Line of Duty Season 1

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The debut five-episode series aired on BBC Two in summer 2012 and earned a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score. Critics identified an immediately distinct procedural grammar: AC-12's under-resourced investigators targeting a corrupt armed-response officer, with Jed Mercurio's writing foregrounding the bureaucratic detail of internal investigations rather than standard chase-and-catch plotting. The central dynamic between DS Arnott (Martin Compston) and Superintendent Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) was praised for its ambiguity - Hastings reads as either a principled leader or a man with something to hide, and the show refuses to resolve the question cheaply.

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