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By Michael Hogan
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So rotten Ryan and Jimmy Nesbitt-in-a-Just-For-Men-advert have joined Line Of Duty’s ever-growing list of casualties – killed in a moonlit lorry park and a labyrinthine Spanish villa respectively.
Acting DSU Joanne Davidson is languishing in a cell at HMP Brentiss, with scowling warders waiting for the security cameras to mysteriously malfunction so they can duff her up (or worse).
Meanwhile, anti-corruption unit AC-12 is falling apart at the lanyard-clad seams. Supt Ted Hastings is going all wibbly in the glass lift. DI Steve Arnott looks increasingly like a confused teddy bear in a waistcoat. DI Kate Fleming’s cheekbones are getting sharper by the minute with the stress of it all. Frankly, 15m frazzled viewers feel her pain.
Sunday, 18th April 2021 at 10:00 pm
Hopefully you remember everything that happened in every previous season of Line of Duty – because you
really needed to have a good memory to keep up with this episode. In particular, the events of season four are suddenly relevant again; plus, Ted Hastings’ money shenanigans in season five may come back to haunt him, and characters from season one are back in the picture.
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But in the immediate aftermath of that cliffhanger ending, Line of Duty fans will be thinking of one thing and one thing only: DI Kate Fleming. So let’s get into it!
Kelly Macdonald leads MIT as DCI Joanne Davidson
Credit: Steffan Hill
Where do we even begin? Deep breath…
The results of the DNA test are in….
As widely predicted, the DNA results have shown that DCI Joanne Davidson (Kelly Macdonald) is a blood relative of the late Tommy Hunter, the OCG kingpin turned police informant and fellow Glaswegian. And, as Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) handily informed us, her “runs of homozygosity” make the findings very interesting, very interesting indeed.
What do you mean – “what are runs of homozygosity”?
In a nutshell: Davidson and Hunter are not just related, but are very closely related. Father? Brother? In any case, Davidson was well placed on Operation Lighthouse to throw the scent off whatever the murdered journalist Gail Vella was investigating. Which was very handy for Hunter. No, not