Line of Duty actress and down-to-earth star Vicky McClure spotted buying discount pot from TK Maxx as BBC bosses ramp up the tension in hit cop drama
BRITAIN’S most down-to-earth star Vicky McClure emerges from a discount store with a new pot.
The Line Of Duty actress was seen leaving TK Maxx in her hometown, Nottingham.
And tension in the cop drama was hyped to the maxx with a grisly plot twist involving forensics ace Tim Ifield — played by BAFTA-winning actor Jason Watkins — last night.
The show stunned fans as Tim was dramatically killed off, meeting a grisly end in episode two of the popular BBC1 show.
It is a surprise result for fans – who assumed Thandie Newton’s character Detective Chief Inspector Roz Huntley would die after a gripping finale of last week’s season opener.
Roz appeared to have been killed in a struggle with forensics coordinator Tim – after the pair scuffled during a row and she hit her head and collapsed.
But as Ifield powered up a chainsaw and prepared to dispose of the body, Huntley flicked open her eyes.
Jason, 50 – who won a BAFTA for his role in ITV’s The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies – is the latest big name star to be killed off in the show’s four series.
Other casualties include Gina McKee, 52, Jessica Raine, 34, and Daniel Mays, 39.
The show – which follows the work of AC-12, an anti-corruption unit investigating bent coppers – returned to 5.2 million viewers for the season opener last Sunday.
Martin Compston, 32, and Vicky McClure, 33, are the show’s stars as detective sergeants Steve Arnott and Kate Fleming.
The new series’ plot, which sees an apparently innocent man being nailed for a string of sexually motivated murders, is inspired by a real life story.
It is based on the case of Stefan Kiszko, whose 16-year incarceration for the murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed has been called the worst miscarriage of justice in British legal history.
Line Of Duty’s writer Jed Mercurio confirmed the case inspired this series, saying: “There were really relevant examples in British legal history, like the case of Stefan.”
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