Did Jed Mercurio get it wrong for Line Of Duty’s series five finale?

THIS was not the neatly finished finale I wanted.

We’re no closer to knowing who “H” is and the goalposts have been moved in that it’s now likely to be four corrupt cop bosses, not one based on a dying man’s twitching hand.

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The beauty of Jed Mercurio’s Line Of Duty has always been the unnerving uncertainty that any ­episode brings – which is why it has become my favourite show on TV.

But the innocence of ­Hastings, at least for now, had been coming a mile off.  There was no way such a central character was going to be thrown to the wolves.

The fact he chucked a ­laptop away and shot a bloke in cold blood was suddenly ignored. So there was something sadly inevitable about Gill ­Biggeloe turning out to be leading the corruption from within.

But the speed at which the twist was revealed felt wrong.  It was as if this 90-minute special had been written as two separate episodes and then slammed together.

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All it did was serve up a cliffhanger for the next series a year from now.

I think many millions tuning in last night will have been left feeling unsatisfied with more questions left ­unanswered than tied up.

Sadly, I fear this series may have peaked at the moment John Corbett bled out.

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