Line of Duty

I think she has blood poisoning, or will have pretty soon.

If the cleaning was so thorough, why was the splatter left on the worktop? .

I think the baddie is going to be the ACC Hilton. He has something on Roz. She told Ted off in no uncertain terms when he called her darlin' but just sat there when oily Hilton took hold of her hand. Odd.

I am so confused (and shocked)!! I think the blood poisoning will happen soon, she'll suddenly collapse. I hope staircase man survives.

He better not be dead, he's the main reason I watch it!

Three weals on her wrist look like deep scratches from fingernails during the struggle, then fingers were cut off because of skin etc under nails. That's my theory. Why hasn't she got blood poisoning?

Well he needn't necessarily know that she knows

Why would her husband make such a thing of asking her where she was and if she had been with somebody else if he knew where she was?

We ought to have a sweep stake. Prize is whoever wins will be treated with the utmost respect by all grannetters for 1 year.

Iam I think she had the laptop, yes.. She took the laptop because it held the image of her at the door, I think.

Im just wondering-how much blood would there have been? If Tim bled out, due to severing an artery, how would the blood have been distributed? In spurts? In a puddle?

Im wondering how much of the blood would have been contained within the sheeting that Tim had laid down for Roz.

I can't possibly miss it!! Hope what's his name isn't dead. He's good.

did you write the script whitewave

Your theory about Huntley fitting up the poor lad and now the Eastern European girl has been my working hypothesis (hah) for a couple of weeks now. If you don't watch ww, you can look at this thread next Monday morning and get an update.

That could explain why husband had the balaclava (sp) . There is no way he would have reacted like he did towards what's his name if he was an ordinary bod.

Well Huntley is definately acting as if she's guilty. She was in the kitchen where the victim was found. She has a wound on her arm which might explain the missing fingers. She's fiddled with the forensic evidence. She's now fitting up the foreign cafe worker.

Motive could be her over reaching ambition to get the killer of the regardless of his guilt.

Or - it could be that her husband is the killer which is why she is trying to fit up the special needs chap and now the girl for herself!!!!????

Yes!! That's it!!! Shan't bother to watch it next week

I'm wondering too how the cleanup was done so thoroughly.

Regarding the fingers-I think it depends on the time lapse. Maybe, instead of immediately cutting the off, perhaps they were cut off later? By someone else? It was post-mortem, but maybe not immediately after? Roz wasn't at work the following morning. Where was she? Where was hubby, come to that?

Maybe Roz cut off the fingers separately to cover herself forensically? Unless whoever cut them off cut them off for a different reason eg to get into the computer by fingerprint.

Roz told hubby that she'd scraped her wrist on some brickwork. Who else knows about the injury?

neither has anyone else whitewave but we love it.

Haven't a clue

Exactly Jalima. I do wonder what caused the amount of blood seen around her head before she recovered consciousness. Could she have simply cut an ear as she hit the surface - ears bleed profusely.

Well, she is hiding the infected wrist from her husband I think so he can't know about that.

I don't think the husband would clean up so well as to leave no forensic traces (except for the one mark on the side of the worktop, odd that!). That would really take some doing, blood from an artery would go just everywhere, in cracks and crevices and getting out again without leaving traces that may have got onto footwear would be nigh on impossible I would have thought.

My theory is that Ros's husband followed her and sat outside in his car. He was the white man seen by the neighbour. I don't know how (given she'd been unconscious and he was wielding an electric saw but hey how) but Ros somehow overpowered Tim, killed him and cleaned up forensically. She lopped his fingers off because he scratched her, causing the wound to her wrist, so she removed any DNA evidence. However, there was a spot of her blood left on a surface which she saw when she arrived at the flat.
Didn't she have Tim;s lap top gettingonabit? Or did she find that in the boot of her husbands car>
Whatever - we're all gripped and will be on the sofa at 9pm next Sunday.

If it was hubby why would he cut off the fingers- does he know she was scratched? And how would she know the fingers etc were Tim's. Mind you I don't think. logic or common sense have any place in this series. It is gripping but a bit unbelievable

bluebelle I think Roz's husband is the killer. His car was seen pulling up and in the vicinity of Tim's flat around the time of the murder. The nurse living downstairs confirmed it was a white guy driving (she was expecting her own taxi so noticed it).

Hub knew Ros was in there, watched her leaving, got himself in somehow, and killed him.

Or, Ros had already killed him, by accident, panicked and left.

If it was Hubby, he cleaned up, put Tim back into his day clothes, cut off his fingers, took the laptop and the rest of the evidence, put it into his boot and drove home.

When we see Ros going into the boot of a car, we assume it's her car. But it's Hubby's. This explains why she breaks down in the garage. She realises what's happened. She then uses the evidence to plant, to cover for her husband.

Later, we see a shot of Ros's car boot, empty and clean; because it never had the evidence in it!

So do you think Roz killed the forensic bloke or did her husband come in at the last moment to save her and how did she get the hurt arm ? Or are they both killers ? I keep wondering if I nodded off and missed some bits out

Balaclavas seem to be in fashion in many circles grumpa including the police and forensic personnel. Wooden clubs are optional and may be replaced by saws or other tools.

The idea of every corporate law firm having a balaclava'd thug on standby is appealing. I can see this catching on in the City.

We're watching Series 1 now. It's not at all confusing to watch an episode of Series 4 then switch straight over to two episodes of Steve's early days in AC-12, no, not at all... . At least we saw 2 and 3 when they were on!