Glued

Another record-breaking audience for Line of Duty: more than half of us who'd got a tv switched on  (51.7%) were with BBC1 last night. The average audience was 11m, which beats the overnight figures for best episodes of Bodyguard and Downton Abbey.  According to Deadline, it was the most-watched television drama episode in the UK since Doctor Who’s Christmas Day special in 2008, which was watched by 11.7M viewers. 

Mr Mercurio has us in the palms of his hands. Clearly everyone wants the Chief Constable Philip Osborne and DCS Patricia Carmichael to be revealed as an evil paedophile partnership, before DCI Joanne Davidson is sliced up by the Evil Munchkins of the OCG in HMP Brentiss.  Unless, of course, Osborne is her adopted father. Can Jed really wrap this all up before Arnott is suspended as a druggie, and without damage to Hastings, for re-distributing OCG folding money to widows, in one hour ?

From the final episode cast list, we can see that Carmichael's previous side-kick, DI Michelle Brandyce makes an appearance, as does Hastings' lawyer, Joel Rossport; John Corbett's widow is there; and women's prison Munchkins Merchant and Leland;  there's a Medical Counsellor, to work on Addicted Arnott;  there's no credit for James Nesbitt, dead in Spain.