Operation Let's Round Off The Police Corruption Story Early In The Series (or Operation LROTPCSEITS, for short) this week. The episode opens with DCI Hunt (Glenister) and DI Drake (Hawes) slinking off together – to much sniggering – to carry out Operation Burnt Ring: the bugging of SuperMac's (Allam) office. At the end, a dying officer warns them about the oncoming Operation Rose (which may or may not be connected to the mysterious roses and phone calls Drake keeps receiving).This week shows Allam's SuperMac as the nasty piece he's become – while highlighting the terrors of having the Police against you when his men ransack Drake's flat – as well as the decent, honourable man he once was. Hunt demolishes him with some stern words (“You've done some bad, bad things, Mac”) and a little shove – amazing, considering Hunt's normal technique – and the result is yet more superlative acting from Allam.
Now, I for one am no fan of dogs. Least of all barky ones with lots of teeth. So Hunt's method of removing the threat of the Rottweiler guarding the house of virgin-collector Jarivs (John Bowe) had me in stitches. It's classic no-nonsense Hunt, as well as a victory for dog-haters everywhere. Shaz is characteristically unimpressed, but we've come to expect that.
What's more distressing than doggy-death is that Ray (Dean Andrews) seems to have completely forgotten his Mason loyalties, and utterly fails to warn fellow Mason SuperMac about the approaching danger of Hunt and Drake (though why either of them thought he was a good person to confide in escapes me). It means that the Masonic story seems to have been put to bed in Episode Four...with half a series to go. So, that Operation Rose has got some time to bubble away (sorry, Allam's quasi-Shakespeare quote's still rumbling round my head), and it's bound to go higher than SuperMac.
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