Jed, 53, has brought Line of Duty back to the BBC with an explosive first episode to the fifth season after the police drama took a two year break following the supposed reveal of villain H as ACC Derek Hilton (Paul Higgins) by superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrain Dunbar).
At the beginning of tonight’s episode, the AC-12 team were thrown back into the thick of the action as they faced the balaclava group, who were ruthless as ever by killing three police officers and leaving one seriously injured.
As the team’s investigations spiralled, they discovered a secret mole in their own ranks had been feeding information to the masked group about police actives, which was later revealed to have stemmed from PC Maneet Bindra (Maya Sondhi).
After Maneet confessed she had been helping her cousin in the intelligence realm feed information to the balaclava group, the PC was struck off and soon found herself in grave danger from the masked assailants.
Like to surprise
Jed Mercurio
With a mobile phone she’d acquired being bugged, making it seem the PC was trying to turn the tables once more by helping the police, newcomer John Corbett (Stephan Graham) sent Maneet to face the repercussions of double crossing them.
The PC met her fate when two of the thugs took her to the jetty of a near-by river and slit her throat before leaving her to bleed to death.
Speaking about the shock decision to kill such a loved character as Maneet, Jed told press, including Express.co.uk: “[We] like to surprise.
“It was something which was done in collusion, so Maya [actress] and I have been talking,” the creator went on to add, explaining the circumstances about how he came to his decision to kill the character off.
“It wasn’t something that was inflicted on her without discussion. I was really delighted that she was really up for that particular story.”
However, Maneet’s death wasn’t the only shock to come at the end of the episode as
