LINE of Duty fans were left stunned tonight after John Corbett was brutally killed off. The character – played by Stephen Graham – has been the focal point of the latest run of the cop drama, had his throat slit in the dying moments of Sunday’s episode. The shock twist came after Corbett, an undercover […]
LINE of Duty fans were left stunned tonight after John Corbett was brutally killed off.
The character – played by Stephen Graham – has been the focal point of the latest run of the cop drama, had his throat slit in the dying moments of Sunday’s episode.
The shock twist came after Corbett, an undercover cop trying to expose police corruption, tried to leave the organisation of criminals he was running.
But the group turned on him after realising he was still in cahoots with the force, and lured him into a trap involving a group of prostitutes.
As he lay bleeding on the floor gang member Lisa McQueen, played by actress Rochenda Sandall, leant over him and snarled: “You’re a rat John, a rat” after he was caught out.
Viewers took to Twitter immediately to discuss the shock twist and Corbett’s grisly end.
One wrote: “Holy double f*** bucket.”
Another added: “NO! There was still so much more to come from Corbett! And specifically from Corbett and Steve scenes. Gutted! What a performance from Stephen Graham. #LineOfDuty.”
A third tweeted: “Okay wait. WHAT THE F***.”
The 45-year-old is the latest in a long line of big names to be bumped off at the hands of show writer Jed Mercurio, who was also the brains behind BBC hit Bodyguard.
In the five series the show has been on the Beeb, he has killed off huge British stars including Keeley Hawes, 43, Jason Watkins, 52, Daniel Mays, 41, Lennie James, 53, and Gina McKee, 55.
The series, which is pulling around eight million viewers an episode, follows the work of police anti-corruption unit AC-12, run by a shadowy figure who goes by the codename H.
Earlier in the episode, viewers were comvinced they had proof Superintendant Ted Hastings is H after he misspelled ‘definitely’ just like the corrupt OCG cop.
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