Line of Duty’s season six comes to a dramatic conclusion on Sunday as BBC viewers finally get to find out the identity of the elusive “H”, the fourth man or woman running the OCG. In last week’s cliffhanger, DCS Patricia Carmichael (Anna Maxwell) appeared to rule out superintendent Ian Buckells (Nigel Boyle) as having any involvement with organised crime but could she be instrumental in keeping the identity of “H” secret?
The seemingly mediocre cop was charged with perverting the course of justice in episode three.
DCI Jo Davidson (Kelly MacDonald) and Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) brought Buckells to AC-12 after gathering incriminating evidence against him.
Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) charged Buckells after he failed to provide a plausible explanation for his inaction over links between Operation Lighthouse and the OCG, his relationship with Deborah Devereux (Kerri McLean), the missing files found in his car and his commendation for Ryan Pilkington (Gregory Piper).
In last week’s instalment, Davidson confessed to framing her superior officer but one fan suspects Buckells may still be guilty.
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“Doesn’t Hastings need to look at the computer records of who wrote what, and who else sent that memo and if it’s handwritten he needs a graphologist?”
Agreeing with the conclusion, another fan said: “The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced Buckells is bent as a nine bob note and Jo has been engineering it to get him caught for a while.
“She successfully nudged Kate in the right direction earlier in the series and then said, ‘You’re ex AC-12, you tell me’ when Kate asked what she should do about the evidence she’d collected.”
“Jo has then told the truth about her role in his arrest in glass box 2.0 – manipulating the wrong surveillance authority, planting the files and then refusing to charge Terry Boyle which angered Buckells.”
