Means, motive, opportunity.
These factors, supported by evidence, are the foundations of criminal conviction.
Its quite the coup, performance and writing-wise.
Thus, she remains an enigma, the Mona Lisa of Fourth Street Station.
Was Denton complicit in the ambush that killed three fellow officers and a witness under police protection?
Is she lying about being framed by Detective Chief Constable Mike Dryden?
In short, is she, or is she not, innocent?
And lied
How is Dentons testimony to be trusted when weve known her to lie on several occasions?
The list goes on.
Why it doesnt necessarily mean shes guilty:Everybody but everybody lies in Line Of Duty.
She also insisted that the officers travel to the safe house in her car.
Was that because of a pre-arranged deal with the ambushers that anyone travelling in her vehicle wouldnt be killed?
Regardless of the direction Denton took the convoy in, the killers would have been able to find them.
Her odd choice of route is perplexing, but not incriminating.
Ive been underestimated my whole life she told Fleming, after delivering that brutal gut-punch.
Hawes impassive expression appears to hide a woman seething with resentment and frustration.
Could Denton have been taking bungs for her role in the ambush?
It didnt make him an accessory to murder.
Besides, it didnt look as if Denton was exactly living the high life, did it?
No, agreed Lindsay, she wouldnt.
Are we to ignore the fact that Denton asked Fleming to meet her at that very garage?
Surely it suggests some prior knowledge of the site itself, and perhaps even of Carlys death?
Coincidences arent to be ignored, but they do happen.
Could the two of them have colluded in the ambush, with Dryden only now turning against Denton?
), to indicate some distance between them?
To put his wife, who may have been listening in, off the scent?
Or and this is a big or did Lindsay somehow make up the whole thing?
Does he really think her name is Linda?
Why it doesnt necessarily make her guilty:Quite the opposite in fact.
If shes innocent, why did the ambushers not kill her?
Were they under instruction to leave someone alive who would take the blame?
Finally, heres our homework before episode five.
What answers can we find to the followingLine Of Dutyquestions?
What is the deal with Dentons boss, Mallick?
Line Of Duty continues next Wednesday on BBC Two at 9pm.Read our spoiler-filled reviews,here.
