also the OCG response to losing Buckles, especially in who&how they approach/recruit/activate others to do their bidding making use of the dirt they have accumulated on key figures throughout the police service. There’s plenty of potential material for three more series. If the Beeb can’t afford to do it, I’m sure Netflix/HBO or others would step in.

alameli: This season was a bit more calm than all others for me, and I didn't expect much from the finale, but I got emotional mostly because of Ted, and Steve, and Kate, and the feeling that this was the end of the series (just a feeling, but...). I love them so much. I am so proud of Ted. Buckles was the best option out of what's left. I am glad he is not some epic villain, but... just Buckles, you know. Thanks for reviews, I came to watch them after each episode!

Norman Duncan: is the BBC making the comment 'that the police are a corrupt institution that will never be brought to account?' Parallel with finale episode of series.

Steve Forest: Did they run out of money before the final episode? It just petered out to a damp squib.

Tam H: Thanks Benja, excellent analysis and agree with everything you say. I feel this episode was a missed opportunity, and whilst I felt it wrapped up a lot of loose ends very well, I still felt somewhat shortchanged. I think more could have been made of the attempted abduction of Jo from jail and could have provided a real set piece for the season finale. I really enjoyed Buckles’ interview and thought the acting from him was excellent, even though he didn’t say much the looks flying around that room were deadly! So the door has been left open for a season 7 which I strongly suspect will get the green light; Buckles as H just doesn’t add up. We want to see who’s really pulling the strings!

Sara M: Love these!!! Thanks for your hard work

Kat Smith: I was a fan of the show until the finale. Did they run out of money? they don't develop some of these characters (lack of screen time) then expect you to know who they are when they are revealed to be the bad guys. One minute Ryan is 10 then the next he's grown and on the police force. Why was Bushnell (???) so scared his hands were shaking when he was in his cell if he was the top guy? This show must not be returning or why else disappoint their fans

Gibz: Just imagine if the OCG broke Buckles out of prison and the last episode had a hot pursuit with blazing bullets and a huge car chase, and they had to cut him off. It would have been such an ending, instead of him eventually just been pulled out and interviewed and then put back in prison. It seems that some people are annoyed that it was Buckles, but it would have made it so much better if he put up a bigger fight or someone else was pulling the strings. It felt so sad when they were pulling all of the pictures of the wall and it ended with the very first bent copper. It just didn’t feel like the close was that “big” and “magnificent”. They needed more “boom” and “gasp”.

Kot Kotlecik: So this means Kate wasn't suspicious after all, she just suddenly started acting stupid. I have no idea why she and Jo ran away after killing Ryan. Why Kate was so trusting? That was so ridiculous. If she was romantically interested in Jo, this still doesn't make sense, bc she liked Dot too and ended up chasing him with a gun across the city. I'm more disappointed by Kate this season than by Buckles.

stevemn meep: Where has Jed the writer gone we need him back who ever wrote this poor series need shooting ! Lol..Kate was a complete different character and Buckles as H .. what a let down , I have seen Jeds written a murder mystery on a submarine, maybe he was to busy doing that 🤔..very disappointed in this finale 😞 let's hope its dead an buried now

chris hughes: Spot on. Some people are just getting way too worked up about this. I completely agree with you. Buckles as H no problem but there should have been one final twist that Osbourne or someone higher up was in on it.

Carmen GB: So who ordered the lawyer to be strangled in front of Buckles in the prison cell then as a warning what happens to rats?

James Kavanagh: Sorry to have to say episodes 1 thru 6 were superb. Episode 7 turned out to be a long, watery and soggy fart by comparison, what a disappointment.

Jane Prior: Disappointed......feel this last episode had an air of, how do we close this, all the way through,in fact this was the feeling of the whole series for me.

Pete Stanford: Ian Buckells IS NOT “H”. In E7, Ted says (during the interview of Buckells) “These relationships (between OCGs and corrupt police officers) were orchestrated by one officer in particular, once wrongly codenamed ‘H’ now referred to as ‘the fourth man’. Ian Buckells, are you ‘the fourth man’?”

Ben Corbett: Agreed, I'd give it 7 too

Greg May: Do you think they will do an Endeavour Morse? We all love Ted and already have some of his back story in Ireland - a story of love tragedy and regret. We already know a few of the characters.What's not to like?

Barrie Strong: Very weak ending from a series that ticked all the wokeism boxes.

Eveline Winskill: Overhyped and underwhelming load of tosh

sparsh turkane: IMHO It was a disappointing ending.

Ray Fraser: Was a fucking Breakdown !!

Cazzie Rice: Hey Benja, I hope you are well. I just wanted to say a massive 'thank you' for your brilliant reviews and breakdowns over the last 7 weeks. I have really enjoyed them. Take care and maybe see you for series 7...? all the best :)

Idiot Incogneto: Was hoping for an impactful ending, left feeling they just couldn't be bothered.

Eleanor H: I totally agree. The reveal of Buckells worked for me, but the execution of the last 2 episodes didn't. It could have been so much more satisfying to have a slower realisation that the guy they've been looking for over the years is just another puppet of the OCG, motivated only by greed and laziness. The idea that you don't have to be clever to cause real damage is good (and true). Instead the reveal was kind of spat out in a rushed way, and there was no real tension in the episode. I was bored.

Allan Taylor: If that was the last ever season, then it was a crap ending. If there is another season, then it’s still left you on a knife edge.

Simon Leib: Real let down, after everything we have been through. No way is Buckles the Kaiser Souse of LoD.

Pete Stanford: 1. The bent prison guards were in the van when it was stopped and we discovered that Steve and Kate had been swapped-in. How did they get the prison guards to “behave” and to not scupper the operation? 2. Why would Hastings tell Lee Banks that there was a UCO in the OCG? 3. I’m disappointed that Chloe wasn’t shown to be Tony Banks’ daughter. Perhaps that comes out in S7? 4. Why wouldn’t the Police not want to investigate corruption?

Pete Stanford: 1. Both of the bent prison guards were still in the van when it was stopped and we found out that Kate and Steve had been swapped-in en route. How did they get the bent prison guards to “behave”? 2. Why would Hastings tell Lee Banks that there was a UCO in the OCG? 3. Why wouldn’t the Police want to investigate corruption?

penny fulton: Ohhhwah ! I missed that : '' Buck (ells) ''. As in : 'The Buck... stops here ' ! Entire series 6 was rubbish by comparison to the others and the ending was ludicrously illogical complete with childish ' explanations ' ....such as ' we didn't have anything Buckells had written ! .....( the mainstay of modern 'policing' is EVERYONE writing up EVERYTHING ! ) /.... on file ! .....AND... '' ...before THESE signed files ,( magically ) appeared today ' ! Obviously , Institutions ARE DESIGNED as incubators of corruption ! .....The absurdity of ' looking around for 'the who', is pure political brainwashing reinforcement .

Rich: Hugely anti-climatic. Buckles wasn’t some mastermind but rather just some middle-man, passing-on messages and profiting from the opportunities that afforded him.

RC 83: Buckells is a diluted Dot Cottan, which when he is being unveiled as another “caddy” three seasons later is a major disappointment. Given the build up I think it would have made sense for Osborne or Wise to have been the fourth man/woman, because ultimately it’s a drama and as a viewer you want that payoff and it would feel like a more satisfactory ending point to go higher up the chain. Buckells made sense, he’d been around since season one and was constantly being promoted/assigned to the various investigations as an opponent of AC-12, but that doesn’t stop it from being a fairly underwhelming reveal.

Connor Ohoare: There’s a very odd look buckles does at one bit of evidence almost like “ I didn’t do that “ or “ that wasn’t me “ kinda look during the interview

Former Wingchun guy: This was a giant FAIL - the writer just could not get it together absolute damp squib ....... a shame

Private jen: Jed has left the door open for a season 7. He just wants to toy with the viewers some more. This last episode was to frustrate us and he succeeded. We've become mini detectives and suspicious of nearly all the characters in this show to drive us to distraction. It is twisted and has shaken us to our very foundation. They characters know bits of things, we know bits of things. There are so many bits. Just like life, but we just don't have the bandwidth nor the evidence which takes a long time to collect to move forward with any certainty. So, season 7, we will see sometime in 2022. After bringing down our blood pressure to near normal, we'll be ready for the next adventure. Thank you very much!

BlueMoon: Great review, thank you. I agree, the ending was a bit underwhelming. I love your accent but can't quite place it - where are you from? Scandinavia?

SJKPJR007: A seventh series may give us a more fulfilling conclusion to the 'Line of Duty saga. However, for me personally, it would only further consign this sixth series to that of anticlimactic filler.

D Hawk: Yeah I didnt rate this episode. Nor the season as a whole. Hope there's another season! Im sure there will be...

Glenn Davie: Anti corruption? more like anti climax !!!

Paul McGrath: I was underwhelmed by the final episode, I absolutely love the show. But I’ve thinking about it and I can’t think of any other way they could have ended it that would have been much better. It would have been absolutely ridiculous if any of the three protagonists had been corrupt. I think the episode will be better on second viewing. They could have at least done with a bit more action for the last episode, the episode with the ambush on the prison van ambush was my favourite of series 6.

olaraay: did u have a picture of buckles when you 1st uploaded this video?

gemma boylan: It was a very underwhelming ending because there were no dramatic reveals or explosive moments. I think they should have made Buckells into a smart character who was playing dumb because he just wasn't good enough of a villain as he was. I don't think there will be a series 7 as everything felt very final at the end. I loved the part when Ted went back into the office to disclose his involvement to Carmichael, it was as if he was reminding her to act with integrity and hold those that have let the institutionalised racism continue for years. Osbourne was definitely dodgey, whilst he may not have been actively bent he was complicit in letting corruption continue with his officers. Thank you for all your videos Benja, I've really enjoyed them each week!

Dan M: I like the similarities between Buckles and Boris Johnson. Jed Mecurio is really on the mark with the buffoon who doesn’t care who died to feed his greed. Who also failed upwards to a senior position

Dan M: Think I’m one of the only people that didn’t mind the episode tbh. I do agree it should have been a longer episode and better executed.

Ryan Hartigan: Ok so Davidson framed buckles initially. She had no problem naming him and framing then, but when it came to getting witness protection she didn’t confirm then too.... in her interview instead of denying she just said no comment and her facial expressions looked like someone who knew who H was but was too scared to say. If she knew he was H she wouldn't have set him up beforehand, unless this was the plan all along. Therefore, he can’t be the real H. As we saw he witnessed the death of that Inmate. The guy said “this is what happens to rats”. So maybe he is heavily involved but took the hit of being “H” even though the final “H” is still in power. This was because he didn’t want to be killed. Also because he thought he would be ok because he thought he could get witness protection or dropped of all charges. Lastly, if it was that simple to cross reference the definitely miss-spelling then why wasn’t this done sooner to identify Buckles....

Teresa Wylde: It was an anti..climax....in other words a load of shite.....was waitin for summat to happen....n it didnt...😡😡

Nicholas Massey: Fair play, this LOD series was shite! No amount of final episode polish would sort this turd...

Stephen Murray: All the theories online about possible twists were so much better than the reality. Alot of unanswered questions like who produced the order for Davidson's transfer and forged Kate's signature?

Andy Mac: It was OK at best, I would agree with the 7/10. Eps. 4 and 5 were utterly brilliant; the ending not so much. Using a jail break again felt a bit 'already done', it didn't feel credible either - given how it was set up. Steve's painkiller addiction went nowhere, was a bit pointless. Kate never showed up for the whole season for me. Buckles was on a par with the Caddy, there should have been a big boss yes, making sense of why AC-12 is under the hammer.

Andy Mac: Who signed off on Jo's order for the interview and prison break? Buckles was inside; someone in office signed it Kate Flemming.

lmrmurphy: .

lmrmurphy: It would be great for season 7 if Carmichael takes the baton or carries the fire as Ted says, she runs the unit, Kate and Steve work together and they consult with Ted who has retired.

Andy Mac: Fully agree Benja, 'underwhelming'; a better ending for me would have been to round them all up, Osborne, Carmichael and Wise, in a bang, bang, bang finale, taking all of them down, especially as we were all in two minds about whether Carmichael and Wise are bent. There was a lot of wasted screen time. Minor grumble for me was that Jo got off; she'd been doing the bidding for the OCG for years and did some pretty awful things this season alone.

Robert Rae: Disappointed. Hope this is not the end. Reminded me of the ending of GoT. Not good enough. But the music at the end is still the best.

Kate: The ending of season 6 is crap-answers nothing.

spanish peaches: I agree with the clever part of Ted confessing to Pat Carmichael.

Gareth H: Carmichael being bent would have been the best finale.

Brokkenpiloot: 10 years searching for 'H'... only to find out there is no H after all, but just Buckells being the last man standing from Tommy Hunters reign... I understand that may have upset a lot of people. After all, they did promote this episode as if it were going to be an 'urgent exit required' kind of ending. So sure, that was disappointing. But what would we have rather seen? Quote unquote 'finding out' that Osborne was the top man, AC-12 arresting him, Hastings staying at AC-12 and everyone living happily ever after? What next? 10 more years of the same old story? This ‘H’ storyline needed to come to a close. I think this was a good way of doing so. Mercurio wanted to show us that anti-corruption is fighting a losing battle. As long as there is money and power to be gained, there will always be corruption. So true. The real-life political comparisons made this show as stunning as it was, thus ending it with this somber but confronting episode seemed fitting to me.

Leanne Rice: Totally satisfied.

Rob B: I wonder if Jed Mercurio is joking with us by making Buckells an Aston Villa fan. The club's nickname is the "Villans" and so Buckells is a "Villan".

K K: Even more disappointing than the time I humped that jar full of warm mince meat.

Sarah G: So i know line of duty is more of a plot driven TV show than a character driven TV show but like. I feel like they did kate's character really dirty. We get a lot of development for Ted / Steve (even though it might be centered around one thing in particular: the money / the drugs) My girl Kate got nothing. She's not been in anyway changed by this season. She came back to ac12, still friends with steve, still the loyal perfect cop for us viewers and as a character got nothing . They did not explore her struggles about her "friendship" with Jo which only needed a couple of lines.. I'm very tired that she has been the same emotionless incapable of change, perfect protagonist since 10 years. (Mist development we got for her was season 3 finale that's it)

Katie Smith: Wow the ending overall was rather...underwhelming to say the least. I honestly get that Ian Buckells turning out to be the 4th man was a little bit disappointing but I feel like it could've worked had it been executed better. The whole of series 6 has been my least favourite so far. It left so many unanswered questions and had so many aspects just didn't make sense. How on earth was Chloe, a young DC, able to uncover more evidence for the case in the span of several weeks than Kate and Steve put together in the past ten years, the relationship between Steve and Steph is just confusing, the Occupational Health thing felt pointless it was just some bloke talking about how Steve needs to hand in his blue card for now but it added nothing else to the plot I mean in would've been better if he didn't attend the appointment and faced disaplinary action after the whole heist thing. Throughout the 6th series, I didn't think Jed was queer-baiting when it came to the relationship between Kate and Jo, the clearly both had feelings and showed reciprocated affection towards eachother but kept it professional because of trust issues, the power dynamic and because they're working on an important case. It's the fact that after everything Kate and Jo went through on the show, they didn't even say goodbye to eachother at the end which is shit because why would you show all this build up for something that isn't gonna happen. I'm glad Jo is alive and can start and new life but the fact she ends up with Carly Kirk is just a fucking smack in the face. I mean come on, Carly hasn't been mentioned since series 2 so why has she just popped up out of nowhere and started dating Jo? It doesn't make any sense. I would've preferred it if Jo went to the safe house and secretly kept in contact with Kate, literally the only person in the show that has truly cared about her. Lastly, throughout the whole of series 6 I was expecting some more character development from Kate and Steve but there was nothing of the sort except for the fact that they both finally admit that they're lucky the have eachother and care for eachother a lot as good friends should. At the end of the day, this disatisfying ending may have given a more realistic take on police corruption but it just felt like 10 years worth of work down the drain and begs the question if Osborne was right to merge the units together considering that although AC-12 are an anti-corruption team that police the police, most of the people working there are corrupt too including the characters we were rooting for. Overall, I'd rate the final episode a 5/10 there were some aspects I liked such as the scene where they were taking down the photos from the boards all in order from John Corbett all the way back to the man who started all this off, Tony Gates, it gave the impression the case came to a full circle. I also liked the fact that Ted told Carmichael about his own wrongdoings which maybe he could've done to inspire her to carry on with the investigation and take Osborne down but who knows, Jed Mercurio is uncertain about there being a 7th series. I can forgive him to an extent for how crammed and rushed this episode felt as it was originally supposed to be 90 minutes long but the BBC never green lit it. But I won't forgive him for the queer-baiting. The episode still has a lot of loose ends untied and there are more plot holes in this series than a block of Swiss cheese which I hope can be explored more in another series.

bighand69: Ian Buckles was not Keyser Söze not even close to it. It was nothing more than an excuse for a terrible finish to a show. Certain people will go to any length to justify that trash.

Pete Bramley: Another dissapointing ending to a BBC , " Super Series " .

kulwant randhawa: #JedMaestro My favourite moment from Line of Duty is from the very first season. The interrogation scenes that we all love to watch - the way they are shot, was all the idea of the actor Lennie James who played Tony Gates - the first officer to be investigated. The director was unsure how to film the interview scene with it's pages and pages of dialogue. Lennie suggested they do it straight in long takes so it is actually performed as you would on a theatre stage. In this way the tension and energy of the scene is maintained and requires every actor to know their lines and bring their 'A' game. The needling and pressure is all there. There is no slacking in any of the interview scenes from season 1 to season 6 - that's what makes them fascinating to watch and is, I feel, one of the key reasons as to the popularity of Line of Duty. Thanks Benja for all your insightful comments about each episode.

Lewis Adams: I think it would have been great to reveal (a better) H right at the end or hint! We pan to someone at a laptop typing something about being free to carry on etc & it ends with cuts to different people at their laptops, teasing us as to more bent coppers etc

Daniel Darcy: Writers of TV Series have a choice. Link all series and episodes together as the search for an arch villain(s) or have self contained stories in each series or episode. The danger of the first option is you can never reveal or the series ends. This means cliff hanger tedium for the viewer if you are not careful. LoD didn't need to be like this. Self contained stories in each series or episode would have been just as exciting and the anti corruption theme lends itself to it. VERY disappointed with the conclusion I have to say.

Dwayne Deveaux: what a wet cloth

Jeff Ellis: we still don't think that bloke in Spain is dead

Dwayne Deveaux: What an appalling anticlimax to what was a great series. A great disappointment

secret squirrel: Even the actor that play a Buckles didn't know he was "H" until 3 episodes before!

secret squirrel: That bit where Kate and Steve was in the prison van and they finally caught those bitch prison guards and the guys in the black range rovers was awesome. I was so convinced they had lost them in the underpass and Jo would get killed.

kabardinka1: I appreciate your thoughtful critiques of the series and that it isn't a 'fanboy' channel. It's a great series but some of the plotting and writing falls short. Buckells makes no sense. He wasn't in positions to make a big impact in cases and, being a kind of "temporarily" DCI would have made him all the most suspicious to those investigating the cases. Moreover, someone was clearly placing him in those positions in spite of his blatant incompetence. Perhaps finding that person is the plot for season 7?

Graham Warner: I still think that there is another series left open, involving going after airborne, probably. After all , Monty Python cannot be wrong; “‘Why didn’t you go to the police?’ “Well, I noticed that the lad with the thermonuclear device was the Chief Constable for the area.’” https://youtu.be/mJSxAgPmy2Y

SerMattzio: Here's my theory: the show isn't over. There's at least one more season to come. Why? Well, although Buckalls is smarter than he lets on, he's still not clever like Dot was. He's clearly not the brains of the operation, which is why this ending felt weird. I think actually he is being coached to admit to the crimes in order to cover up the real boss. Note how his demeanour changes completely after Lakewell is murdered in front of him. He goes from spineless, dumb and unprofessional to suddenly trying to get immunity and being smug, like he's learned something new about his situation. There are many things Buckalls said that make no sense. Firstly, if the OCG fractured after Tommy died, why are they still operating exactly the same? He claims they are now smaller groups, but they keep acting as one when they attack the police and are just as organised as ever. They also don't fight each other and they seem to control most of the crime in the city still. Secondly, if he was "H" and ordered Lakewell's death, why the hell would he do it in his own prison cell? And why would he be scared? And why would Banks threaten him? None of this makes sense at all. The only thing that makes sense there is that the real big bad guy (probably Osbourne) ordered Lakewell's death and wanted to send a message to Buckalls. Also, Osbourne himself...you're telling me we see him all season, we know he's dodgy, and yet he is never again confronted by Steve? Steve also never managed to catch him lying about the Ali operation on tape. This is a huge deal and it makes zero sense that we don't see him revisited. Finally, why say at the end that "AC-12 remains weaker than ever"? This is very, very strange note to forever end the series on. I think it's simply a hook for a sequel series again, much like Ted's current fate being uncertain.

George Carley: Personally feel like they were trying a bit too hard for there to be a twist - think that sometimes it is good to provide the satisfaction of the bad guy being who the viewer thought it was (especially when there are so many other twists in past seasons). Personally think a really good ending would have been the silhouette of a figure typing into a laptop in a dark room, slowly the camera approaches the screen as said individual is typing and then just as they finish their message it reads "Buckles has been found, time to do ..........." whatever Jed wanted to say and would have perfectly built for the next season as we know there's someone else out there but still don't definitively know who. Allowing for some suspense in the next season

Graham Warner: Has anyone else been watching the reruns of Between the Lines, the 30 year old catch-bent-coppers drama? The first two episodes have something in common with the opening of LoD’s first series. Incorruptible but sexually promiscuous detective Tony is involved in dodgy police shooting on council estate, and becomes a bent-cop-hunter. But late on the first story, an AC 12 like unit raids Tony’s police station. The actor who stops and questions Tony was played by the one who became Buckells.

Sheysta Paul: All this sympathy for Corbett is a bit gaulling and hard to understand. He was at the time the leader of a gang which murdered, imprisoned girls as sex slaves and robbed, putting guns and drugs back on the streets - so why all this sympathy for him ? Peoples moral compasses need realigning

Sheysta Paul: The storeyline about Ted exposing that there was a 'rat' in the OCG is a bit confusing, after all they were at the time actively looking for Corbett in connection with a number of murders, and crimes, since he was the leader of that particular gang, so telling the OCG there was a rat, seemed the best way to bring him out in the open, I don't see what crime Ted committed in this matter ?

Peter Jones: Still think H is the Wee Donkey.

Sheysta Paul: At least by making Buckells the fall guy at the end of this series, leaves the door open for future series