Warning: contains enormous spoilers, as you might expect.

One of Line Of Duty’s many praiseworthy aspects is its respect for an audience’s ability to make connections, pick up on inferences and draw conclusions without being beaten over the head with exposition. We salute its makers for that, just as we salute them for creating another utterly gripping and emotional six hours of television.

Saluting done with, in flagrant opposition to the esteem in which Line Of Duty holds its audience we’ve prepared the below. It’s a handy guide to lingering doubts about what happened in the series two finale, using definitive answers from a BBC post-finale online Q&A with creator Jed Mercurio, which can be read in full, here.

Straight from the horse’s mouth then, here’s what Mercurio says: