Is this the end for good? BBC must know they are on to a good thing and want Jed to get busy on another season. 

Last week lower on quality compared with Ep4 and ep5 but they were top class. 

I mean Steve and the addiction to pain killers, Ted and his retirement, Kate and her family, the liverpool lass, who the fock is H. The list goes on.

The reddit thread has a few anoraks noticing Carmichael clicking her pen 4 times during the interview with Jo and then later tapping her notepad 4 times. Both times were followed with a No Comment. They think it's morse code like the Caddy when he was about to pass. 

I wouldnt be bothered checking back. 

If that was actually the outcome I would be kind of a let down

Often the second last episode of a series is like this more procedural  than action packed to set it up for the last episode 

Has "H" not been rebranded as "The 4th man"?

Carmichael is too obvious a choice but who knows.

You should have just said "no comment"

It's like when people say "the book is better than the movie" - the action shots don't live up to it.

That's a little bit hard regarding action scenes not living up to it. Especially the scenes this year I've been commenting that they are going more Hollywood this season. But I also would not want it to be too Hollywood anyway. 

 The scene ambush of the transport I thought was excellent 

Has this been confirmed?

That is why I think Marcus Thurwell is 'H'. I just can't see Jimmy Nesbitt appearing in Line of Duty as a photograph. The man would have the ability to carry a series like Stephen Graham.

Also think the AC12 team member Chloe is bent

I think so too I reckon she is sister or something of Davidson 

Have seen theories linking her with a prominent character in the first season.

Don't think Carmichael is H, but she is bent. When she was diverting the questions in the interview with Davidson it was just blatantly obvious. Osborne similar to Carmichael is bent but not H.

I think its Thurwell. The bodies they found in Spain are probably just two red herrings.

Left field guess. Lets go back to Season 1....a man mentioned throughout but not seen since handing Ryan Pilkington his business card. Simon Bannerjee.

He working in A&E?

Not much happened in that finale at all

Edit: it has dawned on me H was a red herring. There was no Dr. Evil overseeing everything just individual officers involved with a fragmented and divided OCG after Tommy Hunters death. Buckells was the last man standing. 

There was quite tense moments while they had you guessing and making hastings look guilty. I still think he might be H.

Yeah there is no actually H....just corrupt officers who took over from ones that got killed by OCGs because they knew to much or were just no use anymore.

All in all....brutal ending.

Still think there is something there with Hastings, Carmichael and the chief constable that warrants another season 

Although I did like the Aston Villa reference at the end. 

I thought yer man Chris would turn out to be dots brother / half brother.

Ah I think its fully lined up for another one. Hastings is appealing his retirement or he could always work with them unofficially. 

The chief constable still being in charge.

The obviously faked death of James Nesbit character.  Surely they lining up for the big finale.

At the end saying that the force has applied for public interest immunity in its case against buckells and that the AC12 powers have never been as low, all set for them to come back fighting and to finish in a big dramatic way 

Sopranos ending is genius plus it’s a totally different show to LOD as it’s character driven rather than heavily plot driven like LOD is.  

I dont think it's the last but yes they can be very hit and miss and another reason why Line of Duty should not end like that as it would impact it's legacy. 

Soprano was actually poetic and one of best endings. 

GOT was sh*te ending and left a bit of a sour taste on the series as a whole, e.g. if I had known how it was going to end end I wouldn't have enjoyed the series or characters as much in the earlier seasons.  Its an example of you need to get the ending right or seriously impact its legacy.

Breaking Bad and the Wire examples of shows who's ending matched its brilliance along the way and they are still held at top table

The problem with the long build-ups, especially over a number of seasons, which GOT and LOD have had, is that the endings will always be a disappointment because people have nearly formed their own versions of it in their heads.

I'd be expecting another season of LOD though.

I kept looking at my watch thinking the twist has to come soon as there's only so long left. Nah never came feckin special officer Buckles. Rubbish

Buckles was a bit underwhelming alright, were we hoping for someone else to walk in or something? Or him to throw it back at one of the AC12 characters?

Male, in the police and now in prison 

I’ve enjoyed the season, probably not been as good as some of the previous but good all the same 

yeah and then for him to sit there and say “no comment”......f**k sake let him spill the beans on the whole OCH sh*te.