Line of Duty (TV Series) In the Trap (2012) User Reviews

It gets better and better.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 9 August 2020]

The team continue to look into Gates and his involvement with Jackie Laverty.

It's hugely dramatic, and also very exciting, it truly does keep your attention. If anything it gets better and better.

Gates is so incredibly cool, intelligent, and comes complete with a hugely loyal fan base, people are very protective of him. Jackie's death now makes full sense, Gates is fully in the hands of the mystery villain. Is he a bent cop or not, I still can't remember.

Steve's character development continues, he's a bit reckless, a bit cavalier, but desperate for the truth.

Who is that little kid? He's a brat! Rita is very funny, but I'm not sure she's in the right job.

The production and music continue to be first rate. This was excellent, 9/10.

Camera operator is trying too hard.

[lionelperalta-72339 · 8/10 · 8 February 2021]

Interesting but camera operator is moving the camera up, down, side to side, up, down, up down, I'm feeling sick watching this. I think this was fashionable at the time but way overdone and really distracting.

Nicely done sir

[snoozejonc · 8/10 · 3 March 2023]

Gates holds his nerve under pressure as the walls start closing in.

This is an entertaining episode with some standout moments.

The cat and mouse game between Gates and Arnott is pretty good, with the standout moment for me easily being the interview scene. Lennie James and Martin Compston do the dialogue exchange very well.

Another good part involves a clever strategy undertaken to identify a traitor. I have used this method catch people backstabbing me in the past and always enjoy seeing it done well.

The only weakness of the show so far is in the character writing of some of the antagonists, which comes across as quite one-note so far. However, I appreciate this might get better as characters develop.

For me it's a a 7.5/10, but I round upwards.

Suss

[bevo-13678 · 10/10 · 19 April 2021]

I like the bit where he hid the whisky glass in his pocket.

Episode 1.3

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 30 March 2019]

You have to admit Gates is as cool as a cucumber.

Knocked unconscious by the attackers who then kill Jackie Laverty in front of him, place his fingerprints on the knife. Gates manages to sort out the crime scene before Arnott arrives.

However at first Gates thinks Laverty has set this all up. Later he discovers that he is now in hock to a vicious bunch of gangsters who have the goods on him and he has to dance to their tune when it comes to money laundering.

Meanwhile Arnott is determined to get Gates but cannot get anything concrete on him. Arnott has doubts about his abilities. Kate tries to get close to Gates but at the moment he is trusting no one.

This episode features the now famous lengthy interrogation scenes with AC12. It also has a nauseating performance from Ryan Pilkington as the evil child gangster in the housing estate.

So many juvenile delinquents in the UK!

[Fargomoviecritic · 6/10 · 4 March 2022]

This show is too funny to watch! The amount of kids who should get their heads bashed in by adults is amazing! Throwing things at the elderly and getting away with assaulting people is ridiculous. These kids would be run over and not even cared about as their druggie moms are smoking crack! Amazingly stereo typing. The UK looks like a cesspool.

An insult to the intelligence

[cliffvose · 2/10 · 2 May 2021]

We are expected to believe that a senior police official, with a pierced ear, wanders in and out of crime scenes on his own, in his suit, while another has drinks with a witness in their case. We are also expected to believe that a divorced female millionaire is having an affair with a married policeman. The plot has so many holes the series should be renamed The Colander.