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going on the record that Tommy Hunter is still alive & he is H.
A THREAD - Part 1
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going on the record that Tommy Hunter is still alive & he is H. A THREAD - Part 1
#Lineofduty #theories #H #tommyhunter #Thread
Tommy Hunter was in witness protection & no longer trusted his corrupt senior police officer mates. He feared they were planning to turn on him. So he hatched his own plan to disappear off their radar for good.
Tommy’s plan was to fake an attack in which he was killed. The attack itself had to be real. And there had to be a genuine death. It needed to look like Tommy was truly gone. It would be some other poor sod in his place tho - we know the OCG like to swap people out at key moments
Tommy would have needed a legit opportunity for an attack & somebody to help substitute him. I think he paid off his handler, Jane Akers, to be complicit in his plan in s2. We know from Akers’ financial records that she & her husband had a lot of money from an unexplained source
Akers recruits Lindsay Denton into the plan after Lindsay confronts “Alex Campbell” for assaulting 15yo Carly Kirk. The assault on Carly & her subsequent disappearance shows Tommy was still up to all kinds of high level criminal badness, even while in witness protection.
Akers also refers to drugs & guns. Tommy could still orchestrate things from afar. Akers persuades Lindsay that Tommy is a Very Bad Man who deserves his comeuppance for being a paedo & pimping out Carly Kirk. All true. But I don’t think Jane was telling Lindsay the whole story
Jane just happens to have an envelope of cash that she insists on Lindsay taking. The money is apparently from an “interested party” who wants Tommy dead. My theory: the real source of the money was Tommy himself. And he just wanted to appear dead.
Jane was being paid to convince Lindsay that someone else unknown wanted to kill Tommy, & that Lindsay should help because people like Tommy don’t deserve immunity or police protection.
Jane leaves Lindsay’s house & gets in a car. And who’s in the car waiting? Dot Cottan. Dot who has been loyal to Tommy Hunter since he was a kid caddying for Tommy at the golf club. Dot who was groomed by Tommy since then. Dot who is now a key OCG resource embedded in the police
On reflection, I don’t think there’s any chance whatsoever that Dot would be working AGAINST Tommy. So Dot’s involvement must mean that he was working FOR Tommy. In which case the conspiracy to “kill Tommy” had to be fake.
On “ambush night”, Jane Akers makes the pre-arranged call to Lindsay Denton. The official report is that the life of a protected witness was under immediate threat & he urgently needed moved to another location.
Jane exits the safe house with “Tommy” concealed under a blanket. We never see him. My theory: it’s not Tommy Hunter under that blanket at all. The real Tommy is laying low - probably upstairs in the same house! - til Jane gets fake Tommy away.
The convoy drives off with “Tommy” in the back seat. The real Tommy has made separate arrangements to escape. Maybe to a mate’s house? In Spain?... [sorry, I digress]. Wherever he went, we haven’t seen his face again since Lindsay confronted “Alex Campbell” in the car park.
During the ambush, fake “Tommy” is shot in the head then the car he’s in is set alight. It wouldn’t be possible to make any visual identification of the body after all that. Only more scientific/medical identification would be possible.
“Tommy” survives the attack though. He gets taken to hospital & we only ever see him again with his face covered in burns bandages. He is attacked again in the hospital & gets properly finished off this time - along with poor Georgia in the process #RIP
Somebody REALLY wanted “Tommy” dead! My theory: Tommy Hunter himself put a substitute in his place to fake his own death. It was REALLY important that substitute Tommy never woke up from that coma! So real Tommy made sure of it.
At this point in season 2, we as viewers still don’t know that any Tommy - real or fake - is even in play. We only find out when AC-12 are briefed about it. And who does the briefing? Yip - Dot Cottan.
Bit of guess work in my theory here, but my working hypothesis is that the post-mortem report was faked by the doctor who carried it out. I think the doc was on the OCG payroll & their task here was to say the dead guy from the ambush & subsequent hospital attack was Tommy.
Hopefully science can help. Where is “Tommy” buried? Maybe somebody should go & dig him up. Rerun those ID tests. We know Tommy’s DNA details have been stored on the police database. I’d put money on the body from the ambush/hospital NOT being Tommy Hunter’s.
The rest of s2 focuses on Lindsay Denton’s story. We never really hear anything more about Tommy Hunter. However, he has been referenced in every season since. Last week, big bad Pat Carmichael said Tommy is no longer a person of interest. I must respectfully disagree. Ma’am.
I’ve run out of Twitter thread space. I’ll post Part 2 of this thread separately...
